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Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the Army Money Podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, y'all know what you know what.
Speaker 2: He First of all, I don't want to thank you
Speaker 2: for letting me come here, but I think the champagne
Speaker 2: is great. But I think we need to go further.
Speaker 2: I think this is this is you know how to
Speaker 2: hit the bottle against the chip.
Speaker 1: You got the bottle right there to start right there.
Speaker 1: You want to Okay, you want to go van all day,
Speaker 1: you want to.
Speaker 3: Go You're ready to go there again because that's that's
Speaker 3: where it all started going bad.
Speaker 1: Niggas that don't know.
Speaker 2: But oh my god, I thought I heard the copture
Speaker 2: like outside just now. He said life changing, Ben Alien
Speaker 2: was life life changing. You know what it was about
Speaker 2: that house.
Speaker 1: But Nana yellow, Yeah, that's that's what I remember about that.
Speaker 4: As soon as you pull up, you see this yellow
Speaker 4: Bentley outside.
Speaker 2: And it was terrible for l A, the worst card
Speaker 2: because everybody knew everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but here's the thing. You know.
Speaker 2: When I first got to l A, I drove down
Speaker 2: Beverly Hills and I saw Bjeon and I Bejeon s
Speaker 2: Bro that young used to be parked outside of Bejon
Speaker 2: and I have no money. I just man, when I
Speaker 2: get on, I'm getting that motherfucker. I'm like, yeah, how
Speaker 2: have you said? I'm gonna ye, I'm gonna get that ship.
Speaker 2: And the next thing you know, I got on and
Speaker 2: it was came up for sale. I said, I need that.
Speaker 4: So that's the one that used to sit on Rodeo,
Speaker 4: Dre sit Ond's everybody that party started and then and
Speaker 4: then it moved and it was on Melrow.
Speaker 2: He got something on Melrose that he's that he got
Speaker 2: as rich as fuck. No, but but I got the
Speaker 2: car when it had definitely depreciated.
Speaker 1: Fox. It wasn't it wasn't a bad time. Yeah yeah
Speaker 1: V and the money, I thank you. I should turn
Speaker 1: it in. Let's go back to bed. Mhm.
Speaker 3: I remember walking into a club men, walking into a club.
Speaker 3: It might have been the gate. Wow, walking into the gate,
Speaker 3: thank you, going there right now. And I'm walking in
Speaker 3: there's the gate, the walking in the gate, your nigga, yep.
Speaker 3: And when I'm walking in, I think, brother windows with me,
Speaker 3: walking in the walking in the gate, grab rest so
Speaker 3: my brother and I hear somebody say, hey, dank.
Speaker 1: I'm like who the fuck is you on my name? Dang?
Speaker 1: And I turn around and it's Jamie Fox. I'm like,
Speaker 1: y'all don't know each other. We don't know each other,
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, hey, what's something, Nick, I've been looking
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, here's the thing. Lets let's go back.
Speaker 2: The way I was introduced to you is that somebody
Speaker 2: said somebody in your lane.
Speaker 1: Do I guess what?
Speaker 2: Because I was trying to sing and I said, this
Speaker 2: is this dude named Tank. Y'all sounds shimuck with me that,
Speaker 2: but I'm getting ready to go do Ali and the
Speaker 2: girl I'm dating at the time. We're flying to to
Speaker 2: aff so we stopped at the record store for all, y'all,
Speaker 2: I understand this is when you go buy records.
Speaker 1: I'm going to the record store.
Speaker 2: I say, hey, let's get some records so I could
Speaker 2: listen as we on this long ass fight.
Speaker 1: And I said, they told me by some motherfucking name
Speaker 1: Tank supposed to be in my lane. Let me go see.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to get my CDs and then I
Speaker 2: get to your fucking CD. And first of all, you
Speaker 2: got your shirt off.
Speaker 1: It's all. It's not like the first five albums.
Speaker 2: So your shirt is off and I look and immediately
Speaker 2: I looked at my girl to see if she saw
Speaker 2: because I'm definitely hiding this, I said, fucker.
Speaker 1: Then I pulled the shit out. I said, no, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna see that.
Speaker 2: So I got all my CDs and I put them
Speaker 2: on the table to buy, but I put you at
Speaker 2: the bottom.
Speaker 1: No disrespect. Well, we don't need to see all that.
Speaker 2: And this is a walkman days, right, So I didn't
Speaker 2: have no batteries. I said, damn, I gotta get batteries
Speaker 2: for my Walkman. So I go to get my Walkman
Speaker 2: and by the time I got back, my girl had
Speaker 2: slept with you.
Speaker 1: She basically mentally fucked you. Because when I get back,
Speaker 1: not only is.
Speaker 2: Your CD out, but it's on top and opened all
Speaker 2: the way up.
Speaker 1: She smoked a cigarette. I said, I said what, I
Speaker 1: just just look I God, damn it. So so it
Speaker 1: goes from that to being.
Speaker 2: On the plane flying for eighteen hours to get to
Speaker 2: Africa and listening to your music and I said wow.
Speaker 1: I said, wow, absolutely amazing. Never heard a voice the
Speaker 1: song You're freaking.
Speaker 2: I know, show freak. They told me.
Speaker 1: When I heard that I ship broke. We dropped the
Speaker 1: ball that should have been a single. Listen when I
Speaker 1: heard that.
Speaker 3: When I heard the record, right, you know.
Speaker 1: I'm just the one who didn't brother Church, I'm like
Speaker 1: Church here.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing. I heard your music. I said, man,
Speaker 2: why this do this? This is extremely talented. And I
Speaker 2: let me and my girl. We had we had the twin.
Speaker 2: I had the money, so we had the twin walk man,
Speaker 2: so we could both we hold in hand, like, go ahead,
Speaker 2: let's this motherfucker just get us in the move. You know,
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna take what we're doing on playing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: But when we landed, I felt compelled because I see
Speaker 2: all my African brothers and I didn't have a way
Speaker 2: to play your music out. I literally I would say,
Speaker 2: you have to hear this kid named Tank, and I
Speaker 2: would put it.
Speaker 1: I said, who is this tink? Because we was in
Speaker 1: most of the tink. Who is Tink?
Speaker 2: I said, you have to hear it? And I put
Speaker 2: it on the ears and you would see there as
Speaker 2: a oh, it is good, it is And they passed
Speaker 2: it around the whole damn near the whole village. And
Speaker 2: that's how much you impacted me and everybody know me, man.
Speaker 1: I think that we.
Speaker 2: All as artists grow when we see other artists there
Speaker 2: are that are exceptional. Because when you're coming up, your
Speaker 2: dream is singular to you.
Speaker 1: You are the most talented in the region of where
Speaker 1: you are. But when you get.
Speaker 2: Here, you see that, Wow, there's a lot of guys
Speaker 2: and girls that God has touched and have exceptional ability.
Speaker 2: So when I saw you, I freaked out because I
Speaker 2: was like, Wow, that's the dude that pretty much was
Speaker 2: the soundtrack of me doing Ali Me and my girl.
Speaker 2: We were just like I couldn't believe it. And then
Speaker 2: to go further, I was having a house party.
Speaker 1: Evan all and so.
Speaker 5: Much said take it, I said, and then over a
Speaker 5: who I said, that's not fair, sound like that, but
Speaker 5: but I but you know, I don't ever hate it.
Speaker 1: Was just like.
Speaker 2: I could not believe that your voice sounded like that,
Speaker 2: and that that you wrote like that, and then we
Speaker 2: went on to write you know, you know, fantastic.
Speaker 3: The the crazy parallel to that is as as you
Speaker 3: were yelling at me, screaming like, man, I've been looking
Speaker 3: for you. At that point, I was looking for a
Speaker 3: way out. Yeah, and I didn't you know, what I mean.
Speaker 3: For us to come together at that time was necessary
Speaker 3: because like I'm in your kitchen, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: At at a few points after that saying I'm done.
Speaker 3: And that's what blew my mind, because Jay, you know,
Speaker 3: like this like our business. I'm just an artist. So
Speaker 3: I didn't really understand music business. Music business was treacherous.
