WEBVTT - #304 - Eric Bellinger 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.160 Y'all. It's good as your boy, Eric Belinger, make sure 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:05.200 you check me out on a bootleg CAV podcast, It's 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:12.119 Easy Boulet CAV podcast. We got a special guest in here, 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.040 my guy, one of the most prolific R and B 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.639 singers and writers. Come on, baby B just finished this tour. 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.200 Eric Bellinger is here. Yeah, man, we're here, We here. 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:26.080 Congrats on another successful tour. Thank you, dog. I appreciate you. Dog. 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.440 Always amazing. To finish up, relax and chop it up 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:31.000 with the home. What's the first thing you do, like 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:32.760 when you get off tour? Like? Is it like? How's 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.960 that first day? Are you relaxing your kids? Very first day? Yes, 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.800 very first day. I came home. When I was unpacking 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.600 the trailer and unloading all the suitcases, they came home 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:47.560 from school. Daddy got that moment off and I didn't 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:48.919 do anything for the rest of the day. I make 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:52.560 sure I just dedicated that night to them. But better believe, 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.440 I woke up the next day back to it, back 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:59.360 to it, multiple interviews, multiple sessions. So yesterday I went crazy, 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.040 and today it's the second day off and we already 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:03.960 back at it. At the second interview to day. You 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.080 definitely you have a song you're pushing, you got an album, Yeah, 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.040 so you get your your tours over. But the work, 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.080 that's what I was saying, man, that's what you gotta do. 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:14.480 You know, you got to sign up for both. And 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.280 a lot of ourtists don't know that. They just like 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.000 they just want to drop it and to go viral. 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.280 But you really really got to go crazy with the 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.920 marketing once the songs out, to let the people know 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.120 it's there. Man. Yeah, I was gonna say for you, like, 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:27.720 how do you do the work life balance with the family. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.880 And because you're a hard working guy, you're always in sessions, 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.400 you're always moving around, Like what's the key to that? 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:37.240 So I think it's like, especially you can start off 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.920 with like weekends, like trying to be like, yo, weekends, 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.080 we're gonna have a day where we hang aside for 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.520 the kid. Yeah, set aside for the kids, wifey. Yo, 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.160 We're gonna make sure we do a day night at 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.400 least every two weeks or something, you know, every week 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.920 is yeah, you would love that, but you gotta be 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.960 real with yourself and not set too high expectations. And 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.320 if you get that extra day, then you're good. But 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.280 to be able to really push and not have the 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:07.200 pressure while still having the support has been a blessing. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.799 Every two weeks. I like that minimum. I need to 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.360 push that to my wife. But to go eat, you know, 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.399 even if you know, we gotta get a sitter, got 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.960 to get the babysitter. Man, gotta do it because it's important. Man, 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:23.640 just keep falling in love your new album. How many 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.200 records is it? Fourteen fourteen? Obviously the core day record 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.480 in Fabulous record is dope. I guess actually popping on 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.679 the video shoot for that you shot at super Bowl, Yeah, 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.840 super Bowl weekend in AZ Yeah, man, you were, you were. 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.880 I look at you like the pivotal moment for me 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.480 even shooting a video, shooting the curious video, Bro, what 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.760 do you mean Like JD told me that you had 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.000 booked fab for the weekend. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah for 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:53.359 the club, for your club, and I saw a window 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.280 of being able to be in the same place at 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.120 the same time. We had a show in a z 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.640 as well around the same time. Yeah it was. It 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:02.880 was the same week it was, yeah, yeah, So it 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.080 was like, Yo, let's make it happen. Corder, can we 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:10.240 get him there? He was down. We flew him in town, 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:15.119 but it was started because you and you guys. Shout 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:16.680 out to y'all for putting my club in the video. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.680 I love that. Yes, we were like yo. The club 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:24.600 scenes are definitely from eleven eleven in Scott Still. Yes, yes, 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.600 it's good times man man for you, like how because 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.840 when you're an album mode and you're because you're obviously 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.200 we talked about that. We did a radio interview in 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.880 San Diego, but we got to kind of reflect on 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.360 how many bodies of work you have at this point? 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:42.119 How many is it now? It's like thirty eight, It's 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.200 like closing of forty if you include like mixtapes and 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.440 stuff like on the on the album is on just 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.760 on iTunes. I have like twenty eight or something like that, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.440 but there's so many that I couldn't put on iTunes, 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:59.080 so like Spotifyune last twenty eight. Yeah, do you damn 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:04.320 When did you first like really dive into the full 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:12.200 time artist grime? Yeah? When I dropped Got twenty seventeen, 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:16.080 twenty eighteen. It doesn't feel like very long ago. I 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.240 feel like you've been on that way now because I've 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.520 been dropping. I would say like twenty ten twenty ten 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.120 is when I put my very first mixtape out ten 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.040 ten ten, and I think it just was a grind 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.760 of me dropping projects just out of I create so 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.919 many that I'm dropping, not knowing that they would eventually 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.839 amount to streams that pay monthly royalty, you know what 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:39.919 I mean. It was just like I'm dropping. You know, 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.559 I'm an independent, Damn, I should be signed to a major. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.800 I should be signed to a major. Little do I 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.039 know that me owning my masters would give me a 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.800 bigger piece of the pie at the end of the day. Yeah, 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:53.000 because I can only assume when you have twenty eight 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.720 projects out, it's like kind of like residual income. Just 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.680 hitting that account every month. That's it. That's all it is. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:02.680 Once started piling, I was like, oh, why do they 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.760 need it? Like what is that for? It's it's really 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.080 if you need the really the label is if you 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:11.800 need the upfront nut at that time. Yeah, you know 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.520 what it is like, so you don't you don't use 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.239 your own money, you know, that's time. That's fine. And also, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.040 like some artists, like you know, I think a major 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.720 label system probably better suit some artists like lazier guys, 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.120 you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, guys who kind of lazier guys. 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.560 You know, just like if you're going to be independent, 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.440 it's the work is it's strenuous, it's a lot. You 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.040 gotta wear multiple hats for sure. You know, you gotta 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.719 be willing to take a note and you know, flip 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.279 it and be on for you Like, uh, talk to 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.640 me about just like the day to day stuff that 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:43.520 you handle being independent. Obviously you're with Empire, who's doing distribution, 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.120 who helps the label services, but like what are you 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:52.400 handling as eb Yeah? Man, so I'm tapping into the 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.760 storyline of the album. So you got the writing creative 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.680 in the studio, then you got the mixing process. Then 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.960 it's time to think of what the artwork is gonna be, 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.960 the colors, the aesthetic. Now you got single artwork, every 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:10.039 single attached and coinciding with the previous to remind people 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.120 that this is all for one body of work. Now 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.840 you got a photo shoot that is intentional to take 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.400 people back to a time. So I'm bringing out the leather. 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.960 I'm leather headed toe with the R and B energy. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.039 Now we got to talk about music videos, and I'm 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.560 on the line with the directors I'm planning, I'm picking, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.000 I'm casting, I'm looking for the for the ladies. I'm 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.160 talking to emails, shout out the emails. Diddy always came through. 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.000 We shot four videos with my guy and brought nothing 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.839 but beautiful ladies to go crazy in the videos with 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.400 us Man, the styling of the videos. Now you've got 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:48.160 the marketing. You're putting your fingerprints on everything. Yeah, I'm not. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.799 There's nothing that I don't know that's happening. That's amazing. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.120 Do you feel like I just heard Russ say this 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:57.560 recently that he feels like music videos aren't as effective 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.279 as they used to be at this point. It's like 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.800 a branding thing in terms of in terms of just 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.760 like the ROI on streams, Yeah, see that. Yeah, because 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.720 we spend more on music videos then you'll get from 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.960 the music video stream wise. You have to stream like 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:16.920 or it has to have like certain amounts, so many commercials. Yeah, 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.200 before you can even get the return on investment. Yeah, 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.200 because you can think like a good music video, like 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.840 a good one, Yeah, spend at least five grand exactly. Okay, 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.000 was just talking about that today. A good one, good one. 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:32.320 You can get a decent one for like twelve. Look 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:33.960 if you got a homie with a camera and you 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.640 got some fucking aspirations and you're willing to take some 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.640 for sure, you nat Yeah, get that right, lighting You 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.720 know it's gonna make a difference in the long run 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.560 to just do it right the first time instead of 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.800 just trying to go back and shoot another music video 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.040 and now the streams are you know what I mean, 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.360 You gotta do it right the first time. Talk to 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:57.240 me about your uh your just I feel like every 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.960 Chris Brown album you somehow have your fingerprints on and 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:04.000 some capacity. Yeah, how did you guys first link up 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:07.680 and just talk about why he trusts you so much? Yeah, 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.360 so he's also a great writer. He is, he is. 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.480 That's why I you know, I definitely don't take it lightly, 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.520 just that you know that trust. The first song we 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.200 did was called Champion. It was for a London artist 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.120 named Chipmunk. Harmony called me in for the session. I 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.600 wrote the hook and he just recut the hook and 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.120 was like, Yo, whoever did that, whoever that was singing, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.720 I want them to work on my next album. So 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.480 he brought the whole team with Harmony and myself and 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:39.320 Courtney and we all went to the man straight in 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.120 with Chris Brown. You know what I mean. I was. 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.800 I was actually in London working and had to get 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.520 a call to come back the next day. Literally like 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.200 I landed, had to go right back. I didn't do 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:51.880 no work, and we got in with him and wrote 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:56.520 all the songs on Fame, Oh My Love. Champion ended 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.240 up going on there say It with Me and then 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:03.160 that joint. One of his first Grammy was Fame, the 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:07.040 first album after kind of the whole shin dig Yeah. Yeah, 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.439 with the graffiti kind of art yep. So that was 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.120 like kind of his comeback. That was the one and 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.720 it got a Grammy. So it's like we was involved 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.720 in such a pivotal moment. I felt like it was like, 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:20.160 let's keep doing it. Yeah, And then you did find Channa, 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:24.079 right yeah, Find China record. Man, That's that's my favorite one. 