WEBVTT - Tyrese Interview 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:08.039 The real people, real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning. Everybody 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:11.080 is DJ en Vi, Angeluie, Charlomagne, the God. We are 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:15.160 the Breakfast Club Special guests in the building, black Tie 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:26.480 towres Man. I just never know what this dude's gonna say. Stop, 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.640 But I know it's a super busy week this week 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.400 for you guys. Gearing up a Fast and Furious seven. Yes, 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.239 seventh installment. I saw the clip of you jumping out 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.320 of a plane in a parish. Yeah, that wasn't cool. 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.280 Did you have to do that for real? Uh? Nah, 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:47.680 we was you know, plane, plane wasn't moving, but you know, 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.240 we was up somewhere really high when we shot the scene. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.280 Because they they really wanted me to think and believe 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:57.000 that he was jumping out of a plane. He looked shook. Yeah, 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:58.880 it wasn't It wasn't cool. I didn't really like the 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:00.880 way the whole situation with that, you know. I mean 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.160 I actually try to get them to, you know, shoot 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.480 that with Luda instead of me, and they wasn't having it. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:08.399 But I mean, if you didn't really have to do 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.520 what you was scared about it. I mean because we 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.920 were still up high and I'm not really a fan 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.520 of heights like that that. I never jumped out of 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.399 a plane. I definitely want to jump out of a 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:23.760 plane in a car with the possibilities that a parachute 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.520 would work. How did the fast and furious the roles 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:30.039 stay fresh to you? Um? I mean, no two scenarios 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:31.679 ever the same, you know what I'm saying. It's like 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:36.400 kind of once once, once these situations and moments and 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.000 action scenes happened, or when scenes are real intense and 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.759 I get to do my Roman piss thing and say 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:46.360 some slick or funny to throw everything off. You know, 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.480 it's a lot of stuff happens on the set on 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.200 the fly I could have never been written. So we 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.160 just be improving and having fun with it. Got hard 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.880 hard to do promo because you know, the late great 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.520 Paul Walker. You know, you go through something, you're healing 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.480 with it. You got to see him everywhere people ask 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.440 you questions about him, to open up the wounds. I mean, 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:09.600 it's it's it's it's definitely prolonging our healing and closure process. 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.680 I mean, none of us wanted to do promo interviews. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.880 You know, the press junker was five days long. You know, 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.120 none of us wanted to do it. But at the 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.679 end of the day when when the Walker family, his 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.280 moms and and father and his two brothers who ended 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.480 up joining us to help us to finish the movie. 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.600 Since they've been so full throttle on the support, you know, 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.400 it's kind of you know, gave us, you know, the 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.440 energy and the inspiration to want to rock out because 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.720 you know, we we love Paul and we knew him 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.280 and it was our family and our brother, but we 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.800 didn't grow up with him from like childhood. We didn't 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.520 give birth to him. So if they're showing us how 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.639 strong they are, it's giving us permission to feel a 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.240 little better about moving forward and helping to close it out. 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.040 What about all those comedians recently they did a rosal 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.680 but Justin Bieber and a couple of comedians took stabs 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.400 at his death. How did that make you you feel? 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.720 In the cast field, I can tell you right now, 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.960 Me and Chris, Me and Luda Chris talked about it. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.480 They should be real lucky that that Luda Chris was 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.840 there and it wasn't me. And the crazy thing is 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:17.040 I had just got the call um to to do 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:18.520 do the show, you know what I mean? They wanted 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.120 me to show up, but I know Bieber, but you 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.120 know he I ain't a part of his click or 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.200 his camp like that. So I was like, that's real. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.520 You know, why would I go to a Justin Bieber 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.359 comic ros It's not you know, So I just didn't go. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.040 And when I found out that went down, it would 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:40.440 have been have been a which they'd have got a 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.560 little crazy. Have got a little crazy, believe me. Said 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.400 they had the brothers set, what did they do like 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:49.160 their likenesses, Yeah, they looked just like Paul, so they 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.320 you know, they they just stepped up and made it happen. 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.560 I'm behind for the team. And they also used old 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.960 footage from other movies as well. Right, I was reading 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.320 that they incorporated that somehow to make it look like 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.560 few clips, a few clips that no one has ever seen, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.040 you know. Um yeah, I mean it's it's a bunch 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.920 of technical stuff. But you know, he shot eighty five 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.920 percent in the movie before he you know, his untimely death. 