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Speaker 1: A real key for real celebrity, Join the Breakfast Morning.

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Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Ye, Charlomne the guy. We

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Speaker 1: all the Breakfast Club have a special guest in the

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Speaker 1: building this morning. This man about to have the number

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Speaker 1: one album in the damn country, independent independent, Why not tires?

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Speaker 1: Why not? Let's get right into it. You got a

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Speaker 1: number one country, but I mean the number one album

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Speaker 1: with this your last album? Why? Um? Well, y'all know,

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Speaker 1: I went through a real nasty public and private custody

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Speaker 1: situation fighting for more custody of my baby. So I

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Speaker 1: landed fifty fifty joining and legal custody. Shout out to

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Speaker 1: all the fathers out there still determined to get that

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Speaker 1: time man, And so you can't have that much custody

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Speaker 1: and then say I'll be home in six months. I

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Speaker 1: gotta go chase a music career. So you know, um,

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Speaker 1: pickups and drop offs is real for me. Bedtime stories

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Speaker 1: and helping her with her homework, that's all real for me.

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Speaker 1: So I had to. I gotta do what I gotta do.

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Speaker 1: I love music. I'm never gonna stop doing music as

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Speaker 1: a whole because it's my first love. But it's definitely

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Speaker 1: my last album. There's not a publicity stunt to get

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Speaker 1: everybody excited like gold Run the last time You're gonna

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Speaker 1: get it? No, it's not. This is it for real?

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Speaker 1: This is it three and a half years to do this,

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Speaker 1: m Like emotionally it wiped me out, like I'm fighting

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Speaker 1: for more custody. I was in a relationship for five

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Speaker 1: years on the low and living together. Envy nos you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean? Uh, Envy's wife used to talk

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Speaker 1: to my girl. They were cool, hey, and it ended? Though,

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Speaker 1: can your wife still talk to her? Are they still friends?

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Speaker 1: That does that friendship? And always loyalty is to tyres? Okay,

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Speaker 1: married women shouldn't talk to single women. It's true that

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Speaker 1: conversation can get a little So why are you still there?

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Speaker 1: That's though, because if they formed a friendship, shouldn't she

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Speaker 1: still be able to talk to her? I mean my

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Speaker 1: wife loyalties to trees? Okay, yeah, let's move on. So

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Speaker 1: five years, you know, I did some things that I

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Speaker 1: was ashamed of. You know, nobody, we're all a work

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Speaker 1: in progress, and and so that's where the inspiration behind

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Speaker 1: the song shame came from. You know, it's not for

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Speaker 1: perfect people. It's not for people that think they so

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Speaker 1: far up the spiritual lot of they don't make mistakes.

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Speaker 1: It's a song about being honest and transparent and vulnerable.

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Speaker 1: So for it to be number two on Billboard right

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Speaker 1: now in only six weeks, it's just the confirmation that

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Speaker 1: when you do things from your heart, it effects hearts.

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Speaker 1: So and it is a video actually that really matters,

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Speaker 1: because I feel like a lot of videos nowadays aren't

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Speaker 1: really so important, but I think it really helps what

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Speaker 1: the song is about. The visual that went along with

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Speaker 1: Diazel Noel did it for the love Denzel believe in this.

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Speaker 1: It's actually a short film, so that's twenty five minutes long,

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Speaker 1: and Denzel is definitely on board. I mean, I got

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Speaker 1: phone calls about Edits and you know it's it's like

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Speaker 1: he's very involved, like you'll keep sending me the links

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Speaker 1: with the updated scenes and I think you should this

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Speaker 1: that I mean them calls was very uncomfortable because you

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Speaker 1: don't want to disappoint d you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: But did you call him or he called you that? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I called him. And also the casting person named Robbie

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Speaker 1: Reid who did Malcolm X with them, and a bunch

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Speaker 1: of other movies, got Denzel on board as well, so

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Speaker 1: then that was be in between movies. He doing videos. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's a movie, it's a short stem, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. So that the condensed version of the Shame

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Speaker 1: video is about six and a half minutes long, but

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Speaker 1: the short film in itself is twenty five minutes long,

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Speaker 1: starring myself and Jennifer Hudson, directed by Paul Hunter. I'm

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Speaker 1: not allow, the said when I find out that you

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Speaker 1: had the number. No, I'm in the country, I said,

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Speaker 1: a boy, they're letting the wrong person be number one independent.

