Speaker 1: And money. We are.
Speaker 2: Thanks Jake Valachild.
Speaker 1: We are the authority on all things R and D,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentleman. My name is Tank. This is the
Speaker 1: Army Money Podcast.
Speaker 3: Be a thirty.
Speaker 1: Nigga, God dammit, thirty all things R and B.
Speaker 3: Yeah, huh oh.
Speaker 2: You thought we couldn't do it. He did it.
Speaker 3: We couldn't pull it off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jake ballet to say, every day of the week is.
Speaker 3: This d Yeah, that's that's how you live his life.
Speaker 3: Earth day of the week.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta be a bad motherfucker to name
Speaker 1: yourself everybody's favorite day of the week.
Speaker 2: Huh, thank god, thank god it's Friday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yes, what's up?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: Come on, man, really appreciate you all for having me.
Speaker 1: Bro Man, listen, listen. I want to get this out
Speaker 1: of the way really fast. I'm gonna try to make
Speaker 1: it fast. So I got this guy running promotion, the
Speaker 1: guy who's running promotion on my page for the mixtapes. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that you didn't. You didn't like it, you tell me,
Speaker 1: but anyway, it was weak. I tried it.
Speaker 2: Anyway, so nig I know what you tell him. So
Speaker 2: so he's cracking right.
Speaker 1: Got the album he on fire cut to now that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back to the back to the path.
Speaker 1: He's cracking. I'm like, I need him. I got a
Speaker 1: song that I need him on. So I go, I
Speaker 1: go to d M Friday and I see all these messages.
Speaker 4: Friday's already there, Fridays already.
Speaker 3: And I hadn't seen him.
Speaker 1: I hadn't responded, but the other guy had seen it
Speaker 1: and was trying to.
Speaker 3: Charge him to get on the mixtape hundred and.
Speaker 1: I was And at that point I was kind of
Speaker 1: embarrassed because, oh shit, he fordam.
Speaker 4: Hey, look I was first, bro, but I started getting
Speaker 4: hip to it.
Speaker 3: Though you should charge this nigga five, I started getting.
Speaker 2: Hip to it, bro. Thank you for y'all.
Speaker 5: Y'all, y'all should stop that, because it was a lot
Speaker 5: of niggas be falling for it.
Speaker 1: It was I thought, you know, he was actually putting
Speaker 1: out mixtapes. But then when I was like, I was like,
Speaker 1: hold on, this is on. This ain't I don't like this.
Speaker 1: This ain't adding up, This ain't adding up to actually
Speaker 1: what I want to do. And so when I went
Speaker 1: to that page and I saw the interaction, I saw
Speaker 1: that you had been trying to get to me for
Speaker 1: a second.
Speaker 3: It just for me outside of.
Speaker 1: You know, feeling crazy that you had already been there
Speaker 1: and I could assigned you and.
Speaker 3: We could have been partner some music.
Speaker 1: It just it just you know, confirmed the fact that
Speaker 1: you know your destiny is what it is like, You're
Speaker 1: supposed to be here and regardless of who or what
Speaker 1: the vehicle is, it was going to be figured out
Speaker 1: and you were going to be who.
Speaker 2: You are, yes for sure, no matter what.
Speaker 1: And then moving forward, as I'm listening to the project
Speaker 1: and I hear moms, and I hear the spirituality and
Speaker 1: I hear the connection, I'm like this, I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it all. It all makes sense. So all
Speaker 1: that to say, man, from you just hitting in my
Speaker 1: DM saying man, let's work, let's do something to me,
Speaker 1: not knowing you do it to me, hitting you in
Speaker 1: the DM saying hey, man, let's work, let's do something
Speaker 1: to now you being here with us at the Army
Speaker 1: Money podcast. Man, we appreciate that, love, bro, And it's
Speaker 1: it's an it's an unconscious full circle moment, if I
Speaker 1: can say it that way. So you know, I hit you,
Speaker 1: I work out.
Speaker 3: To your ship.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
Speaker 3: You request man, and see the people that be in there.
Speaker 3: I can on even b Yeah, Friday was we could
Speaker 3: change the world. We could we could have changed God. Damn,
Speaker 3: it's sitting right here to get at You know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3: Hit me.
Speaker 1: You know you want to get you find it? Please
Speaker 1: you save your fire. It just hit me, man. So Friday,
Speaker 1: let's let's just do we like to do this.
Speaker 2: Man. We love to go back to the beginning. Come on, Philly,
Speaker 2: we love to see you know.
Speaker 1: Talk about the humble beginnings, where it started, Where where
Speaker 1: the process began for you? And who told you? Who
Speaker 1: said to you? Was it?
Speaker 3: Moms?
Speaker 2: It was like you have some dating?
Speaker 3: You have it?
Speaker 2: What was it?
Speaker 4: Is that your Haitian accent? You know this nigga tries
Speaker 4: to trying, he tries to act.
Speaker 2: First of all, you gotta let me. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 3: You gotta put some you gotta put some French on
Speaker 3: it to you need you got it.
Speaker 2: You have something, you have something. It was like that. Though.
Speaker 4: My pot was like the musician. He was a pastor too,
Speaker 4: so it was like he had the piano around. He
Speaker 4: played the guitar a little bit, you know, like one
Speaker 4: of them pastors that could do anything around the church
Speaker 4: type of shit.
Speaker 5: So I just picked it up easy. All my brothers
Speaker 5: we had the piano in the house. You said I
Speaker 5: got three brothers, Now I got like three close cousins,
Speaker 5: my uh my mother brother, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So it was just natural. I'm the youngest too, so
Speaker 5: they all playing instruments. I'm like three years old. I'm
Speaker 5: just watching them. So I'm just get on on the
Speaker 5: keys at like five, start singing in church like probably
Speaker 5: like eight, you know what I'm saying. So I'm taking
Speaker 5: everything they doing and just really becoming like the you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, the young genius for sure.
Speaker 3: So like by the time I.
Speaker 4: Was like ten, I was leading like like the big choir,
Speaker 4: Like I was leading like the growing choir, giving them
Speaker 4: three paramonies, you know what I'm saying, playing every instrument
Speaker 4: in the church.
Speaker 5: So that's where it came from. Sure, what did you playing?
Speaker 5: I played piano, bass, guitar, and drums, and.
Speaker 4: You just learned all of it just being in the church.