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.279 So I just appreciate, we appreciate all of the loaves 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.120 and prayers and energy from around the world for his family, 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:23.080 specifically his daughter and us, because you know, I've been 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.480 knowing Paul and we've been the closest of friends for 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.200 thirteen years. So it was it was rough with the cast. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.400 You guys are really really close. I think with a 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.520 lot of people that you do business with, it seems 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.080 like you keep them close to your heart. I mean, 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.400 I've always see people at your house. You always invite 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.960 people into your home. Why is that? Because you usually 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.080 never see that. Um, we got a restaurant in your house. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:49.000 You gotta invite people who I mean, y'all stay off 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:55.760 my timeline. It's a little bit. I thought y'all was busy. Um. Honestly, man, 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.719 you know, anybody who knows about my childhood, I've written 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.320 books about it. I'm not necessarily close to my family 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.480 like that. Um, you know, I love them. They doing 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.159 their thing. I'm doing my thing. But you know, growing 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.720 up in that level of dysfunction, it doesn't mean that 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:15.520 you disconnect from the complete, you know, idea family. So 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.400 I hang around with like minded people. I hang around 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.240 with people that are bond and connect with that. I 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.200 think is funny, and we have big visions and ideas 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.280 that were swapping and that's that's really it. I mean, 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.400 you know, I don't know. I mean, I think. I 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.000 think the other thing in Hollywood is that there's a 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.400 lot of people that are only cool in between action 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.480 and cut and as soon as the movie is over, 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.440 they don't have a connect. Dinners bought mits for us birthdays, 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.400 you know nothing. It's just like yeah, yeah, I'll see 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.800 you for the sequel um and for me. When you 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.120 connect with people and you bond, you just keep rocking. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.000 But it's so weird. I'll see Vin Diesel, but they'll 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:56.159 see House and Benny Hannas. I'd be inviting people over 0:05:56.240 --> 0:06:05.320 to Okay, no, no, y'all just talking about it like 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.680 y'all can't afford it, like Ivy, I know what you 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.240 just pulled up and you know what I mean. Charlotte, Man, 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.240 I know what's happening. You know Angela, I don't really 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.440 be seeing her popping like that on the timeline, But 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.440 I know y'all. I know y'all getting it, so you 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.160 know what I mean. I don't Yeah, I don't think 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.839 here in New York that it's that I don'tbody anyway. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.240 I don'tbody these guys. I've never been to either one 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.560 of their homes. I've seen pictures of End of these 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.640 wife's closet. You know what I mean. I see what's happening. 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.640 It's real over there. Now listen you is you ain't 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.080 playing John Steward Speaking of Instagram, you put up see 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.679 You Soon and you dressed up as the Green Landing. 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:43.000 Is that happening? Um, you know it's some It's some 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.560 good seeds being planet, some good energy floating around. I 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.800 don't want to do it because I want to, you know, 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.440 be a black superhero. I just think the idea of 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.520 being a superhero with one of my comic books that 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.520 I love growing up, you know what I mean, would 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.440 be cool. And it was actually a fan that started. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.599 They put up some fan art. I've seen it. I 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.000 was like, wow, that looks crazy, and I just ran 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.680 with it. I'm not campaigning for the role. It's just 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:14.760 it was fly it does or whatever. Interesting. Michelle Rodriguez, 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.160 your co star Fast a few she said that minorities 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.600 need to stop stealing all the white people's superheroes. I 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.559 didn't agree with that, but what you think, um, yeah, 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.320 I mean obviously, when she said that, a bunch of 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.760 folks started tweeting and hitting me like yo, that's not 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.200 But I'm like, look, she's entitled to her opinion. If 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.720 if there was a wonder woman role and they wanted 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.320 to do it with Michelle Rodriguez, I think she would 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.720 be excited to take advantage of it if if the 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.040 role was good and it was like something that could 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.120 further her career. And and you know so, I think 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.800 at the end of the day, if you see it 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:53.200 being about blacks or Latinos specifically focusing on white roles 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.120 to make a statement, then that ain't right. But if 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.880 it's about saying, if this role is great and you 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.440 want to switch up that the ethnicity didn't rock out, 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.120 I'm not gonna do nothing, Corny, I'm not doing nothing. 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.200 I don't give what the role is. If it ain't good, 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.480 I'm not rocking with it. That Common City wants that role, 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.080 and he said he'll do a rap battle with you 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:22.360 in Black Time for that role. He did not say that. 