1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: Money. We are say take we are a party. Think Hey, 2 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: what's going on? My name is tank U and DC 3 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: is the Army Money Podcast. You know nothing about writing songs. 4 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: You know nothing about writing hits. You're not from the 5 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:42,319 Speaker 1: car being either you are? I am not either. I 6 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:47,279 Speaker 1: have been there. We have today on the pod. One 7 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: of the most electrifying talents that we got a scene. 8 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: He writes it, he sings it, he feels it deeply 9 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: in the building on that No, I love it. I 10 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 1: love yeah you guys, I feel it. You got nicer, don't? Yes? Yes, 11 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: encourage me? Yes. Virgin Islands right yeah. St. Thomas Virgin Islands. St. 12 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: Thomas Virgin Island home with Tim Duncan. Yeah, Tim Duncan 13 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: from St. Croix. But a good friend. Big up to 14 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: Tim Duncan. That's why. Um, his team was the Spurs 15 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: is my favorite team until he left. We didn't we 16 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,759 Speaker 1: don't have a team. We had one player, Tim Duncan. 17 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: So I was a Spurs fans. One player. Yeah, yeah, 18 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 1: we had one superstar player, which is Tim Duncan from St. Croix. 19 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 1: And I was a Spurs fan until he retired. Wow, 20 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: and now I'm just like, you know, basketball was on 21 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: the TV. Give me, give me, give me. That was 22 00:01:48,720 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: very coming to America town. Yes, I know. Okay, come down, 23 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: bow that's good, that's good. Give me give me because 24 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: we have so much to unpack. Bro, you've done so 25 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 1: much marvelous work in this in this music industry than 26 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 1: you are. You are well respected and and and very 27 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:29,679 Speaker 1: much called upon, oh Man to deliver. Yeah, like you're 28 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: one of the guys. It's like you know, for for 29 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: for record companies are sing we need it. Yeah. No, 30 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: he's a designated hitter. Designated No what ain't ain't a 31 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: sports sports whatever whatever. So a designated hitter is somebody 32 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: that they put in baseball. They put in the game 33 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: to get hits. They're like, okay, this guy, we need 34 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: a hit right now. That's it. It's the d H. 35 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 1: They only have it on one side of for some 36 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,639 Speaker 1: weird reason. It's only in the American League. I don't 37 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: think it's in the in the National League. But yep, 38 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: this is what this guy is paid to do. Listen, 39 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: we need a hit right now. You've been sitting on 40 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: the bench the entire game, and when I put you in, 41 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: I believe you're going to hit the ball. They've been 42 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: working with other people. Yeah, for a year and a half. Yeah, 43 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: and then they called we got the body of work 44 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 1: we need hear my accent you this is school. We 45 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: need to designated hitter. What was give me growing up 46 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: in the Virgin You're Timothy? Give me and my shout 47 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: out to Timothy. Shout out to my brother, Timothy, one 48 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:45,839 Speaker 1: of my favorite human beings in the world. I love 49 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: you if you're watching this. Um growing up in St. Thomas. 50 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: So we we started out, me and my brother started 51 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: out living in a in a shock, which was the 52 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: place that my mom was raised with her nine sisters 53 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: and one brother. And then my mom, my mom, and 54 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: my dad end up staying there. So we lived there 55 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: and my mom got really really mad at my dad 56 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: because she was mad like why am I still in 57 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: the place my childhood place? You ever seen the Sorry 58 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: ms Jackson video by outcasts that house, so you know, 59 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: our door couldn't close. We had a tied close. The 60 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: bathroom was outside with no lights. We had to take 61 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: bats before six pm because it would go dark. Um. 62 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: There was holes in the floor, so we had straight 63 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: dogs or straight cats or animals just crawl inside the house. 64 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: And you know, my dad was a trash man, so 65 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: he would get our beds from the trash came. But 66 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:40,679 Speaker 1: we never had, uh, the bed spring or the head boarder, 67 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: We never had none of that. We just had the 68 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: Master Masters, you know what I'm saying. But it had 69 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: the little things in it, so it would poke you 70 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: when you sleep, you know what I'm saying. So me 71 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: and my brother would argue on which side somebody would sleep, 72 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: you know, and um, you know me. You know, I'm 73 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 1: forty now, and you know, and my brother and I 74 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:01,279 Speaker 1: shared a bed until I was about years old, you 75 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: know what I mean. And that's a funny that's a 76 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 1: funny story because I'm gonna jump back. But we share 77 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: the bed because we got an apartment in Atlanta when 78 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 1: we finally got our own place, two bedroom and we're 79 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 1: in our bedrooms yelling at each other, like yo, what 80 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: are you doing? And I also watched that movie what 81 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 1: are you doing? I texting some girl my boy this 82 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: folk feed wear dog. Yeah, and I just went in 83 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: my brother room and we we share the bed to 84 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: the point that our best friend lost his apartment and 85 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: we let him stay in the other room. Were using 86 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,600 Speaker 1: that Yeah, like yo, bro, you could yo you can 87 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: come and you can help pay bills to ship bring 88 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: groceries in this mouth. Yeah. So you know, so we 89 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: started in a shack. My mom was mad, you know, 90 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: somewhat broke up with my My dad was like, you 91 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: gotta get it together. You you know what I'm saying. 92 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: We can't be living like this with our kids. And um. 93 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: They used to be a project in St. Time. It's 94 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: called Do New or do New cut right, and it's 95 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: my aunt. My mom's sister Natalie lived up there with 96 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 1: my cousin or Shanna Kelly and Kelly, So they lived 97 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 1: in do So we went to stin Done with my 98 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: aunt and I remember my dad coming to surprise us 99 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 1: because you know, him and my mom wasn't really messing 100 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: with each other. Well they you know, they got back 101 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: and then, um, oh my god, I'm so sorry I'm 102 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: being here. Yeah, so um they both Um, My my 103 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: dad went to my mom was like, YEO, I got 104 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: a surprise for you, and I'm like, hey, everybody, come on, 105 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 1: and you know, so we got in the car and 106 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,359 Speaker 1: he drove us to where we grew up. It's a 107 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: project in ST Time. It's called housing. The politically correct 108 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: name is Oswald Harris Court. So you drove us to housing, 109 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: brought us in there in St. Thomas apartments. Don't coming 110 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: nothing in it? You know. Like when we moved to 111 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: the States and we had a c we was like, y'ah, 112 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: nigg is rich. What do you mean, I don't come 113 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: with nothing. It just comes with walls, concrete walls. There's 114 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: no fridge or stove or washer or no, it don't 115 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: come with nothing in it. It's walls. You gotta buy 116 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: every thing. So when we any anywhere you move, you 117 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: have to have I mean all the appliances with you, 118 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: I want to say, other places. So when we moved 119 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: in and Bro, so we're coming from the shock, ain't 120 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 1: no holes in the floor, ain't no straight you know 121 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: to us, Bro moving on up? Hey, we me and 122 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: my you know, we little too. We gotta be like 123 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: six or seven, seven and eight, just like whoa look 124 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: at these walls. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. 125 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: And and and we grew up there, so you know, 126 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: so growing up in the projects. But it's different. Man, 127 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: how important it is to have a dad because we 128 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 1: had our mom and our dad. So we're in the 129 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: hood now and all our friends, you know, whose mom 130 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: go to work and their dad ain't there. They they 131 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: street niggas, and they you know that my walking with them, 132 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: my little knife for you know what I'm saying. They're 133 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: selling their little weed and ship. And we're talking about 134 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: ten eleven, twelve years old type sure, right, you know. 135 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: And m me and my brother is just like our 136 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 1: dad got us into music, you know, nine years old. 137 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: I remember watching I remember seeing Criss Cross on TV 138 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: because we started out as backup dancers for a local 139 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: hip hop group called uh Rock Sand and Katie or Cody, 140 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: I was messed up the name, but it's Rock Sand 141 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: and something. And we would be dancing because you know, 142 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: back then, everybody in the eighties, everybody was dancing and ship, 143 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: you know. And we're dancing and then next thing, you know, 144 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: criss Cross comes out and I'm screaming to the top 145 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: of my lungs. Mommy, they run in. I want to 146 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: do that. That right there, that's what I want to do. 147 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: My Dad's like, okay, my dad is like, this is 148 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:44,119 Speaker 1: how I'm gonna get my son's out of the projects. 149 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 1: They're gonna get out the projects doing that. And he 150 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: would just take us through the island performing doing stuff 151 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: and and you know, and so I end up writing 152 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 1: because this dude used to write for us, this high 153 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: school kid, right, and then he just was like, man, 154 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: I don't want to do that no more. I want 155 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: to be a solo artist and focus on myself. So 156 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: my dad is like, y'all gotta write your own songs. 157 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: And nobody could ever write a song for you ever. Again, 158 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: it was like because he put you on a weird spot. 159 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 1: And so I started to get into it because I 160 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: had an English teacher that introduced me to poetry and 161 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: I just had a fascination with words rhyming. Man, I 162 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: thought that was the coolest thing in the world. And 163 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: so you know, I started writing songs. I brought a 164 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 1: song to my dad. He's like, man, I'm telling you 165 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: that well, it's like a poem, but I tried to 166 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 1: add melody. He was like, this is crazy. He's like, 167 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: I'm telling you're amazing. And I remember writing my first song, right, 168 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: my first song ever. I was twelve years old. I 169 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: still remember it. So it's like, um, fresh shot done, 170 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: fresh hot, depressed on their their boy for test, put 171 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: them to the test. Test. A lyric called test Lyrics 172 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 1: from memot may not give your less Alis sexy or 173 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: my Nie for fiel up mit chest because it's me again, Yes, 174 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: smithcome fresh. And then I just thought I was the 175 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 1: greatest thing that ever happened to me. Just I don't 176 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: even know that. I don't know great to me. So 177 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: so yeah, you know with me and my brother, we're 178 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: a group. We're going around with doing shows. Is the 179 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: biggest fan, he's your he's your first super fan. He's 180 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:27,079 Speaker 1: he's the first super fan. He the greatest man that 181 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: ever lived on this plant off. Yeah, he's the great 182 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: human being I've ever met in my life. And and 183 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: he's like, this is what you're gonna do. And he 184 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:37,079 Speaker 1: was like, yo, when you grow up, you're gonna be 185 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 1: writing songs with baby Face. You know that's crazy. I 186 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: had a crazy emotional moment because my dad had passed. 