Speaker 4: Nobody figure out you just at the church. You just
Speaker 4: it's just like you just listen to something and you
Speaker 4: just try to follow it. It's osos Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. You just absorb it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's natural. It's not even something. It's like how it's
Speaker 4: just like it's just it just happened naturally. Yeah, like
Speaker 4: you love it. You listen to the songs in church
Speaker 4: and then you just follow it and then like years
Speaker 4: go by, just getting better and better by here. So
Speaker 4: you're singing too, Yeah, hell, ye wasn't because you're from Philly.
Speaker 4: So that's why I'm asking that, Like, so where is there?
Speaker 4: Was there ever? Like A, I don't know if I
Speaker 4: want to sing, I might want to rap. Yeah, it
Speaker 4: was like so I used to listen like the Boys
Speaker 4: and Men a lot. That was like the first outside
Speaker 4: of church, the first people.
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, I feel where they coming from the
Speaker 5: emotion and all that. So and then like growing up
Speaker 5: in Philly, I'm just I'm still trying to find my identity.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, coming from the church and
Speaker 5: then outside of the church is going through my life,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, living how I live, and
Speaker 5: then the R and B. I'm trying to put it
Speaker 5: all in one, you know, what I'm saying, especially with
Speaker 5: like the type of voice I got, I would to
Speaker 5: consider me like the best singer.
Speaker 4: But I had to like find my sound. So he
Speaker 4: was like, all right, he his own person where it's
Speaker 4: like so early on you was on that like I
Speaker 4: gotta find.
Speaker 5: I got on my way, Sam, and it took a
Speaker 5: long time, Like at first, I was trying to follow
Speaker 5: boys and man like you know what I'm saying, niggas
Speaker 5: like Tank. I used to be on YouTube just watching
Speaker 5: niggas bro like Jamie Fox, Tink, Brihman, Knight, Yeah, play
Speaker 5: the keys.
Speaker 2: That's that's why I want to be.
Speaker 5: But like growing up, brou I'll say, like I ain't
Speaker 5: gonna lie twenty fifteen, twenty fourteen, Bro, y'all might disagree.
Speaker 5: I feel like R and B shifted, bro oh not
Speaker 5: Like when Tory.
Speaker 3: Lanez came out. Tory came out.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I looked around. I was like, these are the people.
Speaker 4: You already got your fan base. So you good, Brian,
Speaker 4: you already got your fan base. But I looked around.
Speaker 5: I was like, bro, I don't think femails after they
Speaker 5: came out. I don't think these females want to hear well,
Speaker 5: see you know.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying.
Speaker 4: It started seeing things shift where it's like, you gotta
Speaker 4: create your own type of sound. You can't even just
Speaker 4: be a regular or be singer anymore. You gotta create
Speaker 4: your own lane. You gotta be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they gotta be different, like different, you know what.
Speaker 5: I'm saying, Like you know what I'm saying, Brand should Taylor,
Speaker 5: all these people that came out since then that created
Speaker 5: their own lay.
Speaker 4: It just had to be different. So that's how I
Speaker 4: was like, I gotta create my own lane. But it's
Speaker 4: good to it's good to hear that from from you, yea,
Speaker 4: because as artists are now finding their way and trying
Speaker 4: to figure out which, you know, where is their place? Yeah,
Speaker 4: and and how how can I accomplish what I'm trying
Speaker 4: to accomplish, Because I with you, there's a there was
Speaker 4: a time and there still is a time where I'll
Speaker 4: hear newer artists that sound like Tank are sound like
Speaker 4: a Brian McKnight. And I don't know how that works
Speaker 4: in this space.
Speaker 3: Right now you're talking about they could do. It hasn't shifted.
Speaker 4: Females get off of because the difference is is that
Speaker 4: the males and I say this all the time. I
Speaker 4: had to figure out how to compete with emotional rap.
Speaker 3: That that's what it is, bro, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So you're getting melody and you're getting emotions from rap,
Speaker 4: and it looks like a rapper and it looks like
Speaker 4: the hood.
Speaker 3: Niggas, that's what the girls.
Speaker 4: Unless you know, unless you fully going home your craft
Speaker 4: in a whole other way and just be completely different
Speaker 4: and you're willing to.
Speaker 3: Deal with the wins and losses with that, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 4: But hearing that, hearing you say that, bro, like that's
Speaker 4: it makes perfect sense. And it makes perfect sense why
Speaker 4: you're here today. Fact because you did your homework and
Speaker 4: most people don't do their homework. Like, Okay, it's a shift,
Speaker 4: it's a ship. What do I fit in that? Like
Speaker 4: every nigga keep talking about that. We're about to do
Speaker 4: Joe to see again. Yeah, no, you're not for one.
Speaker 4: It's no Davanta and you know, and going back to it,
Speaker 4: you're not Tank, You're not Brian McKnight like.
Speaker 3: Them, niggas are just different. They're aliens and what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: and it's a different time.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 5: Breezy Care, I'm like, Bro, you ready to last you bro,
Speaker 5: Like I was telling you, Like, Bro, I don't even
Speaker 5: think we want to see a light skin nigga come
Speaker 5: out and dance.
Speaker 4: I told you, bro, Like, think about it. If a
Speaker 4: light skin nigga come out right now and then they.
Speaker 3: Are not having it.
Speaker 2: You did too much, bro. Like Yeah, Bro, I'm just
Speaker 2: on the and I'm not going to I'm not gonna say.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I feel like that, bro, because.
Speaker 3: It is like that.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at his gram and as talented as he is,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking myself, he's.
Speaker 3: Gonna have to stop dancing.
Speaker 1: Why Because it's like you said, Chris has done enough
Speaker 1: for everybody.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 4: I think it's the style. It's also the style of dancing.
Speaker 4: Chris has found a way to be a cool dancer.
Speaker 3: Chris is also mean dancing. That's what I'm saying. It's cool.
Speaker 4: So he's his dancing dancing maybe feathered.
Speaker 2: Chris is not dancing soft.
Speaker 4: So if you're a light kid, keep doing what you're
Speaker 4: doing all that.
Speaker 3: Start dancing tuugher, keep doing what you're doing.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: I just think it is.
Speaker 1: But you know it's when you say that I saw
Speaker 1: the separation. We talked about this before, when when Chris
Speaker 1: Brown was going before A Marion and I say, this
Speaker 1: is a screen tour in an arena and I watch,
Speaker 1: of course A Marion was always in the beginning, the
Speaker 1: savvier dancer, the more had, the more cooler shit, right.