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.120 Hey listen, he got that Oscar man, so he might 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:32.840 be first in line right now for anything like has 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:34.880 Lee Daniel tried to hit you up to get on Empire. Now, 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:36.600 since you put it out there a little bit, you know, 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.160 I know you were joking about Saji Henson, but he 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.920 probably was like, okay, hey, let's do it. I mean, look, 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.360 truth be told, I was supposed to do season one 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:49.679 of the Empire and a roll. I can't say. I 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.600 can't say, but I will say that I was dealing 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.280 with you know, I was in and out of court, 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.600 you know, fighting over my little angel, and I just 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.240 landed fifty fifty jointing legal custody, and so I had 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.720 to break the news to leave and uh and and 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.920 turage you that I just couldn't make it. I could 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.880 not go to Chicago for three or four weeks at 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:09.600 a time to shoot it when they when they hit 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.040 me up. So we'll see what happens next season. That's 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.080 how the money was like. And he's like, I can't 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:18.120 go for that money. But his family situation, I'm sure 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.760 that takes precedents over I just I just read so 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.440 you said you thought that your daughter was gonna get kidnapped, 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.640 your baby uncle ticket Israel or something and never bring 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.400 them back. Man. We'll talk about that another time, man, Okay, okay, 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.840 on situation. I don't want to say teach you that. 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.600 All you gotta do is say we talk about another time. 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.840 No comment. Yeah, I don't call up here. Afterwards with 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.520 editing requests. Can you don't do me a favor son 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:48.440 and take that little you know what I meant? You 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.200 can easily say no comment, it's cool. Now you've been 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.000 in black Hollywood for a long time. Well you know, 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.760 let meed to be afraid that you're black in Hollywood. Yeah. Now, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:57.880 Deadline did an article and they asked the question or 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.520 ethnic castings about time or too much of a good thing. 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:04.120 They was complaining about the ethnic people getting all the role. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.320 They're saying the pendulum has swung too much in the 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.880 other direction. Now white people can't get rule. The ethnic 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.280 people are taking all the role. Hey man, listen, chocolate 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:18.160 is spreading, baby, chocolate is spreading. I just think at 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.400 the end of the day, man, like this is America, man, 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.120 and everything that's happening right now as a direct reflection 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:25.800 of America, you know what I mean? Like, we are 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:29.920 physically walking inside of doctor King's answers prayers, and if 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.240 it's a role or an opportunity that's got our name 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.600 on it, then it's for us. It's not about the 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:36.960 fact that it's black people that's doing it. It's about 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.160 the fact that it makes sense for the role and 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.160 the opportunity to come to us if you're rocking and 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.839 the roles and for you. You should never force black 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.840 people into anything that they don't belong in. So I 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.319 just think, at the end of the day from ACA, 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:54.800 I think, I think, at the end of the day, 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.679 instead of us reacting to that particular article, you know, 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.640 it's really about the person who wrote it. You know 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.520 what I'm saying. They're reflecting their own insecurities and their 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:09.600 own racist views out and they're using Deadline as a platform, 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.880 which is not cool. So I think whoever's running Deadline, 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.320 they should start getting some preapprovals of all of the 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.080 articles that that person is writing, because I'm sure they're 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.199 catching a lot of heat right now. Absolutely, I meant 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.560 to ask you, Taris, I consider you you a boss. 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.280 A couple of weeks ago, we had Dame Dash up 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.520 here and he was talking about that if you have 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.600 a job, you have no dignity and he doesn't and 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.320 saving it for suckers, and that bothered me because you know, 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:41.760 I started off I noticed, you know, I noticed, I 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.520 text you all about it. Shout out to Dame Dash. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.079 He was definitely on ten of it. He was sitting 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.480 in this seat right now. But you know, how do 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.760 you feel about what he said about being a boss 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.920 and people that have jobs? Listen man, first of all, 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.520 shout out to Dame Man. No one can deny what 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:00.760 he's done in history and control it to a hip 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.720 hop on all of these different levels. I just think, 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.839 you know, not making it about Dames specifically, but anybody 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.480 who gets loud and aggressive when they're trying to make 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:12.800 any point, you're going to set people up to listen 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.480 with a different ear. And I think you know, he 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.760 can be a little mean and condescending some time when 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.400 he talked or how he talks, and they can make 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.040 people get on edge and offended about you know, his 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:27.480 approach to communicating and so and then it just stops 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.520 