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Speaker 1: Now that's not right, and you should be happy. Man,

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Speaker 1: I'm keeping dark skin on. You know. You know we're

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Speaker 1: darker than this. Mic man. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to stay on. We're trying to take envy out.

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Speaker 1: You are getting brighter and brighter every time. When we

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Speaker 1: talk about that later, I was like this, I mean, Charlot,

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Speaker 1: now you you caught some flag because you you you

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Speaker 1: the dead homeless woman to promote dead homeless she was

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Speaker 1: not dead. Was like y'all sleeping on R and lady

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Speaker 1: upset listen, let me just say this. I apologize for

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Speaker 1: what what seems like it was insensitive and going too far. Um.

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Speaker 1: I didn't really think about that before I did it,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I just was trying to

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Speaker 1: state of R and B is dead. Most R and

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Speaker 1: B singers are not conscious of it, but a lot

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Speaker 1: of us are insecure and we feel like our songs

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Speaker 1: have any fans buying it anymore unless we got fifteen

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Speaker 1: rappers on it. You know what I'm saying. The state

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Speaker 1: to apologize to everybody. I don't have fifteen rappers on

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Speaker 1: my album for this Black Rose album to be number

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Speaker 1: one in fifteen countries, and it's straight R and B period.

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Speaker 1: It's sending the right message. It's making a statement that

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Speaker 1: the fans are still out here. They want to support,

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Speaker 1: Like for me, in my mind, it was never Marvin

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Speaker 1: Gay featuring Curtis Blow. It was never Luta Vandro's featuring

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Speaker 1: sugar Hill Game. It was pure R and B soul,

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Speaker 1: no gimmicks, I ain't name dropping, produced by Pharrell, produced

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Speaker 1: by Listen. It's pure R and B period. So for

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Speaker 1: and the top two hundred with my album, it's a

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Speaker 1: confirmation that R and B is turning that corner. And

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Speaker 1: I think you should have just caught yourself buying the

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Speaker 1: the homeless ladying. Well, no, here's the thing. I was

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Speaker 1: just making a statement. I didn't know she was homeless.

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Speaker 1: She just looked like she was taking a nap. Was

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Speaker 1: passed down. I'm saying, like, now people are like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you're taking advantage the woman is home. I didn't know

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Speaker 1: It was not necessarily a homeless area. And I was like,

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Speaker 1: she's taking a nap. So guess what, I want to

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Speaker 1: make a point. I feel like people are sleeping on

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Speaker 1: R and B. That was the only point. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: about taking advantage of nothing. That's not what I do.

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Speaker 1: I apologize for anybody that I made feel a certain

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Speaker 1: ran into the woman, I put a couple hundred dollars under.

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Speaker 1: But if there's anybody else that you know, want to

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Speaker 1: the streets, hummy. I'm just playing. Now you're training promoting

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Speaker 1: an album on the train. Why did you do that?

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Speaker 1: What was the idea behind that? Okay, So let me

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Speaker 1: just tell you what really happen. I've never told nobody, Okay.

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Speaker 1: I was running late to a live hit to do

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Speaker 1: a radio interview, I mean TV interview. It was actually

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Speaker 1: with Roxy from you know, used to be on one

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Speaker 1: hit that I could miss. So the driver said, we're

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Speaker 1: this traffic y'all know New York traffic. I say, Yo,

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Speaker 1: we gotta go take the train. Okay. So we end

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Speaker 1: up taking three trains, We went through Brooklyn, We did

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Speaker 1: what we had to do, and that's when the moment happened.

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Speaker 1: There you go, see, And that's how I tell Envy

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Speaker 1: to take the train all the time, because it's way

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Speaker 1: faster than sometimes I have to though every once in

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Speaker 1: a while. But then Envy's not Envy's not getting out

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Speaker 1: of that raid. No, I had to blow. He wants

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Speaker 1: people to see what's happening in these streets. I had

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Speaker 1: then he called me when it was time to come

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Speaker 1: on how to get back. Envy. I know how to

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Speaker 1: ride the train, and I know how to ride the

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Speaker 1: train with no help. You need help, and you live

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Speaker 1: here to walk him down. He's got the wraith, he's

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Speaker 1: got no tents on this window. No, no, no, see me.