187 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: And then I wrote a song with baby Face and 188 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: I called my brother crying and I was like, I said, Timothy, 189 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: I'm not sad. I'm not sad, I'm just so happy. 190 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 1: How did he know? Yeah, because he told me this 191 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: when I was a little boy, Like, hey, baby Face 192 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: on you know, singing and out. He's like, oh, you're 193 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,079 Speaker 1: gonna see you're gonna be writing songs and singing with them. 194 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: And he refused to let us compete with people from 195 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 1: the Virgin Islands. You know, my dad used to be 196 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: like yo. My dad would be like he was a gangster. 197 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: You're like yo, Now, these fucking people they never make it. 198 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: You can't compete with somebody that never do. Your competition 199 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:21,439 Speaker 1: is the jay Zy and THEMN people on TV. If 200 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: you ain't boy on them, we ain't or never leave 201 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: this place. He used to make us rehearse two hours 202 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: a day, you know what I'm saying every day, so 203 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: we couldn't go outside of play unless we make him 204 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: stand up. So my dad would sit there, me and 205 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 1: my brother start saying and he would be like, terrible, 206 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: I'm your father and I love you. You can't make 207 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: me move. How are you gonna make a stranger move? 208 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: I'm like, So he's like, I need to see the 209 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: show every time. So we keep getting intenser and intensor, 210 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: and then he will stand up. Yes, this is why 211 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 1: need This is the only way you're gonna do it. 212 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: And so you know, so if you ever had the 213 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: opportunity to see me and my brother live, we're like 214 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: you know, we're like jumping exactly and just do that. 215 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: That's why. So, you know, not knowing that songwriting as 216 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,679 Speaker 1: a job, you know. So we became the biggest group 217 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 1: in the Virgin Islands. But again, my dad is like, 218 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 1: I've never seen nothing like this. People would ask us 219 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 1: for autographs. Yo. We live in the projects. We're poor. 220 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 1: I had my first job at twelve. I worked at 221 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 1: a grocery store with bad groceries and get tips and 222 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 1: bring home bread and cheese to help my mom, help 223 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: my mom with a light bill. Like we was. We 224 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 1: didn't have nothing. So yeah, but bro, I remember I 225 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: got my first job, like real job where I could 226 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 1: get a paycheck at foot locker and girl and I 227 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: got fired at foot locker because girls would come to 228 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: foot locker and be like perform yeah, and be like, 229 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: oh my god, can you give me an autograph? You know? 230 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:50,079 Speaker 1: Or back then they didn't have camera phones, bro, they'd 231 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: have the little um disposable cameras and be like, yo, 232 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: let me take a picture with you in the in 233 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 1: the uniform. Yeah you got the referee. Yeah. And I'd 234 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: be like and my dad would be like, bro, y'all 235 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: are special. I've never seen nothing like that, Yeah, y'all 236 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: ain't on TV day day was. They thought we were somebody, 237 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: and we did that until so when we graduated out 238 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: of high school, our parents give us the choice. They said, 239 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: if y'all go to college. As parents, we have to 240 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 1: try to help y'all. We don't we don't know how, 241 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: but we're gonna help y'all. But if y'all don't want 242 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 1: to go to college and y'all want to go pursue 243 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: your dream, y'all a man, and then you gotta figure 244 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: it out. It was like, I'm like, I hated school. 245 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 1: I was like, I could do what everybody wants. Oh. Man, 246 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: I got on the first thing smoking. I told my brother, hey, 247 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 1: bet we moved to Miami. Baby. It was the cheapest 248 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: plane ticket. So that was the closest It's the closest place. 249 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: So we got on a plane and we went to 250 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 1: Miami and m my my dad's half brother lived there, 251 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: my uncle Trent, who passed, and um, he was in 252 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 1: Florida and he had like a one bedroom condo. So 253 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: he was like, man, I don't really have room for y'all. 254 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: Y'all can stay as long as y'all want, but I 255 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: know this ain't comfortable, and my cousin O'shanna, that's the 256 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,320 Speaker 1: closest thing I have to assist him. My aunt Natalie 257 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: from Donal, her daughter, She was like, I would love 258 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: for y'all to stay with me, but I got like 259 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:17,439 Speaker 1: female roommates. But her boyfriend at the time, his name 260 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: was Jason Roberts. Jason was trying to start a record 261 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: label and he was the biggest, biggest fan of me 262 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: and my brother musically, so he's like, oh, they can 263 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: stay with us. But he had five roommates, so we 264 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: used to so we used to sleep in his dining 265 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: room on a blanket. But again, me and my brother, 266 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 1: we like, come from that, bro. We came listen, bro, 267 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying. We come from nothing. Brother, 268 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: this is this is as long as we got somewhere 269 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: to sleep and we stay there. And we was like, yo, man. 270 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: Ten months later, Miami wasn't working out. It was like 271 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: nothing ain't moving. He was like, yo, we can move 272 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: to Atlanta or New York, Like all right, while saying that. 273 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 1: A promoter from St. Thomas that lived in Atlanta, one 274 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: of my dad's closest friends, name is Perella, calls us 275 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: on the phone and said, hey, Yo, there's a big 276 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: show in Atlanta that I'm trying to do. Them pay 277 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: you and your brother two hundred fifty dollars and give 278 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 1: you a hotel. It was like okay, hung up the 279 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: phone and I said, to be moving to Atlanta. Um, 280 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: this is too, this is oh one, We're moving to 281 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: Atlantic yeah for this two fifty because because you know, 282 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: you know, my my my high school sweetheart with my 283 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 1: girlfriend at the time, was there, and so we go there. 284 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: You know, she had a job and credit and ship, 285 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: so she was a person that could like get an 286 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: apartment and you know, and we we had one night 287 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: in the hotel and two d and fifty dollars and 288 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: we was like, yo, we gotta figure out how to 289 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 1: make money. But we was like, we're not gonna get jobs, 290 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:46,640 Speaker 1: are you crazy? Bro? We came here to do music. 291 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: So we found out in Atlanta they'll be doing talent 292 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: shows and you can win. So we started to do 293 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: talent shows and then we want no life. We want 294 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: every single talent show except for this one talent show, 295 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 1: which to this day, I really feel like we got cheated. 296 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 1: But it's all good, you know what. I'm saying, but 297 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: it's all good and um. What happened was we won 298 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: so much that it was like, hey guys, you guys 299 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 1: can only be special guests. You can't compete no more. 300 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: And we was like, bro, were only here for the money, 301 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 1: like we you know, none of these people don't practice 302 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: like we practice. We practice every day like me, my 303 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: brother and I DJ Benny, one of my best friend, Benny, 304 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 1: we rehearsed every day, like what, no, Bro, what you 305 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 1: were hurting for? What do you mean for a show? 306 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 1: What show? Whenever one come, we just would rehearse. So Bro, 307 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: we got on stage, we woul whoop everybody asked, and 308 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: we would win, and we would win. No, we knew 309 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: we was gonna win. We were so confident, call it arrogance, 310 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. Before the show, we 311 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: would be like, okay, so tonight we're gonna win two fifty. 312 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: Benny's light bill is one, so we're gonna let him 313 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: get that, and Benny, you're gonna let me and Timothy 314 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: get the rest because we gotta put some groceries in 315 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: our refrigerator and we're gonna bust it down like that. 316 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: We're good with that. Oh yeah, we were going there. Yeah, 317 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,199 Speaker 1: we we just you know, that's and then they literally 318 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: just like, oh man, we love y'all, man, but y'all 319 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: y'all can't compete. People don't want to sign up no 320 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: more because they like, anytime they see your name, they're like, 321 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: come on, bro, we're not we're not being them. Yeah, 322 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 1: And so you know, we're going through the motions and 323 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 1: what's not so lifestart, you know, you know when real 324 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: life happens. Bro, My my my, my high school sweet 325 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: at the time time gets pregnant. My brother went back 326 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 1: to St. Timas like this music ain't really gonna work. 327 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: I gotta grow up, you know what I mean? And 328 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 1: this is after how long in Atlanta? How you know? 329 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: Just how long have you been in America at this point? 330 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: A couple of years. It's about four years, four years, 331 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: about four years in or something like that. Um I 332 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 1: want to say, is about four years because um no, 333 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: no, no no, no, I'm lying yeah, yeah, because it's like, um, 334 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 1: two thousand one to my daughters born in two thousand three, 335 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: my brother back in St. Thomas, you know, and I 336 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 1: want to quit music at this point. I'm like everybody 337 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 1: keeps telling me how good I am they lying? And 338 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 1: I don't like that. I wish they would tell me 339 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: what I was doing wrong, because if they did, I 340 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:13,120 Speaker 1: would change it. But oh, man, is so awesome. I'm 341 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: not awesome. I ain't making no money. People who are 342 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: awesome are making money. So I need to know what's 343 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: the problem is so I could fix it. And my 344 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 1: manager Ray, you know, y'all know Ray right. Let me 345 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 1: tell you how I met Ray. Ray. Ray and I 346 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: have been friends for nineteen years. This is the first 347 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 1: time I ever met him. My daughter's mother is pregnant 348 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: with my daughter. She ain't born yet. We got the 349 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,679 Speaker 1: two bedroom apartment in the East side of Atlanta in 350 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 1: a place called Polo Club, and this dude named Mike 351 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: cal who wants I was broke, couldn't buy nothing for 352 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 1: my daughter's mom, so I used to write her love songs. 