people from getting his some of his points. He was 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.520 trying to make some points, and I was able to 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.720 train because I get along with difficult people that allow 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:39.000 with big personalities. I get that. So so for me, 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.080 I got all of his points. I got it. I 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.360 just think his approach through people or every time anybody 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.120 tried to get a word in, he was just trying 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:47.640 to he was trying to be the king, you know 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.319 what I mean. It's like Yo. You know, it doesn't 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.959 matter what I say, but I get people with jobs 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.920 that mean I mean, listen, man, listen. There's always there's 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.439 always a captain, there's always a leader, there's always the 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.280 entrepreneur and CEO, and there's always people on the team 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.680 that helps the vision come to life. And I'm saying 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.960 every boss needs day to day people in place to 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.800 help move the vision and move the needle on whatever 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.120 that vision is. I mean, they say, look, you're either 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.280 gonna you're either gonna create your own dreams and opportunity 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.319 or you're gonna be waking up at six am in 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.800 the morning helping to first, you know, move the needle 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.079 on somebody else's dreams. So it's a choice. And that's 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.640 again we're not talking about the fifties, you know, we're 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.839 talking about twenty fifteen, where you can go from being 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.520 a limo driver to the chairman at CEO of a 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.360 fortune five hundred absolutely, and so at the end of 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.400 the day, you have to have people that work with 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.720 you and for you outside of you being a boss. Dude, 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:45.560 a kid tell me you talk about the intern can 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:49.840 go from intern the CEO? When does that happen? Read 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:56.920 a few books. M Yeah, there we go, Souildings, and 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.680 from his terminology, you wouldn't be a boss because you 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.880 were for a movie company and they pay you, so 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:08.760 you have no dignity. Yeah, yeah, I can see you 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.319 definitely exposed your life. You definitely. Yeah, it's it's life. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.400 We need a part two. Damn dash stop quick and 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.560 now let's talk about your music. You actually rented a 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.640 mansion in Arizona and had a bunch of songwriters, producers 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.760 and everybody come and work and you did one hundred 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.600 and fifty songs. You've been doing that R and B 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.800 boot camps is what I like to call it. But 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.200 for this particular project because it is my last solo album. 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:45.880 Um yeah black um bro. The man got a restaurant. Yeah, 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.560 this is it for me. Man. I just think the 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.400 music game is is very different. I mean, when you 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.560 really think about it, most of the people that's been 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.360 in it for many years, they can tour for the 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.480 rest of their life off of their catalog. Jay Z whoever. 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.800 These cats don't got to drop albums every single year. 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.440 The stay relevant. They could just rock out because even 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.680 if you were to go to like a Janet Jackson concert, 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:06.960 if she dropped a new album this year, you would 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:08.640 like her new song, but you would look forward to 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:12.280 relations You want to hear you anytime, any player. You 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.600 want to hear the songs that you love. So I 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.600 just think at the end of the day, because the 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.000 game is very different, you know, I felt like a 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:24.320 double album with a documentary, a book, my first audio book, 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.120 and a movie that I just did with my you know, 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.560 starring myself and Jennifer Hudson, which is a musical short 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:34.440 film twenty three minutes directed by Paul Hunter. I just 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.360 felt like I need to give the fans more than 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.360 enough content as I you know, gracefully by out of music. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.080 Now I'm still gonna sing, but this is my last 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:47.280 solo album. We're gonna, we're gonna, We're gonna get back 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:53.600 to it. I'm definitely the CEOG. Now they don't work 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:58.280 for me. I'm a businessman, you know what I'm saying, 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.760 and I they're talented, those are my guys. They run 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:04.680 businesses on whatever level. But you know, I was definitely 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.480 locked in with Kaiser and the label on a business 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.840 level outside of being an artist. What's your relationship with 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:11.960 Genuine because it seemed like y'all cool. But then it's 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.760 like a Nino Brown, Christopher Williams and New jack City 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.720 thing going up. Man, look is it's all. He's very distant. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.040 I mean, me and Tank hook up and connect way 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.880 more often than GE. But I think me and me 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:25.960 and Tank are a little closer and complexion, you know 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:30.160 what I'm saying. If MB was in the group, they 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.920 would probably hang out way baf. They could talk about 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.880 the same type of you know what I'm saying, sun block. 