Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the Army Money Podcast. Yea,
Speaker 1: you know what this is, Jamie fucking Hey. First of all,
Speaker 1: I don't want to thank you for letting me come here,
Speaker 1: but I think the champagne is great, but I think
Speaker 1: we need to go further. I think this is this
Speaker 1: is you know how to hit the bottle against the chip.
Speaker 1: You got the bottle right there, an start right there?
Speaker 1: You wanta Okay, you want to go, van Alden, you
Speaker 1: want to go. You're ready to go, because that's that's
Speaker 1: where it all started going back when it gets that
Speaker 1: don't know, but oh my god, I thought I heard
Speaker 1: the custom like of that side. Just now we said
Speaker 1: like changing Ben all of his lifting. You know what
Speaker 1: it was about that house banana yellow. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: that's what I remember about that album. As soon as
Speaker 1: you pull up, you see this yellow Bentley outside, and
Speaker 1: it was terrible for l A, the worst card because
Speaker 1: everybody knew everybody. Yeah, well here's the thing. You know.
Speaker 1: When I first got to l A, I drove down
Speaker 1: Bevil Hills and I saw Bejan and I bro that
Speaker 1: Bentley used to be parked outside of Bejon and not
Speaker 1: I had no money. I just man, when I get on,
Speaker 1: I'm getting that motherfucker. I'm yea, how do you say?
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna get that ship. And the next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, I got on and it was came up
Speaker 1: for sale. I said, I need that. So that's the
Speaker 1: one I used to sit on. Ro everybody that and
Speaker 1: then and then it moved. Then it was on Melrow.
Speaker 1: He got something on Melrose that he's guys richest. Fuck No,
Speaker 1: but but in I got the car when it had
Speaker 1: definitely depreciated box it wasn't if it wasn't a bad time.
Speaker 1: Um still yeah, yeah, and the money, thank you. Let's
Speaker 1: go back to bad. I were walking into a club.
Speaker 1: We're walking into a club. It might have been the gate. Wow,
Speaker 1: walking into the gate, thank you going there right now.
Speaker 1: And I'm walking in and walking in the gate. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And when I'm walking in, I think brother windows with
Speaker 1: me walking in the walking in the gate, and I
Speaker 1: hear somebody say hey Dank. I'm like, who the fuck
Speaker 1: is you on my name? And I turned around and
Speaker 1: it's Jamie fun Oh. I don't know each other. You
Speaker 1: don't know each other, don't know And I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's amazing. I've been looking for you. Here's here's name.
Speaker 1: Let let's go back the way I was introduced to you.
Speaker 1: That somebody says somebody in your lane. I guess it
Speaker 1: was because I was trying to sing and I said
Speaker 1: this this dude name Tank. Y'all sounds suck with me.
Speaker 1: Fun that, but I'm getting ready to go do Ali
Speaker 1: and the girl I'm dating at the time. We find
Speaker 1: to Africa. So we stopped at the record store. For
Speaker 1: all y'all don't understand this is when you go buy records.
Speaker 1: I'll go on the record store. I said, hey, let's
Speaker 1: get some record so I can listen as be on
Speaker 1: this long ass fight. And I said, they told me
Speaker 1: about some mo fucking name Tank supposed to be in
Speaker 1: my lane. Let me go see. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: get my CDs and then I get to your fucking CD.
Speaker 1: And first of all, you got your shirt off and
Speaker 1: five albums, so your shirt is off. And I looked,
Speaker 1: and immediately I looked at my girl to see if
Speaker 1: she saw because I'm off me high this, I said.
Speaker 1: Then I pulled the ship out said we're not gonn
Speaker 1: see that. So I got all my CDs and I
Speaker 1: put him on the table to buy, but I put
Speaker 1: you at the bottom, no disrespect. So we don't need
Speaker 1: to see all that. And this is a warm man days, right.
Speaker 1: So I didn't have no batteries, I said, town, I
Speaker 1: gotta get batteries for my walkman. So I go to
Speaker 1: get my walkman, and by the time I got back,
Speaker 1: my girl has slept with you. She basically mentally fucked you.
Speaker 1: Because when I get back, not only is your CD out,
Speaker 1: but it's on top and open all the way cigarette
Speaker 1: I said, I said this just like I just wanted
Speaker 1: to just look I Scott, damn it. So so it
Speaker 1: goes from that to being on the plane flying for
Speaker 1: eighteen hours to get to Africa and listening to your
Speaker 1: music and I said wow. I said, wow, absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: I never heard a voice the song You're freaking, I know,
Speaker 1: show freaking. They told me, yea, when I heard that,
Speaker 1: we dropped the ball. That should have been a single.
Speaker 1: Listen when I heard that record, right, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: just I's the one who didn't go in brother church.
Speaker 1: I'm like, guys, but here's the thing. I heard your
Speaker 1: music and said, man, why this dude, this this was
Speaker 1: extremely talented and I let me and my girl. We
Speaker 1: had to We had the twin. I had the money,
Speaker 1: so we had the twin walk man, so we could both.
Speaker 1: So we're holding hand like, go ahead, let's just motherfucker's
Speaker 1: just get us in the move. You know, we ain't
Speaker 1: gonna take you what we do on the plane any
Speaker 1: so we can land. But when we landed, I felt
Speaker 1: compelled because I see all my African brothers and I
Speaker 1: didn't have a way to play your music out. I
Speaker 1: literally I would say, you have to hear this kid
Speaker 1: named Tank and I will put it. I said, Tink,
Speaker 1: who is this thinking? Because we was in mosa Tink,
Speaker 1: who is Tink? I said, you had to hear, and
Speaker 1: I put it on the ears and you will see
Speaker 1: there as oh it is good, it's just And they
Speaker 1: passed it around the whole damn near the whole village.
Speaker 1: And that's how much you impacted me and everybody know
Speaker 1: me man. I think that we all as artists grow
Speaker 1: when we see other artists there are that are exceptional.
Speaker 1: Because when you're coming up, your dream is singular to you.
Speaker 1: You are the most talented in the region of where
Speaker 1: you are. But when you get here, you see that. Wow,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys and girls that God has
Speaker 1: touched and have exceptional ability. So when I saw you,
Speaker 1: I freaked out because I was like, wow, that's the dude.
Speaker 1: That pretty much was the soundtrack of me doing Ali,
Speaker 1: Me and my girl. We were just like I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it. And then to go further, I was having
Speaker 1: a house party advant all that, and somebody said gonna
Speaker 1: take I said, tak where and then I'm over. I said,
Speaker 1: it's not fair, that sounds like that, but but but
Speaker 1: I but you know, I don't ever hate. It was
Speaker 1: just like I could not believe that your voice sounded
Speaker 1: like that, and that that you wrote like that, and
Speaker 1: then we went on to write you know, you know, fantastic.
Speaker 1: The the crazy parallel to that is as as you
Speaker 1: were yelling at me, screaming like, man, I've been looking
Speaker 1: for you. At that point, I was looking for a
Speaker 1: way out. Yeah, and I didn't you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: for us to come together at that time, it was
Speaker 1: necessary because like I'm in your kitchen, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying at at at at a few points after
Speaker 1: that saying I'm done. And that's what blew my mind
Speaker 1: because j you know, like this like our business. I'm
Speaker 1: just an artist, So I didn't really understand music business.
