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Speaker 2: Every day I waiting pick your ass up the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm finish for y'all done.

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Speaker 2: Yep, was more dangerous morning show to Breakfast Club, Charlamage

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Speaker 2: God just hilarious. Envy and Lauren are out, but we

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Speaker 2: got some special guests in the building right now.

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Speaker 1: He's got a new album out, Choirtstorm Lover Tome. Is

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Speaker 1: it Tome?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? That's value one for French.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, we learned something every day. Rahim Divine is here?

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Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, what's going on? Good morning?

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Speaker 1: He's still sick? Shut up?

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Speaker 3: Shut up?

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Speaker 4: Hi, what's up?

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Speaker 3: Birthday girl? You know, I know you're still celebrating, Yes,

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Speaker 3: getting it in.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel, my brother?

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Speaker 3: I feel good, man, you know, I feel vibrant. I

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Speaker 3: feel like I reinvented myself once again, you know, and

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Speaker 3: I'm thankful just to have my name in the conversation

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Speaker 3: after all these years, you know, twenty years of the

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Speaker 3: love experience and being in the music business. You know,

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Speaker 3: we celebrated that last year, you know, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: So I'm actually currently in and approaching year twenty one

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Speaker 3: it's great. Man, it's great. It's it's a great and

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, and what better place to be

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Speaker 1: Thank you, brother.

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Speaker 2: I feel like your name is always in the conversation,

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Speaker 2: talking about how like there's certain artists that it ain't

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Speaker 2: about number one records, it ain't about you know, going

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Speaker 2: is just always relevant and in the mix. And I

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Speaker 1: It comes to R and B.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate that, you know that. I think that that's pulse,

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Speaker 3: that's culture. You know, that's what that's that you know,

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Speaker 3: And yeah, it's it's it's you know, it's not we

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Speaker 3: make it look easy as an independent artist. I've been

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Speaker 3: I've been I've been my own trial and error in

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Speaker 3: Guinea Pig for a lot of different things. You know,

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Speaker 3: even even this release, you know, this is an early release.

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Speaker 3: It's too there's there's two releases that that have happened,

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Speaker 3: For artists, well, I mean yeah, absolutely, when you when

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Speaker 3: And uh, you know, I'm schooling Spotify, like that's the

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Speaker 3: I don't you know they running ice ads? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: But yeah, they put it on your music. I mean

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Speaker 3: I applaud the fact that you know that that CDs

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Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting records. I feel so sorry for artists. I

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I would do that because

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Speaker 4: And they don't even make pennies no more. Did you

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Speaker 3: I mean, hey, that's modern day slavery. But did you

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Speaker 3: But but you know, French has always been associated with

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Speaker 2: Why like, why did this feel like the first chapter

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Speaker 4: You know, Now with this album, are you writing what

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Speaker 3: It's all slow jams. So you know, I'm going on

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Speaker 3: Clear, that's because it's just a slow jam album of

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Speaker 4: Where was you at?

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Speaker 3: so that's where we that's where we shot. That's where

433
00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:47,800
Speaker 3: we shot for the for the album. And then you

434
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Speaker 3: know the new look I did. I did a few

435
00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,359
Speaker 3: dope looks. And you follow me on Instagram, you can

436
00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,199
Speaker 3: see the rollout. Yeah, thank you for your style is

437
00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:58,760
Speaker 3: always I'm in a place in my life in the

438
00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,760
Speaker 3: artistry too. You gotta trust, you got to trust other

439
00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:05,560
Speaker 3: people like you can't be so you know, standoffish and

440
00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,080
Speaker 3: just like got to be open to two ideas and

441
00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,080
Speaker 3: trusting people with your art. You know, yeah, this is

442
00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:11,960
Speaker 3: definitely fine, you.

443
00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,719
Speaker 1: Know when it comes to trusting people with your art.

444
00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,880
Speaker 2: Do you think like Quiet Storm music disappeared or did

445
00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:19,240
Speaker 2: like the industry just stop prioritizing.