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Speaker 1: This is that radio money. It's happening in these streets now.

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Speaker 1: Brandy tried to do the same, Brandy get on the train.

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Speaker 1: He inspired. Brandy didn't work out to Jay Brandy video.

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Speaker 1: No man. She got on the video and she's saying

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Speaker 1: but nobody knew who she was she saying, and she

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Speaker 1: was like, I can't get one fan, not one fan.

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Speaker 1: You know you caused the commotion, and you know she

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Speaker 1: know it's all good man. I haven't seen it, man,

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Speaker 1: but you know I mean, listen, we all love riding

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Speaker 1: It was like she should sing a little better and everything.

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Speaker 1: was on the train and gave her some Man if

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Speaker 1: because she is one of the greatest to ever do.

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Speaker 1: And she's on the Black Rows album and we have

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Speaker 1: a song called the Rest of Our Lives, So shout

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Speaker 1: out to Brandy. They let them talk, baby, It's all good.

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Speaker 1: We know what's happening in these R and B streets.

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Speaker 1: What's that about the rest of our lives? The rest

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Speaker 1: of our lives? Well, you know we we said, you

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Speaker 1: know what, let's do a song that's for the first

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Speaker 1: dance at a wedding. And and so it's a wedding song. Yeah, wedding. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: What's the significance of the title Black Roles because it

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Speaker 1: sound kind of dark. Um, Well, a rose that grew

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Speaker 1: through concrete tupoc So I said, I'm a black rose

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Speaker 1: that grew through concrete South Central La. Watts Um lived

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Speaker 1: in Watts for nineteen years. I was born in Watts,

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Speaker 1: so I just wanted to to to you know. It

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Speaker 1: it's transparent, it's honest, it's vulnerable. Uh, it's it's my best,

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Speaker 1: it's my last. And it's one of them albums where

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Speaker 1: you can press play from top to bottom and not

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Speaker 1: skip one joint. And I that's what I'm proud of.

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Speaker 1: So shout out to everybody around the world. It's number

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Speaker 1: one in thirteen countries. It's my first number one R

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Speaker 1: and B album on Billboard, It's number one on the

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Speaker 1: top two hundred. I'm just like, we're celebrating because instead

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Speaker 1: of just mentioning statistics, it's a confirmation that they say

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Speaker 1: R and B fans are dead, they say nobody sells

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Speaker 1: R and B albums anymore. This whole time, I've been

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Speaker 1: doing interviews. As you can imagine, it's like, Okay, you

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Speaker 1: got an R and B album, You're doing an interview.

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Speaker 1: What could I say that can make people do what

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Speaker 1: they don't do anymore, which is by a full R

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Speaker 1: and B album that doesn't have fifteen rappers on it,

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Speaker 1: No antics, noe perks. I'm not twerking, I ain't dropping.

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Speaker 1: I don't know nobody named name name. I'm sorry, but

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Speaker 1: it comes from a different place from what I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know nobody name, name name, which it comes

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Speaker 1: from a different place. See, most artists have to conform

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Speaker 1: You're coming from a place of doing it from the heart.

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Speaker 1: You got to pay your bills, so you can go

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Speaker 1: How do you do it? How do you do it?

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Speaker 1: Every day we're a work in projects. Guess what when

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Speaker 1: It's all kind of reasons that relationships end, and you

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Speaker 1: a lot of hearts, as you said yourself, I have.

423
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Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm not. I'm not proud of them. Last

424
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Speaker 1: album Charlemagne. I'm sure. I'm so sure. If I would

425
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 1: have talked to your wife right there, she'll tell me.

426
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,359
Speaker 1: I keep telling them to put the seat down on

427
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Speaker 1: the toilet hill. I keep telling him when he takes

428
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,920
Speaker 1: his last drivel pause, don't have it on the top

429
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,040
Speaker 1: of the seat, do it on the bottom of the seat.

