WEBVTT - Tyrese Interview 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:07.440 A real key for real celebrity, Join the Breakfast Morning. 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:10.680 Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Ye, Charlomne the guy. We 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:13.400 all the Breakfast Club have a special guest in the 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:15.840 building this morning. This man about to have the number 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:20.640 one album in the damn country, independent independent, Why not tires? 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:24.239 Why not? Let's get right into it. You got a 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:25.920 number one country, but I mean the number one album 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:30.120 with this your last album? Why? Um? Well, y'all know, 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.560 I went through a real nasty public and private custody 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.559 situation fighting for more custody of my baby. So I 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.040 landed fifty fifty joining and legal custody. Shout out to 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.479 all the fathers out there still determined to get that 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:47.760 time man, And so you can't have that much custody 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.080 and then say I'll be home in six months. I 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.840 gotta go chase a music career. So you know, um, 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.640 pickups and drop offs is real for me. Bedtime stories 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.920 and helping her with her homework, that's all real for me. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.560 So I had to. I gotta do what I gotta do. 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.679 I love music. I'm never gonna stop doing music as 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:08.759 a whole because it's my first love. But it's definitely 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.240 my last album. There's not a publicity stunt to get 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:15.000 everybody excited like gold Run the last time You're gonna 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.600 get it? No, it's not. This is it for real? 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.840 This is it three and a half years to do this, 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.759 m Like emotionally it wiped me out, like I'm fighting 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.160 for more custody. I was in a relationship for five 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:33.000 years on the low and living together. Envy nos you 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.720 know what I mean? Uh, Envy's wife used to talk 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.559 to my girl. They were cool, hey, and it ended? Though, 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.240 can your wife still talk to her? Are they still friends? 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.000 That does that friendship? And always loyalty is to tyres? Okay, 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:48.720 married women shouldn't talk to single women. It's true that 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.480 conversation can get a little So why are you still there? 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.680 That's though, because if they formed a friendship, shouldn't she 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.640 still be able to talk to her? I mean my 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:02.400 wife loyalties to trees? Okay, yeah, let's move on. So 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:04.960 five years, you know, I did some things that I 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.520 was ashamed of. You know, nobody, we're all a work 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:12.400 in progress, and and so that's where the inspiration behind 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.720 the song shame came from. You know, it's not for 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.360 perfect people. It's not for people that think they so 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:19.840 far up the spiritual lot of they don't make mistakes. 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.720 It's a song about being honest and transparent and vulnerable. 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.680 So for it to be number two on Billboard right 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.160 now in only six weeks, it's just the confirmation that 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.360 when you do things from your heart, it effects hearts. 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.840 So and it is a video actually that really matters, 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.880 because I feel like a lot of videos nowadays aren't 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.200 really so important, but I think it really helps what 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.200 the song is about. The visual that went along with 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:47.519 Diazel Noel did it for the love Denzel believe in this. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.600 It's actually a short film, so that's twenty five minutes long, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.960 and Denzel is definitely on board. I mean, I got 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.240 phone calls about Edits and you know it's it's like 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.880 he's very involved, like you'll keep sending me the links 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.280 with the updated scenes and I think you should this 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.920 that I mean them calls was very uncomfortable because you 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:07.960 don't want to disappoint d you know what I'm saying. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.639 But did you call him or he called you that? Yeah? 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.480 I called him. And also the casting person named Robbie 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.120 Reid who did Malcolm X with them, and a bunch 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.160 of other movies, got Denzel on board as well, so 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.600 then that was be in between movies. He doing videos. Well, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.440 it's a movie, it's a short stem, you know what 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.480 I mean. So that the condensed version of the Shame 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.400 video is about six and a half minutes long, but 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.880 the short film in itself is twenty five minutes long, 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.680 starring myself and Jennifer Hudson, directed by Paul Hunter. I'm 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.080 not allow, the said when I find out that you 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:40.400 had the number. No, I'm in the country, I said, 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.280 a boy, they're letting the wrong person be number one independent. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:48.760 Now that's not right, and you should be happy. Man, 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:54.040 I'm keeping dark skin on. You know. You know we're 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:55.960 darker than this. Mic man. You know what I'm saying. 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:00.760 I'm trying to stay on. We're trying to take envy out. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.880 You are getting brighter and brighter every time. When we 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.440 talk about that later, I was like this, I mean, Charlot, 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.240 now you you caught some flag because you you you 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:18.520 the dead homeless woman to promote dead homeless she was 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:25.760 not dead. Was like y'all sleeping on R and lady 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:30.359 she might not dead, she was not deep. It was 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.039 upset listen, let me just say this. I apologize for 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:38.680 what what seems like it was insensitive and going too far. Um. 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.080 I didn't really think about that before I did it, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:42.560 you know what I mean. I just was trying to 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:46.680 make a point, and the point is right now, the 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.359 state of R and B is dead. Most R and 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.520 B singers are not conscious of it, but a lot 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.479 of us are insecure and we feel like our songs 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.840 don't get attention, don't get no love on radio, don't 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.479 have any fans buying it anymore unless we got fifteen 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.680 rappers on it. You know what I'm saying. The state 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.000 of R and B is insecure. So I just want 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.360 to apologize to everybody. I don't have fifteen rappers on 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.960 my album for this Black Rose album to be number 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:16.880 one in fifteen countries, and it's straight R and B period. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.320 It's sending the right message. It's making a statement that 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.960 the fans are still out here. They want to support, 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.080 they want to show up, you know what I mean. 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.680 Like for me, in my mind, it was never Marvin 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:32.000 Gay featuring Curtis Blow. It was never Luta Vandro's featuring 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.360 Run DMC. It was never Donnie Had the Way featuring 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.800 sugar Hill Game. It was pure R and B soul, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:43.520 no gimmicks, I ain't name dropping, produced by Pharrell, produced 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.680 by Listen. It's pure R and B period. So for 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.719 it to be number one on R and B charts 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.400 and the top two hundred with my album, it's a 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:56.240 confirmation that R and B is turning that corner. And 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.160 I think you should have just caught yourself buying the 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.719 lady something to eat. If you put don't came buying 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:02.719 the homeless ladying. Well, no, here's the thing. I was 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.480 just making a statement. I didn't know she was homeless. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.400 She just looked like she was taking a nap. Was 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.360 passed down. I'm saying, like, now people are like, oh, 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.520 you're taking advantage the woman is home. I didn't know 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.240 she was home. I thought she look it was a 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.400 shaded area, there was other people sleeping in the area. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.440 It was not necessarily a homeless area. And I was like, 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.080 she's taking a nap. So guess what, I want to 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.440 make a point. I feel like people are sleeping on 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.760 R and B. That was the only point. It wasn't 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.280 about taking advantage of nothing. That's not what I do. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:38.080 I apologize for anybody that I made feel a certain 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.320 kind of way because of that moment. And if I 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.760 ran into the woman, I put a couple hundred dollars under. 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.080 But if there's anybody else that you know, want to 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:47.720 come at me about it, just come see me in 0:06:47.760 --> 0:07:00.279 the streets, hummy. I'm just playing. Now you're training promoting 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:01.960 an album on the train. Why did you do that? 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:03.839 What was the idea behind that? Okay, So let me 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.240 just tell you what really happen. I've never told nobody, Okay. 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.240 I was running late to a live hit to do 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.480 a radio interview, I mean TV interview. It was actually 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.400 with Roxy from you know, used to be on one 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.520 oh six. She on HLN, and I had a live 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.040 hit that I could miss. So the driver said, we're 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.200 gonna get there about the hour and twenty minutes with 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.840 this traffic y'all know New York traffic. I say, Yo, 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.960 we gotta go take the train. Okay. So we end 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.120 up taking three trains, We went through Brooklyn, We did 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.400 what we had to do, and that's when the moment happened. 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:35.920 There you go, see, And that's how I tell Envy 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:37.520 to take the train all the time, because it's way 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.200 faster than sometimes I have to though every once in 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.960 a while. But then Envy's not Envy's not getting out 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.160 of that raid. No, I had to blow. He wants 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.440 people to see what's happening in these streets. I had 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.360 to walk him down to the subway and be like, 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:50.680 this is the train you have to get on. And 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.000 then he called me when it was time to come 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.600 back here, and I had to give him explicit directions 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.520 on how to get back. Envy. I know how to 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:00.360 ride the train, and I know how to ride the 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.480 train with no help. You need help, and you live 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.840 here to walk him down. He's got the wraith, he's 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.280 got no tents on this window. No, no, no, see me. 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.760 This is that radio money. It's happening in these streets now. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.040 Brandy tried to do the same, Brandy get on the train. 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.280 He inspired. Brandy didn't work out to Jay Brandy video. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.000 No man. She got on the video and she's saying 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.240 but nobody knew who she was she saying, and she 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.040 was like, I can't get one fan, not one fan. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.760 You know you caused the commotion, and you know she 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:34.040 know it's all good man. I haven't seen it, man, 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.480 but you know I mean, listen, we all love riding 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.040 the train. That's the homie man, and gave us some advice. 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.000 It was like she should sing a little better and everything. 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.160 The endless lady that you gave a hundred hours to 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:50.560 was on the train and gave her some Man if 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.560 that dude whoever said that, if they knew that that 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:54.880 was Brandy, they would give us some different advice. Trust 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:56.719 because she is one of the greatest to ever do. 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.880 And she's on the Black Rows album and we have 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.079 a song called the Rest of Our Lives, So shout 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.280 out to Brandy. They let them talk, baby, It's all good. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.040 We know what's happening in these R and B streets. 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.320 What's that about the rest of our lives? The rest 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.680 of our lives? Well, you know we we said, you 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.800 know what, let's do a song that's for the first 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:22.720 dance at a wedding. And and so it's a wedding song. Yeah, wedding. Yeah. 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.400 What's the significance of the title Black Roles because it 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.920 sound kind of dark. Um, Well, a rose that grew 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:33.000 through concrete tupoc So I said, I'm a black rose 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:38.160 that grew through concrete South Central La. Watts Um lived 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.080 in Watts for nineteen years. I was born in Watts, 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.560 so I just wanted to to to you know. It 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:48.320 was inspired by that poem that poc Road. So it's 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:53.280 it's transparent, it's honest, it's vulnerable. Uh, it's it's my best, 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.319 it's my last. And it's one of them albums where 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.280 you can press play from top to bottom and not 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.760 skip one joint. And I that's what I'm proud of. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.319 So shout out to everybody around the world. It's number 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:08.240 one in thirteen countries. It's my first number one R 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.679 and B album on Billboard, It's number one on the 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:15.120 top two hundred. I'm just like, we're celebrating because instead 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:20.440 of just mentioning statistics, it's a confirmation that they say 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.480 R and B fans are dead, they say nobody sells 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.560 R and B albums anymore. This whole time, I've been 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.760 doing interviews. As you can imagine, it's like, Okay, you 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.080 got an R and B album, You're doing an interview. 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.560 What could I say that can make people do what 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.800 they don't do anymore, which is by a full R 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.280 and B album that doesn't have fifteen rappers on it, 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:44.480 No antics, noe perks. I'm not twerking, I ain't dropping. 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.600 I don't know nobody named name name. I'm sorry, but 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.480 it comes from a different place from what I don't. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.440 I don't know nobody name, name name, which it comes 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.600 from a different place. See, most artists have to conform 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.480 to the industry because they got to pay their bills. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.400 You're coming from a place of doing it from the heart. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:01.640 You got to pay your bills, so you can go 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:09.720 in your backyard, but finish the hookah louns by the way, yeah, 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:15.480 stay out my back yard. My goodness. All I'm saying 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:20.960 is all I'm saying is R and B singers that 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:25.200 are specifically an R and B. We've had to convert 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.160 into doing house and techno. We've had to have our 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.800 albums compromise with a bunch of rappers on it just 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.960 to get any kind of attention. And love the fact 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.760 that this album is winning and it's just R and B. 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.000 I feel like it's sending the right statement. I don't 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.240 want to be number one just for me. I'm number one. 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.040 I'm cool the fact that it's number one. The industry 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.360 is like robots. They're gonna want to fall in line 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:51.840 and it becomes the trend. This is oh, this is 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.400 what we're doing now. So all of the tworking and 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:58.040 dropping is gonna be on pause, and the actual talented 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.960 people that's been on the shelves, they gonna finally had 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:02.960 the albums to see the light of day. I'm talking 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.280 about past favorite R and B singers, R and B 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.000 singers that are current and the ones that have yet 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:12.800 to be discovered. And then for me, I'm sending this 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:17.520 as a message to radio. I had a song called Stay. 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.240 Envy knows all about it right. Stay was number one 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.880 for eleven weeks on Billboard. Sam Smith had a song 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.520 called Stay. Sam Smith's song had a full choir on it. 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:34.920 Sam Smith's record was played on all formats radio, Top forty, rhythmic, crossover. 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:39.360 He's got an urban right now. Sam Smith ain't step 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.600 foot into any of these urban radio stations, but yet 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.520 urban radio is going all out supporting it. If you 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.720 want a radio spend, you gotta do so much. Radio 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.839 promo was out of control, Meet and greets, interviews, you 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.400 gotta call in, you gotta do something now. I'm not 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.720 attacking Sam Smith. I'm not competitive. This is not ego, 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.760 no nothing. I'm talking about facts because you're talking about money. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.880 Now I can tell my truth. I ain't got to 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.520 be politically correct. I think right now it's time to 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.320 be more fair. If we showing love on urban radio 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:14.440 to Robin Thick, justin Timberlake and Sam Smith who's singing 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.160 R and B soul, and I'm a fan, that it 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.600 needs to work on both sides. Don't tell me I'm 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.400 number one on R and B and urban ac and 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.920 urban mainstream, but yet I'm number one for eleven weeks, 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.240 But yet top forty rhythmic and crossover stations ain't playing 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.080 my music. Were showing love on both sides. You gotta 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.760 show love on both sides. The point I'm making is, 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.280 don't say because you're black that only black people is 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.280 supposed to support you. My music has no limits, It 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.839 has no sexual preference, it has no racial barriers. So 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.440 if we're if they're singing R and B soul and 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.600 you're being supported on urban radio, I believe it should 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.200 go both ways. Don't limit my shop because my movies 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.240 ain't limited. You can't say that only black people know 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.120 me and support my music, because that's not true. You 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.520 can't say that if you go to a Stevie Wonder concert. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.400 It's only black people in the audience because he's black. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.040 Like there's there's a lot of different forms of racism. 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.199 And guess what, y'all, here's this is what I want 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:16.760 to say to pop radio. I'm not gonna convert. There's 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.920 no there's no house and techno version of shame coming. 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.760 I'm not gonna switch it up. I'm not gonna sing 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.200 shame with auto tune in my voice just for a 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.160 radio spend. But I guarantee you if I show up, 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:33.280 the fans are gonna be there. They will be excited. Period. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.720 So if if Stay by Sam Smith has a full 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.200 choir on it, if I sung that version of Stay, 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.920 my joint would have been locked into urban radio and 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:43.920 I'd have probably been with your Linda Adams on the 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:48.640 gospel channel Spread Love, don't forget WBLS. You definite would 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:53.440 have got that earlier. I'm just saying, man, at the 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.680 end of the day, I'm putting this on blast. And 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.320 guess what, I don't have a racist bone in my body. 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.520 I'm out of homer Fold. I ain't got no issues. 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.800 I'm not competitive. I just want music to have an 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.840 opportunity to reach his maximum audience. Don't limit me because 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.920 of my skin, don't limit me because of what what 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.960 form of radio is supporting him? First listen, they may 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.760 start and popping rhythmic radio, but if urban radio recognize 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.360 that they sing an R and B soul, we spread love. 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.560 We don't say, oh, that's a white person. Let the 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.400 white station support them, and they shouldn't be happening on 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.080 the other side. I often wonder if the pop program 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.160 directors are paying attention the way to urban program director, 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.520 because program directors tend to be more aware of all 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.320 the music that's out there. I don't know if pop 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:42.000 program they do. Man, they do, they know, Bro, It's 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.400 no way to stay was number one for eleven weeks. 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:48.440 Right now, my song Shame is number two on Billboard. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.040 It's no way they don't see that featuring Jennifer Hudson. 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.000 You can't tell me that only black people love Jennifer Hudson. 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.680 Stop playing with me. As soon as Obama come up 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.680 with any event, Jennifer is there, as soon as the 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.400 Oscars do any awards show, Jennifer is there. You're telling 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.760 me only black people at the Oscars. Man, I'm grown. 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.320 Stop playing with me, especially being. I like what you 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.840 said about how do they make you know? Black artists 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.120 jump through hoops? Man? Can I get a radio span? 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.400 What do you want me to do? We're vulnerable because 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.880 without radio our voices aren't heard. So at the end 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.040 of the day, I ain't trying to start no ship. 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.240 I'm just putting it out there. Those days is over 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.680 for me. Shane is number two on Billboard, and I'm asking, 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.720 what's my man name? Uh? Come on, give me the 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:39.400 name Ryan ccrest, Ryan Seacrest in the morning that you man, 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.800 Ryan Secret. We're about to go into Tyree's Shane featuring 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.360 Jennifer Hudson. Can I hear that at least one time? 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.880 Or do you need Robin Think to sing my song 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.720 in order for you to play damn it? Man? Can 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.200 come on, man, All I'm saying is this is my 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.480 last round. This is my last album. I don't want 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:01.800 Shane that's being heavily support ordered by urban AC and 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.200 urban mainstream radio to be limited to a black man 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.720 singing to only black people. Them days is over, man. 