WEBVTT - Top 8 BobbyCast Interviews of 2021 (Part 2) 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.760 Hello, and welcome back to the Top eight Bobby Cast 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.639 Interviews of one, Part two. I am like the producer 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:11.600 of the Bobby Cast and Bobby and I have hands 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.600 selected the best interviews we did this year. This is 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.080 part two. So if you missed part one, just go 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.680 back an episode and check that out, or if you 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:21.159 just want to hear the top four, you're in the 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:23.599 right place because these are the best interviews we did 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:25.560 on the Bobby Cast this year. And this is based 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:29.640 on episode downloads, reaction we had on social media. So 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:31.960 I'll count these down, give you some behind the scenes 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.279 that went into recording these episodes and what I kind 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:36.080 of have to do as a producer of this podcast. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.560 Let's get right into it. At number four, we went 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.199 with Jimmy Allen. Now, we had Jimmy Allen back on 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:45.479 in before he ever had a number one. And Jimmy 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:47.560 is one of the nicest people in country music, and 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.000 he's a very busy guy. And this was before Dancing 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.920 with the Stars this year, before winning Best New Artists. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.040 And what I love about Jimmy is that he always 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.760 comes in with the best stories right when he sits down. 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:00.600 Bobby asked him one question and it immediately leads to 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.160 a great conversation and we had so many tweets and 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.520 d M when this episode came out. So at number 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:09.959 four is Jimmy Allen here with Jimmy Allen, which I 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.080 was looking at some of the track listing for for 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:17.679 Betty James. And I'm always curious at the process and 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.360 asking people much cooler than yourself, no no offense, much 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:23.120 cooler than yourself to do something with you, because I 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:24.760 don't have to ask people cooler, way cooler than me 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.399 to do stuff with me. And I'm always a little 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.640 weird about it. How do you ask, for example, let's 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.040 do the song. Now, you and Brad Paisley, you have 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:32.920 a song together, that's the song out of Radio Freedom 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.720 was a Highway? How does that ask go? Do you 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.560 do it? Or did your people do it? Man? So 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.080 I kind of did on myself. It kind of happened 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.840 because I was Brad It text me one night it 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.080 was like, hey, I have to play the operating Night. 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.680 Come by the house. He said, Darius is coming and 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.920 he said Bill Shatners here. I was like, that was 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.520 Bill Shatnan. Well, she's like William shatn I was like, 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.040 you know, people in my age we know him from 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.440 Unsolved Mysteries. I didn't know who. I've never heard him 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.560 called Bill Shatter before. So I went over there and uh, 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.000 I get there. Tim girls outside peeing out in front 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.520 of the house. So we go in, UM and we're 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.760 just talking to me, Tim, Brad and Darius and I'm 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.080 sitting here looking like how'd I get in this room? 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.360 How much money? These these are worth a lot? So 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.720 then we grab the guitars and start playing Ntim was like, Yo, 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.000 we should do a song together. He said, Jimmy, here's 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.600 my number, text me to do a song. I was like, now, listen, 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.320 I'm the dude that if you give me your number 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.000 and you say text me to do something, I'm going 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.480 to text you. So I went to l a like 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.520 two days after that and I wrote made for These 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:35.440 um and I sent texted to Tim, was like, hey, 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:36.919 what do you think about the song? He's like, dude, 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.280 I love it. Let's do it. Then Brad I text 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.959 had Freedom written like a year and a half before that. UM, 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.080 I really with Ash and I'm gonna Matt Matt Rogers 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.080 and he was like I love it. I was like perfect. 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.360 And then the Darrison Charlie song. Man. I actually had 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.400 another song I wanted to do with Darrison Charlie Um, 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.440 but it was like a drinking song. And there's like, bro, 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.280 we can't have the first song we do with Charlie 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.800 Bride a drinking song. I was like a point. So 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.959 the day after Kobe died, Um, I was writing it 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.959 was me my bass player, take how Um, who was 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.800 my first signing to my publishing company. He's Dope Um, 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:10.560 Karry barl on Brandon Day. We wrote it the day 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:15.520 after Kobe died and just think about life, man, you know, 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.680 like life throw stuff at you, Like Kobe was probably 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.600 one of the most motivated people I ever knew. Like 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.000 every conversation I had with Kobe, I just left feeling 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:27.079 more motivated, Like you know what, can't I do what 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:28.560 people say I can't do, I gotta go do it. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.560 So that's what kind of how that song came about. 