Speaker 1: Money. We are say take we are a party. Think Hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on? My name is tank U and DC
Speaker 1: is the Army Money Podcast. You know nothing about writing songs.
Speaker 1: You know nothing about writing hits. You're not from the
Speaker 1: car being either you are? I am not either. I
Speaker 1: have been there. We have today on the pod. One
Speaker 1: of the most electrifying talents that we got a scene.
Speaker 1: He writes it, he sings it, he feels it deeply
Speaker 1: in the building on that No, I love it. I
Speaker 1: love yeah you guys, I feel it. You got nicer, don't? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: encourage me? Yes. Virgin Islands right yeah. St. Thomas Virgin Islands. St.
Speaker 1: Thomas Virgin Island home with Tim Duncan. Yeah, Tim Duncan
Speaker 1: from St. Croix. But a good friend. Big up to
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan. That's why. Um, his team was the Spurs
Speaker 1: is my favorite team until he left. We didn't we
Speaker 1: don't have a team. We had one player, Tim Duncan.
Speaker 1: So I was a Spurs fans. One player. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we had one superstar player, which is Tim Duncan from St. Croix.
Speaker 1: And I was a Spurs fan until he retired. Wow,
Speaker 1: and now I'm just like, you know, basketball was on
Speaker 1: the TV. Give me, give me, give me. That was
Speaker 1: very coming to America town. Yes, I know. Okay, come down,
Speaker 1: bow that's good, that's good. Give me give me because
Speaker 1: we have so much to unpack. Bro, you've done so
Speaker 1: much marvelous work in this in this music industry than
Speaker 1: you are. You are well respected and and and very
Speaker 1: much called upon, oh Man to deliver. Yeah, like you're
Speaker 1: one of the guys. It's like you know, for for
Speaker 1: for record companies are sing we need it. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: he's a designated hitter. Designated No what ain't ain't a
Speaker 1: sports sports whatever whatever. So a designated hitter is somebody
Speaker 1: that they put in baseball. They put in the game
Speaker 1: to get hits. They're like, okay, this guy, we need
Speaker 1: a hit right now. That's it. It's the d H.
Speaker 1: They only have it on one side of for some
Speaker 1: weird reason. It's only in the American League. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's in the in the National League. But yep,
Speaker 1: this is what this guy is paid to do. Listen,
Speaker 1: we need a hit right now. You've been sitting on
Speaker 1: the bench the entire game, and when I put you in,
Speaker 1: I believe you're going to hit the ball. They've been
Speaker 1: working with other people. Yeah, for a year and a half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then they called we got the body of work
Speaker 1: we need hear my accent you this is school. We
Speaker 1: need to designated hitter. What was give me growing up
Speaker 1: in the Virgin You're Timothy? Give me and my shout
Speaker 1: out to Timothy. Shout out to my brother, Timothy, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite human beings in the world. I love
Speaker 1: you if you're watching this. Um growing up in St. Thomas.
Speaker 1: So we we started out, me and my brother started
Speaker 1: out living in a in a shock, which was the
Speaker 1: place that my mom was raised with her nine sisters
Speaker 1: and one brother. And then my mom, my mom, and
Speaker 1: my dad end up staying there. So we lived there
Speaker 1: and my mom got really really mad at my dad
Speaker 1: because she was mad like why am I still in
Speaker 1: the place my childhood place? You ever seen the Sorry
Speaker 1: ms Jackson video by outcasts that house, so you know,
Speaker 1: our door couldn't close. We had a tied close. The
Speaker 1: bathroom was outside with no lights. We had to take
Speaker 1: bats before six pm because it would go dark. Um.
Speaker 1: There was holes in the floor, so we had straight
Speaker 1: dogs or straight cats or animals just crawl inside the house.
Speaker 1: And you know, my dad was a trash man, so
Speaker 1: he would get our beds from the trash came. But
Speaker 1: we never had, uh, the bed spring or the head boarder,
Speaker 1: We never had none of that. We just had the
Speaker 1: Master Masters, you know what I'm saying. But it had
Speaker 1: the little things in it, so it would poke you
Speaker 1: when you sleep, you know what I'm saying. So me
Speaker 1: and my brother would argue on which side somebody would sleep,
Speaker 1: you know, and um, you know me. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: forty now, and you know, and my brother and I
Speaker 1: shared a bed until I was about years old, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And that's a funny that's a
Speaker 1: funny story because I'm gonna jump back. But we share
Speaker 1: the bed because we got an apartment in Atlanta when
Speaker 1: we finally got our own place, two bedroom and we're
Speaker 1: in our bedrooms yelling at each other, like yo, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? And I also watched that movie what
Speaker 1: are you doing? I texting some girl my boy this
Speaker 1: folk feed wear dog. Yeah, and I just went in
Speaker 1: my brother room and we we share the bed to
Speaker 1: the point that our best friend lost his apartment and
Speaker 1: we let him stay in the other room. Were using
Speaker 1: that Yeah, like yo, bro, you could yo you can
Speaker 1: come and you can help pay bills to ship bring
Speaker 1: groceries in this mouth. Yeah. So you know, so we
Speaker 1: started in a shack. My mom was mad, you know,
Speaker 1: somewhat broke up with my My dad was like, you
Speaker 1: gotta get it together. You you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We can't be living like this with our kids. And um.
Speaker 1: They used to be a project in St. Time. It's
Speaker 1: called Do New or do New cut right, and it's
Speaker 1: my aunt. My mom's sister Natalie lived up there with
Speaker 1: my cousin or Shanna Kelly and Kelly, So they lived
Speaker 1: in do So we went to stin Done with my
Speaker 1: aunt and I remember my dad coming to surprise us
Speaker 1: because you know, him and my mom wasn't really messing
Speaker 1: with each other. Well they you know, they got back
Speaker 1: and then, um, oh my god, I'm so sorry I'm
Speaker 1: being here. Yeah, so um they both Um, My my
Speaker 1: dad went to my mom was like, YEO, I got
Speaker 1: a surprise for you, and I'm like, hey, everybody, come on,
Speaker 1: and you know, so we got in the car and
Speaker 1: he drove us to where we grew up. It's a
Speaker 1: project in ST Time. It's called housing. The politically correct
Speaker 1: name is Oswald Harris Court. So you drove us to housing,
Speaker 1: brought us in there in St. Thomas apartments. Don't coming
Speaker 1: nothing in it? You know. Like when we moved to
Speaker 1: the States and we had a c we was like, y'ah,
Speaker 1: nigg is rich. What do you mean, I don't come
Speaker 1: with nothing. It just comes with walls, concrete walls. There's
Speaker 1: no fridge or stove or washer or no, it don't
Speaker 1: come with nothing in it. It's walls. You gotta buy
Speaker 1: every thing. So when we any anywhere you move, you
Speaker 1: have to have I mean all the appliances with you,
Speaker 1: I want to say, other places. So when we moved
Speaker 1: in and Bro, so we're coming from the shock, ain't
Speaker 1: no holes in the floor, ain't no straight you know
Speaker 1: to us, Bro moving on up? Hey, we me and
Speaker 1: my you know, we little too. We gotta be like
Speaker 1: six or seven, seven and eight, just like whoa look
Speaker 1: at these walls. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And and and we grew up there, so you know,
Speaker 1: so growing up in the projects. But it's different. Man,
Speaker 1: how important it is to have a dad because we
Speaker 1: had our mom and our dad. So we're in the
Speaker 1: hood now and all our friends, you know, whose mom
Speaker 1: go to work and their dad ain't there. They they
Speaker 1: street niggas, and they you know that my walking with them,
Speaker 1: my little knife for you know what I'm saying. They're
Speaker 1: selling their little weed and ship. And we're talking about
Speaker 1: ten eleven, twelve years old type sure, right, you know.
Speaker 1: And m me and my brother is just like our
Speaker 1: dad got us into music, you know, nine years old.
Speaker 1: I remember watching I remember seeing Criss Cross on TV
Speaker 1: because we started out as backup dancers for a local
Speaker 1: hip hop group called uh Rock Sand and Katie or Cody,
Speaker 1: I was messed up the name, but it's Rock Sand
Speaker 1: and something. And we would be dancing because you know,
Speaker 1: back then, everybody in the eighties, everybody was dancing and ship,
Speaker 1: you know. And we're dancing and then next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: criss Cross comes out and I'm screaming to the top
Speaker 1: of my lungs. Mommy, they run in. I want to
Speaker 1: do that. That right there, that's what I want to do.
Speaker 1: My Dad's like, okay, my dad is like, this is
Speaker 1: how I'm gonna get my son's out of the projects.
Speaker 1: They're gonna get out the projects doing that. And he
Speaker 1: would just take us through the island performing doing stuff
Speaker 1: and and you know, and so I end up writing
Speaker 1: because this dude used to write for us, this high
Speaker 1: school kid, right, and then he just was like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that no more. I want
Speaker 1: to be a solo artist and focus on myself. So
Speaker 1: my dad is like, y'all gotta write your own songs.
Speaker 1: And nobody could ever write a song for you ever. Again,
Speaker 1: it was like because he put you on a weird spot.
