WEBVTT - Chris Brown Interview 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.640 I'm not real key for real celebrity real joined the 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:09.959 Breakfast Morning everybody is DJ mvy angela ye, shall I 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.840 mean the guy we all the Breakfast Club special guests 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:15.400 in the building, Lights getting his baggage, but the lights 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.240 getting weak man last week wasn't now this week? Partner 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:24.079 was here last week? What's up? Up? Are you gonna 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:25.759 tell us that you you? You tried it off an 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:27.560 empire too? It seemed like every lights getting do in the 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:31.760 the industry tried it off an empire naga quincy Nah, 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.360 Like I I just started watching the show, just getting 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:36.400 into it. I never I ain't really hear about it, 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:38.800 you know, I don't and I ain't the type of 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:45.400 do the trial. Yeah, I'm not going to just I'm 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.199 gonna read the child. You never did no auditions for 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:49.800 none of those movies like The Rain? What was that 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.239 take us? None of that? Nah? It picked up? We want? Yeah, Like, 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.319 I mean, I did my actual like acting coach like 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.360 on set to get it, and then I usually kind 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.920 of learned from the actors as I go, But you know, 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:02.840 I never really kind of if it ain't something I'm 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.000 meant to rested in, I ain't really about that oh 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:06.400 if they ain't calling me like, hey, you want to 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:10.320 be in a move, But congratulations on getting the tour started. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.440 Appreciate it. I know at first it was a little bit. 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:19.920 People were upset and many community service that's what it 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.920 sounded like at first. You know, I was it gave 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.679 me a thousand hours, you know, over spend of time. 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:28.760 But throughout that time, you know, I was inconcentrated. I 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.000 had different things that was going on, so you know, 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.200 throughout that time, I mapped it out to finish it 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.600 at a certain time, but I was getting booked for 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.720 things at the same time. So I would be going 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:39.480 here doing the show, and they would give me the 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.240 approvals to judge would prove it to the able to 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.360 approve it. I'm like, all right, who fine, I'm good. 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.240 So they had already approved a tour for me to go. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.200 They saw the schedule of it, but I had one 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.440 hundred hours left, so I scheduled it to where when 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.280 I got back off the tour, I would be done 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.360 within that week before I went back to court. But 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.560 you know, things didn't happen to where I wanted it. 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:00.680 They made you finish it, yeah, they what they made 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.120 you do? Oh, well basically the whole time I was 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.600 doing the remaining of the thousand dollars that I had, 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.360 I was doing. Uh, I was at a boys attention center, 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.680 you know, so like like prison for for young young boys. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.800 But I would be doing maintenance. Man. I would be 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.440 you know, re remodeling the walls, whether it be painting 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.840 them from all white, um, fixing the whole bathroom areas 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.480 for the boys. And they put outside the last time 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:27.920 they had you outside, Well we're in. We're in fenced 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.320 like a real jail. So I would be like, you know, 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.480 cutting grass on the inside part. But I wouldn't be like, 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.840 you know, visible to the public. But you know, how 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.160 to remodel bathrooms and everything. You know, when you're gonna 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:43.480 have to like you know, you create a person you're painting. Yeah, 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.919 I wasn't painting in the art form that I kind 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.280 of wanted to paint. Like when you're just painting just 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.400 white plaster and everything, it is just like all right, 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:54.560 this is not what I Usually when they have guys 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.520 that detention center, they want you to talk to the kids. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.200 That's your community service. Like nope, not Chris. Yeah, you 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.920 know I wouldn't I wouldn't. I kind of didn't understand 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.800 that too, you know, I was looking at the situation like, 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:07.359 you know, I think I have more of a um understanding, 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.000 you know, of the youth or being able to have 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.680 been to certain experiences to give him my insight on 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.239 how not to take that certain path. But I think 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.320 they wanted it to be more of a labor thing. 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.840 It's more of a punishment than than than me to 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.320 actually help the community, which is kind of backwards. But 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.040 you know, I don't. I don't make the rules on 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.240 the fans on Instagram because they was coming at yours up. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.520 We can't see trade because of you, yeah, you know 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.520 and me. You know, I'm I'm never politically correct. I'm 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.200 always we know, you know how I mean, I don't. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.120 I don't really kind of have a filter. I try 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.560 to kind of chill now, like just to be like, man, 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.360 it's not that important. You can't control it your life, 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:49.000 you know. I always say he liked it with tendency 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.560 he can't control. But sometimes it's difficult, Like does that 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.400 affect you know how the judge looked at you and everything. 