Speaker 1: But when you said you.
Speaker 2: Was gonna leave the music business, I said, what the
Speaker 2: fuck are you saying? There's no way we can survive
Speaker 2: without having your voice in the music business.
Speaker 1: So you said, and I didn't, you know, don't I
Speaker 1: don't know what gang. I don't know the gangster. I
Speaker 1: don't know that. I didn't know this nigga was a gang.
Speaker 1: I didn't know he's the light skin gangs. At first,
Speaker 1: I look at his skin.
Speaker 2: I'm this motherfucker had six business Yeah, sixteen year old skin.
Speaker 1: Every time I see Jay Valentine, I just want to
Speaker 1: go come here and let me feel this. He has
Speaker 1: the greatest skin. But I didn't realize that music was
Speaker 1: that gangster.
Speaker 2: And you were like, basically without saying anything, it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, it was like other elements that was keeping
Speaker 2: you away from your dream and I said, Bro, no
Speaker 2: fucking way. I said, you stay in my house. I
Speaker 2: had a studio on the back of the crib. I said,
Speaker 2: you stay in my house and you do what you
Speaker 2: need to do to make sure that that light don't
Speaker 2: get put out, because if.
Speaker 1: It did, what would we be? Like, I mean, like, bro,
Speaker 1: think about this. Where would we be as a drink
Speaker 1: to that when we beat with our team? Wow, damn
Speaker 1: my girl? Keep you lost her? Love you keep the
Speaker 1: CD over here? You lost her she Keep the CD
Speaker 1: over here. I said. You got.
Speaker 4: The craziest thing about that, though, Fox, is that how
Speaker 4: many artists actually have that story right? That at some
Speaker 4: point all roads led to Jamie Fox? Which is very interesting. Man,
Speaker 4: This is from a from female to male artists that
Speaker 4: you have been just I don't even I don't even
Speaker 4: know what to call it, man, Like, yes, a god
Speaker 4: send for so many.
Speaker 1: Young and older artists right to just at some point that.
Speaker 4: Couch, that studio, that party, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: and you just having a good time, right, But those parties,
Speaker 4: so many people have met each other, so many people
Speaker 4: have connected with each other, so many people have you know,
Speaker 4: have linked up through just you being like you know, what.
Speaker 4: I'm just here to have a good time on some
Speaker 4: old like southern Yeah, but you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: like in La which is it was.
Speaker 2: It was a good time for a reason though, because
Speaker 2: I feel like everybody want to come to a party.
Speaker 2: But I would have the I would have the every
Speaker 2: ableste I would have, I would have the weirdos, but
Speaker 2: I would also have the talent. Like Tank, when you
Speaker 2: walked in, the whole party went like this because we
Speaker 2: were like, damn, this dude does something that we can't do.
Speaker 1: This dude does something.
Speaker 2: Whenever you see someone who's talented that does something that
Speaker 2: you can't.
Speaker 1: Do, you go like ooh.
Speaker 2: And I would studying, So I would always say when
Speaker 2: it came to the artist, it's a way for me
Speaker 2: to stay refreshed.
Speaker 1: It's away from It's a way for me to stay inspired.
Speaker 1: But look at all of us, man at those on
Speaker 1: those days.
Speaker 2: I remember John B was playing the pan at a
Speaker 2: party while Mystical was rapping. While John B played his
Speaker 2: songs unplugged in sing singing, singing Backstreet Boys songs. I'm
Speaker 2: Brian McKnight playing a song. Uh, and you know Brian
Speaker 2: is you know, Brian.
Speaker 1: Is very you know, very true himself. Very okay. I
Speaker 1: never wanted I said this, motherfucker. One time Brian, I
Speaker 1: was like, man, everybody hear sing, I don't do that.
Speaker 1: I said, I don't do that. I told everybody. I said.
Speaker 1: We was at a club.
Speaker 2: We can go back to my house, Brian gonna be there,
Speaker 2: Brian gonna sing, and the motherfucker shined on me.
Speaker 1: He was like, old, let me let me.
Speaker 3: One day, Brian calls me to the studio to do it,
Speaker 3: to do a verse on the record, and I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, ship right. Brian McKnight called me to be
Speaker 1: on his.
Speaker 2: Night.
Speaker 1: I've been singing all of his songs all my life.
Speaker 3: But I go there, I do my verse and I'm like,
Speaker 3: he going crazy while I'm doing my first and I
Speaker 3: come out the booth and we just talk and we
Speaker 3: just started kind of walking, and I'm like, man, I
Speaker 3: got this.
Speaker 1: I got to add a bunch of tracks. Man, I
Speaker 1: want to let you hear a couple of song ideas,
Speaker 1: like it'd be really dope. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He's like this, Man, I'd love to do that. Man.
Speaker 3: He opened this door and I'm thinking, maybe we're about
Speaker 3: to go into a lounge or something. He was walking
Speaker 3: me out.
Speaker 1: I would love to good Man, Hey, your car is
Speaker 1: probably good luck.
Speaker 2: You couldn't look with that the nigga ists you with
Speaker 2: your ubers waiting man, because you know what you found
Speaker 2: out about Brian is that he's a competitive guy him.
Speaker 1: Brian, you shoot like a motherfucker.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's an And he he called what he did,
Speaker 2: call him what he does like, Brian, go to his left.
Speaker 1: You're gonna do it? You listen, brother, Yeah?
Speaker 2: Good, you know, shoot up everything across back to the right.
Speaker 2: Get the jump on trying to be friends my man.
Speaker 1: No, you're good. I just cut that. Couldn't know we are.
Speaker 2: We're not cutting because something you man, I got that. Bronnie,
Speaker 2: you can't go now, you jumping son. But on the
Speaker 2: real though, Brian man Night, he roe of ours, national Trust,
Speaker 2: National Trust.
Speaker 4: If you look, if you if you look at in
Speaker 4: the dictionary and you look for Berkeley School of Music,
Speaker 4: it's Brian nig Night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he is what that is.
Speaker 2: And he shined on me one time that was so amazing.
Speaker 2: He showed him my house in the Ferrari.
Speaker 1: And I didn't. I said, what kind of car? Get
Speaker 1: the passenger.
Speaker 2: You see you know how the motherfucker just he just
Speaker 2: makes you feel like you ain't seen nothing like this.
Speaker 1: Is nice. Motherfucker took off my neck al Brian Brian right,
Speaker 1: I said, Brian Brian right. And scary mother. He's the
Speaker 1: greatest grat Grady.
Speaker 3: So I come to your house to be a brother
Speaker 3: widow and we're in the pool room. And while we're
Speaker 3: in the pool room, you're like, yeah, I'm you're made
Speaker 3: to work on this movie, and you you break into
Speaker 3: Ray Charles. Yeah, right in front of us like on
Speaker 3: some like talking talking crazy like yeah, I'm about to
Speaker 3: go do this movie.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. We're gon try that, just
Speaker 1: and me and brother windows saying what the fun is?
Speaker 1: Actually scary? Scary?
Speaker 3: This is scary And just like he was asking you before,
Speaker 3: I wanted which what I wanted to have it you
Speaker 3: know on camera is.
Speaker 1: How the fuck do you do that? Well, Tank, you
Speaker 1: can do it too. I can do it for you
Speaker 1: to do it like you did me. Pause.
Speaker 2: I got a pause because it'd be crazy, you know.
Speaker 2: Take always confused.
Speaker 3: What bro He's standing there like he was standing he said,
Speaker 3: Tank be doing that and he went into a full.
Speaker 1: Tank thing, and I'm looking at like this.
Speaker 2: Right to do that right, because you do nuances like
Speaker 2: what it was. As a kid, my grandmother, God bless her,
Speaker 2: Estelle Talley, she had a nursery school for thirty years, right,
Speaker 2: so the government gave her money to have things like
Speaker 2: televisions of record players and things like that. So I
Speaker 2: would always listen to music. Five years old, six years old.