Speaker 1: Music business was treacherous. But when you said you was
Speaker 1: gonna leave the music as, I said, what the fund
Speaker 1: are you saying? There's no way we can survive without
Speaker 1: having your voice in the music. But so you said,
Speaker 1: and I didn't you know, I didn't. I don't know
Speaker 1: what gangs. I don't know the gangster. I don't know that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know this nigg was a gang. I didn't
Speaker 1: know he's the light skining gangster. At first, I look
Speaker 1: at the skin. This motherfucker has has sixteen year old skin.
Speaker 1: Every time I see J Vallenime, I just wanna go
Speaker 1: come here to make me feel this. He has the
Speaker 1: greatest skin. But I didn't realize that music was at gangster.
Speaker 1: And you were like, basically without saying anything, it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it was like other elements that was keeping
Speaker 1: you away from your dream. And I said, bro, no
Speaker 1: fucking way. I said, you stay in my house. I
Speaker 1: had a studio on the back of the crib. I said,
Speaker 1: you stay in my house and you do what you
Speaker 1: need to do, uh, to make sure that that light
Speaker 1: don't get put out, because if it did, what would
Speaker 1: we be? Like what I mean, think about this, where
Speaker 1: would we be as drink to that? Will we be without?
Speaker 1: Take God? My girl, keep keep the CD over here?
Speaker 1: You lost her? She keep the CD over here. I said.
Speaker 1: The craziest thing about that, though, Fox, is that how
Speaker 1: many artists actually have that story, right, that at some
Speaker 1: point all roads lead to Jamie Fox, Which is very interesting. Man,
Speaker 1: This is from a from female to male artists that
Speaker 1: you have been just I don't even I don't even
Speaker 1: know what to call it, man, Like, yes, a god
Speaker 1: send for so many young and older artists right there
Speaker 1: just at some point that couch, that studio, that party,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And you're just having a
Speaker 1: good time, right, But those parties, so many people have
Speaker 1: met each other, so many people have connected with each other,
Speaker 1: so many people have you know, I have linked up
Speaker 1: through just you being like, you know what, I'm just
Speaker 1: here to have a good time on some old like
Speaker 1: southern Yeah, but you know what I mean, which it was.
Speaker 1: It was a good time for a reason though, because
Speaker 1: I felt like everybody want to come to a party.
Speaker 1: But I would have the I would have the I
Speaker 1: would have. I would have the weirdos, but I would
Speaker 1: also have the talent. Like Tank. When you walked in,
Speaker 1: the whole party went like this because we were like, damn,
Speaker 1: this dude does something that we can't do. This dude
Speaker 1: does Whenever you see someone who's talented that does something
Speaker 1: that you can't do, you go like oh. When I
Speaker 1: was studying so I would always say when it came
Speaker 1: to the artists, it's a way for me to stay refreshed.
Speaker 1: It's a way from it's a way for me to
Speaker 1: stay inspired. But look at all of us, man at
Speaker 1: those on those days. I remember John b was playing
Speaker 1: the piano at a party while Mystical was rapping, while
Speaker 1: John D played his songs lug I'm the in Sincs
Speaker 1: and and singing Backstreet Boys songs. I remember Brian McKnight
Speaker 1: playing the song Uh, you know, Brian is you know,
Speaker 1: Brian is very you know, very to himself, very Okay.
Speaker 1: I never wanted I said this motherfucker one time, Brian.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, everybody here is saying I don't
Speaker 1: do that. That I told everybody. I said. We was
Speaker 1: at a club. We don't go back to the house.
Speaker 1: Brian gonna be there, Brian gonna sing, and the motherfucker
Speaker 1: shined on me. He was like one day, Brian calls
Speaker 1: me to the studio to do it, to do a
Speaker 1: verse on the record, and I'm like, oh, ship, Brian
Speaker 1: McKnight called me to be on his ship night. I've
Speaker 1: been singing all of the songs on my life. I
Speaker 1: go there and do my verse and I'm like, he's
Speaker 1: going crazy while I'm doing my first and we come
Speaker 1: out the booth and we just talked and we just
Speaker 1: started kind of walking and I'm like, man, I got this.
Speaker 1: I got at a bunch of tracks. Man, I wanted
Speaker 1: you here a couple of song ideas, like it would
Speaker 1: be really dope. You know what I'm saying. He's like this, Man,
Speaker 1: I'd love to do that. Man. He opened this door
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking maybe we're about to go into a
Speaker 1: lounge or something. He was walking me out. I would
Speaker 1: love to good man, Hey, your car's parting. Good luck
Speaker 1: with that. Nick hits you with your ubers waiting, man,
Speaker 1: because you know what you found out about Brian is
Speaker 1: that he's a competitive guy. Brian, you shoot the like
Speaker 1: a motherfucker. Yes, that's any cold and call what he
Speaker 1: did call him what he does like, Brian, come go
Speaker 1: to his left? Are you gonna dosten? Honest? It's about hope. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know across back to the jump, y'all trying to
Speaker 1: be friends my man. No, you're good, just do that.
Speaker 1: No to the last. We're not cutting nothing, man, I
Speaker 1: gotta by night. You'na now you But on the real though,
Speaker 1: Brian Night, hero of hours. If you look, if you
Speaker 1: if you're looking in the dictionary and you look for
Speaker 1: Berkeley School of Music, it's Brian McKnight and he had
Speaker 1: what that is. And he shined on me one time
Speaker 1: that was so amazing. He showed him my house in
Speaker 1: the Ferrari and I didn't I said, what kind of
Speaker 1: car getting a passenger? See? You know how the mother
Speaker 1: just he just makes you feel like you ain't seen nothing.
Speaker 1: He was like, this is night. I took off my neck.
Speaker 1: Bro Brian, Brian right and scary mother. He's the greatest, greatest.
Speaker 1: So I come to your house to be a brother
Speaker 1: window and we're in the pool room. And while we're
Speaker 1: in the pool room, you're like, yeah, I'm getting ready
Speaker 1: to work on this movie, and you you break into
Speaker 1: Ray Charles. Yeah, right in front of us like on
Speaker 1: some like talking crazy like yeah, come about to go
Speaker 1: do this movie? You know what I'm saying, We're gonna
Speaker 1: try that. We'll just ye and me and brother window
Speaker 1: saying what is actually scary? No, it's just scary scary
Speaker 1: And just like he was asking you before, I wanted
Speaker 1: which what I wanted to have it, you know on
Speaker 1: camera is how the fund do you do that? Well, Tank,
Speaker 1: you could do it too. I can do it. You
Speaker 1: do it like you did me? Pause if be crazy,
Speaker 1: you know, take always confused. Bro, he's standing there like
Speaker 1: he was standing he said, Tank, me doing that and
Speaker 1: he went into a tank thing and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: let it right. Do that right, because you do nuances
Speaker 1: like what it was. As a kid, my grandmother, God
Speaker 1: bless her tally. She had a nursery school for thirty years, right,
Speaker 1: so the government gave her money to have things like television's,
Speaker 1: um record players and things like so I would always
Speaker 1: listen to music five years old, six years old. She
Speaker 1: would make me go into where she takes care of
Speaker 1: the kids, and there was this big box cabinet television
Speaker 1: and all the shows would come on Sammy Davis jr.
Speaker 1: Uh Uh, it is not unusual world to be loved.
Speaker 1: Who's that? Uh? Tom Jones, Flip Wilson. But I would
Speaker 1: watch these shows, and I would watch people like Rich Little.
