WEBVTT - Jamie Foxx 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:25.280 Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the Army Money Podcast. Yea, 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:34.120 you know what this is, Jamie fucking Hey. First of all, 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:35.600 I don't want to thank you for letting me come here, 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.120 but I think the champagne is great, but I think 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.240 we need to go further. I think this is this 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:43.640 is you know how to hit the bottle against the chip. 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.360 You got the bottle right there, an start right there? 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:49.600 You wanta Okay, you want to go, van Alden, you 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:54.040 want to go. You're ready to go, because that's that's 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:56.520 where it all started going back when it gets that 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:02.440 don't know, but oh my god, I thought I heard 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.200 the custom like of that side. Just now we said 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:08.880 like changing Ben all of his lifting. You know what 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:12.959 it was about that house banana yellow. Yeah, and that's 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:15.000 that's what I remember about that album. As soon as 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.440 you pull up, you see this yellow Bentley outside, and 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.360 it was terrible for l A, the worst card because 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.800 everybody knew everybody. Yeah, well here's the thing. You know. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.520 When I first got to l A, I drove down 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:31.600 Bevil Hills and I saw Bejan and I bro that 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.040 Bentley used to be parked outside of Bejon and not 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.480 I had no money. I just man, when I get on, 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.560 I'm getting that motherfucker. I'm yea, how do you say? 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:43.479 I'm I'm gonna get that ship. And the next thing, 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.240 you know, I got on and it was came up 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.880 for sale. I said, I need that. So that's the 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:53.400 one I used to sit on. Ro everybody that and 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.760 then and then it moved. Then it was on Melrow. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.240 He got something on Melrose that he's guys richest. Fuck No, 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.960 but but in I got the car when it had 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.640 definitely depreciated box it wasn't if it wasn't a bad time. 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:23.440 Um still yeah, yeah, and the money, thank you. Let's 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:28.120 go back to bad. I were walking into a club. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.960 We're walking into a club. It might have been the gate. Wow, 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.120 walking into the gate, thank you going there right now. 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:42.280 And I'm walking in and walking in the gate. Yeah. 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.400 And when I'm walking in, I think brother windows with 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:51.080 me walking in the walking in the gate, and I 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:57.000 hear somebody say hey Dank. I'm like, who the fuck 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.400 is you on my name? And I turned around and 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.959 it's Jamie fun Oh. I don't know each other. You 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.360 don't know each other, don't know And I'm like, hey, 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:13.560 what's amazing. I've been looking for you. Here's here's name. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.240 Let let's go back the way I was introduced to you. 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.120 That somebody says somebody in your lane. I guess it 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.600 was because I was trying to sing and I said 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:24.359 this this dude name Tank. Y'all sounds suck with me. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.000 Fun that, but I'm getting ready to go do Ali 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.720 and the girl I'm dating at the time. We find 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.800 to Africa. So we stopped at the record store. For 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:35.880 all y'all don't understand this is when you go buy records. 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:37.560 I'll go on the record store. I said, hey, let's 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.360 get some record so I can listen as be on 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.040 this long ass fight. And I said, they told me 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:43.960 about some mo fucking name Tank supposed to be in 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:45.720 my lane. Let me go see. So I'm going to 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.760 get my CDs and then I get to your fucking CD. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.120 And first of all, you got your shirt off and 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.680 five albums, so your shirt is off. And I looked, 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.480 and immediately I looked at my girl to see if 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.400 she saw because I'm off me high this, I said. 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.400 Then I pulled the ship out said we're not gonn 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:08.120 see that. So I got all my CDs and I 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.600 put him on the table to buy, but I put 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.360 you at the bottom, no disrespect. So we don't need 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:18.520 to see all that. And this is a warm man days, right. 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.560 So I didn't have no batteries, I said, town, I 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.599 gotta get batteries for my walkman. So I go to 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.280 get my walkman, and by the time I got back, 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:29.839 my girl has slept with you. She basically mentally fucked you. 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.200 Because when I get back, not only is your CD out, 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:36.600 but it's on top and open all the way cigarette 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.400 I said, I said this just like I just wanted 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.919 to just look I Scott, damn it. So so it 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.520 goes from that to being on the plane flying for 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.200 eighteen hours to get to Africa and listening to your 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:57.320 music and I said wow. I said, wow, absolutely amazing. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:01.000 I never heard a voice the song You're freaking, I know, 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:09.960 show freaking. They told me, yea, when I heard that, 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.080 we dropped the ball. That should have been a single. 