Speaker 2: She would make me go into where she takes care
Speaker 2: of the kids, and there was this big box cabinet
Speaker 2: television and all the shows would come on.
Speaker 1: Sammy Davis Jr. It is not unusual world to be loved.
Speaker 1: Who's at Tom Jones, Flip Wilson. So I owned it.
Speaker 2: But I would watch these shows, and I would watch
Speaker 2: people like Rich Little. If you get a chance, whoever
Speaker 2: was watching google Rich Little. He was this white guy
Speaker 2: who mimicked everybody. He could do all the different mimics.
Speaker 2: Now here's the thing. Later that night, the only the
Speaker 2: only room that had a television was my room where
Speaker 2: I would sleep. My grandma says, stay asleep. But Johnny Carson,
Speaker 2: the original host of the Tonight Show, which is what
Speaker 2: Jimmy Fallon does right now, he would have these great
Speaker 2: artists come on. Franklin, Najai, Steve Allen, who was a
Speaker 2: white comedian who would do jokes from the piano, And
Speaker 2: so when I watched Rich Little, I would watch him
Speaker 2: mimic these people.
Speaker 1: Rich Little did a joke about Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Carter was our president in nineteen seventy six, but
Speaker 2: he had a brother who liked to.
Speaker 1: Drink a lot.
Speaker 2: So his joke was, Jimmy Carter was singing, you light
Speaker 2: up my life, and.
Speaker 1: Jimmy got hi, I'm Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 2: So many nights me and my brother Billy would sit
Speaker 2: on the porch waiting for somebody to bring some peanuts
Speaker 2: and beer. That was the biggest joke at that time
Speaker 2: in the seventies, because everybody knew that his brother was
Speaker 2: a little bit of saucy. But to hear him sing
Speaker 2: you light up, That's what I wanted to be. So
Speaker 2: I started perfecting the impersonation, not for it to be
Speaker 2: my main thing, but just if.
Speaker 1: I needed it. And how old are you at this point?
Speaker 2: I was bro I was nineteen seventy six. I was
Speaker 2: ten years old. You guys weren't here I was. I
Speaker 2: just got here, which hurts my feeling. I was no,
Speaker 2: I just got here. I was I was a new born,
Speaker 2: the Valentine had, I was.
Speaker 1: Girt born yesterday.
Speaker 3: Let me see, I was here so so so so
Speaker 3: I would watch that and say, hey, I don't know
Speaker 3: where I'm going, but wherever I get, I want to
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 1: So when I got to l A.
Speaker 2: Doing jokes in the clubs, I would do the mimics.
Speaker 2: Like when I first got to l A, I was
Speaker 2: the only black guy doing an impersonation of Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 1: Now at that time, Ronald Reagan sounded.
Speaker 6: Like this, well, well, as a matter of fact, but
Speaker 6: there you go again.
Speaker 1: And so and it's a singers, you know, as singers, we.
Speaker 2: Catch you get something, and now we do the manners.
Speaker 2: And Ronald Reagan was he would he had a little
Speaker 2: bit of this, and then it was the time well
Speaker 2: well well, well oh that's the tone.
Speaker 1: But then we just put them in.
Speaker 6: Well as a matter of fact that there you go again.
Speaker 2: So it was all that Mike Tyson, Mike Tyson had
Speaker 2: It was almost like.
Speaker 1: Without cheapening, what it was.
Speaker 2: When I would watch Daffy Duck or these animated characters,
Speaker 2: Daffy Duck had a list, right, so Mike Tyson had that,
Speaker 2: you know, Mike, if the Mike Tyson were boxing champion,
Speaker 2: so and then it was a matter of listening to
Speaker 2: that and so then then it was Mike Tyson, this
Speaker 2: my first of all, you Mike, I can't wait box.
Speaker 1: That's when he's young. But now when I call Mike now.
Speaker 2: Older, everything all of the life that he's lived, the
Speaker 2: ups and the downs, I called Mike, how you doing
Speaker 2: my all? Praise this to? I know about I'm just happy?
Speaker 2: Why because I don't have any money anymore. So I
Speaker 2: get nobody get taken anything from me because no more vulture,
Speaker 2: it's no more creatures around me.
Speaker 1: I'm just happy. How are you, my good brother?
Speaker 2: So it's matching the tone and then grabbing the mannerism.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: The people you can shine light? Uh the corent best China.
Speaker 7: China was one who did it.
Speaker 1: She's a very good person, change very good people. I
Speaker 1: don't know, she's very yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: So that's a mannerism when you say, you know. When
Speaker 2: they asked him about the lady that was with.
Speaker 7: With she seems to be good people. She's very good people.
Speaker 7: You know, I don't know personally, but she seems to
Speaker 7: be good people good I.
Speaker 1: Wish the best.
Speaker 2: So it's a matter of grabbing that tone and then
Speaker 2: you know, you know, it's.
Speaker 1: Jay Z jay Z jay Z. That just that it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I think I think that.
Speaker 3: I think that, like you, you simplify it because it's
Speaker 3: more intricate. But it's way more intricate from the outside
Speaker 3: looking in, because sitting next to Ray Charles's family and
Speaker 3: them not knowing the difference between you and him is different.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what you have to do. It's like you
Speaker 1: have to go beyond the impersonation Ray Charles.
Speaker 2: Hey tell everybody Ray Charles in town got a dollar
Speaker 2: a quarter and is run a clown. That's more the impersonation.
Speaker 2: But when we were doing Ray Charles's how does he
Speaker 2: order his food? How does he talk to his kid?
Speaker 2: What's the quiet moment? Because if you do the impersonation,
Speaker 2: now you're now you're a sitcom. But to do the
Speaker 2: real person, it's it's the.
Speaker 1: Quiet moments, you know.
Speaker 2: And when I met Ray Charles, I met him as
Speaker 2: the older Ray Charles. He comes in, I said, mister Charles,
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to do the best I can to
Speaker 2: do your do your story. And he goes, what if
Speaker 2: you can play the blues? Man, you could do anything.
Speaker 1: Can you play the blues?
Speaker 2: And we sat down and it was music first, So
Speaker 2: we're playing the blue you know, I'm hanging, trying to hang.
Speaker 2: And then he moved into Thelonious Monk, which you know
Speaker 2: that's that's intricate ship.
Speaker 1: And he hits a note and I hit a rono.
Speaker 1: He said, hey, why would you do that? Why? And
Speaker 1: I was like, I was just trying to kill it.
Speaker 1: You know what. Don't hit the wrong notes, man, That's
Speaker 1: what life is. Maybe taking time to hit the right notes.
Speaker 1: So that's a bar.
Speaker 4: That's a bar, taking time to hit the right notes.
Speaker 1: Hit hit a note. They always hit the right the moment.
Speaker 4: And this nigga, I'm talking about Bottles of patron Magic City,
Speaker 4: King of Diamonds.
Speaker 1: And then this nigga will sing I Can't Make You
Speaker 1: Love Me, recorded Still Drop as the third song of
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 4: Circle House Studio shout out the Circle House, Circle House
Speaker 4: the greatest.
Speaker 2: You can't talk about it, talk about your instrument, talk
Speaker 2: about where that came from.
Speaker 1: Jesus he came from. Yes, Yeah, I remember. I remember.
Speaker 3: National Baptist Convention, State Baptist Convention with my grandmother.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to sing in the choir so bad.
Speaker 1: Trying to go to poke Jamie back up a ship.
Speaker 1: I was like, do you have let me get a
Speaker 1: shout at tequila cocaine rams I'm from. They call it
Speaker 1: salty guys. You know, guy guys, I don't want to
Speaker 1: take it. I hate coch.
Speaker 4: Just like.
Speaker 1: You can see aroma. There you go, bro, But Yo,
Speaker 1: why y'all bullshit? It's the shots. We shouldn't drinking champagne.
Speaker 1: Another shot. No, Jay Valentine, I want to see you
Speaker 1: get mad at whooped somebody.
Speaker 2: The first time I met Jay Valentine, he was playing
Speaker 2: basket your backyard to whoop somebody else at the studio.