353 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: I still got a backpack full of songs that I 354 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:51,880 Speaker 1: just I used to write love songs. And she'll come 355 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: home from work and I'll be singing, and she'd be like, 356 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 1: I don't want no song. I want you to get 357 00:18:56,119 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 1: a job. You know what I'm saying. No, no, no, no, no, 358 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: no no no no no. I mean, you know at 359 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 1: the time, keeping it all the way from she was right, 360 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: But I'm just but you know, you know, sometimes sometimes 361 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 1: you gotta be stupid for your dream in order for 362 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,400 Speaker 1: it to work, you know what I'm saying. So I'm 363 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:18,640 Speaker 1: in there writing love songs or whatever, and Ray comes 364 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 1: in and Michael says, Yo, this the dude I was 365 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: telling you about in the group with his brother. Remember, 366 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: artists need us to be too equipped, he said to equip. 367 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:30,879 Speaker 1: Ray said, oh yeah, man, I heard about your niggas. Man, 368 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 1: that's what you're doing, whacking fuck in my house the 369 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: first time I've ever met him. Within the first five minutes, 370 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: I said. Michael says, you know what, then you're doing? Bro? 371 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: I said, hold on, why do you think it's whack? 372 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 1: He said, come on, Bro, he saw breaking it down 373 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: to me. I said, Bro, can you tell me more 374 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:53,879 Speaker 1: about that? He's like yeah. Michael was like, Bro, I 375 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:55,399 Speaker 1: need you to bring him in the city tomorrow. Man, 376 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 1: I want him to write with me. Bro. He's like, hey, man, 377 00:19:58,200 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: he wants me to drive it, but I ain't really gotta. 378 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: That's like to be riding around Ray broke two. I said, hey, 379 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: now I got an extra room. You can stay he said, 380 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:06,640 Speaker 1: you just met me. I said, you the first person 381 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: I ever met that I feel honest. Wow, that mean 382 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 1: that that man stayed at my house. He's been my 383 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,440 Speaker 1: friend for nineteen years since that day. Wow, no ship, 384 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 1: that's how he became I would have never thought that's 385 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 1: how he became my friend because he told me what 386 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: I needed to hear at the time, and I took 387 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 1: it and it changed my life, changed my mind. Look, 388 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 1: just came wrong. We're back, baby, We're back, lady, We're back. 389 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. The lights ain't going on. 390 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 1: Everybody good. And now from this point on, we're like, okay, 391 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 1: now that space ourselves. Yeah, you know, let pace ourselves. 392 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: You know, we plan on being here for a long time. 393 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 1: We've been there for a long time. We was like, yo, relax, 394 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 1: were played them being there for a long time, you 395 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 1: know what I mean. And after that, I want to say. 396 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:08,359 Speaker 1: Ray comes to me and he said, yo, man, I 397 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 1: think y'all should I think y'all should stop trying to 398 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,639 Speaker 1: be artists. Like, damn, what do you mean? He's like, 399 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: if we get hot at songwriting, they're gonna want to 400 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 1: give us whatever we want. But we gotta be hot 401 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:26,200 Speaker 1: at something like, man, that actually makes sense? Right again, Man, 402 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: raise a great coach, brother. So y'all go full throttle songwriting, 403 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 1: nigger all the way in and we write a song. 404 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,639 Speaker 1: Let me see what are the songs we can't stop? 405 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: Twenty three poured up all of the all of the same, 406 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:50,359 Speaker 1: all around the same exact time. Up my god, Yeah yeah, okay, 407 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: let's go up. I remember I was at I want 408 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:04,879 Speaker 1: to say gray Stone could be great, I think, and 409 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 1: that motherfucking be dropped and they said part of part. 410 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 1: I said, oh my god, what the fuck is that? 411 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 1: So I have a bunch of so so the way 412 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 1: that I look at music, I have a bunch of theories, 413 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 1: and I wrote and when I did pour it up. 414 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 1: The problem that I had with music is that whenever women, 415 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 1: whenever female songs came on, man left the dance floor. 416 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 1: And it bothered me mm hmm, like a girl's song 417 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: will come on and do the same for us. And 418 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: I was like, I want to say something that, you know, 419 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: because I feel like the new independent woman is not 420 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 1: like I got my own money and that ship you 421 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,399 Speaker 1: know they've been having that women want to say exactly 422 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: what we said. So I was like, I want to 423 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,439 Speaker 1: write a song from man and have a girl say it, 424 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 1: because as a man, I'm going to sing along with her, 425 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And so this is a 426 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 1: controversial thing that I'm about to say. But I've never 427 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 1: liked bridges. I never wanted to write bridges. I don't 428 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,639 Speaker 1: like bridges. I don't want them in my song. And um, 429 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 1: if you realize that Poured Up has two verses, because 430 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: in the Caribbean, if you listen to dance, all music 431 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: is two verse, and in the first verse repeats they 432 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 1: don't do bridges. Yeah, that's my culture. And um, Neo 433 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: and Sean Garrett and Jonte and the Dream, they were 434 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: just whooping my ass. I couldn't beat them. They were 435 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: incredible and I just was like, how do they do that? 436 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 1: And I was like, the only thing that these niggas 437 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,159 Speaker 1: can't outdo me by is being Caribbean, you know. And 438 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 1: if I could, if if I could bring music to 439 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 1: my culture, I'm gonna whoop all the ass back. And 440 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 1: I was like, how am I going to do that? 441 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,399 Speaker 1: And at that point in time, I kept saying, your 442 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 1: music is going to be ratchet. It was like what 443 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: I said, hip hop is the new rock and roll, 444 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 1: and hip hop is going to be the new pop music. 445 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:53,639 Speaker 1: And if I can pull it into my culture, not 446 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 1: not like dance all as far as the rhythm and stuff, 447 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 1: just like the lyrics and the yeah, because I just 448 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 1: want to say crazy ship and they'd be like, yo, man, 449 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: we can't say that. You know. You gotta find a 450 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: clever way to say it. And I'm like, you gotta 451 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 1: find a clever way, man. You know, I didn't want 452 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 1: to say that. So so you know, um, so for Unapologetic, 453 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 1: for Rihanna, me and my brother, we wrote twenty eight songs, 454 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: poured up being a twenty eight song. Um, the last one, 455 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,919 Speaker 1: the last one. We can't stop with one of those songs. 456 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 1: And you know it didn't it didn't fit where Rihanna 457 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,920 Speaker 1: was going. And and in hindsight, now did I hear it? 458 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: It is it was better for Molly than it was, 459 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 1: you know Forria. Molly s Yeah, y'a so funny man. 460 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 1: So so you know, um, if you ever gave you 461 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 1: two million for us, you know we'll go ahead. Oh man, 462 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. God is good all the time. 463 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know, what I mean, Um, 464 00:24:55,600 --> 00:25:00,399 Speaker 1: and so so we so I'm in Atlanta and uh, 465 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 1: we can't stop in twenty three and um, Karen Quark, 466 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 1: here's we can't stop and say, yea, I want to 467 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 1: fly y'all to l A. You Timothy Mike will to 468 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: do some stuff for Rihanna, Rihanna don't want to do. 469 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: We can't stop, and like, damn, bro and I didn't 470 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: wrote so many songs to this girl. I'm like man, 471 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: and we're out there right in And then the ask 472 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,200 Speaker 1: AP Awards was in l A. And I went to 473 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,880 Speaker 1: the ask AP Awards me, my brother and um Ray 474 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,919 Speaker 1: and they were honoring Quincy Jones. I've never met Quincy 475 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: Jones in my life. I've only met him one time. 476 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 1: And this is the time. I was outside on my phone. 477 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: If anybody knows me, I'm usually in the phone texting 478 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 1: on a game on Instagram or something. Quincy Jones walks 479 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:42,959 Speaker 1: up to me and he said, hey, young blood, how 480 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: you doing? Let me tell you something to take my 481 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: shaves off of this one and he's and I say, uh, 482 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: I'm I'm good. Um, Mr Mr Jones, how are you doing? 483 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: He said, I'm good man. How's the songwriting? Coming like, 484 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: Quincy Jones know me. But I'm like, it's the ask 485 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: Cap Awards. Everybody hears it. Writer, maybe that's what it is. 486 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 1: I'm like, man, it's going good. Man, you know it's 487 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:14,640 Speaker 1: going good. He said, you want a secret the writing hits, Yeah, 488 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 1: fuck them versus man, the people want hooks. Man, give 489 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:23,080 Speaker 1: the people hooks. And I was like, thank you, and 490 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 1: he walks away. The conversation was over. I go to 491 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: Timothy Rand said, Quincy Jones spoke to me. What are 492 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,879 Speaker 1: you saying? He said, don't write no verses, just right hooks. 493 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: And the next day I went to the studio, strip 494 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,160 Speaker 1: clubs and dollar bills and I still got more money, 495 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 1: Thrones shots. Can I get a refill? And I still 496 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 1: got more money. I said. I got to repeat it 497 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 1: all the time. It's like, why are you repeating that 498 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: the whole song? Because Quincy Jones told me not to 499 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,159 Speaker 1: write no fucking verses. He told me to write hooks, nigga. 500 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: And it was random, and I look at it as 501 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: a sign, so I have to do this this way. 502 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy. I was at that awards, so yeah, 503 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: because he spoke when he spoke, and I always remember 504 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: the term and I still use it, when it rains 505 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,879 Speaker 1: get wet. Oh man, I like that. I didn't remember 506 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,399 Speaker 1: that one. I was too busy thinking of what he 507 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: told me. He stopped you and talk to you. But 508 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 1: I remember a quote he said, when it rains get wet. 509 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,679 Speaker 1: Bro I love that that but like I said, that 510 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 1: man really told me that. So after we did a 511 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,639 Speaker 1: full hook that records a full hook, yeah, you know 512 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: that record is as a full chorus, and Marty sarrys 513 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: end up getting a thing. And so you played that 514 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,199 Speaker 1: for Miley first. That was for Rihanna first, and then 515 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: they didn't go to Rihanna and end up going to Molly. 516 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,880 Speaker 1: Molly heard she loved it, end up going to Molly. 