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:35.120 So I called Charlie UM, gave it to Darius and 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.440 they were like yeah, um, so that's kind of how 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.320 that comes. I just reached out to everybody, and after 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.960 I got everybody's yes that, I called the labels like hey, 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.880 I'm this COLLABYP already got the artist. They all said, yes, 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.560 I kind of did the work before even when what 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:53.440 about Nellie um Nellie? He was in town. I saw him. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.160 I was walking the same building I was walking to 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.120 for me and he was walking out. I text my manager, Yo, 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.720 Nellie is in town. You find out why? He was like, yeah, sure, 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.000 so he finds out what knows in towns in town, right, 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.480 and then he said, hey, Nelly, correct with you to 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.880 night at nine. But we wrote there like two thousand nineteen, 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.600 and we had a show the next day in Minnesota's 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.320 all right, It's a hard decision to stand right with 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.400 Nelly or do I get on the tour bus because 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:17.880 me and my band, we hang out on the tour bus. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.480 We play PlayStations, So don't play PlayStations right with Nelly. 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:22.640 So I wrote with and then I just flew the 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:26.000 Minnesota the next day. That's how that one worked. Let's see, 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.520 so that I was gonna play some of Made for 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.840 These which is you and McGraw, like, play me a 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:43.159 clip of this those days. So if tim were two cent, 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.320 because I'm assuming you guys did not record them at 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.320 the same time, right, Like, he went and did his thing, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.080 and he sent it back to you. If you would 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.760 have said something back that wasn't your vision and heck 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:53.960 he didn't love would you have said, can we cut 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.000 this a little different? Or oh you what? Yeh? Because 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:01.080 I feel like when you're creating music and you wanted 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:05.960 to be the best and um, and I feel like 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.120 a lot of times people work with legends and stuff 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.960 like that and they just like like, Okay, we'll just 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:13.480 take it because they're on it. But I still want 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.160 to be good, you know, I mean, and knowing Tim's capability, 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.480 like he killed that. So I remember Tim told me said, dude, 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.520 you're gonna make me like sing for real on this song. 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:22.599 He said, because you're singing for real, so I have 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.520 to sing for real. He killed it like he did 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.479 his thing. But yeah, if I didn't feel it was 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.800 done right, you know what I mean, like, hey man, 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.800 you mind redoing this part or we're doing that? Thing 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.040 you can say is no or screw you. But he 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:37.960 killed it, and I think you would say no or 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.520 screw you if he didn't. Feel like, I think people 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:41.919 are gonna kill me if I don't follow up on 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.520 you saying the times that you've spoken with Kobe, how 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.800 did you meet Kobe Bryant. Man, I met Kobe at 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.520 a Lakers game backstage. Uh well, and like round in 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.359 the locker room area and just shucks. I think I 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.279 was a game when he was playing, or after he retired, 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.240 he plan his plan. Um. I think it was two 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:03.320 thousand and Chucks Swimming Kobe two. That was on five No. 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.120 Two thousand six or twous that long ago. How did 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.680 you get in the locker room in two thousand and six? Man, 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.640 I'm gonna tell you something about me. I used to 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.960 sneak in a lot of places, bro. Like I've snuck 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.159 in the Grammy parties. I've snuck into Seasick Awards. I 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.800 snuck into the Seamaze before if I got a record deal. 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.880 Because this is the thing. When you're a black guy 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.240 with cowboy boots on and a leather jacket and you 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.599 act like you know where you're going, nobody stops you. 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:30.560 So I was sitting, Um, I was sitting like four 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.680 rows up behind the Lakers bench, and I saw people 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:34.760 just going backstage and get drinks. So I had a 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.920 cover in my hand and I just followed another group 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:38.840 of black guys. I think they were like rappers or something. 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:40.920 I don't know, but nobody stopped me. Then I was 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:42.680 back there just hanging out, act like I'm on my 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.440 phone talking. Kobe walked by said hey, what's up to him? 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.480 And how do you say? Hey, what's up to him? 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.360 Just walking by though, Like I was like, col what up? 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.160 Good to see you, bro, Act like I knew he said, Hey, 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.240 what's up? Man? He was like, he's like, what's your name? 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.880 I said, Jimmy. Then again, because he thinks he probably 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.680 met you at some point exactly, so I saw him there. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.080 Then I saw him in a few events before we bumped. 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.480 We bumped into each other, like I think i've We've 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.920 had about over fifty conversations. Did you ever get to 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.200 the point where you guys just saw each It was 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.680 like Jimmy Kobe, Oh yeah, I got to that point. 