Speaker 1: And so I started to get into it because I
Speaker 1: had an English teacher that introduced me to poetry and
Speaker 1: I just had a fascination with words rhyming. Man, I
Speaker 1: thought that was the coolest thing in the world. And
Speaker 1: so you know, I started writing songs. I brought a
Speaker 1: song to my dad. He's like, man, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: that well, it's like a poem, but I tried to
Speaker 1: add melody. He was like, this is crazy. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you're amazing. And I remember writing my first song, right,
Speaker 1: my first song ever. I was twelve years old. I
Speaker 1: still remember it. So it's like, um, fresh shot done,
Speaker 1: fresh hot, depressed on their their boy for test, put
Speaker 1: them to the test. Test. A lyric called test Lyrics
Speaker 1: from memot may not give your less Alis sexy or
Speaker 1: my Nie for fiel up mit chest because it's me again, Yes,
Speaker 1: smithcome fresh. And then I just thought I was the
Speaker 1: greatest thing that ever happened to me. Just I don't
Speaker 1: even know that. I don't know great to me. So
Speaker 1: so yeah, you know with me and my brother, we're
Speaker 1: a group. We're going around with doing shows. Is the
Speaker 1: biggest fan, he's your he's your first super fan. He's
Speaker 1: he's the first super fan. He the greatest man that
Speaker 1: ever lived on this plant off. Yeah, he's the great
Speaker 1: human being I've ever met in my life. And and
Speaker 1: he's like, this is what you're gonna do. And he
Speaker 1: was like, yo, when you grow up, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: writing songs with baby Face. You know that's crazy. I
Speaker 1: had a crazy emotional moment because my dad had passed.
Speaker 1: And then I wrote a song with baby Face and
Speaker 1: I called my brother crying and I was like, I said, Timothy,
Speaker 1: I'm not sad. I'm not sad, I'm just so happy.
Speaker 1: How did he know? Yeah, because he told me this
Speaker 1: when I was a little boy, Like, hey, baby Face
Speaker 1: on you know, singing and out. He's like, oh, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see you're gonna be writing songs and singing with them.
Speaker 1: And he refused to let us compete with people from
Speaker 1: the Virgin Islands. You know, my dad used to be
Speaker 1: like yo. My dad would be like he was a gangster.
Speaker 1: You're like yo, Now, these fucking people they never make it.
Speaker 1: You can't compete with somebody that never do. Your competition
Speaker 1: is the jay Zy and THEMN people on TV. If
Speaker 1: you ain't boy on them, we ain't or never leave
Speaker 1: this place. He used to make us rehearse two hours
Speaker 1: a day, you know what I'm saying every day, so
Speaker 1: we couldn't go outside of play unless we make him
Speaker 1: stand up. So my dad would sit there, me and
Speaker 1: my brother start saying and he would be like, terrible,
Speaker 1: I'm your father and I love you. You can't make
Speaker 1: me move. How are you gonna make a stranger move?
Speaker 1: I'm like, So he's like, I need to see the
Speaker 1: show every time. So we keep getting intenser and intensor,
Speaker 1: and then he will stand up. Yes, this is why
Speaker 1: need This is the only way you're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: And so you know, so if you ever had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to see me and my brother live, we're like
Speaker 1: you know, we're like jumping exactly and just do that.
Speaker 1: That's why. So, you know, not knowing that songwriting as
Speaker 1: a job, you know. So we became the biggest group
Speaker 1: in the Virgin Islands. But again, my dad is like,
Speaker 1: I've never seen nothing like this. People would ask us
Speaker 1: for autographs. Yo. We live in the projects. We're poor.
Speaker 1: I had my first job at twelve. I worked at
Speaker 1: a grocery store with bad groceries and get tips and
Speaker 1: bring home bread and cheese to help my mom, help
Speaker 1: my mom with a light bill. Like we was. We
Speaker 1: didn't have nothing. So yeah, but bro, I remember I
Speaker 1: got my first job, like real job where I could
Speaker 1: get a paycheck at foot locker and girl and I
Speaker 1: got fired at foot locker because girls would come to
Speaker 1: foot locker and be like perform yeah, and be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, can you give me an autograph? You know?
Speaker 1: Or back then they didn't have camera phones, bro, they'd
Speaker 1: have the little um disposable cameras and be like, yo,
Speaker 1: let me take a picture with you in the in
Speaker 1: the uniform. Yeah you got the referee. Yeah. And I'd
Speaker 1: be like and my dad would be like, bro, y'all
Speaker 1: are special. I've never seen nothing like that, Yeah, y'all
Speaker 1: ain't on TV day day was. They thought we were somebody,
Speaker 1: and we did that until so when we graduated out
Speaker 1: of high school, our parents give us the choice. They said,
Speaker 1: if y'all go to college. As parents, we have to
Speaker 1: try to help y'all. We don't we don't know how,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna help y'all. But if y'all don't want
Speaker 1: to go to college and y'all want to go pursue
Speaker 1: your dream, y'all a man, and then you gotta figure
Speaker 1: it out. It was like, I'm like, I hated school.
Speaker 1: I was like, I could do what everybody wants. Oh. Man,
Speaker 1: I got on the first thing smoking. I told my brother, hey,
Speaker 1: bet we moved to Miami. Baby. It was the cheapest
Speaker 1: plane ticket. So that was the closest It's the closest place.
Speaker 1: So we got on a plane and we went to
Speaker 1: Miami and m my my dad's half brother lived there,
Speaker 1: my uncle Trent, who passed, and um, he was in
Speaker 1: Florida and he had like a one bedroom condo. So
Speaker 1: he was like, man, I don't really have room for y'all.
Speaker 1: Y'all can stay as long as y'all want, but I
Speaker 1: know this ain't comfortable, and my cousin O'shanna, that's the
Speaker 1: closest thing I have to assist him. My aunt Natalie
Speaker 1: from Donal, her daughter, She was like, I would love
Speaker 1: for y'all to stay with me, but I got like
Speaker 1: female roommates. But her boyfriend at the time, his name
Speaker 1: was Jason Roberts. Jason was trying to start a record
Speaker 1: label and he was the biggest, biggest fan of me
Speaker 1: and my brother musically, so he's like, oh, they can
Speaker 1: stay with us. But he had five roommates, so we
Speaker 1: used to so we used to sleep in his dining
Speaker 1: room on a blanket. But again, me and my brother,
Speaker 1: we like, come from that, bro. We came listen, bro,
Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying. We come from nothing. Brother,
Speaker 1: this is this is as long as we got somewhere
Speaker 1: to sleep and we stay there. And we was like, yo, man.
Speaker 1: Ten months later, Miami wasn't working out. It was like
Speaker 1: nothing ain't moving. He was like, yo, we can move
Speaker 1: to Atlanta or New York, Like all right, while saying that.
Speaker 1: A promoter from St. Thomas that lived in Atlanta, one
Speaker 1: of my dad's closest friends, name is Perella, calls us
Speaker 1: on the phone and said, hey, Yo, there's a big
Speaker 1: show in Atlanta that I'm trying to do. Them pay
Speaker 1: you and your brother two hundred fifty dollars and give
Speaker 1: you a hotel. It was like okay, hung up the
Speaker 1: phone and I said, to be moving to Atlanta. Um,
Speaker 1: this is too, this is oh one, We're moving to
Speaker 1: Atlantic yeah for this two fifty because because you know,
Speaker 1: you know, my my my high school sweetheart with my
Speaker 1: girlfriend at the time, was there, and so we go there.
Speaker 1: You know, she had a job and credit and ship,
Speaker 1: so she was a person that could like get an
Speaker 1: apartment and you know, and we we had one night
Speaker 1: in the hotel and two d and fifty dollars and
Speaker 1: we was like, yo, we gotta figure out how to
Speaker 1: make money. But we was like, we're not gonna get jobs,
Speaker 1: are you crazy? Bro? We came here to do music.
Speaker 1: So we found out in Atlanta they'll be doing talent
Speaker 1: shows and you can win. So we started to do
Speaker 1: talent shows and then we want no life. We want
Speaker 1: every single talent show except for this one talent show,
Speaker 1: which to this day, I really feel like we got cheated.
Speaker 1: But it's all good, you know what. I'm saying, but
Speaker 1: it's all good and um. What happened was we won
Speaker 1: so much that it was like, hey guys, you guys
Speaker 1: can only be special guests. You can't compete no more.
Speaker 1: And we was like, bro, were only here for the money,
Speaker 1: like we you know, none of these people don't practice
Speaker 1: like we practice. We practice every day like me, my
Speaker 1: brother and I DJ Benny, one of my best friend, Benny,
Speaker 1: we rehearsed every day, like what, no, Bro, what you
Speaker 1: were hurting for? What do you mean for a show?
Speaker 1: What show? Whenever one come, we just would rehearse. So Bro,
Speaker 1: we got on stage, we woul whoop everybody asked, and
Speaker 1: we would win, and we would win. No, we knew
Speaker 1: we was gonna win. We were so confident, call it arrogance,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. Before the show, we
Speaker 1: would be like, okay, so tonight we're gonna win two fifty.
Speaker 1: Benny's light bill is one, so we're gonna let him
Speaker 1: get that, and Benny, you're gonna let me and Timothy
Speaker 1: get the rest because we gotta put some groceries in
Speaker 1: our refrigerator and we're gonna bust it down like that.