Speaker 1: But then Chris Brown came out with his dancers and
Speaker 1: all black fatigues and they started and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh Mike, and the girls was like it was grown
Speaker 1: women like oh my god, what who is this? And
Speaker 1: it was so aggressive and it had so much purpose
Speaker 1: to it to where it didn't take long for him
Speaker 1: to take over anybody who was trying anybody. I don't
Speaker 1: know any guys they can They can dance right now
Speaker 1: to where it makes sense outside of I'll give one
Speaker 1: guy who's.
Speaker 3: Friday already made this statement, bro stopped dancing.
Speaker 2: It's one guy who's to be yourself.
Speaker 3: But I'm just saying, like, it's just like, Bro, it's
Speaker 3: not what it was.
Speaker 2: It's one guy who can still dance. Well, I give
Speaker 2: credit to Neil, but Neo is it for that audience?
Speaker 3: Got you?
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying in terms of people that I
Speaker 1: see dancing, and I love the style, the Fred Astaire,
Speaker 1: the I mean, Usher's Usher, he came in our time.
Speaker 2: All them legends.
Speaker 4: I'm just talking about you, Nigga, come out and dance
Speaker 4: the same way, even good, the same way.
Speaker 3: I feel like people and be like, bro, you we
Speaker 3: already got.
Speaker 1: And it's unfortunate because what's wrong with being talented?
Speaker 3: Exact way?
Speaker 4: You have to do your homework and you figure out
Speaker 4: how you make the dancing cool for you.
Speaker 2: Fact, that's the whole thing.
Speaker 3: You just gotta find your lane.
Speaker 2: So let's go back to ten years old.
Speaker 1: You're doing a big choir because everybody, everybody's goal in
Speaker 1: the church.
Speaker 2: When you're young, you want to be in the big choir.
Speaker 1: Huh, what's the difference, Well, we had what was the
Speaker 1: mask choir. So the mask choir was was the young adults. Oh,
Speaker 1: it was everybody, and that was the big Sunday when
Speaker 1: the mask choir sang, oh, you wanted to be in
Speaker 1: on that, you know what I mean. And so as
Speaker 1: a kid like you would just look at the mask
Speaker 1: choir like, I can't wait to sing it.
Speaker 3: So it was the Kid's Quire a week.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's a little kid.
Speaker 1: Give it up for the kid, give it up for
Speaker 1: the kids singing.
Speaker 3: In we just had.
Speaker 2: We just had.
Speaker 4: It was like an adult, like eighteen and like thirty.
Speaker 4: So that's why I was like, that's where I was
Speaker 4: leading at. Yeah, like ten to twelve, that's.
Speaker 1: Crazy, I was. I was, I think, what what is?
Speaker 1: What is eighth grade?
Speaker 4: But I will say it depends on what state you
Speaker 4: in eighth grade, like twelve, you could be sixteen and
Speaker 4: eighth grade, now, kidd, twelve I was.
Speaker 1: That's when I started with the with the older cho
Speaker 1: I was ministered. I was kind of almost minister music
Speaker 1: by then. I was playing everything and teaching songs and
Speaker 1: the whole little thing like it. It became a thing.
Speaker 2: But tennis early, so you're playing drunk.
Speaker 4: You're fully doing gospel, you're spiritual. You ain't doing no
Speaker 4: at that time. Yeah, yeah, that's all I knew. You
Speaker 4: haven't even heard anything else yet.
Speaker 5: I wasn't even listening to nothing, no shit, all I know.
Speaker 5: I was under my right now. Yeah, I'm twenty six,
Speaker 5: that's crazy. I didn't even I didn't, Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah at that time, I'm just I'm with my parents. Bro.
Speaker 5: Of course, you listen to what we listened to. You
Speaker 5: coming to where we come and it was like probably
Speaker 5: middle school, I started playing ball like heavy hooper.
Speaker 3: Then I just you know what I'm saying, heavy hooper
Speaker 3: business niggas. I'm seriously, I'll teach you a little. So
Speaker 3: what what you just say?
Speaker 2: Hoop?
Speaker 3: Bro? You hoop right now? Right now? I just hooped,
Speaker 3: like probably three days ago, I was cooking niggas in
Speaker 3: the gym, cooking hoop l a fitness.
Speaker 2: Gym near Philly.
Speaker 4: I mean from Philly hoop. Niggas and Philly can hoop.
Speaker 4: I'll say that niggas and Philly hoop. I'm not the
Speaker 4: best hooper, but I'm giving whoever a bucket right now.
Speaker 3: We have to check on these these said buckets.
Speaker 2: We gotta run with, you know, we gotta run.
Speaker 1: We invite everybody who say they hoop hoop, and then
Speaker 1: they'd be like, okay, I only hoop a little bit.
Speaker 3: Gilly came to the run.
Speaker 4: He had nasty loud out he don't don't.
Speaker 2: And found out he really don't hoop.
Speaker 3: Forever.
Speaker 4: You can't tell Gilly that Gilly hoop for though, you
Speaker 4: can't tell Gilly that no run.
Speaker 3: Gilly think he probably got all husky niggas, young niggas. Listen,
Speaker 3: it's it's pros. It's division one. It's we mixed.
Speaker 4: We mix it so you know what I mean, And
Speaker 4: you mix the teams up so that it's all even
Speaker 4: and everybody.
Speaker 3: You are.
Speaker 2: You over Gilly, You over Gilly?
Speaker 3: Gilly? Yeah? Should we send that up?
Speaker 2: You set that up?
Speaker 3: Over you? She set that up. Don't don't sit. How
Speaker 3: much would you play Gilly for the one on one anything?
Speaker 3: Don't sat? Look Gilly Gilly very rich now, don't s
Speaker 3: I like Gilly? No, no, don't do that now, I
Speaker 3: don't do that. Now we all know we free.
Speaker 2: I can't do that to him.
Speaker 3: Y'all should play one on one.
Speaker 1: I'm putting I'm putting Gilly in the post for eleven straight.
Speaker 1: But you gotta stop me.
Speaker 3: Shot not.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, I'm seeing what I saw. He probably
Speaker 4: that day. We see it what I saw.
Speaker 3: We gotta set it up. It's not what he thinks.
Speaker 3: He knows.
Speaker 4: I got ten thousand on you. I will put up
Speaker 4: ten thousand. I put up I got Gilly. I never
Speaker 4: seen you play, but I'm seeing Philadel.
Speaker 3: You're supposed to do that. I'll gladly take it. Don't
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, he already we bett Yeah, yeah, put
Speaker 2: your money alight.