430
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. It's like, listen, man, here's the beautiful

431
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 1: thing about being a man and a woman. We're all

432
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Speaker 1: a work in progress. Nobody's perfect. And this is what

433
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:04,199
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about just a little bit. Just the

434
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 1: way you faced it was like you think about being

435
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 1: a man and a woman, just a little bit. That's

436
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: what you're doing. Really, I swear to god, it's just

437
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 1: about ratings right now, he's about Really the headline is

438
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:24,240
Speaker 1: about to say, tyres, I'm not doing this. I swear

439
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:27,480
Speaker 1: to God, I'm about to walk about this. I'm not

440
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 1: doing it. So anyway, as a man and a woman,

441
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 1: and the pressence of thank you appreciate, sometimes you realize

442
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 1: that you're not perfect, we're working progress. My album is

443
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 1: not for perfect people. I'm going into honest topics. I'm

444
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,680
Speaker 1: singing from the heart. I'm vulnerable, I'm honest. And here's

445
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 1: the thing. It's not about album selves. It's not about

446
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 1: being number one and I'm missing I'm not that's for

447
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,399
Speaker 1: people in the industry to stroke that ego. All of

448
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,880
Speaker 1: the success around this Black Rose album is to benefit

449
00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:03,120
Speaker 1: the state of R and B. It's to highlight something

450
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 1: that seems to be in the backseat right now. I'm

451
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: saying it to the Grammys. I want to win this year.

452
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 1: And I don't want to win just because I want

453
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 1: to give a speech. I want to win because this

454
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: is a real R and B album that deserves the Grammy.

455
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 1: And I don't want to be in the pre telecast.

456
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,439
Speaker 1: I don't want to give out my award before the

457
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 1: actual Grammy start. I don't want to be on billboards

458
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,160
Speaker 1: as rappers and R and B singers promoting the Grammys,

459
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 1: and then when you show up, they're given trophies to

460
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 1: everybody that wasn't on the billboards straight up and down.

461
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,680
Speaker 1: Don't have all of us creating that momentum for people

462
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: to tune in and then you're giving out trophies there.

463
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,919
Speaker 1: But I think Steve Stou said that, like, at the

464
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 1: end of the day, it's time to respark real interest

465
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,160
Speaker 1: and have the energy to go in the right direction.

466
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about black I'm just saying in general,

467
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: let's be more fair, let's be real, like I've already

468
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 1: talked about it, but come on, man, I don't limit me,

469
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: don't limit my reach, don't limit my fan base, don't

470
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 1: don't stop people from falling in love with these songs.

471
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,119
Speaker 1: And don't make me think that because I'm not singing

472
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 1: house in techno and I'm not wearing tight ass pants

473
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 1: and trying to be a crossover act specifically, that I

474
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: can't have my fans all across the board hearing my music, Like,

475
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: come on, man, them days is over. Change subs a

476
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,719
Speaker 1: little bit. You want Empire season two coming over? They said, Yes,

477
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 1: I'm coming to get my bottom lip back tied. All

478
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 1: these dudes kissing on Taraji, I'm not having it. Is

479
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: it gonna be a regular role or we'll see, we'll see.

480
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 1: I definitely got I'm I'm won't be visiting. I'm not

481
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 1: just gonna come and do a scene or two and

482
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: get up bout it. You supposed to be on the

483
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: first season, I was. I was dealing with my custody situation.

484
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: You know, shout out to Lee Daniels, Danny Strong, to Raji,

485
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 1: you know, all of the success that they have. I'm

486
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,920
Speaker 1: not one of them people that's jumping on the Empire train.

487
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: They really wanted me to be on season one. I

488
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: just couldn't do it fighting for my baby. And uh,

489
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: I've also turned down like nine movies fighting for my daughter,

490
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: you know. And that's what it is when you're a

491
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 1: dad and you committed to what's happening sometime projects that

492
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:21,120
Speaker 1: got big checks attached. You can't do it on press

493
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: runs with you and everything, because I see you have

494
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: it with you all the time when you're out and about.

495
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,439
Speaker 1: Enjoy that. My daughter loves it. She's my daughter is

496
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,879
Speaker 1: my biggest fan, and I'm hers. I mean, listen, I

497
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 1: just got I just got the best video ever man,

498
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 1: and I haven't even showed it to my daughter yet.

499
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 1: She just turned eight and I just got the best

500
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 1: video ever from Selena Goldman. Look at this. My daughter

501
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 1: is the biggest Selena gold Like my daughter, we wanted

502
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: to watch her documentaries. There's only so many women out

503
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: here that's keeping the classy and clean that your little

504
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 1: girl could actually look up to. I'm telling you she

505
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: hasn't seen this video yet. She's going to freak out. Listen.

506
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: I need you to because my daughter's doing well in school.