Speaker 1: We're good with that. Oh yeah, we were going there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we just you know, that's and then they literally
Speaker 1: just like, oh man, we love y'all, man, but y'all
Speaker 1: y'all can't compete. People don't want to sign up no
Speaker 1: more because they like, anytime they see your name, they're like,
Speaker 1: come on, bro, we're not we're not being them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so you know, we're going through the motions and
Speaker 1: what's not so lifestart, you know, you know when real
Speaker 1: life happens. Bro, My my my, my high school sweet
Speaker 1: at the time time gets pregnant. My brother went back
Speaker 1: to St. Timas like this music ain't really gonna work.
Speaker 1: I gotta grow up, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 1: this is after how long in Atlanta? How you know?
Speaker 1: Just how long have you been in America at this point?
Speaker 1: A couple of years. It's about four years, four years,
Speaker 1: about four years in or something like that. Um I
Speaker 1: want to say, is about four years because um no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, I'm lying yeah, yeah, because it's like, um,
Speaker 1: two thousand one to my daughters born in two thousand three,
Speaker 1: my brother back in St. Thomas, you know, and I
Speaker 1: want to quit music at this point. I'm like everybody
Speaker 1: keeps telling me how good I am they lying? And
Speaker 1: I don't like that. I wish they would tell me
Speaker 1: what I was doing wrong, because if they did, I
Speaker 1: would change it. But oh, man, is so awesome. I'm
Speaker 1: not awesome. I ain't making no money. People who are
Speaker 1: awesome are making money. So I need to know what's
Speaker 1: the problem is so I could fix it. And my
Speaker 1: manager Ray, you know, y'all know Ray right. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you how I met Ray. Ray. Ray and I
Speaker 1: have been friends for nineteen years. This is the first
Speaker 1: time I ever met him. My daughter's mother is pregnant
Speaker 1: with my daughter. She ain't born yet. We got the
Speaker 1: two bedroom apartment in the East side of Atlanta in
Speaker 1: a place called Polo Club, and this dude named Mike
Speaker 1: cal who wants I was broke, couldn't buy nothing for
Speaker 1: my daughter's mom, so I used to write her love songs.
Speaker 1: I still got a backpack full of songs that I
Speaker 1: just I used to write love songs. And she'll come
Speaker 1: home from work and I'll be singing, and she'd be like,
Speaker 1: I don't want no song. I want you to get
Speaker 1: a job. You know what I'm saying. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no no no. I mean, you know at
Speaker 1: the time, keeping it all the way from she was right,
Speaker 1: But I'm just but you know, you know, sometimes sometimes
Speaker 1: you gotta be stupid for your dream in order for
Speaker 1: it to work, you know what I'm saying. So I'm
Speaker 1: in there writing love songs or whatever, and Ray comes
Speaker 1: in and Michael says, Yo, this the dude I was
Speaker 1: telling you about in the group with his brother. Remember,
Speaker 1: artists need us to be too equipped, he said to equip.
Speaker 1: Ray said, oh yeah, man, I heard about your niggas. Man,
Speaker 1: that's what you're doing, whacking fuck in my house the
Speaker 1: first time I've ever met him. Within the first five minutes,
Speaker 1: I said. Michael says, you know what, then you're doing? Bro?
Speaker 1: I said, hold on, why do you think it's whack?
Speaker 1: He said, come on, Bro, he saw breaking it down
Speaker 1: to me. I said, Bro, can you tell me more
Speaker 1: about that? He's like yeah. Michael was like, Bro, I
Speaker 1: need you to bring him in the city tomorrow. Man,
Speaker 1: I want him to write with me. Bro. He's like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: he wants me to drive it, but I ain't really gotta.
Speaker 1: That's like to be riding around Ray broke two. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: now I got an extra room. You can stay he said,
Speaker 1: you just met me. I said, you the first person
Speaker 1: I ever met that I feel honest. Wow, that mean
Speaker 1: that that man stayed at my house. He's been my
Speaker 1: friend for nineteen years since that day. Wow, no ship,
Speaker 1: that's how he became I would have never thought that's
Speaker 1: how he became my friend because he told me what
Speaker 1: I needed to hear at the time, and I took
Speaker 1: it and it changed my life, changed my mind. Look,
Speaker 1: just came wrong. We're back, baby, We're back, lady, We're back.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. The lights ain't going on.
Speaker 1: Everybody good. And now from this point on, we're like, okay,
Speaker 1: now that space ourselves. Yeah, you know, let pace ourselves.
Speaker 1: You know, we plan on being here for a long time.
Speaker 1: We've been there for a long time. We was like, yo, relax,
Speaker 1: were played them being there for a long time, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And after that, I want to say.
Speaker 1: Ray comes to me and he said, yo, man, I
Speaker 1: think y'all should I think y'all should stop trying to
Speaker 1: be artists. Like, damn, what do you mean? He's like,
Speaker 1: if we get hot at songwriting, they're gonna want to
Speaker 1: give us whatever we want. But we gotta be hot
Speaker 1: at something like, man, that actually makes sense? Right again, Man,
Speaker 1: raise a great coach, brother. So y'all go full throttle songwriting,
Speaker 1: nigger all the way in and we write a song.
Speaker 1: Let me see what are the songs we can't stop?
Speaker 1: Twenty three poured up all of the all of the same,
Speaker 1: all around the same exact time. Up my god, Yeah yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: let's go up. I remember I was at I want
Speaker 1: to say gray Stone could be great, I think, and
Speaker 1: that motherfucking be dropped and they said part of part.
Speaker 1: I said, oh my god, what the fuck is that?
Speaker 1: So I have a bunch of so so the way
Speaker 1: that I look at music, I have a bunch of theories,
Speaker 1: and I wrote and when I did pour it up.
Speaker 1: The problem that I had with music is that whenever women,
Speaker 1: whenever female songs came on, man left the dance floor.
Speaker 1: And it bothered me mm hmm, like a girl's song
Speaker 1: will come on and do the same for us. And
Speaker 1: I was like, I want to say something that, you know,
Speaker 1: because I feel like the new independent woman is not
Speaker 1: like I got my own money and that ship you
Speaker 1: know they've been having that women want to say exactly
Speaker 1: what we said. So I was like, I want to
Speaker 1: write a song from man and have a girl say it,
Speaker 1: because as a man, I'm going to sing along with her,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And so this is a
Speaker 1: controversial thing that I'm about to say. But I've never
Speaker 1: liked bridges. I never wanted to write bridges. I don't
Speaker 1: like bridges. I don't want them in my song. And um,
Speaker 1: if you realize that Poured Up has two verses, because
Speaker 1: in the Caribbean, if you listen to dance, all music
Speaker 1: is two verse, and in the first verse repeats they
Speaker 1: don't do bridges. Yeah, that's my culture. And um, Neo
Speaker 1: and Sean Garrett and Jonte and the Dream, they were
Speaker 1: just whooping my ass. I couldn't beat them. They were
Speaker 1: incredible and I just was like, how do they do that?
Speaker 1: And I was like, the only thing that these niggas
Speaker 1: can't outdo me by is being Caribbean, you know. And
Speaker 1: if I could, if if I could bring music to
Speaker 1: my culture, I'm gonna whoop all the ass back. And
Speaker 1: I was like, how am I going to do that?
Speaker 1: And at that point in time, I kept saying, your
Speaker 1: music is going to be ratchet. It was like what
Speaker 1: I said, hip hop is the new rock and roll,
Speaker 1: and hip hop is going to be the new pop music.
Speaker 1: And if I can pull it into my culture, not
Speaker 1: not like dance all as far as the rhythm and stuff,
Speaker 1: just like the lyrics and the yeah, because I just
Speaker 1: want to say crazy ship and they'd be like, yo, man,
Speaker 1: we can't say that. You know. You gotta find a
Speaker 1: clever way to say it. And I'm like, you gotta
Speaker 1: find a clever way, man. You know, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to say that. So so you know, um, so for Unapologetic,
Speaker 1: for Rihanna, me and my brother, we wrote twenty eight songs,
Speaker 1: poured up being a twenty eight song. Um, the last one,
Speaker 1: the last one. We can't stop with one of those songs.
Speaker 1: And you know it didn't it didn't fit where Rihanna
Speaker 1: was going. And and in hindsight, now did I hear it?
Speaker 1: It is it was better for Molly than it was,
Speaker 1: you know Forria. Molly s Yeah, y'a so funny man.
Speaker 1: So so you know, um, if you ever gave you
Speaker 1: two million for us, you know we'll go ahead. Oh man,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. God is good all the time.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know, what I mean, Um,
Speaker 1: and so so we so I'm in Atlanta and uh,
Speaker 1: we can't stop in twenty three and um, Karen Quark,
Speaker 1: here's we can't stop and say, yea, I want to
Speaker 1: fly y'all to l A. You Timothy Mike will to
Speaker 1: do some stuff for Rihanna, Rihanna don't want to do.
Speaker 1: We can't stop, and like, damn, bro and I didn't
Speaker 1: wrote so many songs to this girl. I'm like man,
Speaker 1: and we're out there right in And then the ask
Speaker 1: AP Awards was in l A. And I went to
Speaker 1: the ask AP Awards me, my brother and um Ray
Speaker 1: and they were honoring Quincy Jones. I've never met Quincy
Speaker 1: Jones in my life. I've only met him one time.
Speaker 1: And this is the time. I was outside on my phone.