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:17.440 Listen when I heard that record, right, you know, I'm 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:22.920 just I's the one who didn't go in brother church. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:30.080 I'm like, guys, but here's the thing. I heard your 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.599 music and said, man, why this dude, this this was 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.320 extremely talented and I let me and my girl. We 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.200 had to We had the twin. I had the money, 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.440 so we had the twin walk man, so we could both. 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.360 So we're holding hand like, go ahead, let's just motherfucker's 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:45.640 just get us in the move. You know, we ain't 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:46.760 gonna take you what we do on the plane any 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.880 so we can land. But when we landed, I felt 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:55.159 compelled because I see all my African brothers and I 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.600 didn't have a way to play your music out. I 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.320 literally I would say, you have to hear this kid 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.599 named Tank and I will put it. I said, Tink, 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.200 who is this thinking? Because we was in mosa Tink, 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.240 who is Tink? I said, you had to hear, and 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:09.760 I put it on the ears and you will see 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.880 there as oh it is good, it's just And they 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.480 passed it around the whole damn near the whole village. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.839 And that's how much you impacted me and everybody know 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.800 me man. I think that we all as artists grow 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.920 when we see other artists there are that are exceptional. 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:30.719 Because when you're coming up, your dream is singular to you. 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:32.840 You are the most talented in the region of where 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.560 you are. But when you get here, you see that. Wow, 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.880 there's a lot of guys and girls that God has 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.960 touched and have exceptional ability. So when I saw you, 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.719 I freaked out because I was like, wow, that's the dude. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:51.040 That pretty much was the soundtrack of me doing Ali, 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.400 Me and my girl. We were just like I couldn't 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.960 believe it. And then to go further, I was having 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.080 a house party advant all that, and somebody said gonna 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.960 take I said, tak where and then I'm over. I said, 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:08.240 it's not fair, that sounds like that, but but but 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.640 I but you know, I don't ever hate. It was 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.840 just like I could not believe that your voice sounded 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.280 like that, and that that you wrote like that, and 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.040 then we went on to write you know, you know, fantastic. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:26.640 The the crazy parallel to that is as as you 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.640 were yelling at me, screaming like, man, I've been looking 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.040 for you. At that point, I was looking for a 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.600 way out. Yeah, and I didn't you know what I mean, 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.920 for us to come together at that time, it was 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.720 necessary because like I'm in your kitchen, you know what 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.520 I'm saying at at at at a few points after 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:50.080 that saying I'm done. And that's what blew my mind 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:54.200 because j you know, like this like our business. I'm 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.120 just an artist, So I didn't really understand music business. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.040 Music business was treacherous. But when you said you was 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.320 gonna leave the music as, I said, what the fund 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.360 are you saying? There's no way we can survive without 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.480 having your voice in the music. But so you said, 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:10.800 and I didn't you know, I didn't. I don't know 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.800 what gangs. I don't know the gangster. I don't know that. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:14.520 I didn't know this nigg was a gang. I didn't 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.120 know he's the light skining gangster. At first, I look 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:24.160 at the skin. This motherfucker has has sixteen year old skin. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.000 Every time I see J Vallenime, I just wanna go 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.720 come here to make me feel this. He has the 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.880 greatest skin. But I didn't realize that music was at gangster. 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.439 And you were like, basically without saying anything, it's like, 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.040 you know, it was like other elements that was keeping 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.120 you away from your dream. And I said, bro, no 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.480 fucking way. I said, you stay in my house. I 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:47.320 had a studio on the back of the crib. I said, 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.199 you stay in my house and you do what you 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.439 need to do, uh, to make sure that that light 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.120 don't get put out, because if it did, what would 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.199 we be? Like what I mean, think about this, where 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.800 would we be as drink to that? Will we be without? 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:09.679 Take God? My girl, keep keep the CD over here? 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.000 You lost her? She keep the CD over here. I said. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.280 The craziest thing about that, though, Fox, is that how 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:23.520 many artists actually have that story, right, that at some 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:29.120 point all roads lead to Jamie Fox, Which is very interesting. Man, 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.400 This is from a from female to male artists that 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:37.640 you have been just I don't even I don't even 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.640 know what to call it, man, Like, yes, a god 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:44.240 send for so many young and older artists right there 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:50.000 just at some point that couch, that studio, that party, 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:51.959 you know what I mean, And you're just having a 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.480 good time, right, But those parties, so many people have 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.360 met each other, so many people have connected with each other, 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.480 so many people have you know, I have linked up 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.480 through just you being like, you know what, I'm just 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:05.920 here to have a good time on some old like 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.000 southern Yeah, but you know what I mean, which it was. 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:11.760 It was a good time for a reason though, because 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:13.640 I felt like everybody want to come to a party. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:18.719 But I would have the I would have the I 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.120 would have. I would have the weirdos, but I would 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.839 also have the talent. Like Tank. When you walked in, 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.319 the whole party went like this because we were like, damn, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.720 this dude does something that we can't do. This dude 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.640 does Whenever you see someone who's talented that does something 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.160 that you can't do, you go like oh. When I 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.400 was studying so I would always say when it came 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:45.360 to the artists, it's a way for me to stay refreshed. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.120 It's a way from it's a way for me to 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.720 stay inspired. But look at all of us, man at 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.280 those on those days. I remember John b was playing 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:57.080 the piano at a party while Mystical was rapping, while 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.720 John D played his songs lug I'm the in Sincs 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.959 and and singing Backstreet Boys songs. I remember Brian McKnight 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.120 playing the song Uh, you know, Brian is you know, 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:13.520 Brian is very you know, very to himself, very Okay. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.120 I never wanted I said this motherfucker one time, Brian. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:17.720 I was like, man, everybody here is saying I don't 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.640 do that. That I told everybody. I said. We was 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:22.920 at a club. We don't go back to the house. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.000 Brian gonna be there, Brian gonna sing, and the motherfucker 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:30.880 shined on me. He was like one day, Brian calls 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:32.520 me to the studio to do it, to do a 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.120 verse on the record, and I'm like, oh, ship, Brian 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:39.240 McKnight called me to be on his ship night. I've 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.360 been singing all of the songs on my life. I 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.679 go there and do my verse and I'm like, he's 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.760 going crazy while I'm doing my first and we come 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:47.280 out the booth and we just talked and we just 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.520 started kind of walking and I'm like, man, I got this. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.280 I got at a bunch of tracks. Man, I wanted 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.000 you here a couple of song ideas, like it would 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:55.800 be really dope. You know what I'm saying. He's like this, Man, 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.160 I'd love to do that. Man. He opened this door 0:11:58.440 --> 0:11:59.959 and I'm thinking maybe we're about to go into a 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:05.720 lounge or something. He was walking me out. I would 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.679 love to good man, Hey, your car's parting. Good luck 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.400 with that. Nick hits you with your ubers waiting, man, 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.280 because you know what you found out about Brian is 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:19.360 that he's a competitive guy. Brian, you shoot the like 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:23.280 a motherfucker. Yes, that's any cold and call what he 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.679 did call him what he does like, Brian, come go 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:32.800 to his left? Are you gonna dosten? Honest? It's about hope. Yeah, 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:38.319 you know across back to the jump, y'all trying to 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.199 be friends my man. No, you're good, just do that. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:52.360 No to the last. We're not cutting nothing, man, I 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:59.520 gotta by night. You'na now you But on the real though, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:05.800 Brian Night, hero of hours. If you look, if you 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:07.920 if you're looking in the dictionary and you look for 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:12.040 Berkeley School of Music, it's Brian McKnight and he had 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:14.880 what that is. And he shined on me one time 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:16.599 that was so amazing. He showed him my house in 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.360 the Ferrari and I didn't I said, what kind of 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:22.400 car getting a passenger? See? You know how the mother 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.199 just he just makes you feel like you ain't seen nothing. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:32.400 He was like, this is night. I took off my neck. 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:50.320 Bro Brian, Brian right and scary mother. He's the greatest, greatest. 