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.840 Was it after you had started to get heat or 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.360 get success that it was a bit of a peer 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.680 to peer we're both then, Nah, it was more just 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.480 he saw me everywhere, like at different events he was 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:26.800 at in l A. I was there a couple events 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:28.600 in Miami he was there. I was there, Like I 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.960 used to like purposely put myself in places to meet 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.200 people because I feel like, if you want to be successful, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.440 you gotta surround yourself with successful people. That's why I 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.520 was killing myself when I first moved to town and 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.920 move to Brentwood, because I knew most people lived in Brentwood's. 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.360 I ran into people at the gym, the grocery store, 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.760 at restaurants and I'll just talk to him. I was 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.080 watching you playing one of the celebrity Maybe it was 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:50.840 because I don't think they had an All Star Game 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.720 last year, but the year before, were you playing in 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:55.720 the Celebrity All Star Game? Now, I was Kane. I 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.560 played in the Celebrity Game a few year. I watched 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:00.800 you a few years ago. All my years are done. Yeah, 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.320 everything it was. It was a monster. It was just monster. 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.560 Inc celebrity game I did with Floyd Mayweather and like 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.800 t O and Gronk and all of them. Yeah, all 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:11.640 the celebrity games to me are the same, And I 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.800 don't know the difference than I just remember seeing you 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.840 play and I was like, dang, who was the best 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:22.040 celebrity basketball player on the court that night? Tar okay, 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:28.200 but he played what Tennessee State? Yeah, yeah he was good. 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.600 He was a college basketball Remove him. Remove anyone that 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.560 played basketball at a high level. I'll ask you this, 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.880 who is the best celebrity basketball player you've played with 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.600 or against that wasn't a ball player, that wasn't a 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:42.040 ball player. Probably Matt Stough. I beat him out here. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.160 Matt still can turns it on. I tell you this, though, 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.839 I only beat him because we were shooting, and he's 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.760 six six and plays like a guard, which is incredibly difficult. 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.040 When Matt turns it on, he can hoop, Kane can hoop. 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:57.680 I still think I'm better than both of them, for sure. 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.000 Uh do you guys get competitive when you're with each 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.520 other to the point where it'll get a bit chippy 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.160 at times? Not really chippy, because you know, we're like 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.360 we're out here playing, but at some point in the 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.559 game we both want to win. So it's like when 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.440 the game kind of gets close, well, you'll see people 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.320 like really turning up, guys that love ball and like 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.120 playball and competitive whether it's good or not. It kind 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.480 of turns it up a little bit. Even Gator turns 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:26.040 it up. Yeah, Gators competitive hustle. I called him, like 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.920 I say, he's an undersized white Dennis Rodman, an undersized 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:35.079 white Dennis Rotten. Dude rebounds like nobody ever seen before, 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.560 and his energy is crazy, crazy, scrappy. He's the type 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.080 a person you want on your team. He's oddly a 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.920 really good athlete, and I think he's goes to fifty 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.280 now something like that. There's least seventy two for sure. Yeah, 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.640 what is the Disney kick about? Because every time on Instagram, 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.439 not not recently, you've been pandemic though I've seen about 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.400 five times a couple of days ago. I'm going again, 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.839 what's the deal? What's the what's that rooted in? So 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:02.040 I fell in love with walk I told you, like 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.760 everyone that's motivated that comes from nothing I look up to, 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.000 that goes to you. Kevin Hart Walt Disney like, this 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:14.000 guy had his first character Oswald, stolen, came back, had nothing, 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.040 took loans out, bet on himself, created Mickey who he 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.480 was going to name Morti murder Mouse. I'm glad they wouldn't, 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.320 but he just showed that, man, you bet on yourself. 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:27.280 You worked your butt off. Um you you continue to 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.439 work even in the face of no and officially you'll 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:30.800 get where you want to go. So for me, that 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:32.880 was the first thing I was attracted to who walk 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:37.440 was like his determination. And then um, my family started 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.120 going as the last place me and my grandma went 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:43.160 before she died. Um, they had my daughter's baby reveale there. 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.160 I got engaged there. Um, so something that's been a 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.160 part of my family for a long time. So I 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.000 love it. What do you do when you go? Are 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.920 you riding rides or are you there are certain experiences 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.400 that you like to hit a certain times. Yeah. So 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.760 the first thing I always do is go to Magic Kingdom. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.520 You gotta set the mood right, you know. Then I 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.679 ride a Cansul of Progress. I'm a classic Disney fan. Um. 