WEBVTT - REPLAY - K-Ci Hailey 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:03.040 R and B Money. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:06.040 Honey, we are. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:10.119 Thanks take valoti. 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:14.600 We are the authority. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:16.000 On all things R and B. 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:18.720 Ladies and gentlemen. 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:23.440 My name is Tank Valentine, and this what is it. 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:30.640 It's the R and B Money Podcast, the authority. 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.720 On all things Who yeah. 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:37.320 One more time? Who yeah yeah? 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:43.240 See see you wasn't desperate, you know, in your spirit, 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:47.560 in your tongue, right, You wasn't in the middle of 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:55.680 a desert with lover on your body, sweating your balls off. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:57.240 To prove a point. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:00:58.440 Hmmm. 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:02.400 Not only was your eyes ryan, but your skin on 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:07.320 your whole body. It's client tears. You ain't never done that. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.800 You ain't never put on boots with a two piece 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:17.759 shots at and turned the rain off on your feet. 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:24.920 What you've never done it? You ain't never did it. 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:29.400 You don't sit on the mouth rushmore. It's a godfather, 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:36.120 this ship right here, it's one man. It's one man, 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:44.440 and that Maine is here. The God, No, yes, sir, 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:49.200 not God, the God, the God created in his image. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.160 Casey Haley, my God. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:02:00.000 Oh yeah, yeah, himself, mister Huliah himself. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:01.200 Yeah man, what's going on? 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.920 What made what made you do? Oh yeah, let's start 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:06.120 with this right there. 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:07.840 Okay, we can do that. That's real easy. 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.760 I was. They used to call me like that, a 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:11.480 little king. 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.000 But the guys did, like I go and I go 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.880 into booth man just start singing. And I get and 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.920 I got tired of saying what the words of the 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:20.639 song stuff. 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:21.960 I just I just put them in. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:27.040 Ooh yeah, it's a feeling. You gotta have that, oh yeah, 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.000 feeling you could sing. Mary had a little lamb. 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:31.680 Mary had a. 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.240 Little lamb, little lamb, little lamb. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.320 Oh yeah, man, yeah, man. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.919 They do say it's Casey jojo right there. Yeah, that's 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.200 that's like the Holy Trinity. 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:47.280 Bro. 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.400 I just I mean, listen, I gotta say this, and 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:52.840 I tell you this all the time, but I can 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:57.639 never tell you enough. Thank you man, Thank you man. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.840 You have to like like I want you to like 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:02.760 to day is the day. You know, I know you humble, 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.920 you know I know your godfaring man. You give it 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.480 all back to the Creator. You understand what I'm saying. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.480 But when he gives us those gifts, it is up 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.880 to us to be good stewards over those gifts. It 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.360 is up for us to develop and nurture and work 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.639 hard to bring their gifts to their fullness. And you 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.280 did just that, and in doing so, you created us. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:26.480 For sure. 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.560 Appreciate, sure, sure, appreciate. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:30.640 No R and B money without you. There's no R 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.960 and B money without your, not even closer. 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.280 We tried no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:41.760 Today today today, can't see you get the pump your ship. 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:47.840 This is Flowers, this is celebration k C Day right now. 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:49.480 Okay, we did that ship. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.680 We did that, Yes, you did it was it was 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:57.480 on a mission. 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:58.480 Oh my god. 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.640 And number two understood the assignment. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.080 Yeah. When we first when we first. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:07.080 Got together, we always said, we said that we made 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.360 a pack. We made a vow that we was going 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:13.200 to be the baddest, baddest group that ever came out. Wow, 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.280 you know what I'm saying. I made a vow like 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:20.280 I'm gonna be the most aggressive lead singer that's out there. 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:21.279 My age. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:26.640 You know what I'm saying, My era, And hey man, and. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.200 I guess, like I said, we did that ship. 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.880 You do damn right, you did it. Let's go back 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:32.480 to the beginning case. Go ahead. