WEBVTT - Jamie Foxx Interview 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.719 Ladies and gentlemen is the Breakfast Club and Jamie Fox 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:07.320 what a baby? Jamie was so man, Jamie Fox suck 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:10.119 if you ever figured out baby, Yeah, I'm good now, 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:12.760 Thank you good man, because I was like, man, if 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.239 I need to, I mean, you know what I need 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.680 to do to him? Jamie Fox gives me great advice 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:21.680 on relationships and everything. Sometimes you know, I gotta ask 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.800 him something really, But we were chilling though. That was like, 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.800 that was a moment Jamie Fox and get Bellair for 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.440 the first time when he was filming Annie when he 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:32.240 was staying in New York. So, damn, Jamie, you don't 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.000 got to the point now where you um, you can't 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:35.560 sleep with all the girls no more. So you just 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:37.960 give it a vice, you know, you know, you know, 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.720 you know what. It's crazy right you start looking at 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.199 him like, damn, you know you out have been smashing 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.559 by man. He didn't offer on my way out if 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.640 you need you know, I say, if you need a stunt, 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:54.000 if you need a stunt teens, I'm like, yo, whatever, yeah, 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:58.160 I appreciate you to what's this song? We about the premiere? 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.440 Right now? Tell us about it? Yo? You know want 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.800 first of all, when I talk about music, I'm not 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.720 Jamie Fox. I'm back to the starving artists. I'm back 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.959 to like just now trying to like figure it all out, 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.600 and so you know, I really, you know, I get nervous. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.360 I mean it ain't It's just like, you know, we 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.800 was in Vegas when when we tried to one song 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:23.480 and it failed, right, that was the two Chains record, right, 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.520 party in the party? Yeah, you know, I was rocking 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.679 in Vegas. It was rocking out there in Vegas. I 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.720 think I think we were rocking. Oh okay, you know 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.200 what I'm saying. I mean our vibe was great, right right, 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.160 But let's keep it real, Jamie Fox, You've had some 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.160 great songs already. I actually love your music, so I 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.560 can't complain sort of failed right, like right when the 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.800 song got off the stage. That's when I think it 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:47.600 was bad. I got sued for that record, right. Yeah. 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:49.360 That was the other thing too, because I had like 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.920 a feeling seemed like seem like I heard first of 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.760 all the hook I've already heard before because that was 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.720 back in the day. But I was like, well, maybe 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.880 they'll let me ride, you know, Jamie trying with around 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.440 then it's man, somebody else had already sung it and 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.520 it was crazy. It's like I said, man, maybe I 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.600 thought it was another person because I heard an echo 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:11.760 and another studio, but you know how it goes. And 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.200 we didn't want to disrespect the guy and everything like 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.320 that said, we'll let that go anyway, cut to the 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.799 chase this one. I really am excited about this when 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.480 it's this kid, Casey and Orlando, who's a fantastic artist 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.079 and fantastic matter. And what's special about this is he 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.640 sort of he sort of took a step back on 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:33.800 doing his album, uh, to facilitate on my album because 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.080 you know how this man, you know, we all been 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:37.800 in this game for so long. So if you if 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.000 you do a song and you're successful or whatever like that, 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.440 it actually makes it tougher to reinvent yourself. So, uh, 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.320 it's called you Chase Me, which is crazy. That's what we 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:46.960 we was just talking about. You know. It's like, you know, 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.680 the song is sort of like about you know, meeting 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.360 this girl, you know that that sort of you know, 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:54.280 change me now. I want to you know, kick it 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.480 with her, you know. So it's it's it's uh, it's dope, 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.680 and we've got Chris Brown on their young Chris Brown, 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.760 who's on his young thing. So it's it's fly now 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.760 hold on the woman that changed you? Katie Holmes, Well 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:12.600 what happened? No, it's going on, man, Hello, And before 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.680 we play that, I gotta say your daughter's absolutely beautiful 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.840 for you. Oh man, you know what, it's crazy. My 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.079 daughter just turned twenty one. She was in London, yoke. 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:25.640 It was crazy. She had an incredible birthday party. But 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.200 to see that she's twenty one now is just not 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.560 I mean, we you know, we're doing shots together. It 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:33.520 was crazy. What happened to the Pretty Young Thing record? 