WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Jermaine Dupri Talks 'Freaknik,' Usher; Superbowl Performance, Magic City, Mase + More 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:02.520 Wake that ass up in the morning. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:03.680 Breakfast Club. 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:06.400 Morning everybody. It's the j n V. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:09.520 Jess hilarious Charlamage the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:13.280 We got a special guest in the building, legendary Jermaine Duprit. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:17.239 Yeah, going on, where you want to start? 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:21.880 You want to start the number one congratulations on money Long. 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:24.840 We can start with the number one, all right, number 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.880 one records, money Long, number one record this week produced 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:28.320 by j D. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.560 Yeah, that's nothing to you, no more, there's nothing. 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.080 Yeah, I'm saying no, no, I'm saying I don't want 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.320 to start with that. I came to talk about Freaknick. Congratulations. 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:39.919 You know what I'm saying. I'm I'm you know, I'm 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.159 a static about it. Yeah, you know it's amazing. 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.280 Now let's talk about Freakney. This Freaknick documentary. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:45.760 Yeah. 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.199 Now, when making a documentary, you had tons of ladies 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.440 and men scared that they were going to see their pictures, 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.080 their asses on the screen. But it was it was 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.480 well done. It wasn't done in a disrespectful way. It 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.800 was it was so explain to it, this documentary, how 0:00:58.800 --> 0:00:59.240 it came. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.760 Out, how it came up. Yeah, I mean it came about. 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:04.720 I think Luke was trying. 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.440 To do this initially, and then they started having conversations 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.800 about it, and Luke said, you know, he can't do 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:11.920 it if I wasn't involved. And then when they came 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.000 to talk to me about it, I said the same 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:15.520 thing to them. I'm like, well, I wouldn't do this 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:17.480 if Luke wasn't involved, and they like, well, we got Luke, 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.760 so we got you, and I'm like yeah. So it 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.480 went from there, and then it just kind of just 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.600 started moving pretty fast. And then I just wanted to 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:29.120 make sure that the story was told from all perspectives 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.080 because the people that was concerned about the ass is 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.240 showing and all of that, they don't understand how young 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:39.840 I was when Freaknick was actually popping. So my perspective 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.520 of freak Nick wasn't that perspective. I ain't see all 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.959 that because I wasn't able to get into the clubs 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:46.759 and all of this type of stuff. So my perspective 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:50.120 was I was part of the street traffic. I was 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.840 out in the streets, I was dancing outside the cars, 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.000 I was on p Street. I was that was a 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.440 part of freak Nick, and I saw other people saw 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.680 Luke got a different story than other people. So it's 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:01.760 just really important for me to see make sure that 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.440 we made you see everybody's different perspective. 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.400 How much did y'all have to water to duck down 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.679 because of this lame mass cancel culture. 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:09.000 Era that week? 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:09.320 None? 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.240 Because I mean you, I feel like I feel like 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.040 ultimately what people don't understand is this is black culture. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.280 Are you embarrassed by a culture? Like? Are you embarrassed 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.080 that you went to an HBCU And this is how 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:20.600 y'all act? 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.639 If that, If that's how you feel, then you should 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.200 just change your color of your skin, because this is 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:27.400 that's life in Atlanta. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:28.800 We got four you know what I mean? 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.280 Where everywhere else got one, y'all got Hampton and one. 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:33.560 We have four of them. 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:35.600 So if you put all of that energy in one place, 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:37.560 it's just what black culture is. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:38.120 Absolutely. 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.919 I mean, how did how did twenty one Savage get 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:42.800 to be a part of it? 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.720 I know that this was y'all era, you and Uncle Luke, 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:47.440 but how did. 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:49.480 Well twenty one? 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.639 He been doing his birthday party and the theme with 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.320 his birthday party is freak nick for the past couple 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:55.799 of years. 0:02:55.840 --> 0:03:00.240 So at first I was like no, But then you 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.120 know he liveing in Atlanta. 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:04.120 He from well, I mean, you know he's not from Atlanta, 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:05.680 but he from basically from Atlanta. 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.560 So if you're from Atlanta, you've. 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:13.000 Been you felt the repercussions of something from Freaknick at 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:13.520 some point. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.600 You know it's crazy because you know, going to Hampton. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:21.359 Of course, Freaknik created so many different uh gathereries right Philly, 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.480 greg Fourth to July and Virginia Jones Beach, New York City. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.920 It all started for Freaknick. But I just thought it 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.040 was a party that a party that was created just 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:31.640 for people a while out. That's what I thought it 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:32.959 was when when you were in college, that's what you 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.240 think it was. But the fact that it was created 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.720 for students that didn't have any money was something. You 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:39.000 want to break that down because I thought it was 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:40.440 created for a whole different reason. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.120 Well, I mean that's what I'm saying a lot of people. 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.240 I didn't go to college, so I can't you know 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:45.840 what I mean, I didn't know that either. So the 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.520 the person that's watching this, that's probably me that didn't 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.920 go to college. Uh, that don't know nothing about that lifestyle. 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.000 You know, you don't understand that these kids that come 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:58.440 from DC or New York or. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.000 Wherever they come, Nick all the way to Atlanta. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.880 You think that they got money to just fly back 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:04.360 home on spring break. 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:05.920 And just back then, we didn't fly. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:07.360 We would drive exactly. 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.080 So it's like even that's another thing that that. 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:16.479 This documentary shows of how unmanual we are as people. Unmanual, Yeah, 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:20.520 unmanual because we are as people because you guys. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.840 Used to drive. Now when you think you're. 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:25.760 Gonna see four girls from New York getting a car 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.400 and drive to Atlanta just to have fun, no way, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:29.760 never their lies. 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.920 You know what I'm saying. So it just shows you 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:34.159 that type of stuff. 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.800 And then like you know, so so you should see 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.200 that freak Nick is like, oh, these were some kids 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:40.159 that couldn't go home. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.520 They they didn't know what their spring break was gonna be. 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.680 Like they watching all these white kids go to go 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.240 to they on the beach and all this, and they 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.120 got money. But these kids are stuck in Atlanta and 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.719 ain't got no money. So they threw a picnic that 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:57.320 turned into Freaknick. That's a that's an American black history story. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.599 Oh, people weren't afraid to be broke back then. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.919 Well, I mean you have no true, no trust to 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:04.479 be afraid. 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.360 But no, nowadays people confront right, so everybody can pretend 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.440 to something that you can pretend to. 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:10.279 Have more than you got. 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.640 Nobody wants to mean they just you know they I mean, 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.599 well you yeah, you know, I'll be seeing these girls 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.520 go to tuloom and I'm sure they sharing rooms. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:25.560 Yeah, matter like that didn't you know what I'm saying. 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:26.680 It didn't matter Like you. 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.320 Would go to you know, Philly Greek or Fourth of 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.520 July and Virginia and it'd be seven of us in 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.919 the room and nobody thought about anything. It wasn't we 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:35.599 broke and be like, oh you got the floor, you 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.320 got the eye, you take your quick shout. But that's 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.440 what it was. It was all hanging out his brothers. 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:40.000 It didn't matter. 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:41.440 That's why I thought it was for me. 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.440 That's why as we got into it, that's why I 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.960 was like, this has to come out because people, you know, 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.400 we don't we don't see this in black culture. We 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.520 just keep trying to make it seem like everybody got 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.840 money and everybody do this and nothing. No, it was 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.640 a time when none of that mattered, right, And after 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:58.760 I liked when Jalen Rose was somebo how he got 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.400 to freak Nick. He he took his cousin car or something, 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.160 and it was just like, you know, as long as 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.000 I get a car, I'm out, we get into freaking it. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:08.440 And that was the same thing with me when I 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:13.039 was seventeen or well six, chem I had just got 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.359 my first car. My first car was a Valari, a 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:19.520 two door Valori basically probably listening don't even know what 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.960 that is. But it was an ugly ass car that 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:25.880 looked like a Pacer mixed with something else, right, And I. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:27.120 Ain't care what the car looked like. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:31.400 I just was able to drive around Atlanta while this 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:32.039 was happening. 