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.239 I want to go back to me being a kid 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:41.159 in a church somewhere in Wisconsin. I want to say 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:46.719 race Singlet'll sing Wisconsin, and we went to see Little 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:51.520 Cedric and the Haley singer. Yes, man, and I watched 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:56.000 y'all run down the middle aisle. You didn't walk down 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.279 the middle aisle. Oh yeah, for those of y'all who 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:03.960 know anything about church, any church folk, you don't go down. 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:04.440 The middle aisle. 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:10.480 That is forbidden. That's forbidden. You don't walk down the 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.040 middle church going on the side. 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.000 Next time I go to church, remember that. 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.680 So the usher say, you know, shure, you're seeing the 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.479 ball like he does instructions for the middle hole. Not 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.480 only did they come down the middle aisle, they ran 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:29.800 down the middle aisle to assult the injury. Jojo had 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:34.760 a ball head and ear rings. We said, what in 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:38.680 the worldly, what in the fleshy business is. 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:39.479 Going on there? 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.680 And y'all proceeded, for lack of a better term, to 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.279 talk about gospel music kick ass. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.640 Yeah man, we had to do that too, man, we 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:51.240 did that. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:53.960 So how did that start? Give me Casey and the 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.160 hay say, go take me back to the beginning. 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.000 Right, the beginning like this, Well, those you don't know. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.919 It started out in Alltimore, Maryland, our professional singing Career 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.719 Study in Baltimore and Maryland. My mom had a group, 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.640 my dad had a group, and me and Joji would 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.720 be around house singing all the time. They had a 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.600 back in those days, they had a Friday night spade parties. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.159 Mama them had the spade party. I know y'all know 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:18.719 about that. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.920 But anyway, when our uncles and nouns they'd be playing 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.279 spades and all that, me and Jojo wuld be in 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.400 the bed sleep with it. Used they thought we were, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.839 but we can hear everything that's going on there. But 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:35.120 one or two every Friday night and my uncles and 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.359 they are juiced up, now you know what I'm saying, 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.400 So they want to hit the little boys sing. 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.640 So Mama would wake us up, like it'd be like one. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.200 Sometimes two in the morning, wake us up, turn our 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.640 favorite gospel group on, which was the gospel keynotes at 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.960 the time, you know, and me and Joe Joja would 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.919 be Paul Beasley. I would be the lead singer, Willy 0:06:56.080 --> 0:07:00.120 Neil so, and Willy Neil was the one, like the 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.479 the aggressive one, the lead singer. So they would ask 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.800 us to make us sing those songs. I remember one 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.040 night I got bull headed. You know what I'm saying, 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.080 I got bullheaded and it wont to sing. Man, So 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.360 believe it or not. My mother, my mother a lover 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.960 for doing this. Some people these days might ridicule her 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.840 for doing it. But my mother she went upstairs, got 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:27.720 her leather belt, leather belt, and man, that belt kept 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:34.160 me singing today. She said, boy, if you don't go 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.960 downstairs and sing them songs, but them people want you 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.520 to sing and mine now they was giving me a 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.600 joe fifty cents to sing. She said, if you don't 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.080 get your tail downstairs, she took that belt. Man, she 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.280 used that belt to this day. I never been shame 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.480 or shy to open my mouth to sing for nobody. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.280 So fast forward, like I said, my mother had a 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:00.480 group from Baltimore Female Group, and my father had the 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.720 male group in Baltimore Quartet. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:08.080 And my mama told my daddy, she said, I think 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.960 you need to put centric in that group. That boy ready, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.560 That boy ain't ready, she said, he ready? She said, 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:14.240 he ready. 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:16.080 So she asked me, if you want to be in 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.160 your daddy group. Man, yeah, I want to be in 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:20.640 the group. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:22.320 At eleven years old. 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:26.720 Who wouldn't yeah, eleven years old? Then, so my Daddy 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.480 let me in the group. I went to the couple 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.720 of rehearsals and we did that first gospel you know 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:34.840 back in the day call him programs. 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.160 You know, we did a program. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.920 So when I did that, man and my uncle, which 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.400 was the manager of my dad group, his uncle, so 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.920 he told my daddy, oh, yeah, that's gonna be our 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.839 little showstopper. Yeah, we're gonna keep him. So by that time, 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:53.679 like I said, my mama had a group. She had 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.360 to kill a band. So my mama told my daddy, look, 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.960 I want to take him out your group and I'm 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.600 gonna get my band because they was more contemporary, you know, 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.280 all that players young guys. She said, I want to 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.880 take them out your group, and I'm gonna get rid 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:15.680 of my band and let them play for Cedric mm hm. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.480 So dadd was like, we see how the I think 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.480 the group my daddy group kind of figured what was 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:25.360 going on because for me, Daddy and Jojo got to rehearsal, 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.560 believe it or our tank man, they had our papers 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.480 waiting on us saying we fired. 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:32.440 Oh y'all was getting kicked out. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:34.760 Yeah, we got kicked out when they found out that, 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.760 you know, little Cedric and the Haley things was about. 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.000 But they kick you and Jeorje They kicked your daddy 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.920 out here, and yeah, hold on you and your son. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.160 Yeah, you and your sons out the group just because 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.959 of that. So my dad's okay, cool, we got this. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.920 They handed you papers, They handed his papers that rehearsal 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:53.120 when we walked in. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:54.360 That's crazy, you know. 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.520 I cried like the baby man, look eleven years old 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.880 getting fired. Come on now from something I love to 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.080 you want to do. But though it was God's playing, 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.880 of course, it wasn't their plans. Because at the next day, 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.920 here we are my mom and dad telling me what 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.880 we got. My mama said, Timmy down, Timmy to them, 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:15.960 come to play for you now. So I'm like half 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.640 because Timmy, though they was young, they was funky, you know, 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.360 so I'm like cool. That was the birth a Little 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:27.280 Cedric and the Haley Singers signed to gospel record label, 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:31.559 which is Air Records. Now, so got that deal. Twelve 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:36.920 years old? Did our recording man and Little Cedric and 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:38.640 Haley Singers blew up? 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.480 I mean we blew up in the court tap field man. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:45.800 I would like to they would call me the Michael 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:51.480 Jackson of gospel and during that time. Yeah, and during 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:57.760 that time, my rival was a little boy from Washington, 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:04.559 d C. He had his group from DC. So Baltimore 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.960 had they little boy which is a little Cedric and 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:09.280 that little boy I'm talking about. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.400 I mean we went next to neck, neck to the neck. Man. 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.920 One night was his night. Next night was not my night. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.600 That little boy it was Johnny Gill. 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:25.800 Oh I didn't know that, yeah, man, Man, Johnny talked 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:26.680 about the all the time. 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.520 We talked about the all the time. Johnny would come 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.160 to Baltimore. He'll try to make it hard for me 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:33.640 in my town. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.920 It's okay, all right, I gotta go to I gotta 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:42.800 go to d C. H Ray, come see you. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.000 So this is like twelve thirteen for so he's been 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:46.080 browling for a long time. 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.439 Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, man, Johnny, we've been 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.440 in the game together, in the game a long time, man, 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:52.079 a long time. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:53.800 Yeah. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:58.400 Yeah, yeah, man, Johnny was way back man. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:11:59.680 Forty some years ago. 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.839 So was your father in and Haley sing Halle sing. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:03.439 Yeah, he came. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.520 He got him some songs off til too, off the 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:06.200 albums too. 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.559 You know what I'm saying. You know, well, and then Jojo. 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:12.959 Jojo was like this. He's still like this to this day. 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.400 He don't let y'all see it. We had to beg 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.520 Jojo to sing. M We had to beg Jojo to 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:22.559 then they had to do it. Now you know what 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:22.960 I'm saying. 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.400 But one of the coldest vocals whoever. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.920 Yeah, yeah, And then Jojo then he got into it, man, 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.960 And he had this couple of songs on the albums 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.720 and all that, but Jojo always knew he would tell 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.839 them and then I'm gonna do that, man. 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:37.320 That's that's cedgic man. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:37.839 Jojo. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.760 Jojo was more like he was a rough He was 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:41.440 a rough neck. 