Speaker 1: A real key for real celebrity, Join the Breakfast Morning.
Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Ye, Charlomne the guy. We
Speaker 1: all the Breakfast Club have a special guest in the
Speaker 1: building this morning. This man about to have the number
Speaker 1: one album in the damn country, independent independent, Why not tires?
Speaker 1: Why not? Let's get right into it. You got a
Speaker 1: number one country, but I mean the number one album
Speaker 1: with this your last album? Why? Um? Well, y'all know,
Speaker 1: I went through a real nasty public and private custody
Speaker 1: situation fighting for more custody of my baby. So I
Speaker 1: landed fifty fifty joining and legal custody. Shout out to
Speaker 1: all the fathers out there still determined to get that
Speaker 1: time man, And so you can't have that much custody
Speaker 1: and then say I'll be home in six months. I
Speaker 1: gotta go chase a music career. So you know, um,
Speaker 1: pickups and drop offs is real for me. Bedtime stories
Speaker 1: and helping her with her homework, that's all real for me.
Speaker 1: So I had to. I gotta do what I gotta do.
Speaker 1: I love music. I'm never gonna stop doing music as
Speaker 1: a whole because it's my first love. But it's definitely
Speaker 1: my last album. There's not a publicity stunt to get
Speaker 1: everybody excited like gold Run the last time You're gonna
Speaker 1: get it? No, it's not. This is it for real?
Speaker 1: This is it three and a half years to do this,
Speaker 1: m Like emotionally it wiped me out, like I'm fighting
Speaker 1: for more custody. I was in a relationship for five
Speaker 1: years on the low and living together. Envy nos you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Uh, Envy's wife used to talk
Speaker 1: to my girl. They were cool, hey, and it ended? Though,
Speaker 1: can your wife still talk to her? Are they still friends?
Speaker 1: That does that friendship? And always loyalty is to tyres? Okay,
Speaker 1: married women shouldn't talk to single women. It's true that
Speaker 1: conversation can get a little So why are you still there?
Speaker 1: That's though, because if they formed a friendship, shouldn't she
Speaker 1: still be able to talk to her? I mean my
Speaker 1: wife loyalties to trees? Okay, yeah, let's move on. So
Speaker 1: five years, you know, I did some things that I
Speaker 1: was ashamed of. You know, nobody, we're all a work
Speaker 1: in progress, and and so that's where the inspiration behind
Speaker 1: the song shame came from. You know, it's not for
Speaker 1: perfect people. It's not for people that think they so
Speaker 1: far up the spiritual lot of they don't make mistakes.
Speaker 1: It's a song about being honest and transparent and vulnerable.
Speaker 1: So for it to be number two on Billboard right
Speaker 1: now in only six weeks, it's just the confirmation that
Speaker 1: when you do things from your heart, it effects hearts.
Speaker 1: So and it is a video actually that really matters,
Speaker 1: because I feel like a lot of videos nowadays aren't
Speaker 1: really so important, but I think it really helps what
Speaker 1: the song is about. The visual that went along with
Speaker 1: Diazel Noel did it for the love Denzel believe in this.
Speaker 1: It's actually a short film, so that's twenty five minutes long,
Speaker 1: and Denzel is definitely on board. I mean, I got
Speaker 1: phone calls about Edits and you know it's it's like
Speaker 1: he's very involved, like you'll keep sending me the links
Speaker 1: with the updated scenes and I think you should this
Speaker 1: that I mean them calls was very uncomfortable because you
Speaker 1: don't want to disappoint d you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But did you call him or he called you that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I called him. And also the casting person named Robbie
Speaker 1: Reid who did Malcolm X with them, and a bunch
Speaker 1: of other movies, got Denzel on board as well, so
Speaker 1: then that was be in between movies. He doing videos. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a movie, it's a short stem, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So that the condensed version of the Shame
Speaker 1: video is about six and a half minutes long, but
Speaker 1: the short film in itself is twenty five minutes long,
Speaker 1: starring myself and Jennifer Hudson, directed by Paul Hunter. I'm
Speaker 1: not allow, the said when I find out that you
Speaker 1: had the number. No, I'm in the country, I said,
Speaker 1: a boy, they're letting the wrong person be number one independent.
Speaker 1: Now that's not right, and you should be happy. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm keeping dark skin on. You know. You know we're
Speaker 1: darker than this. Mic man. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to stay on. We're trying to take envy out.
Speaker 1: You are getting brighter and brighter every time. When we
Speaker 1: talk about that later, I was like this, I mean, Charlot,
Speaker 1: now you you caught some flag because you you you
Speaker 1: the dead homeless woman to promote dead homeless she was
Speaker 1: not dead. Was like y'all sleeping on R and lady
Speaker 1: she might not dead, she was not deep. It was
Speaker 1: upset listen, let me just say this. I apologize for
Speaker 1: what what seems like it was insensitive and going too far. Um.
Speaker 1: I didn't really think about that before I did it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I just was trying to
Speaker 1: make a point, and the point is right now, the
Speaker 1: state of R and B is dead. Most R and
Speaker 1: B singers are not conscious of it, but a lot
Speaker 1: of us are insecure and we feel like our songs
Speaker 1: don't get attention, don't get no love on radio, don't
Speaker 1: have any fans buying it anymore unless we got fifteen
Speaker 1: rappers on it. You know what I'm saying. The state
Speaker 1: of R and B is insecure. So I just want
Speaker 1: to apologize to everybody. I don't have fifteen rappers on
Speaker 1: my album for this Black Rose album to be number
Speaker 1: one in fifteen countries, and it's straight R and B period.