Speaker 1: If you get a chance, whoever was watching google Rich Little.
Speaker 1: He was this wide guy who mimicked everybody. He could
Speaker 1: do all these different memics. And here's the thing. Later
Speaker 1: that night, the only the only room that had a
Speaker 1: television was my room where I would sleep. My grandma said,
Speaker 1: stay sleep. But Johnny Carson, the original host of the
Speaker 1: Tonight Show, which is what Jimmy Fallon does right now,
Speaker 1: he would have these great artists come on. Franklin, the
Speaker 1: Gi Steve Allen, who was a white comedian who would
Speaker 1: do jokes from the piano. And so when I watched
Speaker 1: Rich Little, I would watch him mimic these people. Rich
Speaker 1: Little did a joke about Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter was
Speaker 1: our president of nineteen seventy six, but he had a
Speaker 1: brother who liked to drink a lot. So his joke was, Uh,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter was singing, you light up my life, and Jimmy, Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm Jimmy Carter. So many nights me and my brother
Speaker 1: Billy would sit on the porch waiting for somebody bring
Speaker 1: some peanuts and beer. That was the biggest joke at
Speaker 1: that time in the seventies, because everybody knew that his
Speaker 1: brother was a little bit of saucy. But to hear
Speaker 1: him sing you a lot of mind, That's what I
Speaker 1: wanted to be. So I started perfecting the impersonation, not
Speaker 1: for it to be my main thing, but just if
Speaker 1: I needed it, Like, and how old are you at
Speaker 1: this point? I was bro I was v six, I
Speaker 1: was ten years old. You guys weren't here I was.
Speaker 1: I just got here, which hurts my feeling. I was, no,
Speaker 1: I just got here. I was I was a new
Speaker 1: born Valentine had I yesterday? I was here so so so.
Speaker 1: So I would watch that and say, hey, I don't
Speaker 1: know where I'm going, but wherever I get I want
Speaker 1: to do that. So when I got to l A
Speaker 1: doing jokes in the clubs, I would do the mimics.
Speaker 1: Like when I first got to l A, I was
Speaker 1: the only black guy doing an impersonation of Ronald Reagan
Speaker 1: at that time, Ronald Reagan sounded like this, well, a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, there you go again, and so and
Speaker 1: it's it's a singers. You know, as singers we catch
Speaker 1: oh yeah, and now we do the manner. And Ronald
Speaker 1: Reagan was he would he had a little bit of this,
Speaker 1: and then it was the tempt well well well, well
Speaker 1: oh that's the tone. But then we just put them
Speaker 1: in well as a matter of fact that there you
Speaker 1: go again. So it was all that Mike Tyson, Mike
Speaker 1: Tyson had. It was almost like without cheapening, what it
Speaker 1: was when I would watch Daffy Duck or these animated characters.
Speaker 1: Daffy Duck had a list. So Mike Tyson had that,
Speaker 1: you know, Mike, if the Mike Typing were boxing champions,
Speaker 1: so and then it was a matter of listening to that.
Speaker 1: And so then then it was Mike Tyson this my
Speaker 1: first of all, you know, that's when he's young. But
Speaker 1: now when I called Mike now older, everything all the
Speaker 1: life that he's lived, the ups and the downs, I called, Mike,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? My all? Pray this twice. I
Speaker 1: don't know about. I'm just happy. Why because I don't
Speaker 1: have any money anymore. Time I get nobody get taken
Speaker 1: anything from me, because I'll think, no more vulture, no
Speaker 1: more creatures around me. I don't think. I'm just happy.
Speaker 1: How are you, my good brother? So it's matching the
Speaker 1: tone and then grabbing the mannerism. It's it's it's Donald
Speaker 1: Trump the people you can shine like the Kuran vest
Speaker 1: China China was when he did it. She's a very
Speaker 1: good person, change change very good people. I don't know,
Speaker 1: she's very you know. So that's a mannerism when you say,
Speaker 1: you know, when they asked him about the lady that
Speaker 1: was with with the thing, I don't know. She seems
Speaker 1: to be good people. She's very good people. You know.
Speaker 1: I don't know personally, but she seems to be good people.
Speaker 1: I wish you the best. So it's a matter of
Speaker 1: grabbing that tone and then you know, you know, jay Z,
Speaker 1: jay Z jay Z just that it's crazy. I think
Speaker 1: I think that. I think that, like you, you simplify
Speaker 1: it because it's but it's way more intricate from the
Speaker 1: outside looking in, because sitting next to Ray Charles is
Speaker 1: family and them not knowing the difference between you and
Speaker 1: him is different. Well, that's what you have to do.
Speaker 1: It's like you have to go beyond the impersonation. Ray Charles,
Speaker 1: hey tell everybody Ray Charles in town. That a dollar
Speaker 1: a quartern or red a clown. That's more the impersonation.
Speaker 1: But when we were doing Ray Charles, how does he
Speaker 1: order his food? How does he talk to his kids?
Speaker 1: What's the quiet moment? Because if you do the impersonation,
Speaker 1: now you're now you're a sitcom. But to do the
Speaker 1: real person, it's it's the quiet moment, you know. And
Speaker 1: when I met Ray Charles, I met him as the
Speaker 1: older Ray Charles. He comes in. I said, Mr Charles,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to do the best I can to
Speaker 1: do your do your do your story. And he goes,
Speaker 1: what if you can play the blues? Man? You could
Speaker 1: do anything? Can you play the blues? And we sat
Speaker 1: down and here his music first, So we're playing the
Speaker 1: Blue you know, I'm hanging, trying to hang, and then
Speaker 1: he moved into Thelonious Monk, but you know that's and
Speaker 1: he hits a note and I hit a runo. He said, hey,
Speaker 1: why why would you do that? Why do you And
Speaker 1: I was like, I was just trying to kill it.
Speaker 1: Don't hit the wrong notes, man, That's what life is, baby,
Speaker 1: taking time to hit the right notes. So that's a
Speaker 1: bar that's a bar Charles taking time to hit the right,
Speaker 1: not hit they always get the right. Nigga didn't. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about bottles up a tron, Magic City, King of Diamonds,
Speaker 1: and then this nigga will sing I Can't Make You
Speaker 1: Love Me? Recorded Still Dropped as the third song of
Speaker 1: the day. Circle House studios shout out the Circle House
Speaker 1: House the greatest. Can't talk about it, talk about your instruant,
Speaker 1: talk about where that came from. Jesus came from. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: hellel I remember. I remember National Baptist Convention, State Baptist
Speaker 1: Convention with my grandmother um and I wanted to sing
Speaker 1: in the choir so bad, going fast. He trying to
Speaker 1: poke Jamie back up ship. I was like, do you
Speaker 1: have let me get a shot of tequila cocaine ram
Speaker 1: I'm from. They called guys. You know guys, guy, I
Speaker 1: don't want to take I hate cocing, just like you
Speaker 1: just see a rumor. But yo, why y'all bullshit? It's
Speaker 1: the shots. We shouldn't be drinking another shot. No, Jay Valentine,
Speaker 1: I want to see you get mad at whoop somebody else.