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.240 Joja wanted to go outside and play football while I'm 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.440 in rehearsal ten hours a day in the bass hot 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.880 basement right after school. Got to go down to the 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.320 basement and rehearse for the album. So Jojo outside playing 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.360 and if he got a song, he'll come in and 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.360 do his little song, go right back outside and play. 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.560 I'm still in there because I'm so I'm I'm hungry 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.960 at the age of twelve, I'm hungry, man. But it 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.760 all worked out good. So that's how the Haley Singers started. 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.319 Man, was your first song that took out, took off. 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:15.840 Uh Jesus saved, and then born again with the second cold. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:19.600 That's it. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:21.959 That was it right there. I was like, we used 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.360 to call it in we call it drive. That was 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:29.040 what was your cross? 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:30.560 Yeah? That was that? 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:31.439 That was our drive? 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:35.920 Right and then and then on man, it just we 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:40.120 did those. We did three albums under Little Cep and 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.560 the Haley Singers, and then the family moved back to 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.920 North Carolina. And then what. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:46.800 Made you guys move? 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:51.480 Well, what made us move is really I think I 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.079 think my mom and parents was ready to move back 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.480 down south because we had lived in Baltimore for what wow, 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:01.000 we lived in Baltimore for like thirteen years, you know 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.679 what I'm saying. So, but they wanted to move back 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.640 down south, and of course they took the kids with us. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.680 So we went down there, and still we still had 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:12.200 the Hailey Singers going. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:13.320 We still was traveling. 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.280 The group had busted up, but we still you know, 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:20.680 hire some new new musicians and backup singers and everything 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:21.520 for Little Cedric. 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.360 So we're still going. So and then. 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.720 And and and it was God, Man, it was God, 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:33.080 because I was I was I had left North Carolina 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:37.000 and went to Baltimore. I was gonna do a reunion 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.920 with Little Cedric and the Haley Singers with the original 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.240 all the original members. 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:49.600 This is a. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:54.400 Seventeen It's like just like seventeen eighteen, one of them. 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.600 So while I'm while I'm in Baltimore, Joselyn didn't go 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:02.440 with me. So while I'm in Baltimo, more Jojo plays 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:07.000 a song for me over the phone. By this time, Jojo, 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:08.840 you know he didn't go back to Baltimore with me. 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:13.800 So I'm listening on the phone. I'm like, Jojo, who 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:18.640 is that? It's yo, man, It's just it's this guy. 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:22.600 Ain't done. Man, we've been doing music together. Man, you 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:23.600 can't be in this group. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:24.280 Nah. 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.160 Now this is just me and done. This me and 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:30.920 done stuff, this being done stuff. So then I go 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.280 back to Now I go. I meant, before I go 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:37.320 to Baltimore, I'm in I rehearsal hard with Let's at 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:38.320 the Haiti Singers. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.400 So some girls they came over to visit us. 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.320 Just before I went to the boy, I skipped all that, 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:48.640 but some girls brought some guys to our studio. I 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.800 was dating one of the girl, but calling myself dating 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.080 and Jojo was talking to one of them, so they 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:56.960 brought out They said, well, we want to meet y'all 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.640 some We want y'all to meet some brothers. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.120 You know. They they got their own church. 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.120 And and and they doing their thing. They tight on 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.680 the music. Man, they good, y'all need to meet on y'all. 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.920 Who are they? So when they walked in and they 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.760 brought the guys in, so all that first thing I 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:19.200 see is my girlfriend and got these guys behind her. 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:26.920 So immediately I'm not feeling I'm not feeling it. So 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.560 and I see one of them going to the studio 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.800 what the recording part was at the studio we had, 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.880 and I hear a piano plan. Now by this time, 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.680 me and this guy that Joe was in the room with. Man, 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.720 his brother is about to go at it. I mean 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:48.840 guns down, really guns down. So anyway, we're like, he's like, Yo, 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:49.600 what's going on? 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:49.880 Man? 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:51.560 Like, Yo, you tell me what's going on? 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:51.800 Y'all? 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:55.560 Walking with my girl? Man, I mean, who are y'all? 