Speaker 1: I don't building money so because its.
Speaker 2: Trading day after.
Speaker 3: Hey, what's going on out there, y'all?
Speaker 2: There's a long welcome to the A, C and T stage.
Speaker 3: We dream in black. That'll makes some noise in AT
Speaker 3: and T.
Speaker 4: People want authenticity, People want want truth in music, and ultimately,
Speaker 4: as we can see by how much nineties music, how
Speaker 4: much eighties music is being sampled and winning, people really
Speaker 4: do want that feeling again.
Speaker 3: Rather than put all the.
Speaker 4: Pressure on us, okay, okay, to have this conversation, what
Speaker 4: we're gonna do, we want to do something special today.
Speaker 4: Normally we have a celebrity sit right here, a singer, songwriter, producers, stylist, choreographer.
Speaker 4: We have them sit right there and talk R and
Speaker 4: B with us based on their experiences. But today we're
Speaker 4: gonna get some people from the audience, yeah, to sit
Speaker 4: with us and talk R and B in terms of
Speaker 4: what you grew up on, your top five, your votron,
Speaker 4: your I ain't saying no names.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we go.
Speaker 4: So we need to look out here and see who
Speaker 4: wants to be on.
Speaker 3: Podcast.
Speaker 2: You gotta come up here with some real information though,
Speaker 2: you real okay, right, I mean, we're gonna do two.
Speaker 2: We'll do one or two? Okay, one? Come on? What's
Speaker 2: your Kelly? Come on, Kelly, y'all make some noise.
Speaker 3: Bring Kelly, Kelly. Where you from?
Speaker 4: I am from Baltimore, Baltimore at Themore in the Builder,
Speaker 4: d m V.
Speaker 3: I'm DM, I'm d m V. I'm cheering with you,
Speaker 3: I know, cheering with you. Let's talk R and B. Kelly.
Speaker 5: Let's do it.
Speaker 3: What is your favorite time period for R and B?
Speaker 4: Nineties early.
Speaker 2: That's the Tank era.
Speaker 3: That's the day.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't want you now then I can't have
Speaker 6: it at all. If I got a big forward with it, I.
Speaker 5: Gotta I have y'all don't know Tank.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the intro early two thousands and why the
Speaker 4: early two thousands it just felt good.
Speaker 5: I mean I was in high school.
Speaker 4: But it felt you were in high school. I was, oh,
Speaker 4: stop it, I'm your uncle.
Speaker 5: You can be my.
Speaker 4: Uncle Tank, Uncle Tank. But I'm thirty five, you're thirty five. Okay, okay, So,
Speaker 4: as we have this conversation in terms of the differences
Speaker 4: from nineties R and B or two thousands R and
Speaker 4: but let's start with your two thousands R and B
Speaker 4: to what's being heard and played. Now, what do you
Speaker 4: feel other differences in your mind?
Speaker 6: I feel like the content is uh, it's trash. The
Speaker 6: content is trash.
Speaker 2: The content is trash.
Speaker 5: It's not love making. Were just gonna bone.
Speaker 2: We're gonna bang it out, just gonna bone.
Speaker 5: We're gonna bone. We don't need that.
Speaker 6: We like slow, take your time with me, and I'm
Speaker 6: gonna take my time with you. Hello, we don't want them,
Speaker 6: we don't want to rush. We need some Ford play,
Speaker 6: take your time, build.
Speaker 5: It up, it up.
Speaker 2: You got to have low.
Speaker 5: But tank. You had a song called close Close. You
Speaker 5: came a little quick.
Speaker 3: Huh huh.
Speaker 5: It was good. It came quick.
Speaker 4: It happens. We're not perfect here. We're not perfect here.
Speaker 4: Just give me time to hydrate. I'll be back. That's
Speaker 4: a very good point. Goes back to what we were
Speaker 4: saying earlier, like taking your time in music, creating it,
Speaker 4: but also taking your time with the experiences that create
Speaker 4: the music. You know what I mean. We're so much
Speaker 4: in a rush, We're so in a rush to close
Speaker 4: the deal. We're so in a rush to get to
Speaker 4: the end that we never get a chance to fall
Speaker 4: in love with the journey of of people, of meeting you,
Speaker 4: of saying hi, of taking you out on a date,
Speaker 4: of getting to know you, getting to know your past,
Speaker 4: getting to know your hurts, the things that you're healing from,
Speaker 4: and figuring out how I can help, how I can
Speaker 4: be of service to you before figuring out how to
Speaker 4: get something from you. Yeah, yeah, how to be of
Speaker 4: service to you before service you want to surface you?
Speaker 3: Ah, my mind.
Speaker 5: That's a word.
Speaker 2: I got a question since we are on the AT
Speaker 2: and T stage, if you could call any R and
Speaker 2: B singer, who would it be.
Speaker 5: Like right now?
Speaker 3: If you could call him?
Speaker 2: Like if it's just like if who you want to
Speaker 2: talk to?
Speaker 5: Give me Usher?
Speaker 2: Mmm, you're gonna call? What you're gonna say to Usher
Speaker 2: when you get on the phone. What're you gonna say
Speaker 2: to him?
Speaker 5: Thank you for the journey?
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 6: For the timeline of just progression in your music journey.
