WEBVTT - DJ Camper 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:10.360 R and B Money, Honey, we are thanks take volatility. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:14.040 We are the authority on. 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:18.800 All things R and B, ladies and gentleman. 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:23.119 My name is Tank. This is the Army Money Podcast. 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:31.400 Authority on all things R and B. I'm talking cloth. 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:44.240 Talk, huh talking well versed, well studied, gifted. 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:46.960 Musicianship. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:52.800 All the ship we grew up all huh. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:57.760 Built into one young man, nice two piece. 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:04.800 Yeah, came in his shining to know executive producers, ship level. 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:18.600 What's up man? What's up? Purpose? Correct? Hey, the camp 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:19.880 presents other camp. 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:24.039 You know what I'm saying, man, watch bus. 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:29.960 You know I appreciate just pinking ring, just a case, 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.160 just a little, a little at mind. You know what 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.560 I'm saying, not too much, not too much to watch. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.240 They're not selling that in the mall in the middle. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.959 You know what I'm saying. Little right there at the keys. 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:50.520 Look custom man, your your your music, your gift has 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:51.440 made room for you. 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:51.800 Brother. 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:54.560 You know what I'm saying, Like it is, it is 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.200 made absolute room for you. 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:57.520 Man. 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:05.240 The conversation around you is always it's always. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.320 An excellent one. God is good. 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.960 I mean, listen, God give it right. And it's up 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:17.079 to us to to be good stewards over that, and 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.360 be at the gift, and be at the relationships, and 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.760 be at all of those things. And so you you, 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.040 you've been a great steward over all that God has 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.400 given you, which is why he continues to give you. 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.320 Man, you understood what I'm saying. 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.640 So I could, I could, I could go into the script, 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.160 but I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.720 He has a pinky ring he got. We're gonna keep it. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.200 We'll keep it, you know what I'm saying. We'll keep it. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.399 But you you're doing a lot of I just got 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:46.600 I got on a record for. 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:54.080 You too, that camera talking to camera. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:03:00.240 Man is coming soon soon, soon, soon, soon, says, So 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.320 what is the what is the title? So it's called 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:08.920 it's called it's called it's called the compilation album Volume 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.200 one value. I'm gonna do more than one volume, but 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.640 I'm gonna do more. I'm gonna do more, but just 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.360 the one volume is for right now. I'm a I'm 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.880 a I'm gonna start it off like that, uh compilation. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:21.600 But you know my name is Campus, so I'm gonna 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:26.280 do campilation. So Man and and and Tank Bro, thank you. 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:27.839 I can't thank you enough. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.679 You know, I love the song so much. I'm going 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:34.640 back and forth with human edits and like and do 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.280 the thing right here because it's a couple of d 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:45.920 B excise me t D he's just like half of 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:50.920 half a dB maybe three fourth Ruben just turned up one. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.120 Do what the man says now. 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:58.200 And it's but it's like, I mean, we got that record, 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.000 which I think is gonna be be a man, which 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:02.600 I think it's just one of those. 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:03.480 Red always want to be. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:10.480 And and you and you exactly you know what I'm saying, 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.040 Like it's never been done, and like that's what I'm 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:14.520 all about. It's like, you know, I'm just trying to 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.000 do things that haven't happened people don't think of, Like 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:19.360 this is going to shake the world up. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.080 We're gonna go back to the beginning, right. But I 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.200 just want to I just want to. I just want 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.560 to just talk about this one space in particular, where 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.080 like we got a chance to work. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:29.600 Like really work on. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:36.880 During during the Love camp with Puff and we actually 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.720 got to like be in a room, yeah, and and 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:47.159 get active and you're you're very much you're You're a 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:54.120 producer in in any environment whether it be you sitting 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.600 in a room by yourself putting the magic magic together, 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:03.799 or on the spot if we need something like you're immediate, 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:06.320 you know what I'm saying, like and that that's a 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:11.400 different kind of gift to be dope on call. I 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.320 know a lot of great producers that need to be 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.640 in their own space, in their Oh they need their 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:20.200 own curtains and their own can damn like they need like, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.960 they need their own ship. I everybody get out the room. Well, 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:28.120 I think can do this ship right. You're like this, yeah, 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:39.799 all right, you need and everything's cold. You just gotta 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.440 pick something that piece right there, just that piece and 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:47.520 then play that piece like thank you, thank. 