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:41.800 You should always wear sun block, even when you're black. No, 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:45.520 I've never won something block in my life. Cancer. I 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.120 hear you. I hate you, know what I'm saying. I 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.160 know you got a little skin situation going on. So 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.320 my brother said, he called He called me deep, like 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:02.400 you why you makeup art make up? He was like, so, 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:07.520 what's going on? And I actually read in Tyrese's book 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:09.720 about you know, better in yourself was the point where 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:11.000 you felt like you was getting fat and you wanted 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:12.760 to get in the shape, right, So I started better 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.840 in myself and he was like, now I put the 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:21.560 black stuff back on your face. Hein't got that. Michael Jackson. Kids, 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:27.600 I'm like, man, but go easy, man, I know you 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.480 look after me and y'all brother, Why why are you 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.920 trying to join him? Why are you trying to look 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.960 like your co stars? Right now? That put the black 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.000 stuff back on man? You know what I mean? At 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.800 first I was shot live man, appreciate you contribute into 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.720 the to the chocolate movement. Next thing you know, he 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.040 light skinned. I'm like, yo, I don't know what's happening. Right. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.159 It was me gonna line somebody to put my old up, 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:49.760 the old picture me. The new pictures said, when you're 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:54.760 scraped the top that I seen that, I was like 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:56.560 looking for me. I was about to cut y'all was 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:00.959 taking screenshot of that self. Go is it love? Love 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:02.680 to the music? Now? Now you said you're giving his 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:04.840 music up? The reason I asked, it's musually artist give 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.399 music up when they watched, Well, you're still making records 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.399 that are nominated at the Grammy, So so why like 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.240 you know, well, it keeps you out there with the kids. 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:15.919 This is listen, is not gonna be the kids. They 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.560 not only at my fifty fifty joining legal custody of 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:23.400 my seven year old, which changes my priorities when I leave. 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:25.160 A house has got to be worth it for one 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.959 for two, I think the worst thing you can do 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:33.400 as an investor, as a businessman is not realized when 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.840 things are people, a situation has reached this peak, and 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:41.000 it doesn't mean it's over. It just means as a boxer, 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.520 you really think you got four more fights coming up 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.919 because your whole campus convinced you you the champ, you 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:51.480 the man. So you you're making investments based on money 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.800 that you think is on the way, and so the 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:55.679 worst thing you can do is not realize when you 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:57.600 reach your peak, you know what I'm saying. So for 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:01.200 me again, with the amount of content that I'm about 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:02.719 to drop, you know what I mean. The album's come 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.760 in July seven. I feel like the fans are gonna 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:07.159 love it, you know what I mean. It's it's my 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:11.760 most transparent album. Um, it's my most honest. It's almost 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:14.760 like my confessions album. Like the first song you put out, 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.400 dumb Ish, Yeah, you put a lot of confessions into 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:19.439 that and owned up to some mistakes that you I 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:21.480 was like a continuation to stay stay with me. You stayed, 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:23.720 and I'm still doing dumb its thinking about it. In 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:25.399 case he messes up with his wife, he needs to 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:32.720 I sent ye told that story about tire Reason. No 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.680 save your marriage. He continues to save my mariage every time. 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.200 I will call tire Reason a minute. This is true. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:42.879 Can you please talk to my wife and tell her, no, 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.720 it got real. I mean I probably that that was 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.000 That was first of all. First of all, let's be real, 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:50.760 because we ain't gonna go into the whole thing because 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:52.520 I ain't do what to talk about. It was just love. 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:55.520 I know that it was an assignment that the man 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:57.679 of it was random as hell, but it was an 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.760 assignment that was sent to me, like, yo, do what 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.240 you gotta do to step in and try and and 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.000 and and save the man's marriage. And I, you know, 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:08.680 not as superman and none, but I just did my thing. 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:12.159 And I was at dinner with with with you know, 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:14.439 with Envy and his wife and then his wife is 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.080 just sweet and beautiful and just cool as ever, and 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.439 she said, you know, Rayshawn, it is just such it 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:33.840 and I was like, oh, his name is Rayshawn. That 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:37.280 just goes to show you that, you know, my motivation 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:40.159 wasn't about spins or trying to get any pressed from it. 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:43.159 It was like a genuine assignment that was sent. It 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:46.080 was random as hell, but I'm obedient, always on the 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:49.080 other side of assignments as a blessing, waiting for you, 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:51.840 explaining that some people out there. Now, I was going 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:53.520 through a situation with my wife. Me and ty Reech 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:55.719