517 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 1: And Dr Luke did wrecking Ball for Matty Sorrys and 518 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 1: Dr Luke wanted wrecking Ball to be the first single, 519 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 1: and they was like, nah, it's we can't stop. Who 520 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,879 Speaker 1: didn't we can't stop? Mike Will and rock City? Who 521 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 1: the fund is? Rock City? He's like, I don't know 522 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 1: these guys. How I'm dr Look, how are they getting 523 00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: the first thing? I'm supposed to have the first single? 524 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 1: So like I want to meet these guys. So we 525 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: go to the Soho house and we go sit down Luke, 526 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: me and my brother Caribbean kids from the Islands. You 527 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: don't know who this white boy is. And at this 528 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: point of time, with no disrespect, we don't give a 529 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: funk and we're like okay, and Luke, it's like Rai's like, yo, bro, 530 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: he does Katie Perry, he does all that. He's like, Okay, cool, cool, cool, 531 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:37,159 Speaker 1: you respect my boy. It's so I'm going to still 532 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 1: that respect my boy. Respect my boy, very disrespectful. We 533 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: didn't meet it in a disrespect. We were just like like, okay, yeah, 534 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: respect my boy, and we're going. We start working with 535 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: Luke and we had a mutual friend called Groove from Atlanta, 536 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 1: and Luke calls Groove and say, yeah, man, I'm working 537 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: with these guys from Rock City man from they live 538 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: in Atlanta, like you. He's like what he said, nigga, Oh, 539 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: I know they're out of here now. He's like yeah. 540 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: He's like He's like, he's like, Luke, I'm so happy 541 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 1: you signed them. He's like, no, I'm not signing them. 542 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: We're just writing songs, he said, writing songs for what, 543 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: Like you know, we're working on Becky g and you 544 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 1: know my He said, nah, bro, you need to do 545 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 1: that artist ship. Bro. By the way, we stopped being 546 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 1: artists for like four years, just focused on writing. Now 547 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: the Artiship comes around. Luke comes, he says, hey man, 548 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,040 Speaker 1: we're in the studio writing songs. He said, hey man, 549 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 1: I'm just curious, what would your music sound like if 550 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: you did it with me? What do you mean? Like, 551 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,040 Speaker 1: you guys are artists, right, Yeah, if you made music 552 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: with me, what would it sound like? Nigga? Me and 553 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: my brothers like, nigga is what we've been trying to 554 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: do our whole life. Yeah, we go, we go Nigga. 555 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 1: We stopped making music. Ray comes back trying to hear 556 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,840 Speaker 1: Kati Perry songs. Luke plays some eight Rock City songs. 557 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 1: Raised was, yo, man, I want to sign the guys. Man, 558 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: I got a label. Man over Sony that that we 559 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 1: want to do this. He's like, oh, Ship, Like guys 560 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: like Raised, Like what I tell you, if you get 561 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 1: hard at something, they conna come for everything. Everything. So 562 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: like cool. And so we do a whole album with 563 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: Luke and Circuit shout out to my boys Circi, and 564 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: we dropped a hit called locked Away with Adam Levien 565 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 1: and you know, it went number one, and you know, 566 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 1: we went on tour with my Room five and my 567 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 1: and my whole life. I wanted to be an artist, 568 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 1: and then I went on tour and I was like, 569 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: this is stupid. I like going and doing shows back 570 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,719 Speaker 1: in the Islands and performing, and I was like, man, 571 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: I don't want to be famous. I'm like, bro, I 572 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: just want to you know, I just want to take 573 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 1: my son to get ice cream, you know what I'm saying. 574 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: And we was already making money, it was already successful. 575 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 1: So I was like, what am I missing in life? 576 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I was like, that was 577 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 1: my dream when I was eighteen. I was thirty four, 578 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 1: and everybody kept telling us you're too old. What Why 579 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 1: would y'all be doing music right now? Ya? Why is? 580 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 1: Why would Luke sign them? That's so dumb, you know 581 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. We dropped blocked away and it was like, man, 582 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: be writing them hits though. L A. Reid told me 583 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: something when I sat in this office for the first time, 584 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 1: because I went to play my record right and I 585 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 1: never forgot this. He said, whatever you do when you're 586 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 1: in this business, never count out the talent. Ever, he said, 587 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 1: no matter what he said, listen to me if they talented, 588 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: because everybody's gonna be like they're too old. Everybody's gonna 589 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 1: be like that last album flopped. Everybody gonna be like, 590 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 1: oh man, they had this amount of record deals, it 591 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: might be different with you. If they talented, never count 592 00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,240 Speaker 1: them out. And so you know, me and my brother Man, 593 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 1: we really, you know, really talented, and we we put 594 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 1: we put out an album What Dreams Are Made Of 595 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: in two thousand fourteen, and then um, you know ship. 596 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 1: After that, everything kind of went crazy, um with everything 597 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: like Luke Luke got in like a whole crazy thing, 598 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 1: um with the with the Casher situation, and Papa Radio 599 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 1: said we're not playing no songs produced by him and 600 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 1: me and my brother was like, and man produced every 601 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 1: single song, and I hold out and I looked at 602 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,280 Speaker 1: it as a sign. I was like, this ship might 603 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 1: not be what I was because that's a different politics. 604 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: And we had to go sit the asses down again 605 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 1: and it was like damn bro. But but I was like, hey, 606 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,480 Speaker 1: you know what, none of your niggers can't say I 607 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,080 Speaker 1: can't do it. I had a number one and I 608 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:01,800 Speaker 1: want to have a number one for myself again, I 609 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: really believe I could do it tomorrow, you know what 610 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 1: I'm saying. And so you know, now, me and my 611 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: brother's like, we're trying to figure it out. My brother 612 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,960 Speaker 1: ain't really into song writing as much as me. He'll 613 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 1: write songs, but I'm more political. I'm more the guy 614 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: that's like, you know what, Tank is being an asshole, 615 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 1: But I'm gonna come in here and play politics, finish 616 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: the song. And my brother is like, yo, big money, 617 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,479 Speaker 1: Well you want to do something yo, you can't, Yo, bro, 618 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 1: we can't. Yeah, my brother. Yeah, my brother is like, YO, 619 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 1: what wrong? Would you make? What you train? Do? We 620 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,480 Speaker 1: try and make music? Are you make it funk? And 621 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 1: he's like, and I don't want no smoke. I'm like, whoa, 622 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: whoa hey, hey Timothy, Timothy nah t run mean and 623 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 1: I funck make boy, We're gonna whoop. Yeah yeah, yeah, 624 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:56,959 Speaker 1: I'm talking to my listen. I'm talking my brother off allege. 625 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 1: I was a day Yeah, Timothy and my nigger you know, 626 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:12,799 Speaker 1: bibbity bobbity Booth's ready and I just I just love 627 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 1: this ship. Man. This is my basketball court. You know, 628 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,279 Speaker 1: in my life, I never felt like I was too 629 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,000 Speaker 1: good at too many things, man, But I just really 630 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,879 Speaker 1: felt like I was good at that. And I just 631 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,719 Speaker 1: started being with Luke all the time, letting him teach me, 632 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: because I remember having poured up and all that and 633 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 1: Luke saying, I mean, you're good, but you're not that good. 634 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 1: M hmm. Biggest records in the world had smashes in 635 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,200 Speaker 1: my mind. He was like, I mean, and that man 636 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,839 Speaker 1: really taught me. That man really made me better. I really, 637 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's certain people in the music menus 638 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,120 Speaker 1: that I would say, like Luke made me better talent wise, 639 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,320 Speaker 1: like just hearing a hit, seeing a hit, understanding melody. 640 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,239 Speaker 1: Polo helped me with confidence, like you know, shout out 641 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:56,839 Speaker 1: to Polo down, I always said. I used to go 642 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 1: hang with Polo and Polo used to tell me I 643 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:00,960 Speaker 1: was the best song writer and I would be like, 644 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,759 Speaker 1: I mean, I think I'm good, but the best. He said, Nigga, 645 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,200 Speaker 1: you the best song writer in the game right now. 646 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,439 Speaker 1: Nobody better than you. And he told me that every 647 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 1: day for like two months. I would just go and 648 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,480 Speaker 1: every day he seen me, he said, nigga, you the best. 649 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,880 Speaker 1: You don't get it, and I'll be like you know, 650 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,200 Speaker 1: Polo talking, you know Polo, you know Polo talk like 651 00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,279 Speaker 1: Black Elvis pressy. You don't get it home. What I'm 652 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:28,839 Speaker 1: trying to tell you the best, trying you the best, 653 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,600 Speaker 1: you don't get because I'm the ship. I know, I 654 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 1: know what bro yo. And he told me that all 655 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 1: the time. And I ain't gonna lie to y'all. With 656 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:44,680 Speaker 1: Luke teaching me structure and science of songwriting and Polo 657 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:48,160 Speaker 1: telling me you're really that nigga and my dad saying 658 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,920 Speaker 1: I knew you was gonna be this person. Since I 659 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,239 Speaker 1: knew you was gonna be this person when your mom 660 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,719 Speaker 1: named you t Ryan. I was like, one day I 661 00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,400 Speaker 1: woke up and I really believed I was that nigger. 662 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,880 Speaker 1: Yeah you know what I'm saying. And I went and 663 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,560 Speaker 1: I went and I went and I went crazy, you know, 664 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 1: but my first crazy failed. It didn't fail. That's a 665 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,000 Speaker 1: wrong term to use. So James Fountleroy is like, literally 666 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,600 Speaker 1: like one of my heroes. He I've never said this 667 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,440 Speaker 1: to his face, but you know, but he's like one 668 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,640 Speaker 1: of my heroes because he did like all of Bruno 669 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,239 Speaker 1: and all of Justin Kimberlake, and I was like, man, 670 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,120 Speaker 1: I wish I could do that like a whole project 671 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,200 Speaker 1: with like a superstar. That would be so cool. I 672 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,560 Speaker 1: thought that was amazing. I was like, I need to 673 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:36,880 Speaker 1: do that. I want to try so you know this 674 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,760 Speaker 1: swear to God. Super Dukees calls me and a Sunday 675 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 1: super Duke say hey, Aran, I said, what yeah? Do 676 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,439 Speaker 1: I read out about my Rihanna and I was like, okay, cool, 677 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,719 Speaker 1: you already talked to rock Nation. No, man, I talked 678 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 1: to nobody. I said, you talked to Rihanna? No, so 679 00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,080 Speaker 1: how are you gonna do it? But just feel like 680 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,239 Speaker 1: if me on you getting the stoold joke I met 681 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:01,600 Speaker 1: the music, Shou'll gonna make a red. I said, you're serious. 682 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:06,560 Speaker 1: I said, okay, flew to Miami, started making reggae music. 