Speaker 4: So now I'm getting second, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: Going middle school, hanging around my niggas and going through
Speaker 4: my own life, that's when I start, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I started listening to Kanye a lot, and then it
Speaker 5: was like it was that John he had with Jamie Fox,
Speaker 5: the Nigger Record. Yeah, and then it was Jamie Fox
Speaker 5: for like a whole year. It was like Jamie Fox,
Speaker 5: John Legend.
Speaker 4: So Kanye introduced you to Jami, yeah, cause it was
Speaker 4: like and ultimately John Legends.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Because then then I just start shifting to like R
Speaker 5: and B. It was like I heard Jamie Fox with Kanye.
Speaker 5: I was like, who this nigga? You look him up?
Speaker 5: You're playing on the keys.
Speaker 3: Nigga said, who this nigga?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: He was Jammie this nigga Like Bro. I used to
Speaker 3: be on.
Speaker 5: I used to be on YouTube like all day, like
Speaker 5: like my grandma house, went had a low cable at
Speaker 5: my grandma house. Bro, just be on YouTube, Bro, Jamie Fox,
Speaker 5: Gjohn Legend, Bro to night all day. Bro a nigga
Speaker 5: that played the piano or something. That's why I used
Speaker 5: to be on And that's when it like shifted. I
Speaker 5: started listening to R and B and hip hop, probably
Speaker 5: middle school.
Speaker 3: Are you writing songs yet? Uh?
Speaker 2: I started writing. I started.
Speaker 5: I went in the studio when I was in seventh
Speaker 5: eighth grade, so probably like two years. And then I
Speaker 5: went in the studio. My cousin Mircao had a studio
Speaker 5: and then he invited me, and then, you know, I
Speaker 5: played every instrument. So it was like I produced my
Speaker 5: whole track that day, Like I made everything.
Speaker 4: You like thirteen, Yeah, I'm like thirteen. He like this,
Speaker 4: How go you loop your joint? I'm like, Dan Young,
Speaker 4: I play all the way through.
Speaker 3: You just loop a few chords. I looped chords, added
Speaker 3: the bass. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Go to the studio on some motown. Yeah yeah, just
Speaker 4: passive record. Let play this all the way.
Speaker 3: He's controlling everything, but I'm add you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So I'm like damn. And then I added my vocals.
Speaker 5: It wasn't the best track, but I was like damn,
Speaker 5: I could do this.
Speaker 2: Jo.
Speaker 5: I just made the whole track myself, and then he
Speaker 5: gave me a laptop and I went home and just
Speaker 5: start making music day.
Speaker 4: Probably from eighth grade. That's dope, that's crazy, that's dope.
Speaker 4: Yeah for sure, And that just became your passion every day,
Speaker 4: Like even like before school, my mom had to tell me, like,
Speaker 4: get off your laptop, is school out?
Speaker 2: Be up all night just like would you?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I used to. At that time. I just had
Speaker 3: the headphones.
Speaker 5: You could just plug it in and get like you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, not the best quality. I'll record
Speaker 5: at home and go to my cousin studio record on
Speaker 5: the weekends. So I would probably do like eight songs
Speaker 5: during that week and then go to his studio really recorded.
Speaker 1: It's crazy because the thing that the different from his
Speaker 1: time in our time was that at the actual studio process,
Speaker 1: like we had to go to a studio, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: have to. We have to find a studio or have
Speaker 1: a friend with a studio with something some D eighty eight,
Speaker 1: some eight ads, you know what I'm saying, the task
Speaker 1: cam something. But like now it's like they have this
Speaker 1: computer man, and they are figuring it all out at
Speaker 1: a very young age, from top to bottom, tracked to
Speaker 1: vocal to everything. Like that's crazy, and it's allowing you
Speaker 1: to develop in a way that we didn't get the
Speaker 1: opportunity to like we are, development was more outside than inside,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So you guys are understanding
Speaker 1: the intricacies of how to make a record sound to
Speaker 1: everybody in the world, the sonics of the entire world,
Speaker 1: like y'all are, y'all are running big knob and ques
Speaker 1: and all sorts of I don't know none of that stuff.
Speaker 1: Was y'all dialing up reverbs and delayed on but doing
Speaker 1: none of that stuff. And know what that stuff was?
Speaker 1: And one takes I was doing one take, I was singing,
Speaker 1: maybe I deserved from talk about its different.
Speaker 2: One take is different.
Speaker 1: I was just like in my thinking, I was like,
Speaker 1: whatever I have in real life for this song, I
Speaker 1: want to be able to do a lot yea. And
Speaker 1: that's that's how I record learn it from Gladys Knight.
Speaker 1: But at the same time somebody else was recording me,
Speaker 1: I still didn't have the understanding of how to get
Speaker 1: everything out of my head on to a record.
Speaker 4: Do you find that difficult at times? From going from
Speaker 4: the studio to now being a live performer though since
Speaker 4: it is a different type of you know, you're punching
Speaker 4: every either sometimes every other word or every you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, like, this is just a new form
Speaker 4: of recording. How is that for you transitioning to you know,
Speaker 4: going into live performance?
Speaker 5: Though, I was, I'm familiar with it, okay, but that
Speaker 5: was when I was a kid. So it was like
Speaker 5: once a God did came out, That's when I was like,
Speaker 5: oh shit, it's time bro. Then it took me like
Speaker 5: a few rehearsals, bro, and I was like, yeah, clicked,
Speaker 5: like probably like third rehearsal with my with my band,
Speaker 5: my man Josh, and I'm good.
Speaker 4: Now Now that's a that's a perfect segue though, Yeah,
Speaker 4: got it right.
Speaker 3: So you're early on you're writing these songs. How were
Speaker 3: the songs? Let's start there though, I would do.
Speaker 4: You remember earlier thirteen year old cloud?
Speaker 3: Your thirteen year old song? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I played a john. I played the joint like last month.
Speaker 4: My first song I ever made. I was on some
Speaker 4: Boys and Men and ship Ain't I.
Speaker 3: Got to hear it.
Speaker 5: It's not crazy, but it was like, oh, yeah for
Speaker 5: your first song, you you you're going by Friday?
Speaker 3: No, I was, I was friensh that was my regular friends. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was a real R and B. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 3: that I might go back drop a R and B friend.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, So before we get to God did how
Speaker 3: do you even get to Friday? Uh?
Speaker 5: It was like like probably like twenty fifteen, Like when
Speaker 5: I told you that shit starts shifting. I started listening
Speaker 5: to Party next Door. I'm like, Yo, now you're paying
Speaker 5: attention to now? Yeah, I'm playing attention. Then Weekend the
Speaker 5: next Door right head, I'm.