Speaker 1: No, I brought him to your backyard first.
Speaker 2: But we went to the studio and did a song,
Speaker 2: and we went to go play in some little backyard
Speaker 2: court and a switch was flipped and I said, oh
Speaker 2: my god, I don't know who I'm with.
Speaker 1: It's like he's like he's like the walking black version
Speaker 1: of the Incredible Hulk.
Speaker 4: You know what the funniest part about that is that
Speaker 4: thing my father called me. It got to my father. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we had to Jay.
Speaker 1: I've never seen so that's what happened, is that you
Speaker 1: made this motherfucker flash on somebody that was so crazy.
Speaker 1: I was like, I said, we can't do that. Think
Speaker 1: about your line. He's a nigga. You know who, I said,
Speaker 1: I no, I don't know who you are. That motherfucker
Speaker 1: flash on somebody. I don't know who it was. Man,
Speaker 1: you gotta somebody got drive me on ship. I'll drive
Speaker 1: you home and keep the truck.
Speaker 2: Oh my God to Rose, that's gonna take you out.
Speaker 2: So so that's gonna take you out. That's take that's
Speaker 2: gonna take you out.
Speaker 3: I want to sing at this National Baptist Convention so
Speaker 3: bad because it's all the churches, all the church. My
Speaker 3: grandmother's the dean choirs, the choir of all choirs in
Speaker 3: the state. I'm practicing lead the whole week for Jesus.
Speaker 3: You're the center of my joy. Wow, and the choir
Speaker 3: di records like, yeah, you're good. I got be all right.
Speaker 3: I rehearsing. I'm rehearsing all my runs at home. I'm
Speaker 3: getting my runs together. I'm in sixth grade.
Speaker 1: Sixth grade, got sixth grade. I'm ready to I know
Speaker 1: how to record deal by the flo First of all,
Speaker 1: your story, your story. I was already paying taxis.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to better, come better, come up, starting from
Speaker 3: the bottom, stuff from the and uh Friday came there
Speaker 3: to perform. He says, you know what, we're gonna let
Speaker 3: these two, the two older guys singing the league.
Speaker 7: You just.
Speaker 3: I though a fit. I'm like, y'all can't do that
Speaker 3: to me. My grandmother is the dean Mary singing went straight?
Speaker 3: I went, I went to justice. My Grandma's like, what's wrong, grandson?
Speaker 3: I said, they won't let me sing the league. No
Speaker 3: money sending my singing league. No mom be practicing all week.
Speaker 3: My grandmother walked in.
Speaker 1: My grandmother fiery. My grandmother is sure played a whole
Speaker 1: munch game. She walked in there. I heard, I saw
Speaker 1: her doing it. When Church in the Name of Jesus
Speaker 1: came back.
Speaker 3: He said, all right, you good. So I get up
Speaker 3: there and it's time for me to sing my lead.
Speaker 3: And I'm singing my lead and I can look a
Speaker 3: look back at it retrospect, and and it was really
Speaker 3: quiet while I was singing my lead. And one of
Speaker 3: the one of the ladies from my church. She said,
Speaker 3: take your time to rel Oh my god, it was
Speaker 3: to take your time, take your time, explain it, to
Speaker 3: explain in church, black church, when someone say explain that.
Speaker 3: Secular people to me, when they when when they say
Speaker 3: take your time, that means you fucking up.
Speaker 2: Take your time shine let the Lord, because right now
Speaker 2: the Lord apparently.
Speaker 1: Is not using it and you need to get into
Speaker 1: his us exactly. So they say take your time.
Speaker 3: And so by the time the song was at the vamp,
Speaker 3: I noticed I had been boxed out from the microphone
Speaker 3: by the two older guys and they were living and
Speaker 3: I was adding to their shoulders. I just kept singing, Okay,
Speaker 3: were walking down going to the cars. Auntie Betty, who's
Speaker 3: the choir director for our junior choir, she's she's big in.
Speaker 1: The city too. I said, Auntie Betty, how do I do?
Speaker 1: She said, he was off, Baby was real off. She said,
Speaker 1: he was off. Oh my god, that's tough.
Speaker 2: Kids on thousand they keeping on a thousand, my whole
Speaker 2: life one thousand thousand.
Speaker 1: And I was like, and it didn't hit me like
Speaker 1: I was a failure.
Speaker 3: It hit me like I got worked at this work,
Speaker 3: because if Auntie Betty wasn't pressed, I got more work
Speaker 3: to do right right, And so I started fine tuning, sharpening.
Speaker 1: It made me want to be the best. Sitting in
Speaker 1: the John p Key, you don't want to say, you
Speaker 1: don't want to sing the shoulders. I discovered.
Speaker 3: I discovered John p Key, I discovered Darryl Coley, I
Speaker 3: discovered commission. I discovered the wine.
Speaker 1: Give me some, give me some. Having me to someone
Speaker 1: I knew you was gonna go there to cry on.
Speaker 1: That's my guy. Keep you easy, aging me and find aquility, oh.
Speaker 4: Sweet, and.
Speaker 1: Speak software load and me so much. The Mitchell Jones
Speaker 1: keep going, Marry just want the dude.
Speaker 8: I need someone Lord, I need someone that's a lone you.
Speaker 1: That song ONEU.
Speaker 3: No favorst thing about that Sean Stockman, Yes, John Stockman
Speaker 3: and me, Michel Jones.
Speaker 1: That's where we come from.
Speaker 3: It drove me to be I wanted to since I
Speaker 3: had messed up my runs. Then it drove me to
Speaker 3: best be the best runner, drove me to be an
Speaker 3: Olympic star of all times. And and so I'm gonna
Speaker 3: cut forward because at this point I'm.
Speaker 1: In a group. I'm a runner, I'm there in a group.
Speaker 1: I'm in a group called psalms to a gospel group.
Speaker 1: I'm the runner. If there was a run to as
Speaker 1: nasty as you.
Speaker 2: You're in a group because I was a church kid,
Speaker 2: I hadn't graduated to the nasty that you know us
Speaker 2: at this point.
Speaker 1: Nasty came later. No, no, no, no, you're blessed, blessed
Speaker 1: the group. So I'm the runner. I'm the runner, killer Runner.
Speaker 1: So I got this.
Speaker 3: I got this girl that I'm trying to press, and
Speaker 3: I sing a song to over the phone that I wrote,
Speaker 3: and she's like, you know, it's not really good, but
Speaker 3: I just can't understand what you're saying. What I'm runn
Speaker 3: ends really like, these runs are magnificent. What do you
Speaker 3: mean that's what you told her? I was like, this
Speaker 3: is this is the killing this You gotta you gotta
Speaker 3: chill right. And for a year I didn't do no runs.
Speaker 3: I studied Fred Hammond, and I sang straight, and I
Speaker 3: studied keep staying. I sank so so women made you great?
Speaker 3: And so started with I'm Betty. It started with and
Speaker 3: then it was.
Speaker 4: And then and then it was whoever grill is that
Speaker 4: we eventually got tickets foll to a concert.
Speaker 3: It was founded with women with girls streaming. It was
Speaker 3: founded with good streaming in ninth grade. Wow, that's where
Speaker 3: it was found. Let let's ask this question, guys for us?
Speaker 1: Is it's just guys like, is that the is that
Speaker 1: the factor that yeah that when we are we are
Speaker 1: when we are?
Speaker 2: Peacock came, Yes, it's it's how it's the admiration of
Speaker 2: a woman.
Speaker 4: Not that we want to sleep with all the women.
Speaker 4: It's just to have to see the smile unless they're
Speaker 4: from Minnesota.
Speaker 1: So six one, two.
Speaker 4: Shot?
Speaker 1: What was that? After shot? What was that a thing
Speaker 1: for you? Though?
Speaker 2: Because when I hear your music and when I hear
Speaker 2: Jay's music, it's so specifically two women.
Speaker 1: Is that Is that a deciding factor for us? Is
Speaker 1: that a Is that a motivating factor?