Speaker 6: For giving us quality music even when people didn't support
Speaker 6: him for that short time period. I did some of
Speaker 6: them albums that weren't listened to as much because people
Speaker 6: didn't like him for whatever reason. That was quality music.
Speaker 6: Here I Stand was a quality album.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 5: Hard to Love was a quality album.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, oh yeah, you know her are stuff Yeah,
Speaker 2: RelA I sugar one of iced tea.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's let's do something with you real quick. Let's
Speaker 4: do something. Everybody ready, We all gonna do this together.
Speaker 2: Toop five?
Speaker 3: Your top five?
Speaker 5: Top five?
Speaker 3: Your top five?
Speaker 2: What is it? R and B singers? R and B songs?
Speaker 4: Here we're gonna SUPR different all right? Your top five
Speaker 4: R and B singers.
Speaker 5: No particular order.
Speaker 6: I mean you are sitting next to me, so Tanks sure.
Speaker 2: Dixon yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh, Avery will soon yes, And I'm a go Beyonce
Speaker 6: because I mean the queen.
Speaker 4: I'm in the hive. Top five R and B songs?
Speaker 5: Can we talk? Can you help me?
Speaker 2: By usher A?
Speaker 6: I gotta do the sex, love and pain intro?
Speaker 3: Mmm? This you do? You just singing? You just singing.
Speaker 3: I'm my apologies, thank you.
Speaker 2: H Oh.
Speaker 3: It's tough.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 2: It's easy when you're watching it on TV on your phone.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: See I'll be talking about that. They taking so long.
Speaker 2: They should have They don't really watch the show.
Speaker 6: Beyonces four that just give me a whole album, Give
Speaker 6: me a whole album, underrated album?
Speaker 5: Shoot Chris Brown with you?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Yeah, I like what you're doing. I like
Speaker 4: what you're doing. Okay, can we do a vultron with her?
Speaker 4: Can we do a vultron? All right, we're making a vultron.
Speaker 4: Let's build it. We're making your super R and B singer.
Speaker 4: Who are you gonna get the vocal from the performance style,
Speaker 4: the styling and the passion of the artists to make
Speaker 4: your super artist?
Speaker 3: Who's vocal? Are you using.
Speaker 6: Donnie Hathaway?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Layla said, don't nobody sound like her daddy?
Speaker 5: Nobody, But that's what she said.
Speaker 4: She said, it's the pain in his voice, the performance style.
Speaker 2: So so he gonna have an apple hat on and
Speaker 2: he gonna be doing dance moves, jumping off, are getting
Speaker 2: stuck in on the little things like Chris, what.
Speaker 4: The apple is not gonna fall throughout the whole routine.
Speaker 4: It's not gonna happen. The styling of the artists, the
Speaker 4: drip of the artist.
Speaker 5: King On Dixon kind of fly.
Speaker 2: He always gotta fly, fit on.
Speaker 3: He had a furrown at the R and B Money Live.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he definitely had a big fly, okay.
Speaker 3: And the passion the heart of the artists, kim.
Speaker 2: Me Michael Michael Jackson's Passion.
Speaker 4: Chap Nude, Chap Nude, Chap Nude. Michael was always hot. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think you. I think she was an amazing guest.
Speaker 4: I think you have to. I'll give it up a Kelly,
Speaker 4: please make some girl. That's that's gonna be a tough
Speaker 4: one to follow. Let's do one more. Somebody to know
Speaker 4: about this R and B music.
Speaker 2: I picked the first I picked the first guests. I
Speaker 2: picked the first guest, So I'm letting you pick the
Speaker 2: second guests.
Speaker 4: Well, come on there, since you know, come on, come
Speaker 4: on there, tambourine, Come.
Speaker 2: On see y'all should have brought y'all tambourine got you,
Speaker 2: that would have got you on stage. Oh she has
Speaker 2: her own mic? Oh this is great?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 2: The t Paine auto tuo?
Speaker 3: Mic?
Speaker 2: Is this the one?
Speaker 3: All right? And what is your name?
Speaker 5: My name is Zada, but they call me my lady.
Speaker 5: I'm my mom and Dad's baby. But I'm a full
Speaker 5: grown woman with it. Wow, I'm half of a century.
Speaker 5: What Meg the Stallion doing I was doing at ninety three?
Speaker 5: I still got Magan these Yeah, yeah, I know all
Speaker 5: my alphabets. Okay, you can't go through the alphabet without
Speaker 5: saying the letter JA. You heard me, and then you
Speaker 5: know if you got them guns, you're most definitely gonna
Speaker 5: need a T A n K.
Speaker 2: Ready when we Okay.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be quiet. I'm gonna be quiet.
Speaker 4: No, No, do your do your thing, do your stuff.
Speaker 4: Every time I see you, I be when we.
Speaker 5: Cause it's your birthday, birthday. Hey tonight, that's Chris Brown Tank.
Speaker 5: You know, I know it's a chick on.
Speaker 3: He's singing that song to know.
Speaker 5: J Valentine to. You cannot go through the alphabet without
Speaker 5: saying the letter J.
Speaker 3: Okay, So tell us where you're from.
Speaker 5: I was born in New Orleans, raised in Mississippi, but
Speaker 5: I reside in Texas because of my husband pays the mortgage.
Speaker 5: Shout out to Yeah, I reside in Texas because my
Speaker 5: husband pays the mortgage. Shout out to them.
Speaker 2: Shout out to the husbands that pay the mortgages.
