Speaker 1: The real people, real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning. Everybody
Speaker 1: is DJ en Vi, Angeluie, Charlomagne, the God. We are
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club Special guests in the building, black Tie
Speaker 1: towres Man. I just never know what this dude's gonna say. Stop,
Speaker 1: But I know it's a super busy week this week
Speaker 1: for you guys. Gearing up a Fast and Furious seven. Yes,
Speaker 1: seventh installment. I saw the clip of you jumping out
Speaker 1: of a plane in a parish. Yeah, that wasn't cool.
Speaker 1: Did you have to do that for real? Uh? Nah,
Speaker 1: we was you know, plane, plane wasn't moving, but you know,
Speaker 1: we was up somewhere really high when we shot the scene.
Speaker 1: Because they they really wanted me to think and believe
Speaker 1: that he was jumping out of a plane. He looked shook. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't It wasn't cool. I didn't really like the
Speaker 1: way the whole situation with that, you know. I mean
Speaker 1: I actually try to get them to, you know, shoot
Speaker 1: that with Luda instead of me, and they wasn't having it.
Speaker 1: But I mean, if you didn't really have to do
Speaker 1: what you was scared about it. I mean because we
Speaker 1: were still up high and I'm not really a fan
Speaker 1: of heights like that that. I never jumped out of
Speaker 1: a plane. I definitely want to jump out of a
Speaker 1: plane in a car with the possibilities that a parachute
Speaker 1: would work. How did the fast and furious the roles
Speaker 1: stay fresh to you? Um? I mean, no two scenarios
Speaker 1: ever the same, you know what I'm saying. It's like
Speaker 1: kind of once once, once these situations and moments and
Speaker 1: action scenes happened, or when scenes are real intense and
Speaker 1: I get to do my Roman piss thing and say
Speaker 1: some slick or funny to throw everything off. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of stuff happens on the set on
Speaker 1: the fly I could have never been written. So we
Speaker 1: just be improving and having fun with it. Got hard
Speaker 1: hard to do promo because you know, the late great
Speaker 1: Paul Walker. You know, you go through something, you're healing
Speaker 1: with it. You got to see him everywhere people ask
Speaker 1: you questions about him, to open up the wounds. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's definitely prolonging our healing and closure process.
Speaker 1: I mean, none of us wanted to do promo interviews.
Speaker 1: You know, the press junker was five days long. You know,
Speaker 1: none of us wanted to do it. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day when when the Walker family, his
Speaker 1: moms and and father and his two brothers who ended
Speaker 1: up joining us to help us to finish the movie.
Speaker 1: Since they've been so full throttle on the support, you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of you know, gave us, you know, the
Speaker 1: energy and the inspiration to want to rock out because
Speaker 1: you know, we we love Paul and we knew him
Speaker 1: and it was our family and our brother, but we
Speaker 1: didn't grow up with him from like childhood. We didn't
Speaker 1: give birth to him. So if they're showing us how
Speaker 1: strong they are, it's giving us permission to feel a
Speaker 1: little better about moving forward and helping to close it out.
Speaker 1: What about all those comedians recently they did a rosal
Speaker 1: but Justin Bieber and a couple of comedians took stabs
Speaker 1: at his death. How did that make you you feel?
Speaker 1: In the cast field, I can tell you right now,
Speaker 1: Me and Chris, Me and Luda Chris talked about it.
Speaker 1: They should be real lucky that that Luda Chris was
Speaker 1: there and it wasn't me. And the crazy thing is
Speaker 1: I had just got the call um to to do
Speaker 1: do the show, you know what I mean? They wanted
Speaker 1: me to show up, but I know Bieber, but you
Speaker 1: know he I ain't a part of his click or
Speaker 1: his camp like that. So I was like, that's real.
Speaker 1: You know, why would I go to a Justin Bieber
Speaker 1: comic ros It's not you know, So I just didn't go.
Speaker 1: And when I found out that went down, it would
Speaker 1: have been have been a which they'd have got a
Speaker 1: little crazy. Have got a little crazy, believe me. Said
Speaker 1: they had the brothers set, what did they do like
Speaker 1: their likenesses, Yeah, they looked just like Paul, so they
Speaker 1: you know, they they just stepped up and made it happen.
Speaker 1: I'm behind for the team. And they also used old
Speaker 1: footage from other movies as well. Right, I was reading
Speaker 1: that they incorporated that somehow to make it look like
Speaker 1: few clips, a few clips that no one has ever seen,
Speaker 1: you know. Um yeah, I mean it's it's a bunch
Speaker 1: of technical stuff. But you know, he shot eighty five
Speaker 1: percent in the movie before he you know, his untimely death.
Speaker 1: So I just appreciate, we appreciate all of the loaves
Speaker 1: and prayers and energy from around the world for his family,
Speaker 1: specifically his daughter and us, because you know, I've been
Speaker 1: knowing Paul and we've been the closest of friends for
Speaker 1: thirteen years. So it was it was rough with the cast.