507
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 1: You know what, I mean, she just graduated, she's in

508
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: first grade now, and she needs that positive reinforcement. So

509
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, look, say something about her being in school,

510
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: being focused in your video. Don't just send me a

511
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,640
Speaker 1: birthday shout. So if the video had kept going, She's

512
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: going in love Selena now Voltron Record. So V Bosman, Yes,

513
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 1: Timberland artists your artist. That's that's that's Timberland's artist. And

514
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: I've been working with V to help her to finish

515
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 1: her first solo Outum got you. So I think both

516
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 1: from watch South Central LA and I just you know,

517
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: I think she's a sweet, beautiful Yeah, I love her, man,

518
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 1: She's sweet. I tell you. At the BET Awards and

519
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: you're the first ever mayor of the BET Awards. How

520
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 1: did that happen? Um? You know Stephen Hill uh and

521
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:06,400
Speaker 1: my man? Uh um oh man, we gotta edit this part.

522
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on uh damn okay, yeah, my man, uh,

523
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: my man. Stephen Hill be Et Debralee as well as

524
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 1: Paxton Baker Um asked me to be the mayor of

525
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: the Overall Beet Experience and and I was just honored.

526
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: You know, I'm from la Um and it was five

527
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: days of me just hosting and just making sure that

528
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: everything was smooth. Now, I didn't know that they was

529
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 1: gonna have me doing that much work. Yeah, that was

530
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: a lot of work. I was like, poort tyrese out here,

531
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: he got to do all this time. I mean, we're

532
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: talking about emails, late night conference call. Certain certain people

533
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: were supposed to perform and fell out, and we're trying

534
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: to find a replacement. I didn't know I actually had

535
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: to work. I thought they were just gonna use me

536
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: on the red carpet. I thought I was gonna be

537
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: out there in them streets getting active and then I

538
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: sell you and Janelle Monae had to run in after. Yeah,

539
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 1: you like all my women. Manne Patti LaBelle sow danced

540
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: with Patty LaBelle. I don't want to pet the bell

541
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: but called him out for having that. I'm like, bright,

542
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:09,239
Speaker 1: I can't. You can't be mad at me because your

543
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: mom's the milk. But Janelle is the prettiest girl in

544
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: the game. She is without question. Yeah, I love Janelle.

545
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: I think everybody knows that. But now I went I did.

546
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: I gave him my best. It was it was a

547
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: classic lebron lob in the air, and I listen. You

548
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: know what. I love the way she reacted. She put

549
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:30,719
Speaker 1: up the tweet. When I seen her, I was I

550
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: got caught in the back of the Beet Radio room

551
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: and I ran into her and she was smiling. She said,

552
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: I love you and I'm just so grateful, and it

553
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: was like wow, all of my friends were calling me.

554
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: That was really really beautiful. She handled it. It was classy.

555
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: I wasn't shore watch on it and be like, yeah

556
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: that's cool. Yeah, yeah, that's nice. So what's happening saying

557
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: what's good? I put this I put this cologne on

558
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: for you. You know what I I You know, I

559
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 1: did apologize to her because it may have if have

560
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: created a bunch of unwanted attention, But I meant every

561
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: word I said. I think um today, it's a bunch

562
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: of pride and ego that stops a man from expressing

563
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 1: himself because he doesn't want to look thirsty, don't want

564
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: to look like he's sweating and jogging. You know, people

565
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: are quick to like diminish you trying to just give

566
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 1: somebody love. I ain't getting caught up in that. I'm grown. Listen,

567
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: my voice is deep. You give me twelve days I'll

568
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 1: have a full beard. I'm not out here trying to

569
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: drop keep up with nobody. I don't know nobody named

570
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: Nay Nay. I'm grown and I like it. I like

571
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: being grown. Okay, So if you got your show coming on,

572
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: Charlemagne got a full beard, ain't nothing wrong with that.

573
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: Be grown. It's coming on right to talk show? Right? Yes?

574
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: Would you give people advice? Yes, shoot your shot on

575
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: social media? If you like a girl, listen, I would

576
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: say in general, don't let your pride and ego and

577
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: this he thirsty. I am thirsty. I want that. Oh

578
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: my god. If I want that, I'm gonna go for it.

579
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: If I see come on, live up to the sprite

580
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: can Okay, listen, if you want that, go get thee.