Speaker 1: It's sending the right message. It's making a statement that
Speaker 1: the fans are still out here. They want to support,
Speaker 1: they want to show up, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like for me, in my mind, it was never Marvin
Speaker 1: Gay featuring Curtis Blow. It was never Luta Vandro's featuring
Speaker 1: Run DMC. It was never Donnie Had the Way featuring
Speaker 1: sugar Hill Game. It was pure R and B soul,
Speaker 1: no gimmicks, I ain't name dropping, produced by Pharrell, produced
Speaker 1: by Listen. It's pure R and B period. So for
Speaker 1: it to be number one on R and B charts
Speaker 1: and the top two hundred with my album, it's a
Speaker 1: confirmation that R and B is turning that corner. And
Speaker 1: I think you should have just caught yourself buying the
Speaker 1: lady something to eat. If you put don't came buying
Speaker 1: the homeless ladying. Well, no, here's the thing. I was
Speaker 1: just making a statement. I didn't know she was homeless.
Speaker 1: She just looked like she was taking a nap. Was
Speaker 1: passed down. I'm saying, like, now people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're taking advantage the woman is home. I didn't know
Speaker 1: she was home. I thought she look it was a
Speaker 1: shaded area, there was other people sleeping in the area.
Speaker 1: It was not necessarily a homeless area. And I was like,
Speaker 1: she's taking a nap. So guess what, I want to
Speaker 1: make a point. I feel like people are sleeping on
Speaker 1: R and B. That was the only point. It wasn't
Speaker 1: about taking advantage of nothing. That's not what I do.
Speaker 1: I apologize for anybody that I made feel a certain
Speaker 1: kind of way because of that moment. And if I
Speaker 1: ran into the woman, I put a couple hundred dollars under.
Speaker 1: But if there's anybody else that you know, want to
Speaker 1: come at me about it, just come see me in
Speaker 1: the streets, hummy. I'm just playing. Now you're training promoting
Speaker 1: an album on the train. Why did you do that?
Speaker 1: What was the idea behind that? Okay, So let me
Speaker 1: just tell you what really happen. I've never told nobody, Okay.
Speaker 1: I was running late to a live hit to do
Speaker 1: a radio interview, I mean TV interview. It was actually
Speaker 1: with Roxy from you know, used to be on one
Speaker 1: oh six. She on HLN, and I had a live
Speaker 1: hit that I could miss. So the driver said, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get there about the hour and twenty minutes with
Speaker 1: this traffic y'all know New York traffic. I say, Yo,
Speaker 1: we gotta go take the train. Okay. So we end
Speaker 1: up taking three trains, We went through Brooklyn, We did
Speaker 1: what we had to do, and that's when the moment happened.
Speaker 1: There you go, see, And that's how I tell Envy
Speaker 1: to take the train all the time, because it's way
Speaker 1: faster than sometimes I have to though every once in
Speaker 1: a while. But then Envy's not Envy's not getting out
Speaker 1: of that raid. No, I had to blow. He wants
Speaker 1: people to see what's happening in these streets. I had
Speaker 1: to walk him down to the subway and be like,
Speaker 1: this is the train you have to get on. And
Speaker 1: then he called me when it was time to come
Speaker 1: back here, and I had to give him explicit directions
Speaker 1: on how to get back. Envy. I know how to
Speaker 1: ride the train, and I know how to ride the
Speaker 1: train with no help. You need help, and you live
Speaker 1: here to walk him down. He's got the wraith, he's
Speaker 1: got no tents on this window. No, no, no, see me.
Speaker 1: This is that radio money. It's happening in these streets now.
Speaker 1: Brandy tried to do the same, Brandy get on the train.
Speaker 1: He inspired. Brandy didn't work out to Jay Brandy video.
Speaker 1: No man. She got on the video and she's saying
Speaker 1: but nobody knew who she was she saying, and she
Speaker 1: was like, I can't get one fan, not one fan.
Speaker 1: You know you caused the commotion, and you know she
Speaker 1: know it's all good man. I haven't seen it, man,
Speaker 1: but you know I mean, listen, we all love riding
Speaker 1: the train. That's the homie man, and gave us some advice.
Speaker 1: It was like she should sing a little better and everything.
Speaker 1: The endless lady that you gave a hundred hours to
Speaker 1: was on the train and gave her some Man if
Speaker 1: that dude whoever said that, if they knew that that
Speaker 1: was Brandy, they would give us some different advice. Trust
Speaker 1: because she is one of the greatest to ever do.
Speaker 1: And she's on the Black Rows album and we have
Speaker 1: a song called the Rest of Our Lives, So shout
Speaker 1: out to Brandy. They let them talk, baby, It's all good.
Speaker 1: We know what's happening in these R and B streets.
Speaker 1: What's that about the rest of our lives? The rest
Speaker 1: of our lives? Well, you know we we said, you
Speaker 1: know what, let's do a song that's for the first
Speaker 1: dance at a wedding. And and so it's a wedding song. Yeah, wedding. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What's the significance of the title Black Roles because it
Speaker 1: sound kind of dark. Um, Well, a rose that grew
Speaker 1: through concrete tupoc So I said, I'm a black rose
Speaker 1: that grew through concrete South Central La. Watts Um lived
Speaker 1: in Watts for nineteen years. I was born in Watts,
Speaker 1: so I just wanted to to to you know. It
Speaker 1: was inspired by that poem that poc Road. So it's
Speaker 1: it's transparent, it's honest, it's vulnerable. Uh, it's it's my best,
Speaker 1: it's my last. And it's one of them albums where
Speaker 1: you can press play from top to bottom and not
Speaker 1: skip one joint. And I that's what I'm proud of.