Speaker 3: It took me a minute to dial into that being
Speaker 3: the only motivating factor, because initially I just wanted to
Speaker 3: be able to walk into a room full of singers
Speaker 3: and musicians and they all look at me and.
Speaker 1: Say, you're the bad one that makes a line.
Speaker 3: And so that's why that's why a lot of my
Speaker 3: music suffered in the beginning, because I was trying to
Speaker 3: outdo singers and musicians who don't buy me, who don't
Speaker 3: buy megas trying to go up to the label and
Speaker 3: figure out how to get the free CD.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And so it took me a minute to learn, me
Speaker 3: and me and him trying to learn balance between being
Speaker 3: really creative but also being able to take the consumer
Speaker 3: along for the ride, right, yeah, right, And I think
Speaker 3: what ended up working for us as a team with
Speaker 3: R and B Money was I come from the Bay Area,
Speaker 3: of course, right, and the Bay Area was based on
Speaker 3: independent rap and simplified music, right.
Speaker 4: It was everything for us in the Bay is strictly
Speaker 4: a feeling. It's nothing else, Like people be like something
Speaker 4: is off, you know, I mean this is tweaked wrong,
Speaker 4: it ain't mixed, it ain't mastered, like we live on
Speaker 4: this island.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: So me and this guy actually were the perfect storm
Speaker 4: because he was everything right, set the dynamic up.
Speaker 1: Though you are for him and.
Speaker 3: You are together what it is because you guys are
Speaker 3: doing incredible because you're artists as well.
Speaker 2: So it's like it's an interesting thing to see you
Speaker 2: guys work together because I listened to your music as well,
Speaker 2: So y'all, you know, him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So, I mean, I mean people, I don't know
Speaker 1: if people all everybody knows that. You know, a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't. A lot of people don't because I've
Speaker 1: done business for so much. You just too great. Look
Speaker 1: at motherfuckers, like who is too good looking? At motherfuckers?
Speaker 1: What the fuck that they do? It's unfair and I'll
Speaker 1: say it. So I'm gonna tell you what's an interesting story.
Speaker 2: The fact that you guys have hair fucks me up.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, baby, I'm trying. I'm trying to keep this
Speaker 2: my fucking hair gone by, keep his hair going by.
Speaker 1: I can't get I was at a I was at.
Speaker 4: An event, and I was on a like I was
Speaker 4: always on the cusp of, like, am I willing to
Speaker 4: do everything I need to do to be a very
Speaker 4: successful artist?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: And but I was, you know, and we and we've
Speaker 4: talked about this before, where I was always on the
Speaker 4: fence of how much business do I want to do
Speaker 4: and how much artistry do I want to do? And
Speaker 4: that's a very fine line because just like you said,
Speaker 4: when you start doing the business side of music, it
Speaker 4: gets it gets grimy.
Speaker 1: It's the trenches, right, So it's very hard to.
Speaker 4: Be in the trenches on the business side and still
Speaker 4: have the freedom of mind to do the creative side
Speaker 4: and to really love it, and to do it for
Speaker 4: the women, and to do it for you know what
Speaker 4: I mean, because you ain't really doing it for the money.
Speaker 1: You're really doing it for the women and for the.
Speaker 4: Fame and for all the other you know, ancillary things
Speaker 4: that come along with that side.
Speaker 1: Right. So for me, it was more so of like
Speaker 1: like I said, I was I was at I was
Speaker 1: at a I was at an event with one of my.
Speaker 4: Best friends with Ethiopia who's the head of Motown and
Speaker 4: my guy who used to manage.
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey. Wow, what's his name, ra McDonald trump. So
Speaker 1: I never met him. I didn't know who he was.
Speaker 4: I'm sitting there and I'm sitting the crowd and I'm
Speaker 4: watching him talk and he's like, yeah, you know, Steve
Speaker 4: couldn't be here because you know, this ain't for Steve.
Speaker 4: And he talked, big ship, this ain't for Steve. And
Speaker 4: you know, I've seen what y'all got for me over here,
Speaker 4: but I don't even know if I could fit this
Speaker 4: on my plane, said your plane?
Speaker 1: Right? No, no, no, he talked, He talked cash ship right,
Speaker 1: and I don't know.
Speaker 4: Get into his ship, but he starts to tell a
Speaker 4: story where he where it's very humble. He starts off
Speaker 4: very like appreciate pompous and and arrogant in a plane
Speaker 4: and I can't fit this on this and and and
Speaker 4: and he says what I realized when I seen Steve
Speaker 4: is that.
Speaker 1: He needed me. Wow.
Speaker 4: He was like because I was a comedian. He was like,
Speaker 4: I was a comedian. But I realized I wanted to
Speaker 4: do business. And when I saw Steve Harvey, I looked
Speaker 4: at it as I can do everything I want to
Speaker 4: do from a business side and get all the all
Speaker 4: the success that I ever wanted from the comedian side,
Speaker 4: helping him become the biggest comedian that I possibly could.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 1: And the first thing that popped in my head was
Speaker 1: my best friend.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 1: It was a very selfless thing for me, where I
Speaker 1: was just like, that's me and Tank because I had
Speaker 1: been going it was like it was like a sign.
Speaker 1: And I don't even know if I ever really told you,
Speaker 1: but I'm sitting there and yeah, you guys want to
Speaker 1: you a little saucy man.
Speaker 2: Shame, Why do you keep this from me.
Speaker 1: Stop this ship, man, stop this ship.
Speaker 2: Don't stop ships a little no, no, this some motherfucker
Speaker 2: kill everybody.
Speaker 1: Just got emotional. That's my best tonight. You gotta go
Speaker 1: do a drive by. You got just drive I just
Speaker 1: come back. He no, look at me. Do not run
Speaker 1: up on this light skin good looking. He will lay
Speaker 1: you out. I would say this song me looking at
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 2: It's so beautiful man, because you are keeping R and
Speaker 2: B alive and in the sense of what we actually
Speaker 2: need it, because you know, artist is gonna go everywhere
Speaker 2: it goes.
Speaker 1: It goes everywhere it goes. But when I hear your music,
Speaker 1: and this is one song Tank that I listen to.
Speaker 2: And it brings tears to my eyes every time I
Speaker 2: hear it. And I can't get beyond that song. And
Speaker 2: what I mean is every musician to understands this. You'll
Speaker 2: listen to a song and you say, I can't get beyond.
Speaker 2: I can't get enough of the feeling that I'm feeling.
Speaker 1: When you sing that song. I know we're going all
Speaker 1: over the place, but just talk about this song, which
Speaker 1: I fucked up. I want to be on the song.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of scared too. That's the whole thing is
Speaker 1: like I won't be able to match. Yeah, well you
Speaker 1: you'd be able to match.
Speaker 2: But you know what I'm saying, and I'm reaching, But
Speaker 2: you guys are so important for us as as content
Speaker 2: in the sixties when we were going through a struggle,
Speaker 2: like black people were going through a struggle in the sixties,
Speaker 2: and the beautiful music that came out of that seventies,
Speaker 2: the party and it's as Studio fifty four eighties. It's
Speaker 2: a whole different thing. But now at this moment, when
Speaker 2: I listen to what you bring to the table artistically,
Speaker 2: I go like, wow, Man, imagine if van Alden wouldn't happen.
Speaker 2: Imagine if those days would have happed. When I say, yo,
Speaker 2: stay in my crib.
Speaker 1: And now you have this song that I play, she's look,
Speaker 1: she knows, Look, she knows. How long? How much do
Speaker 1: I play that song? I play it all the time.
Speaker 4: Bro, Well, nigga, I'm about to look what motherfuckers take
Speaker 4: me away because I'm drunk at this point.
Speaker 1: Listen to take me even to throw the publish. No,
Speaker 1: it's the song take Me Away, takes me Away, And.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you on a bigger level. It's bigger than
Speaker 2: these cameras. It's bigger than what we talk about. It's
Speaker 2: something that in Hollywood we live a different life. We
Speaker 2: live a life of where things is. It's just I
Speaker 2: don't know how to explain it. It's different from where
Speaker 2: our homies are. But when you did that song, Man Tang,
Speaker 2: I'll be riding on my boat, you know what, nigga,
Speaker 2: toast the boat, toast the boat. I'll be riding on
Speaker 2: that boat and we'll be playing all the fucking I'm.