446
00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,240
Speaker 3: I think that I think for a period that the

447
00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:28,520
Speaker 3: industry stopped prioritizing, and I think that they saw firsthand

448
00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,000
Speaker 3: what happens to the game and to the music game

449
00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:35,119
Speaker 3: when you stop prioritizing and when you know, when you you,

450
00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,280
Speaker 3: you know, you chase the numbers instead of chasing the feeling,

451
00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:40,439
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Like I say it all

452
00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,480
Speaker 3: the time, good batter and different people remember how you

453
00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 3: made them feel? And Charlemagne, I'm just trying to make

454
00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:46,800
Speaker 3: them feel good with this music. I'm trying to make

455
00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,040
Speaker 3: them feel good when we touch the stages, you know,

456
00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:50,840
Speaker 3: when I'm on the air at night and we playing

457
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,080
Speaker 3: that laylist, I want to make them feel good, you know,

458
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,600
Speaker 3: And uh, and represent for the culture of what we do.

459
00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,159
Speaker 3: And you know, and as a result of that, you know,

460
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,200
Speaker 3: now history is repeating itself, you know what I mean.

461
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:04,919
Speaker 3: And when you stay true, when you stay true to

462
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,160
Speaker 3: the art form of what you do, and it comes

463
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,960
Speaker 3: back around. You know, the music gets the response that

464
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:11,920
Speaker 3: it's getting right now. You know. It's why, it's why

465
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,879
Speaker 3: Raheem Devone can be who he is, while you can

466
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:15,480
Speaker 3: be who you are, while you can be who you are,

467
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,359
Speaker 3: while Jill Scott is who she is, you know.

468
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Speaker 1: What I mean.

469
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Speaker 3: And uh, it's it's so, it's great. It's a lot

470
00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:22,359
Speaker 3: of great music out right now. Man, It's gonna be

471
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,240
Speaker 3: a lot of great It's a lot of touring happening

472
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Speaker 3: right now.

473
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Speaker 1: You know.

474
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Speaker 3: Shout out the flow a Tree, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

475
00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:32,720
Speaker 3: yeah yeah. I'm gonna be joining them on the Say

476
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Speaker 3: Yes Tour along with the incomparable Tser Moses you know

477
00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,040
Speaker 3: what I mean. Tickets you know, are on sale now

478
00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,159
Speaker 3: for all major cities and more data being added.

479
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

480
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Speaker 3: The New Day is the New Day is the first

481
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Speaker 3: show way, you know. So it's gonna be it's gonna

482
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 3: a time is gonna be had, man, you know, and uh,

483
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,720
Speaker 3: you know that's what it's. It's culture. It's you know,

484
00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:56,439
Speaker 3: one thing about it, you know, whether whether whether you

485
00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 3: know the ups and downs of it, the highs and lows.

486
00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 3: You know is nothing moves about that music. Nothing moves

487
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:07,440
Speaker 3: without that music. And and you know for us as

488
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,720
Speaker 3: artists who put so much into it, you know, from

489
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,400
Speaker 3: paying for the studio time and trying to figure out

490
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 3: how to you know, organically go viral and all these

491
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,960
Speaker 3: all these other components. You know, man, none of this.

492
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,439
Speaker 3: I was my first album came out in two thousand

493
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Speaker 3: and five. So to still be in the conversation. I

494
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,840
Speaker 3: did my first record deal two thousand and two with

495
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Speaker 3: Job Records, you know what I mean. So to be

496
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,399
Speaker 3: able to be still here and have that conversation, you know,

497
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,440
Speaker 3: it's not It's not I make it look easy. It's

498
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:40,240
Speaker 3: not easy though.

499
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

500
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Speaker 2: You know it's interesting because the quirt storm choir storm

501
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 2: music has has like always sent it vulnerability, right absolutely,

502
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Speaker 2: How is your definition of masculinity evolved as you've continued

503
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 2: to make this choir storm music.

504
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Speaker 3: Men are supposed to cry, you know what I mean?

505
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:01,359
Speaker 3: Men that's supposed to be able to have a safe

506
00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:04,919
Speaker 3: space you know and there and their woman and their

507
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 3: partner to be able to to say what's going on?

508
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 3: You know. Uh. A few projects back, I put out

509
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 3: this record called Love the Pain Away and and and

510
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 3: you know it's I was speaking from a very vulnerable space.