Speaker 1: So shout out to everybody around the world. It's number
Speaker 1: one in thirteen countries. It's my first number one R
Speaker 1: and B album on Billboard, It's number one on the
Speaker 1: top two hundred. I'm just like, we're celebrating because instead
Speaker 1: of just mentioning statistics, it's a confirmation that they say
Speaker 1: R and B fans are dead, they say nobody sells
Speaker 1: R and B albums anymore. This whole time, I've been
Speaker 1: doing interviews. As you can imagine, it's like, Okay, you
Speaker 1: got an R and B album, You're doing an interview.
Speaker 1: What could I say that can make people do what
Speaker 1: they don't do anymore, which is by a full R
Speaker 1: and B album that doesn't have fifteen rappers on it,
Speaker 1: No antics, noe perks. I'm not twerking, I ain't dropping.
Speaker 1: I don't know nobody named name name. I'm sorry, but
Speaker 1: it comes from a different place from what I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know nobody name, name name, which it comes
Speaker 1: from a different place. See, most artists have to conform
Speaker 1: to the industry because they got to pay their bills.
Speaker 1: You're coming from a place of doing it from the heart.
Speaker 1: You got to pay your bills, so you can go
Speaker 1: in your backyard, but finish the hookah louns by the way, yeah,
Speaker 1: stay out my back yard. My goodness. All I'm saying
Speaker 1: is all I'm saying is R and B singers that
Speaker 1: are specifically an R and B. We've had to convert
Speaker 1: into doing house and techno. We've had to have our
Speaker 1: albums compromise with a bunch of rappers on it just
Speaker 1: to get any kind of attention. And love the fact
Speaker 1: that this album is winning and it's just R and B.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's sending the right statement. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be number one just for me. I'm number one.
Speaker 1: I'm cool the fact that it's number one. The industry
Speaker 1: is like robots. They're gonna want to fall in line
Speaker 1: and it becomes the trend. This is oh, this is
Speaker 1: what we're doing now. So all of the tworking and
Speaker 1: dropping is gonna be on pause, and the actual talented
Speaker 1: people that's been on the shelves, they gonna finally had
Speaker 1: the albums to see the light of day. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about past favorite R and B singers, R and B
Speaker 1: singers that are current and the ones that have yet
Speaker 1: to be discovered. And then for me, I'm sending this
Speaker 1: as a message to radio. I had a song called Stay.
Speaker 1: Envy knows all about it right. Stay was number one
Speaker 1: for eleven weeks on Billboard. Sam Smith had a song
Speaker 1: called Stay. Sam Smith's song had a full choir on it.
Speaker 1: Sam Smith's record was played on all formats radio, Top forty, rhythmic, crossover.
Speaker 1: He's got an urban right now. Sam Smith ain't step
Speaker 1: foot into any of these urban radio stations, but yet
Speaker 1: urban radio is going all out supporting it. If you
Speaker 1: want a radio spend, you gotta do so much. Radio
Speaker 1: promo was out of control, Meet and greets, interviews, you
Speaker 1: gotta call in, you gotta do something now. I'm not
Speaker 1: attacking Sam Smith. I'm not competitive. This is not ego,
Speaker 1: no nothing. I'm talking about facts because you're talking about money.
Speaker 1: Now I can tell my truth. I ain't got to
Speaker 1: be politically correct. I think right now it's time to
Speaker 1: be more fair. If we showing love on urban radio
Speaker 1: to Robin Thick, justin Timberlake and Sam Smith who's singing
Speaker 1: R and B soul, and I'm a fan, that it
Speaker 1: needs to work on both sides. Don't tell me I'm
Speaker 1: number one on R and B and urban ac and
Speaker 1: urban mainstream, but yet I'm number one for eleven weeks,
Speaker 1: But yet top forty rhythmic and crossover stations ain't playing
Speaker 1: my music. Were showing love on both sides. You gotta
Speaker 1: show love on both sides. The point I'm making is,
Speaker 1: don't say because you're black that only black people is
Speaker 1: supposed to support you. My music has no limits, It
Speaker 1: has no sexual preference, it has no racial barriers. So
Speaker 1: if we're if they're singing R and B soul and
Speaker 1: you're being supported on urban radio, I believe it should
Speaker 1: go both ways. Don't limit my shop because my movies
Speaker 1: ain't limited. You can't say that only black people know
Speaker 1: me and support my music, because that's not true. You
Speaker 1: can't say that if you go to a Stevie Wonder concert.
Speaker 1: It's only black people in the audience because he's black.
Speaker 1: Like there's there's a lot of different forms of racism.
Speaker 1: And guess what, y'all, here's this is what I want
Speaker 1: to say to pop radio. I'm not gonna convert. There's
Speaker 1: no there's no house and techno version of shame coming.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna switch it up. I'm not gonna sing
Speaker 1: shame with auto tune in my voice just for a
Speaker 1: radio spend. But I guarantee you if I show up,
Speaker 1: the fans are gonna be there. They will be excited. Period.