Speaker 1: In my side. That doesn't mean got a lot.
Speaker 2: I don't know all the words, which I love that song,
Speaker 2: and I got some friends who know all of the
Speaker 2: fucking choreography. But when I play that song man my
Speaker 2: little one Annalise, everybody will stopped talk about how that song.
Speaker 2: I know this is crazy to talk about that song game.
Speaker 1: But I really was just in a zone and I
Speaker 1: wasn't even gonna do a mix tape nothing. So Jay
Speaker 1: calls me. Jay will always call me in the morning
Speaker 1: with with idea. I call it. We've dubbed it idea overload,
Speaker 1: Idea overload. He's a thinker.
Speaker 3: When I say thinker, this Nigga's a thinker and he'll
Speaker 3: call me in the morning with twenty seven ideas. Listen,
Speaker 3: let's get to it, nigga. Twenty seven nigga. He's like, Nigga,
Speaker 3: you're doing a mixtape. And then I was like, I'm
Speaker 3: not doing a mixtape. I'm not doing about jay. I'll
Speaker 3: call you back.
Speaker 2: And when we get off that call, I go and
Speaker 2: I start playing the piano and I come up with
Speaker 2: like four different dress and I'm like, shoot, I think
Speaker 2: I might have a mixtape.
Speaker 1: I called him back and said, you know what, You're right,
Speaker 1: we're doing a mixtape. And I do this, and but
Speaker 1: what about another twenty six things?
Speaker 3: Nigga, I'm doing a mixtape and I put the first
Speaker 3: one out, launch it beautiful. Fans asked for four more.
Speaker 3: I said, okay, I can't do this one without my girl.
Speaker 3: I said, I need something that feels like right commission, Wow,
Speaker 3: I need something that gives me the feeling, the same
Speaker 3: feeling that I got when I.
Speaker 1: Heard or ever heard do they ever have young ladies
Speaker 1: on the records? No? Who commission? They're nobody, no features.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. You got me, what's
Speaker 1: what's what's the worst you.
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 8: Nobody trying to come to night layout Thief, all the lions,
Speaker 8: all of the crying.
Speaker 1: I love to ignite.
Speaker 2: Please take me away, away, away, You see what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: Like it's free free. We had a moment when we
Speaker 2: went to and I know we're just jumping around, but
Speaker 2: we had a moment when we went to the front
Speaker 2: lines of the Black Lives Matter.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And there's a moment I have this footage of
Speaker 2: when I'm filming you and we're on a plane. By
Speaker 2: the way, Iris, Thank you for giving us that plane
Speaker 2: so we could get to Iris.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. But I remember playing that song man,
Speaker 1: and I remember saying, like, this is our moment. And
Speaker 1: I watched you. I know you watched me, watch you,
Speaker 1: I said, I.
Speaker 2: Said, youse, aw some incredible You're on an incredible trajectory.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: I was scared to sing on that song. I told
Speaker 2: Lonie too, I said, my god, the song is a
Speaker 2: great I get on and messed it up. But how
Speaker 2: does it feel having this career and that now doing
Speaker 2: the music that you do, being on stage with you? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I want to know, like when you sit down just
Speaker 2: for our for our musicians, what is going through your
Speaker 2: mind every time you do a record. When you say
Speaker 2: you got to do the mixtape? What does it mean
Speaker 2: the world to you? Because I think to me, you know,
Speaker 2: I call you, everything means the world to you. Does
Speaker 2: it mean the world to you?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And and and it's just a feeling, like I mean,
Speaker 2: some from my from my church world would call it
Speaker 2: the annointing. Some would call it, you know, some would
Speaker 2: call it just some you know, good energy or you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, some or organic cosmic thing that
Speaker 2: you know that you just feel right, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. And and it's like some days, some days
Speaker 2: I feel it and some days I don't. I watch
Speaker 2: you Instagram, and.
Speaker 1: I watched you.
Speaker 2: Fuck every nigga up that every thought that they could
Speaker 2: make it get you. I said, if nigga thought so brave?
Speaker 2: So what happened if I said that to a girl
Speaker 2: in the DM I watched, and you do something? I said,
Speaker 2: If ever a nigga was I was trying to make it,
Speaker 2: he just turned to ship. He turned all his equipment off.
Speaker 1: Because I'm different. I'm just I'm different, so you know
Speaker 1: so so so I'm different. I know what I am. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am inspiration. Mm hmm, yeah, so.
Speaker 4: You like a nigga buying a new Rose Royce and
Speaker 4: putting it on the ground. I mean, you know, I
Speaker 4: think of everything and in ghett put the mother's buck
Speaker 4: on the ground and white people right now, it's like.
Speaker 1: What does he mean by I'm inspirational purpose? And and
Speaker 1: I learned that. I learned that. I learned that from
Speaker 1: being with you and from being with Chris Brown, Wow
Speaker 1: and Chris Brown. I worked, I worked with you. You
Speaker 1: know what shot for Chris Chris one, the greater figure
Speaker 1: of all times. You can getting money Manny, Chris Bright,
Speaker 1: Chris Right, So I was with you, you got me back.
Speaker 1: You know how dowbn I was. You were?
Speaker 4: You were you you were talking about let's talk about
Speaker 4: because that's the important part of the R and B
Speaker 4: Money podcast, right because everybody thinks this ship is just
Speaker 4: Rose Royce's and mansions.
Speaker 1: Talk about was giving me money?
Speaker 3: Talk about that whip box was giving me money from
Speaker 3: his walkthrough. It's just like you need some and he
Speaker 3: would just break me off cash.
Speaker 4: And what people don't understand is that we're talking about
Speaker 4: an artist who had already record platinum album absolutely but
Speaker 4: was in a space where he didn't have the freedom
Speaker 4: to continue to feed himself and his family down like
Speaker 4: where he was handcuffed.
Speaker 1: And this is the side of the music visits that
Speaker 1: we talked about, right idea.
Speaker 3: So I get I'm I'm building back up and Jamie
Speaker 3: calls me out of the blue. It's like, I need
Speaker 3: you to come to Miami. We're finishing this album.
Speaker 1: I said, what I'm on the way, we're talking about
Speaker 1: the unpredictable predicted Miami Vice. Miami Vice, bad movie. But
Speaker 1: I should watch that movie to this. That's that to
Speaker 1: feel like happens like my hunble and don't do that
Speaker 1: to yourself.
Speaker 8: Me.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to anyway. I'm just telling you.
Speaker 3: I watch it every time to come on. I want you,
Speaker 3: but don't do that and you get views from anywhere.
Speaker 3: Calls me, called me to Miami and says we're finishing
Speaker 3: the album. And I go to Miami and we do.
Speaker 3: I help him finish an unpredictable album and we do.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 3: There's seven hundred thousand records the first week and I'm
Speaker 3: back and I'm like and I'm like then everybody, I'm here,
Speaker 3: and it's like that sounded like you on that album.
Speaker 1: I said, Tank it was you a tank. Here's the
Speaker 1: thing you wrote. I didn't write a lot. I wrote people. Oh,
Speaker 1: but that's the next album. That's the next album. Bad
Speaker 1: that wasn't. We'll cut it and make me you make sense?
Speaker 1: Keep on, we'll cut it out. Kem. So listen. You
Speaker 1: do something.
Speaker 3: And I'm sitting there, I'm like, damn, how do you
Speaker 3: do that? And then I meet a kid named Chris
Speaker 3: Brown and we're working and hooping together. I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: you're gonna be cold call, said man, I study everything
Speaker 3: you do. And he goes millions and millions. And then
Speaker 3: I meet a kid named Trey song Weapon on the
Speaker 3: road with waiting for it. You know, he's been waiting
Speaker 3: for this moment. He was like, bro, I said, a
Speaker 3: whole summer listening to Second and paining every day. So
Speaker 3: that's why do you know who the you are? And
Speaker 3: I was like and I said, I got it. Wow,
Speaker 3: And I stopped chasing. I stopped chasing the monetary validation
Speaker 3: and I started accepting my inspirational gift.