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.200 I thought you had a record, Pretty Young Thing produced 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.720 by Muscle. Yeah. Yeah, you know what, man? Sometimes hey man, look, 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.200 sometimes sometimes the vibe in the studio and the weed 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.120 and everything make you take that thing is real, the thing, 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.080 and then at a while the it ain't. It Just 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:49.920 don't it make you know why you should have got 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.680 tied on it? You know what. Look man, I'm gonna 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:55.840 tell you it's tough, bro. It's like, you know, this 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:57.520 music game is so tough. It's like if you do 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.800 something too young or too you know, to gimmicky along 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.840 with the same sort of thing. It just doesn't play, 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:06.520 you know, and and and that's that's the way it 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.960 should be. It's like, you know, that's why I stay 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:10.760 grinding on it until I until I find it. But 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.440 I'm really happy about the whole body of the album. 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.279 And some of those records it was just like tests. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.279 You know, they didn't necessarily task to test. But I 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.560 think the bars were about to drop right now. I 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.120 really feel good about them. That's true because you're old 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:24.800 enough when you do a record like pretty Young Thing, 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.720 you kind of come off as kind of creepy. Yeah, 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.839 I mean, yeah it, dude. I mean, man, you can't 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.000 you know, you put it to putty, this way to putty. 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.160 My my daughter be like, dad, don't don't. Don't get 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.760 too young on us now, Like I because I had 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.960 on some young shoes one time and she was like, Yo, 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.640 what's with them shoes? This is what the kids want? 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.279 She said, Dad, you got old, you got civil rights feet. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.520 You can't. You can't win a type of shoes, dad. 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.880 And it's true because sometimes I see some of my 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.880 homies to be out of this my age. But we're 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:57.360 still trying to you know, we're still up in the 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.480 club game. The shoe game be wrong. I'm like, especially 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.360 them shoes that have all of them, the spikes on them, 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.680 the buckles and zippers. Yeah, man, I look dog, the 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:09.240 shoes I had on if somebody smoked me into getting them, 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.839 like your fox dash, and then it looked like I 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.840 had on some ice skates and some click I'm playing 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.240 a football game on an ice skating ring. So I 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.240 was like, listen, I'm done with that. So she keeps 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.440 me a perspective on what to do. Now, jam you 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.120 talk about letting the stuff go. Now, why you just 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.520 don't go ball then? Because you be keeping that young headline? 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.040 You know? But but see that's the thing though, it's Hollywood, 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:33.160 so I gotta do that. Okay, Okay, my head, My 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.760 head ain't built like that. What is that, m planta? 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:37.240 What do you how do you do? No? No, that's 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:43.480 just that's just flotting. He'sagne. Now you want to make 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.240 up the things? I see that, Yeah, but I don't know. 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.000 I don't wear make up. But I want them headline 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:50.919 I want them headline tips. If you got them now, 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.800 all the great's got them headlines, you know, Lebron Fox 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.880 you know? Now? Why why back to music man what 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.240 you're doing so good with the movies and acting. Why 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.560 music again, That's what I wanted to do in the 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.479 first place. It's like when I came when I came 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.039 out here, like I actually when I got on The 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.479 Living Color, it was like, you know, the comedy sort 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.360 of hit first, and I feel like, you know, like 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.880 I laid down like tracks in comedy, like no one 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.640 could every race. But then it was like, how do 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.280 I been back to the music. I remember being on 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.200 The Living Color dressed as wand that Teddy Riley is 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:29.040 there and it's a brand new you know, I'm just 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.480 on the show for the first time, so he don't 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.120 really know who I am. So I went and grab 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.040 my cassette tape at that time, and I'm running down 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.680 the hallway because Teddy Riley's getting ready to leave. I'm like, yo, man, 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.640 I want you to I do music. He looked at 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.800 me like impossible, and I was like, oh snap. So 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.240 I had to sort of fight through all of that, 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.240 fight through all the comedy, fight through all the acting, 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.120 and get back to what I wanted to do in 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.880 the first place. And then you know, I run into 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.560 this cat name Kanye West, who's at my crib and 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.359 one of my house parties, and that the party was 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.360 like at that time, it was pub and it was 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.880 jay Z. It was real, all these cats, and he said, 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.640 I got the song called slow Jams I want you 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.120 to sing on. And then that's what changed everything, because 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:11.040 people who have viewed me as just the comedian or 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.960 whatever you they now see me as a singer. So 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.480 then you know, once the music start to drop, I said, oh, 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:17.880 this is where I want to be in the first place. 