Speaker 5: In here, No, he's at home.
Speaker 2: Okay, are the ones that sent you here? Ones that said, she.
Speaker 5: He's a good man. He know, I likes I like,
Speaker 5: I like.
Speaker 3: Did you hear what she just said?
Speaker 4: You have to you got to look at the the underlining,
Speaker 4: the undertone of that she said, I live in Texas
Speaker 4: because my husband pays the mortgage. Let's pull back the
Speaker 4: layers on that. She's not gonna follow a man that's
Speaker 4: not properly leading.
Speaker 5: Correct.
Speaker 4: She felt safe enough and secure enough to go with
Speaker 4: that man to somewhere unfamiliar, somewhere strange, but she knew
Speaker 4: that her man was gonna protect her and keep her safe.
Speaker 1: Oh helllu it's not just the mortgage. It's not just
Speaker 1: the morge. It's not just the mortgage.
Speaker 5: It's not just the ma.
Speaker 2: It's just something that we all can understand.
Speaker 1: Yes, ah, But in the private times, it's the holding
Speaker 1: we play Tank, it's the communication we play Tank.
Speaker 5: He dressed up and all black. I said, baby, go
Speaker 5: be Tank. Xena got Tank, but I got you. But
Speaker 5: play when we I said us. I know we cannot,
Speaker 5: I said, I know my syllables.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 5: I'm just not my first time time.
Speaker 3: I love you.
Speaker 2: Yes, you don't remember.
Speaker 5: I saw you in Dallas. I was the one that
Speaker 5: walked down the middle with that hat on it, with
Speaker 5: the lace that.
Speaker 3: Remember.
Speaker 5: I got pictures of us in my phone. I got
Speaker 5: my own man. We speak every time, Tank, mister Barrell Reel.
Speaker 3: It's not what you think.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm married, married, we married.
Speaker 5: We Xena is a liberal. It's big libra energy, I know,
Speaker 5: big labor.
Speaker 4: Don't get her hype. Don't get her hype because I
Speaker 4: paid the mortgage.
Speaker 2: Don't get her hip.
Speaker 5: Cina got a good man, Yes, sir, So let's let.
Speaker 3: Me ask you a question. Yes, sir, well, I like
Speaker 3: your question for yes, I like your question.
Speaker 2: Which one was it? I didn't got caught up and
Speaker 2: everything that's I'm I expectator. Tell about to turn my
Speaker 2: chair and just watch the AT and T phone call? Yes,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Who would be your
Speaker 2: phone call? Your AT and T phone call? In R
Speaker 2: and B music, it would be Tang, it would be Tanke.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: So you're getting all your questions off right now, you're
Speaker 2: getting you getting it off. What you want to ask him?
Speaker 5: How do you handle how do you and Zena handle
Speaker 5: you being such an attractive performer because you can't perform,
Speaker 5: you can sing, you can act. We've seen all of
Speaker 5: those things. So how does she work through that? How
Speaker 5: does she manage?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 5: My man is handsome, he's attractive, he's fine, and not
Speaker 5: that you're using your body as a tool. It is Okay,
Speaker 5: that's up to you and how you tell the truth.
Speaker 5: But how do how does she manage that having an
Speaker 5: attraction husband?
Speaker 4: Well, and I'll just answer the question. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: there's so many layers to that, but I think it's
Speaker 4: up to me again to make her feel safe there
Speaker 4: you go. It's up to me to make sure that
Speaker 4: she knows she has the number one position, because we
Speaker 4: gotta know, like in this social media era, something can
Speaker 4: look like anything, right, and so you don't. You don't
Speaker 4: want your good to be even spoken of, and so
Speaker 4: you have to you have to be smart about.
Speaker 2: Where you go, what you're doing.
Speaker 4: Who you're seeing with, correct, what you're saying, correct all
Speaker 4: of those things. Because that's why I don't go nowhere
Speaker 4: because it gets back really fast. And in a world
Speaker 4: where misery loves company, right, they would to be able
Speaker 4: to send my wife, well, he can't be too much
Speaker 4: of your husband because he was.
Speaker 3: Just blah blah blah, and.
Speaker 4: Here's a picture of it, or here's a DM of it,
Speaker 4: or here's a text of it.
Speaker 2: So a lot of it starts with me.
Speaker 4: I mean, of course, ultimately, she as a woman, as
Speaker 4: she walked into this, I was this before we got married, correct,
Speaker 4: So there has to be a certain level of acceptance
Speaker 4: of what I am before she even decides to partake,
Speaker 4: because it is a lot. But then once we're in
Speaker 4: there again, it's my job to make sure she feels safe.
Speaker 5: So the proper word is discernment. You're using discernment to
Speaker 5: make sure that she's safe. Yes, because we live in
Speaker 5: this world where people can change things around words, and
Speaker 5: a mere picture can be turned into I was with
Speaker 5: your man when it's really mirror a picture.
Speaker 3: Here's a question for you, Yes, sir, same question.
Speaker 4: What do you think the biggest difference for you between well,
Speaker 4: what's your favorite era of music?
Speaker 3: Let's start there in nineties, early two thousands.
Speaker 2: Argon further back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like the seventies and the eighties and the nineties.