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:32.680 And that's all. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.120 That's ultimately what your the goal was. Can you get 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:40.560 into the Freakingnick? Can you get into traffic? If you're 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:41.960 sitting at home and you can't get it, and that's 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:43.920 when you're mad. But if you have a car, that's 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:45.279 what all. That's all it was about. 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:47.080 It's crazy how. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.360 They easily cancel black events. Right while you look at 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.240 Daytuna Beach, you look at Miami spring Break, you look 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.760 at where the white kids go for their spring break 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:57.880 and they wild out, they get drunk, they fight, and 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.679 all types of stuff, but those events never get canceled. 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.440 It seemed like they tried to tame it, but they 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.400 just totally canceled freaking it, which is which is crazy. 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:09.279 I mean they had to because it was it was bad. 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.080 I mean, it got to a point now and I'm 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:15.080 not talking about the misconduct with the guys and the girls. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.640 I'm talking about just the traffic and how the city 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:22.640 was dealing with it, because ultimately, these guys that was 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.040 at their school they started something. They never talked to 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.000 the people in the city, so the city had no 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.320 idea what was actually happening. When it got out of control, 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.680 they just start trying to control it the best way 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.640 they could. But they weren't even talking to the DC 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.120 Metro Club, right, So it's like at that point, it's 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.280 like it's like, uh, Frankenstein, You've gone created a monster 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.520 and y'all can't control this. You got the only thing 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.240 you can do is shut it down at least for 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.679 a second and try to see if y'all can figure 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:52.680 out how to make it work. 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.960 Did it ever come back? No, And we tried a 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.040 couple of years ago. Now I don't think. 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.840 I mean, I think it could come back if you 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.680 off people really really sit down and figure out how 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:07.080 to make it into essence Fest, because that's basically what 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.400 it should have become. It should have become the essence 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.440 Fest of Atlanta, right. But the traffic part of it 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.160 was that was the. 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.800 Ship more than people who go to others now probably 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:19.240 used to go to Freaking. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.040 All the black people was at Freaking. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.160 You just got to define the name because when people 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.360 hear the name Freaknick, they think it's gonna be a yeah. 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:28.800 But I'm saying we can get past that. We got 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:29.720 Slutty Vegan now. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.280 I don't think it's too much cameras now, Yeah, but 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:38.200 that's another thing. 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.040 I think that that's That's the other thing. That's the 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:40.720 only thing I would say. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.040 If you go to Freaknick, now, you gotta put your 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:44.800 phone away because you have missed the girls dancing on 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.520 the cars, like the fact that you was driving down 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.600 the street and you were looking for everything. 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.320 It's how you saw freaking it. 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.080 If somebody down there doing this, you're gonna miss everything. 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.959 So that's another thing you gotta you. 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.400 Know, And maybe the hype of it and people saying 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.800 it might make people want to see it. But I 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.720 just think people are so like attached to their phones 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.520 and they think everything is more important than their phone, 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.920 as opposed and seeing what's happening outside. 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.360 And how come nobody ever focuses on some of the 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.360 women that went down there because they wanted to have 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.480 a good time, Like they wanted to go out there 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.280 and be loose and wild and liberated. 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.120 Yeah, we talked about that, Okay, we let the girls 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.760 talk about that the show that they was grabbing the dudes. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:34.320 You know, you think Uncle. 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.880 Luke's music helped hurt Freaking. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:39.719 I helped? You said, did it help? 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:45.640 It helped between Uncle Luke and Social Based All Stars. 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:47.480 That's the soundtrack of Freaknick, you know what I mean? 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:48.040 And it was like. 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:56.839 I think, I also think now with Miami shutting down, 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.640 spring Break and all that, it's the music because the 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:04.160 people don't You don't have nothing's making you dance, right, 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.280 nothing making you jump on top of the cars. You 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.960 see people doing it, but they doing it to music 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:15.000 that don't really have that vibration. Right at Freakingnick, the 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.680 girls was dancing so hard and the guys was dancing 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:18.200 so hard. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.679 You ain't had time to be worrying about nobody beside like. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.800 It was a the energy level was just too high, right, 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.679 And I just think the loop music, like I said, 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.400 the social debased Allso the music was making you dance 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.760 in a different space and it made you think about 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.080 like you was like this and it wasn't You don't 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.520 have time to be like hey niggas, No, no, you 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.240 know what I mean. We ain't come down here for that. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.360 We came down here to see these girls. Let's go 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:44.880 see these girls. 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.240 It's almost like the mentality of. 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.680 A man when you go to the strip club. Right, 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:50.679 I go to strip club every week. You go to 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.800 the strip club. Guys don't come in the strip club 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.880 looking for niggas, right, They come in the strip club 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:58.200 to see the girls. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:10:58.679 Right. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.720 That was the mentality a freak Knick, And for some reason, 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.240 that's that's kind of lost in the space that we 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:05.880 live in now. 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:07.800 Niggas want to go see what other nigga's wearing. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:14.480 Speaking of that, speaking of that, if Freak Nick did 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.320 come back to day, would you wear the boss Baby outfit? 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.040 You wore the super Bowl boss Baby outfit? 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:23.480 What was it? What was what was the What was 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.040 the inspiration behind that outfit? Gee? 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.240 First of all, I had on a tuck seed though 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.959 with shorts very similar to what. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:32.760 I have on to day. 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:36.120 I have on a tie, a regular suit shirt and 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:36.920 I got on shorts. 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.040 It's very boised men. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:43.760 Yeah, and it's Vegas, right, you know what I'm saying. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.160 It's it's a super Bowl. It's the biggest event in 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.280 the world. I could have went up there with the 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:52.040 started jacking and started hat how regular nigga is that? 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:52.400 Though? 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.000 Like I'm just saying, I think sometimes people don't realize, 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.400 like I'm in an entertainment business and I'm getting ready 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:03.120 to do the biggest show of Usher's life, not in 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.240 my life. I guess you want to say, We're going 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.880 on the biggest stage in the world and I should 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.720 be wearing a baseball cap and looking like a regular 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.800 ass nigga in the streets. Nah, Nah, I don't. I mean, 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.240 that's that was the thought behind it, right. So it 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.240 was more or less like you know, a while ago, 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.920 like enviewer Man, we started this thing called the Ocean seven, right, 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.200 and it was me Usher, John ta becox All. We 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.480 used to go to Vegas and we got dressed and 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.800 we'd be dressed up. So I wanted to actually have 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.319 a piece of that in what we was doing that, 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.559 you know, we in Vegas. Like, you don't go to 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.080 Usher show. I've seen you at us show. You was 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.680 dressed you you know what I mean. Niggas go to 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.240 his show dressed up. You don't go to Vegas with 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:50.160 your football on. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:53.160 You just don't do that. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.520 Like you didn't get people talking. Basically, no, I didn't 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:56.960 do it to get people talking. I didn't even think 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:58.600 nobody was gonna pay no attention to it. I had 0:12:58.600 --> 0:12:59.440 on a tux seed. 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.800 Though with a tip and a regular shirt. The socks 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:03.559 strew people off. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:05.719 They were talking about they't they didn't care about the tuck. 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:06.480 They were talk about the socks. 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.760 They were talking about the socks, right, and the socks 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.120 once again, the socks. I understand why if I keep 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.880 saying something about the socks, because they do look like 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.240 I guess what they say the Bobby socks. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.240 Yeah, but they not. They don't have nothing to do 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:22.720 with that. They don't look nothing like that. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.760 Once you get up on the socks and they also 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.600 you know, like I said, it's just I don't know, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.840 it's my man's line right. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.840 First of all, that's another thing for else. 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.920 My man ain't doubt niggas man, right, I don't notice nigga. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:42.200 So in support of my homeboy line, I mean, I 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:43.320 wasn't even thinking about it. 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:44.240 You know, it just happened. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.880 But I mean, shit, listen, I put my first group 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.360 out of nineteen ninety two. I'm trending in twenty twenty four. Yeah, 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.280 y'all can say whatever you want to say. 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:53.520 They'll got number one records. 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:57.320 What did User's Super Bowl halftime performance mean to you? 0:13:58.600 --> 0:13:59.000 Everything? 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.480 As the architect, really, if we're being honest. 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.760 Yeah, everything. It means everything because when we made My. 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:08.160 Way, the discussion, the discussion that he and I had 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:10.560 making that record was that he. 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.200 Wanted to get to that space. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.760 He wanted to and when he once he got to 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.480 that space, he wanted people to realize he did it 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.520 his way. That's how that whole album came about. So 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.800 for me to be in that seat and watch it 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.280 go from My Way to this, I probably was the 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.440 most proud. And then at the same time, I mean, 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:33.040 you know, he did six of my songs on Super Bowl. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.560 It's like, you know, it's not a bunch of bugs 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.960 that could say crazy. They had six of these songs 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:39.120 performed on Super Bowl. 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.040 I argue with somebody up here the other day when 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.280 when they heard Confessions, right, younger person and they were like, yeah, 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.560 he wrote Confession. I was like, you know, Confessions was 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.520 about Jaine Dupre that Jamine Dupre wrote that that's factual. 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.840 Yeah, okay, so yeah, So I mean I wrote you 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:52.280 Make Me. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.480 Want to, I wrote my Way, I wrote Nice and Slow. 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.800 I wrote Confessions. I wrote you Got It Bad, I 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.880 wrote my Boo. I wrote all these songs. I mean, 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:01.920 you know, people be like breaking it down when they 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.600 talk about it, and they say Confessions, but nice and Slow, 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.480 all these songs I wrote, you know what I mean, Like, 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.440 so it's just the story of Confessions. I think took 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.360 over and it was like I was that guy. I 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:16.920 was the person that was in that position. 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.520 But it happened right when he broke up with Chili. 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.200 So people were just assumed that he was writing it 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:22.760 about Chili. 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.200 Yeah, but that was your story, yeah for something. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.600 Yeah, And I mean even when writing there, I didn't 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.200 think about I wouldn't even think about that. You know, 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.000 you just go to the studio, you write songs, it's 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:35.000 not even about I mean, sometimes you have a motive 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:35.400 behind it. 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.320 But we was trying to just follow up. I know, 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:39.800 I was. I was trying to follow up. You got 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:40.120 it back. 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.160 It just came off eighty seven to one, and it 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.440 was a big album, So it was like, what y'all 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:45.160 gonna do this time? 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.480 Is usually the biggest jewel in your crown? The biggest 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.000 what the biggest jewel in your crown? 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.640 I don't know. I mean Mariah Carey song Song of 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:55.280 the Decade. 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.080 Yeah, that Pasion was a monster. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.520 I don't know, I don't know. There's a couple in there. 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.960 I mean, he's definitely. Well, let me say this. 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:12.440 Rolling Stone said that Russia's is the I mean Confessions 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.200 is the R and B the number one R and 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.760 B record of this twenty first century, right or twentieth century, 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.240 whatever it is, twenty first century. So I mean, if 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.320 that's the if that's a true statement, then I guess so. 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.200 I mean that's a big record. That's a big statement. 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:30.320 Do you think Atlanta as a whole is getting documented properly? 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:30.680 No? 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.400 That's why another reason why I want to make sure 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.920 that this documentary gets the stage that is on shout 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:40.760 out to Hulu Disney mass Appeal for actually allowing us 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:44.560 to finally tell our story on this stage, because just 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:48.240 the first story from the South that's ever been told. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:50.800 And when I say that, I said that south by 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.640 Southwestern people was like what And I'm like, what's the 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:55.960 what's in Atlanta story that you know? 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.760 What's the Southern story that you know? You from the South? 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.160 What what stories do we have that people know about 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.560 the South? Besides at l is not a story of 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.359 of the South, of the South riseing the culture hip hop. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.360 This is the first time that we get a story 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.159 about our culture and how outcast popped? 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:20.120