Speaker 1: You guys are really really close. I think with a
Speaker 1: lot of people that you do business with, it seems
Speaker 1: like you keep them close to your heart. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've always see people at your house. You always invite
Speaker 1: people into your home. Why is that? Because you usually
Speaker 1: never see that. Um, we got a restaurant in your house.
Speaker 1: You gotta invite people who I mean, y'all stay off
Speaker 1: my timeline. It's a little bit. I thought y'all was busy. Um. Honestly, man,
Speaker 1: you know, anybody who knows about my childhood, I've written
Speaker 1: books about it. I'm not necessarily close to my family
Speaker 1: like that. Um, you know, I love them. They doing
Speaker 1: their thing. I'm doing my thing. But you know, growing
Speaker 1: up in that level of dysfunction, it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: you disconnect from the complete, you know, idea family. So
Speaker 1: I hang around with like minded people. I hang around
Speaker 1: with people that are bond and connect with that. I
Speaker 1: think is funny, and we have big visions and ideas
Speaker 1: that were swapping and that's that's really it. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I mean, I think. I
Speaker 1: think the other thing in Hollywood is that there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people that are only cool in between action
Speaker 1: and cut and as soon as the movie is over,
Speaker 1: they don't have a connect. Dinners bought mits for us birthdays,
Speaker 1: you know nothing. It's just like yeah, yeah, I'll see
Speaker 1: you for the sequel um and for me. When you
Speaker 1: connect with people and you bond, you just keep rocking.
Speaker 1: But it's so weird. I'll see Vin Diesel, but they'll
Speaker 1: see House and Benny Hannas. I'd be inviting people over
Speaker 1: to Okay, no, no, y'all just talking about it like
Speaker 1: y'all can't afford it, like Ivy, I know what you
Speaker 1: just pulled up and you know what I mean. Charlotte, Man,
Speaker 1: I know what's happening. You know Angela, I don't really
Speaker 1: be seeing her popping like that on the timeline, But
Speaker 1: I know y'all. I know y'all getting it, so you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I don't Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: here in New York that it's that I don'tbody anyway.
Speaker 1: I don'tbody these guys. I've never been to either one
Speaker 1: of their homes. I've seen pictures of End of these
Speaker 1: wife's closet. You know what I mean. I see what's happening.
Speaker 1: It's real over there. Now listen you is you ain't
Speaker 1: playing John Steward Speaking of Instagram, you put up see
Speaker 1: You Soon and you dressed up as the Green Landing.
Speaker 1: Is that happening? Um, you know it's some It's some
Speaker 1: good seeds being planet, some good energy floating around. I
Speaker 1: don't want to do it because I want to, you know,
Speaker 1: be a black superhero. I just think the idea of
Speaker 1: being a superhero with one of my comic books that
Speaker 1: I love growing up, you know what I mean, would
Speaker 1: be cool. And it was actually a fan that started.
Speaker 1: They put up some fan art. I've seen it. I
Speaker 1: was like, wow, that looks crazy, and I just ran
Speaker 1: with it. I'm not campaigning for the role. It's just
Speaker 1: it was fly it does or whatever. Interesting. Michelle Rodriguez,
Speaker 1: your co star Fast a few she said that minorities
Speaker 1: need to stop stealing all the white people's superheroes. I
Speaker 1: didn't agree with that, but what you think, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean obviously, when she said that, a bunch of
Speaker 1: folks started tweeting and hitting me like yo, that's not
Speaker 1: But I'm like, look, she's entitled to her opinion. If
Speaker 1: if there was a wonder woman role and they wanted
Speaker 1: to do it with Michelle Rodriguez, I think she would
Speaker 1: be excited to take advantage of it if if the
Speaker 1: role was good and it was like something that could
Speaker 1: further her career. And and you know so, I think
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, if you see it
Speaker 1: being about blacks or Latinos specifically focusing on white roles
Speaker 1: to make a statement, then that ain't right. But if
Speaker 1: it's about saying, if this role is great and you
Speaker 1: want to switch up that the ethnicity didn't rock out,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do nothing, Corny, I'm not doing nothing.
Speaker 1: I don't give what the role is. If it ain't good,
Speaker 1: I'm not rocking with it. That Common City wants that role,
Speaker 1: and he said he'll do a rap battle with you
Speaker 1: in Black Time for that role. He did not say that.