Speaker 5: The reason for the seventies is because when you go
Speaker 5: back to a man leading and making a woman feel
Speaker 5: safe and provided for. I saw that with my father,
Speaker 5: and so no family is perfect, but in that home
Speaker 5: it was music playing. There was togetherness. We weren't hungry.
Speaker 5: We played together, he said, and watched us play together.
Speaker 5: We didn't know if there were hard times, but I
Speaker 5: remember my mother. She's from New Orleans, Louisiana. So I
Speaker 5: remember her playing Love and Happiness. I remember her playing
Speaker 5: I Love You. I remember Al Green. So I had
Speaker 5: this uncle from New Orleans, right, my uncle Billy. I
Speaker 5: remember him playing Rick James. I did not know Mary Jane.
Speaker 5: I thought that was a woman. I really thought it
Speaker 5: was a so until he passed away. And so they
Speaker 5: was doing Mary Jane in the back and not it.
Speaker 5: But we were in the front. So it's like, I
Speaker 5: remember Rick James, the Mary Jane Girls, Whitney Houston, Luther Vandross.
Speaker 5: Oh my love thoughts from you, it's not worth Winny
Speaker 5: was saying, baby, you give good love to me, so
Speaker 5: good take this hart of mine. Okay, But then we
Speaker 5: got up to like the two thoughts. Oh no, Lie,
Speaker 5: I love my husband. When we was having a hard time,
Speaker 5: we was really I was watching b E T and
Speaker 5: maybe I deserve I'm like, I'm gonna get you the
Speaker 5: I'm gonna get you. Never knew that I would have
Speaker 5: this day and see you several days because even ten
Speaker 5: years ago and at on the world too essence, I
Speaker 5: made my way up to the station because my goal
Speaker 5: is I'm gonna see and touch everybody that I enjoyed.
Speaker 5: He was in Afghanistan. He said, what do you want
Speaker 5: to do for Mother's Day? I'm not here. Take the
Speaker 5: children to six Flags, do the road to Essence Tank
Speaker 5: is gonna be their Seventh Street is gonna be there.
Speaker 5: And we had a good time. So my goal is
Speaker 5: he gives me the things that my dreams are different.
Speaker 5: It's music and laughter, and so every single time that
Speaker 5: I can get a chance, I get my chance appropriately
Speaker 5: because I'm married and that's somebody else's man, and I
Speaker 5: don't want what nobody else has. So my goal is
Speaker 5: if you're making something for us to enjoy. When you
Speaker 5: all are sitting and in the studio all night and
Speaker 5: doing things, I'm like, yeah, we're gonna go all night
Speaker 5: because you are entertaining us. We pay for entertainment. And
Speaker 5: when you all do those things, we're together at home,
Speaker 5: so you're giving up safe spaces at home where we
Speaker 5: don't really have to go out to the club. We
Speaker 5: can do what we do at home to you all's music.
Speaker 5: And that's the thing. Music is my strength. And I
Speaker 5: know that I just don't appreciate you all. We all
Speaker 5: standing up in here appreciate you all. Thank you I'm
Speaker 5: speaking for all of us with that because it pure.
Speaker 5: It brings my heart joy and sadness and excitement. And
Speaker 5: so the day that I leave this earth, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: be singing when we you know what. And the other part,
Speaker 5: I know I'm gonna be old because I'm gonna be
Speaker 5: saying this slow.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they're gonna have that selection in heaven, but.
Speaker 5: Just play it on the slides. Play it on the slides.
Speaker 4: Well, you answered so many, so many questions in that
Speaker 4: one amazing soliloquy. You went crazy. I want to go
Speaker 4: straight to top.
Speaker 1: Five, your top five, my top five.
Speaker 3: Top five R and B singers as a team.
Speaker 5: I love what you two are doing. So you're in there,
Speaker 5: Tank and Jay Valentine. I'm not just saying to get
Speaker 5: anything because I'm up here, but you're in rotation. I
Speaker 5: was at the Soul Train Musical War are sitting up
Speaker 5: from Okay, so you know I know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: You came out first, he came out second. That girl
Speaker 5: I told, ma'mna practice. I'm a performer at the house.
Speaker 5: So it's tanking. J Valentine, Trey Songs, Jamie Fox, Chris Brown.
Speaker 5: I think I could dance like Chris in my mind.
Speaker 5: I love Beyonce as well. I like men the most though.
Speaker 5: Five Okay, don't worry. Yeah, I don't wanna go crazy.
Speaker 3: Your top five sweat songs.
Speaker 5: Song, my top five R and B songs, Chris Brown, privacy, privacy,
Speaker 5: I don't give a f Chris Brown. It's when when
Speaker 5: we I most definitely like that. Oh, they don't really know,
Speaker 5: you know, you know. I don't think you're ready. I
Speaker 5: don't think you're ready. Yes and slow.
Speaker 2: It's all Tank.
Speaker 5: It's all tank y'all though, it's all but I play it.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Build your Vultron, your super R and B artists.
Speaker 4: All right, this is what we're gonna do. Okay, we're
Speaker 4: gonna take the vocal from somebody, the performance style from somebody,
Speaker 4: the styling from somebody, and the passion of an artist
Speaker 4: to build one artist. So who would you get the
Speaker 4: vocal from one person to build your super R and
Speaker 4: B artists?
Speaker 5: Ooh, that's rough. I would have the vocals of Tank
Speaker 5: the performing no.