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:48.000 You, thank you. 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.680 It takes one to know one, niggas. But listen, it's 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.520 it's it's it's rare. And you're the You're you're the 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.599 young you know what I'm saying, The young, Uh, the 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:03.640 young improvement, more improve version of what we did. Like nigga, 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.400 you're different. You get busy, you you get really really busy, 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.960 and it's hard for musicians to produce, which is the 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:15.000 other thing I was going into. You're really a musician, yes, yeah, 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.760 And it's tough to be a musician and a producer, right. 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.320 It's very tough because mostly producers are just called to 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.920 session to just play because they only need a little 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.280 bit of a musician depending on because. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.520 They don't down right exactly. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.080 No, there's an art to dialing down one hundred per yep. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.320 I remember one time I was in I was in London. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.880 I was working with Rihanna on the Rihanna We're Going 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.560 First Start. Yeah, that's that's you know what I'm saying. 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.159 You know, but I didn't get on that album, but 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.120 I was there, right, So I was there with the 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.520 camp and all of that, and like, you know, shout 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.440 out o mar Grant, you know what I'm saying. He pulled 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.680 me to the side like yo, hey, hey hey man, Like, 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.839 like I get it, you can play, but like you 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.960 like your tracks is too busy, Like they're too busy, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.120 you like dollar down it's a little bit really So 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.680 from there I was like, hmm, okay, so maybe it's 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.240 not about all the cores and what you can fit 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.280 in three minutes and thirty seconds. It's about like the 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.360 feeling you can do from like maybe two or three yeah, 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:18.160 and captivating that same feeling. Like that was the key 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.080 for me. So you know, just doing that and just 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:22.440 you know what. 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.480 I'm saying, Yeah, that's great an R absolutely because now. 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.640 Look because people because and like as we talk about 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.520 what kind of was missing in the business, like an 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.440 rs don't necessarily know how. 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.760 To articulate it. No, they just say they like they. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.000 Just said it, like someone I don't like that. But 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.200 for him to be able to say, your your bit, 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.720 your cords structure, yeah, it's a bit for him to 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:47.680 know you're stretching out a little too far. 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:52.360 This is not second Baptist. Don't shout out second Baptist. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:57.560 Shout Baptist, Ye say second Baptist. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:02.800 Yes, yes, yeah, I didn't make that album. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.720 But you know, but the experience alone, though I'm sure, yeah, 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.120 prepped you for everything that. 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:12.920 You know now you need to give the meda you 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.640 know what I'm saying. So it's like everything happens for 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.720 a reason. So I'm happy that I get to you know, 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.360 I didn't let my ego say no like you mean, bro, 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:21.280 like I mean. 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:25.000 I let myself digest it, understand it, and apply. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.960 It, because there's an ego to being that talented too, Absolutely, 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.080 especially musician talented, Like when you. You know, when you 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.240 can see it, you can you know what I mean, like, 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.440 and other people can't see it. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.080 Yeah exactly. 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:41.040 In your mind, everyone is beneath you for for people 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.679 that are really talented as musicians, you know. And and 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.240 I sit on the other side of that because I 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.000 don't play. But I've had so many of those conversations, 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.000 and I'm like, you're just never you won't get it. 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.839 You're very talented, but you won't get it. You probably 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:58.959 will never have a hit record because your ego is. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:04.120 In the way of someone telling you you're doing too much. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:05.680 Yeah exactly. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.240 You don't have to do all that because the average 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.480 person in the world don't understand. Most of them can't 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:15.800 find it'll see yeah, facts. So you have to be 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.320 able to meet people where they are musically and be 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.280 able to you know, lack of a better term, dumb 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:21.680 it down. 