Speaker 1: Hey listen, he got that Oscar man, so he might
Speaker 1: be first in line right now for anything like has
Speaker 1: Lee Daniel tried to hit you up to get on Empire. Now,
Speaker 1: since you put it out there a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: I know you were joking about Saji Henson, but he
Speaker 1: probably was like, okay, hey, let's do it. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: truth be told, I was supposed to do season one
Speaker 1: of the Empire and a roll. I can't say. I
Speaker 1: can't say, but I will say that I was dealing
Speaker 1: with you know, I was in and out of court,
Speaker 1: you know, fighting over my little angel, and I just
Speaker 1: landed fifty fifty jointing legal custody, and so I had
Speaker 1: to break the news to leave and uh and and
Speaker 1: turage you that I just couldn't make it. I could
Speaker 1: not go to Chicago for three or four weeks at
Speaker 1: a time to shoot it when they when they hit
Speaker 1: me up. So we'll see what happens next season. That's
Speaker 1: how the money was like. And he's like, I can't
Speaker 1: go for that money. But his family situation, I'm sure
Speaker 1: that takes precedents over I just I just read so
Speaker 1: you said you thought that your daughter was gonna get kidnapped,
Speaker 1: your baby uncle ticket Israel or something and never bring
Speaker 1: them back. Man. We'll talk about that another time, man, Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: on situation. I don't want to say teach you that.
Speaker 1: All you gotta do is say we talk about another time.
Speaker 1: No comment. Yeah, I don't call up here. Afterwards with
Speaker 1: editing requests. Can you don't do me a favor son
Speaker 1: and take that little you know what I meant? You
Speaker 1: can easily say no comment, it's cool. Now you've been
Speaker 1: in black Hollywood for a long time. Well you know,
Speaker 1: let meed to be afraid that you're black in Hollywood. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: Deadline did an article and they asked the question or
Speaker 1: ethnic castings about time or too much of a good thing.
Speaker 1: They was complaining about the ethnic people getting all the role.
Speaker 1: They're saying the pendulum has swung too much in the
Speaker 1: other direction. Now white people can't get rule. The ethnic
Speaker 1: people are taking all the role. Hey man, listen, chocolate
Speaker 1: is spreading, baby, chocolate is spreading. I just think at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, man, like this is America, man,
Speaker 1: and everything that's happening right now as a direct reflection
Speaker 1: of America, you know what I mean? Like, we are
Speaker 1: physically walking inside of doctor King's answers prayers, and if
Speaker 1: it's a role or an opportunity that's got our name
Speaker 1: on it, then it's for us. It's not about the
Speaker 1: fact that it's black people that's doing it. It's about
Speaker 1: the fact that it makes sense for the role and
Speaker 1: the opportunity to come to us if you're rocking and
Speaker 1: the roles and for you. You should never force black
Speaker 1: people into anything that they don't belong in. So I
Speaker 1: just think, at the end of the day from ACA,
Speaker 1: I think, I think, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: instead of us reacting to that particular article, you know,
Speaker 1: it's really about the person who wrote it. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. They're reflecting their own insecurities and their
Speaker 1: own racist views out and they're using Deadline as a platform,
Speaker 1: which is not cool. So I think whoever's running Deadline,
Speaker 1: they should start getting some preapprovals of all of the
Speaker 1: articles that that person is writing, because I'm sure they're
Speaker 1: catching a lot of heat right now. Absolutely, I meant
Speaker 1: to ask you, Taris, I consider you you a boss.
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, we had Dame Dash up
Speaker 1: here and he was talking about that if you have
Speaker 1: a job, you have no dignity and he doesn't and
Speaker 1: saving it for suckers, and that bothered me because you know,
Speaker 1: I started off I noticed, you know, I noticed, I
Speaker 1: text you all about it. Shout out to Dame Dash.
Speaker 1: He was definitely on ten of it. He was sitting
Speaker 1: in this seat right now. But you know, how do
Speaker 1: you feel about what he said about being a boss
Speaker 1: and people that have jobs? Listen man, first of all,
Speaker 1: shout out to Dame Man. No one can deny what
Speaker 1: he's done in history and control it to a hip
Speaker 1: hop on all of these different levels. I just think,
Speaker 1: you know, not making it about Dames specifically, but anybody
Speaker 1: who gets loud and aggressive when they're trying to make
Speaker 1: any point, you're going to set people up to listen
Speaker 1: with a different ear. And I think you know, he
Speaker 1: can be a little mean and condescending some time when
Speaker 1: he talked or how he talks, and they can make
Speaker 1: people get on edge and offended about you know, his
Speaker 1: approach to communicating and so and then it just stops
Speaker 1: people from getting his some of his points. He was
Speaker 1: trying to make some points, and I was able to
Speaker 1: train because I get along with difficult people that allow
Speaker 1: with big personalities. I get that. So so for me,
Speaker 1: I got all of his points. I got it. I
Speaker 1: just think his approach through people or every time anybody
Speaker 1: tried to get a word in, he was just trying
Speaker 1: to he was trying to be the king, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's like Yo. You know, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what I say, but I get people with jobs
Speaker 1: that mean I mean, listen, man, listen. There's always there's
Speaker 1: always a captain, there's always a leader, there's always the
Speaker 1: entrepreneur and CEO, and there's always people on the team
Speaker 1: that helps the vision come to life. And I'm saying
Speaker 1: every boss needs day to day people in place to
Speaker 1: help move the vision and move the needle on whatever
Speaker 1: that vision is. I mean, they say, look, you're either
Speaker 1: gonna you're either gonna create your own dreams and opportunity
Speaker 1: or you're gonna be waking up at six am in
Speaker 1: the morning helping to first, you know, move the needle
Speaker 1: on somebody else's dreams. So it's a choice. And that's
Speaker 1: again we're not talking about the fifties, you know, we're
Speaker 1: talking about twenty fifteen, where you can go from being
Speaker 1: a limo driver to the chairman at CEO of a
Speaker 1: fortune five hundred absolutely, and so at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, you have to have people that work with
Speaker 1: you and for you outside of you being a boss. Dude,
Speaker 1: a kid tell me you talk about the intern can
Speaker 1: go from intern the CEO? When does that happen? Read
Speaker 1: a few books. M Yeah, there we go, Souildings, and
Speaker 1: from his terminology, you wouldn't be a boss because you
Speaker 1: were for a movie company and they pay you, so
Speaker 1: you have no dignity. Yeah, yeah, I can see you
Speaker 1: definitely exposed your life. You definitely. Yeah, it's it's life.