Speaker 1: Tank vocals vocals, Tank vocals, performance style, Chris Brown.
Speaker 2: I can do some of Chris Brown. Okay, styling the clothing, that's.
Speaker 5: Hard, because I'm gonna go back to you. It goes
Speaker 5: back to a person that can make you laugh and
Speaker 5: entertain and perform the cloth. That's what I'm saying. I
Speaker 5: like how you dress. I like how you dress. I
Speaker 5: like how Tank dresses.
Speaker 3: That I got two in there. I got two all right,
Speaker 3: and not a passion of the artists.
Speaker 5: The passion of the arts. Oh my god, it's so seeing.
Speaker 5: When I'm it's still Chris because he's up tempo, up tempo.
Speaker 5: He does something that makes you feel like you can
Speaker 5: do that. Like I'm like, I know I could do
Speaker 5: this left right like him, but it has to do.
Speaker 5: I don't know how else to do unless I go
Speaker 5: back old school. I do like Keith Sweat. There's something
Speaker 5: about Keith Sweat still because it's smooth and the vocals.
Speaker 5: But I'm still a more upbeat girl. I like you
Speaker 5: because you're smooth, you're funny, you're a performer, You're good
Speaker 5: on the eye. Chris is a great performer as well,
Speaker 5: and I like that Keith Sweat is smooth for my time.
Speaker 5: Keith Sweat, Chris Brown, and Tank, that's what I like.
Speaker 4: I love that I'm looking at Jay Dewey. Do we
Speaker 4: do your segment two. You think she got some for us?
Speaker 3: What is it?
Speaker 5: Give it to me?
Speaker 2: So right now, right now, we're going to a very
Speaker 2: important part of the show. Yeah, yeah, it's called I
Speaker 2: ain't saying no names? Will you give us a story? Funny?
Speaker 2: Are messed up? Are funny and messed up? Well? Maybe
Speaker 2: you know because you you go to concerts, you go
Speaker 2: to different things, You've seen some stuff. You tell us
Speaker 2: this story without saying nobody names. That's the only rule
Speaker 2: to the game.
Speaker 5: About a celebrity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, whatever you Okay, So.
Speaker 5: We went to a concert or the concert of Frankie. Okay,
Speaker 5: So we went to a concert and it was a group.
Speaker 2: They had on all white.
Speaker 5: They had on all white, and so you know, I
Speaker 5: was I was looking nice and I got on stage
Speaker 5: and I said, can my girls come to it? And
Speaker 5: they said yes, and they said We're going to go
Speaker 5: to the room and get dressed. And I'm like, I'm
Speaker 5: the shoulder after party, but you want to see my grandson?
Speaker 5: Like my grandson? He was like, what are you talking
Speaker 5: about that for? I was trying to like, I ain't
Speaker 5: that type of chick. But my friend said, I'll go
Speaker 5: to the room. I said, the next best thing to
Speaker 5: me is her, and they went. I said, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: wait on y'all outside. I started talking about my husband
Speaker 5: and it was like you love him. I was like,
Speaker 5: here the reason why I'm here, But I can't go
Speaker 5: up there with y'all. And I just waited for her
Speaker 5: outside and I'm like, oh, don throwing them and he
Speaker 5: that was them? She grown a single. That was them.
Speaker 2: Wasn't me?
Speaker 5: That was not me.
Speaker 1: I was waiting. I was in the car. I was
Speaker 1: I'm the driver with the music on. I was like,
Speaker 1: they up there playing when.
Speaker 3: We Oh, y'all make some noise?
Speaker 5: What thank you so much?
Speaker 2: At N T said they got some special for us.
Speaker 3: Man at and T.
Speaker 4: He said, they got some special for for y'all and
Speaker 4: for us. First of all, did you enjoy your first
Speaker 4: two guests from out of the They.
Speaker 3: Knew about that. R and B.
Speaker 4: They knew about that R and B. We want to
Speaker 4: do something now which kind of fits into the format
Speaker 4: of what we do. We try to get legendary, uh
Speaker 4: legendary musical icons to sit in this chair and give
Speaker 4: us some of their story, what they've been through, the challenges,
Speaker 4: the winds, the losses, all the nuances that make them.
Speaker 3: Who they are.
Speaker 4: And this, this brother that we got coming up here
Speaker 4: is has one of the greatest voices ever ever, one
Speaker 4: of the greatest songs ever, two of my favorite And
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna make the intro long because we need
Speaker 4: to get him on stage so that he can talk
Speaker 4: that talk. Ladies and gentlemen, come into the stage, please
Speaker 4: make some noise for Kenny Lottimore.
Speaker 2: Are you feeling Hey, Good to see you all. Essence
Speaker 2: It's nothing like Essence fest in the world nowhere. You
Speaker 2: see this beautiful? This is beautiful, a sea of beauty.
Speaker 2: What How many of y'all got married to a Kenny
Speaker 2: Lottimore song? Because it because if I ever get married,
Speaker 2: I'm definitely gonna are you sent the reception dancing where
Speaker 2: you have to be.
Speaker 4: Thank you for those of you all who may not
Speaker 4: have seen Kenny Latimore segment on the Army Money Podcast.
Speaker 3: First of all, thank you for coming. Yes, thank you
Speaker 3: for having me.
Speaker 4: I told a story where I died trying to sing
Speaker 4: his song for you at a wedding.