Speaker 3: Like this ship.
Speaker 2: That's when already in my head, I'm like this ship shifting.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 5: You studying, Yeah, I'm studying the show Bro, no bullshit.
Speaker 5: So it's like I'm like, bro, in my head, I'm
Speaker 5: over Yo. I'm like Drake in my head, I'm over Yo, shit,
Speaker 5: Drake gonna find me somehow, Bro, I gotta be with
Speaker 5: these different niggas somehow. So I just we in the group,
Speaker 5: me and my cousins, Like, Bro, you gotta think of
Speaker 5: a name. It was just like Friday Leos on Friday.
Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, that's the one. So it just stuck.
Speaker 5: I dropped the song with that name, and then I
Speaker 5: really went and I went in college. I went to
Speaker 5: Penn State. That's when I was like, because you know,
Speaker 5: I'm in high school, ain't nobody calling me Friday, nigga,
Speaker 5: we know you're experiences. They used to call me friendly.
Speaker 5: So when I went to college, introducing me as Friday,
Speaker 5: right Dad, Johnt would just start a little conversation, a
Speaker 5: little humor with the you know, with the shorty shows,
Speaker 5: like on Friday here the whole camps called me Friday.
Speaker 5: Then that's when it just it just stuck. I need
Speaker 5: a new environment to him sometimes somewhere else.
Speaker 4: Now, you go back to high school on a Tuesday.
Speaker 4: Come on, that's what it was. We're not calling you Friday,
Speaker 4: calling you Friday. I went to college. My name is Friday.
Speaker 3: I did the talent show. Yeah on Friday. Now did
Speaker 3: you win? No? No, no, it was just like a talent show.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I had my way in there. It was like Friday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. Give me this, let me get this,
Speaker 1: Let's get this. I just want to I want to
Speaker 1: talk about your vocal. If I'm if I'm putting you're
Speaker 1: like Keith Staton meets Charlie Wilson as a base mm hmm.
Speaker 1: That's just something you go look go look at up
Speaker 1: when you get a chance.
Speaker 5: Charlie Wilson, I'm gonna look up to him, though I.
Speaker 4: Did Charlie Wilson here to by the way for I
Speaker 4: was like, I was like, I said, Charlie, you've been reincarnated.
Speaker 3: The legend, aren't there? Bro?
Speaker 2: He said, he said, what are you doing about day?
Speaker 2: I said, listen to this. I said, I said, this
Speaker 2: is this is you. You're back four and he was
Speaker 2: listening to him. Was like.
Speaker 3: I said, yeah, I said, listen, you've you're pat pattern
Speaker 3: every all that stuff you're doing.
Speaker 2: I was like, this, nigga's dead on, Charlie, but you
Speaker 2: haven't keep stating yeah, Keith stating tone, but you're a
Speaker 2: base do you like have you have you come to
Speaker 2: terms with how different your vocal is and and how
Speaker 2: you're delivering it and are you purposeful with it? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Purposeful especially now? Yeah, because it it's like the time
Speaker 5: I was telling you when that ship shifted. It was
Speaker 5: one point I was trying to sound like people. You know,
Speaker 5: when you're making music, you just hear you listen to
Speaker 5: a party next door, so you're like you just want
Speaker 5: to make something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But it was like a time I felt.
Speaker 4: Myself where it was like everything even the way I
Speaker 4: was talking, I remember I had like a Shorty in
Speaker 4: the studio probably like eighteen nineteen.
Speaker 5: She was like, Bro, this don't sound like you, like,
Speaker 5: who is this nigga like? Because I was trying to
Speaker 5: sound like she had known you. Yeah, she knew me.
Speaker 5: I was like, listening to this music, let me know
Speaker 5: what you think. She like, don't sound like you. You're
Speaker 5: not talking how you talk to me, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. So I'm like, shit, fucked me up.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 5: I was like, I'm not talking how I talk because
Speaker 5: I was trying to sound like an R and B nigga,
Speaker 5: like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Ye, baby, Yeah, I'll play you the stuff I was
Speaker 3: on some boys the men.
Speaker 4: To like I can like, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So that fucked me up.
Speaker 5: Where it was like from there, bro, twenty I'd say,
Speaker 5: like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen. That's when I was like,
Speaker 5: all right, I got talked how I talk to females,
Speaker 5: to anybody like how talking life? That's how I put
Speaker 5: on the record on the project. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And then I gotta use my voice.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I gotta use it. You know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 5: I could separate myself even more. You got this different voice,
Speaker 5: take it on another level where it's like, all right,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, put the emotion in there.
Speaker 5: Some songs I just I'll be sounding like I'm crying.
Speaker 3: I do that on purpose. Bro, Certain songs bring that
Speaker 3: out of me.
Speaker 5: But I just I'll just go a little left sometimes
Speaker 5: just to be like, all right, what the fuck?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but you have like a very unique and
Speaker 2: undeniable vocal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, as soon as you as soon as you
Speaker 4: come on the track, is exactly who it is.
Speaker 2: It is you, and it's like.
Speaker 1: It's it's refreshing, especially as we you know, once we
Speaker 1: dial into the project, Like even the things that you're
Speaker 1: singing about that you're using your voice for, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: all of it is refreshing, from the vocal styling to
Speaker 1: the lyric to the production what you're doing all like
Speaker 1: that's just it's just it's different and it's great. Thank you, Bro,
Speaker 1: it's really really good. So when is your point of discovery?
Speaker 1: When does when does when do the big leagues call?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so like from eighth grade bro to like ten
Speaker 5: years later, Bro, I'm probably like that ship starts shifting,
Speaker 5: and I was like, probably like twenty two, twenty three.
Speaker 2: Uh, I'm right.
Speaker 5: Every day I think I found myself, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. I'm like, I'm ready. And my brother France
Speaker 5: went to l A. He probably had like three brothers
Speaker 5: name France. Yeah, so you friend.
Speaker 2: Fran and he Frank.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Okay, my older brother name Fran ya Haitian. My pop
Speaker 4: name France shit, my older brother name franc or pop
Speaker 4: bro he was on I I had nothing to do it.
Speaker 3: Oh this is great?
Speaker 2: What Yeah?
Speaker 4: All French or franc Er crazy. I got one brother
Speaker 4: named Jean though man, but that's still in the space
Speaker 4: of like hayh yeah that's a Haitian.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a Haitian name. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I know right right heavy cool, Keep them there,
Speaker 2: keep them.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he went to l A.