Speaker 1: We need a part two. Damn dash stop quick and
Speaker 1: now let's talk about your music. You actually rented a
Speaker 1: mansion in Arizona and had a bunch of songwriters, producers
Speaker 1: and everybody come and work and you did one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty songs. You've been doing that R and B
Speaker 1: boot camps is what I like to call it. But
Speaker 1: for this particular project because it is my last solo album.
Speaker 1: Um yeah black um bro. The man got a restaurant. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is it for me. Man. I just think the
Speaker 1: music game is is very different. I mean, when you
Speaker 1: really think about it, most of the people that's been
Speaker 1: in it for many years, they can tour for the
Speaker 1: rest of their life off of their catalog. Jay Z whoever.
Speaker 1: These cats don't got to drop albums every single year.
Speaker 1: The stay relevant. They could just rock out because even
Speaker 1: if you were to go to like a Janet Jackson concert,
Speaker 1: if she dropped a new album this year, you would
Speaker 1: like her new song, but you would look forward to
Speaker 1: relations You want to hear you anytime, any player. You
Speaker 1: want to hear the songs that you love. So I
Speaker 1: just think at the end of the day, because the
Speaker 1: game is very different, you know, I felt like a
Speaker 1: double album with a documentary, a book, my first audio book,
Speaker 1: and a movie that I just did with my you know,
Speaker 1: starring myself and Jennifer Hudson, which is a musical short
Speaker 1: film twenty three minutes directed by Paul Hunter. I just
Speaker 1: felt like I need to give the fans more than
Speaker 1: enough content as I you know, gracefully by out of music.
Speaker 1: Now I'm still gonna sing, but this is my last
Speaker 1: solo album. We're gonna, we're gonna, We're gonna get back
Speaker 1: to it. I'm definitely the CEOG. Now they don't work
Speaker 1: for me. I'm a businessman, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and I they're talented, those are my guys. They run
Speaker 1: businesses on whatever level. But you know, I was definitely
Speaker 1: locked in with Kaiser and the label on a business
Speaker 1: level outside of being an artist. What's your relationship with
Speaker 1: Genuine because it seemed like y'all cool. But then it's
Speaker 1: like a Nino Brown, Christopher Williams and New jack City
Speaker 1: thing going up. Man, look is it's all. He's very distant.
Speaker 1: I mean, me and Tank hook up and connect way
Speaker 1: more often than GE. But I think me and me
Speaker 1: and Tank are a little closer and complexion, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. If MB was in the group, they
Speaker 1: would probably hang out way baf. They could talk about
Speaker 1: the same type of you know what I'm saying, sun block.
Speaker 1: You should always wear sun block, even when you're black. No,
Speaker 1: I've never won something block in my life. Cancer. I
Speaker 1: hear you. I hate you, know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: know you got a little skin situation going on. So
Speaker 1: my brother said, he called He called me deep, like
Speaker 1: you why you makeup art make up? He was like, so,
Speaker 1: what's going on? And I actually read in Tyrese's book
Speaker 1: about you know, better in yourself was the point where
Speaker 1: you felt like you was getting fat and you wanted
Speaker 1: to get in the shape, right, So I started better
Speaker 1: in myself and he was like, now I put the
Speaker 1: black stuff back on your face. Hein't got that. Michael Jackson. Kids,
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, but go easy, man, I know you
Speaker 1: look after me and y'all brother, Why why are you
Speaker 1: trying to join him? Why are you trying to look
Speaker 1: like your co stars? Right now? That put the black
Speaker 1: stuff back on man? You know what I mean? At
Speaker 1: first I was shot live man, appreciate you contribute into
Speaker 1: the to the chocolate movement. Next thing you know, he
Speaker 1: light skinned. I'm like, yo, I don't know what's happening. Right.