Speaker 1: First time I met Ja Valentine, he went playing basketball
Speaker 1: whoop somebody else the studio. No, I brought him to
Speaker 1: your backyard first, bro bro Bro. But we went to
Speaker 1: the studio and did a song, and we went to
Speaker 1: go play in some little backyard court and a switch
Speaker 1: was flipped and I said, oh my god, I don't
Speaker 1: know who I'm with. It's like he's like he's like
Speaker 1: the walking black version of the Incredible Hook. You know
Speaker 1: what The funny part about that is that thing my
Speaker 1: father called me. Yeah, it got to my father. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had to. I've never seen so that's what happened.
Speaker 1: That you made this motherfucker flash on somebody that was
Speaker 1: so crazy. I was like, I said, we can't do that.
Speaker 1: Think about your life. He's a nick you know who
Speaker 1: we I said, I know, I don't know who you are.
Speaker 1: That motherfucker flash on somebody. I don't know who it was. Man,
Speaker 1: you got somebody got dripped me home. Ship I drive
Speaker 1: you home and keep the truck. Oh my god, to
Speaker 1: Rose Royces. That's gonna take you out. So so that's
Speaker 1: gonna take you out. That's gonna I want to sing
Speaker 1: at this National Baptors Convention so bad because it's all
Speaker 1: the churches, all the church. My grandmother's The dean acchoires
Speaker 1: to the choir of all choirs in the state. I'm
Speaker 1: practicing lead the whole week for Jesus you the center
Speaker 1: my joy, and the choir directors like, yeah you could.
Speaker 1: I got me all right. I rehearsing. I'm rehearsing all
Speaker 1: my runs at home. I'm getting my runs together. I'm
Speaker 1: in sixth grade, sixth grade six, I'm ready to know
Speaker 1: how to record. Deal my name first of all, your story,
Speaker 1: your story. I was already playing a taxi. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to read from come by to come up, started from
Speaker 1: the bottom, because from um and Friday King day to perform.
Speaker 1: He says, you know what, We're gonna let these two,
Speaker 1: the two older guys, sing the lead. You just throw
Speaker 1: a fit. I'm like, y'all can't do that to me.
Speaker 1: My grandmother's the dean married went straight. I went. I
Speaker 1: went to just my grandmother, like, what's wrong? Grand song?
Speaker 1: I said, they won't let me sing the lead. The
Speaker 1: more they said to my singing lean no moment, practicing
Speaker 1: all week. My grandmother walked through. My grandmother fiery. My
Speaker 1: grandmother's play a whole much game. She walked in there,
Speaker 1: I heard I saw her doing it. We're in church.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus. Your yeah came back. He said,
Speaker 1: all right, you're good. So I get up there and
Speaker 1: it's time for me to sing my league. And I'm
Speaker 1: singing my lead and I can look and look back
Speaker 1: at it retrospect, and and it was really quiet while
Speaker 1: I was singing my league. And one of the one
Speaker 1: of the ladies from my church, she said, take your time, Drell.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. It was to take your time, take
Speaker 1: your time to explain it, to explain it me in church,
Speaker 1: black church. When someone says that, secular people to me,
Speaker 1: when they when they when they say take your time,
Speaker 1: that means you're sucking up. Take your time shot let
Speaker 1: the lord lord, because right now the Lord apparently is
Speaker 1: not using it, and you need to get into his
Speaker 1: youth exact So they say take your time. And so
Speaker 1: by the time the song was at the vamp, I
Speaker 1: noticed I had been boxed out from the microphone. Are
Speaker 1: the two older guys and they were ad living and
Speaker 1: I was added up into their shoulders. I just kept singing, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're walking down going to the cars. Mounty Betty, who's
Speaker 1: the choired director for our junior choir. She's she's big
Speaker 1: in the city too. I said, Betty, how do I do?
Speaker 1: She said he was off, Baby, he was real off.
Speaker 1: She said he was off. And I was like, And
Speaker 1: it didn't hit me like I was a failure. It
Speaker 1: hit me like I got work to do because if
Speaker 1: Auntie Betty was back, I got more work to do, right,
Speaker 1: And so I started fine tuning, sharpening. It made me
Speaker 1: want to be the best. Sitting in the John p Key,
Speaker 1: you don't want to, you don't want to see. I discovered.
Speaker 1: I discovered John p Key. I discovered Darryl Coley. I
Speaker 1: discovered Commission. I discovered the one. Give me some other,
Speaker 1: give me some much. Haven't need someone. I knew you
Speaker 1: was gonna go there shot the cry on that's my guy,
Speaker 1: keeping easy egg and me and fight quidity, oh man
Speaker 1: sweet and speak soft word love than me so much.
Speaker 1: The Mitchell Johnes keep woting marry just want to dude.
Speaker 1: I need someone, my Lord, I need someone. They's someone
Speaker 1: you that's someone. No first thing about set yes, John
Speaker 1: Stockman and me and Mitchell Jones said little that's where
Speaker 1: we come from. Absolutely drove me to be. I wanted
Speaker 1: to since I messed up my runs. Then it drove
Speaker 1: me to best be the best runner, told me to
Speaker 1: be an Olympic star of all times. And and so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cut forward because at this point, I'm in
Speaker 1: a group. I'm a runner. I'm there in the group.
Speaker 1: I'm in a group called songs to a gospel group.
Speaker 1: I'm the runner. If there was a run to as
Speaker 1: nasty as you could do, You're in a group. Because
Speaker 1: I was a church kid, I hadn't graduated to the
Speaker 1: nastery that you know us at this point. Nastery came later. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're blessed it. So I'm the runner. I'm the killer runner.
Speaker 1: So I got this guy, got this girl, and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to press and I sing a song to over
Speaker 1: the phone that I wrote, and she's like, you know,
Speaker 1: he sounds really good, but I just can't understand what
Speaker 1: you're saying. What the run ends? Really like? These runs
Speaker 1: are magnificent. What do you mean that's what you told her?
Speaker 1: I was like, this is this is I'm killing this.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta chill right. And for a year
Speaker 1: I didn't do no runs. I studied Fred Hammond, and
Speaker 1: I sank straight and I studied Keith stating, I s,
Speaker 1: so women made you great? And so started when I'm
Speaker 1: Betty started, and then it was and then it and
Speaker 1: then it was whoever this girl is? And we eventually
Speaker 1: got tickets foe to a concert. It was founded with
Speaker 1: women with girls. It was founded with screaming the ninth grade. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's where it was. Let let's ask this question, guys
Speaker 1: for us, is it's just guys like, is that is
Speaker 1: that the factor that yeah that when we're we are,
Speaker 1: when we are peacocking, it's it's it's how it's the
Speaker 1: admiration of a woman. Not that we want to sleep
Speaker 1: at all the women. It's just it had to see
Speaker 1: the smile unless they from Minnesota. So sixth one, two shot?
Speaker 1: What does that shot? What was that a thing for you? Though?
Speaker 1: Because when I hear your music and when I hear
Speaker 1: Jay's music, it's so specifically two women. Is that Is
Speaker 1: that a deciding factor for us? Is that a Is
Speaker 1: that a motivating factor? It took me a minute to
Speaker 1: dial into that being the only motivating factor because initially
Speaker 1: I just wanted to be able to walk into a
Speaker 1: room full of singers and musicians and they all look
Speaker 1: at me and say you're the bad one him. And
Speaker 1: so that's why, that's why a lot of my music
Speaker 1: suffered in the beginning, because I was trying to outdo
Speaker 1: singers and musicians who don't buy me, who don't buy
Speaker 1: they don't He was trying to go up to the
Speaker 1: label and figure out how to get the free c
Speaker 1: D what I'm saying, and so I it took me
Speaker 1: a minute to learn, and me and him trying to
Speaker 1: learn a balance between being really creative but also being
Speaker 1: able to take the consumer along for the ride. And
Speaker 1: I think would end up working for us as a team.