Speaker 5: And like when he did bro, we in Philly, like
Speaker 5: I'm probably like twenty three twenty two, me and all
Speaker 5: my other brothers in Philly, We're like, damn, we gotta
Speaker 5: go out there with him.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: He's sneaking in concerts, he getting in concerts, he taking
Speaker 5: the picts with Mustard, Keanu to day, all these people
Speaker 5: like Dag, I gotta go out there with him, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. At that time, I'm thinking I'm ready.
Speaker 5: I go out there. Bro, Me and my cousin Leo
Speaker 5: go out there probably like four thousand dollars play like
Speaker 5: two months rent oh yeah move.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We moved full out an apartment for sure, and that.
Speaker 2: Ship just was like, bro, we was fucked up.
Speaker 3: I was gone, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: And then we out there, you know, you know, coming
Speaker 4: from Philly, you just think l A is l A,
Speaker 4: everything about to change.
Speaker 5: But it's like, bro, we don't know nobody out there.
Speaker 5: We just going to the beach and recording music in
Speaker 5: the cribs ship. We could have did in Philly, but
Speaker 5: it was like my brother, he was like, bro, carry keyboard.
Speaker 5: I got the pictures on my ground. I used to
Speaker 5: sneak in the contests to carry like that blue keyboard.
Speaker 5: But I played for the band, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: So that was my whole thing. I used to pass
Speaker 5: out my flash drive ship. So that was just like
Speaker 5: a whole moment you.
Speaker 3: Were sneaking as a band member.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, most security is not gonna stop you
Speaker 4: if you got broy, never get stopped like, nah he
Speaker 4: not with us, No, Bro, you got in every concept
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bro, I got the pictures. Bro, it was never
Speaker 3: not one time I'm with Maguel with the keyboard with m.
Speaker 5: You play for my band, I said with another artist,
Speaker 5: with another artist that it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Man, you got it's such a cool demeanor. Yeah, it's believable,
Speaker 1: like you wouldn't rattle. No, No, I'm with somebody else.
Speaker 5: But even at me holding the keyboard, producers was coming
Speaker 5: back to me backstage like who are you?
Speaker 2: Who are you?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 4: Like I was doing a little but a little running
Speaker 4: around out there, you know what I'm saying, But it
Speaker 4: wasn't doing nothing for me, bro, Like I'm watching the
Speaker 4: niggas throw my flasks driver, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: as soon as they walk down, put it in the.
Speaker 3: Trash, niggas for sure.
Speaker 4: And even it opened my eyes, like I linked with
Speaker 4: a few producers out here and it opened my eyes.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 5: I was already, Bro, like the time I thought I
Speaker 5: was ready, you know, when you went Philly, Like all right, Philly,
Speaker 5: it's a lot of rappers right now at this moment.
Speaker 2: So I'm like I'm ready. Bro.
Speaker 3: It was like got the sounds like niggas took it.
Speaker 5: On the whole level another yeah level, this where every
Speaker 5: the best people come to La.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. So that opened my eyes.
Speaker 5: And then during that time I met my manager Edgar
Speaker 5: and then he was like, Imber, I was posting like
Speaker 5: a video. He was like, bro, you hard, Bro, let's link,
Speaker 5: let's let's let's connect. That's when I went back home.
Speaker 4: The rent was dude, we got you know, we got evicted,
Speaker 4: went back home to my mom crib, started just making
Speaker 4: music and send it to him every week.
Speaker 5: He was like, bro, you ever think about writing? I
Speaker 5: know you're on some artist shit right now, but it
Speaker 5: might be an easier way for you to like step
Speaker 5: your foot in the door. So I used to make
Speaker 5: like probably like you know, ten hooks a week, five
Speaker 5: ten hooks a week and send it twenty We was
Speaker 5: just building like that from your mom and my mom crib.
Speaker 5: And that's how I got like my first pub deal
Speaker 5: in like twenty twenty twenty, twenty twenty twenty two. Round, Yes,
Speaker 5: your published the first Yeah, I was moving as a writer. Okay,
Speaker 5: So my man the newso he was a producer. He
Speaker 5: was about to sign it. But I used to do
Speaker 5: a lot of hooks on his beat. Well he was signing,
Speaker 5: he was about to sign. There was like who all
Speaker 5: these hooks? You know what I'm saying on all these hooks,
Speaker 5: And it was like, that's how I signed my first
Speaker 5: pub Dude. I was moving around as a writer for
Speaker 5: like a year.
Speaker 3: So when you get your publishing deal, do you.
Speaker 4: Move back to l ah just you know Tucket they
Speaker 4: just signed me off.
Speaker 5: You fired? Nobody know you yet. Bread was little, It
Speaker 5: was like weird little. I gave my mom a couple
Speaker 5: of bands and I went to l A for like
Speaker 5: a couple of months. You know what I'm saying, moving around,
Speaker 5: But it wasn't it wasn't you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: doing much by like a year that that money ran
Speaker 5: out like a couple of months.
Speaker 3: Year.
Speaker 5: I didn't last no year. Yeah, I was smart with
Speaker 5: it though. You shout out my A and R. She
Speaker 5: used to let me stay at her. She had like
Speaker 5: a guest room, so I wasn't you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: She used to show a lot of love.
Speaker 5: So like that ran out, and I remember my A
Speaker 5: and R. Bro she left the company. The only person
Speaker 5: I know at the company. I'm like, bro, how you
Speaker 5: gonna leave me in this? I don't know nobody else.
Speaker 5: And my manager, Edgar, he connected to Mary J. Blise
Speaker 5: manager Eddie. He's like, bro, we need a buy out.
Speaker 3: Bro. You know what I'm saying, We need a buyout,
Speaker 3: telling you if you one of the ones he put
Speaker 3: the work in. He just kept bothering me. Eddie brought
Speaker 3: me out. That's why everything changed. Ship, Everything changed. Like
Speaker 3: that's when I wrote for Breezy. I wrote will fall off?
Speaker 3: I need you right here on the Breezy album. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then I producing for Ray Sherman, producing for a
Speaker 3: lot of people. That's when everything just starts shifting.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 5: And like two months later, God Did came up. So
Speaker 5: even God did, I was like, you're a Philly Philly.
Speaker 5: I fucked up in Philly, Like I ran out of money.