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.600 And now I'm in a comfortable position where I can drop. 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.600 I can't. I can't take the chances with it. You 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.680 know what I'm saying. Are you never gonna went back 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:30.000 to Kanye and did anything? I mean, you know, like this, 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.800 this is what I also do too. It's like sometimes 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.000 you know, like I don't know when you're doing so much. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.960 Sometimes it's just it ain't the right fit, you know 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.840 what I'm saying. But but hopefully hopefully, I mean, because 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:42.360 you know, I texted Man. You know, I'll be like, Yo, 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.480 what's up? Whatever? You know? I know you're in Paris. 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.120 What movie you got coming through the pipeline? Anything we 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.280 should be looking out for. I'll be honest with you. 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.560 I'm trying to figure everything out right now. But I 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.280 just went in with paramount with with with Mike Tyson. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.800 Some gonna do the Mike Tyson story last year that 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.400 you were signing on the play Mike Tyson. Listen man 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.880 to be in the same room pitching Mike Tyson a 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.240 pair of my Mike Tyson on one side, I'm on 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.320 the other side and doing Mike Tyson at the same 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.880 time and Martin Scorsese at the ham. So this will 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:17.160 be the first boxing movie that Martin Scorsese has done 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.080 since Raging Bull. So that's the thing that you sort 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.080 of like, Okay, okay, that's the one that's and this 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.760 is gonna be Mike Tyson, you know, Like I called 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.040 Mike like a year ago. I was like, Mike heysan 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.960 all praised it to our live. I'm happy. My brother said, 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.680 why we call that? We call I don't have any 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.160 money anymore And I said, why do you say that? 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.319 He said, because no one, no one can take anything 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.280 from me anymore. I'm just so happy to know of 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.680 U's trying to take anything from me. And I said, 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.880 that's the story. The story of the guy who, at 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.320 eighteen years old had sixty million dollars in his pocket 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.520 and everybody's trying to get it. And now the grown 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.200 guy who sits back and reflects on the whole thing 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.199 of like the money was the downfall. So and it's 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.400 not about Mike being you know, Mike Tyler is not 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.480 that flamboyant. It's him ordering his food, it's him talking 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.920 to his kids, it's him reflecting. So it's that's that's 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.360 the one thing. I'm the site back. But you know 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.720 how this I'm met Mike Tysons. I'm met Mike Tyson, 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.960 I'm on stage at twenty one twenty two. I go 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.040 to my Mike Tyson joke. Nobody laughs at all. I said, 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.040 what's up? And then the dude in the back said, yo, 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.480 Mike Tyson is in here. And I'm like, oh, snap man, 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.720 that's what he was knock and casting out for now. 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.040 He had that bullword sweatsuit, just knocking cast on the 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.920 street out. Then the dude said, yo, Mike said, do 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.880 the joke. It better be funny. So I do the joke. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.040 Get a standing ovation And I started hanging out with 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:35.839 Mike when like twenty one twenty two, when he was 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.559 riding around in Ferrari trucks and all kinds of stuff. 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.920 So I've seen it from a distance his whole life. 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.320 So now that's why it's gonna be so dope to 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.480 be able to to to embody that joint. And I'm 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.520 telling you, I'm ballooned up to like about two hundred 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.319 and five pounds and took the pictures and I'm telling 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.360 you it's like people are gonna be sitting next to me. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:54.760 Like I said, I wanted to be able to wear 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.200 his kids look at me and say that's daddy. Wow. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:58.840 All right, now you got that's a big thing because 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.480 you know, you did Ray, so you set the ball, 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.880 set the ball. But but that's but that's why I know, 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.199 like I know the formula. But see here to say, 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.079 after I did Ray, every old black man script that 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:10.760 was trying to give to they want to do Marm's. 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.079 They want to I was like, come on, man, it 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.960 was it was crazy. Absolutely, We appreciate you for checking in. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:17.600 You know, we support you. Next time you're in New York, 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.840 you gotta come up here. You gotta come see us soon. Man, man, 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.960 I'm coming. Thank you, Jamie and Hey, and go to 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.840 church and pray for Doug. Williams. Man, what happened? Go 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:27.559 to church and pray for Doug Williams. I think you 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.559 still got bad Calm on you for killing that boy. 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.520 Hey hey, but that was dark fall. Hey man, you 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.679 know how to look. Never let your comedy sword down. Man, 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.440 I always got mine, shot Jamie Fives ladies and gentlemen. 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.800 It's Breakfast Club. Good morning, Breakfast Club.