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:25.600 Yeah exactly. You know what taught me that, The NPC 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:32.400 sixty taught me that because I was trying to stretch 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:39.000 and and it wouldn't accept it. Yeah, it would cancel 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.160 out notes. Wow, I'll be doing too, I'll be doing 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.600 a lot on this track. Go to another track of strings, 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.400 do a lot on that track and go to another 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.280 track with like a sign lead and try to court 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:52.040 and all and stuff would be canceling out. It will 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.920 glitch out, yeah, And I'm like, why is it doing that? 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.000 And I got to think of the producer's name. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:00.000 At the time. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:04.400 He was producing for Tony Thompson. He was producing for Tony. 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:09.960 He produced a song Let's Go Nando La Business. He 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.720 produced that song and he was producing and I was like, 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.360 I know I'm colding in this, nigga, but this sounds crazy, 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:20.319 like what And he was like, are you doing too much? 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:22.400 That's not how you That's not how you do that. 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.240 And I just and I just remember sitting just trying 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:29.199 to figure out how to pull it out of Antioch 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:33.040 Baptist Church and get it to fit into this in 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:37.800 PC sixty And that was my trial and in like 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:42.080 being super simple, and then another and then another lesson 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:42.800 listening to R. 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:47.080 Kelly Yeah, facts, yeah, facts, listen to Kelly. I was 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.160 like he simplified all of it and killed it. 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:54.600 It was but it was like the marriage of everything 0:10:55.360 --> 0:11:01.160 is what made those songs crazy. It wasn't one standalone thing, 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.240 it was all of it. You know what I'm saying. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.959 It's like it's like, I'm not gonna play right it. 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:11.240 But but doom doom doom, doom doom doom yeah, m 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:16.480 doom boom doom doom doom doom Yeah. Simple, we're not 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.959 gonna play in a regular life. No, we're not playing. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.400 We're never doing We're never doing that. That idea. I 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.240 was doing that when I was seven. I'm never gonna 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.240 I'm going back there, never going back there. But all 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.920 of that to get ship, this ship, ship, all that 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:35.120 together at the same time. It was like magical, crazy, crazy, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.200 and that's what made me produce do Maybe I deserve 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:40.000 the way I did it. 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.920 Chasing after Him one of the greatest R and B 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.880 songs ever. I appreciate that. 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:52.320 But but but not one, but not one standalone thing 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:57.360 that nobody can do, not nothing on like you take 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.640 either one of those things, whether it be the pan piano, 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.440 whether it be the stick, whether it be the melody, whatever. 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.960 Only thing that was unique to it was the story 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.640 that it was personal to me. Outside of that, none 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:13.760 of nothing, none of those things separated were blowing you away. 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.720 I wouldn't have saying maybe I deserve to you just 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:20.400 by itself acapelling anybody. Oh yeah, yeah, you would have 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.200 said that, no, but all of them together. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.480 But and then it came from you, right. 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:30.000 Well, that's the that's the the personal life, the personalized 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.520 part of it, to where it like my story then 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:33.800 became everybody else's. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:34.599 Story, right, you know. 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.199 But then going into what we were talking about as 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:41.720 far as like the whole everyone is beneath me a musician, 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.240 I had a homeboy that was like that mhm church 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.880 church guy. And I remember the first time, I think 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.480 me and you talked about it. First time I had 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.720 mentioned Tank to him, he brushed Tank off this years ago. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.120 We just talked about you know, music gouts out and all, 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:57.679 you know, different stuff. And I'm like, man, that dude 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.760 two voices dope, like he got you know what I'm saying, Like, 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:02.600 you know, this music is cool. He kind of like 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:06.480 a regular church you know tenor you know, it's it's 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:10.920 a million of him in church. I didn't grow up 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:16.880 in church, so I'm like, damn for real, all right, 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:23.960 But now it makes sense because with you scaling down 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.040 and you not you know, throwing everything, throwing the kitchen 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:31.360 stove at everything, and every song on that side of it. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:36.240 You're basic Yeah, you're basic, and it's. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.320 A trip to Now how you know where we have 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.079 our conversations from the music side and the musician side 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.560 and singers and all these other things, and how you 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.400 know how the church sees it, how the you know 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.560 what I mean, because those is the real musicians, y'all, 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:52.840 the real guy. What y'all doing in there? Yeah, that's unreal, 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:53.840 It's unreal. 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:54.520 You know what I'm saying. 