511
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 3: I had just lost my dad. You know, who's been,

512
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,280
Speaker 3: who's been, who's passed. You know, it's been gone for

513
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 3: about three and some change now. And yeah, so so

514
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,439
Speaker 3: so you know that that for me, that was the

515
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,200
Speaker 3: groundbreaking moment, that that where I had to go where

516
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Speaker 3: I said, oh I need I need a therapist. I

517
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 3: need therapy. Before that, I was that guy who felt like,

518
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 3: oh maybe maybe it's for you and not for me.

519
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 3: And and just like you know, and once you get

520
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 3: in there, you start getting the tools and doing the

521
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 3: homework and and and and then you realize and then

522
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,400
Speaker 3: and then something happens. Because things have happened. Life be life.

523
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:53,159
Speaker 3: And but now you got these tools that allow you

524
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Speaker 3: to be able to to be proud about your vulnerability

525
00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 3: and be able to identify your triggers and and the things,

526
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:06,159
Speaker 3: because you know, who won't be walking around mad, dysfunctional, heartbroken, bitter,

527
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 3: you know, assuming the worst, all all the things that

528
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 3: that that create, you know, a toxic experience, you know

529
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 3: what I mean, not just for you, but somebody who's

530
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Speaker 3: trying to possibly love on you.

531
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

532
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Speaker 4: And a lot of times people don't even realize that

533
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 4: they're stressed, or that they depress or that they need therapians.

534
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,400
Speaker 4: That they get in there and they still doing the work,

535
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. Absolutely know a lot of

536
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:31,640
Speaker 4: people don't even feel like it's nothing.

537
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,679
Speaker 3: Wrong with them, you know. So so for me, you know,

538
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:38,160
Speaker 3: part of doing the work, it's been being on stage

539
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 3: but also off stage.

540
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Speaker 1: You know.

541
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Speaker 3: Twenty twelve, I started my own foundation, the Love Life Foundation.

542
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 3: You know, our focal points have been fighting domestic violence

543
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 3: and being able to identify what it is amongst adults

544
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Speaker 3: and teens, you know, feeding those that are displaced, you know,

545
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Speaker 3: shout out to Gilead scientists who I've had a three

546
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Speaker 3: year partnership with, you know, on HIV awareness, you know, prevention,

547
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 3: you know, treatment, conversations about PREP and you know, talking

548
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 3: to your primary care doctor, knowing knowing if it's for

549
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 3: you and what PREP is.

550
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Speaker 1: And I saw that what made you want to do

551
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:13,360
Speaker 1: that partnership?

552
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Speaker 2: Man?

553
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,880
Speaker 3: You know, I mean I care about community.

554
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Speaker 2: Man.

555
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 3: You know, so I won't get into I won't get

556
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Speaker 3: into into the numbers, but I'm sure that I'm sure

557
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 3: that you know, uh, I'll say this, you know, get tested,

558
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 3: know your status, you know, uh. And and and know

559
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 3: that there's light at the end of the tunnel, you know,

560
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,479
Speaker 3: should you test positive. You know what I mean, that's

561
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 3: what you know treatment and you know prevention. But more importantly,

562
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 3: let's make sexual health conversations the new norm, you know

563
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 3: what I mean, along along with everything else. And then

564
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,399
Speaker 3: you know, for more information on what I'm doing, you know,

565
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,440
Speaker 3: with Gilead Sciences, you can log into you know, Gilead

566
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Speaker 3: dot com.

567
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Speaker 1: You know.

568
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Speaker 3: But mental health has also been at the forefront of

569
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 3: our initiatives, as you know, going down to Congress and lobbying.

570
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Speaker 3: You know, I've been very open and transparent about the

571
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Speaker 3: fact that I was my father's caregiver, you know, for

572
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 3: in a lot of part of the years of his life.

573
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 3: You know how he struggled with schizophrenia for most of

574
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Speaker 3: his life, and mental health, and so you know, you

575
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,679
Speaker 3: got to be able to identify the crisis when you

576
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 3: see it and know not the call nine one one

577
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 3: and know what number to call.

578
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 2: We're still not having enough conversations aboutlophrenia, like you know,

579
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Speaker 2: I think that we're just starting to you know, of

580
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 2: course we deal with our anxiety and the depression and

581
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 2: even bipolar, but schizophrenia is something that I feel.