683 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,359 Speaker 1: You know, Rock Nations flies out to London. When day 684 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,200 Speaker 1: Rihanna comes to the studio, we play like seven reggae 685 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:19,080 Speaker 1: songs and Rihanna said, oh man, and they made a 686 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:24,279 Speaker 1: reggae I was like, I look at Super Dupes. I 687 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 1: said yo, I said, nigga God is with us. And 688 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,839 Speaker 1: then you know, and then you know, I don't know 689 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,759 Speaker 1: what went on or what happened, but you know what 690 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,960 Speaker 1: I'm saying, And so years it's going by and the 691 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 1: album ain't coming out, and everybody's telling me, Luke ain't 692 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,200 Speaker 1: got no songs on the radio, he ain't hot, Rihanna 693 00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,680 Speaker 1: ain't putting music out. It's like three years I've had 694 00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:49,600 Speaker 1: a hit on the radio, like every year consistently at 695 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,400 Speaker 1: least one thing that's going And they're like, why are 696 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,000 Speaker 1: you Why are you working with Luke? Why you keep 697 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,040 Speaker 1: doing this? You need to be in the ruins with 698 00:37:58,040 --> 00:37:59,680 Speaker 1: this person. You need to work with more people, you 699 00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,279 Speaker 1: need to do more of this. And I'm like, I 700 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,440 Speaker 1: just believe in Luke man. I believe in what I'm 701 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,560 Speaker 1: trying to do, and I believe in what I'm doing 702 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 1: over here. I remember I was on my way for 703 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,319 Speaker 1: Prais and I had the longest layover in history, and 704 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,080 Speaker 1: my good old friend man shout out to c C 705 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,600 Speaker 1: told me Toron come to the studio and she was 706 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,040 Speaker 1: working at some random studio bro with j R. Road 707 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:25,480 Speaker 1: Um pregnant, and we wrote a song called Level Up. 708 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,680 Speaker 1: Because I was in the club with U Shure and 709 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,919 Speaker 1: he's throwing a lot of champagne around. But I don't, 710 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,080 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't I don't know. I mean, 711 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,440 Speaker 1: if you're getting wet by all of telling true stories 712 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:45,960 Speaker 1: because I'm telling to the club and C C. Yeah, 713 00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:51,360 Speaker 1: you know, my bad, My bad, man, I'm telling you 714 00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:58,680 Speaker 1: to C. I'm telling you all the true story. It's 715 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:02,560 Speaker 1: totally different once you take a glass. Yeoh, man, know 716 00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,080 Speaker 1: it's the true story. Man. I'm in a student, I'm 717 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,040 Speaker 1: in a club with Usher. And so I have this 718 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,800 Speaker 1: theory about about music. If you want to know what 719 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,399 Speaker 1: tempo it is, follow the drugs. Okay, So when when 720 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,719 Speaker 1: the Beatles were making music, they want LSD and then 721 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,040 Speaker 1: they went into psychedelics, and then when cocaine came in, 722 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,279 Speaker 1: disco hit hard and then it takes you to make 723 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,040 Speaker 1: a thing go right. And then crack came in and 724 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,080 Speaker 1: it was boom boom ca boom boom. And then when 725 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,680 Speaker 1: pop came back is when ecstasy was big, and dance 726 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,279 Speaker 1: and all of that took over. But what happened is 727 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,160 Speaker 1: they starts smoking weed, drinking lean and popping Perkey's with 728 00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:34,560 Speaker 1: your downers, and so the tempo slowed down like sixty 729 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:39,400 Speaker 1: two a minute, you know. So I was like, So, 730 00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,120 Speaker 1: I was like, it was this song that I heard 731 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,160 Speaker 1: in the club suck it up, suck it up, suck 732 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:45,920 Speaker 1: it up, suck it up. Through that is in a 733 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,759 Speaker 1: circle and they was mixing it with slow songs and 734 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:51,640 Speaker 1: they was like, oh, no, it's halftime. I didn't know 735 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,200 Speaker 1: what that it meant. And I was like, oh, this 736 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,359 Speaker 1: is the tempo. This is where the future is going. 737 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:02,160 Speaker 1: He's like, oh, you think like nigger, the tempo is 738 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,800 Speaker 1: coming back. So I get in with Sierra and I said, Sierra, 739 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,800 Speaker 1: I want us to flip this song. I'm with Jerr 740 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,120 Speaker 1: wrote him the best flipper. He flips. He's a flipper. 741 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:11,960 Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, I got this idea, and I want 742 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:13,400 Speaker 1: to flip this song. And I gotta be fast. She's 743 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,239 Speaker 1: like to run to Ryno, you think it's too fast. 744 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,320 Speaker 1: I said, c C bit is just doing coke in 745 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,320 Speaker 1: the club again. I'm telling you, they're ready to dance, 746 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,239 Speaker 1: you know. And Siri's like, Tryan is so crazy. She 747 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:27,439 Speaker 1: thinks I'm insane, right, And I'm like yo. So I'm like, yeah, 748 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,600 Speaker 1: we're gonna do this thing. Level up, level up, level up, 749 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,759 Speaker 1: level up, you know. And so we did the song 750 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,160 Speaker 1: and she was signed to Warner Brothers at the time. 751 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,640 Speaker 1: And then I go to Paris, and you know, I'm 752 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:42,680 Speaker 1: in Paris and working on music and whatever. And Sierra 753 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,200 Speaker 1: comes and she's like, hey, man trying. You know, I'm 754 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,680 Speaker 1: leaving Wanner. They didn't get the vision. I'm like, damn 755 00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,400 Speaker 1: man um, but you know, they let it go with 756 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:54,239 Speaker 1: all our masters. And she's like, I think I'm gonna 757 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,239 Speaker 1: put out this song. And she shot a video. I've 758 00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,440 Speaker 1: never told us to Sierra, swear to God, never told us. 759 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,000 Speaker 1: She comes to l and she comes to me and 760 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:03,839 Speaker 1: she shows me the video and I don't like it 761 00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,480 Speaker 1: at all. I hate it with all my heart. I'm like, 762 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:10,560 Speaker 1: oh my god, Oh my god, Oh my God. And 763 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,920 Speaker 1: and right now I'm ice cool. I'm ice cool. I'm like, 764 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:16,640 Speaker 1: oh my god, they're gonna say I'm whack. Everybody's gonna say. 765 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:20,000 Speaker 1: They're gonna say I'm w And Sierra is so excited. 766 00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,440 Speaker 1: And I believe in her so much because she has 767 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,880 Speaker 1: this thing that she says that when she says it, 768 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,399 Speaker 1: I don't fight her. She says, torn God told me. Look, 769 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:30,360 Speaker 1: she said that to me about three or four times. 770 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,920 Speaker 1: And if Sierra tells me torn God told me, I'm like, 771 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 1: it's the one. I don't care what I believe. If 772 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,120 Speaker 1: God said it to c C, it's the one that's 773 00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,719 Speaker 1: what I believe. And she said, thron, God told me 774 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:44,920 Speaker 1: this the way to do it. And I was like, 775 00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:46,840 Speaker 1: you know what, that made me feel bit sweat. I 776 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:48,319 Speaker 1: was like, Yo, that made me feel a little better. 777 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,520 Speaker 1: And she puts it out and it's out and I 778 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,600 Speaker 1: do not want to read the comments. I'm so afraid. 779 00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:57,359 Speaker 1: I'm like, please be good because I need something God. 780 00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,520 Speaker 1: I need something good right now because nothing's going good 781 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,440 Speaker 1: and everybody he's telling me I ain't good no more, 782 00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,440 Speaker 1: and I'm falling off and I need to work with 783 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:07,160 Speaker 1: other people and stop. No dead serious bro. And my 784 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:11,280 Speaker 1: brother calls me, t run. Yeah, what you're saying, Timo, 785 00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:13,680 Speaker 1: you do that? You see her? I signed that level up? 786 00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:21,600 Speaker 1: Fuck yeah, my boy, I fuck nasty song. You like it? 787 00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:26,440 Speaker 1: He said, to run that's the body's tune. Ever, my boy? 788 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:31,879 Speaker 1: You serious? He said, t run the fuck? Oh the head. 789 00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:34,439 Speaker 1: I was like, ye'all can't tell me ship. My brother 790 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:35,960 Speaker 1: told me he's out of here. So we start reading 791 00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:41,560 Speaker 1: the comments. I'm like, everybody likes it. I said, oh 792 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:47,120 Speaker 1: my god, this is crazy. So now while that's going on, 793 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,319 Speaker 1: there's a girl in that Lanta working on music and 794 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,719 Speaker 1: raised like, Yo, Tron, I'm at the house chilling the 795 00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:54,200 Speaker 1: bed with my wife. He's like, Yo, Thron, is this 796 00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:55,520 Speaker 1: girl I want you to meet for I think this 797 00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,200 Speaker 1: girl's fire. You're gonna love her. He's like, cool. I 798 00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:00,560 Speaker 1: come to the studio. He introduced me to Lizzard mm hmm, 799 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,319 Speaker 1: and he you know, he's like, yo, she got this 800 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,399 Speaker 1: song where she marrying herself. He shows me the truth 801 00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:11,880 Speaker 1: Hurts video. I was like yo. And then we went 802 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:13,239 Speaker 1: in the back and we tried to write a song, 803 00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:16,279 Speaker 1: the worst song I've ever written in my life. And 804 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,719 Speaker 1: I'm like, this black girl is never gonna work with 805 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:22,520 Speaker 1: me ever again. It is a rap. And then she 806 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,160 Speaker 1: calls me. She was like, yeo, man, I'm working on 807 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:25,560 Speaker 1: this album and I would like you to come out 808 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:29,200 Speaker 1: to l A and help me out. I would love to, 809 00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:31,520 Speaker 1: but I really thought our bobed like if that was 810 00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:35,799 Speaker 1: an audition, Nigga. I funked it up and we go 811 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,320 Speaker 1: out to l A and you know, we do some songs. 812 00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:47,800 Speaker 1: And with that being said, now Doja Cat been signed. 813 00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:49,960 Speaker 1: Dolja Cats been signed. The Luke from When Locked the 814 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:51,560 Speaker 1: Way it was our Doja Cat was round. You know, 815 00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,719 Speaker 1: she was just younger. So so peep game doja cat 816 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:59,279 Speaker 1: puts out a song, bitch, I'm a cole And now 817 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,440 Speaker 1: now the North Variety is going there. Now Luke and 818 00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,960 Speaker 1: her is getting in the studio and Luke plays me 819 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,040 Speaker 1: a song. I keep it juicy, juicy, you know. He 820 00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,480 Speaker 1: plays me that song. I'm like, oh, man, this girl 821 00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:12,719 Speaker 1: is fired. He's like, yeah, man, I think she you know, 822 00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,640 Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be dope. So I'm in a 823 00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:19,279 Speaker 1: studio with Yo Gotti and I write, I write this 824 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,520 Speaker 1: chorus for Gotti. I was like, Yo, man, you and 825 00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:26,400 Speaker 1: um um, oh my god, what's what's the girl from Detroit? 826 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,000 Speaker 1: Please sweet cash Doll, Please don't text me and say 827 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:31,880 Speaker 1: or tweet me and say I'm a terrible person. I 828 00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,600 Speaker 1: just couldn't remember at the top. So cash Doll, I 829 00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,399 Speaker 1: want to Cash Doll to sing the hook. I love 830 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,680 Speaker 1: cash Doll. I was like, man, I wanted her to 831 00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:40,719 Speaker 1: sing this chorus. Play with my pussy, but don't play 832 00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:42,959 Speaker 1: with my emotions. If you spend some money, that nig 833 00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,160 Speaker 1: got just my fucking damn right. So I wrote this 834 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,200 Speaker 1: hook your God. He was like, man, that ship you 835 00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:49,719 Speaker 1: know that ship hard man, but I don't know if 836 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:54,000 Speaker 1: it's the project. And Luke played for Doja and Doja said, Nigga, 837 00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:58,319 Speaker 1: whoever wrote this, I want to meet them? Meets me. 838 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,799 Speaker 1: And I did another song with Doja on the first 839 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,880 Speaker 1: album called That's My Ship, That's my way doing it 840 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:09,880 Speaker 1: like that? Nah real baby, So no yo, wait, so 841 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,759 Speaker 1: you want to do something, so Nigga. So we do 842 00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:19,279 Speaker 1: that and then me and we us and Lizzo we're 843 00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,560 Speaker 1: working and so I'm working with Lizzo, I'm working with 844 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:28,920 Speaker 1: Doja and then Lizzle comes out. She's like going crazy. 