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.440 And then I'll take a day, we'll do the VPP tours. 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:06.800 We could just jump to the front of lines, just 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:10.160 ride rides. After that, man, we chilled. Go to Animal Kingdom, 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:14.040 walk around, um, go to Epcot, eat, drink, hang out. 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.599 They got different festivals that they have come to me, 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.880 like right now is Flowering Garden to light July three? 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.840 And after that they got he knows the whole calendar. Yeah, 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.000 and then after that they got uh food and wine. 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.520 So like they have they have all their countries, but 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.920 then they bring in other countries to they have different 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:32.840 food stuff so and I love food. But for me, 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.520 I never got to go to Disney as a kid. 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:36.880 You know, we didn't even go on vacation, but went 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.040 first time to DOT in twelve, but Win was an adult. Yeah, 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:40.720 me too. I went for the first time an adult too. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.960 And so I remember, since I worked for ABC and 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.080 Disney owns ABC. We were after a shoot one day 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:49.640 and the guy comes up and goes, hey, you know 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.040 you go to Disney whenever you want and v I 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.160 P Like, they give you a guide and you can go, 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.360 and like they'll hook you up. And I was like really, 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.719 I said, why never? I never been. They're like, well, 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:01.840 then he said it's gonna ruin you because if you 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.160 go and we send you with the Disney v I P, 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.160 You're gonna cut every line. But you should do it. 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.280 And I was out and we were shooting Idol and 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:11.920 had a day off, which is very rare out there, 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:13.640 and I said, you know what, screw it, I'm gonna go. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.160 And so I go, and you know, the the woman 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.200 shows up. She doesn't like the plaid scard and she 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.200 knows the history and you're finding the little Mickey Mouse 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.560 is all over and I'm like a wide eyed kid 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.360 because I've never been before. And so I started to 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.720 feel guilty because it's a Saturday and we were cutting 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:33.319 two and a half hour lines. We're just walking around people. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.560 But I didn't feel so guilty. I stopped. I felt guilty, 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.160 but I still would still go to the front of 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.760 the line. It was hard, and you know, I don't 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.440 want to sweat. So we get there and she says 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.440 to me, she goes, hey, we're gonna walk with another 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:48.839 group of v I P people. We're gonna take a 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:52.840 little side under trail. And she's like, um, just disney 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.760 Land and l A, this is Disneyland, and she says, 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.480 so we're gonna take this whole trip. Um, it's not 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:00.079 a big deal. You're gonna run in some people. But 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.680 they were listen, I'm not famous, but they're so true, No, 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.000 but I'm not. But they're so worried about people bothering 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:09.880 famous people. And she's like, don't worry about anybody you're 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:11.439 near is going to be you know, someone who's not 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.000 gonna bother you. And I'm like, all right, and worried 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:14.800 about that anyway, but okay. So we go down and 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:19.520 there's this small lady long hair, and she's up ahead 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.040 of me and she's just kind of bee bopping around 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.920 a lot of energy. And I walked up beside her 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.720 and she's gonna get ripped clothes on, ripped jeans, and 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.080 I'm just walking on a look over and that small 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:37.280 older lady with Steven Tyler, who who I had met 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:38.800 a couple of times when he was in town and 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.920 was extremely nice and when I was an idol, was 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.480 he you went during that that him Randy and j Lo. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:47.360 Well he was so nice to me here, but I 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.120 don't want to bother him or expect Steven Tyler of 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:54.480 Aerosmith to remember me. So so we're walking beside she goes, hey, 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.640 what what's happening to man? You just see something? Guy? 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:58.520 You have a guy walking? Next time? I'm like, hey, man, 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.680 how are you? And he goes Bobby B And I 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.600 was like, are you kidding me? Steven Tyler recognizes me 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.200 at Disney World with no prompt whatsoever. So my Disney 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.800 experience was pretty good too, And Steven Tyler was there. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.200 Have you going to Disney World in Florida? Yet I 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.960 went and had dinner there because I had a friend 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.560 who now works at Apple Michael Bryan, who had programmed 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:22.560 there before, and he was like, hey, I'll get you 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.080 into that the greatest food place. But I haven't done 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.680 all the park stuff there. See we do it now. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:29.360 So I went to My problem was in two thousand 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.600 and twelve, I like, work three jobs and saved up 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.880 enough and I took my mom and two of my sisters. 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.800 We went um. But then I went to Disneyland after that. 