582
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,959
Speaker 3: It's the elephant in the room. You know, shout out

583
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 3: to all the churches, you know, whatever your faith is.

584
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,159
Speaker 3: But some things you can't pray away, you know what

585
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 3: I mean? Like that? You know, you know, you know

586
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 3: some things that require you know, therapy is going to

587
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 3: be required. You know, a doctors needs to intervene, and

588
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 3: medication is going to be necessary, you know. So you know,

589
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 3: just just as just as we break down the stigmas

590
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Speaker 3: you know of you know about HIV, you know, you

591
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 3: know there's a there's a there's a plethor of stigmas

592
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:02,439
Speaker 3: that need to be broken down as it relates to

593
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 3: mental health and making that cool and having those conversations

594
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 3: and just being in the transparency. So you know, I'm

595
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 3: gonna continue to do the work with the foundation, I know.

596
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 3: I know that's that's something that's that's important to you

597
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 3: as well. And if you know, if there's opportunities for

598
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,159
Speaker 3: us to work together I'm going on the record to

599
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 3: say that we can absolutely do that. You know. Yeah,

600
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,360
Speaker 3: I would love I would love to, Yeah, I would

601
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 3: love to be.

602
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 4: One of the things that people also don't talk about

603
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 4: usually is the people that take that have to take

604
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 4: care of, you know, the oh.

605
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:38,360
Speaker 3: For sure, because men listen like, you know, my dad's

606
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 3: last crisis, you know, and that's and that's when they

607
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 3: when they're off the meds for too long. You know,

608
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 3: the longer you off the meds, the more damage your causes,

609
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 3: you know, and and you risk the fact of going

610
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 3: completely like insane, right, So the last the last, the

611
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 3: last crisis in particularly like I'm in the middle of

612
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 3: the like tour, so I'm so I'm like, you know,

613
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 3: and then that's and and and it's something that it's

614
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 3: his personal business at the time, and and and and

615
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 3: uh so I'm like touring and flying in to Ohio

616
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 3: just jumping off of a plane like yeah, tired, it wears,

617
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 3: you know, you know, I'm I'm I'm literally in a

618
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 3: psych ward, you know what I mean, Like it's it's

619
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 3: it's and for whatever reason, I was the only I

620
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 3: was the only one to kind of always get him

621
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 3: back on track. You know what I mean, and he trusted,

622
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 3: you know, when he was in that paranoid state or

623
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 3: having an episode. So yeah, man, it's a It weighs

624
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 3: a lot on on on on on the family member

625
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 3: or members you know, and the ones who have to

626
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 3: you know, see it through. But that's what we do.

627
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 3: You know that, you know, if you know, I would

628
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 3: hope that if I was in that position, that's what

629
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Speaker 3: family would do for me, My child would do for me,

630
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 3: you know what I mean.

631
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Speaker 1: Have you found a way to express that through the art?

632
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel I feel like I feel like I

633
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 3: feel like I have and I'm still exploring that in

634
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 3: terms of the artist street. But but but but but

635
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,479
Speaker 3: aside from that, I've found a way to do that,

636
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 3: to express that where it matters most, because you know,

637
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 3: on stage is cool, But the dopest thing is the

638
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 3: random acts of kindness that people don't see, yeah, or that,

639
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 3: or the things that that that aren't spoken on, you

640
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 3: know what I mean. So you know, I pride myself

641
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 3: and just you know, when I'm when I'm home and

642
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 3: I'm in the city and you know, and just doing

643
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 3: the work because I can't you know, I can't get

644
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 3: that time back with my dad.

645
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.

646
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 3: I can you know, I can pat myself on the

647
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 3: on the on the back and say, you know, great job,

648
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 3: you know, but at the end of the day, I

649
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 3: did what I was supposed to do. That's my parent

650
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Like you you're supposed to

651
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 3: That's what you're supposed to do, you know, for for

652
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 3: for for for family.

653
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 2: You know, you think men are are finally allowed to

654
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 2: be like emotionally fluent in their art Are we still

655
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 2: kind of like unlearning emotional silence?