845 00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:33,720 Speaker 1: Doja comes out, She's going crazy. Well, you know, Warna 846 00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,840 Speaker 1: Warna wants to get loop in the studio with Sweetie 847 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:40,879 Speaker 1: and sweet and Luke calls me and he's like, yo, 848 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,239 Speaker 1: t you know, I'm gonna be working with this girl. Sweete, Man, 849 00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,120 Speaker 1: you should come out. You should you should work with me. 850 00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,800 Speaker 1: I like, hell fucking yeah. And they got fought with Sweetie, 851 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:52,040 Speaker 1: you know, and I was like cool, I go. You know, 852 00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,719 Speaker 1: everybody's like I'm the Lizzle guy, you know, so I'm 853 00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:56,480 Speaker 1: heating up. I'm not. I don't want to use the 854 00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,760 Speaker 1: word hot, but I'm like, you know, they're like Okay, 855 00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:03,320 Speaker 1: he might be cool. You know what I'm saying, because 856 00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,719 Speaker 1: the Lizza working this which one I did juice for 857 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:10,480 Speaker 1: Lizzo and uh me? And what's another song what's the 858 00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,520 Speaker 1: name of the song? Tempo with Lizzoe and Missy and 859 00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:15,799 Speaker 1: then another song exactly how I Feel with lizz One 860 00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,879 Speaker 1: Gucci Man, and a song on the album called yeah 861 00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:22,840 Speaker 1: you jumped out there? You know God is good? Um 862 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:27,360 Speaker 1: so I um so, now you're gonna work with Sweetie. 863 00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:32,040 Speaker 1: I go work with Sweetie, And everybody got keeps saying 864 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,080 Speaker 1: we don't want any samples because she had had so 865 00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:41,120 Speaker 1: many sample records, and I'm like, she's from the Bay, 866 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:45,960 Speaker 1: the I'm from St. Thomas, I'm from the Bay. Everything. 867 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,280 Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is every song don't cross the water? 868 00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:53,279 Speaker 1: That one. Everybody know that one. So I'm like, that's 869 00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,879 Speaker 1: the biggest song from the Bay. That's the biggest song 870 00:46:55,960 --> 00:47:00,480 Speaker 1: from the Bay. Why would we not use the biggest 871 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:04,400 Speaker 1: song from the Bay from a girl from the Bay. 872 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,600 Speaker 1: And Luke did the beat in two seconds. And then 873 00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,839 Speaker 1: I'm writing all kind of ship and it's booty as hell. 874 00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:16,919 Speaker 1: I'm like, and then we connect with my boy lunch money. 875 00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,680 Speaker 1: I'll know, lunch Money and me and lunch Money got 876 00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,399 Speaker 1: it to together. And then Sweetie came in and got 877 00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,320 Speaker 1: it together because again Sweetie was like, she was telling 878 00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,200 Speaker 1: me this is how we're talking to beauty and this 879 00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:29,520 Speaker 1: is how it goes, and this is what I gotta 880 00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,160 Speaker 1: be and data la da and I was like, Oh, 881 00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,239 Speaker 1: this girl is fire. She knows how fucking ship. You 882 00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:39,160 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, you know, like and so tap 883 00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,840 Speaker 1: and then but but guess what I did best friend first? 884 00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,040 Speaker 1: So I did best Friend before. Yeah, I did best 885 00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:48,680 Speaker 1: Friend before I did top tap in. But I was like, 886 00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:50,640 Speaker 1: this song is gonna be fired for tektok because girls 887 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,000 Speaker 1: gonna be with the home girls and you know what 888 00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,640 Speaker 1: I'm saying, and it's gonna be cool. Well, we thought 889 00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:59,960 Speaker 1: best Friend was coming out next, but it didn't. Uh 890 00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:03,000 Speaker 1: back to the streets, like a lot of you and 891 00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,120 Speaker 1: that came out and their best Friend. But then we 892 00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:19,719 Speaker 1: got those your own best friend free bo. He's going 893 00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:29,880 Speaker 1: to his keyboard. He's going to his keyboard. Top five, 894 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:44,240 Speaker 1: Top five, what's your what's Tyron's? Top five? Top five? 895 00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:50,520 Speaker 1: You're Top five, Top five R and B Artists Top five, 896 00:48:50,680 --> 00:49:07,080 Speaker 1: Far fun. I'm still singing home tron, let me cook. Wow. 897 00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:18,480 Speaker 1: R and b artists your favorite it's your world. He 898 00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:34,880 Speaker 1: h five, m hmm, my top five favorite R and 899 00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:38,480 Speaker 1: B artists of all time. Okay, I was born in 900 00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:42,200 Speaker 1: eighty two, so my top five, you know, but um, 901 00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:45,439 Speaker 1: you were born in eighty two. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. 902 00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:48,799 Speaker 1: So coming in and number five, I ain't even gonna 903 00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:52,560 Speaker 1: lie to y'all. I'm gonna have to say this because 904 00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,000 Speaker 1: I saw him live before he passed, and I didn't 905 00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:56,920 Speaker 1: want to go to this concert and my best friend 906 00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:58,520 Speaker 1: made me go. And it's one of the best concerts 907 00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:01,200 Speaker 1: I've ever been to my wife to this date. So 908 00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,400 Speaker 1: I would say, like number five, it's like Lutheravan draws 909 00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,440 Speaker 1: because I said, because I saw him like before, you know. 910 00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:14,160 Speaker 1: And then um, number four, I'm gonna say, um, Mary J. Blige, Yeah, 911 00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:19,000 Speaker 1: um yeah, Mary J Blige. That's a special woman. I 912 00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:20,960 Speaker 1: got a chance to meet her and work with her. 913 00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:24,080 Speaker 1: The song never came out, but she don't understand, like 914 00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:31,160 Speaker 1: just you know, just like how excited. Um, So that's 915 00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:35,680 Speaker 1: number four. Number three gotta be Stevie Wonder. I just 916 00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:37,239 Speaker 1: think he's not only one of the best R and 917 00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,520 Speaker 1: B artists, he's one of the best songwriters ever because 918 00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,799 Speaker 1: to my understanding, he was born blind and he just 919 00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:45,480 Speaker 1: writes from a place of things that I've seen, And 920 00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:48,000 Speaker 1: I'm like, how does he know that? That means it's 921 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:51,360 Speaker 1: pure heart when he makes music. It's pure like feeling 922 00:50:51,360 --> 00:51:01,120 Speaker 1: and true emotion, you know. Um so yeah, Luthor Mary Stevie, Yo, 923 00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:03,120 Speaker 1: this man changed my life when I heard his music. 924 00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:05,880 Speaker 1: And you know, I hope nobody gets mad at me 925 00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:08,480 Speaker 1: for saying his name because I understand that he might 926 00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:12,600 Speaker 1: not be the greatest person. But um r Kelly Brother 927 00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,920 Speaker 1: or just musically, I mean he talked, Yeah, he taught. 928 00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:20,239 Speaker 1: He taught me, you know, just music when I when 929 00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:24,840 Speaker 1: I listened to his music, um and number one baby 930 00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:31,680 Speaker 1: osh ramon, remon, baby, I ain't gonna lie to you. 931 00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,799 Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie to you. I can't watch this. 932 00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:44,920 Speaker 1: I don't mind. We don't mind. Up the top pool. 933 00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:53,879 Speaker 1: Did you say hallelujah as you were writing this work? 934 00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:58,719 Speaker 1: Until three? I'll get you leaving with me. Don't get 935 00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:04,839 Speaker 1: that money, money money, that money, money, because I know 936 00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:13,360 Speaker 1: how it is You're going mamate that money money, money, money, money, 937 00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:19,759 Speaker 1: money and put something the offer and play girl. I 938 00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:26,839 Speaker 1: don't mind. Oh, I don't mind. Yeah, who you wrote 939 00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,000 Speaker 1: that for? Me? Man? You know I have a great 940 00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,360 Speaker 1: you know quick, great great story about that song because 941 00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:33,680 Speaker 1: I was in the studio, me, me and Luke was 942 00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:36,719 Speaker 1: in the studio UM with Katy Perry. Kay Perry's coming 943 00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,239 Speaker 1: to work with us, and Katy Perry went to do 944 00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:42,640 Speaker 1: vocal warmups and so why Katy Perry doing vocal warmups? 945 00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:46,279 Speaker 1: Luke was playing this thing on his guitar and I 946 00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:50,800 Speaker 1: started saying, I don't mind, and it was super lovey 947 00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,799 Speaker 1: and romantic, and Luke was like, no, I can't do that. 948 00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:57,399 Speaker 1: The beat is already pretty. We need edge. I said, 949 00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,080 Speaker 1: what then you want me to say like I don't mind, 950 00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,200 Speaker 1: like I'll love a strippers? Are you tripping? Bro? Like yeah, 951 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:04,239 Speaker 1: you know, out of frustration because we had I had 952 00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:11,600 Speaker 1: been trying. He said, yeah, I want you to to say that. What. Yeah? 953 00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:13,799 Speaker 1: And I was just fascinated with the Atlanta culture and 954 00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,160 Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, all of this Atlanta ship they're 955 00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:17,840 Speaker 1: doing this pop and I said, Yo, we need you 956 00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:20,200 Speaker 1: know this. We need to take all of these things. 957 00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:24,000 Speaker 1: And you know, nobody ain't really was doing that, you know, 958 00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:26,360 Speaker 1: outside of them goes. Nobody had put it in a 959 00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:30,000 Speaker 1: pop song, you know. And I just was like, yo, 960 00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:31,960 Speaker 1: let's do it like this. And we had did it 961 00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:36,440 Speaker 1: and said it to Ussher and oh yeah. I remember 962 00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:40,000 Speaker 1: Katie Perry walking in and heard a song. It was like, 963 00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:43,680 Speaker 1: that's an Usher song and we hadn't said who he 964 00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:45,839 Speaker 1: did it for a year, does it? We was like, yeah, 965 00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,319 Speaker 1: that's crazy. We was gonna send it to him. She 966 00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:49,719 Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, I can't wait to hear 967 00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:53,040 Speaker 1: him sing that. And I was like wow, and you know, 968 00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,600 Speaker 1: so so Usher did it and I ain't gonna lie 969 00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:59,480 Speaker 1: to you that that's that's That's one of my favorites 970 00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:01,160 Speaker 1: that I did with him, because I did a couple 971 00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:03,840 Speaker 1: with him. What did I do? We did No Limit together. 972 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:20,319 Speaker 1: We did that together. I'm really good, you know. But this, 973 00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:22,719 Speaker 1: you know what, this this one thing because you keep 974 00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:27,120 Speaker 1: this name. He's popped up a few times Dr Luke. 975 00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:31,560 Speaker 1: Uh huh, this is my camera, right guys. Yes, Dr Luke. 976 00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:37,440 Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember you still owe me 977 00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:41,640 Speaker 1: five hundred dollars. Oh man, I don't want the money. 978 00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,640 Speaker 1: I just want to be able to say you owe 979 00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:51,160 Speaker 1: me five forever because you got plenty five hundred dollars 980 00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:56,000 Speaker 1: got plenty plenty five hundred dollars. Oh man, you owe 981 00:54:56,040 --> 00:55:01,080 Speaker 1: me five hundred five hunt in Luke five, Luke back, 982 00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:04,000 Speaker 1: We're back. I mean you need to sing top five 983 00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:10,479 Speaker 1: R and B songs. Dang, that's a hard one. Oh man. 984 00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,920 Speaker 1: I think I know what my number one is for sure. Um, 985 00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:23,840 Speaker 1: but top five R and B songs? Who m overjoy, 986 00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:32,000 Speaker 1: I'm building my castle? Come on, man, Yeah, come on, man, 987 00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:34,279 Speaker 1: y'all can't y'all can't go to the argument. You know, 988 00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:41,480 Speaker 1: since he's so he made complicated things seems so simple. 