Speaker 1: So if if Stay by Sam Smith has a full
Speaker 1: choir on it, if I sung that version of Stay,
Speaker 1: my joint would have been locked into urban radio and
Speaker 1: I'd have probably been with your Linda Adams on the
Speaker 1: gospel channel Spread Love, don't forget WBLS. You definite would
Speaker 1: have got that earlier. I'm just saying, man, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I'm putting this on blast. And
Speaker 1: guess what, I don't have a racist bone in my body.
Speaker 1: I'm out of homer Fold. I ain't got no issues.
Speaker 1: I'm not competitive. I just want music to have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to reach his maximum audience. Don't limit me because
Speaker 1: of my skin, don't limit me because of what what
Speaker 1: form of radio is supporting him? First listen, they may
Speaker 1: start and popping rhythmic radio, but if urban radio recognize
Speaker 1: that they sing an R and B soul, we spread love.
Speaker 1: We don't say, oh, that's a white person. Let the
Speaker 1: white station support them, and they shouldn't be happening on
Speaker 1: the other side. I often wonder if the pop program
Speaker 1: directors are paying attention the way to urban program director,
Speaker 1: because program directors tend to be more aware of all
Speaker 1: the music that's out there. I don't know if pop
Speaker 1: program they do. Man, they do, they know, Bro, It's
Speaker 1: no way to stay was number one for eleven weeks.
Speaker 1: Right now, my song Shame is number two on Billboard.
Speaker 1: It's no way they don't see that featuring Jennifer Hudson.
Speaker 1: You can't tell me that only black people love Jennifer Hudson.
Speaker 1: Stop playing with me. As soon as Obama come up
Speaker 1: with any event, Jennifer is there, as soon as the
Speaker 1: Oscars do any awards show, Jennifer is there. You're telling
Speaker 1: me only black people at the Oscars. Man, I'm grown.
Speaker 1: Stop playing with me, especially being. I like what you
Speaker 1: said about how do they make you know? Black artists
Speaker 1: jump through hoops? Man? Can I get a radio span?
Speaker 1: What do you want me to do? We're vulnerable because
Speaker 1: without radio our voices aren't heard. So at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I ain't trying to start no ship.
Speaker 1: I'm just putting it out there. Those days is over
Speaker 1: for me. Shane is number two on Billboard, and I'm asking,
Speaker 1: what's my man name? Uh? Come on, give me the
Speaker 1: name Ryan ccrest, Ryan Seacrest in the morning that you man,
Speaker 1: Ryan Secret. We're about to go into Tyree's Shane featuring
Speaker 1: Jennifer Hudson. Can I hear that at least one time?
Speaker 1: Or do you need Robin Think to sing my song
Speaker 1: in order for you to play damn it? Man? Can
Speaker 1: come on, man, All I'm saying is this is my
Speaker 1: last round. This is my last album. I don't want
Speaker 1: Shane that's being heavily support ordered by urban AC and
Speaker 1: urban mainstream radio to be limited to a black man
Speaker 1: singing to only black people. Them days is over, man.
Speaker 1: I got fans named Becky on the record. There's album
Speaker 1: talking on it. You're doing twenty years man, and you're
Speaker 1: still putting out amazing records. This shouldn't be the last album.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you that. But but he didn't say
Speaker 1: that he's not any more music. He's not saying he's
Speaker 1: not doing any music. He playing out Album's twenty years
Speaker 1: since he did the Coca Cola on the bus Man
Speaker 1: and he's still putting out records. I got this. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of people. You know what if you die
Speaker 1: to make the records that you have and die to
Speaker 1: be in your position right now, and you're saying this
Speaker 1: is my last album, well, you know what, Listen, you're
Speaker 1: a dad. You gotta kid absolutely Okay, so you're a dad.
Speaker 1: We're still waiting on the homie to go ahead and
Speaker 1: shoot the club. We're still waiting on you to stop
Speaker 1: playing in these straights. The good thing is about when
Speaker 1: you when you're hosting, you know, you always stay far
Speaker 1: away from that. So you could always be pregnant and said,
Speaker 1: we're talking about that, lady, talk about that later. Let
Speaker 1: me know. I'm having baby Mama auditions next week. And
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You know, you can get
Speaker 1: me right with a number one album. I got a
Speaker 1: number on now I got me another baby, that's it, baby,
Speaker 1: mama audition. I feel like, listen, man, I just want
Speaker 1: this album and the success around this album to make
Speaker 1: a statement. And I can't say it enough. Urban or
Speaker 1: AC radio, y'all have helped us to feed our families,
Speaker 1: pay our bills. You were able to tour like at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. Without radio, our music will
Speaker 1: never have an audience. It will never have no reach.
Speaker 1: I know social media's powerful and everybody's moving, but we're vulnerable. Man.
Speaker 1: Every spin counts, everything counts. So oh, I mean, bro,
Speaker 1: I'm off for an hour and a half asleep every day.
Speaker 1: Yesterday I had an in store at FYE and they
Speaker 1: called the ambulance. I almost did in the store. I
Speaker 1: needed some oxygen. I didn't stop. I needed to quit
Speaker 1: thirty minute break. I was there off an hour and
Speaker 1: a half asleep. I'm drinking five hours and express so coffee.
Speaker 1: I had to sit down for a minute. I'm sitting
Speaker 1: there and the room started spinning. I'm like, Holy, this
Speaker 1: ain't going to right. I needed a minute. Fully committed
Speaker 1: to the process. I wasn't gonna let the fans down.