656
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 3: And I think we I think I think that I

657
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 3: think we are. Absolutely I think we're in that uh

658
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 3: we are and have been for some time. If it's

659
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 3: in the age of like, you can be who you

660
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 3: want to be, You can be who you are, love

661
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 3: who you love. You know, you know, have have no shame,

662
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 3: you know, as it relates to artistry for for for

663
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 3: our men and for our women in particular, who you know,

664
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 3: I can't imagine what it's like to be a woman,

665
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 3: but I know, I know, I know coming out in

666
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 3: the two thousands, what the stereotypes were, you know, you

667
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 3: know what I mean. Like, so you know, I never

668
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 3: thought that ship it should matter what you look like,

669
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 3: what the artists look like, or what they weigh or

670
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 3: you know, you know what I mean, or you know

671
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 3: what what what what?

672
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: You know?

673
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 3: What the preference is the women?

674
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean, and all

675
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 2: the cosmetically challenges.

676
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: R and B guys.

677
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 2: Make jokes about how cosmetically challenge R and B singles were,

678
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 2: but the music was fine.

679
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so you know, but but but but it's again,

680
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 3: it's bringing full circles. It's a amazing to see how

681
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 3: and to see how everything is like coming back for

682
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 3: a circle. If you look out like the rollout there,

683
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 3: like you know Jake Cole's doing right now for example,

684
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, along with along with the

685
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 3: digital real estate, like being outside physically with the merch

686
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 3: and you know, the success that I've always followed in

687
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 3: the footsteps of the hip hop artists. I mean, I

688
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 3: started doing mixtapes and jack and beats because of fifty

689
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 3: cent and the g Unit tapes. I started. You know,

690
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 3: I gave out the next Till Blowout phone number because

691
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 3: of Mike Jones on the mixtape. Yeah, you know what

692
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 3: I mean. So I was so I always watched to see,

693
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 3: you know, and moving around, you know, being you know,

694
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 3: when you when you're independent, you your own promo. So

695
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 3: you got to be outside, you know, Philly, New York,

696
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 3: LA and moving around, so you know, you naturally see

697
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 3: what's happening, you know, and what has the pulse on

698
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 3: the streets, you know. And so it's always been to

699
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 3: my advantage to I feel like to to you know,

700
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 3: as an R and B C singer, to to kind

701
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 3: of you know, tapping to that space.

702
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 2: I was I'm glad you brought up Ja Cole, whuse

703
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 2: I was thinking about when you talked about the partnership with.

704
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 3: Gilly.

705
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: Yeah.

706
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 2: Did you hear J Cole's record Safety, Yeah, and how

707
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 2: he addressed his friend Yeah, Yeah, that was that was

708
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 2: one of the most introspective time I've ever heard. Yeah.

709
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, yeah, I.

710
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: Always be wanting him to be more introspected.

711
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 3: That was a very different approach that record. That record

712
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 3: in particular, it takes me. It takes me to Tonas

713
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 3: New York State or no, no, no one love excuse me. Yeah,

714
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 3: like you you know what I mean, Like it's it's

715
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 3: like that's J Cole's like one love moment, you know

716
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 3: what I mean, Very very very his his approach man

717
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 3: on that, on that versus crazy.

718
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 2: Yeah did you I mean when you when you talked

719
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 2: about how he had regret because you know, his friend sexuality,

720
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 2: but also what really hit him was when his friend

721
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 2: passed away.

722
00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 3: Of yeah you know, I don't know, yeah, yeah, yeah,

723
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 3: I mean it made me think, yeah, it may it

724
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 3: make you know, it makes you think, like you know

725
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 3: what I mean, Like I think, you know, I think,

726
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 3: but that's what music is, you know, it's it's it's

727
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 3: you know, it's transparency, you know, you know, for for

728
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:13,719
Speaker 3: Quiet Storm Lover, for me in particular, like you know,

729
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 3: it's all slow jams. It's love. So it's no there's

730
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 3: no heartbreak records on there, you know, you know what

731
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 3: I mean. I feel like we got enough for that,

732
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 3: like you know, you know what I mean. But but

733
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 3: but to be able to you know, to make those

734
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 3: to make that, to make that, to make a body

735
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 3: of work like that, and then and then be able

736
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 3: to be you know, be able to be able to

737
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 3: do the work that I'm doing with Gilead, I think

738
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 3: it's you know, it's it's it's on brand, you know

739
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,239
Speaker 3: what I mean. It's kind of like, you know, if

740
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 3: you're gonna if you if you're gonna, you know, push

741
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 3: the push the push the liquor. You know, you know,

742
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 3: you know in the club you're gonna do you do

743
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 3: the liquor endorsement. Don't don't put the car keys in

744
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 3: their hand. You know, you know, call it, you know,

745
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 3: do the partnership with with with lit for uber you

746
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 3: know what I mean? Like, yeah, so that's what's up.