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.920 I got fans named Becky on the record. There's album 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:19.120 talking on it. You're doing twenty years man, and you're 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.960 still putting out amazing records. This shouldn't be the last album. 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.120 I'm gonna tell you that. But but he didn't say 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.960 that he's not any more music. He's not saying he's 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:30.520 not doing any music. He playing out Album's twenty years 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:32.160 since he did the Coca Cola on the bus Man 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.880 and he's still putting out records. I got this. There's 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:36.720 a lot of people. You know what if you die 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.080 to make the records that you have and die to 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:41.639 be in your position right now, and you're saying this 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.360 is my last album, well, you know what, Listen, you're 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:48.120 a dad. You gotta kid absolutely Okay, so you're a dad. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.520 We're still waiting on the homie to go ahead and 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:54.680 shoot the club. We're still waiting on you to stop 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.360 playing in these straights. The good thing is about when 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.320 you when you're hosting, you know, you always stay far 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.240 away from that. So you could always be pregnant and said, 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.720 we're talking about that, lady, talk about that later. Let 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:06.960 me know. I'm having baby Mama auditions next week. And 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:09.280 you know what I'm saying. You know, you can get 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.680 me right with a number one album. I got a 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.520 number on now I got me another baby, that's it, baby, 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:19.120 mama audition. I feel like, listen, man, I just want 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.320 this album and the success around this album to make 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.879 a statement. And I can't say it enough. Urban or 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.520 AC radio, y'all have helped us to feed our families, 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.760 pay our bills. You were able to tour like at 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.120 the end of the day. Without radio, our music will 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.280 never have an audience. It will never have no reach. 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:42.000 I know social media's powerful and everybody's moving, but we're vulnerable. Man. 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:46.040 Every spin counts, everything counts. So oh, I mean, bro, 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.120 I'm off for an hour and a half asleep every day. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:52.560 Yesterday I had an in store at FYE and they 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:59.320 called the ambulance. I almost did in the store. I 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:03.520 needed some oxygen. I didn't stop. I needed to quit 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.200 thirty minute break. I was there off an hour and 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:10.359 a half asleep. I'm drinking five hours and express so coffee. 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.200 I had to sit down for a minute. I'm sitting 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.600 there and the room started spinning. I'm like, Holy, this 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:20.320 ain't going to right. I needed a minute. Fully committed 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.840 to the process. I wasn't gonna let the fans down. 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.520 I'm like, look, I didn't pass out, and I'm definitely 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.240 not going out there to get into ambulance and make 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:31.679 a scene. But that's what it is. You can't be 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:33.800 working as hard and saying that you're doing all this 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.720 as an urban artist, catering to the needs of urban 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.080 I'm trying to do what I gotta do to to 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:42.840 respark R and B like I got my cape on, baby, 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:44.920 I'm trying to. I'm trying to. I'm trying to fly. 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:46.679 But then, let me ask you a question. You you 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.480 do records like stay, and then you do records like shame, 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:52.920 and you preach positivity, and you preach being a great 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:55.320 man and great relationships, but then you f up in 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:59.680 your He admits that he's human, not human tyres can't 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:01.520 do that. You can't be a pat Are you saying 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:05.280 that to me? Yes, all, you're saying that to me, 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:10.480 calling it the yellow. He's much blacker than me. Right now, 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.680 put this in front of you, put this in front 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:19.000 of your face. Let's talk about speak positivity and I 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:20.200 love it. A lot of people look up to you 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.800 as positivity. I was one that did and I still do. 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:28.359 He used to mess up, Like how you tell me 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:30.400 be good, be better? You tell the world. I ain't 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:33.360 never heard you were perfect. I'm not perfect. And one 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:37.320 of the best thing the fact that how do you 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.560 avoid all these leg muscles out here when the clevelang 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:43.399 is right and you're sitting up trying to keep your focus? 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:45.359 How do you do it? How do you do it? 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:50.159 I'm active? Listen, listen, let me just's real out here. Listen, listen. 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.480 I sing to that because I want that, and I 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:57.080 don't play on both sides. I'm right here right So 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:00.000 at the end of the day, I'm trying my best. 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:02.960 Every day we're a work in projects. Guess what when 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:07.600 a relationships ends, sometimes it's not always about cheating. Sometimes 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:10.840 that woman is in a relationship and she's mentally and spiritually, 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:14.280 emotionally bored because their man don't know how to intrigue her. 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:17.640 So she's like running around desperate just to have a conversation. 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:21.640