Speaker 1: If anybody knows me, I'm usually in the phone texting
Speaker 1: on a game on Instagram or something. Quincy Jones walks
Speaker 1: up to me and he said, hey, young blood, how
Speaker 1: you doing? Let me tell you something to take my
Speaker 1: shaves off of this one and he's and I say, uh,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm good. Um, Mr Mr Jones, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: He said, I'm good man. How's the songwriting? Coming like,
Speaker 1: Quincy Jones know me. But I'm like, it's the ask
Speaker 1: Cap Awards. Everybody hears it. Writer, maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, it's going good. Man, you know it's
Speaker 1: going good. He said, you want a secret the writing hits, Yeah,
Speaker 1: fuck them versus man, the people want hooks. Man, give
Speaker 1: the people hooks. And I was like, thank you, and
Speaker 1: he walks away. The conversation was over. I go to
Speaker 1: Timothy Rand said, Quincy Jones spoke to me. What are
Speaker 1: you saying? He said, don't write no verses, just right hooks.
Speaker 1: And the next day I went to the studio, strip
Speaker 1: clubs and dollar bills and I still got more money,
Speaker 1: Thrones shots. Can I get a refill? And I still
Speaker 1: got more money. I said. I got to repeat it
Speaker 1: all the time. It's like, why are you repeating that
Speaker 1: the whole song? Because Quincy Jones told me not to
Speaker 1: write no fucking verses. He told me to write hooks, nigga.
Speaker 1: And it was random, and I look at it as
Speaker 1: a sign, so I have to do this this way.
Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy. I was at that awards, so yeah,
Speaker 1: because he spoke when he spoke, and I always remember
Speaker 1: the term and I still use it, when it rains
Speaker 1: get wet. Oh man, I like that. I didn't remember
Speaker 1: that one. I was too busy thinking of what he
Speaker 1: told me. He stopped you and talk to you. But
Speaker 1: I remember a quote he said, when it rains get wet.
Speaker 1: Bro I love that that but like I said, that
Speaker 1: man really told me that. So after we did a
Speaker 1: full hook that records a full hook, yeah, you know
Speaker 1: that record is as a full chorus, and Marty sarrys
Speaker 1: end up getting a thing. And so you played that
Speaker 1: for Miley first. That was for Rihanna first, and then
Speaker 1: they didn't go to Rihanna and end up going to Molly.
Speaker 1: Molly heard she loved it, end up going to Molly.
Speaker 1: And Dr Luke did wrecking Ball for Matty Sorrys and
Speaker 1: Dr Luke wanted wrecking Ball to be the first single,
Speaker 1: and they was like, nah, it's we can't stop. Who
Speaker 1: didn't we can't stop? Mike Will and rock City? Who
Speaker 1: the fund is? Rock City? He's like, I don't know
Speaker 1: these guys. How I'm dr Look, how are they getting
Speaker 1: the first thing? I'm supposed to have the first single?
Speaker 1: So like I want to meet these guys. So we
Speaker 1: go to the Soho house and we go sit down Luke,
Speaker 1: me and my brother Caribbean kids from the Islands. You
Speaker 1: don't know who this white boy is. And at this
Speaker 1: point of time, with no disrespect, we don't give a
Speaker 1: funk and we're like okay, and Luke, it's like Rai's like, yo, bro,
Speaker 1: he does Katie Perry, he does all that. He's like, Okay, cool, cool, cool,
Speaker 1: you respect my boy. It's so I'm going to still
Speaker 1: that respect my boy. Respect my boy, very disrespectful. We
Speaker 1: didn't meet it in a disrespect. We were just like like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: respect my boy, and we're going. We start working with
Speaker 1: Luke and we had a mutual friend called Groove from Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and Luke calls Groove and say, yeah, man, I'm working
Speaker 1: with these guys from Rock City man from they live
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, like you. He's like what he said, nigga, Oh,
Speaker 1: I know they're out of here now. He's like yeah.
Speaker 1: He's like He's like, he's like, Luke, I'm so happy
Speaker 1: you signed them. He's like, no, I'm not signing them.
Speaker 1: We're just writing songs, he said, writing songs for what,
Speaker 1: Like you know, we're working on Becky g and you
Speaker 1: know my He said, nah, bro, you need to do
Speaker 1: that artist ship. Bro. By the way, we stopped being
Speaker 1: artists for like four years, just focused on writing. Now
Speaker 1: the Artiship comes around. Luke comes, he says, hey man,
Speaker 1: we're in the studio writing songs. He said, hey man,
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, what would your music sound like if
Speaker 1: you did it with me? What do you mean? Like,
Speaker 1: you guys are artists, right, Yeah, if you made music
Speaker 1: with me, what would it sound like? Nigga? Me and
Speaker 1: my brothers like, nigga is what we've been trying to
Speaker 1: do our whole life. Yeah, we go, we go Nigga.
Speaker 1: We stopped making music. Ray comes back trying to hear
Speaker 1: Kati Perry songs. Luke plays some eight Rock City songs.
Speaker 1: Raised was, yo, man, I want to sign the guys. Man,
Speaker 1: I got a label. Man over Sony that that we
Speaker 1: want to do this. He's like, oh, Ship, Like guys
Speaker 1: like Raised, Like what I tell you, if you get
Speaker 1: hard at something, they conna come for everything. Everything. So
Speaker 1: like cool. And so we do a whole album with
Speaker 1: Luke and Circuit shout out to my boys Circi, and
Speaker 1: we dropped a hit called locked Away with Adam Levien
Speaker 1: and you know, it went number one, and you know,
Speaker 1: we went on tour with my Room five and my
Speaker 1: and my whole life. I wanted to be an artist,
Speaker 1: and then I went on tour and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is stupid. I like going and doing shows back
Speaker 1: in the Islands and performing, and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be famous. I'm like, bro, I
Speaker 1: just want to you know, I just want to take
Speaker 1: my son to get ice cream, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And we was already making money, it was already successful.
Speaker 1: So I was like, what am I missing in life?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I was like, that was
Speaker 1: my dream when I was eighteen. I was thirty four,
Speaker 1: and everybody kept telling us you're too old. What Why
Speaker 1: would y'all be doing music right now? Ya? Why is?
Speaker 1: Why would Luke sign them? That's so dumb, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. We dropped blocked away and it was like, man,
Speaker 1: be writing them hits though. L A. Reid told me
Speaker 1: something when I sat in this office for the first time,
Speaker 1: because I went to play my record right and I
Speaker 1: never forgot this. He said, whatever you do when you're
Speaker 1: in this business, never count out the talent. Ever, he said,
Speaker 1: no matter what he said, listen to me if they talented,
Speaker 1: because everybody's gonna be like they're too old. Everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: be like that last album flopped. Everybody gonna be like,
Speaker 1: oh man, they had this amount of record deals, it
Speaker 1: might be different with you. If they talented, never count
Speaker 1: them out. And so you know, me and my brother Man,
Speaker 1: we really, you know, really talented, and we we put
Speaker 1: we put out an album What Dreams Are Made Of
Speaker 1: in two thousand fourteen, and then um, you know ship.
Speaker 1: After that, everything kind of went crazy, um with everything
Speaker 1: like Luke Luke got in like a whole crazy thing,
Speaker 1: um with the with the Casher situation, and Papa Radio
Speaker 1: said we're not playing no songs produced by him and
Speaker 1: me and my brother was like, and man produced every
Speaker 1: single song, and I hold out and I looked at
Speaker 1: it as a sign. I was like, this ship might
Speaker 1: not be what I was because that's a different politics.
Speaker 1: And we had to go sit the asses down again
Speaker 1: and it was like damn bro. But but I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, none of your niggers can't say I
Speaker 1: can't do it. I had a number one and I
Speaker 1: want to have a number one for myself again, I
Speaker 1: really believe I could do it tomorrow, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And so you know, now, me and my
Speaker 1: brother's like, we're trying to figure it out. My brother
Speaker 1: ain't really into song writing as much as me. He'll
Speaker 1: write songs, but I'm more political. I'm more the guy
Speaker 1: that's like, you know what, Tank is being an asshole,
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna come in here and play politics, finish
Speaker 1: the song. And my brother is like, yo, big money,
Speaker 1: Well you want to do something yo, you can't, Yo, bro,
Speaker 1: we can't. Yeah, my brother. Yeah, my brother is like, YO,
Speaker 1: what wrong? Would you make? What you train? Do? We
Speaker 1: try and make music? Are you make it funk? And
Speaker 1: he's like, and I don't want no smoke. I'm like, whoa,
Speaker 1: whoa hey, hey Timothy, Timothy nah t run mean and
Speaker 1: I funck make boy, We're gonna whoop. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to my listen. I'm talking my brother off allege.
Speaker 1: I was a day Yeah, Timothy and my nigger you know,
Speaker 1: bibbity bobbity Booth's ready and I just I just love
Speaker 1: this ship. Man. This is my basketball court. You know,
Speaker 1: in my life, I never felt like I was too
Speaker 1: good at too many things, man, But I just really
Speaker 1: felt like I was good at that. And I just
Speaker 1: started being with Luke all the time, letting him teach me,
Speaker 1: because I remember having poured up and all that and
Speaker 1: Luke saying, I mean, you're good, but you're not that good.
Speaker 1: M hmm. Biggest records in the world had smashes in
Speaker 1: my mind. He was like, I mean, and that man
Speaker 1: really taught me. That man really made me better. I really,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's certain people in the music menus
Speaker 1: that I would say, like Luke made me better talent wise,
Speaker 1: like just hearing a hit, seeing a hit, understanding melody.