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.000 Obviously it comes from God. You know what I'm saying, y'all, 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.600 y'all raised up in something different. But a lot of 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.839 those guys don't understand that to make it digestible for 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:05.440 the world. 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:07.120 It can't be that. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.320 Can't be that, because if it is that, you're going 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:14.200 to get through a hundred dollars a Sunday. Yeah, I 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.680 started off of like one hundred and and I was 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:18.800 like thirteen fourteen. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.840 I started at twenty five, started off at twenty five 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.120 dollars a week? Did you did you? Did you do rehearsals? 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.920 Did you do herse? Everything? I did every five dollars 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.080 ever wrote songs twenty five Okay, I wasn't. I wasn't. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.320 I was a small sess, small sess. You were singing 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.040 and playing you singing and playing the same. 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.480 I was doing every I was baby John p King 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:46.960 John Junior, all love it. And then and then I 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.920 played the drums on the drums too. 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.400 I was the I was church. I was church musician 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.680 one man. Hey, yeah yeah, whatever was ne what it 0:14:57.880 --> 0:14:59.760 was working you out for twenty five? 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.080 What all the way? So let's go back there. 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.960 Yeah, that's a great segue. Let's go back to the beginning. Started. Yes, 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.440 d J, what were they calling you in church? I 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.240 mean it was it was calling me because like so 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.040 like DJ, because what's your real name? My real name is. 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.320 Darryl Okay, so is it dar because that's the rail? 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.720 Yeah? So what though? 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:25.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll never get exactly crazy he set 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:25.560 the tour up. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:34.000 Oh my god, you got the wild spelling like you 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:35.320 got Yeah, I got. 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.080 A crazy spell him like it's like a very unique 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.320 like you're never like I'll be like, yo, I bet 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.520 you fight. I will never guess from my name, you know, 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.760 all right, So so so I'll give you d a R. 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:51.520 And then why Nope, it's gotta be a wife somewhere. 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.600 Yes, the wise after the leady that you respect, No, 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:59.520 I you have you have a silent you, because that's 0:15:59.520 --> 0:15:59.960 what you just say. 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:09.240 You are. Hey, why why h O d A R H. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:17.040 Yeah the emphasis just walk in this thing. 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.760 And if your name is d J, that means your 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:24.400 daddy's name is Yeah, that's right, that's right. 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:32.000 Ye Like yeah, they're gonna have something different with that. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:33.680 I'm like all right. 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.840 I mean but like my mom wanted to name me Demetrius, 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:38.680 so I'm like, no, no, no, I'm gonna take Darryl. 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:43.960 That was cool. If you get yeah, oh my god, Trius. No, 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:50.080 all the Demetrious is out there. You know what I'm saying, 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:54.320 Like Paul, then yeah, name is me? 0:16:54.640 --> 0:17:07.760 Like no, definitely not road O Jesus, I would. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.760 Never call a nigga the name of Dimitrius what you 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:11.480 just said, I. 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.040 Will never nigga? Can I run up now? Just call me? No, No, 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:18.280 you are. 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:26.880 The whole name I call you. So obviously starting the church, 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.480 and when was the first time somebody said to you, 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.600 I said to you, said said to the senior, I 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.160 said that boy right there, special man. 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.800 So you know, growing up in church, it was it 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:44.240 was every Saturday we had we had service. And then 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:48.320 this is before I was playing on Sundays, you know, 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:50.840 for money, because in my church, I was playing for 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:51.840 free for the love. 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:52.639 Yeah, it was. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.639 It was my offering back to God, so you know 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.280 it was it was just all right, cool, you know, 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.360 it's all good. So my father was singing church, so 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.000 he made me play the piano. Him and my grandmother. 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:06.639 They made me do lessons. They made me get lessons, 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.719 and I hated playing bro the beginning. I hated the piano. 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:11.840 Bron did you learn how to read? 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.240 They wanted me to learn how to read and play 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.760 because my grandmother was she is, i mean still living 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.879 a phenomenal singer. I mean she's crazy, like I mean 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:21.520 like Ella Fitzgerald type crazy. 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:21.840 Wow. 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.199 And then my father he can sing too, like they 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.840 was calling him like baby Michael Jackson, you know, like 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:28.720 when he was younger, at Jackson five and all that, 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.280 he'll like go around with his little group like you know, 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:35.080 like try State Area, go crazy, had everybody going crazy, 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.600 or plays the guitar all of that. So he wanted 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:39.679 me to you know, following the footsteps and all of that. 