747
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: How do you measure success at this stage of your journey?

748
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 3: I measured success being able to sleep that night like

749
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 3: a baby. You know what I mean. I have to

750
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 3: putting in that hard work. You know what I mean,

751
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 3: knowing that I haven't compromised you know what's important to me,

752
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 3: my spirituality, my moral compasses. You know that that that

753
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 3: I don't feel like I'm like my soul has been

754
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 3: chipped away at you know what I mean, knowing that,

755
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 3: knowing that that you know I'm I'm I'm the boss.

756
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 3: It's only it's only it's only one higher source of power,

757
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 3: you know than me, You know what I mean? And

758
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 3: and and and and knowing and knowing that, knowing knowing

759
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,760
Speaker 3: knowing to listen to that intuition, those butterflies, that that

760
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 3: that that spidey sense. You know, that's the voice of God.

761
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, It's intuition, and uh yeah, man,

762
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 3: Like you know, it's the art. It's the art of reinvention,

763
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 3: reinventing myself, you know, and and just and and and consistency.

764
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 3: A lot of times we just we we we chase.

765
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 3: Sometimes we're trying to supersede the expectation of what we

766
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 3: did ten years ago or twenty years ago. But you

767
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 3: know that's where that practice comes in, you know, you know,

768
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 3: and those those late nights from just being in the

769
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 3: studio and just being a creature of habit and and

770
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 3: just genuinely and genuinely still being in love with it,

771
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like if I if I didn't,

772
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 3: if I didn't still love it, I wouldn't be doing it.

773
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 2: Let's get into a record, man, because you know, just

774
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 2: need to blow her nose because, like I mean, that

775
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 2: was so crazy, it was crazy.

776
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 1: See what song you want to get into right here?

777
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 3: Oh man, look, let's get into Let's get it, you

778
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 3: know what, Let's let's get Let's get into the one

779
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 3: that's killing the charts right now. So you know, twenty

780
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 3: years ago I created this anthem you you which is

781
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 3: which is? Which? Now is a crazy research and resurgence

782
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 3: of it going viral right now, you know, shout to

783
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 3: all up and becoming artists right now, joining joining the

784
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 3: you know, uh, the verse challenge, the open verse challenge,

785
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 3: right and you know, I remade the record. I remade

786
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 3: my own song. You know, it wasn't just it just wasn't.

787
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 3: It wasn't strictly just like you know, stroking my own ego.

788
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,919
Speaker 3: This wasn't This wasn't an ego stroke move or narcissistic move.

789
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 3: This was this was also a business move because it

790
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 3: becomes a new master, you know what I mean that

791
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 3: that that that that that you know, that I can

792
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 3: control when it comes to like the licensing and not

793
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 3: having to check in, you know. And you know last

794
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,879
Speaker 3: year I had big plans for the twenty year anniversary

795
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 3: album until I realized that, Okay, the rights haven't reverted,

796
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 3: you know, haven't reverted back to me yet. And for

797
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 3: the things that I want to do with my baby,

798
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 3: with these songs that I created many moons ago, I

799
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 3: bless you do it.

800
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 4: Again attention saying bless you the third time doing it?

801
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: Don't say no more.

802
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 3: Yeah. So so so I realized, man, you gotta throw

803
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 3: them off my train talking about you.

804
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 2: I said, man, you're talking about you the famasary just

805
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 2: for ego, you didn't do it.

806
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 3: Just thank you forgiving me back on all right, Yeah,

807
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 3: I just so. So it was for business, it was

808
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 3: it was you know it, it's business. This time is business,

809
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 3: but it's also personal, you know what I mean. Like

810
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 3: I feel like the record didn't get to get get

811
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 3: to get to shine and deserve, you know what I mean.

812
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 3: So you know, I got my bag up, I got

813
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 3: my focus, I got my team, you know what I mean.