Speaker 1: I'm like, look, I didn't pass out, and I'm definitely
Speaker 1: not going out there to get into ambulance and make
Speaker 1: a scene. But that's what it is. You can't be
Speaker 1: working as hard and saying that you're doing all this
Speaker 1: as an urban artist, catering to the needs of urban
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do what I gotta do to to
Speaker 1: respark R and B like I got my cape on, baby,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to. I'm trying to. I'm trying to fly.
Speaker 1: But then, let me ask you a question. You you
Speaker 1: do records like stay, and then you do records like shame,
Speaker 1: and you preach positivity, and you preach being a great
Speaker 1: man and great relationships, but then you f up in
Speaker 1: your He admits that he's human, not human tyres can't
Speaker 1: do that. You can't be a pat Are you saying
Speaker 1: that to me? Yes, all, you're saying that to me,
Speaker 1: calling it the yellow. He's much blacker than me. Right now,
Speaker 1: put this in front of you, put this in front
Speaker 1: of your face. Let's talk about speak positivity and I
Speaker 1: love it. A lot of people look up to you
Speaker 1: as positivity. I was one that did and I still do.
Speaker 1: He used to mess up, Like how you tell me
Speaker 1: be good, be better? You tell the world. I ain't
Speaker 1: never heard you were perfect. I'm not perfect. And one
Speaker 1: of the best thing the fact that how do you
Speaker 1: avoid all these leg muscles out here when the clevelang
Speaker 1: is right and you're sitting up trying to keep your focus?
Speaker 1: How do you do it? How do you do it?
Speaker 1: I'm active? Listen, listen, let me just's real out here. Listen, listen.
Speaker 1: I sing to that because I want that, and I
Speaker 1: don't play on both sides. I'm right here right So
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I'm trying my best.
Speaker 1: Every day we're a work in projects. Guess what when
Speaker 1: a relationships ends, sometimes it's not always about cheating. Sometimes
Speaker 1: that woman is in a relationship and she's mentally and spiritually,
Speaker 1: emotionally bored because their man don't know how to intrigue her.
Speaker 1: So she's like running around desperate just to have a conversation.
Speaker 1: So my man ain't cheating. But if if it's gonna
Speaker 1: stop me from being this board, go get something else.
Speaker 1: Just come home and talk about it, talk to me.
Speaker 1: It's all kind of reasons that relationships end, and you
Speaker 1: could find just sayf saying I'm ashamed of that. I'm
Speaker 1: ashamed that I was playing video games, wearing cartoon characters
Speaker 1: on my backpack wearing peppermint socks, caught up in cars,
Speaker 1: money and materialistic things, and my wife is at home
Speaker 1: suffering and I didn't even know it. You could leave
Speaker 1: your relationship and be ashamed of that. So at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, there's all kind of and guess what,
Speaker 1: let's put this out there that every time a relationship ends,
Speaker 1: it's not always demand. There's plenty of women out here
Speaker 1: doing that they're ashamed of. I had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with them. Ten relationships that you was in before we
Speaker 1: got in a relationship. You didn't brought all of them heartbreaks, insecurities, issues,
Speaker 1: mental emotional and physical abuse into this brand new relationship.
Speaker 1: Now I'm on the receiving end of all of them.
Speaker 1: Ten dudes and dead do you so you should be
Speaker 1: ashamed of yourself? Don't put it on me. Did I
Speaker 1: ask your questions? But you have? But you have broken
Speaker 1: a lot of hearts, as you said yourself, I have.
Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm not. I'm not proud of them. Last
Speaker 1: album Charlemagne. I'm sure. I'm so sure. If I would
Speaker 1: have talked to your wife right there, she'll tell me.
Speaker 1: I keep telling them to put the seat down on
Speaker 1: the toilet hill. I keep telling him when he takes
Speaker 1: his last drivel pause, don't have it on the top
Speaker 1: of the seat, do it on the bottom of the seat.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. It's like, listen, man, here's the beautiful
Speaker 1: thing about being a man and a woman. We're all
Speaker 1: a work in progress. Nobody's perfect. And this is what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about just a little bit. Just the
Speaker 1: way you faced it was like you think about being
Speaker 1: a man and a woman, just a little bit. That's
Speaker 1: what you're doing. Really, I swear to god, it's just
Speaker 1: about ratings right now, he's about Really the headline is
Speaker 1: about to say, tyres, I'm not doing this. I swear
Speaker 1: to God, I'm about to walk about this. I'm not
Speaker 1: doing it. So anyway, as a man and a woman,
Speaker 1: and the pressence of thank you appreciate, sometimes you realize
Speaker 1: that you're not perfect, we're working progress. My album is
Speaker 1: not for perfect people. I'm going into honest topics. I'm
Speaker 1: singing from the heart. I'm vulnerable, I'm honest. And here's
Speaker 1: the thing. It's not about album selves. It's not about
Speaker 1: being number one and I'm missing I'm not that's for
Speaker 1: people in the industry to stroke that ego. All of
Speaker 1: the success around this Black Rose album is to benefit
Speaker 1: the state of R and B. It's to highlight something
Speaker 1: that seems to be in the backseat right now. I'm
Speaker 1: saying it to the Grammys. I want to win this year.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to win just because I want
Speaker 1: to give a speech. I want to win because this
Speaker 1: is a real R and B album that deserves the Grammy.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to be in the pre telecast.
Speaker 1: I don't want to give out my award before the
Speaker 1: actual Grammy start. I don't want to be on billboards
Speaker 1: as rappers and R and B singers promoting the Grammys,
Speaker 1: and then when you show up, they're given trophies to
Speaker 1: everybody that wasn't on the billboards straight up and down.