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.520 But Disneyland is so small compared to disney World. And 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.080 now I remember we were just there a couple of 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.240 weeks ago, a week ago, and we got to v 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.560 Happy Tour again, and then they have two sets of 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.480 Happy Toys. They have some rep toys where you getting 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.120 the fast past lane and if you're a quote unquote celebrity, 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.040 they take you around the back through the exit and 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.080 you literally just hop straight on the ride. And I 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:57.960 felt so bad. I'm looking at these lines that are 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.360 like two and a half hours, little kids out there 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.800 waiting and sweating. But I didn't feel bad, you know why, 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.080 because I've waited in lines before. When I first was like, 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.080 you got this, kid, you work hard, man, you'll be 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.640 here too. You got this. You're giving the kids that 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.720 Kobe talked there two hours back in line man, hanging there, 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.280 you do anything? You got this, I've waited in my 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.680 lines with three hours. You once turned down a record 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.320 deal from a label in l A that I read 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.560 was gonna give you over a million dollars advance? Is 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:28.440 that true now? Because did they want you to be 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:30.480 a different kind of artist and you wanted to be 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.720 or was it terms of the deal and both terms 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:34.160 of the deal and the artists They wanted me in 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.040 my band to be kind of like a hip hop 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.160 version of One Republic. Um. So I wear when I'm 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.520 not performing and I'm wearing sweats and sneakers all day, 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.360 but on stage, I love my boots. Um, I love 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.600 my jeans. Uh. They told me they didn't want me 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.040 to dip. I had had my dip. Can they want 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:51.840 the songs to be more hip hop influenced to where 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.840 I love? I do love hip hop. I include hip hop, 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:56.440 R and b rock and all that stuff in my 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.200 music now, but it's it's intentional where I placed, they 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.960 wanted to just be heavy hip hop loop um, no 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:05.880 no live bands, none of that. So I was just 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:09.840 like h and then with that, with that advance, I 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.720 still had to take my money for myself out of it, 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.640 and then my band, and then I had to you know, 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.840 uh pay for my first album with that, you know, 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.160 then you got taxes, and then so when it really 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.680 dwindles down, then you gotta pay it back. Right the 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.720 word advances where it's at, it's a loan, you know. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.040 So for me it was just like nah, you know. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.480 But for me, it really just came down to music 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.800 and creativity and kind of what I wanted to do. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.680 You know. Um, I have a what other people see 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.560 it or not, I kind of a vision kind of 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:46.360 for like my life, music, TV, film, radio, all that stuff. 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.600 Um So if something doesn't align with my vision, no 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.360 matter how great the opportunity might seem to someone else, 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.200 it's just not for me, you know what I mean? 0:16:55.440 --> 0:17:00.840 Is it hard to and I could probably understand and 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:02.720 have empathy for the situation for you, Is it hard 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:06.280 now growing up with nothing to turn down really great 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.560 paying opportunities because they're right on the fence of feeling 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.480 right or just chasing the money. Man, it's hard to 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:16.639 turn it down sometimes. Um But I feel like you 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:20.440 can devalue yourself a lot of times and just saying 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.160 yes to everything, um, no matter how big the money is, 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.400 because no, every every time you sign on to do something, 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.840 you're giving a piece of yourself away. So my thing is, 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:30.919 if I give a piece of myself away, is it 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:32.600 worth it? You know what I mean? Does it align 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:37.600 with my vision? Um? Career? Does align with my vision 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.359 as a as a person? Like morally? Does it align 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.080 with with what I want to do? But so what 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.560 do you want to do musically? Like? What right now? 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.480 Where are you in your head and what you're trying 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:52.000 to do musically? Not even close? Um? I want to 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:56.000 want to continue to put music out, you know more. 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.800 My plan is hopefully one day be able to headline 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.080 arenas Um. But to me, that's a piece of it. 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.720 What about the kind of music you're making? Oh? I 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.880 love the kind of music I'm making? Um? At some point, um, 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.320 knowing me, I would probably do uh like a straight 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:17.280 just like Latin slash reggae album. At some points I 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:23.000 love Latin music. Um, I'll um uh where does that 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.879 come from? Where does this? Where does the love of 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.119 Latin music come from? In your life? Growing up at 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.600 kid in Delaware, man, I listened to everything like my 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.600 dad only listen to country, and my mom won't listen 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.040 to Christian, But I listen to everything growing up, Latin music, 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:41.360