Speaker 3: It got to the.
Speaker 4: Point to where I just stopped singing the words and
Speaker 4: I just started a libbing.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of words though, stuff that was not
Speaker 2: in the.
Speaker 4: Music for you. It's some Wendy's and some Poppa doos
Speaker 4: anywhere you want to go.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of words in there. It's a lot
Speaker 2: of words. It's a lot of notes you have to control.
Speaker 4: You have to be vocally conditioned for the marathon to
Speaker 4: sing that song top two bottom, I've never done it.
Speaker 3: How do you do it?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: I guess it's the practice. Like the more you do something,
Speaker 2: you get better at it. Because I have to admit,
Speaker 2: when I start singing songs, especially if they're new, I
Speaker 2: go through exactly the same thing. I have to figure
Speaker 2: out where the placement is in my entire body so
Speaker 2: that I can keep producing the sound. So I mess
Speaker 2: it up and keep going and going and going until
Speaker 2: I find that place. Once I find that place, sometimes
Speaker 2: the live performance becomes something different. It becomes something that's
Speaker 2: original and its own thing. So is it not alone?
Speaker 4: Is it a thing that it took you a minute
Speaker 4: to process once you started singing it live on stage?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, And then once you sing it over and
Speaker 2: over and over again as an artist, sometimes you don't
Speaker 2: want to do it the same way. You ever go
Speaker 2: to a concert and somebody is singing the song totally
Speaker 2: different than the way yes, or is it a different
Speaker 2: key or whatever. But then I learned that you guys
Speaker 2: want to hear it the way you know it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I had to go back and revisit it
Speaker 2: and say, Kenny, you need to find that placement again
Speaker 2: and find out how to breathe and how to get
Speaker 2: all those words out or where to take your breaks
Speaker 2: so that you can produce that.
Speaker 4: Sound Kenny, for the people here, where are you from
Speaker 4: and where were you groomed as the singer, songwriter, producer
Speaker 4: talent that.
Speaker 2: You are from Washington, DC DMV, I might have to
Speaker 2: find somebody from the Bay Area to come up here.
Speaker 2: And I'm the Bay by myself. The Bay Area is
Speaker 2: like the West Coast version of Deep Sea. To me,
Speaker 2: it really is culturally the diversity. Everything the music we
Speaker 2: listened to was exactly the same. But I'm also HU
Speaker 2: Howard University, so I studied from twelve years old. My
Speaker 2: mother discovered I could sing, and I was singing jazz
Speaker 2: stuff like I left my hat in the San Francisco
Speaker 2: at twelve on at twelve because that was the way
Speaker 2: that you learned how to enunciate. So if you ever wondered, wow,
Speaker 2: Kenny talks real proper and he's in. I learned how
Speaker 2: to enunciate and how to breathe and how to properly
Speaker 2: sing because I was a trained singer. Yeah, and I
Speaker 2: sang classical music and I would go out and I
Speaker 2: would do competitions and scholarship board stuff and just you know,
Speaker 2: things that were outside of the box.
Speaker 3: Of R and B.
Speaker 4: Give me a classical complimentative, what is a classical moment?
Speaker 2: Classical? Like this is Italian? Uh almost bell ben I
Speaker 2: started saying the MODI splend the soriso, this stella New
Speaker 2: York toy blue, which is Italian. But come on, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: come on, but it's I would do stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and it made me, as a kid, feel like, oh man,
Speaker 2: this is he didn't like it was really easy. Does
Speaker 2: anybody know what he was saying? I'm clearly lost.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: But it helped me to just gain my music saved
Speaker 2: my life because I was definthly shy. I was definitely
Speaker 2: shy growing up and singing classical singing, jazzy, all of
Speaker 2: this stuff made me feel like I had something to
Speaker 2: give and I had a voice. Yeah, so yeah, it
Speaker 2: gave me a place where I felt like my confidence
Speaker 2: was built to give musically. You've been giving us music
Speaker 2: Man for a long time, and we appreciate you for that.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Sure man, thank you for the
Speaker 2: podcast absolutely because it has given us an amazing platform
Speaker 2: to tell our stories where we didn't know, we didn't
Speaker 2: have it and people didn't want to what's the story
Speaker 2: behind the music? You know? And for for emerging black artists,
Speaker 2: for established black artists, because I know it started with
Speaker 2: probably more emerging artists, but now you've probably had everybody
Speaker 2: on on the on the podcast. Not yet, not yet.
Speaker 2: We we we getting there, get getting there. We're getting there.
Speaker 3: You will.
Speaker 2: But that's the thing that we are very adamant about
Speaker 2: is that we want to bring everyone on. We want everyone,
Speaker 2: you know, to have their opportunity to come and tell
Speaker 2: their story the way they want to tell their story
Speaker 2: without all the extra clickbait stuff and all that. We
Speaker 2: don't we don't want. That's not what we're about. We're
Speaker 2: about showing love. Were about showing love to the journey,
Speaker 2: and we're about being informative so people can understand how
Speaker 2: they can sing a song like yours without messing up.
Speaker 2: What does it take you know what I mean, what
Speaker 2: does it take us, you know, for for the longest
Speaker 2: I mean obviously we all grew up before Google, Yes.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: We couldn't find that information the way that people can
Speaker 2: now just click click, you can click and find something.