581
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 1: Don't let your husband walk by you because you got

582
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: a job and you're doing I'm I'm independent. I don't

583
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: need you, I don't want you. I could do, but

584
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: you can nobody. Don't independence your way into loneliness, period.

585
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: And it doesn't mean because you're alone, your lone lead.

586
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of women out here that becomes successful,

587
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: start getting money, start doing a thing, and they use

588
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: that as a weapon towards a man that may not

589
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: have as much. That man may not have as much

590
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: as you because you you're successful and you're doing your thing,

591
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: but nobody wants to be alone and stop tearing the

592
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: men down. You can, you can have a conversation with

593
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: that man and he becomes the next successful entrepreneur. Everything

594
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: on an ego level is just whacked. One thing I

595
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: love about envy, straight up and down. And we ain't

596
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: gonna going to that again. But this man made it

597
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: really clear that I made some mistakes. But I know

598
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 1: who that woman is. I know what this family is,

599
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,479
Speaker 1: and I love getting money. I love living and driving

600
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: with that. But I am miserable and I am frustrated

601
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: with the idea that something that I may have did

602
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: and said might lose my wife. Now that's right, that's

603
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: how you fight to make love work. And I think

604
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: right now, when it comes to pride and ego, that's

605
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: the number one relationship killer. Okay, I don't need you.

606
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: I'm cool. I'm getting money out hit you getting money,

607
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: but you miserable as a motherfu Okay, woman, you want

608
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: to go home to a poodle and a rabbit in

609
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: your drawer helping you to go to sleep, every night,

610
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: you're replacing a man with a machine, a vibrator. Stop

611
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: playing man. There's a viby to go to. Poodle the rabbit,

612
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: a rabbit dog dog dog at the front door. I'm

613
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: good Now. All of you fellas out here thinking that

614
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: because you getting money, you drive, that you living, that

615
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: that you don't need a woman, come on, man, listen.

616
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: As much paper as I've been getting and getting. My

617
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: girl's been gone, she moved, she's been going like ten months.

618
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: I don't like going home without my girl there. I

619
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: don't like it. I don't like it. I've been doing

620
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: interviews trying to figure out what could I say and

621
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: do to get her to come back. I'm ashamed. I

622
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: do wow, I do Now. We got options out here,

623
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: but that don't mean nothing. I don't mean nothing that

624
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: he wrote the song about. I wrote this album about

625
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: the whole album. I don't like it. Now. Guess what

626
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: You can be in a bed with a woman and

627
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: still feel alone. That's what. Yes, you can definitely be

628
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: with somebody and be lonelier with somebody that you don't

629
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: want to be with. It absolutely there is a feeling

630
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 1: of still feeling alone even when you physically with somebody, Charlotte. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm reading the blogs all right, the blogs. Blogs say

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Speaker 1: you light skin, the blogs saying you look up to

633
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Speaker 1: Enva and you wanted your skin to look like he.

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Speaker 1: We wanna believe that one look up the Va offends

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00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: me more than all. My thing is, we're in a

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Speaker 1: day and age where we're amongst the lost generation. We

637
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 1: got so many people out here that are genusly talented,

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00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: but they have no sense of direction. We got a

639
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: bunch of people, uninspired, unmotivated, trying to figure out how

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Speaker 1: do I get my life in my career to the

641
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: next level without compromising my spirituality or my sexuality, without

642
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,240
Speaker 1: feeling like I gotta go do something thirsty a sex

643
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: tape or this to that, just to get some buzz

644
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: and attention to mirry of my career. And so I

645
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: just want to put this out there because there's a

646
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: million people watching this. Go get black rolls, But um um,

647
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Speaker 1: I want to just say this because it needs to

648
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 1: be said. I believe that this is the season for

649
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:08,359
Speaker 1: good people to win. I believe that you can love

650
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: God not be out here doing things with antics and

651
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: this and that just to get some attention and love

652
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: around your creativity and your career. And I also want

653
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: to say this, it is not in everybody's cars to

654
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: be famous. It's not in every There is a such

655
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: thing as a billionaire that's on the train right now

656
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,320
Speaker 1: and you don't even know who the hell he is,

657
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: and he likes it, he likes or she likes just

658
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: being successful, wealthy, having private planes, living his life and

659
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 1: lifestyle and not be famous. So many people are focused

660
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: on fame. It's crazy, especially in this area. We come

661
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: from the era of being just want to be successful

662
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: and so different now, Oh my god, listen, I don't

663
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: wake up every day trying to figure out how to

664
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: be more famous. I'm the chairman and CEO of Voltron Entertainment.