Speaker 2: I said, I'm here. I'm here to Justin Timberlake fucks
Speaker 2: with you. I'm here to give exactly. But Justin, did
Speaker 2: you hear what it says. I'm talking about a very
Speaker 2: popular white star who fus you know you take to
Speaker 2: me the toast is to take wow and white sharks
Speaker 2: that love you.
Speaker 1: The white man loves you.
Speaker 4: So tell me this, though, Fox, because I paid attention
Speaker 4: to your music career, like I fucked with all the
Speaker 4: early ship. You know what I'm saying, Like, no bullshit,
Speaker 4: Like I really fucked with the early ship. So tell
Speaker 4: me how do you go from your first album? You
Speaker 4: break as a comedian right and then you say I'm
Speaker 4: going to try it again.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you what happened this little black motherfucker
Speaker 2: that y'all know, this little dark skinned.
Speaker 1: Right here.
Speaker 2: Love the back motherfucker that I've actually had a fight
Speaker 2: with ye at the Usher concert. Prescott, Brion Prescott, me
Speaker 2: as an artist is different because I always wanted to
Speaker 2: do music. But I started out with stand up, ended
Speaker 2: up doing these sort of like serious movies. But the
Speaker 2: thing that was just out of reach was music. I
Speaker 2: would listen to you and Marvel. So I run into
Speaker 2: Brion Prescott and we met playing basketball. We had a
Speaker 2: four and four championship that we would do with my
Speaker 2: house every every every holiday, and him and Jason.
Speaker 1: Under five nine. I keep it funky. That nigga, that
Speaker 1: nigga tough.
Speaker 2: He a tough guard and he's also a tough guard.
Speaker 2: He's also a tough music music partner.
Speaker 1: He's crazy.
Speaker 2: Brion came to me and says, you should the music,
Speaker 2: but stop being stop being funny.
Speaker 1: I said, what stop being funny? He said, just sing
Speaker 1: the record. He said, you're joking too much.
Speaker 2: So what happens is when you joke too much, people
Speaker 2: will start to say like, oh, he's not really serious
Speaker 2: about the music. So what he did was he was
Speaker 2: able to find the songs. He says, I want your
Speaker 2: song to be a hit before they see who you are.
Speaker 2: He says, because I know that there's something there. And
Speaker 2: he gave me his resume and I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: that's that's that was fantastic.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: He worked with Maxwell and and and and Stone. But
Speaker 2: he says, I want you to just just sing the record.
Speaker 1: And so I did. And so by doing that with
Speaker 1: under breon toute list.
Speaker 2: Here we are at the Van Alden House and people
Speaker 2: don't understand that I did the parties for a reason.
Speaker 2: I did the party so people could come to the
Speaker 2: house and uh. At one party, it was a party
Speaker 2: for Puff. Puff is there and there was a young
Speaker 2: guy by the name of There was a young lady
Speaker 2: by the name of miss La.
Speaker 1: She had a room. Puff had a room. And it
Speaker 1: was a guy standing on on the nobody knew his
Speaker 1: name was jay Z. I said, what's up. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: Sparty is crazy. It's like the short time. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: That yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Then it was a young guy standing out in the garage.
Speaker 2: Smaller guy said, yo yo bees parties like this all
Speaker 2: the time. Is said, who you says with the Neptunes,
Speaker 2: my name is Pharreh.
Speaker 1: I said wow. During that time, Brion brought over this
Speaker 1: kid bars Kanye West.
Speaker 2: He said, this is a new guy. And Kanye comes
Speaker 2: over and I challenge him. I said, well, when people
Speaker 2: come over and you got you know, you got talent,
Speaker 2: let's hear what you do. He freestyle something that was amazing.
Speaker 2: Brion says, fuck all that.
Speaker 1: What he said, there's that song? Tell him about the song.
Speaker 1: So we went in the back where my studio was
Speaker 1: and we did this song. Kanye said. The song goes
Speaker 1: like she says she wants some mom and gay, some
Speaker 1: nuther Evan Jos so I said, I got it. I
Speaker 1: got it, So I started singing. She said she won't.
Speaker 1: So he's like, and Kanye is like, Yo, what you doing?
Speaker 1: He said, sing's supposed to be. Brion says, y'all, yo,
Speaker 1: Dade sing the song like he said, this is whack.
Speaker 1: It's never gonna work. So I do sing it the
Speaker 1: way he said it. I go off and do a
Speaker 1: bad movie. I'll come back and is like, you love
Speaker 1: how many bad movies he loves? But but I got friends.
Speaker 1: But I got friends that will be like by I
Speaker 1: got friends, fines. I see what you're doing.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, yo. But Teas, he will say.
Speaker 2: When the movie is sucked up, Tank will say, fies,
Speaker 2: I see you where you was trying to go with that.
Speaker 2: I see where you were trying to go. Enjoy all
Speaker 2: the fun. Do another fucking shot, right, Do another fucking shot.
Speaker 2: If you're really about it.
Speaker 1: I'm biased. If you really a fucking man, if you
Speaker 1: really are, if you really out for do that fucking
Speaker 1: shot right now. It's gonna be happy. I won't have
Speaker 1: enough looking for everybody. Do have whatever the fuck do
Speaker 1: that ship? Write the funk now to win and ship
Speaker 1: together and Jay Valentine, I'm gonna see you fighting. Bail
Speaker 1: money in my pocket.
Speaker 2: Oh bro, I got bail money because I know Jay
Speaker 2: Valentine gonna turn on this light skin motherfucker is so.
Speaker 1: Dark, siad No, listen, listen, tell let me tell this story.
Speaker 1: We at we at all hold them to light skin ship.
Speaker 1: We end a day, dropped me.
Speaker 3: We in a day during all stuff super We listen,
Speaker 3: We end the bay during Super Bowl. Yeah, every club
Speaker 3: he takes me to. Oh yeah, my cousin he running,
Speaker 3: He's doing the hotel. Every club we're getting there, it's
Speaker 3: like fifteen cousins. I'm like, we we this Nis is
Speaker 3: really deep in the street, deep in the streets. So
Speaker 3: we get to one club, right. We settled in against us,
Speaker 3: Chris browsel, Ula, everybody, Barack Obama and everybod. Steph Curry
Speaker 3: right there, Steph Curry Curry, all the life and great guys.
Speaker 3: By this time, he got the ail in him. He said, Tank,
Speaker 3: tell Steph come over here to take a picture with
Speaker 3: us if he want to keep being safe in these streets.
Speaker 1: I said, what the fuck? I said, why are you
Speaker 1: gotta tell him too much? I said, do I gotta
Speaker 1: tell him the whole thing. Can I tell him? Steph bring,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell me something. I said, Hey, Steph, we'd
Speaker 1: like we love. That's how you. That's how we love
Speaker 1: to all get a photo with you. That's how you.
Speaker 2: After he said, After he said that, I say, see me,
Speaker 2: don't throw up the motherfucking gang size nigga.
Speaker 1: We got Step in the picture and there's a picture
Speaker 1: with all of us and stuff like this. Why Step
Speaker 1: looking like that? Because that brand Step is cool? Protect
Speaker 1: the band. Biggas called me the next morning, like, man,
Speaker 1: why did you he was out of control? Did you
Speaker 1: do that? He turned me into the hits? But tell
Speaker 1: that nigga take this. Do you want to be safe
Speaker 1: out here? I said, I can't tell him that. I
Speaker 1: don't want to stand him that anyway. So it's not
Speaker 1: a proud moment.
Speaker 3: That's not you have Fox. You have been at You
Speaker 3: have been a depinnacle of everything. As we close this out,
Speaker 3: you've been a depinnacle from Grammys to oscarts, Toms to everything.
Speaker 1: What's next?