Speaker 1: It was me gonna line somebody to put my old up,
Speaker 1: the old picture me. The new pictures said, when you're
Speaker 1: scraped the top that I seen that, I was like
Speaker 1: looking for me. I was about to cut y'all was
Speaker 1: taking screenshot of that self. Go is it love? Love
Speaker 1: to the music? Now? Now you said you're giving his
Speaker 1: music up? The reason I asked, it's musually artist give
Speaker 1: music up when they watched, Well, you're still making records
Speaker 1: that are nominated at the Grammy, So so why like
Speaker 1: you know, well, it keeps you out there with the kids.
Speaker 1: This is listen, is not gonna be the kids. They
Speaker 1: not only at my fifty fifty joining legal custody of
Speaker 1: my seven year old, which changes my priorities when I leave.
Speaker 1: A house has got to be worth it for one
Speaker 1: for two, I think the worst thing you can do
Speaker 1: as an investor, as a businessman is not realized when
Speaker 1: things are people, a situation has reached this peak, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean it's over. It just means as a boxer,
Speaker 1: you really think you got four more fights coming up
Speaker 1: because your whole campus convinced you you the champ, you
Speaker 1: the man. So you you're making investments based on money
Speaker 1: that you think is on the way, and so the
Speaker 1: worst thing you can do is not realize when you
Speaker 1: reach your peak, you know what I'm saying. So for
Speaker 1: me again, with the amount of content that I'm about
Speaker 1: to drop, you know what I mean. The album's come
Speaker 1: in July seven. I feel like the fans are gonna
Speaker 1: love it, you know what I mean. It's it's my
Speaker 1: most transparent album. Um, it's my most honest. It's almost
Speaker 1: like my confessions album. Like the first song you put out,
Speaker 1: dumb Ish, Yeah, you put a lot of confessions into
Speaker 1: that and owned up to some mistakes that you I
Speaker 1: was like a continuation to stay stay with me. You stayed,
Speaker 1: and I'm still doing dumb its thinking about it. In
Speaker 1: case he messes up with his wife, he needs to
Speaker 1: I sent ye told that story about tire Reason. No
Speaker 1: save your marriage. He continues to save my mariage every time.
Speaker 1: I will call tire Reason a minute. This is true.
Speaker 1: Can you please talk to my wife and tell her, no,
Speaker 1: it got real. I mean I probably that that was
Speaker 1: That was first of all. First of all, let's be real,
Speaker 1: because we ain't gonna go into the whole thing because
Speaker 1: I ain't do what to talk about. It was just love.
Speaker 1: I know that it was an assignment that the man
Speaker 1: of it was random as hell, but it was an
Speaker 1: assignment that was sent to me, like, yo, do what
Speaker 1: you gotta do to step in and try and and
Speaker 1: and and save the man's marriage. And I, you know,
Speaker 1: not as superman and none, but I just did my thing.
Speaker 1: And I was at dinner with with with you know,
Speaker 1: with Envy and his wife and then his wife is
Speaker 1: just sweet and beautiful and just cool as ever, and
Speaker 1: she said, you know, Rayshawn, it is just such it
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, his name is Rayshawn. That
Speaker 1: just goes to show you that, you know, my motivation
Speaker 1: wasn't about spins or trying to get any pressed from it.
Speaker 1: It was like a genuine assignment that was sent. It
Speaker 1: was random as hell, but I'm obedient, always on the
Speaker 1: other side of assignments as a blessing, waiting for you,
Speaker 1: explaining that some people out there. Now, I was going
Speaker 1: through a situation with my wife. Me and ty Reech
Speaker 1: knew each other, but we were friends. We would court you.
Speaker 1: No way, No, we wasn't. We wasn't childhood friends. I'm
Speaker 1: just leaving that body. No, we don't go way back
Speaker 1: twenty years. Yeah, So you know, Tyrese heard heard my
Speaker 1: I guess my story and my pain me talking about
Speaker 1: my wife and called me one day and was like, man,
Speaker 1: you know you're all right, And I'm like, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not all right. And you know, we talked and we
Speaker 1: explained to him what was going on, and he basically
Speaker 1: talked me off the roof, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: He helped me out with the relationship the ledge. So
Speaker 1: he basically talked to me, talked to my wife, and
Speaker 1: he did something special we had. I had a dinner
Speaker 1: set up at Philip Child's and dinner with my wife
Speaker 1: and Tyrese walked in singing. Stay had a guitarist and
Speaker 1: a couple other people, three singers. Yeah, it was real.
Speaker 1: I was like it was full thront. I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: we're gonna save this matter. But it was no cameras,
Speaker 1: it was no video like it wasn't made for a
Speaker 1: world star, I wasn't made for TV. Stuck did it
Speaker 1: for me and my wife, sat down, had dinner with us,
Speaker 1: and basically became our counselor and our friend throughout everything
Speaker 1: that goes on. So if there's a problem, if there's
Speaker 1: a situation, if if whatever it is, you know, we
Speaker 1: called Tyres and he's one of those friends. And I
Speaker 1: think every relationship should able to call him without you hours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've we've done six seven hours, seven hour comes on
Speaker 1: the phone's talking about life and different things and I
Speaker 1: and then, of course, as cool as we are, as
Speaker 1: close as we are, as close as we all, I
Speaker 1: can't be real with him. Like when his wife would
Speaker 1: just open up and just like tell me. I'll be like, yo,
Speaker 1: I got love for your daughter. This ain't right, and
Speaker 1: I just would keep it real, and then I would
Speaker 1: keep it real with her too, and and that's it again.