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.520 They're like, Okay, he just did this, and we thought 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.960 he was doing his community service. He did that, but 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:00.920 then he goes out. Do you think that's something that 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.640 affects I just think the judge. I mean, I wouldn't 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.240 talk about the judge because I'm not I'm not a 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.640 probation all the way, so I would say I don't 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.480 think it would make a difference. I think even if 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.800 I was at church every day and do whatever, it 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.360 would be something to talk about. A. Yeah, they have opinion. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.800 And I think how media has uh kind of not 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.680 saying targeted me because I'm not here to be like 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:25.960 woe is me and all that. That's kind of boys 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.960 definite media. Yeah, yeah, it gets it gets old all 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:30.560 the time, you know what I'm saying. But I feel 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.359 like the only thing that's highlighted in my career for 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.360 the last five years is my negativity, you know what 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.520 I'm saying. But the only thing that I can do 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.320 is put my positive music out and do what I 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.320 do and be great at that. That's the only thing 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.039 that has been successful is the music. And people can't 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.520 deny an under nivel hit, you know what I'm saying. 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.800 So if you had to put a percentage on how 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.440 much trouble you actually have caused on yourself as persuaded 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.240 how much the media puts on you. What would you say, Um, 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.120 it's fifty fifty. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna sit 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.280 there and say I'm a saying, but I definitely say 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.080 a lot of the choices that I made in the 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.560 past reflect now, So now I don't have that benefit. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.160 You don't get the benefit of the doubt. Like, oh, Chris, 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:09.920 ain't do that. Come on now, people be like, no, 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:11.719 he did it. You know what I'm saying because of 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.120 my past decisions, we move differently now because you know 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.920 how it seems like people try to start a problem 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:18.360 because they want to see what they want to see 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.240 you in trouble. Yeah, I mean I'm more vigilant of 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.240 how my surroundings where I go, Like even if a 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.359 place gets shot up or wherever that club whatever, I 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.280 just try to move accordingly and not try to have 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.679 certain influences around, Like you got a certain type of people, 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:35.760 They're gonna bring a certain type of crop. It was 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.880 a story that you were not going to perform at 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.240 certain types of clubs anymore. Yeah, and so that that 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:42.800 was too. You were saying, let me get out of 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.560 that element. I mean, you know, I could say that 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:51.760 for five minutes, but I love a hood. That's my rulers. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:56.400 I'm gonna talk to after five o'clock close closing time. 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.760 I feel I feel you. I mean, for me, I 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.719 just feel like that's what because I'm not a street dude. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.000 I'm not. I don't portraye myself trying to be tough. 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.160 I'm just who I am, you know. So I think 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.960 when I go places and how I'm maneuver, I'm I'm 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.400 just approachable. Like I can go places and go to 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.440 a terrible neighborhood of where it is and like, what's up, man, 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.360 what's doing y'all good? Or go to a nice place 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.640 and be like that. But I think just you have 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.400 to beat your wives on where you go, man, how 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.360 you choose to move around, because sometimes they're shoot the 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.560 place up? Why did this happen? When I'm here? You 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.679 feel like trouble follows you. I feel like the story 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.080 ain't it ain't fun if it ain't that, you know. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.720 I think. I think after a time, like you kind 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.440 of be like, man, I'm always getting Trouble'm always in 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.200 the situation. I think just you know, God gives certain 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.520 people certain paths, and I think, you know, you gotta 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.640 go to something. You know, if I'm just sitting there 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.040 smill like, hey, let's up, everything's great. I'm about to 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.440 put on these glittery jackets and start dancing like I'm 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.520 it's not gonna be interesting. I think people feed off 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:59.280 my negativity because they're so interested in my greatness as 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.919 an artist. Have you checked to see if this voodoo 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.040 on you are roots just that you might have. I 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.560 really feel like everything like i'd be like somebody got 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.880 a chicken bone buried with Chris brown name. You know, 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.720 I don't mess with that. I don't messer that. You know. 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.560 I've been on the data couple Island girls, I'm telling you. 