Speaker 1: Don't have all of us creating that momentum for people
Speaker 1: to tune in and then you're giving out trophies there.
Speaker 1: But I think Steve Stou said that, like, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it's time to respark real interest
Speaker 1: and have the energy to go in the right direction.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about black I'm just saying in general,
Speaker 1: let's be more fair, let's be real, like I've already
Speaker 1: talked about it, but come on, man, I don't limit me,
Speaker 1: don't limit my reach, don't limit my fan base, don't
Speaker 1: don't stop people from falling in love with these songs.
Speaker 1: And don't make me think that because I'm not singing
Speaker 1: house in techno and I'm not wearing tight ass pants
Speaker 1: and trying to be a crossover act specifically, that I
Speaker 1: can't have my fans all across the board hearing my music, Like,
Speaker 1: come on, man, them days is over. Change subs a
Speaker 1: little bit. You want Empire season two coming over? They said, Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm coming to get my bottom lip back tied. All
Speaker 1: these dudes kissing on Taraji, I'm not having it. Is
Speaker 1: it gonna be a regular role or we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1: I definitely got I'm I'm won't be visiting. I'm not
Speaker 1: just gonna come and do a scene or two and
Speaker 1: get up bout it. You supposed to be on the
Speaker 1: first season, I was. I was dealing with my custody situation.
Speaker 1: You know, shout out to Lee Daniels, Danny Strong, to Raji,
Speaker 1: you know, all of the success that they have. I'm
Speaker 1: not one of them people that's jumping on the Empire train.
Speaker 1: They really wanted me to be on season one. I
Speaker 1: just couldn't do it fighting for my baby. And uh,
Speaker 1: I've also turned down like nine movies fighting for my daughter,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's what it is when you're a
Speaker 1: dad and you committed to what's happening sometime projects that
Speaker 1: got big checks attached. You can't do it on press
Speaker 1: runs with you and everything, because I see you have
Speaker 1: it with you all the time when you're out and about.
Speaker 1: Enjoy that. My daughter loves it. She's my daughter is
Speaker 1: my biggest fan, and I'm hers. I mean, listen, I
Speaker 1: just got I just got the best video ever man,
Speaker 1: and I haven't even showed it to my daughter yet.
Speaker 1: She just turned eight and I just got the best
Speaker 1: video ever from Selena Goldman. Look at this. My daughter
Speaker 1: is the biggest Selena gold Like my daughter, we wanted
Speaker 1: to watch her documentaries. There's only so many women out
Speaker 1: here that's keeping the classy and clean that your little
Speaker 1: girl could actually look up to. I'm telling you she
Speaker 1: hasn't seen this video yet. She's going to freak out. Listen.
Speaker 1: I need you to because my daughter's doing well in school.
Speaker 1: You know what, I mean, she just graduated, she's in
Speaker 1: first grade now, and she needs that positive reinforcement. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, look, say something about her being in school,
Speaker 1: being focused in your video. Don't just send me a
Speaker 1: birthday shout. So if the video had kept going, She's
Speaker 1: going in love Selena now Voltron Record. So V Bosman, Yes,
Speaker 1: Timberland artists your artist. That's that's that's Timberland's artist. And
Speaker 1: I've been working with V to help her to finish
Speaker 1: her first solo Outum got you. So I think both
Speaker 1: from watch South Central LA and I just you know,
Speaker 1: I think she's a sweet, beautiful Yeah, I love her, man,
Speaker 1: She's sweet. I tell you. At the BET Awards and
Speaker 1: you're the first ever mayor of the BET Awards. How
Speaker 1: did that happen? Um? You know Stephen Hill uh and
Speaker 1: my man? Uh um oh man, we gotta edit this part.
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on uh damn okay, yeah, my man, uh,
Speaker 1: my man. Stephen Hill be Et Debralee as well as
Speaker 1: Paxton Baker Um asked me to be the mayor of
Speaker 1: the Overall Beet Experience and and I was just honored.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm from la Um and it was five
Speaker 1: days of me just hosting and just making sure that
Speaker 1: everything was smooth. Now, I didn't know that they was
Speaker 1: gonna have me doing that much work. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: a lot of work. I was like, poort tyrese out here,
Speaker 1: he got to do all this time. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: talking about emails, late night conference call. Certain certain people
Speaker 1: were supposed to perform and fell out, and we're trying
Speaker 1: to find a replacement. I didn't know I actually had
Speaker 1: to work. I thought they were just gonna use me
Speaker 1: on the red carpet. I thought I was gonna be
Speaker 1: out there in them streets getting active and then I
Speaker 1: sell you and Janelle Monae had to run in after. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you like all my women. Manne Patti LaBelle sow danced
Speaker 1: with Patty LaBelle. I don't want to pet the bell
Speaker 1: but called him out for having that. I'm like, bright,
Speaker 1: I can't. You can't be mad at me because your
Speaker 1: mom's the milk. But Janelle is the prettiest girl in
Speaker 1: the game. She is without question. Yeah, I love Janelle.
Speaker 1: I think everybody knows that. But now I went I did.
Speaker 1: I gave him my best. It was it was a
Speaker 1: classic lebron lob in the air, and I listen. You
Speaker 1: know what. I love the way she reacted. She put
Speaker 1: up the tweet. When I seen her, I was I
Speaker 1: got caught in the back of the Beet Radio room
Speaker 1: and I ran into her and she was smiling. She said,
Speaker 1: I love you and I'm just so grateful, and it
Speaker 1: was like wow, all of my friends were calling me.