814
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 3: And we currently just we just cracked top thirty, like

815
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 3: twenty six today. Yeah, shout shout to la Ron you

816
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 3: know what I mean, product manager Gururu. We known each

817
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 3: other a long time. Brought me to brought me the

818
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 3: first first brother, bring me to Detroit. What I've done,

819
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Shout to Detroit. Yeah, strong,

820
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 3: strong market out there. Yeah. So, so I remade the

821
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 3: record and and and it's going it's going crazy. Got

822
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 3: live strings, new vocals, new production, still still.

823
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 4: The vibe and you still look the same.

824
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 3: Thank you, like thank you.

825
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 4: Definitely drinking from the fountain.

826
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 3: Sneeze, sneeze your compliments upon me. You do really still

827
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 3: look good.

828
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 4: I'm like, damn, you know, they say blatant crap, but like, no,

829
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 4: like you, you really still look good.

830
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 3: I mean I might take one drink a year if that,

831
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So I don't drink. You know,

832
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 3: I haven't. I haven't smoked weed probably since what twenty

833
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 3: twenty COVID came smoking the blunts and the cipher.

834
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: And you know what.

835
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 3: I want to ask you long.

836
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,720
Speaker 2: Ago before we get into you, the remaker, you our records.

837
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: Really like babies, do you watch them grow up? And

838
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 1: you look at this?

839
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 3: I mean for me, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's

840
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 3: a great way to kind of like look at it.

841
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 3: You know, at some point you have this beautiful child

842
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 3: that you pour into, You put all this work into,

843
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 3: you have a lot of fun creating it, and then

844
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 3: and then the baby pop out. You know, you know

845
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 3: what I mean. You be like, shut your ass down.

846
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 3: I love you, you know what I mean? And you and

847
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 3: you and then and then you and then be like

848
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 3: reminds me and me or you know you're be like

849
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 3: you mind you acting like your.

850
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: Daddy right now?

851
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 3: You look like your daddy, and and then and and

852
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 3: and then and then they and then they become of

853
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 3: age and everything we've invested in into them now it

854
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 3: now it goes out into the world, and you know

855
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 3: what I mean. And you know, at some point hopefully

856
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 3: you become a grandparent right in the offspring, and you

857
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 3: know what I mean. So, I mean, you know, I

858
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 3: think about on a serious note, like how many, how many,

859
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 3: how many babies been conceived to a good slow jam

860
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 3: of mind, you know, or to those songs that we

861
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 3: love and hear, you know in the choet song. So yeah,

862
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 3: so so absolutely, you know what I mean. So, but

863
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 3: it wasn't easy remaking my own song. I'll tell you that.

864
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 4: What was all about it?

865
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it was, you know, one I've

866
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 3: grown as a vocalist. So you're in there trying to

867
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 3: capture You're in there trying to capture this feelings that

868
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 3: you that you created that you can't you can't recreate

869
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 3: it because it's a magical, you know, I do you

870
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 3: know it's literally if you know, you know, it's a download.

871
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 1: Can you grow your own sound? Can you'll grow your

872
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:07,760
Speaker 1: own talent?

873
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 3: Only only only if you're growing in a positive way. Absolutely,

874
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 3: I'm not the vocalist I was twenty years ago. I

875
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 3: can humbly say that I've gotten better. You know, in

876
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 3: the studio, my mind is sharper.

877
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:24,879
Speaker 1: I'm more.

878
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 3: I'm more of a perfectionist now, you know. I can.

879
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 3: I can hear things in the album that were like

880
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 3: where you know, where a track wasn't cleaned up all

881
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 3: the way. My ears are better, you know what I mean.

882
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 3: I'm more, I'm more intuitive, you know what I mean?

883
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 3: And I and I and I'm more. I care more,

884
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,959
Speaker 3: like not that I didn't care then, but I care more,

885
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 3: you know. So It's never gonna be perfect, right, But

886
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 3: you know my approach to music is that if I

887
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 3: can't feel it, you know, if I can't step outside

888
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 3: of myself as a creator that made it and feel

889
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 3: it than somebody else is you know what, then it's

890
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 3: not gonna If it's not moving me, then it's not

891
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 3: it's not gonna move you. You know what I'm saying.