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:24.880 Do you ever think in the future you would do 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.720 your memoirs or an autobiography or something like that. Yeah, 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:29.240 I think a lot of people. It's a lot of 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.160 stuff about me that people don't know, as far as 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.880 like how I got into the game, just just little 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.360 stuff like the details, the fine details. So I think, 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.600 you know, doing a movie would be dope. I'm actually 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:42.000 shooting the actual documentary for my tour, so everything plays 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.480 in this position like me being held back on the 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.480 tour and not being able to go out there, losing 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.480 like two three million dollars worth of you know, production ticket, 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.080 still having to cut the show and half just because 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:56.720 all the setbacks. But it shows the the beauty, you know, 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.440 the roads to the cracks he meant, you know, So 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.440 it's it's able. You're able to kind of travel through 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.679 the journey with me and understand, how's until going because 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.640 it's six sold out shows? Yeah, and it's it's you 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:09.520 and Trey and it's it's you guys are going to 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.800 Virginia boys, how is it? You know? The tours? Actually 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.120 it's been a surprise because I haven't toured you know, 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.160 domestically and almost like three or four years. So being 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:19.640 able to get back on the road and kind of 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.000 showing the people again because you know, America's is fickled, 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.960 like you have to really win them over every time, 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.560 like every new record is your new record. You know 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.920 what I'm thinking, like a yeah, hi, you know, So 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.160 being able to go out there and you know, be 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.520 on stage every night and see the crowd pat from 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:38.480 front to back. You know, Now, how does that feel? 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.600 Because for a while when you would when you were 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.520 doing shows, maybe a couple of years ago, they weren't 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.400 a path. People were against you, so you weren't getting 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.280 them field stadiums anymore. But now it's back to what 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.760 it was. Yeah, you know, it's amazing and it just 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:54.400 shows that, Um, I have a good job, you know. 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.480 You know, I'm just happy and thankful right now. I 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.240 gotta get that. I gotta get it redne And now 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.120 it's this. I'm sweating on stage. That's why I got 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.720 a hat on. You know what. I'm just over. You're 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.360 gonna eventually go bad. It's gonna I might take I 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.439 might look like Aaron Hall, or I might take that 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.320 Rob that's gonna be. That's gonna be my rob. Now listen, 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.880 let's talk about your relationship. You guys are good now 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:22.520 back together? Yeah, No, it's no engagement. It was just good, 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:29.959 you know, yeah together, Really a girl stops. But I 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.959 just I just feel like this is my position on it. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.320 A lot of the times, like I'm impulsive, Like I said, 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.679 I don't have no filter. So so a lot of 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.440 the times, whether it's an issue in the relationship whatever, 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.079 Sometimes whether it's both party hurled me. We don't know 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.520 how to communicate sometimes to be able to be like, hey, man, 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.400 let's talk about this before we say something right, and 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:55.000 then we're back together the next week because everybody else 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.000 gonna just then you give it, everybody else the option 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.880 to depict our relationship and and set their own base 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.200 of how we live our life, you know what I'm saying. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.880 So I just think, you know, as of now, we've 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.400 been kind of cool with not being on the on 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:14.120 the You know, it hurt me so bad. I hit boo, 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.560 I said, boo, Please tell me breathey just didn't admit 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:21.080 that that Drake flew his girl out. Please, No, man, 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.000 I ain't need him. He ain't getting no money by 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:24.600 talking about him. So I ain't you know, I ain't 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.600 no you know, punny talking about that. But you did 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:28.599 do a countdown and you didn't count number six, and 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.440 everybody was like, he didn't say six because Drake did 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.200 the six guys soon. Yeah, I don't get that. I don't. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.520 I don't remember that though, Like I don't remember not 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.960 saying like that. Dude, don't make me no checks? This cool? 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.079 I don't. I don't you know, I ain't get no 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.160 money by talking about y'all. Was in the studio, it 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:48.480 seemed like I was making records and I don't Oh, okay, okay, 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.320 Now he just was in the studio. He was a fan, 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.080 so he must really be ducking the fade from Brown. 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.440 I gotta say, I don't got no opinions or none 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.000 of that. You know, he was just he don't make 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:03.559 me no money. But I talk about him, you know 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.199 what I'm saying. So as soon as if I get 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.640 a check by you know, ding ding. But he's not 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.400 a friend, I'm cool except for you and crew chain. 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.920 Moving forward, though, you decided let's just keep this off 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.720 a social media let's not argue and do this. Dada 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:18.640 da da da. Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know it's 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.200 it's it's better for growth and it shows maturity when 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.720 you can you can communicate and talk to a relationship 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.000 and understand each other, you know. So I just I 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.880 just rather do that and not not try to, you know, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.480 make my stuff as public because people it ain't nobody's 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.320 opinion and people lives anyway, so they can't they can't 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:38.480 really comment on mind the video together though, yeah, you 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:39.880 know I did, and we did that about a year 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.040 and a half ago too. But I just waited to 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.360 the right point to just put it out and set 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.760 it up right so good. You know, Kanye said in 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:48.599 his new record, um all your fault. He said that 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.199 crew cha can never do a little better than you, 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:55.240 And I'm like with it. I mean not I feel. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:56.959 I mean I feel what he meant by And I'm 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.040 not saying like as an arrogant statement, but I just 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.160 feel like in any situation when when you when you 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.959 when you look at yourself as in a certain like 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.440 cocky or not. You know, I think you know, it's 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:12.520 nowhere else to go, like this radio, you know, there's 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.199 nowhere else to go, Like even with old girl, you know, 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.880 the first one. Yeah, who else are you gonna go to? 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.640 I mean, she got bigger, I know, but that's nice, 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:24.280 that's a that's a good choice. But who else in 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:28.520 this game she's gonna go to? Corny singing rapper, some 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:35.040 corny singing rapper name Aubrey? You know what, I'm like 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.679 what she do now, Like you know, I respect for 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.960 all like whatever her choices. But at the time too, 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.080 who now you don't speak to her anymore? You don't 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.000 speak to anymore, So there was no birthday wishes andhing 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.199 like that. Nah, Like I'm just we just cord you like, 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.880 it's like I respect her space, you respect you know, 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.880 it's not a it's not a likes you know too 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.800 much talk and get to hey, what you're doing? What's up? 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.199 What's up? You don' gonna hang out? And you know 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.880 it's it's just complicating. Ain't that's a good thing to 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:09.000 relapse with, RelA with. Ain't nothing wrong with that. Kanye 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:10.920 comment on your relationship though, Like do you talk to 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.199 Kanye or she talk? I mean, Kanye, we've been we 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.679 just gotta started getting like real cool over like the 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.040 last couple of months. Man, Like so you know, I 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.959 understand him sometimes, like you know what I'm saying, Like 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:23.640 a lot of people be like, man, he just he 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.120 just complains. He always did this, the stuff he complaining about. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.000 Don't be so over the top though, Like you know, 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.559 whether it's music or whatever it is. Sometimes how he 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:37.199 words it, it's like, Okay, damn, I don't say it 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.080 like that. But you know I can't. I can't knock 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.719 the man for how you feel. You know, you is 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.240 you want to be the greatest. You gotta act like 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:45.959 he's get the greatest. Yeah, he just left it. He 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:51.760 seems a lot more humble. Now somebody like Justin Bieble. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.280 You know what I'm saying, He's he's got he got low, 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.079 and he seems like he's popped back up and he's 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.000 trying to have a cleaner image. And it seems like 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.240 the media is at following it, not just allowed it, 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.000 but kind of like pushing it. I wonder why they 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.680 don't give you those those same chances. The skin color. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.719 I'm light skinned, but not that shape. Yea, you know 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.280 what I'm saying. And I mean everybody can be like 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.800 pull a raised card man. Y'all know this music industry, 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.880 it's nineteen thirty five. You know, it's funny. It's just 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.520 it's just a different face. People don't speak up and 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.040 say how it is. But you know you got you 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.880 got us that can I'm gonna make an R and 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.240 B song that that's just like okay, that's the best 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.480 I heard, But it's gonna go so far on rhythmic 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:37.240 maybe touch, you know, but top forty station. But you 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.440 get another artists, different colors singing. It's the it's the 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.360 newest generation of music. Like, oh my god, it's so innovative. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.480 What follow You know what I'm saying. I mean, I'm 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.560 not a hater because I love the music too, but 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.120 it is what it is. You see the difference. Look 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.680 at the grammars. Is it easy like to get a 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.080 PR and that can help you clean up your image. 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.000 If the media don't want to be clear ANYPO for me, 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.800 they're gonna go through him. Like I just feel like, 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.040 I'm just gonna be real with you man. Like Instagram, 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.840 I'm not. I mean, I'm not feeling you know, I 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.000 might say something, but I'm gonna I delete it later. 