Speaker 1: You know that would never happen. No, it's not. All
Speaker 1: the time. After this is when I knew it was real.
Speaker 1: As far as an assignment because after it felt like
Speaker 1: everything got better, I was like I was out, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, because it's you know, I'm like, yo, envy,
Speaker 1: you got it, but like you know, but that was
Speaker 1: six months six months into my next question. Because people
Speaker 1: always see you online and you're super positive, You're always
Speaker 1: giving the motivational quotes. But then you have people who
Speaker 1: may not know You'll be like, man, right, what do
Speaker 1: you got to say to that? Because that's really you. Well,
Speaker 1: I am, I am fullish, I am. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: where you should believe that now I'm just funny. Um.
Speaker 1: The truth is, um, we all have this god given
Speaker 1: stage right, and who are we to not use the
Speaker 1: stage to motivate and inspire and give people inside and
Speaker 1: information on how to be successful. When you think about it,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people out here that are broke, struggling,
Speaker 1: you know, really really really down and out, but gifted
Speaker 1: and talented, naturally beautiful, not trying to be ratchet or
Speaker 1: do none ratchet you know, sex tapes and none crazy
Speaker 1: to make it and they're just they're they're desperate for
Speaker 1: inside and information. What do I do? How do I
Speaker 1: go about doing it? To become successful, So it's not
Speaker 1: lonely at the top if you help somebody else get there.
Speaker 1: So instead of me looking at it as an opportunity
Speaker 1: to tweet a post, I look at it as a
Speaker 1: responsibility because if they're looking up to me and they're
Speaker 1: following me, then instead of me just talking about all
Speaker 1: this amazing I got going on in my life and
Speaker 1: dangling my lifestyle on everybody's face, I'm trying to give
Speaker 1: you permission to be great. I'm saying like I'm not
Speaker 1: insecure or threatened by the idea of pulling somebody up. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't need to see you every day. I don't
Speaker 1: need you to thank me, you know, thank God. I'm
Speaker 1: just giving you inside and information, saying you know there
Speaker 1: is a way to rock out. If somebody had did
Speaker 1: it for me, I felt like I would have been
Speaker 1: successful even faster. So I can't pay everybody's bills. I
Speaker 1: don't call me playing on my emotions, trying to get
Speaker 1: me to cut a check. That ain't gonna happen, right,
Speaker 1: But I got some inside and information that I can
Speaker 1: drop on you to pull up. And I think a
Speaker 1: lot of times you're fine, and we all noticed to
Speaker 1: be true there's so many dudes out here that are
Speaker 1: so I'm secure and threatened by the idea that I
Speaker 1: can say something to help you out, make a phone call,
Speaker 1: give you some insight, and see you become a multi
Speaker 1: millionaire overnight. And they're like, yo, I want to be
Speaker 1: the only one ball and I don't want to be
Speaker 1: the only one doing it, so they just don't help
Speaker 1: me out. So that ain't that ain't me. So that's it.
Speaker 1: And you're not gonna agree with everything I tweet and
Speaker 1: post gets sound comfortable. Sometimes it's it's a lot, but
Speaker 1: I'm droppable, and people don't see that side of you. You
Speaker 1: You genuinely help people, and not just with like you said,
Speaker 1: with money and give backs. Your words sometimes can really
Speaker 1: help somebody because people came from the same spot that
Speaker 1: you came from, and that the fact that you're successful
Speaker 1: when you do that, a lot of people appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that you're not afraid to share
Speaker 1: your pov at the level you at. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, because it's a lot of people that's in
Speaker 1: your position doing these blockbusting movies wouldn't keep you one
Speaker 1: hundred all the time. It's like when I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: name him the comedian's name because he don't need no emplicity.
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying. When he came at
Speaker 1: you accuse you of sleeping with mental roles, you could
Speaker 1: have just ignored that. Yeah, but if you like, you
Speaker 1: shut it down for a bigger purpose, well, I mean
Speaker 1: for me. Listen, man, Like I said in that particular video,
Speaker 1: I will never allow any situation to compromise my spirituality
Speaker 1: or sexuality in order for me to get to whatever's
Speaker 1: considered the next level. It's never gonna happen. I've been
Speaker 1: at it for twenty years. I don't have nobody coming
Speaker 1: at me about no devil worshiping, no Illuminati, no secrets tocid.
Speaker 1: I don't know nothing about it ever. And if I did,
Speaker 1: I talk about it. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you know, I can sit back and deal with rumors.
Speaker 1: I can deal with people talking thing coming up with
Speaker 1: random ass things because we're in the business, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And when you're successful, they're gonna come
Speaker 1: at you. But you're not gonna come at my manhood.