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.360 So I come to your house to be a brother 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:58.400 window and we're in the pool room. And while we're 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.120 in the pool room, you're like, yeah, I'm getting ready 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:05.160 to work on this movie, and you you break into 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:11.559 Ray Charles. Yeah, right in front of us like on 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:15.000 some like talking crazy like yeah, come about to go 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:16.200 do this movie? You know what I'm saying, We're gonna 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:20.360 try that. We'll just ye and me and brother window 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:25.680 saying what is actually scary? No, it's just scary scary 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:27.400 And just like he was asking you before, I wanted 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.040 which what I wanted to have it, you know on 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:35.160 camera is how the fund do you do that? Well, Tank, 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.160 you could do it too. I can do it. You 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:45.400 do it like you did me? Pause if be crazy, 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.520 you know, take always confused. Bro, he's standing there like 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.120 he was standing he said, Tank, me doing that and 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.240 he went into a tank thing and I'm not gonna 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:01.320 let it right. Do that right, because you do nuances 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.680 like what it was. As a kid, my grandmother, God 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:08.440 bless her tally. She had a nursery school for thirty years, right, 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.720 so the government gave her money to have things like television's, 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.880 um record players and things like so I would always 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.240 listen to music five years old, six years old. She 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.600 would make me go into where she takes care of 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.440 the kids, and there was this big box cabinet television 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.120 and all the shows would come on Sammy Davis jr. 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:31.760 Uh Uh, it is not unusual world to be loved. 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:41.320 Who's that? Uh? Tom Jones, Flip Wilson. But I would 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.640 watch these shows, and I would watch people like Rich Little. 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.840 If you get a chance, whoever was watching google Rich Little. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.080 He was this wide guy who mimicked everybody. He could 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.920 do all these different memics. And here's the thing. Later 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.400 that night, the only the only room that had a 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.840 television was my room where I would sleep. My grandma said, 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.040 stay sleep. But Johnny Carson, the original host of the 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.280 Tonight Show, which is what Jimmy Fallon does right now, 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.040 he would have these great artists come on. Franklin, the 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.960 Gi Steve Allen, who was a white comedian who would 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.320 do jokes from the piano. And so when I watched 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.360 Rich Little, I would watch him mimic these people. Rich 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.880 Little did a joke about Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:18.800 our president of nineteen seventy six, but he had a 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:23.360 brother who liked to drink a lot. So his joke was, Uh, 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:28.520 Jimmy Carter was singing, you light up my life, and Jimmy, Hi, 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.960 I'm Jimmy Carter. So many nights me and my brother 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.160 Billy would sit on the porch waiting for somebody bring 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.800 some peanuts and beer. That was the biggest joke at 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.160 that time in the seventies, because everybody knew that his 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.280 brother was a little bit of saucy. But to hear 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.000 him sing you a lot of mind, That's what I 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:52.120 wanted to be. So I started perfecting the impersonation, not 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.680 for it to be my main thing, but just if 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:56.560 I needed it, Like, and how old are you at 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.800 this point? I was bro I was v six, I 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:01.960 was ten years old. You guys weren't here I was. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.159 I just got here, which hurts my feeling. I was, no, 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.199 I just got here. I was I was a new 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:16.399 born Valentine had I yesterday? I was here so so so. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.720 So I would watch that and say, hey, I don't 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.720 know where I'm going, but wherever I get I want 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:23.800 to do that. So when I got to l A 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.439 doing jokes in the clubs, I would do the mimics. 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:30.840 Like when I first got to l A, I was 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.840 the only black guy doing an impersonation of Ronald Reagan 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:40.680 at that time, Ronald Reagan sounded like this, well, a 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:45.240 matter of fact, there you go again, and so and 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.879 it's it's a singers. You know, as singers we catch 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.800 oh yeah, and now we do the manner. And Ronald 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.560 Reagan was he would he had a little bit of this, 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.920 and then it was the tempt well well well, well 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:01.919 oh that's the tone. But then we just put them 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:05.440 in well as a matter of fact that there you 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:09.720 go again. So it was all that Mike Tyson, Mike 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:15.600 Tyson had. It was almost like without cheapening, what it 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:19.320 was when I would watch Daffy Duck or these animated characters. 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.480 Daffy Duck had a list. So Mike Tyson had that, 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.200 you know, Mike, if the Mike Typing were boxing champions, 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:30.440 so and then it was a matter of listening to that. 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.040 And so then then it was Mike Tyson this my 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.960 first of all, you know, that's when he's young. But 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.520 now when I called Mike now older, everything all the 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.480 life that he's lived, the ups and the downs, I called, Mike, 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.119 how are you doing? My all? Pray this twice. I 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.000 don't know about. I'm just happy. Why because I don't 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.200 have any money anymore. Time I get nobody get taken 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.920 anything from me, because I'll think, no more vulture, no 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:55.840 more creatures around me. I don't think. I'm just happy. 