989 00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:46,799 Speaker 1: And that's from a mute. From a musician standpoint, like 990 00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:53,520 Speaker 1: he made the most complicated movements and key changes or 991 00:55:54,120 --> 00:56:00,480 Speaker 1: like scale manipulation. He made it digestible to every day people. 992 00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:05,200 Speaker 1: I don't know how he did. Yeah, people, I gotta 993 00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:08,399 Speaker 1: say this song, bro, I gotta say this song. It's 994 00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:10,160 Speaker 1: a neo soul song, but I'm gonna put it in 995 00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:17,239 Speaker 1: this because girl, I know this my seem number one. 996 00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:21,239 Speaker 1: I'm out of all. That is the most player ship 997 00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:25,279 Speaker 1: I've ever heard in my life. That man. If I 998 00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:27,600 Speaker 1: played that song for my son, I said, listen to me. 999 00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:30,319 Speaker 1: When you approach a woman, this is exactly how you talk. 1000 00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,400 Speaker 1: This is what you say. This is the sincerity that 1001 00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:36,319 Speaker 1: you gotta have. And and I remember driving in the 1002 00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,919 Speaker 1: car and my son just smiling like we had a moment. 1003 00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:42,799 Speaker 1: I was like, it was from that song. It was 1004 00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:45,520 Speaker 1: from that song. He gets on my nerves too. Yeah, 1005 00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:47,879 Speaker 1: music man, and I had the opportunity to work with him. 1006 00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:53,960 Speaker 1: He's one of the best master, incredible monster. Um, I'll 1007 00:56:54,000 --> 00:57:00,160 Speaker 1: be your group baby, because you are my sup but star, No, 1008 00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:04,120 Speaker 1: but one thing, give me your autograph. I hate Pool 1009 00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:09,200 Speaker 1: bad forever for that one because he's incredible. Hate turning 1010 00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:15,480 Speaker 1: the air conditioner up everywhere he goes. Listen, if you 1011 00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:18,760 Speaker 1: hop in the car with Pool beer, it's gonna feel 1012 00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:21,520 Speaker 1: like it's two degrees. And thank you for letting me know. 1013 00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:24,480 Speaker 1: I'm Caribbean. I can't give a cold. It's not my 1014 00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:31,040 Speaker 1: birthday many birthday, so no, this is real talk that 1015 00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:37,440 Speaker 1: that song right there. Um Oh, I've been doing my 1016 00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:45,920 Speaker 1: own things. Love it's always a way of having bad timing. 1017 00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:51,760 Speaker 1: My nigga, Bryce Wilson, dude, okay grooved and guess what 1018 00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:53,520 Speaker 1: I never knew I could sing. I started as a 1019 00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:56,040 Speaker 1: rapper and doing like dance all reggae, you know, and 1020 00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:58,560 Speaker 1: then it was one song that we performed live for 1021 00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:00,080 Speaker 1: the first time and I just knew the words. I 1022 00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:03,040 Speaker 1: just felt to sing it. And this, this song is 1023 00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:06,600 Speaker 1: the reason. This is the first time I ever felt like, Okay, 1024 00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:16,480 Speaker 1: I could do melody my love? Do you ever dream? 1025 00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:24,040 Speaker 1: Candy Code Rain Dry? Yeah, you're the same my Candy 1026 00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:33,160 Speaker 1: Rain Yeah. So look and by the way, to anybody 1027 00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:35,560 Speaker 1: who's like that, should listen. Bro. Every song that I 1028 00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:38,000 Speaker 1: mentioned had a very special moment in my life I 1029 00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:40,960 Speaker 1: can remember, and it did something that shift shift the 1030 00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,479 Speaker 1: moment for me. So I picked those five. To be honest, 1031 00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:45,880 Speaker 1: it's too many to mention. I feel like I'm doing this. 1032 00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:48,080 Speaker 1: Justice is a bunch of songs that I probably I 1033 00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:51,000 Speaker 1: am forgetting, but I think I'm gonna go. I'm I'm 1034 00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:58,760 Speaker 1: comfortable with it. Okay, Jams, let's gone through. We're gonna 1035 00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:02,880 Speaker 1: make a voltron. Okay, we're gonna make We're gonna make 1036 00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:07,640 Speaker 1: your R and b artists. Okay, Okay, we're gonna build him. 1037 00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:13,800 Speaker 1: Huh say he'm the vocal performance, style, styling, and passion. 1038 00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:24,880 Speaker 1: What artists are you grabbing the vocals from? Who's gonna 1039 00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:27,320 Speaker 1: sing all them great songs? You're right? We're gonna do it. 1040 00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:30,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say I'm gonna go with us, I'm gonna 1041 00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:33,640 Speaker 1: go with USh, I'm gonna go with usher Man. I 1042 00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:36,120 Speaker 1: gotta go with usher Bro. I know I have to 1043 00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:41,080 Speaker 1: because you can't say it's not there's nothing. He makes 1044 00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:43,320 Speaker 1: everything sound good, and that's the biggest problem. He'll make 1045 00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:45,400 Speaker 1: a bad song sound greater to be like hold on, 1046 00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:47,440 Speaker 1: hold on, I have to listen to it. On the 1047 00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:53,520 Speaker 1: twelfth song, You're incredible. He also owns it though. No, no, no, 1048 00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:57,480 Speaker 1: he's the best. You know, Okay, what's next? That's the voice, 1049 00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:03,800 Speaker 1: that voice, the voice? Performance style Chris Brown, Chris Brown, 1050 01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:07,120 Speaker 1: Chris Brown. I know it's Chris Brown. Guess what the 1051 01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:09,240 Speaker 1: next answer, Guess what it's probably Chris Brown didn't give 1052 01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:16,160 Speaker 1: it to them. The styling of it, Chris Brown. Let 1053 01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:19,640 Speaker 1: me tell you something. Let me tell you something. I 1054 01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:23,560 Speaker 1: think that motherfucker exudes cool. I think that man exudes cool. 1055 01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:25,640 Speaker 1: I think that man wakes Chris Brown and dye his 1056 01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:29,200 Speaker 1: head red, dyes hair purple. I've never Chris Brown tries 1057 01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:32,480 Speaker 1: things that nobody on earth could get away with, but 1058 01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:34,840 Speaker 1: Chris Brown. The only thing Chris Brown ain't did yet 1059 01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:37,240 Speaker 1: his dreads and if Chris Brown do dreads and dreads 1060 01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:40,280 Speaker 1: looked fight on Chris Brown. I personally want to fight 1061 01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:43,960 Speaker 1: him in the cage match one because because at this point, 1062 01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:46,640 Speaker 1: I feel like it's that you're just doing too much, 1063 01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:53,240 Speaker 1: my nigga, Like you gotta relax. Come all, bro, stop man, okay, 1064 01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:55,960 Speaker 1: who you're getting the passion from the heart of the artist, 1065 01:00:56,080 --> 01:01:02,080 Speaker 1: the heart and the passion, the art and the passion. 1066 01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:16,400 Speaker 1: Damn bro, Chris Brown. Sorry bad, Hey man, Hey man, 1067 01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:20,520 Speaker 1: Come on man, talk about somebody who didn't been through 1068 01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:22,760 Speaker 1: it all. Come on, man, at some point, we're gonna 1069 01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:27,080 Speaker 1: gotta stop playing with like this nigga. Yo, bro, This 1070 01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:29,520 Speaker 1: nigg has been incredible for years and been one of 1071 01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,720 Speaker 1: the best and been in your top five, top two, 1072 01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:36,439 Speaker 1: number one, number one, this number one dancer. All we're 1073 01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:40,320 Speaker 1: both his hands typed behind his back. Talk about I 1074 01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:43,000 Speaker 1: ain't never seen nothing like him. I've never seen nothing 1075 01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:45,640 Speaker 1: like him. Listen to my brother. I don't know if 1076 01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:48,960 Speaker 1: you see this, if you're gonna see this, guess what. 1077 01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:51,320 Speaker 1: I haven't spoke to this man. We didn't text before this. 1078 01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:54,280 Speaker 1: You know, my favorite R and B artist is Usher, 1079 01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:58,240 Speaker 1: But I don't know what it is with that dude. Bro, 1080 01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:03,080 Speaker 1: that dude, that dude was touched bro, problem by God 1081 01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:08,240 Speaker 1: for sure, Like with his eyes close, I've never seen 1082 01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:12,920 Speaker 1: nothing like it. Man. You know this man paints like 1083 01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:15,680 Speaker 1: paints like Bro, I got a painting that he gave 1084 01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:20,600 Speaker 1: me in my house and I'm like, he does everything. 1085 01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:27,280 Speaker 1: Why he acts, he sings, This nigga can backflip into 1086 01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:35,600 Speaker 1: a name name. Did y'all know that. I'm just I 1087 01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:43,320 Speaker 1: just think that's where it was going. Did you know 1088 01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:51,120 Speaker 1: that he is incredible? And I just feel like he's 1089 01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:57,440 Speaker 1: a He's a human being that deserves like all his flowers, 1090 01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:01,320 Speaker 1: because I really personally believe that by the time that 1091 01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:03,880 Speaker 1: everybody on his planet starts to give him his flowers, 1092 01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:06,400 Speaker 1: he may not be here to see him give it 1093 01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:10,080 Speaker 1: to him. And and and I want to tell him, 1094 01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:18,120 Speaker 1: listen my kids, Bro, that man is incredible, you know. 1095 01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:20,520 Speaker 1: And he said happy birthday to my son too, So 1096 01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:22,840 Speaker 1: it's like, you're gonna have a special place. Listen, you 1097 01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:26,120 Speaker 1: do something for my baby here, good dude to unbeatable. 1098 01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:29,840 Speaker 1: I'll help you fight. I'll see you and they'd be like, 1099 01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:34,280 Speaker 1: what are you doing. We're gonna have to go get Timothy. Bro. 1100 01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:41,440 Speaker 1: You know, bro, my brother. And guess what's so funny? 1101 01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:45,120 Speaker 1: If you meet us, people think I am the aggressive 1102 01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:49,120 Speaker 1: one and he is the calm one. And it is 1103 01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:54,560 Speaker 1: the listen to my brother is like, t run when 1104 01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:59,760 Speaker 1: I see this mine, right, I torn it, not Timothy, 1105 01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:02,240 Speaker 1: not not just cool cool, I'm gonna talk to him 1106 01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:06,600 Speaker 1: mean my brother favorite thing meaning the fuck my boy. 1107 01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:08,919 Speaker 1: That's how he's gonna talk to him. No, my brother. 1108 01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:11,120 Speaker 1: He it means like I'm not with that. So like 1109 01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:13,760 Speaker 1: if somebody say, you're mean enough, like y'all not trying 1110 01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:15,560 Speaker 1: to hear what you're telling me right now? When I 1111 01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:19,880 Speaker 1: see this and he's like, no, no, no, yo, bro's 1112 01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:22,040 Speaker 1: all look, let me just talk to him. He may 1113 01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:29,280 Speaker 1: not even understand. T run mean enough, boy. I'm watching 1114 01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:31,600 Speaker 1: you across the room coming towards me. My brother is like, 1115 01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:33,560 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I'm trying to tell you 1116 01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:39,600 Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo, I'm gonna come to you. Yeah yeah, 1117 01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:47,439 Speaker 1: no no, no, no no, no, you come to you. What's great? 1118 01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:52,880 Speaker 1: B Yeah yeah you're good. Yeah. So I got this 1119 01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:56,520 Speaker 1: segment of the show brother, what's it called. It's called 1120 01:04:56,520 --> 01:05:02,160 Speaker 1: I ain't saying on that no names, ain't no name 1121 01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:20,160 Speaker 1: ain't listen. Listen no names, no names, none. So you 1122 01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:24,200 Speaker 1: tell us a story, funnier, fucked up, are funny and 1123 01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:27,919 Speaker 1: okay all of the same. Damn. Okay, you know because 1124 01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:29,640 Speaker 1: that's the song you was listening to when your manager 1125 01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:35,120 Speaker 1: told your people don't need you. Yeah music, Yeah, I 1126 01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:37,840 Speaker 1: mean tell us that story, man, if you know you 1127 01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:41,560 Speaker 1: and your travels of this music business man. And the 1128 01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:46,360 Speaker 1: only rule you cannot say the names of the people 1129 01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:48,840 Speaker 1: in this story. I'm not saying anybody's name. I'm gonna 1130 01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:55,720 Speaker 1: tell Can I say the name of the song? Gone here? Okay? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, 1131 01:05:56,200 --> 01:05:59,680 Speaker 1: so you know, Okay, so right now this is tron 1132 01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:05,040 Speaker 1: t rod rock City, Rock City, Virgin Islands. I ain't 1133 01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:07,680 Speaker 1: saying on that, okay, cool. I ain't saying our names, 1134 01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:12,120 Speaker 1: but I will say we was, um it was in 1135 01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:15,040 Speaker 1: the state of Los Angeles at a studio saying no 1136 01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:17,320 Speaker 1: name of the studio, and um, it was a song 1137 01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:19,840 Speaker 1: that we wrote. And it was a song called Mrs. 1138 01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:22,320 Speaker 1: Glass That's the name of the song. It wasn't big 1139 01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:26,200 Speaker 1: or did not, you know what I'm saying. And the 1140 01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:28,120 Speaker 1: person that ended up having this song ain't the person 1141 01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:29,600 Speaker 1: that this is about. And a couple of people tried 1142 01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:31,760 Speaker 1: this song, so it could be anybody. But on this 1143 01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:34,640 Speaker 1: particular day with the studio and the artist is supposed 1144 01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:36,080 Speaker 1: to be coming in, and they're like, hey, the artist 1145 01:06:36,080 --> 01:06:37,880 Speaker 1: is gonna come in, but just to give you guys 1146 01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:40,320 Speaker 1: a head up, heads up, the artists would like to 1147 01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:43,200 Speaker 1: change a couple of things, personalize it for themselves. Oh man, 1148 01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:45,520 Speaker 1: we'll all We're all for that. That's good and it 1149 01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:50,240 Speaker 1: might even be better. Person came in um with a 1150 01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:55,280 Speaker 1: guitarist and uh personal assistant and a bottle of Hennessey 1151 01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:57,960 Speaker 1: and a bottle of wine. It was like, okay, cool, 1152 01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:02,200 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. We have we vibe. And 1153 01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:07,920 Speaker 1: the the person who is engineering just so happened to 1154 01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:10,320 Speaker 1: be the person that made the beat. And and we're 1155 01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:13,080 Speaker 1: like and and me, who, I say, I'm the trick 1156 01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:14,520 Speaker 1: fil a the music in this because I'm in the 1157 01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:16,439 Speaker 1: service business. I like I like to give a good service. 1158 01:07:16,520 --> 01:07:18,880 Speaker 1: I said, Hey, today it's about you. However you want 1159 01:07:18,920 --> 01:07:21,600 Speaker 1: to do it, whatever makes you comfortable. I've been told 1160 01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:24,520 Speaker 1: you had your reservations about singing the song. This is 1161 01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:26,840 Speaker 1: no this is a no pressure zone. Let's get it 1162 01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:30,200 Speaker 1: to a place that will make you feel comfortable. Oh man, 1163 01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:34,760 Speaker 1: thank you so much. That was so nice. So now 1164 01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:39,040 Speaker 1: time is going to buy the Hennessey is going down, 1165 01:07:39,160 --> 01:07:41,960 Speaker 1: and you know, and Hennessey is gone, and now there's 1166 01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:44,520 Speaker 1: a glass of wineport. And I was like, I don't 1167 01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:47,240 Speaker 1: think I saw anybody else. I didn't have none, and 1168 01:07:47,280 --> 01:07:51,280 Speaker 1: he didn't have none of dating him. You know what 1169 01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:53,520 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Mind in my business the name of my company, 1170 01:07:53,560 --> 01:07:56,720 Speaker 1: minding our business also, And I go and I come 1171 01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:58,680 Speaker 1: in and I said, okay, is taking the lines? You're like, yo, bro, 1172 01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:00,720 Speaker 1: when we going to record the song, I'm like, oh 1173 01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:04,560 Speaker 1: my bad. Oh I'm sorry. Hey, we're ready, We're ready, 1174 01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:10,240 Speaker 1: you know, guitarists already laid the electrical guitar part. We're 1175 01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:14,720 Speaker 1: ready for you to cut. And then the artists looks 1176 01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:18,400 Speaker 1: at me and then whispers into the person next to 1177 01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:23,880 Speaker 1: them's ear, and the person next to them said, the artists, 1178 01:08:24,120 --> 01:08:27,559 Speaker 1: so and so feels like the song doesn't personally speak 1179 01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:31,680 Speaker 1: to their heart. Y're all in the same room together, Oh, bro, 1180 01:08:31,800 --> 01:08:35,000 Speaker 1: were disclose. So I see whenever I get offended, are 1181 01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,280 Speaker 1: talking about accent, you know, because I don't. So now 1182 01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:43,000 Speaker 1: I'm talking very like, you know, man, I need to 1183 01:08:43,040 --> 01:08:48,680 Speaker 1: get funking with me. Man, Hey, look, so let's so, 1184 01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:51,000 Speaker 1: this is what I'm thinking. We start with the hook, 1185 01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:52,760 Speaker 1: see how you feel with it, and then we go 1186 01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:58,519 Speaker 1: from there. This this song doesn't match. So and So says, 1187 01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:01,680 Speaker 1: to tell you that this song doesn't match the chee 1188 01:09:04,400 --> 01:09:07,920 Speaker 1: you're working with me right now. It's a joke. No, 1189 01:09:08,960 --> 01:09:12,960 Speaker 1: you mean to tell me this Parson bro Literally we disclosed. 1190 01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:14,479 Speaker 1: So you mean to tell me this person right here 1191 01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:18,599 Speaker 1: next to you, it's telling you to tell me. No, man, 1192 01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:21,800 Speaker 1: you fucking with me. This gotta be a joke. We 1193 01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:33,400 Speaker 1: were joke. I was just talking to you. Whisper again. 1194 01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:39,560 Speaker 1: So and So say no, no, no, So I'm so 1195 01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:43,200 Speaker 1: and say fucking nothing. That's so. I'm so done. I 1196 01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:46,920 Speaker 1: walk out. I gone to my I gone to my people. 1197 01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:52,240 Speaker 1: I say, hey, I know what ain't doing right now? Wow, 1198 01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:58,400 Speaker 1: you lying? You're lying? Trust me. Watch this, y'all gotta 1199 01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:03,400 Speaker 1: come see this come back. It was already gone. So 1200 01:10:04,360 --> 01:10:09,519 Speaker 1: so we like they leave. Yeah, the girls said that. 1201 01:10:09,640 --> 01:10:13,479 Speaker 1: She said to say that she ain't feeling it. I wait, 1202 01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:18,680 Speaker 1: so she didn't even sit by she telling it. I 1203 01:10:19,479 --> 01:10:24,760 Speaker 1: went home. I was so all night and I've never 1204 01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:27,599 Speaker 1: worked with that person ever again in my life. Wow, 1205 01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:34,880 Speaker 1: true story, baby ah this music I was just talking 1206 01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:38,919 Speaker 1: to I was just talking to you, was talking serious. 1207 01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:44,360 Speaker 1: It's never the vibe is not that serious. It's never 1208 01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:48,240 Speaker 1: get lost in the vibe. This is what. This is 1209 01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:52,439 Speaker 1: how I'm supposed to act. Man, don't do that. Young artist, 1210 01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:57,439 Speaker 1: old artists, any artists don't do that. Why why, I 1211 01:10:57,520 --> 01:10:59,599 Speaker 1: don't know. It was it was very it was very 1212 01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:02,840 Speaker 1: what at the point at the moment, I was upset 1213 01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:06,840 Speaker 1: and I felt disrespected. And now it's one of my 1214 01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:09,519 Speaker 1: favorite stories that I like. It's one of my favorite 1215 01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:10,840 Speaker 1: stories that I like to tell when people come to 1216 01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:14,160 Speaker 1: my house, you know, especially when especially if somebody says 1217 01:11:14,560 --> 01:11:17,080 Speaker 1: the artist's name in my house, I'd be like, Oh, 1218 01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:20,080 Speaker 1: let me tell you what happened. I can't wait to 1219 01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:24,160 Speaker 1: tell you this story. Just gotta try that one day. 1220 01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:31,760 Speaker 1: Just maybe you can make it a TikTok and then 1221 01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:34,160 Speaker 1: if it's a prank and you tell Now, if it's 1222 01:11:34,160 --> 01:11:37,800 Speaker 1: a prank, you're like, we're just that's a fire prank. 1223 01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:43,240 Speaker 1: But bro dead serials when I mean and I'm like 1224 01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:48,519 Speaker 1: standing they sitting in a chair like that in the 1225 01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:51,599 Speaker 1: couch and I'm standing up looking down and they ain't 1226 01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:53,960 Speaker 1: getting up. Every time I talk and I'm not talking 1227 01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:57,120 Speaker 1: to her, I'm talking to this one. And when I 1228 01:11:57,200 --> 01:12:01,840 Speaker 1: talk to her, she will whisper in her ear and 1229 01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:06,040 Speaker 1: then she will talk to me, ain't talking listening moment. 1230 01:12:07,200 --> 01:12:09,160 Speaker 1: So he's like, that's what she's saying. Why we're just 1231 01:12:09,320 --> 01:12:16,320 Speaker 1: talking to you? What me for me? Somebody else? Yeah? 1232 01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:20,200 Speaker 1: You suck someone you know? And she pulled a shaggy 1233 01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:26,160 Speaker 1: on me fast. I'm sorry that It's incredible man. Yeah, 1234 01:12:26,240 --> 01:12:31,559 Speaker 1: so those experiences are great, and especially early in your 1235 01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:35,200 Speaker 1: career to be like okay, cool, Okay, this is something 1236 01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:41,040 Speaker 1: that happens. Okay, I'm prepared. Wow, you got you got 1237 01:12:41,160 --> 01:12:46,080 Speaker 1: to clear the hallway. Niggas. Oh my god, you know 1238 01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:48,120 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, in my eye, don't look me at 1239 01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:51,120 Speaker 1: my eye. People my eyes. You can't look at you 1240 01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:53,320 Speaker 1: can't do me, not everything for me. It's like, you 1241 01:12:53,360 --> 01:12:55,760 Speaker 1: can't do me, not everything. I'll person, I'll just go home. 1242 01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:59,920 Speaker 1: It's not that serious for me. And and you know what, like, again, 1243 01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:02,439 Speaker 1: my dad was incredible. I ain't never there's only one 1244 01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:07,439 Speaker 1: famous person that I've ever been like, WHOA to me? 1245 01:13:08,360 --> 01:13:12,240 Speaker 1: Jay Z Baby? That was my favorite artist. Why he's 1246 01:13:12,280 --> 01:13:14,160 Speaker 1: the only rapper that ever said St. Thomas and his 1247 01:13:14,280 --> 01:13:16,919 Speaker 1: raps what up to my Miami and St. Thomas Connects? 1248 01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:20,320 Speaker 1: And I was like, I told you as a little boy, 1249 01:13:20,360 --> 01:13:22,680 Speaker 1: I thought you didn't know he existed. I did, and 1250 01:13:22,800 --> 01:13:25,040 Speaker 1: I loved him because I've always felt like an outsider. 1251 01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:27,360 Speaker 1: I've always been the guy that been like, you know, 1252 01:13:27,439 --> 01:13:30,160 Speaker 1: I'm from St. Thomas and I'm kind of awkward. I 1253 01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:32,000 Speaker 1: really don't know how to move. I don't want to 1254 01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:34,720 Speaker 1: be so bro. When I'm in l a bro. I'd 1255 01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:36,760 Speaker 1: be in my hotel. I'd be in the movie. I 1256 01:13:36,840 --> 01:13:38,280 Speaker 1: go to the movies like I went to the movies 1257 01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:40,640 Speaker 1: the other night. I go to the studio and I 1258 01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:43,519 Speaker 1: go back to the hotel. Well, come with us, man, 1259 01:13:43,560 --> 01:13:48,200 Speaker 1: I would love to you know, yeah, I would love to, man. 1260 01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:51,200 Speaker 1: I would love to appreciate you pulling up. Thank you, 1261 01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:54,280 Speaker 1: thank you for having me. This ship was incredible time 1262 01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:55,800 Speaker 1: pull up. Man. You know what I'm saying, Like we 1263 01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:58,640 Speaker 1: don't we don't take it for granted. Man, you know 1264 01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:00,280 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And we we tapped and when we 1265 01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:03,760 Speaker 1: see each other and it's always love. Um, but you 1266 01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:05,160 Speaker 1: can try to get you and your wife to move 1267 01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:09,240 Speaker 1: to Atlanta for a long time. No, no, no, I'm 1268 01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:12,479 Speaker 1: trying to not set my sights on on on South Florida. 1269 01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:15,960 Speaker 1: Okay with that state task still the South, I take it. 1270 01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:18,120 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know I'm working on 1271 01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:24,920 Speaker 1: her California. I just feah, I'm never leaving California. Got 1272 01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:26,639 Speaker 1: a Puerto Rico plug that I just you know, we'll 1273 01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:29,720 Speaker 1: talk about Thomas might be a place to man, we'll 1274 01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:31,600 Speaker 1: see you know what I'm saying. We're gonna make it 1275 01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:35,320 Speaker 1: do but your high level, bro, and then we give 1276 01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:37,560 Speaker 1: you your flowers, bro, and we celebrate you, bro. And 1277 01:14:38,080 --> 01:14:43,960 Speaker 1: and when you win, brother, we dance. I appreciate, we 1278 01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:45,840 Speaker 1: look at it. Thank what I'm saying that you're You're 1279 01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:51,479 Speaker 1: You're one of our elaked you So keep going, God 1280 01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:55,560 Speaker 1: willing baby, keep going. You write me one, and no 1281 01:14:55,680 --> 01:14:57,720 Speaker 1: I would I would love it. You gotta write me one, 1282 01:14:57,960 --> 01:15:00,000 Speaker 1: and you gotta write him one. Because we're the first 1283 01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:05,840 Speaker 1: a manager artists, artists artist manager. You know what we're doing, Man, 1284 01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:08,600 Speaker 1: ladies and gentleman. My name is Tank. I'm Jay Valentine 1285 01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:11,080 Speaker 1: and this is the arm by Money Podcast, The Authority 1286 01:15:11,439 --> 01:15:14,560 Speaker 1: and All Things R and B. And to know we 1287 01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:17,479 Speaker 1: have got a special man in the building. Games. Yeah, 1288 01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:21,960 Speaker 1: but with that real pen, with that real pan, really 1289 01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:28,400 Speaker 1: pimped this pen. Really listen man from from the Shock 1290 01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:33,640 Speaker 1: two to the to the sky, not even think of 1291 01:15:33,640 --> 01:15:48,280 Speaker 1: the minute for real man, Good works than Money. R 1292 01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:50,400 Speaker 1: and B Money is a production of the Black Effect 1293 01:15:50,479 --> 01:15:54,560 Speaker 1: podcast Network. 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