Speaker 2: But what we found when we thought of doing the
Speaker 2: podcast was that, well, there's not enough information about what
Speaker 2: we do, what we really do, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: what really goes into it? And we want to and
Speaker 2: we are hopefully putting a spotlight on those things. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: and our job is to make it look easy. We
Speaker 2: were talking earlier about how to put something great together
Speaker 2: for you that the thought and the processing of putting
Speaker 2: something that you're going to remember together, it takes a
Speaker 2: lot more effort. Now, I was up there listening and
Speaker 2: you were saying how long did it take to make
Speaker 2: an album and things like that, and you were saying
Speaker 2: a year or so sometimes to do something great. Michael Jackson,
Speaker 2: It used to take two years or more to do Thriller.
Speaker 2: To have all of those great songs where you start
Speaker 2: to play the album and every single song is a single.
Speaker 2: It takes a lot of time to record those songs,
Speaker 2: See if they translate, see how they compete with the
Speaker 2: other songs. So all of that progression takes time, and
Speaker 2: a lot of that is not happening. So hearing those
Speaker 2: kind of stories, I think helps the next generation as
Speaker 2: they're creating, to know that it's okay. It's okay for
Speaker 2: it not to be perfect the first time, and it's
Speaker 2: okay that we're all like a process, a work in
Speaker 2: progress and process because I'm not the same person I
Speaker 2: wasn't ninety six, whenfore you came out?
Speaker 3: Or weekend in two.
Speaker 2: Thousand, that was in ninety six, wo or take a
Speaker 2: dose which was in you know, two thousand and twenty one,
Speaker 2: twenty two. As we grow and as we become who
Speaker 2: we are for you, we just try to take the time,
Speaker 2: take the time to make it right so that everything
Speaker 2: that you get is worthy of your dollar, of your time,
Speaker 2: and it's relevant for you. So we appreciate you being
Speaker 2: here all y'all that rocked with me specifically since the nineties.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you so much. Are you performing this weekend?
Speaker 2: Are you performing? I performed last night night? Yes, say
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you so much. I performed as a
Speaker 2: part of a radio broadcast. It's going to be broadcasting
Speaker 2: from Essence all this weekend on iHeartRadio. We performed yesterday.
Speaker 4: I want to highlight the fact that the gold for
Speaker 4: me and all of this conversation is that even before
Speaker 4: you became the Kenny Lattimore that we know on the
Speaker 4: radio and with the record deals and all of these things,
Speaker 4: you were ready.
Speaker 3: You were beyond ready.
Speaker 4: You had put in, as we call it, those ten
Speaker 4: twenty thousand hours oh man, yeah, perfecting your gifts.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so that by.
Speaker 4: The time it was time to be ready, you were
Speaker 4: already ready. If you can just speak to that, just
Speaker 4: give us a little bit on how it felt, because
Speaker 4: a lot of artists come into this, especially nowadays. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they'll get some traction on ig or get some traction
Speaker 4: on TikTok, and then they're thrown into this thing that
Speaker 4: we call the music business and trying to perform and
Speaker 4: they're not ready.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they suffer because of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, very true. So how about this whole
Speaker 2: concept dreaming black, right? Yeah, dreaming in black to me
Speaker 2: is believing something before you see it, see it before
Speaker 2: you see it. We are people of faith generally in
Speaker 2: our culture and being ready for those moments is about
Speaker 2: dreaming and Black. It's about dreaming and seeing that I
Speaker 2: think I'm going to be on this other side. So
Speaker 2: there's some things that I did as a kid, and
Speaker 2: I wasn't smart enough to know it was something spiritual. Again,
Speaker 2: I wasn't smart enough to know that this is what
Speaker 2: I was doing. But I remember taking speech class at
Speaker 2: Howard because I like, I'm gonna be famous one day.
Speaker 2: I want to be able to stand up here and
Speaker 2: speak and articulate my thoughts to you. Clearly, I'm going
Speaker 2: to take speech to prepare myself. That's a part of
Speaker 2: me dreaming in Black to me because it was preparatd
Speaker 2: the preparation, taking the voice lessons and learning how to
Speaker 2: sing different styles of music, adding to the narrative of
Speaker 2: the story. It's not always about the song. Sometimes people
Speaker 2: are interested in who you are. Sometimes who you are
Speaker 2: draws the people more than your art or what you think.
Speaker 2: Your gift is. Your gift makes room for you and
Speaker 2: it brings you before great people, great men and women.
Speaker 2: So what do you have to give? The more you're dreaming,
Speaker 2: the more that you prepare yourself. But you have to
Speaker 2: believe that you're going to be there. The more that
Speaker 2: you believe that you're going to be there, the more
Speaker 2: prepared you will be. And even if it's not always
Speaker 2: about a rigorous program in your spirit, you will have
Speaker 2: a settledness that you belong because there are a lot
Speaker 2: of people that are going to tell you that you
Speaker 2: don't belong here. Even at the height of your career
Speaker 2: and what you do, people are gonna still tell you
Speaker 2: that you don't belong here. It may be a critic
Speaker 2: that writes an article about you in a magazine or
Speaker 2: a show or something that comes out and somebody tries
Speaker 2: to disqualify you. That's why you got to keep dreaming
Speaker 2: in black, dreaming in black, dreaming in black, and then
Speaker 2: you can stand in the truth of that and you'll
Speaker 2: be prepared at all times.