Speaker 1: What R and B money was. I come from the
Speaker 1: Bay Area, of course, right, and the Bay Area was
Speaker 1: based on independent rap and simplify music, right. It was
Speaker 1: everything for us in the Bay is strictly a feeling.
Speaker 1: It's nothing else. Like people be like something is off,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean this is tweaked wrong, it ain't mixed,
Speaker 1: it ain't mastered, like we live on this island. Right.
Speaker 1: So me and this guy actually were the perfect storm
Speaker 1: because he was everything right and set to set the
Speaker 1: dynamic up. Though you are for him and you are together,
Speaker 1: what is because you guys are doing incredible because your
Speaker 1: artists as well. So it's like, it's an interesting thing
Speaker 1: to see you guys work together because I listened to
Speaker 1: your music as well. So, y'all you know him, so said,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean people. I don't know if people
Speaker 1: all everybody knows that. You know, a lot of people don't.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't because I've done business for
Speaker 1: so much. Too great looking motherfucker's like, who there is?
Speaker 1: Too good looking motherfuckers? What they do? It's unfair and
Speaker 1: I'll say it. So I'm gonna tell you what's an
Speaker 1: interesting story, the fact you guys have hair. Go ahead, baby,
Speaker 1: I'm trying. I'm trying to keep this my hair going,
Speaker 1: keep his hair going back. I can't get in. I
Speaker 1: was at a I was at an event, and I
Speaker 1: was on the like I was always on the cusp of, like,
Speaker 1: am I willing to do everything I need to do
Speaker 1: to be a very successful artist? Um? And but I was,
Speaker 1: you know, and we and we've talked about this before
Speaker 1: where I was always on the fence of how much
Speaker 1: business do I want to do and how much artistry
Speaker 1: do I want to do? And that's a very fine
Speaker 1: line because just like you said, when you start doing
Speaker 1: the business side of music, it gets it gets grimy.
Speaker 1: It's the trenches, right, So it's very hard to to
Speaker 1: to be in the trenches on the business side and
Speaker 1: still have the freedom of mind to do the creative
Speaker 1: side and to really love it and to do it
Speaker 1: for the women and to do it for you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, because you ain't really doing it for
Speaker 1: the money. You're really doing it for the women and
Speaker 1: for the fame and for all the other you know,
Speaker 1: ancillary things that come along with that side. Right. So
Speaker 1: for me, it was more so of like like I said,
Speaker 1: I was I was at I was at I was
Speaker 1: at an event with with one of my best friends
Speaker 1: with Ethiopia who's the head of Motown and my guy
Speaker 1: who used to manage um Steve Harvey. Wow, what's his name,
Speaker 1: Sean trum So I never met him. I didn't know
Speaker 1: who he was. I'm sitting there and I'm sitting the
Speaker 1: crowd and I'm watching him talk and he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Steve couldn't be here because you know, this
Speaker 1: ain't for Steve. And he talked, big ship, this ain't
Speaker 1: for Steve. And you know, I've seen what y'all got
Speaker 1: for me over here. But I don't even know if
Speaker 1: I could fit this on my plane your plane, right? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: he talked, He talked cash ship right right, and I
Speaker 1: don't know his ship. But he starts to tell a
Speaker 1: story where he was very humble. He starts off very
Speaker 1: like pompous and and arrogant in the plane and I
Speaker 1: can't fit this on this and and and and he says,
Speaker 1: what I realized when I've seen Steve is that he
Speaker 1: needed me. He was like, because I was a comedian,
Speaker 1: He was like, I was a comedian, but I realized
Speaker 1: I wanted to do business. And when I saw Steve Harvey,
Speaker 1: I looked at it as I can do everything I
Speaker 1: want to do from a business side and get all
Speaker 1: the all the success that I ever wanted from the
Speaker 1: comedian side, helping him become the biggest comedian that I
Speaker 1: possibly could. And the first thing that popped in my
Speaker 1: head was my best friend. Wow. It was a very
Speaker 1: selfless thing for me, where I was just like, that's
Speaker 1: me in tank because I had been going. It was
Speaker 1: like it was like a sign. And I don't even
Speaker 1: know if I ever really taught you this story, but
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and the first time. First time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you guys want to hug you a little saucy? Man?
Speaker 1: Do you keep this from me? Stop this ship? Ships
Speaker 1: a little, this some other fun. Don't kill everybody. Just
Speaker 1: got emotional tonight. You got gonna do. Drive back, you guys,
Speaker 1: just drive I just come back. He' nobody look at me.
Speaker 1: Do not run up on this light skined good? Look
Speaker 1: at he will lay you out. I would say this
Speaker 1: song me looking at you guys. It's so beautiful man,
Speaker 1: because you are keeping R and B alive and in
Speaker 1: the sense of where we actually need it, because you know,
Speaker 1: artists gonna go everywhere it goes. It goes everywhere it goes.
Speaker 1: But when I hear your music, and there's just one
Speaker 1: song Tank that I listened to and it brings tears
Speaker 1: to my eyes every time I hear it, and I
Speaker 1: can't get beyond that song. And what I mean is
Speaker 1: every music I should understand this. You'll listen to a
Speaker 1: song and you say I can't get the I can't
Speaker 1: get enough of the feeling that I'm feeling when you
Speaker 1: sing that song. I know we're going all over the place,
Speaker 1: but just talk about this song, which I funked up.
Speaker 1: I want to be on the song, but I'm kind
Speaker 1: of scared too. But that's the whole thing, is like
Speaker 1: I won't be able to match. Yeah, well you you
Speaker 1: you you you, you'd be able to match. But but
Speaker 1: but you know, and I know I'm reach it. But
Speaker 1: you guys are so important for us as as content
Speaker 1: in the sixties when we were going through a struggle,
Speaker 1: like black people were going through a struggle in the sixties,
Speaker 1: and the beautiful music that came out of that seventies,
Speaker 1: the party in this it's a studio four eighties. It's
Speaker 1: a whole different thing. But now at this moment, when
Speaker 1: I listened to what you bring to the table artistically,
Speaker 1: I go like, wow, Man, imagine if van Alden wouldn't happen.
Speaker 1: Imagine if those days wouldn't happened. When I said, yo,
Speaker 1: stay in my crib, and now you have this song
Speaker 1: that I play, she looks, she knows, Look, she knows.
Speaker 1: How long? How much do I play that song? I
Speaker 1: played all the fucking time. Bro, Well, nigga, I'm out
Speaker 1: the little what motherfucker's all take me away? Because I'm
Speaker 1: drunk at this point. Who I need to go to publish.
Speaker 1: You know it's it's the song take Me Away. It
Speaker 1: takes me away, and I appreciate you. And on a
Speaker 1: bigger level, it's bigger than these cameras. It's bigger than
Speaker 1: what we talk about. It's something that in Hollywood we
Speaker 1: live a different life. We live a life with where
Speaker 1: things that it's just I don't know how to explain it.
Speaker 1: It's different from where our homies are. But when you
Speaker 1: did that song, man, Tank, I'll be riding on my boat.