Speaker 1: That ain't that ain't going I'm not gonna fall back
Speaker 1: and let that fly. I just felt like it was
Speaker 1: whack because when we black people come up, we just
Speaker 1: can't never do it because we're talented, we don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: most people don't even know what what Illuminati did. It's
Speaker 1: just like it just seems to be popular. Like it
Speaker 1: might be the outfit that I'm wearing right now, and
Speaker 1: the shape of my gets me tied. Appreciate, appreciate Now.
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you, did you really m fire your
Speaker 1: assistant after you had that? Alphred on who's out of
Speaker 1: here attract suits? I really don't want to talk about
Speaker 1: this cowboy, and he tried to claim it on his assistant.
Speaker 1: Alfred wasn't laid out, yo, he put listen, he put
Speaker 1: the Adida track suit and then with no Adida shoes
Speaker 1: and I had to wear the only shoes I had.
Speaker 1: I wasn't going to go to the station with socks on.
Speaker 1: It might have been better. I told them not to
Speaker 1: put my feet on camera, man. I told him, like,
Speaker 1: lead out alone. But whatever in two dollars fifteen you
Speaker 1: think they're gonna listen? That mean was too good to pass. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've seen you take flight on him there, So did
Speaker 1: you really fire your assistant after that? Yeah? He's out
Speaker 1: of here one little mistake. No, No, that's that's a
Speaker 1: big mistake. You know what I'm saying. You know everywhere
Speaker 1: I go as cameras, you can't be out here having
Speaker 1: me looking crazy. The fan really bring you to the
Speaker 1: station from the airport. That absolutely a fan drove me
Speaker 1: six hours from San Francisco to la um so, so
Speaker 1: I wouldn't miss that interview. Another personal situation, when Big
Speaker 1: Boy left Power, he was down, you know, miserable, just
Speaker 1: kind of not in a good space. And you know
Speaker 1: that's my dude for too many years. So I'm just
Speaker 1: giving them all his love and his energy. You think
Speaker 1: I'm going to miss my first interview as he got
Speaker 1: to a new station, Like, I'm not doing that. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, I missed my flight. They say I
Speaker 1: land at six forty, the interviews at seven. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: miss it. So I put it up he needed to
Speaker 1: be playing dumb hurt him my he wasn't there to
Speaker 1: his track suting hard bottom. Put on Twitter to eat
Speaker 1: somebody to take me, and somebody actual got in. I
Speaker 1: got in a car with a random fan that I
Speaker 1: met on social media. Did six hours. I mean, my
Speaker 1: security was laid out in the back seat. We was
Speaker 1: an the press, but we got the African doload man
Speaker 1: heard of it's called I'm not I'm listening. I'm cheap
Speaker 1: as that. I'm not doing uber I'm not doing from
Speaker 1: San Francisco to La Look, I listened. I took care dude.
Speaker 1: I got him a thousand. I surprised him, put a
Speaker 1: thousand under this pillow, gave him a sweet and and
Speaker 1: he got plenty of sleep. No, it was love. I mean,
Speaker 1: the thing is, dude was just cool. He's like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm out of a job. I ain't got no girlfriend.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. I didn't know, but he was
Speaker 1: at the surprise screen in the Furious seven in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: So when I put the tweet up, he was like,
Speaker 1: I just left the screening. Didn't meet that. He never
Speaker 1: met me there. And then I put up the tweet
Speaker 1: and he was like, dude, I just left the screening.
Speaker 1: I'll take you. I was you know, so I took
Speaker 1: care that up for YouTube. When you said you put
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars on this pillow right now, Well, when
Speaker 1: he got literally pillow, when he got to his hotel room,
Speaker 1: I got him a suite so he can sleep, and
Speaker 1: I told him, you know, look under your hello, man,
Speaker 1: it's a little surprised are for you? And I gave
Speaker 1: him a stack and he was very grateful. After you
Speaker 1: put out this song, dumnist, did your ex call you
Speaker 1: and say, you know you did mess up, but I
Speaker 1: thank you for well. I mean, can we talk about
Speaker 1: some dumbs for a quick second, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry dumbish? Right, So so this song again, this
Speaker 1: is like my Confessions album. I'm like, if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: buy out of music and get folks my last solo album,
Speaker 1: it ain't a pr stunt, is really my last I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: I wanted to be my most uncomfortable, vulnerable and honest album.
Speaker 1: So you know, I was in a relationship for a
Speaker 1: bunch of years on the lower I had a living
Speaker 1: girlfriend and I just was slipping up. Man, I was
Speaker 1: on the road making moves. She went I got exposed,
Speaker 1: she went through my DMS and just you know, it
Speaker 1: was just it was it was. It was wrong and
Speaker 1: I don't feel good about it. But you know, I, um,
Speaker 1: my situation is over. So I said, you know what
Speaker 1: I gotta it's fresh on my heart, I gotta sing
Speaker 1: about it. So you know, all of the fake people
Speaker 1: that are affect that don't cheat, don't lie. You know,
Speaker 1: we we we're drinking smart water, driving smart cars, but
Speaker 1: we're doing dumb as you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: And so even though I'm calling this man trying to
Speaker 1: help him save his marriage, I'm also not perfect. So
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, I just
Speaker 1: felt like I just want to do an honest song.