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:14.760 But you I'm gonna say at first, I just get 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.520 it off, you know. But I think PR with me 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.600 is just finding people because you know what it is. 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:28.040 My biggest challenge is to get the gatekeepers to say, Okay, 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.280 it's cool to mess with you. You know that. And 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.480 you know what, it could be the toughest rapper or 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.840 whoever it is, We love that guy because you're not 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.640 afraid of him. He's you know, it's not a he's 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.680 not a risk. You know a lot of people, and 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:41.480 he usually has to be Like I was saying this 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.680 to my friends, like uh, and I'm not trying to 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.200 make it a race thing, but like you know, I 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.480 was at this uh this really this really really rich party. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:50.600 Like I just felt awkward that I was like because 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:52.000 I walked in you know a lot of white people 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:53.400 that were just looking at me like, oh my god. 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.160 But then when they got drunk, you see what they're 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.880 real feelings is they get drunk on yo. Man, Look, 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.760 you're the best, bro. I love you. Um, you just 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.200 really need like like you're so talented, you just messed 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.720 up all the time. Man, Like, that's what we're afraid 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.000 of you, bro, Like that's what it is, like, you 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.760 know what I'm saying. So it's just the people that 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.120 got to take the risk. And you know, I take 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.240 a risk every day because I say effort. Then just 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.000 do my thing and do what I'm here to do, 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.840 do my music, do everything for my fans, and a 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:26.640 lot of people just don't understand how I've been able 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:31.000 to survive all everything and still be putting out you know, 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.800 number one records and stuff like that. It's just I 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.480 just I don't have a mentality of looking back and caring. 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.360 Seems like you don't care anymore what people say. I don't. 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.560 It's not even about oh he doesn't show remorse. I mean, 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.880 how much remorse I'm gonna show it's been then the 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.000 ten years, Like you know what I'm saying. So I 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.440 just feel like, if you're not gonna get over you're 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.640 never gonna get over it. Do you think anytime during 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:52.880 that whole situation, like after we re read, you think 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:55.520 you may have went to left when you got all 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:58.480 the tattoos and you you embrace the thug life, you 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:02.680 embrace the bad boy. I just feel like I embrace 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.879 my creativity. You know, I think I think a lot 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.399 of my tattoos, I don't have gang tattoos. You know, 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.960 a lot of my tattoos or are symbols of art. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.760 You know, I'm a painter as well, a different thing. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:15.280 So I just I'm just living in my culture of 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.119 my time. I think, you know, it's cliche not to 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.800 have tattoos. Now, if you're a young guy, you're like, 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.119 oh dang, it's I mean, it's not it's not cliche, 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.080 it's rare. It's a rarity if you don't have tattoos. 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.760 But I feel like now I just I didn't. I'm 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.040 not saying I'm pushing the envelope. I'm just living my life, 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:32.560 you know what I'm saying. So I just look at 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.479 it like if they love it, they love it. If 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:36.720 you don't, cool, But I'm still rock out on the 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.800 rock because that's what being an artist is. That's what 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.840 being a rock star is. Conformity is prisoned to me, 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:47.040 you know, being being normal and having to focus on 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.280 I gotta do this because this person likes that. I 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.200 gotta do this because that person like, no, I'm gonna 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.240 do this and make y'all follow. But that's what a 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.480 leader does, you know what I'm saying. So I don't 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.880 focus on how many knows I get because I kick 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:01.879 all the doors down that they put up. They ever 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.400 awkward for you behind the scenes, like the whole situation. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.199 I just was at the Real the other day. They 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.000 were like, oh, we don't say Chris Brown's name up 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:13.600 here anymore. Well that's great. That's because when it comes 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.440 to like okay, like say, for instance, aging Violine, she's 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:18.440 engaged to Lenny s and I'm sure you're running to 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.600 him or for Tamar with her husband. Do they ever 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.400 make it awkward for you? Does anybody ever reach out 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.840 to you and say nobody? Could anybody know me? I'm 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:28.480 not saying try to act like I'm a tough guy, 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.200 none of that. But I get down when I get down, 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.960 ducking the flight, I'm not I'm not running from no phase. 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:37.960 I'm not running for that. But I'm also walking the 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.119 straight path till I get all this probation. To be honest, 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:43.800 I ain't trying to, you know, mess up nothing. Nothing 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:45.800 gonna mess up my money no more. So what happens 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:47.600