Speaker 1: You know what niggas to the boat tows the boat.
Speaker 1: I'll be riding on that boat and we'll be playing
Speaker 1: all the fucking many and that I mean it got
Speaker 1: a lot many. I don't know all the words boat,
Speaker 1: which I love that song, and I got some friends
Speaker 1: who know all of the fucking choreography. But when I
Speaker 1: play this song, man, my little one analyst, everybody we
Speaker 1: stopped talk about how that song. I know, this is
Speaker 1: crazy to talk about that song came. I really was
Speaker 1: just in a zone and I wasn't even gonna do
Speaker 1: um um a mixtape nothing. So Jay calls me. Jail
Speaker 1: always called me in the morning with the idea I
Speaker 1: call it. We've dubbed it idea overloading thinker when I
Speaker 1: say thinker as a thinker, and he'll call me in
Speaker 1: the morning with twenty seven ideas. Listen, let's He's like, Nigga,
Speaker 1: you're doing a mixtape. And then I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: not doing a mixtape. I'm not doing I'm back Jay,
Speaker 1: I'll call you back. And when we get off that call,
Speaker 1: I go and I started playing the piano and I
Speaker 1: come up with like four different vine incredible and I'm like, shoot,
Speaker 1: I think I might have a mixtape. I called him back.
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, You're right, We're doing a
Speaker 1: mix tape. And I do this and what about I'm
Speaker 1: doing a mixtape and I put the first one out,
Speaker 1: launch it beautiful. Fans asked for four more. I said, okay,
Speaker 1: I can't do this one without my girl. I said,
Speaker 1: I need something that feels like commission. I need something
Speaker 1: that gives me the feeling, the same feeling that I
Speaker 1: got when I heard or ever heard they have young
Speaker 1: ladies on the record who commission about no features. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you a question. You got me, what's the worst?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Man? No, nobody trying to
Speaker 1: doing nice layout before the Lion all of the crying.
Speaker 1: I love to night. Please, thank you. Way you see
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like it's free. We had a moment
Speaker 1: when we went to and I don't know, we're just
Speaker 1: jumping around, but we had a moment when we went
Speaker 1: to the front lines of the Black Lives Matter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's a moment. I have this footage when I'm
Speaker 1: filming you and we're on a plane. By the way, Irish,
Speaker 1: thank you for giving a step plane so we could
Speaker 1: get to it. Irish, thank you so much. But I
Speaker 1: remember playing that song man, and I remember saying, like,
Speaker 1: this is our moment. And I watched you. I know
Speaker 1: you watched me, watch you, I said, I said, use awesome, incredible,
Speaker 1: You're on an incredible trajectory. I know. I was scared
Speaker 1: to sing on that song. I told Lonny too. I said,
Speaker 1: my god, the song so great. I don't want to
Speaker 1: mess it up. But how does it feel having this
Speaker 1: career and that now doing the music that you do,
Speaker 1: being on stage with you? Yeah, I want to know,
Speaker 1: like when you sit down just for our for our musicians,
Speaker 1: what is going through your mind every time you do
Speaker 1: a record when you say you gotta do the mixtape
Speaker 1: what does it mean the world to you? Cause I
Speaker 1: think to me, you know, I call us, everything means
Speaker 1: the world to It doesn't mean the world to Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and and it's just a feeling, like I mean,
Speaker 1: some from my from my church world would call it
Speaker 1: the annointing. Some would call it, you know, some would
Speaker 1: call it just some you know, good energy or you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, some organic cosmic thing that you
Speaker 1: know that you just feel, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And and it's like some days, some days I feel
Speaker 1: it and some days I don't. I watch your Instagram.
Speaker 1: And when I watched you fun every nigga up. They
Speaker 1: every thought that they could make it. Thought, so what happened?
Speaker 1: And I said that to a girl in the DM.
Speaker 1: I wat and you do some shing? I said, if
Speaker 1: every I think it was was trying to make it,
Speaker 1: he just turned ship, get all this equipment off. Because
Speaker 1: I'm different. I'm just I'm different. So you know, So
Speaker 1: so I'm different. I know what I am. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: am inspiration. Mhmm. Yeah. So you're like a niggabying the
Speaker 1: new Rose Royce and putting it on the ground. I'm
Speaker 1: you know, I think of everything and everything and get down,
Speaker 1: put the mother back on the ground and white people
Speaker 1: right now, it was It's like, what does he mean,
Speaker 1: I'm inspirational purpose? And I learned that. I learned that.
Speaker 1: I learned that from being with you and from being
Speaker 1: with Chris Brown and shout Chris Brown. I worked, I
Speaker 1: worked with you. You know what. Shout for Chris Chris Brown.
Speaker 1: Of all times, I think you can get many Mandy, Yes,
Speaker 1: Chris Bright. So I was with you. You got me back.
Speaker 1: You know how down I was? You were, you were
Speaker 1: you were talking about Let's talk because that's the important
Speaker 1: part of the R and B Money podcast, right because
Speaker 1: everybody thinks this ship is just Rose Royces and Mansions
Speaker 1: talking about was giving me money? Talk about that Will
Speaker 1: Box's giving me money from his walkthrough it's just like
Speaker 1: you need some and he would just break me off cash.
Speaker 1: And what people don't understand is that we're talking about
Speaker 1: an artist who had already platinum album absolutely but was
Speaker 1: in a space where he didn't have the freedom to
Speaker 1: continue to to feed himself and his family down like
Speaker 1: where he was handcuffed. And this is the side of
Speaker 1: the music business that we talked about, right, So I
Speaker 1: get I'm I'm I'm building back up and Jamie calls
Speaker 1: me out of the blue. It's like, I need you
Speaker 1: to come to Miami. We're finishing this album. I said, what,
Speaker 1: I'm on the way. We're talking about the unpredictable, predict
Speaker 1: Miami Bad movie. But I still watch the movie to
Speaker 1: this that I don't feel like. I don't do that
Speaker 1: to you. I don't want you to anyone. I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you. I watch it every time to come on.
Speaker 1: I watched you, but don't do that and you give
Speaker 1: you from anywhere. Um calls me, call me to Miami
Speaker 1: and says we're finishing the album. And I go to
Speaker 1: Miami and we do. I help him finish an unpredictable
Speaker 1: album and we do. Damn this seven hundred thousand records
Speaker 1: the first week. And I'm back and I'm like and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm here, and they're like, that sounds like
Speaker 1: you on that album. I said, Tank, it was you,
Speaker 1: and Tank, here's the thing you wrote. I didn't write
Speaker 1: a lot of rope. People. Oh, but that's the next
Speaker 1: album bad. That wasn't We'll cut it and maybe you
Speaker 1: make sense. Keep well, cut listen, you do something. And
Speaker 1: I'm sitting and I'm like, damn, how do you do that?
Speaker 1: And then I meet a kid named Chris Brown and
Speaker 1: we're working and hooping together and I'm like, well you
Speaker 1: can be cold call that man. I study everything you
Speaker 1: do from credible and he goes millions and millions. And
Speaker 1: then I meet a kid named Trey Songs weeping on
Speaker 1: the road with chat and terror waiting for you know,
Speaker 1: he's been waiting for this moment. He was like, bro,
Speaker 1: I said, a whole summer, listen to the second nothing
Speaker 1: pain every day. That's why I'm do you know who?