Speaker 4: Wow, I want to do something different. Since you've done
Speaker 4: your top fives and all you've done those already, I
Speaker 4: want you to give me one artist that influenced you
Speaker 4: the most and why Okay, I.
Speaker 2: Like that, the greatest, greatest, greatest artist that influenced me
Speaker 2: with Stevie Wonder. Come on, give it up with Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 2: But when he sees Tank, he's gonna punch him in
Speaker 2: the face. I want to punch him in his face.
Speaker 2: Why hold up before I before I continue? Why is
Speaker 2: he gonna punch you in the Vince? You gotta beat
Speaker 2: with Stevie.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: But the reason why for me was I saw Stevie
Speaker 2: as a person that had no boundary. When he would
Speaker 2: sing just like I sang you an Italian song. He'd
Speaker 2: sing different languages, different styles, and he would always make
Speaker 2: it his own thing. And his voice never seemed like
Speaker 2: it had endless it was like endless range, right, But
Speaker 2: that was really I felt like, not only was he
Speaker 2: an incredible singer, but you're talking about a great a
Speaker 2: great producer, a great writer, a person that studies and dreams.
Speaker 2: Yes to this day, I know that Stevie Wonder's still
Speaker 2: dreaming about what's next, even with all of his accomplishments.
Speaker 2: This is not a journey that you go on where
Speaker 2: you arrive. Life is not a journey that you go
Speaker 2: on where you arrive. That's what keeps us dreaming. It's
Speaker 2: the dream that keeps us moving forward. And I've talked
Speaker 2: to Stevie where I can. He's like, Yeah, I want
Speaker 2: to write this kind of song next, and and you're
Speaker 2: thinking of a brother. You've done it all, what you
Speaker 2: don't step aside save some for us?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: But that that's my thing. I loved him so much
Speaker 2: because he seems to have no boundaries to his gift.
Speaker 2: I like how you just suddenly just poor Champagne on
Speaker 2: our podcast about how you talk to Stevie because I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't talk to Stevie. I don't. I don't, Stevie,
Speaker 2: if you're listening, I want to talk talk something. But
Speaker 2: he's an incredible He's an incredible person. So I'm thinking
Speaker 2: Stevie would come on the podcast. We're waiting Steve Stevie.
Speaker 2: Y'all make some noise if y'all want to see Stevie
Speaker 2: Wonder on the Army Money podcast Stories Man Motown. I
Speaker 2: can only imagine. I can only imagine another question. Give
Speaker 2: me one song that when that song used to come on.
Speaker 4: You, it just took you to a place where you
Speaker 4: wanted to be on stage singing that song.
Speaker 2: Wow, you know what it was.
Speaker 5: A chair is still a check.
Speaker 2: Even when there's no one.
Speaker 5: Sitting there.
Speaker 2: But a she.
Speaker 5: It's not a hot and a house is not a
Speaker 5: home when there's no one there.
Speaker 2: Told you're tired and no one there. You can't kid
Speaker 2: good night. Yeah. Now, Peter always made me. When I
Speaker 2: heard him sing, I was like, I want to do that.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out how he just sang that
Speaker 2: with that music playing with no inears, no inears.
Speaker 4: Come on, man, come on man, listen one time, one time.
Speaker 4: I need you to celebrate real talent, real work, ethic.
Speaker 3: A real artist, a real one. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: I heard she said, I know that's right.
Speaker 3: Why did he act like that? Why does he acting
Speaker 3: like that?
Speaker 2: I thought he was about to say, get it sex. See,
Speaker 2: that's what I would have said. I ain't lying now,
Speaker 2: don't act like y'all. Don't be listening to it though.
Speaker 2: Come on, don't do that, don't do that. I get it,
Speaker 2: I can't get it nowhere.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, you know yet, Kenny Lotting more in
Speaker 2: Sexy Red, you can't know all right? All right?
Speaker 3: Whatever?
Speaker 2: Only me balance balance, balance.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, listen, I want you all to do
Speaker 4: this for me. First of all, dreaming black absolutely right.
Speaker 4: I want you to see yourself somewhere, and I want
Speaker 4: you to believe that nothing can stop you from getting
Speaker 4: to that place. And then, like Kenny said, I want
Speaker 4: you to take all the necessary steps to prepare yourself
Speaker 4: for that place that you know you're going to be in.
Speaker 3: Can y'all promise me that today?
Speaker 4: And then two, I want you to subscribe to the
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Speaker 2: Follow everywhere at the Real Tank at Jay Valentine.
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Speaker 4: Subscribe because what we want to do and what we're
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Speaker 4: They want to do it the right way. We're taking
Speaker 4: the positive road, which is the longer road, which is
Speaker 4: the steeper side of the mountain. But we're going to
Speaker 4: continue to chart that course no matter how long it
Speaker 4: takes because we want to be inspirational, we want to
Speaker 4: be uplifting. We want to be true leaders in our community.
Speaker 4: We want to we want to really encourage our young
Speaker 4: men to pay their mortgages, yes, mortgage. We want our
Speaker 4: women to feel safe and covered. We want our children
Speaker 4: to feel protected and be raised the right way. This
Speaker 4: is all that we represent. So on behalf of At
Speaker 4: and T Dreaming Black and the Army Money Podcast. My
Speaker 4: name is Tank, I'm Jay Valentine, and this has been
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