Speaker 1: That was really really beautiful. She handled it. It was classy.
Speaker 1: I wasn't shore watch on it and be like, yeah
Speaker 1: that's cool. Yeah, yeah, that's nice. So what's happening saying
Speaker 1: what's good? I put this I put this cologne on
Speaker 1: for you. You know what I I You know, I
Speaker 1: did apologize to her because it may have if have
Speaker 1: created a bunch of unwanted attention, But I meant every
Speaker 1: word I said. I think um today, it's a bunch
Speaker 1: of pride and ego that stops a man from expressing
Speaker 1: himself because he doesn't want to look thirsty, don't want
Speaker 1: to look like he's sweating and jogging. You know, people
Speaker 1: are quick to like diminish you trying to just give
Speaker 1: somebody love. I ain't getting caught up in that. I'm grown. Listen,
Speaker 1: my voice is deep. You give me twelve days I'll
Speaker 1: have a full beard. I'm not out here trying to
Speaker 1: drop keep up with nobody. I don't know nobody named
Speaker 1: Nay Nay. I'm grown and I like it. I like
Speaker 1: being grown. Okay, So if you got your show coming on,
Speaker 1: Charlemagne got a full beard, ain't nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: Be grown. It's coming on right to talk show? Right? Yes?
Speaker 1: Would you give people advice? Yes, shoot your shot on
Speaker 1: social media? If you like a girl, listen, I would
Speaker 1: say in general, don't let your pride and ego and
Speaker 1: this he thirsty. I am thirsty. I want that. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. If I want that, I'm gonna go for it.
Speaker 1: If I see come on, live up to the sprite
Speaker 1: can Okay, listen, if you want that, go get thee.
Speaker 1: Don't let your husband walk by you because you got
Speaker 1: a job and you're doing I'm I'm independent. I don't
Speaker 1: need you, I don't want you. I could do, but
Speaker 1: you can nobody. Don't independence your way into loneliness, period.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't mean because you're alone, your lone lead.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of women out here that becomes successful,
Speaker 1: start getting money, start doing a thing, and they use
Speaker 1: that as a weapon towards a man that may not
Speaker 1: have as much. That man may not have as much
Speaker 1: as you because you you're successful and you're doing your thing,
Speaker 1: but nobody wants to be alone and stop tearing the
Speaker 1: men down. You can, you can have a conversation with
Speaker 1: that man and he becomes the next successful entrepreneur. Everything
Speaker 1: on an ego level is just whacked. One thing I
Speaker 1: love about envy, straight up and down. And we ain't
Speaker 1: gonna going to that again. But this man made it
Speaker 1: really clear that I made some mistakes. But I know
Speaker 1: who that woman is. I know what this family is,
Speaker 1: and I love getting money. I love living and driving
Speaker 1: with that. But I am miserable and I am frustrated
Speaker 1: with the idea that something that I may have did
Speaker 1: and said might lose my wife. Now that's right, that's
Speaker 1: how you fight to make love work. And I think
Speaker 1: right now, when it comes to pride and ego, that's
Speaker 1: the number one relationship killer. Okay, I don't need you.
Speaker 1: I'm cool. I'm getting money out hit you getting money,
Speaker 1: but you miserable as a motherfu Okay, woman, you want
Speaker 1: to go home to a poodle and a rabbit in
Speaker 1: your drawer helping you to go to sleep, every night,
Speaker 1: you're replacing a man with a machine, a vibrator. Stop
Speaker 1: playing man. There's a viby to go to. Poodle the rabbit,
Speaker 1: a rabbit dog dog dog at the front door. I'm
Speaker 1: good Now. All of you fellas out here thinking that
Speaker 1: because you getting money, you drive, that you living, that
Speaker 1: that you don't need a woman, come on, man, listen.
Speaker 1: As much paper as I've been getting and getting. My
Speaker 1: girl's been gone, she moved, she's been going like ten months.
Speaker 1: I don't like going home without my girl there. I
Speaker 1: don't like it. I don't like it. I've been doing
Speaker 1: interviews trying to figure out what could I say and
Speaker 1: do to get her to come back. I'm ashamed. I
Speaker 1: do wow, I do Now. We got options out here,
Speaker 1: but that don't mean nothing. I don't mean nothing that
Speaker 1: he wrote the song about. I wrote this album about
Speaker 1: the whole album. I don't like it. Now. Guess what
Speaker 1: You can be in a bed with a woman and
Speaker 1: still feel alone. That's what. Yes, you can definitely be
Speaker 1: with somebody and be lonelier with somebody that you don't
Speaker 1: want to be with. It absolutely there is a feeling
Speaker 1: of still feeling alone even when you physically with somebody, Charlotte. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm reading the blogs all right, the blogs. Blogs say
Speaker 1: you light skin, the blogs saying you look up to
Speaker 1: Enva and you wanted your skin to look like he.