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:25.959 I say, when you write a song like find China, 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:27.920 are you with him or do you send it to him? 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.280 And if you send it to him, are you kind 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:30.880 of hoping he doesn't want it so you keep it 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.680 for yourself? Nah? I'm with him, Okay, Yeah, I'm with him. 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.120 Any of the songs that are like the big ones 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:40.400 like New Flame and Love More There. Yeah, but when 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.000 I'm by my myself, a lot of them songs nobody, 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.160 I don't be playing him for nobody, you know. For one, 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.640 it's like, I'm gonna keep this and I can do 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:50.880 whatever I want with it, and it's gonna benefit me 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.800 more low key to have ownership of the song, as 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.280 opposed to if I go to a session and I'm 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.360 with somebody else, that's their studio time, they pay for that, 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.840 that's most likely they beat. So I'll never really be 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.840 too connected. I'm always like pouring all my energy into 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.640 the moment. Was Usher in the session for New Flynn? 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.680 Usher was not? Usher was not he's on that song? Yeah, 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:17.080 he's on that song. Who else? Somebody else? Someone else's 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.320 singing a song. Yeah, I feel like there's a rapper room. No, 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.719 it wasn't Rick Cross. Somebody's on that song. It might 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.240 just be him an Usher, it might be I feel 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.640 like I'm missing a rapper. You're fucking no, you wouldn't. 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:35.880 Baby bab my guy over there, big Yeat fan. Yeah, 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.760 have you listened to Yeat? I've just seen his logo. 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.720 He's popping this fuck just seeing it pop up on 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.400 the page. I don't get it. It's not for me 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.000 to get the name. Hey, it's so many things that 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.520 come out now. 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There's so much dope R and 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.560 B in the world right now, but you've been pushing 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.720 through the whole wave. Yeah, And I feel like your 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:23.080 first project comes out in twenty ten, which I refer 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:27.399 to as the Dark Era because that's when like ed 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:31.040 M got introduced and there's all of these R and 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.400 B artists doing that is when it happened. So there 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.560 was like this was like the lady guy guy and 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:40.400 I'm the only one still Yeah, And so like you're 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.600 still putting out traditional R and B. I think around 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:46.640 that time, August was starting to come out with his mixtape. 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:54.640 Adrian Marcel had a dope mixtape in Raphael first. But yeah, 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.639 like for you, like you've been through so many eras 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:01.280 of R and B, Like do you recall when it's like, 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.919 what was it like to not be cool to be 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.920 the R and B guy? Mm? Because you're thinking Neo's 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.040 biggest songs are the yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you know 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.159 what I mean or on the floor joints. You know 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:17.520 it was it was not only did the R and 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:23.840 B not become as popular, but I was also I 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:30.119 was also I was also singing at a time and 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.080 was married too, you know what I mean. So like 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.800 that wasn't the cool, Like everybody wasn't bowed up. That 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.000 wasn't like bagels, Like we were being married and making 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.199 R and B music. Yeah I was not, you feel me? 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.000 But I knew like yo. Also shout out to Miguel 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:48.840 who was holding that flag too at that time. He 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.399 was he was for sure, and I wasn't. I wasn't 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:58.080 aiming to also married at the time. Ish, we've been 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:02.000 going big time the jump, Sure this is the big boy. 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.160 When you really in there, yeah and you in there walk, Yeah, 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:10.119 it's different. Different, So the commitment was like I was dedicated. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.560 We've ribe, we've we vibed it out, and she held 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.480 me up. When you once you got that woman, that 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.760 queen that make you feel like you got it, you're good. 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:21.040 So that sustained me and my fans really just let 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.280 me know, like, yo, thank you for being the only 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:25.359 one that we can listen to when it comes to 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.159 positive influence and relationships when it thinks of just like 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:30.879 R and B, like I want to love on my 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.399 girl as opposed to everything being the opposite, you know, 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:38.720 so me just giving people another option, it became the standard, 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.840 and it became the new wave after people got tired 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:45.600 of disrespecting and being disrespected. Yeah, there was also, like 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:47.760 like you're saying, there was the super toxic R and 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:51.480 B ship where it was like, Jesus Christ, it was 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:55.439 really crazy. Some of the ship that was girlfriend's girlfriend. 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:59.320 Oh my god, it was going crazy. Trey song, Yeah 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:05.520 talks R and B of all time, Jesus Christ. It's 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:08.439 like where the love go. God damn it, it was gone. 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:10.720 It's gone. I was just like, yo, I'm here, and 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:12.960 I don't do it for applause. I do it for 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:15.360 a cause, you know what I'm saying I love that. Man. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.680 We talked about this a little bit, but okay, you 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.800 did a whole album with hit Maker. He has had 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.920 a friendly feud. We'll call it. 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