Speaker 5: They just bought me out, you know what I'm saying. So,
Speaker 5: like that video of you recording whatever wasn't That wasn't
Speaker 5: that that God did. And my mom and my mom
Speaker 5: care that was.
Speaker 2: Like makeshift, that wasn't like elaborate. That's my that's my laptop,
Speaker 2: my keyboard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, let's shout out Edgar and Eddie. Yeah, shot them.
Speaker 3: Let's shout them out.
Speaker 4: Because that is a that is a huge thing in
Speaker 4: this business right where someone has to identify like you said,
Speaker 4: like you said, he was bothering him, Like yo, he
Speaker 4: the one I need you to do this for me.
Speaker 4: And probably whatever their relationship helped move you to where
Speaker 4: you needed to go, because you.
Speaker 3: Know, we hear it all the time. Nigga be like,
Speaker 3: hey man, I'm telling you this.
Speaker 4: That's not gonna make niggas buy you out your deal
Speaker 4: or you know what I'm saying and help you in
Speaker 4: any way. So those those moments along the way, bro,
Speaker 4: are key to getting us to where we gotta go.
Speaker 3: That is that's that's amazing, bro. So now you're in Philly.
Speaker 3: It looks like he's in the kitchen or something.
Speaker 5: Bro like that was like, that was like a bad crib.
Speaker 2: I took a picture my hair cut.
Speaker 3: In the launch. They got it with bad tank. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was one of the pictures.
Speaker 2: One of the.
Speaker 3: Was it was barber plus.
Speaker 2: But I'm still sitting in the lawn chair in the
Speaker 2: living room. They let that nig attack happen, and when I.
Speaker 1: Saw that video, I was like, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's he's writing and producing from a place.
Speaker 4: Look, this is what I used to do every day
Speaker 4: of that room. I used to wake up, pray six
Speaker 4: to eight hooks, go to the gym, come back, six
Speaker 4: to eight hooks, pray, go to sleep. That was my
Speaker 4: routine for like eight months, every day, every day.
Speaker 3: So it's like.
Speaker 5: By the time, God, they came out, I got six
Speaker 5: hundred hooks, I'm pulling up the breezy burs and tailor crib.
Speaker 5: I'm pressing pray for like two hours, like you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. So it's like that's what I used
Speaker 5: to pray and make like ten, ten to twelve ideas
Speaker 5: every day, you know what I'm saying. So it's like
Speaker 5: by that time, Eddie, Eddie, like all right, this nigga
Speaker 5: working hard. I'm sending them boom boom back, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, thirty two thirty two every week, Like
Speaker 5: twenty five to thirty two ideas every week. So like
Speaker 5: we got that deal done, then, bro, I'm watching Kyle
Speaker 5: it on the ground.
Speaker 2: God, did you know he's doing this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Did you know he had picked the song?
Speaker 3: Though? No, No, no, did he just saying it? Oh,
Speaker 3: he's just saying it that. He just going with that logo.
Speaker 5: You know, he a marketing ball, right, So he just
Speaker 5: before the album even named that, he just keeps saying
Speaker 5: it before he even has, before he even had a song,
Speaker 5: He's just saying it got you.
Speaker 4: But you know, I believe. I'm I'm a I believe
Speaker 4: in God heavy So every time he's saying it's just
Speaker 4: touching my heart. Bro, Like that would like motivate me
Speaker 4: to like go to the gym, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, Bro, i gotta make something called God.
Speaker 4: Did you know what I'm saying? And I made like
Speaker 4: a sample first, and I sent it to my manager.
Speaker 4: He was like, I was like senator to call it.
Speaker 4: He was like, now we don't need a sample, bro,
Speaker 4: like we need a real hook. I'm like, bet, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna call you like two hours. I'm in John.
Speaker 2: You know, I always started on a piano like they
Speaker 2: that just came out.
Speaker 5: I'm like, as soon as I did that, Joe Bro,
Speaker 5: I called my camera man said, pull up through the curb.
Speaker 5: Bros about to be crazy. They don I'm like, oh ship,
Speaker 5: I finished that and I added the choir, the choir part.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, i'd be doing, Like, what
Speaker 5: was your process.
Speaker 2: To adding the choir?
Speaker 5: It was like all us and all us, all tracks
Speaker 5: as you sometimes it's like forty eight tracks.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 5: Like that was like crazy, bro, because I sometimes I
Speaker 5: go in different parts of my room, in that room
Speaker 5: and just you know what I'm saying, go in the
Speaker 5: back the room, going to the front, doing the higher actives,
Speaker 5: doing the lower active you know what I'm.
Speaker 3: Saying, them in a different order.
Speaker 2: To run down to a science at this age like
Speaker 2: ship is crazy for sure.
Speaker 3: So once I made that, Bro, I called him a
Speaker 3: manager shop. What the fuck? Bro?
Speaker 5: We just sat on the phone for like five minutes.
Speaker 5: He like, I'm about to add Eddie and the boy
Speaker 5: that brought us out. Yeh, Eddie was in his car
Speaker 5: he heard it. He ain't say ship for like two minutes.
Speaker 5: He just whipped outside his window. He said, I got
Speaker 5: Collin number, the one that brought us out. He said
Speaker 5: about texted Colin now texted call Coyle of textus. The
Speaker 5: next day he said, it's a movie, That's all.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 5: Two days go by, no, like a week go by.
Speaker 5: We starting the business. He was like, all right, I
Speaker 5: needed this like an interlude from my album. Friday interview.
Speaker 5: God did a couple of days go by. He said,
Speaker 5: y'all just put three rappers and a singer on there.
Speaker 5: Who's gonna live forever? He ain't say who, Bro.
Speaker 3: In my head, I'm already thinking of Kanye.
Speaker 5: Right right right, I'm just thinking it's an inspirational, high
Speaker 5: quality record. Never said who said a singer fucked my
Speaker 5: head up like that and took me off the song, right,
Speaker 5: because that's your first thought first all like, because at
Speaker 5: that time, I ain't shit.
Speaker 4: I'm a writer. I got three thousand followers. I already
Speaker 4: put it in my head. I text my team. I'm like,
Speaker 4: can they just leave me on the choir? You know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Just leave you to the choir.
Speaker 5: I'm like, can they just leave me on the choir
Speaker 5: and still feature me? Though I know they about to
Speaker 5: get somebody to lead this whole joint, bro, So I
Speaker 5: already put that in my head. Then I heard it
Speaker 5: was John Legend, probably like the day is about.
Speaker 2: To come up. I say, they took me off to the.
Speaker 3: Record, but you still don't know you're on the record.