Speaker 1: We wanna believe that one look up the Va offends
Speaker 1: me more than all. My thing is, we're in a
Speaker 1: day and age where we're amongst the lost generation. We
Speaker 1: got so many people out here that are genusly talented,
Speaker 1: but they have no sense of direction. We got a
Speaker 1: bunch of people, uninspired, unmotivated, trying to figure out how
Speaker 1: do I get my life in my career to the
Speaker 1: next level without compromising my spirituality or my sexuality, without
Speaker 1: feeling like I gotta go do something thirsty a sex
Speaker 1: tape or this to that, just to get some buzz
Speaker 1: and attention to mirry of my career. And so I
Speaker 1: just want to put this out there because there's a
Speaker 1: million people watching this. Go get black rolls, But um um,
Speaker 1: I want to just say this because it needs to
Speaker 1: be said. I believe that this is the season for
Speaker 1: good people to win. I believe that you can love
Speaker 1: God not be out here doing things with antics and
Speaker 1: this and that just to get some attention and love
Speaker 1: around your creativity and your career. And I also want
Speaker 1: to say this, it is not in everybody's cars to
Speaker 1: be famous. It's not in every There is a such
Speaker 1: thing as a billionaire that's on the train right now
Speaker 1: and you don't even know who the hell he is,
Speaker 1: and he likes it, he likes or she likes just
Speaker 1: being successful, wealthy, having private planes, living his life and
Speaker 1: lifestyle and not be famous. So many people are focused
Speaker 1: on fame. It's crazy, especially in this area. We come
Speaker 1: from the era of being just want to be successful
Speaker 1: and so different now, Oh my god, listen, I don't
Speaker 1: wake up every day trying to figure out how to
Speaker 1: be more famous. I'm the chairman and CEO of Voltron Entertainment.
Speaker 1: We got forty three projects that are in various different phases.
Speaker 1: I got billionaires, edge funds, multi millionaires around the world,
Speaker 1: all communicating and rocking trying to figure out how the
Speaker 1: way to bring these visions to life. And it ain't
Speaker 1: about antics, man, Listen right now. The reason I want
Speaker 1: this album to be successful as well is because I
Speaker 1: want to be able to highlight love again. Like you're
Speaker 1: not even on the cover of a magazine unless you're
Speaker 1: about to file for divorce, like I feel like positive,
Speaker 1: Like why can't you be married with a functioning relationship
Speaker 1: with your kids that are smart and educated, not out
Speaker 1: here being bullied or bullying, and have some attention to
Speaker 1: be given to your marriage and your relationship. The devil
Speaker 1: has been busy trying to highlight negativity and not spread
Speaker 1: no love to positivity. So I'm just putting it out
Speaker 1: there like, I'm not preaching. I don't want nobody to
Speaker 1: be like, oh here we go. He think he listen? Man, man,
Speaker 1: shut up, shut up. You got a job to do
Speaker 1: as a hater. I understand that you didn't create it
Speaker 1: a user name and the passwords you could talk about
Speaker 1: everybody's life and tear them down. I got that. Do
Speaker 1: your job. Nobody wants to be unemployed. But it's very simple, man.
Speaker 1: This is the season for good people to win. This
Speaker 1: is the season for people that wake up every day
Speaker 1: with good and positive intention towards other people's lives to
Speaker 1: finally win. It's confusing. Women are in school every day,
Speaker 1: single parent working, they ass off getting on the bus
Speaker 1: and public transportation, trying to take care of their kids
Speaker 1: and survive, and they feel like, Dan, what do I
Speaker 1: gotta do a sex tape to finally get me as
Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, to get some attention on some of the
Speaker 1: sh I'm doing. I'm just tired, man, I'm tired. I'm
Speaker 1: not frustrated, but I'm tired. And I felt like again, everybody,
Speaker 1: stay encouraged, stay on your path, and just know that
Speaker 1: as a positive person who has not allowed this game
Speaker 1: to compromise my spirituality or my sexuality. In order for
Speaker 1: me to get on and keep winning, I'm gonna keep rocking.
Speaker 1: And when I win, you win, and I just want
Speaker 1: us to win. Statement. The statement is this, if we're
Speaker 1: trying to save R and B, it's not about the
Speaker 1: album sales. I want to put this out there. If
Speaker 1: I wanted to make money, I wouldn't be in music.
Speaker 1: I'm getting real money with all the others I'm doing,
Speaker 1: so for me to do music, I'm really trying to
Speaker 1: make a statement on behalf of R and B. Black Rose.
Speaker 1: My album is number one in thirteen countries. It's number
Speaker 1: one on Google Play, Apple Music, iTunes, period it's number
Speaker 1: one R and B Top two hundred. Supporting this Black
Speaker 1: Rose album. Is you're helping me to make a statement.
Speaker 1: You tired all this ratchet shout here happening. Help me
Speaker 1: to make a statement because the music industry and executives
Speaker 1: are like robots. What's selling. Let's put our money into that.
Speaker 1: Let's put the R and B acts back on the radio,
Speaker 1: back in business. Let's get talented people off of the
Speaker 1: shelves and put them back on. That's it. So guess
Speaker 1: what this when you're gonna see It's like Avatar. Everybody
Speaker 1: started doing three D movies after that movie was the biggest.
Speaker 1: That's what that's Black Rose is Avatar number one in
Speaker 1: the country right now. We appreciate you for joining us.
Speaker 1: I feel like I just read a week of Tyrese's
Speaker 1: Facebook post. Congratulations, and I hope you get your girl back.
Speaker 1: I hope I do too. She's listening. I hope y'all
Speaker 1: are real popular. So I'm letting the world know I
Speaker 1: want my girl back, and I don't mind the world
Speaker 1: knowing right now, But you know, I gotta sing other
Speaker 1: people's songs. My song ain't working right now. Really, Baby
Speaker 1: trying a whole banking feelings for so long, any of
Speaker 1: you feel I can't feel baby? Come home? Oh come home?
Speaker 1: Ah ha. I'm just saying, she might hear it