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.439 So you know, I'm six, I hated, you know, but 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.640 I still, for whatever reason, still you know, stuck with 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.280 you. You know what I'm saying, so like seven eight nine, 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.880 like I'm getting nice around ten No, like ten eleven. 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.120 You're you're taking lessons but still playing. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:57.440 Yep, still playing. So like I'm learning both ways. 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.320 I'm learning like Mozart and Beethoven, you know what I'm 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.719 saying during the week, and then like on Saturday, bro 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:04.879 It's John p Key has a call walker Donnie m 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:06.920 cirk and Frad Handon commissioned the Whinings. 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:08.080 You get me, you feel me. 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.600 I'm like, oh, I'm getting I'm getting both at the 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:11.040 same time. 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:12.680 Okay, God, I'll see you outside. 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.680 And then you know, he would sing solos in church 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.080 and then like this' one particular time, I might have 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:22.360 been about thirteen maybe fourteen, and like I followed him 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.240 like he was singing, like I forget what song it was, 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.560 but like a him and I followed him and this 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:29.199 was the first time, like he was like, you know, 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.400 my son, Like you did a good job following me tonight. 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:34.680 I was like, wow, this is crazy. 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:38.240 Yeah, yeah, cool, I've been waiting, valid you know what 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.159 I'm saying, Pops. I'm like, all right, cool, you know, 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.480 all right, cool, I'm flowing now I understand it now 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.000 and then from there on, like he was showing me, 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.320 like like waking me up in the middle of the night, 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.760 like playing me Earth when the fire, you know, playing me. 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:52.640 You get some R and B T. Yeah, oh yeah, 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:54.720 I'm getting all that. Oh yeah, ohio players. 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:56.720 You know what I'm saying, Like, you know, Parliament, like 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:58.880 you know, he loved Parliament, he loved Earth win the Fire. 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.040 Then on the Gospel Saw you know he'll play me 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:05.040 Darryl Coley, Yeah, the Whinings Commission. It's like, you know, 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:06.760 it just shaped my R and B to like what 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:07.600 it is right now. 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.119 So like you know, I got your home was music 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:13.560 school hundred. It was beautiful. 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.199 Are you still at thirteen fourteen still taking music lessons? 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:18.920 No, I stopped around thirteen. 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:20.840 But you went from six to thirteen. 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.080 Yeah, lessons every day, I mean every every Monday. IMN 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:28.480 sorry yeah yeah. And you're taking piano, just piano, yep, 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:29.040 this piano. 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:32.960 Do you still read now? A little? Like not as much, 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:33.520 but like but. 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.880 It developed something different in your in your movement. 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.120 Yeah, for sure. In my fingering, like you know. 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:41.000 You can you can do a lot more with your 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:41.600 pinky than. 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:44.320 And then my stretch is crazy too. 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:57.119 Yeah, yeah, music, make sure this has nothing to do 0:20:58.600 --> 0:20:59.200 a musician. 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:06.200 Damn foods man. Hey he's a our adults. Okay, I'm sorry. 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:13.520 Sometimes so so Pops gives you, gives you the Pops 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.280 gives you the staff of approval. You did well tonight. 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:19.359 I was like, welcome, we welcome, welcome to the fold. 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:21.560 Let's go to the studio. So we go to the studio, 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:23.399 to the studio. Yah, yeah, my first time going to 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:23.879 the studios. 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:24.040 You know. 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:25.520 It was with him and he was like all right, 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:28.720 you ready for the studio now. So I go to 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:31.560 the studio with him. It was a spot like I 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:33.520 think it was in brigand teen. It might have been 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:37.760 ten minutes. So okay, So I'm from So I'm from 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:40.320 May's Land in New Jersey, which is like twenty minutes 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:42.760 from Atlantic City. But if I say I'm from is 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:46.200 landing who works mays Land? So I say Atlantic City 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:47.879 because I was there all the time anyway, So it 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:49.680 was like that was like my like my home too. 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:53.439 I ain't lying for real, So you know, Atlantic City. 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:57.479 So from Atlantic City you have like different little like 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:01.600 off little islands, little Strongs or whatever. Brigantine Margate you 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:06.080 got Ventnor, so Brigantine was like ten minutes from Atlantic City, Okay, 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:07.919 so like that's what the studio was at. So he's like, 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:11.400