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.240 How are you, my good brother? So it's matching the 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.440 tone and then grabbing the mannerism. It's it's it's Donald 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:07.720 Trump the people you can shine like the Kuran vest 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.280 China China was when he did it. She's a very 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:17.000 good person, change change very good people. I don't know, 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:21.280 she's very you know. So that's a mannerism when you say, 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:23.920 you know, when they asked him about the lady that 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.119 was with with the thing, I don't know. She seems 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.879 to be good people. She's very good people. You know. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.359 I don't know personally, but she seems to be good people. 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:39.080 I wish you the best. So it's a matter of 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:44.920 grabbing that tone and then you know, you know, jay Z, 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:52.960 jay Z jay Z just that it's crazy. I think 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:57.439 I think that. I think that, like you, you simplify 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:01.560 it because it's but it's way more intricate from the 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:07.200 outside looking in, because sitting next to Ray Charles is 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:11.920 family and them not knowing the difference between you and 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:16.240 him is different. Well, that's what you have to do. 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:19.200 It's like you have to go beyond the impersonation. Ray Charles, 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:22.640 hey tell everybody Ray Charles in town. That a dollar 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:26.640 a quartern or red a clown. That's more the impersonation. 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:28.720 But when we were doing Ray Charles, how does he 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.200 order his food? How does he talk to his kids? 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.080 What's the quiet moment? Because if you do the impersonation, 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.639 now you're now you're a sitcom. But to do the 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:42.680 real person, it's it's the quiet moment, you know. And 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.680 when I met Ray Charles, I met him as the 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:48.640 older Ray Charles. He comes in. I said, Mr Charles, 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:50.600 I'm just trying to do the best I can to 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.040 do your do your do your story. And he goes, 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:55.240 what if you can play the blues? Man? You could 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:57.080 do anything? Can you play the blues? And we sat 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.680 down and here his music first, So we're playing the 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.560 Blue you know, I'm hanging, trying to hang, and then 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:08.040 he moved into Thelonious Monk, but you know that's and 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.000 he hits a note and I hit a runo. He said, hey, 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:12.960 why why would you do that? Why do you And 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:14.399 I was like, I was just trying to kill it. 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.320 Don't hit the wrong notes, man, That's what life is, baby, 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:21.600 taking time to hit the right notes. So that's a 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:27.880 bar that's a bar Charles taking time to hit the right, 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:39.360 not hit they always get the right. Nigga didn't. I'm 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:46.159 talking about bottles up a tron, Magic City, King of Diamonds, 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:52.040 and then this nigga will sing I Can't Make You 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:55.800 Love Me? Recorded Still Dropped as the third song of 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:59.360 the day. Circle House studios shout out the Circle House 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:10.560 House the greatest. Can't talk about it, talk about your instruant, 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:17.680 talk about where that came from. Jesus came from. Yes, yeah, 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:26.600 hellel I remember. I remember National Baptist Convention, State Baptist 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:33.239 Convention with my grandmother um and I wanted to sing 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:35.560 in the choir so bad, going fast. He trying to 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:40.280 poke Jamie back up ship. I was like, do you 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:43.480 have let me get a shot of tequila cocaine ram 0:22:48.400 --> 0:23:01.040 I'm from. They called guys. You know guys, guy, I 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:11.040 don't want to take I hate cocing, just like you 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:17.080 just see a rumor. But yo, why y'all bullshit? It's 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:21.840 the shots. We shouldn't be drinking another shot. No, Jay Valentine, 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:23.880 I want to see you get mad at whoop somebody else. 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:29.240 First time I met Ja Valentine, he went playing basketball 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:34.600 whoop somebody else the studio. No, I brought him to 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:37.119 your backyard first, bro bro Bro. But we went to 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:38.800 the studio and did a song, and we went to 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:42.199 go play in some little backyard court and a switch 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:44.280 was flipped and I said, oh my god, I don't 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:46.440 know who I'm with. It's like he's like he's like 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:49.800 the walking black version of the Incredible Hook. You know 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:52.600 what The funny part about that is that thing my 0:23:52.720 --> 0:23:56.240 father called me. Yeah, it got to my father. Yeah, 0:23:56.400 --> 0:23:59.159 we had to. I've never seen so that's what happened. 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:04.040 That you made this motherfucker flash on somebody that was 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:06.800 so crazy. I was like, I said, we can't do that. 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:11.440 Think about your life. He's a nick you know who 0:24:11.440 --> 0:24:13.080 we I said, I know, I don't know who you are. 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:19.040 That motherfucker flash on somebody. I don't know who it was. Man, 0:24:20.720 --> 0:24:26.120 you got somebody got dripped me home. Ship I drive 0:24:26.200 --> 0:24:29.440 you home and keep the truck. Oh my god, to 0:24:29.640 --> 0:24:37.000 Rose Royces. That's gonna take you out. So so that's 0:24:37.000 --> 0:24:41.760 gonna take you out. That's gonna I want to sing 0:24:41.800 --> 0:24:44.479 at this National Baptors Convention so bad because it's all 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:48.360 the churches, all the church. My grandmother's The dean acchoires 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:51.760 to the choir of all choirs in the state. I'm 0:24:51.800 --> 0:24:54.320 practicing lead the whole week for Jesus you the center 0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:57.960 my joy, and the choir directors like, yeah you could. 0:24:58.000 --> 0:25:01.199 I got me all right. I rehearsing. I'm rehearsing all 0:25:01.240 --> 0:25:03.919 my runs at home. I'm getting my runs together. I'm 0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:08.600