Speaker 1: Polo helped me with confidence, like you know, shout out
Speaker 1: to Polo down, I always said. I used to go
Speaker 1: hang with Polo and Polo used to tell me I
Speaker 1: was the best song writer and I would be like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I'm good, but the best. He said, Nigga,
Speaker 1: you the best song writer in the game right now.
Speaker 1: Nobody better than you. And he told me that every
Speaker 1: day for like two months. I would just go and
Speaker 1: every day he seen me, he said, nigga, you the best.
Speaker 1: You don't get it, and I'll be like you know,
Speaker 1: Polo talking, you know Polo, you know Polo talk like
Speaker 1: Black Elvis pressy. You don't get it home. What I'm
Speaker 1: trying to tell you the best, trying you the best,
Speaker 1: you don't get because I'm the ship. I know, I
Speaker 1: know what bro yo. And he told me that all
Speaker 1: the time. And I ain't gonna lie to y'all. With
Speaker 1: Luke teaching me structure and science of songwriting and Polo
Speaker 1: telling me you're really that nigga and my dad saying
Speaker 1: I knew you was gonna be this person. Since I
Speaker 1: knew you was gonna be this person when your mom
Speaker 1: named you t Ryan. I was like, one day I
Speaker 1: woke up and I really believed I was that nigger.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know what I'm saying. And I went and
Speaker 1: I went and I went and I went crazy, you know,
Speaker 1: but my first crazy failed. It didn't fail. That's a
Speaker 1: wrong term to use. So James Fountleroy is like, literally
Speaker 1: like one of my heroes. He I've never said this
Speaker 1: to his face, but you know, but he's like one
Speaker 1: of my heroes because he did like all of Bruno
Speaker 1: and all of Justin Kimberlake, and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I wish I could do that like a whole project
Speaker 1: with like a superstar. That would be so cool. I
Speaker 1: thought that was amazing. I was like, I need to
Speaker 1: do that. I want to try so you know this
Speaker 1: swear to God. Super Dukees calls me and a Sunday
Speaker 1: super Duke say hey, Aran, I said, what yeah? Do
Speaker 1: I read out about my Rihanna and I was like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: you already talked to rock Nation. No, man, I talked
Speaker 1: to nobody. I said, you talked to Rihanna? No, so
Speaker 1: how are you gonna do it? But just feel like
Speaker 1: if me on you getting the stoold joke I met
Speaker 1: the music, Shou'll gonna make a red. I said, you're serious.
Speaker 1: I said, okay, flew to Miami, started making reggae music.
Speaker 1: You know, Rock Nations flies out to London. When day
Speaker 1: Rihanna comes to the studio, we play like seven reggae
Speaker 1: songs and Rihanna said, oh man, and they made a
Speaker 1: reggae I was like, I look at Super Dupes. I
Speaker 1: said yo, I said, nigga God is with us. And
Speaker 1: then you know, and then you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: what went on or what happened, but you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, And so years it's going by and the
Speaker 1: album ain't coming out, and everybody's telling me, Luke ain't
Speaker 1: got no songs on the radio, he ain't hot, Rihanna
Speaker 1: ain't putting music out. It's like three years I've had
Speaker 1: a hit on the radio, like every year consistently at
Speaker 1: least one thing that's going And they're like, why are
Speaker 1: you Why are you working with Luke? Why you keep
Speaker 1: doing this? You need to be in the ruins with
Speaker 1: this person. You need to work with more people, you
Speaker 1: need to do more of this. And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: just believe in Luke man. I believe in what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to do, and I believe in what I'm doing
Speaker 1: over here. I remember I was on my way for
Speaker 1: Prais and I had the longest layover in history, and
Speaker 1: my good old friend man shout out to c C
Speaker 1: told me Toron come to the studio and she was
Speaker 1: working at some random studio bro with j R. Road
Speaker 1: Um pregnant, and we wrote a song called Level Up.
Speaker 1: Because I was in the club with U Shure and
Speaker 1: he's throwing a lot of champagne around. But I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're getting wet by all of telling true stories
Speaker 1: because I'm telling to the club and C C. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, my bad, My bad, man, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: to C. I'm telling you all the true story. It's
Speaker 1: totally different once you take a glass. Yeoh, man, know
Speaker 1: it's the true story. Man. I'm in a student, I'm
Speaker 1: in a club with Usher. And so I have this
Speaker 1: theory about about music. If you want to know what
Speaker 1: tempo it is, follow the drugs. Okay, So when when
Speaker 1: the Beatles were making music, they want LSD and then
Speaker 1: they went into psychedelics, and then when cocaine came in,
Speaker 1: disco hit hard and then it takes you to make
Speaker 1: a thing go right. And then crack came in and
Speaker 1: it was boom boom ca boom boom. And then when
Speaker 1: pop came back is when ecstasy was big, and dance
Speaker 1: and all of that took over. But what happened is
Speaker 1: they starts smoking weed, drinking lean and popping Perkey's with
Speaker 1: your downers, and so the tempo slowed down like sixty
Speaker 1: two a minute, you know. So I was like, So,
Speaker 1: I was like, it was this song that I heard
Speaker 1: in the club suck it up, suck it up, suck
Speaker 1: it up, suck it up. Through that is in a
Speaker 1: circle and they was mixing it with slow songs and
Speaker 1: they was like, oh, no, it's halftime. I didn't know
Speaker 1: what that it meant. And I was like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is the tempo. This is where the future is going.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, you think like nigger, the tempo is
Speaker 1: coming back. So I get in with Sierra and I said, Sierra,
Speaker 1: I want us to flip this song. I'm with Jerr
Speaker 1: wrote him the best flipper. He flips. He's a flipper.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, I got this idea, and I want
Speaker 1: to flip this song. And I gotta be fast. She's
Speaker 1: like to run to Ryno, you think it's too fast.
Speaker 1: I said, c C bit is just doing coke in
Speaker 1: the club again. I'm telling you, they're ready to dance,
Speaker 1: you know. And Siri's like, Tryan is so crazy. She
Speaker 1: thinks I'm insane, right, And I'm like yo. So I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this thing. Level up, level up, level up,
Speaker 1: level up, you know. And so we did the song
Speaker 1: and she was signed to Warner Brothers at the time.
Speaker 1: And then I go to Paris, and you know, I'm
Speaker 1: in Paris and working on music and whatever. And Sierra
Speaker 1: comes and she's like, hey, man trying. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: leaving Wanner. They didn't get the vision. I'm like, damn
Speaker 1: man um, but you know, they let it go with
Speaker 1: all our masters. And she's like, I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put out this song. And she shot a video. I've
Speaker 1: never told us to Sierra, swear to God, never told us.
Speaker 1: She comes to l and she comes to me and
Speaker 1: she shows me the video and I don't like it
Speaker 1: at all. I hate it with all my heart. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Oh my god, Oh my God. And
Speaker 1: and right now I'm ice cool. I'm ice cool. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, they're gonna say I'm whack. Everybody's gonna say.
Speaker 1: They're gonna say I'm w And Sierra is so excited.
Speaker 1: And I believe in her so much because she has
Speaker 1: this thing that she says that when she says it,
Speaker 1: I don't fight her. She says, torn God told me. Look,
Speaker 1: she said that to me about three or four times.
Speaker 1: And if Sierra tells me torn God told me, I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's the one. I don't care what I believe. If
Speaker 1: God said it to c C, it's the one that's
Speaker 1: what I believe. And she said, thron, God told me
Speaker 1: this the way to do it. And I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, that made me feel bit sweat. I
Speaker 1: was like, Yo, that made me feel a little better.
Speaker 1: And she puts it out and it's out and I
Speaker 1: do not want to read the comments. I'm so afraid.
Speaker 1: I'm like, please be good because I need something God.
Speaker 1: I need something good right now because nothing's going good
Speaker 1: and everybody he's telling me I ain't good no more,
Speaker 1: and I'm falling off and I need to work with
Speaker 1: other people and stop. No dead serious bro. And my
Speaker 1: brother calls me, t run. Yeah, what you're saying, Timo,
Speaker 1: you do that? You see her? I signed that level up?
Speaker 1: Fuck yeah, my boy, I fuck nasty song. You like it?
Speaker 1: He said, to run that's the body's tune. Ever, my boy?
Speaker 1: You serious? He said, t run the fuck? Oh the head.
Speaker 1: I was like, ye'all can't tell me ship. My brother
Speaker 1: told me he's out of here. So we start reading
Speaker 1: the comments. I'm like, everybody likes it. I said, oh
Speaker 1: my god, this is crazy. So now while that's going on,
Speaker 1: there's a girl in that Lanta working on music and
Speaker 1: raised like, Yo, Tron, I'm at the house chilling the
Speaker 1: bed with my wife. He's like, Yo, Thron, is this
Speaker 1: girl I want you to meet for I think this
Speaker 1: girl's fire. You're gonna love her. He's like, cool. I
Speaker 1: come to the studio. He introduced me to Lizzard mm hmm,
Speaker 1: and he you know, he's like, yo, she got this
Speaker 1: song where she marrying herself. He shows me the truth
Speaker 1: Hurts video. I was like yo. And then we went
Speaker 1: in the back and we tried to write a song,
Speaker 1: the worst song I've ever written in my life. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, this black girl is never gonna work with
Speaker 1: me ever again. It is a rap. And then she
Speaker 1: calls me. She was like, yeo, man, I'm working on
Speaker 1: this album and I would like you to come out
Speaker 1: to l A and help me out. I would love to,
Speaker 1: but I really thought our bobed like if that was
Speaker 1: an audition, Nigga. I funked it up and we go
Speaker 1: out to l A and you know, we do some songs.