Speaker 1: And I was like and I said, I got it,
Speaker 1: and I stopped chasing. I stopped chasing the monetary validation,
Speaker 1: and I started accepting my inspirational gift. I said, I'm here.
Speaker 1: I'm here to Justine Timberlake bucks with you. I'm here
Speaker 1: two kids exactly. But just did you hear what I
Speaker 1: just said. I'm talking about a very popular white star.
Speaker 1: The only one who take to me the toast is
Speaker 1: to take wow and white stars that love you. The
Speaker 1: white man loves you. So tell me this, though, Box,
Speaker 1: Because I paid attention to your music career, right, I
Speaker 1: fused with all the early ship you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: no bullshit, Like I really fused with the early ship.
Speaker 1: So tell me how do you go from your first album? Um,
Speaker 1: you break as a comedian right and then you say
Speaker 1: I'm going to try it again. I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: what happened this little black motherfucker that y'all know, the
Speaker 1: little dark from the base right here, love bad motherfucker
Speaker 1: that I've actually had a fight with. After Usher Concertscott,
Speaker 1: Brian Prescott shout out. Me as an artist is different
Speaker 1: because I always wanted to do music, but I started
Speaker 1: out with stand up, ended up doing these sort of
Speaker 1: like serious movies. But the thing that was just out
Speaker 1: of reach was music. I would listen to you and Marvel.
Speaker 1: So I run into Brian Prescott and we met playing basketball.
Speaker 1: We had a forum for championship that we would do
Speaker 1: with my house, um every every every holiday and him
Speaker 1: and Jason the five nine. I keep it funky that nigga,
Speaker 1: That nigga tough. He a tough guard and he's also
Speaker 1: a tough he's also a tough music music partner. He's crazy.
Speaker 1: Brian came to me and says, you should the music,
Speaker 1: but stop being stop being funny. I said, what stop
Speaker 1: being funny? He said, just sing the record. He said,
Speaker 1: you're joking too much. So what happens is when you
Speaker 1: joke too much, people to start to say like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's not really serious about the music. So what he
Speaker 1: did was he was able to find the songs. He says,
Speaker 1: I want your song to be a hit before they
Speaker 1: see who you are. He says, because I know that
Speaker 1: there's something there. And he gave me his resume and
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, that's that's that was fantastic, you know. Uh,
Speaker 1: he worked with Maxwell and and and and and Stone
Speaker 1: the people. He says, I want you to just just
Speaker 1: sing the record, and so I did. And so by
Speaker 1: doing that with um under Brion sort of Tutela is here.
Speaker 1: We are at the band Alden house and people don't
Speaker 1: understand that I did the parties for a reason. I
Speaker 1: did the party so people could come to the house.
Speaker 1: And Uh. At one party, it was a party for Puff.
Speaker 1: Puff is there and there was a young guy by
Speaker 1: the name of It was a young lady by the
Speaker 1: name and m c l a. She had a room.
Speaker 1: Puff had a room, and it was a guy standing
Speaker 1: on the on the all nobody knew his name was
Speaker 1: jay Z. I said, what's up. It's crazy. It's parties,
Speaker 1: it's parties crazy, it's like a short of time. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I see it. It's crazy. Then it was a young
Speaker 1: guy standing out in the garage. Smaller guy said, yo,
Speaker 1: Yo bees parties like this all the time. I say,
Speaker 1: who uses with the neptunes? My name is for I said.
Speaker 1: During that time, Brion brought over this kid, Kanye West.
Speaker 1: He said, this is a new guy. And Kanye comes
Speaker 1: over and I challenge him. I said, well, when people
Speaker 1: come over, you got you know, you got talent. Let's
Speaker 1: hear what you do. He freestyle something that was amazing.
Speaker 1: Brian says, funk all that. So what he said, does
Speaker 1: that song? Tell him about the song? So we went
Speaker 1: in the back where my studio was and we did
Speaker 1: the song. Kanye said. The song goes like she says
Speaker 1: she wants some mom and gang some new vanjos. So
Speaker 1: I said, I got it. I got it. So I
Speaker 1: started singing. She says she won't son. Yeah, He's like yo,
Speaker 1: and call you was like, Yo, what you doing? He said,
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be. Brian says, yo, Yo sing the
Speaker 1: song like he said, this is whack. It's never gonna work.
Speaker 1: So I do sing it the way he said, I
Speaker 1: go off and do a bad movie. I'll come back
Speaker 1: and Brihannes like, how many? But I got friends, But
Speaker 1: I got friends that would be like fine, friends, Fine,
Speaker 1: I see what you're doing. You don't say yo, yeah,
Speaker 1: but t Z will say when the movie is sucked up, Tank,
Speaker 1: Tank will say, fines. I see what he was trying
Speaker 1: to go with that. I see where you were trying
Speaker 1: to go all the doing another fucking shot right now,
Speaker 1: Do another fucking shot. If you're really about it, if
Speaker 1: you really a man, if you really are if you
Speaker 1: really out for do that fucking shot right now. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be happy. Won't have enough looking for everybody? What
Speaker 1: do you have whatever? Do that ship right the funk now.
Speaker 1: And Jay Valentine, I'm gonna see you fighting. Bail money
Speaker 1: in my pocket, Oh bro, I got bail money because
Speaker 1: I know Dave Valentine gonna turn out this Lightian motherfuck
Speaker 1: getting so dark year. No, listen, listen, let me tell
Speaker 1: this story. We had we at all hold to light skin,
Speaker 1: were Aday drop. We're in the bay a star super
Speaker 1: We're listening. We're in the bay dooring super Bowl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every club he takes me to. Oh yeah, my cousin
Speaker 1: he running every club. We're getting there. It's like fifteen
Speaker 1: clubs is really deep in the deep in the streets.
Speaker 1: So we get to one club, right, We settled in
Speaker 1: and gainst us Chris browns Uliver, everybody rock Obama, Steph
Speaker 1: Curry right there, Steph Curt, Steph Curry, all the life
Speaker 1: and great guys. He by this time he got the
Speaker 1: oil in them. He said, Tank, tell Steph come over
Speaker 1: and take a picture with us if you want to
Speaker 1: keep being safe in these streets. I said, what the fun?
Speaker 1: I said, why are you gotta tell him too much?
Speaker 1: I said, I gotta tell him the whole thing. Can
Speaker 1: tell step bring on light, I gotta tell me. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: step we'd like we'd love that's how you that's how
Speaker 1: we love all get a photo with you? After he said,
Speaker 1: After he said that, and did I say, see me,
Speaker 1: don't through the motherfucker gang size need We got step
Speaker 1: in the picture gang and there's a picture with all
Speaker 1: of us and stuff like that. Why stuff looking like that?
Speaker 1: Because they called me the next morning, like, man, why
Speaker 1: did you he was out of control? Did he turned
Speaker 1: me into the hite? But tell take this or if
Speaker 1: you want to be safe out here, I said, I
Speaker 1: can't tell him that. I don't want to save him
Speaker 1: that anyway. So it's not a proud moment. That's not
Speaker 1: you have Fox You have been at You have been
Speaker 1: a depinnacle of everything as we close this out, you've
Speaker 1: been a de pinnacle from Grammys to Oscars to imass too, everything.
Speaker 1: What's next, t Z, I'm gonna be honest with you,
Speaker 1: living living my life the way I live it. It's
Speaker 1: like you and Jay, there's a certain there's a certain
Speaker 1: thing whatever whatever whatever is next is do they like it?