Speaker 2: Tz I'm gonna be honest with you, living living my
Speaker 2: life the way I live it. It's like you and Jay,
Speaker 2: there's a certain there's a certain thing, whatever, whatever whatever
Speaker 2: is next is do they like it?
Speaker 1: I constantly go like.
Speaker 2: And I've had a couple can I be honest with you.
Speaker 2: I've had a couple of bumps when when I do
Speaker 2: some ship and y'all go like fuck. I remember, like
Speaker 2: not knowing this is gonna sound so random to you.
Speaker 2: But you remember when we was talking about these nuts
Speaker 2: and I didn't do the joke right? Yeah, I remember
Speaker 2: that you said Fox that that has haunted me.
Speaker 1: Yea. I was doing the joke so great and I
Speaker 1: tried to do it, and you was like, are you
Speaker 1: everything I love? Everything I love? Or everything I love?
Speaker 1: Let's be honest everything I love. I didn't joke wrong
Speaker 1: and I didn't know that it was wrong, and he
Speaker 1: said that's not how I said. I went, He's like, no,
Speaker 1: that's not. But you were so gracious with me, like this.
Speaker 2: Old nigga, this older nigga just didn't know what the
Speaker 2: funk it was. I feel like I embarrassed myself a
Speaker 2: lot in front of you. I'm gonna say, place.
Speaker 1: You want place. I remember even at your wedding, I
Speaker 1: think I maybe I divorced too much. Your wedding, I
Speaker 1: talked you about your wife like I wanted her. And
Speaker 1: the young lady that was this time was like, completely
Speaker 1: embarrassed what I say. I literally said, I've never told
Speaker 1: you this. I fucked up. He fu up, he was,
Speaker 1: he had little sauce I did. I fucked up.
Speaker 3: And I was hoping that you didn't call it because
Speaker 3: I was, and it's always your your your supporter.
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't think I'm saying, but you
Speaker 2: know when the nigga boys go up like that, you
Speaker 2: know he lies, he was good. I think I embarrassed myself.
Speaker 2: I didn't know, but I didn't say it the right way.
Speaker 2: I wasn't saying that tank walk, he ain't got the jump,
Speaker 2: that's what I said. I'm like, pretty much, that's what
Speaker 2: that's that's funny.
Speaker 4: I was embarrassed. But listen, but here's the thing. Before
Speaker 4: you minused, before you minised, right, I went far to no,
Speaker 4: you didn't go.
Speaker 1: Girl, uh, you know it means we can't get along, bro, bro, bro,
Speaker 1: do you know how much more potatoes? You know? You
Speaker 1: know how much it like?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 1: Then then I said some muscle as niggas niggas. That's
Speaker 1: just how talk. That's just how talk is. Mama, and
Speaker 1: Grandmama was here. You know what I'm saying that the ship.
Speaker 1: I'm not the only one sucking up right now, because
Speaker 1: you was saying the Valantine saved me. I did for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, and I'm thinking about this old time. For
Speaker 1: some reason, I do slip a little bit when I'm
Speaker 1: around you. You have to stay with us.
Speaker 2: So I didn't make that mistake. But I wasn't saying
Speaker 2: I wanted your wife.
Speaker 3: But you understand what I'm saying. It was like there
Speaker 3: you and people trying, but I didn't say it the
Speaker 3: right way. He listen me knowing you, I disagree because
Speaker 3: I know you know what I'm saying. Outside looking When.
Speaker 2: I got back to my date, it was yeah, and
Speaker 2: it was it was like turn on play it and
Speaker 2: it was like where's fun I left, Look, here's the thing.
Speaker 2: But you were like, well I got back in the
Speaker 2: day she was, I said, but why would you know?
Speaker 2: It wasn't that I wasn't trying to listen.
Speaker 4: And who I remember was dancing on the dance floor
Speaker 4: and girls being like, why won't she come out the corner?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, they're doing this.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: It was so fucked up. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I was with family, and so we had a good time.
Speaker 1: So what's next. I spilled some of this ship. You're
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna figure, you're gonna always have something next.
Speaker 1: So the part of the show is called I Ain't
Speaker 1: Saying No Names. Okay, let's go, Nigga you you no
Speaker 1: no listen to say everybody. Don't warn.
Speaker 3: Denzel Washington he was there, No, Kanye, listen.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say everybody's names. It was, but right, if
Speaker 2: there's any indication, don't say no names.
Speaker 1: Bus segment is called. This is called I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no. This segment is called Megan.
Speaker 9: The Stallion Nigger.
Speaker 1: Tell the story no names. So this segment is called
Speaker 1: I Ain't Saying No Names. Fox.
Speaker 4: Okay, well listen you Jay, motherfucker Fox. You can do
Speaker 4: what you want to do back, not giving two foks.
Speaker 4: But the name of the segment.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not long name and the story can be funny,
Speaker 1: fucked up. Okay, here we go. Industry story, got it?
Speaker 1: You want me started your story, it's your story. I
Speaker 1: Ain't saying no names.
Speaker 2: I was in the hotel room, said the hotel with
Speaker 2: a very prominent actress and she was doing cocaine.
Speaker 1: I wasn't I was it. I was it, Jesu.
Speaker 2: I was not doing it because I don't believe in
Speaker 2: that because of my life believe. I don't do that
Speaker 2: because of my religious belief. But she does the cocaine.
Speaker 2: She says, I'm a bad mother. She said bad mother,
Speaker 2: and then she goes, wow, I didn't think I would
Speaker 2: be in this.
Speaker 1: Room doing cocaine with Rick Fox.
Speaker 2: She thought I was Rick Fox the whole fucking night, Bro,
Speaker 2: she thought I was Rick Fox. I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: not light skinned with good hair, Like, hey, whatever the tocat.
Speaker 2: I don't hung out with this this young lady all night.
Speaker 1: Bro. From seven thirty. Think about what I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: Seven thirty is where you get dressed. Tank.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying, when you get dressed to hang
Speaker 2: out with somebody. Seven thirties, seven thirty, no tank, tank tank.
Speaker 1: Seven thirty is a date.
Speaker 2: In Hollywood. Seven thirty is very early. We meet at
Speaker 2: seven thirty. I met her at seven. She's she's already
Speaker 2: high as fuck.
Speaker 1: We hang out. She came high. What it's Hollywood. That's
Speaker 1: what we're supposed to do. Lived that life. That's what
Speaker 1: we're supposed to. I don't know. I don't do it.
Speaker 1: We're hanging out. She's fucking going nuts. She's going fucking nuts.
Speaker 1: We're in a hotel room. It's this very prominent hotel.
Speaker 4: She's goes, oh, you you can shout out the hotel.
Speaker 4: She's I'm up saying that a hotel.
Speaker 1: No, bro, it was a Lermatized Alematize Peninsula. Hey, sweet,
Speaker 1: big time money, big star, put your name on it.
Speaker 2: What happens is this, I'm pulling up in my my limo.
Speaker 2: She jumps on my limo thinking of somebody else's I'm
Speaker 2: I fucking.
Speaker 1: God, what am I doing? I said, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I can't believe you. Are you fucking serious? I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just hanged. So we just rolled up and down,
Speaker 1: so said Boulevard. She gets it. And then when we
Speaker 1: get back to your place, I cannot fucking believe I'm
Speaker 1: with Rick Fox.
Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, I get it. That's all I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: She thought I was Rick Fox, gentleman. Shout out to
Speaker 2: Rick Fox, my life, skinned friend.
Speaker 1: You've been hearing on nigga this has been money. Don't
Speaker 1: you run from it. This is Jake Valentine, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is James came, nigg right, book cases on. I'm putting
Speaker 1: kids on all you put kids on all you niggas. Nigga.
Speaker 1: She literally said, I mean with Rick Fox. I said, wow,
Speaker 1: that's amazing, it's amazing. It's amazing. The aftermath of Jamie Fox,
Speaker 1: empty body of.
Speaker 9: Mel entertainer of all times, hands down, not even thought
Speaker 9: the goat, not even the.
Speaker 1: Thought Jamie, my fucking Fox. We wanna be money brothers.
Speaker 4: M hmm