Speaker 1: And with that being said, now Doja Cat been signed.
Speaker 1: Dolja Cats been signed. The Luke from When Locked the
Speaker 1: Way it was our Doja Cat was round. You know,
Speaker 1: she was just younger. So so peep game doja cat
Speaker 1: puts out a song, bitch, I'm a cole And now
Speaker 1: now the North Variety is going there. Now Luke and
Speaker 1: her is getting in the studio and Luke plays me
Speaker 1: a song. I keep it juicy, juicy, you know. He
Speaker 1: plays me that song. I'm like, oh, man, this girl
Speaker 1: is fired. He's like, yeah, man, I think she you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be dope. So I'm in a
Speaker 1: studio with Yo Gotti and I write, I write this
Speaker 1: chorus for Gotti. I was like, Yo, man, you and
Speaker 1: um um, oh my god, what's what's the girl from Detroit?
Speaker 1: Please sweet cash Doll, Please don't text me and say
Speaker 1: or tweet me and say I'm a terrible person. I
Speaker 1: just couldn't remember at the top. So cash Doll, I
Speaker 1: want to Cash Doll to sing the hook. I love
Speaker 1: cash Doll. I was like, man, I wanted her to
Speaker 1: sing this chorus. Play with my pussy, but don't play
Speaker 1: with my emotions. If you spend some money, that nig
Speaker 1: got just my fucking damn right. So I wrote this
Speaker 1: hook your God. He was like, man, that ship you
Speaker 1: know that ship hard man, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's the project. And Luke played for Doja and Doja said, Nigga,
Speaker 1: whoever wrote this, I want to meet them? Meets me.
Speaker 1: And I did another song with Doja on the first
Speaker 1: album called That's My Ship, That's my way doing it
Speaker 1: like that? Nah real baby, So no yo, wait, so
Speaker 1: you want to do something, so Nigga. So we do
Speaker 1: that and then me and we us and Lizzo we're
Speaker 1: working and so I'm working with Lizzo, I'm working with
Speaker 1: Doja and then Lizzle comes out. She's like going crazy.
Speaker 1: Doja comes out, She's going crazy. Well, you know, Warna
Speaker 1: Warna wants to get loop in the studio with Sweetie
Speaker 1: and sweet and Luke calls me and he's like, yo,
Speaker 1: t you know, I'm gonna be working with this girl. Sweete, Man,
Speaker 1: you should come out. You should you should work with me.
Speaker 1: I like, hell fucking yeah. And they got fought with Sweetie,
Speaker 1: you know, and I was like cool, I go. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody's like I'm the Lizzle guy, you know, so I'm
Speaker 1: heating up. I'm not. I don't want to use the
Speaker 1: word hot, but I'm like, you know, they're like Okay,
Speaker 1: he might be cool. You know what I'm saying, because
Speaker 1: the Lizza working this which one I did juice for
Speaker 1: Lizzo and uh me? And what's another song what's the
Speaker 1: name of the song? Tempo with Lizzoe and Missy and
Speaker 1: then another song exactly how I Feel with lizz One
Speaker 1: Gucci Man, and a song on the album called yeah
Speaker 1: you jumped out there? You know God is good? Um
Speaker 1: so I um so, now you're gonna work with Sweetie.
Speaker 1: I go work with Sweetie, And everybody got keeps saying
Speaker 1: we don't want any samples because she had had so
Speaker 1: many sample records, and I'm like, she's from the Bay,
Speaker 1: the I'm from St. Thomas, I'm from the Bay. Everything.
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is every song don't cross the water?
Speaker 1: That one. Everybody know that one. So I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: the biggest song from the Bay. That's the biggest song
Speaker 1: from the Bay. Why would we not use the biggest
Speaker 1: song from the Bay from a girl from the Bay.
Speaker 1: And Luke did the beat in two seconds. And then
Speaker 1: I'm writing all kind of ship and it's booty as hell.
Speaker 1: I'm like, and then we connect with my boy lunch money.
Speaker 1: I'll know, lunch Money and me and lunch Money got
Speaker 1: it to together. And then Sweetie came in and got
Speaker 1: it together because again Sweetie was like, she was telling
Speaker 1: me this is how we're talking to beauty and this
Speaker 1: is how it goes, and this is what I gotta
Speaker 1: be and data la da and I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: this girl is fire. She knows how fucking ship. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, you know, like and so tap
Speaker 1: and then but but guess what I did best friend first?
Speaker 1: So I did best Friend before. Yeah, I did best
Speaker 1: Friend before I did top tap in. But I was like,
Speaker 1: this song is gonna be fired for tektok because girls
Speaker 1: gonna be with the home girls and you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and it's gonna be cool. Well, we thought
Speaker 1: best Friend was coming out next, but it didn't. Uh
Speaker 1: back to the streets, like a lot of you and
Speaker 1: that came out and their best Friend. But then we
Speaker 1: got those your own best friend free bo. He's going
Speaker 1: to his keyboard. He's going to his keyboard. Top five,
Speaker 1: Top five, what's your what's Tyron's? Top five? Top five?
Speaker 1: You're Top five, Top five R and B Artists Top five,
Speaker 1: Far fun. I'm still singing home tron, let me cook. Wow.
Speaker 1: R and b artists your favorite it's your world. He
Speaker 1: h five, m hmm, my top five favorite R and
Speaker 1: B artists of all time. Okay, I was born in
Speaker 1: eighty two, so my top five, you know, but um,
Speaker 1: you were born in eighty two. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: So coming in and number five, I ain't even gonna
Speaker 1: lie to y'all. I'm gonna have to say this because
Speaker 1: I saw him live before he passed, and I didn't
Speaker 1: want to go to this concert and my best friend
Speaker 1: made me go. And it's one of the best concerts
Speaker 1: I've ever been to my wife to this date. So
Speaker 1: I would say, like number five, it's like Lutheravan draws
Speaker 1: because I said, because I saw him like before, you know.
Speaker 1: And then um, number four, I'm gonna say, um, Mary J. Blige, Yeah,
Speaker 1: um yeah, Mary J Blige. That's a special woman. I
Speaker 1: got a chance to meet her and work with her.
Speaker 1: The song never came out, but she don't understand, like
Speaker 1: just you know, just like how excited. Um, So that's
Speaker 1: number four. Number three gotta be Stevie Wonder. I just
Speaker 1: think he's not only one of the best R and
Speaker 1: B artists, he's one of the best songwriters ever because
Speaker 1: to my understanding, he was born blind and he just
Speaker 1: writes from a place of things that I've seen, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, how does he know that? That means it's
Speaker 1: pure heart when he makes music. It's pure like feeling
Speaker 1: and true emotion, you know. Um so yeah, Luthor Mary Stevie, Yo,
Speaker 1: this man changed my life when I heard his music.
Speaker 1: And you know, I hope nobody gets mad at me
Speaker 1: for saying his name because I understand that he might
Speaker 1: not be the greatest person. But um r Kelly Brother
Speaker 1: or just musically, I mean he talked, Yeah, he taught.
Speaker 1: He taught me, you know, just music when I when
Speaker 1: I listened to his music, um and number one baby
Speaker 1: osh ramon, remon, baby, I ain't gonna lie to you.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie to you. I can't watch this.
Speaker 1: I don't mind. We don't mind. Up the top pool.
Speaker 1: Did you say hallelujah as you were writing this work?
Speaker 1: Until three? I'll get you leaving with me. Don't get
Speaker 1: that money, money money, that money, money, because I know
Speaker 1: how it is You're going mamate that money money, money, money, money,
Speaker 1: money and put something the offer and play girl. I
Speaker 1: don't mind. Oh, I don't mind. Yeah, who you wrote
Speaker 1: that for? Me? Man? You know I have a great
Speaker 1: you know quick, great great story about that song because
Speaker 1: I was in the studio, me, me and Luke was
Speaker 1: in the studio UM with Katy Perry. Kay Perry's coming
Speaker 1: to work with us, and Katy Perry went to do
Speaker 1: vocal warmups and so why Katy Perry doing vocal warmups?
Speaker 1: Luke was playing this thing on his guitar and I
Speaker 1: started saying, I don't mind, and it was super lovey
Speaker 1: and romantic, and Luke was like, no, I can't do that.
Speaker 1: The beat is already pretty. We need edge. I said,
Speaker 1: what then you want me to say like I don't mind,
Speaker 1: like I'll love a strippers? Are you tripping? Bro? Like yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, out of frustration because we had I had
Speaker 1: been trying. He said, yeah, I want you to to say that. What. Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I was just fascinated with the Atlanta culture and
Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, all of this Atlanta ship they're
Speaker 1: doing this pop and I said, Yo, we need you
Speaker 1: know this. We need to take all of these things.