Speaker 1: M I constantly go like, and I've had a couple
Speaker 1: Can I be honest with you, I've had a couple
Speaker 1: of bumps when when I do some ship and y'all
Speaker 1: go like, I remember, like not knowing this is gonna
Speaker 1: sound so random to you, but you remember when we
Speaker 1: was talking about these nuts. Yeah, and I didn't do
Speaker 1: the joke right, Yeah? Remember that you said Foxes that
Speaker 1: that has haunted me. Y'all was doing the joke so
Speaker 1: great and I tried to do it and he was like,
Speaker 1: are you fucking everything I love. Everything I love, or
Speaker 1: everything I love, let's be honest, everything I love. I
Speaker 1: didn't joke wrong and I didn't know that it was wrong.
Speaker 1: And he said, that's not I said. I went like, no,
Speaker 1: that's not. But you was so gracious with me, like
Speaker 1: this old nigga, this older nigga just didn't know what
Speaker 1: the fun was. I feel like I embarrassed myself a
Speaker 1: lot in front of you. I'm a safe place work.
Speaker 1: You want to safe place. I remember even at your wedding.
Speaker 1: I think maybe I divorced two months. That's your wedding.
Speaker 1: I told you about your wife like I wanted her
Speaker 1: and the young ladies I was at the time. I
Speaker 1: was like, come clean me what I say. I literally said,
Speaker 1: I've never told you this. I sud up. He was
Speaker 1: like he had a little sauce. I did. And I
Speaker 1: was hoping that you didn't cause it because I was
Speaker 1: so see and it's always your your your supporter. I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't think I'm saying. You know, when
Speaker 1: the nigger boys go up like that, you know, he lies.
Speaker 1: I embarrassed myself. I didn't know, but I didn't say
Speaker 1: it the right way. I wasn't saying that I want
Speaker 1: to get tango game. He got the jump. That's what
Speaker 1: I said. I'm like, okay, okay, pretty much, that's that's fine.
Speaker 1: I was embarrassed. But listen, here's the thing. Before you've
Speaker 1: been before, you've been right. I went far too. No,
Speaker 1: you did because this girl, uh you know, I ain't
Speaker 1: and me and Zeke we kind of get along. Bro, Bro, bro,
Speaker 1: you know how much do you need pat? You know?
Speaker 1: You know how much? Like like that, I said, some muscles.
Speaker 1: That's just talking is mom and Grandmama was there. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I'm not the only one sucking
Speaker 1: up right now because the Balantie saved me. I did
Speaker 1: for whatever means, and I think about this whole town.
Speaker 1: For some reason, I do slip a little bit when
Speaker 1: I'm around you. You have to stand with us. So
Speaker 1: I didn't make that mistake. But I wasn't saying I
Speaker 1: wanted your wife. But you understand what I'm saying. It
Speaker 1: was like try, but I didn't say it the right way.
Speaker 1: And listen me knowing you, I disagree because I know
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying is outside looking When I
Speaker 1: got back to my day. Yeah, it was like turn
Speaker 1: on playmate and like fine, I left, look like here's
Speaker 1: the thing. But you were like, well, I got back
Speaker 1: on the y. I said, but why would you know?
Speaker 1: It wasn't that I wasn't trying to listen. And who
Speaker 1: I remember was dancing on the dance floord and girls
Speaker 1: being like, why won't she come out the corner? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, they're doing this. Oh. It was so funck up.
Speaker 1: But at the same time I was with family and
Speaker 1: a taste of so we had a good time. So
Speaker 1: what's next? I spilled some of this ship. You're gonna
Speaker 1: you're gonna figure out're gonna always have something next. So
Speaker 1: the part of the show is called I Ain't saying
Speaker 1: no Names. Okay, let's go you you no no listen
Speaker 1: to say everybody don't warn baby Denzel Washington he was there,
Speaker 1: No no, Kanye, listen, I'm gonna say everybody's name. It
Speaker 1: was brought Roger Bottom and if there's any in the case, um,
Speaker 1: it's don't say no names. Bucks on the segments called.
Speaker 1: The segment is called I'm Gonna say it all No,
Speaker 1: No No. The segment is called Maga no Stallion Name
Speaker 1: tell the story Names. So the segment is called Ain't
Speaker 1: saying no name name Fox. Okay, well listen you mother Fox.
Speaker 1: You can do what you want to do back not
Speaker 1: giving two focks, but the name of the segment and
Speaker 1: the story can be funny, fucked up. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1: Industry story, got it? You want me to start it?
Speaker 1: Your story? It's your story. I Ain't saying no names
Speaker 1: in the hotel room, hotel with a very prominent actress,
Speaker 1: and she was doing cocaine. I was it. I watch it.
Speaker 1: I was. I was not doing that because I don't
Speaker 1: believe in it, because of my believe I don't do
Speaker 1: that because of my religious believe But she does the cocaine.
Speaker 1: She says, I'm a bad mother. She says a bad mother.
Speaker 1: And then she goes, wow, I didn't think I would
Speaker 1: be in this room doing cocaine with Rick Fox. She
Speaker 1: thought it was Rick though the whole fucking night, Bro,
Speaker 1: she thought I was Rick Fox. I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: not light skinned with good hair, Like, hey, whatever the coat,
Speaker 1: I don't want what this this young lady? All night
Speaker 1: bro from seven thirty think about what I'm telling you
Speaker 1: seven thirties where you get dressed tank, that's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: when you get dressed to hang out with somebody seven thirties,
Speaker 1: seven thirty tank, take tank, seven thirties, a date in Hollywood,
Speaker 1: seven thirties, very early. We'll meet at seventh thirties. She's
Speaker 1: already high as we hang out. When she came high.
Speaker 1: It's Hollywood. That's what we're supposed to do. That's what
Speaker 1: we're supposed to. I don't know. I don't do it.
Speaker 1: We're hanging out. She's fucking going nuts. She's going fucking nuts.
Speaker 1: We're in a hotel room at this very prominent hotel.
Speaker 1: She goes, you can shout out the hotel here. She's
Speaker 1: just I'm a bad hotel. No bro, it was alrumatized,
Speaker 1: amatize Peninsula, big time money, big star, put your name
Speaker 1: on it. What happened is this. I'm pulling up in
Speaker 1: my my limo. She jumps on my limo thinking of
Speaker 1: somebody else's I'm like, fucking god, what am I doing?
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know. I can't believe you fucking serious.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's just hangs. So we just rolled
Speaker 1: up and down sunset. She gets it, and then when
Speaker 1: we get back to your place, I cannot fucking believe
Speaker 1: I'm with Rick Fox. I was like, yeah, that's all
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. She thought it was Rick Fox. Shout
Speaker 1: out to Rick Fox, my life getting friends, you be
Speaker 1: it on. This has been money. Don't you run from it.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, is j right? Okay? Nick right? Bookcases don't
Speaker 1: know I'm put kids on all you put kids are
Speaker 1: all you nigga program. She literally said, I'm hanging with
Speaker 1: Rick Fox. I said, why, It's amazing, it's amazing. The
Speaker 1: aftermaths of Jamie Fox, everybody was that leg entertainer of
Speaker 1: all funs, hands out, not even thought they go, not
Speaker 1: even thought, Jamie, my fucking Fox, we don't be money