Speaker 1: And it's an honest song that everybody can relate to
Speaker 1: when relationships and it's not always just a man. Women
Speaker 1: be doing a lot dumb. You've relative Angela, You're relatively
Speaker 1: clean in your career though, Like I mean the article
Speaker 1: I saw that you know recently, what your X wife
Speaker 1: said you used abuses, like the first thing I ever
Speaker 1: saw that seemed the negative um about you. Yeah, chopped
Speaker 1: that out, Charlotte, Man, you're a real journalist. Is never
Speaker 1: gonna make the cut and cursing all over that I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not having it, man, I'm gonna talk about that. Man.
Speaker 1: We're moving. Chop that out. Never put a ring on
Speaker 1: tarage your finger. Man. She said that she's never claimed
Speaker 1: no man publicly because no man never put a ring
Speaker 1: on her finger, and it always seemed like y'all two
Speaker 1: of the one. Listen, man, I think the world is
Speaker 1: determined to get me and TARAGEI together because they love
Speaker 1: baby boys. It's almost like Ryan Goslin and Rachel McAdams
Speaker 1: from the Notebook. It's like they just they cannot tattoo.
Speaker 1: They can't get it out of their head that we're together.
Speaker 1: And I love it, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: think it says a lot about that chemistry and that Tarage.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of her, man. She she's like she's killing
Speaker 1: the game right now. But no one who knows her
Speaker 1: surprised at what's happening and all of the energy around Empire,
Speaker 1: anything that's happening her career. But um, basically can't say that.
Speaker 1: I read that you said y'all never even dated. Now
Speaker 1: we ain't never date, man, No, I know you wanted
Speaker 1: to smash She thinks like a kindergarten pencil bro. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we appreciate. Make sure y'all run the iTunes right now.
Speaker 1: I just want to put this out there. Get to iTunes,
Speaker 1: download my dumb single. It's featuring Snoop Shout Out to
Speaker 1: my man whiz called Leif who rock with us in
Speaker 1: the video. Who also, you know what I'm saying, was
Speaker 1: out whatever I said. I'm sure you had some talks
Speaker 1: to him about his recent all right, Nah, we ain't
Speaker 1: talk yet. You know, I'm putting pressure on N being
Speaker 1: big boy now because I knew you was out here
Speaker 1: doing all this type counseling. It's love, man, I'm not
Speaker 1: a therapist. I'm just to dude that's got a little
Speaker 1: insight in there for me. Let me trying to help
Speaker 1: out to get to get to iTunes download. I'm an
Speaker 1: independent artist. I left all the majors. It's an independent hustle,
Speaker 1: so all of them downloads count. It makes you know,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of love. Also, check out the video, man,
Speaker 1: I want you to go on line and check out
Speaker 1: the video my man Snoop. You know, man, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't want Snoop line in the video. I want
Speaker 1: the og Snoop Dog. We all love with the fish Net,
Speaker 1: the Penalton, the Dickies, the Chucks. We went back to
Speaker 1: the throwback Snoop. So y'all check out you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. My next single is called Shane that I'm
Speaker 1: gonna definitely drop off on y'all. The movie is a
Speaker 1: musical short film while I'm playing like Ike Turner, Teddy
Speaker 1: and Marvin Marvin Gaye, an abusive soul singer from nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty eight. It's one of the most uncomfortable movies me
Speaker 1: and Jennifer Hudson has ever done, directed by Paul Hunter.
Speaker 1: So we got a lot of stuff coming out, and
Speaker 1: in my mind, I said, you know what if it's
Speaker 1: gonna be my last album, a double album, a documentary,
Speaker 1: a book, my first audio book, and a movie, it's
Speaker 1: more than enough content to unleash on the world. It's
Speaker 1: coming seven seven fifteen and it's called Black Roll. So
Speaker 1: I just appreciate all the fans it's been rocking with
Speaker 1: me from Dave dot and I just hope, I hope,
Speaker 1: I hope y'all love it. And don't forget Furious seven
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Speaker 1: I know you come to New York, might be bored,
Speaker 1: but don't ever go to a Knicks game. It was
Speaker 1: a waste of time. They lost by thirty one. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: the Clippers one right. So I'm it's West Coast, right,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I went there to
Speaker 1: go see all my loved one. Derek Fish is my dude.
Speaker 1: You know he's West Coast too, so it's a lot
Speaker 1: of you should kill him. Courtside Dita's track suit Hall bottoms. Yo, listen,
Speaker 1: my life scaled, holmet chill out, Tree says the Breakfast
Speaker 1: Club good mine.