Speaker 1: And you know, nobody ain't really was doing that, you know,
Speaker 1: outside of them goes. Nobody had put it in a
Speaker 1: pop song, you know. And I just was like, yo,
Speaker 1: let's do it like this. And we had did it
Speaker 1: and said it to Ussher and oh yeah. I remember
Speaker 1: Katie Perry walking in and heard a song. It was like,
Speaker 1: that's an Usher song and we hadn't said who he
Speaker 1: did it for a year, does it? We was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. We was gonna send it to him. She
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, I can't wait to hear
Speaker 1: him sing that. And I was like wow, and you know,
Speaker 1: so so Usher did it and I ain't gonna lie
Speaker 1: to you that that's that's That's one of my favorites
Speaker 1: that I did with him, because I did a couple
Speaker 1: with him. What did I do? We did No Limit together.
Speaker 1: We did that together. I'm really good, you know. But this,
Speaker 1: you know what, this this one thing because you keep
Speaker 1: this name. He's popped up a few times Dr Luke.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, this is my camera, right guys. Yes, Dr Luke.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember you still owe me
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars. Oh man, I don't want the money.
Speaker 1: I just want to be able to say you owe
Speaker 1: me five forever because you got plenty five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: got plenty plenty five hundred dollars. Oh man, you owe
Speaker 1: me five hundred five hunt in Luke five, Luke back,
Speaker 1: We're back. I mean you need to sing top five
Speaker 1: R and B songs. Dang, that's a hard one. Oh man.
Speaker 1: I think I know what my number one is for sure. Um,
Speaker 1: but top five R and B songs? Who m overjoy,
Speaker 1: I'm building my castle? Come on, man, Yeah, come on, man,
Speaker 1: y'all can't y'all can't go to the argument. You know,
Speaker 1: since he's so he made complicated things seems so simple.
Speaker 1: And that's from a mute. From a musician standpoint, like
Speaker 1: he made the most complicated movements and key changes or
Speaker 1: like scale manipulation. He made it digestible to every day people.
Speaker 1: I don't know how he did. Yeah, people, I gotta
Speaker 1: say this song, bro, I gotta say this song. It's
Speaker 1: a neo soul song, but I'm gonna put it in
Speaker 1: this because girl, I know this my seem number one.
Speaker 1: I'm out of all. That is the most player ship
Speaker 1: I've ever heard in my life. That man. If I
Speaker 1: played that song for my son, I said, listen to me.
Speaker 1: When you approach a woman, this is exactly how you talk.
Speaker 1: This is what you say. This is the sincerity that
Speaker 1: you gotta have. And and I remember driving in the
Speaker 1: car and my son just smiling like we had a moment.
Speaker 1: I was like, it was from that song. It was
Speaker 1: from that song. He gets on my nerves too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: music man, and I had the opportunity to work with him.
Speaker 1: He's one of the best master, incredible monster. Um, I'll
Speaker 1: be your group baby, because you are my sup but star, No,
Speaker 1: but one thing, give me your autograph. I hate Pool
Speaker 1: bad forever for that one because he's incredible. Hate turning
Speaker 1: the air conditioner up everywhere he goes. Listen, if you
Speaker 1: hop in the car with Pool beer, it's gonna feel
Speaker 1: like it's two degrees. And thank you for letting me know.
Speaker 1: I'm Caribbean. I can't give a cold. It's not my
Speaker 1: birthday many birthday, so no, this is real talk that
Speaker 1: that song right there. Um Oh, I've been doing my
Speaker 1: own things. Love it's always a way of having bad timing.
Speaker 1: My nigga, Bryce Wilson, dude, okay grooved and guess what
Speaker 1: I never knew I could sing. I started as a
Speaker 1: rapper and doing like dance all reggae, you know, and
Speaker 1: then it was one song that we performed live for
Speaker 1: the first time and I just knew the words. I
Speaker 1: just felt to sing it. And this, this song is
Speaker 1: the reason. This is the first time I ever felt like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I could do melody my love? Do you ever dream?
Speaker 1: Candy Code Rain Dry? Yeah, you're the same my Candy
Speaker 1: Rain Yeah. So look and by the way, to anybody
Speaker 1: who's like that, should listen. Bro. Every song that I
Speaker 1: mentioned had a very special moment in my life I
Speaker 1: can remember, and it did something that shift shift the
Speaker 1: moment for me. So I picked those five. To be honest,
Speaker 1: it's too many to mention. I feel like I'm doing this.
Speaker 1: Justice is a bunch of songs that I probably I
Speaker 1: am forgetting, but I think I'm gonna go. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: comfortable with it. Okay, Jams, let's gone through. We're gonna
Speaker 1: make a voltron. Okay, we're gonna make We're gonna make
Speaker 1: your R and b artists. Okay, Okay, we're gonna build him.
Speaker 1: Huh say he'm the vocal performance, style, styling, and passion.
Speaker 1: What artists are you grabbing the vocals from? Who's gonna
Speaker 1: sing all them great songs? You're right? We're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say I'm gonna go with us, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with USh, I'm gonna go with usher Man. I
Speaker 1: gotta go with usher Bro. I know I have to
Speaker 1: because you can't say it's not there's nothing. He makes
Speaker 1: everything sound good, and that's the biggest problem. He'll make
Speaker 1: a bad song sound greater to be like hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, I have to listen to it. On the
Speaker 1: twelfth song, You're incredible. He also owns it though. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: he's the best. You know, Okay, what's next? That's the voice,
Speaker 1: that voice, the voice? Performance style Chris Brown, Chris Brown,
Speaker 1: Chris Brown. I know it's Chris Brown. Guess what the
Speaker 1: next answer, Guess what it's probably Chris Brown didn't give
Speaker 1: it to them. The styling of it, Chris Brown. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. Let me tell you something. I
Speaker 1: think that motherfucker exudes cool. I think that man exudes cool.
Speaker 1: I think that man wakes Chris Brown and dye his
Speaker 1: head red, dyes hair purple. I've never Chris Brown tries
Speaker 1: things that nobody on earth could get away with, but
Speaker 1: Chris Brown. The only thing Chris Brown ain't did yet
Speaker 1: his dreads and if Chris Brown do dreads and dreads
Speaker 1: looked fight on Chris Brown. I personally want to fight
Speaker 1: him in the cage match one because because at this point,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's that you're just doing too much,
Speaker 1: my nigga, Like you gotta relax. Come all, bro, stop man, okay,
Speaker 1: who you're getting the passion from the heart of the artist,
Speaker 1: the heart and the passion, the art and the passion.
Speaker 1: Damn bro, Chris Brown. Sorry bad, Hey man, Hey man,
Speaker 1: Come on man, talk about somebody who didn't been through
Speaker 1: it all. Come on, man, at some point, we're gonna
Speaker 1: gotta stop playing with like this nigga. Yo, bro, This
Speaker 1: nigg has been incredible for years and been one of
Speaker 1: the best and been in your top five, top two,
Speaker 1: number one, number one, this number one dancer. All we're
Speaker 1: both his hands typed behind his back. Talk about I
Speaker 1: ain't never seen nothing like him. I've never seen nothing
Speaker 1: like him. Listen to my brother. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you see this, if you're gonna see this, guess what.
Speaker 1: I haven't spoke to this man. We didn't text before this.
Speaker 1: You know, my favorite R and B artist is Usher,
Speaker 1: But I don't know what it is with that dude. Bro,
Speaker 1: that dude, that dude was touched bro, problem by God
Speaker 1: for sure, Like with his eyes close, I've never seen
Speaker 1: nothing like it. Man. You know this man paints like
Speaker 1: paints like Bro, I got a painting that he gave
Speaker 1: me in my house and I'm like, he does everything.
Speaker 1: Why he acts, he sings, This nigga can backflip into
Speaker 1: a name name. Did y'all know that. I'm just I
Speaker 1: just think that's where it was going. Did you know
Speaker 1: that he is incredible? And I just feel like he's
Speaker 1: a He's a human being that deserves like all his flowers,
Speaker 1: because I really personally believe that by the time that
Speaker 1: everybody on his planet starts to give him his flowers,
Speaker 1: he may not be here to see him give it
Speaker 1: to him. And and and I want to tell him,
Speaker 1: listen my kids, Bro, that man is incredible, you know.
Speaker 1: And he said happy birthday to my son too, So
Speaker 1: it's like, you're gonna have a special place. Listen, you
Speaker 1: do something for my baby here, good dude to unbeatable.
Speaker 1: I'll help you fight. I'll see you and they'd be like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing. We're gonna have to go get Timothy. Bro.
Speaker 1: You know, bro, my brother. And guess what's so funny?
Speaker 1: If you meet us, people think I am the aggressive
Speaker 1: one and he is the calm one. And it is
Speaker 1: the listen to my brother is like, t run when
Speaker 1: I see this mine, right, I torn it, not Timothy,
Speaker 1: not not just cool cool, I'm gonna talk to him
Speaker 1: mean my brother favorite thing meaning the fuck my boy.
Speaker 1: That's how he's gonna talk to him. No, my brother.
Speaker 1: He it means like I'm not with that. So like
Speaker 1: if somebody say, you're mean enough, like y'all not trying
Speaker 1: to hear what you're telling me right now? When I
Speaker 1: see this and he's like, no, no, no, yo, bro's
Speaker 1: all look, let me just talk to him. He may
Speaker 1: not even understand. T run mean enough, boy. I'm watching
Speaker 1: you across the room coming towards me. My brother is like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I'm trying to tell you
Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo, I'm gonna come to you. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: no no, no, no no, no, you come to you. What's great?