665
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: We got forty three projects that are in various different phases.

666
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,800
Speaker 1: I got billionaires, edge funds, multi millionaires around the world,

667
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: all communicating and rocking trying to figure out how the

668
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: way to bring these visions to life. And it ain't

669
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: about antics, man, Listen right now. The reason I want

670
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: this album to be successful as well is because I

671
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: want to be able to highlight love again. Like you're

672
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: not even on the cover of a magazine unless you're

673
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: about to file for divorce, like I feel like positive,

674
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: Like why can't you be married with a functioning relationship

675
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: with your kids that are smart and educated, not out

676
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: here being bullied or bullying, and have some attention to

677
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: be given to your marriage and your relationship. The devil

678
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: has been busy trying to highlight negativity and not spread

679
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: no love to positivity. So I'm just putting it out

680
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: there like, I'm not preaching. I don't want nobody to

681
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: be like, oh here we go. He think he listen? Man, man,

682
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: shut up, shut up. You got a job to do

683
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: as a hater. I understand that you didn't create it

684
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: a user name and the passwords you could talk about

685
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: everybody's life and tear them down. I got that. Do

686
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: your job. Nobody wants to be unemployed. But it's very simple, man.

687
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: This is the season for good people to win. This

688
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: is the season for people that wake up every day

689
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: with good and positive intention towards other people's lives to

690
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:20,919
Speaker 1: finally win. It's confusing. Women are in school every day,

691
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: single parent working, they ass off getting on the bus

692
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: and public transportation, trying to take care of their kids

693
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 1: and survive, and they feel like, Dan, what do I

694
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,879
Speaker 1: gotta do a sex tape to finally get me as

695
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, to get some attention on some of the

696
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: sh I'm doing. I'm just tired, man, I'm tired. I'm

697
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: not frustrated, but I'm tired. And I felt like again, everybody,

698
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: stay encouraged, stay on your path, and just know that

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00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 1: as a positive person who has not allowed this game

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00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: to compromise my spirituality or my sexuality. In order for

701
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 1: me to get on and keep winning, I'm gonna keep rocking.

702
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: And when I win, you win, and I just want

703
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: us to win. Statement. The statement is this, if we're

704
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: trying to save R and B, it's not about the

705
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,439
Speaker 1: album sales. I want to put this out there. If

706
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: I wanted to make money, I wouldn't be in music.

707
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,919
Speaker 1: I'm getting real money with all the others I'm doing,

708
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: so for me to do music, I'm really trying to

709
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Speaker 1: make a statement on behalf of R and B. Black Rose.

710
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: My album is number one in thirteen countries. It's number

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00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:30,720
Speaker 1: one on Google Play, Apple Music, iTunes, period it's number

712
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: one R and B Top two hundred. Supporting this Black

713
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: Rose album. Is you're helping me to make a statement.

714
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: You tired all this ratchet shout here happening. Help me

715
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,840
Speaker 1: to make a statement because the music industry and executives

716
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:48,399
Speaker 1: are like robots. What's selling. Let's put our money into that.

717
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: Let's put the R and B acts back on the radio,

718
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: back in business. Let's get talented people off of the

719
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: shelves and put them back on. That's it. So guess

720
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: what this when you're gonna see It's like Avatar. Everybody

721
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: started doing three D movies after that movie was the biggest.

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00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: That's what that's Black Rose is Avatar number one in

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Speaker 1: the country right now. We appreciate you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I just read a week of Tyrese's

725
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Speaker 1: Facebook post. Congratulations, and I hope you get your girl back.

726
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 1: I hope I do too. She's listening. I hope y'all

727
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Speaker 1: are real popular. So I'm letting the world know I

728
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 1: want my girl back, and I don't mind the world

729
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 1: knowing right now, But you know, I gotta sing other

730
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: people's songs. My song ain't working right now. Really, Baby

731
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: trying a whole banking feelings for so long, any of

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Speaker 1: you feel I can't feel baby? Come home? Oh come home?

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Speaker 1: Ah ha. I'm just saying, she might hear it