892
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 3: I think for I think for sure that like we

893
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 3: got there's some things that we won't get into, the

894
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 3: names and the genres and things, but like you hear

895
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 3: it and you be like, come on, man, I know

896
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 3: you didn't feel this. Somebody put you in to me,

897
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,919
Speaker 3: Somebody made some an R told you needed to do it,

898
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 3: like you know what I mean like and you know,

899
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 3: so you just gotta you know, as an artist, you

900
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 3: gotta know. You better know who you are getting into this.

901
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 3: That was one of the things that that that I

902
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 3: that I that I understood coming into it before I signed,

903
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 3: you know, the contract in two thousand and two, you

904
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 3: know what I mean, which I got out of. I

905
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 3: got myself out of and you know too in twenty

906
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 3: and ten, you know, I mean, it been independent every

907
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 3: six So yeah, it's it's it's it's it's you know,

908
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 3: that's it. You better know who you better? You better know?

909
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 4: Do you like the first? You better? The original? You

910
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 4: better than the real? Because you gotta think about it.

911
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 4: Tank did the same thing on R and B Money,

912
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 4: Like he remade like three of his old right, and

913
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 4: it's it's it's debatable to me. I like the newer one.

914
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 3: I'm not you know what. I ain't gonna hold you

915
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 3: what you think. I absolutely love the new version better

916
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 3: like like I like like I walked away like once

917
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 3: it was mastered, it got the live strings on it,

918
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,720
Speaker 3: and just like I walked away from it being like, damn,

919
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 3: I'm about to remake everything whenever about the time they

920
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 3: listen to that, by the time they listen to the birthday,

921
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 3: it's gonna feel like a it's gonna feel like a demo,

922
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? And then you know and

923
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:33,359
Speaker 3: and and again why not if you can do it?

924
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: Why not?

925
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,799
Speaker 3: Because because you know it's about ownership, you know, being

926
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 3: able to being able to be able to own that

927
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 3: master and not happen to be able to go and

928
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 3: not having to check in with somebody about your baby.

929
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 3: Having a check in with somebody about your baby. Oh man,

930
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 3: there's no feeling worse than that something that you put

931
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 3: the hard work into, the blood, sweat tis and did

932
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 3: somebody tell you no, you can't put that out unless

933
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 3: I say you can. Man, Come on, it's always a

934
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 3: way you figure it out. And that's why you got

935
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:02,320
Speaker 3: to get your n f C.

936
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 4: And I got the first.

937
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 3: Yeah we got to sign one for Charlamagne and leave

938
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 3: one for Envy. But but yeah, that's you know, that's

939
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 3: you know that that that you know, the digital real

940
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 3: estate and and and all the things do not matter

941
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 3: if you ain't if you don't have that ownership you

942
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 3: got you are you locked into that three sixty deal?

943
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 3: You got to check in. People still sign three sixty man,

944
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 3: People still sign the three sixty deals.

945
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 2: Man.

946
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:32,359
Speaker 4: You think they're not, but niggas still not reading. Really

947
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 4: they know I am. I'm not asking.

948
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: I was asking.

949
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 4: You know what he becoming at us Yo, me and

950
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 4: you Ryan, I got because we're part of the d

951
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:47,280
Speaker 4: m V. We went.

952
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,240
Speaker 3: What pa that's together?

953
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 2: They got nothing DV okay rahiem Devon Man, thank you

954
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:00,399
Speaker 2: for joining us, brother Quiet Storm level ball one.

955
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you so much for

956
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 3: having me.

957
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: Appreciate you. Man. Let's get into you right now. Introduce

958
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 1: the record.

959
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 3: Brother, Yeah, you know what it is. You know who

960
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 3: I am. You know what I do. So love King

961
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 3: of so On R and B Radio, Rahim Devine aka

962
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 3: mister Quiet Storm, and check it out. This is a

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Speaker 3: world permitted. We're taking it all the way. Number one.

964
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Speaker 3: You the twenty year anniversary edition right here on the

965
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:21,240
Speaker 3: Breakfast Club.

966
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 4: You dig.

967
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 3: I like that.

968
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Speaker 1: Every day a week ago.

969
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,240
Speaker 3: Clicks up the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 1: Finish for y'all. Dump