Speaker 1: B Yeah yeah you're good. Yeah. So I got this
Speaker 1: segment of the show brother, what's it called. It's called
Speaker 1: I ain't saying on that no names, ain't no name
Speaker 1: ain't listen. Listen no names, no names, none. So you
Speaker 1: tell us a story, funnier, fucked up, are funny and
Speaker 1: okay all of the same. Damn. Okay, you know because
Speaker 1: that's the song you was listening to when your manager
Speaker 1: told your people don't need you. Yeah music, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean tell us that story, man, if you know you
Speaker 1: and your travels of this music business man. And the
Speaker 1: only rule you cannot say the names of the people
Speaker 1: in this story. I'm not saying anybody's name. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell Can I say the name of the song? Gone here? Okay? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, Okay, so right now this is tron
Speaker 1: t rod rock City, Rock City, Virgin Islands. I ain't
Speaker 1: saying on that, okay, cool. I ain't saying our names,
Speaker 1: but I will say we was, um it was in
Speaker 1: the state of Los Angeles at a studio saying no
Speaker 1: name of the studio, and um, it was a song
Speaker 1: that we wrote. And it was a song called Mrs.
Speaker 1: Glass That's the name of the song. It wasn't big
Speaker 1: or did not, you know what I'm saying. And the
Speaker 1: person that ended up having this song ain't the person
Speaker 1: that this is about. And a couple of people tried
Speaker 1: this song, so it could be anybody. But on this
Speaker 1: particular day with the studio and the artist is supposed
Speaker 1: to be coming in, and they're like, hey, the artist
Speaker 1: is gonna come in, but just to give you guys
Speaker 1: a head up, heads up, the artists would like to
Speaker 1: change a couple of things, personalize it for themselves. Oh man,
Speaker 1: we'll all We're all for that. That's good and it
Speaker 1: might even be better. Person came in um with a
Speaker 1: guitarist and uh personal assistant and a bottle of Hennessey
Speaker 1: and a bottle of wine. It was like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. We have we vibe. And
Speaker 1: the the person who is engineering just so happened to
Speaker 1: be the person that made the beat. And and we're
Speaker 1: like and and me, who, I say, I'm the trick
Speaker 1: fil a the music in this because I'm in the
Speaker 1: service business. I like I like to give a good service.
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, today it's about you. However you want
Speaker 1: to do it, whatever makes you comfortable. I've been told
Speaker 1: you had your reservations about singing the song. This is
Speaker 1: no this is a no pressure zone. Let's get it
Speaker 1: to a place that will make you feel comfortable. Oh man,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. That was so nice. So now
Speaker 1: time is going to buy the Hennessey is going down,
Speaker 1: and you know, and Hennessey is gone, and now there's
Speaker 1: a glass of wineport. And I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: think I saw anybody else. I didn't have none, and
Speaker 1: he didn't have none of dating him. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Mind in my business the name of my company,
Speaker 1: minding our business also, And I go and I come
Speaker 1: in and I said, okay, is taking the lines? You're like, yo, bro,
Speaker 1: when we going to record the song, I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my bad. Oh I'm sorry. Hey, we're ready, We're ready,
Speaker 1: you know, guitarists already laid the electrical guitar part. We're
Speaker 1: ready for you to cut. And then the artists looks
Speaker 1: at me and then whispers into the person next to
Speaker 1: them's ear, and the person next to them said, the artists,
Speaker 1: so and so feels like the song doesn't personally speak
Speaker 1: to their heart. Y're all in the same room together, Oh, bro,
Speaker 1: were disclose. So I see whenever I get offended, are
Speaker 1: talking about accent, you know, because I don't. So now
Speaker 1: I'm talking very like, you know, man, I need to
Speaker 1: get funking with me. Man, Hey, look, so let's so,
Speaker 1: this is what I'm thinking. We start with the hook,
Speaker 1: see how you feel with it, and then we go
Speaker 1: from there. This this song doesn't match. So and So says,
Speaker 1: to tell you that this song doesn't match the chee
Speaker 1: you're working with me right now. It's a joke. No,
Speaker 1: you mean to tell me this Parson bro Literally we disclosed.
Speaker 1: So you mean to tell me this person right here
Speaker 1: next to you, it's telling you to tell me. No, man,
Speaker 1: you fucking with me. This gotta be a joke. We
Speaker 1: were joke. I was just talking to you. Whisper again.
Speaker 1: So and So say no, no, no, So I'm so
Speaker 1: and say fucking nothing. That's so. I'm so done. I
Speaker 1: walk out. I gone to my I gone to my people.
Speaker 1: I say, hey, I know what ain't doing right now? Wow,
Speaker 1: you lying? You're lying? Trust me. Watch this, y'all gotta
Speaker 1: come see this come back. It was already gone. So
Speaker 1: so we like they leave. Yeah, the girls said that.
Speaker 1: She said to say that she ain't feeling it. I wait,
Speaker 1: so she didn't even sit by she telling it. I
Speaker 1: went home. I was so all night and I've never
Speaker 1: worked with that person ever again in my life. Wow,
Speaker 1: true story, baby ah this music I was just talking
Speaker 1: to I was just talking to you, was talking serious.
Speaker 1: It's never the vibe is not that serious. It's never
Speaker 1: get lost in the vibe. This is what. This is
Speaker 1: how I'm supposed to act. Man, don't do that. Young artist,
Speaker 1: old artists, any artists don't do that. Why why, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It was it was very it was very
Speaker 1: what at the point at the moment, I was upset
Speaker 1: and I felt disrespected. And now it's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite stories that I like. It's one of my favorite
Speaker 1: stories that I like to tell when people come to
Speaker 1: my house, you know, especially when especially if somebody says
Speaker 1: the artist's name in my house, I'd be like, Oh,
Speaker 1: let me tell you what happened. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: tell you this story. Just gotta try that one day.
Speaker 1: Just maybe you can make it a TikTok and then
Speaker 1: if it's a prank and you tell Now, if it's
Speaker 1: a prank, you're like, we're just that's a fire prank.
Speaker 1: But bro dead serials when I mean and I'm like
Speaker 1: standing they sitting in a chair like that in the
Speaker 1: couch and I'm standing up looking down and they ain't
Speaker 1: getting up. Every time I talk and I'm not talking
Speaker 1: to her, I'm talking to this one. And when I
Speaker 1: talk to her, she will whisper in her ear and
Speaker 1: then she will talk to me, ain't talking listening moment.
Speaker 1: So he's like, that's what she's saying. Why we're just
Speaker 1: talking to you? What me for me? Somebody else? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You suck someone you know? And she pulled a shaggy
Speaker 1: on me fast. I'm sorry that It's incredible man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so those experiences are great, and especially early in your
Speaker 1: career to be like okay, cool, Okay, this is something
Speaker 1: that happens. Okay, I'm prepared. Wow, you got you got
Speaker 1: to clear the hallway. Niggas. Oh my god, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, in my eye, don't look me at
Speaker 1: my eye. People my eyes. You can't look at you
Speaker 1: can't do me, not everything for me. It's like, you
Speaker 1: can't do me, not everything. I'll person, I'll just go home.
Speaker 1: It's not that serious for me. And and you know what, like, again,
Speaker 1: my dad was incredible. I ain't never there's only one
Speaker 1: famous person that I've ever been like, WHOA to me?
Speaker 1: Jay Z Baby? That was my favorite artist. Why he's
Speaker 1: the only rapper that ever said St. Thomas and his
Speaker 1: raps what up to my Miami and St. Thomas Connects?
Speaker 1: And I was like, I told you as a little boy,
Speaker 1: I thought you didn't know he existed. I did, and
Speaker 1: I loved him because I've always felt like an outsider.
Speaker 1: I've always been the guy that been like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm from St. Thomas and I'm kind of awkward. I
Speaker 1: really don't know how to move. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be so bro. When I'm in l a bro. I'd
Speaker 1: be in my hotel. I'd be in the movie. I
Speaker 1: go to the movies like I went to the movies
Speaker 1: the other night. I go to the studio and I
Speaker 1: go back to the hotel. Well, come with us, man,
Speaker 1: I would love to you know, yeah, I would love to, man.
Speaker 1: I would love to appreciate you pulling up. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for having me. This ship was incredible time
Speaker 1: pull up. Man. You know what I'm saying, Like we
Speaker 1: don't we don't take it for granted. Man, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And we we tapped and when we
Speaker 1: see each other and it's always love. Um, but you
Speaker 1: can try to get you and your wife to move
Speaker 1: to Atlanta for a long time. No, no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to not set my sights on on on South Florida.
Speaker 1: Okay with that state task still the South, I take it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know I'm working on
Speaker 1: her California. I just feah, I'm never leaving California. Got
Speaker 1: a Puerto Rico plug that I just you know, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about Thomas might be a place to man, we'll
Speaker 1: see you know what I'm saying. We're gonna make it
Speaker 1: do but your high level, bro, and then we give
Speaker 1: you your flowers, bro, and we celebrate you, bro. And
Speaker 1: and when you win, brother, we dance. I appreciate, we
Speaker 1: look at it. Thank what I'm saying that you're You're
Speaker 1: You're one of our elaked you So keep going, God
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