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.920 Who are y'all? So then I hear it. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.520 I hear keep it up, a keyboard playing. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:08.199 And I hear my brother singing. I'm like, oh, I 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.160 have my voice. I have my brother voice, but who 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:18.000 is that planing that keyboard? And his brother said, that's 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.920 what I was trying to tell you. We're the guys 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.199 that they wanted to introduce us to, y'all. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:26.520 I was like, whoa, who are y'all? 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:34.760 I'm Dalving and that's my brother. Yeah, girl, he said, 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:38.960 I'm Dalving and that's my brother. Done. I said, y'all 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:43.639 are the great boys? Like yeah, yo, man, we just 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:44.440 missed the girl. 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:47.320 Want to see what's going on? 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:47.600 Now? 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.480 Work God, work, God said I moving. 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:52.359 I see you're moving. 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.840 So by that time, you know that we met each 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:56.560 other and met each other, hung out a little bit, 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:58.440 and then like I said, now I can go back 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:00.800 to Baltimore because I thought that it was gonna work out, 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.000 like that's gonna flu So I go to Baltimore. 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:04.480 I'm trying to get my group back together. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.720 Joe caused me, and and he's playing something on the 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:10.359 on the on the phone. I said, Yo, that's how 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.000 good was that? He said, Yo, that's being done? Man? 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.840 I said, for real, y'all did that? He said yeah? 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.040 I said, yeah, man, it's tight. I said, man, that's 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.040 that's I like that, bro. I don't even think about it, 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.400 stay in Baltimore, get your hatey saving together. 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.120 Yeah, I said, I got my whole thing. 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:32.920 Ain't the church. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:38.159 Yeah, so I said, nah, man, So immediately, immediately I 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.240 called my mom, I call my daddy. 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.240 So ready to come home. I'm ready to come home. 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:43.679 I told her. 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:48.400 Haley singers, Hey, look y'all, I'm going back to Charlotte. 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.560 I can't tell you why. I can't tell you about it, but. 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.040 You're here about it. But you're here about it. And 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.320 by that time I got home, man, and by that time, 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.479 Jojo jojo heed it, jojo heed it, and then all 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:03.760 you started yelling. 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:05.560 So then we. 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.000 Jojo really didn't want you in the group. 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:12.800 No, and Davante didn't want Dalvin. I love this, Yeah, 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.920 this is great money. Didn't want Davin, so Jojo made it, 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:18.720 but Jojo wanted Dolvin. 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:20.240 Vante wanted me. 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.359 So Jojo was like this, now, Jojo Jojo playing that card. 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.479 If you want my brother, Lee saying you got your 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:30.960 brother and the. 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:36.919 Group yeah, yeah, yeah, it's and vice versa. So if 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:42.760 you want Dalvin in you know, yeah I Neededric. 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:44.000 Yeah. 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:45.960 So we got together man talked about it. 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:46.480 That you go. 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:50.159 We we started doing demos man, we were demo. 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:51.320 At at the church. 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:51.760 Man. 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:52.800 We would do. 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:54.200 Demos at the church, like time. 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:57.920 We share those songs like that and like the chords, 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:01.320 like the chords Davante. A lot of that stuff was 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:06.320 written in church at Davante's dad church man. So I 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:08.760 guess Davante's dad got tired of it, you know, he 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.200 got tired all that secular music been played at the church. 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:13.440 So what we did, we didn't tell me and Jose 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.800 didn't tell our parents. We had a basement, right and 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:20.280 this thing. You know, my dad and my mother they 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:25.800 see Vanunte loading there in like fifteen ten or fifteen keyboards, 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.920 hooking everything up in their basement. You give you know 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:30.720 what I'm saying. By that time, they didn't know what 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.160 They knew what we was doing music, but they didn't 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:34.760 know what he was doing it for. Because my daddy 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:38.000 that he's I don't know what that boy doing down there. 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:42.320 But all I hear is a lot of that sound. 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:45.840 You know, that sound is slapping on the keyboards, but 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:49.320 he had his headphones on. By that Vante was doing 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:50.119 Joessy's demo. 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:52.840 He did that. We did that for like a year, 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:54.280 got our son, We got like. 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:57.320