Speaker 4: I know I'm on the record, but they got the record.
Speaker 4: I don't think I'm leading it. I don't think if
Speaker 4: they kept my choir, maybe I'm the last.
Speaker 3: You don't know what piece you're playing.
Speaker 4: All I'm thinking is they not about to let a
Speaker 4: nigga with three thousand followers lead a song with jay
Speaker 4: Z when John Legend on there?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: So, Bro, I'm waiting for twelve a m.
Speaker 3: Bro, you still hadn't heard the song the straight.
Speaker 5: I know it's rumors already, jay Z on there. I
Speaker 5: know John Legend, but I don't know how it is.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm next to my mom, Brokyle it talking.
Speaker 2: My voice came in. Rick. I start going crazy.
Speaker 3: I said, this ship about this your lifetime? Ye twittering
Speaker 3: a little bit?
Speaker 4: Oh hell about to say needs me and my mom.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just like, oh ship, this ship just changed.
Speaker 6: Bro.
Speaker 4: I go on Twitter. Friday Friday. Who the fuck is
Speaker 4: Friday Friday?
Speaker 3: You know it's not John Legend? Who is Friday? Voices something? Bro?
Speaker 4: Friday next morning, number one song in the world. Friday Friday.
Speaker 4: Just going crazy. I'm like, oh ship. I remember I
Speaker 4: went out to we went out to celebrate the next day,
Speaker 4: I don't got a dollar in my pocket. The payment
Speaker 4: ain't come through yet. Right, my cousin took me out.
Speaker 4: Kyle it DM me and then he called me while
Speaker 4: I was in the club. I ran out the club. Bro,
Speaker 4: He telling me, thank you. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: He's like, Yo, you gave me a song on my
Speaker 5: album is best song? Yeah, I'm like, thank you, bro,
Speaker 5: Like you know what I'm saying. Like I'm walking around Philly,
Speaker 5: I'm hearing people say my name. Nobody knows me, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So we just I'm just thinking
Speaker 5: him thinking me. He's like, you don't understand, bro, Like
Speaker 5: we're gonna be at the Grammy's.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Since that, Bro, everything followers went up. It's artist time
Speaker 4: already put in my head, It's all I've been waiting for.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I used the writing shit just to get in you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. But I know now it's artist mode, bro.
Speaker 5: So that's how that God did me.
Speaker 4: So did you from that moment, like you said, it's
Speaker 4: artist mode, did you start creating Friday the artists from
Speaker 4: that moment? What you need to look like the style?
Speaker 4: Like did did you go through that part? Like remember
Speaker 4: I told you like I was already identifying it. Where
Speaker 4: when like party in Them came out and.
Speaker 2: I was already an artist.
Speaker 5: I was just using writing to you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: you already knew what you wanted to go. I know
Speaker 5: my identity. I look myself in the mirror every day.
Speaker 5: It was like just looking at myself like who you
Speaker 5: want to be?
Speaker 3: Bro?
Speaker 5: Like, go you want a little here? You're not an
Speaker 5: R and B nigga? Bro, you know about to be
Speaker 5: licking your lips and ship. I just was like, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: But look it ste like really fuck with you now? No no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: no no no.
Speaker 4: He's that nigga for a reason. They want to see
Speaker 4: him do that ship. You know what I'm saying. They
Speaker 4: don't want to see me.
Speaker 2: I'm just.
Speaker 3: Look that ship is natural for him, right, No, No,
Speaker 3: I give what you said.
Speaker 4: So I just had to look myself in the mirrors,
Speaker 4: like be yourself, bro, dress how you want to dress,
Speaker 4: talk how you want to talk? Right, this is Friday's
Speaker 4: artist time, and I already had songs ready Project already
Speaker 4: ready God Did came out single already ready, we shot
Speaker 4: with dev Jam getting the EP ready, lost the melody
Speaker 4: immediately immediately.
Speaker 3: How long did it take to get the deal done?
Speaker 4: From after God Deal God Did drop until you have
Speaker 4: probably like a month.
Speaker 3: That's quick? Did That's quick? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Because because I'm a bull, bro, I'm like, you gotta
Speaker 4: take advantage of the moment and like you don't know
Speaker 4: if this moment gonna come back again, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So, but right after God did the record, a little
Speaker 5: baby came Forever Forever record?
Speaker 3: So how do you how do you get that? Now?
Speaker 3: Is this all d MS? Is this now?
Speaker 4: You moving around? After God did? It's like all right,
Speaker 4: the whole industry. So it's like I linked with everybody.
Speaker 3: But Tank eventually a technically that ship.
Speaker 4: Niggas still doing it too well, probably with a whole
Speaker 4: nother artist.
Speaker 2: I saw a bunch of artists posted.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for new artists, new writers, new hit me.
Speaker 4: You gotta tell me that you got later though, you
Speaker 4: gotta tell me how that worked. Bro, I'm like, yo,
Speaker 4: this is this is put it like this. I don't
Speaker 4: want to talk about it, but like for me and
Speaker 4: my brain will get more into it and for me
Speaker 4: and my brand.
Speaker 1: After getting in it and watching how it worked, it
Speaker 1: wasn't for me because it just wasn't. It wasn't a
Speaker 1: reflection of how I wanted to introduce artists.
Speaker 3: He thought he was really helping.
Speaker 2: I thought I was helping.
Speaker 3: He thought he was helping.
Speaker 5: I almost fell out with my nigga about one of
Speaker 5: my niggas about that ship because I start peeping, Yo,
Speaker 5: this is it's not real, Bro, It's not some niggas
Speaker 5: tragging some barrier.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 2: One of my niggas hit me like you know this
Speaker 2: after God did one of my niggas like, Yo, I
Speaker 2: got opportunity. Bro.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Bro, I said, let me see, let's see the
Speaker 5: d n Yo, if you want to get your mixtape
Speaker 5: five hundred?
Speaker 2: I said, Bro, that's some bullshit, said Bro, you hating
Speaker 2: on me? Bro that you got.
Speaker 3: Everything's telling you?
Speaker 2: Bro?
Speaker 3: You mad as ship? Bro? Hat you know you pay
Speaker 3: that five hundred? Like, Bro, you was right my foot.
Speaker 1: Bro, because what it is is like, it's not you know,
Speaker 1: it's not being funneled and being and being pushed into
Speaker 1: a space to where you know, real discovery has happened
Speaker 1: and My thing was that, like after watching it go down,
Speaker 1: you know, watching a few of those little tapes come out,
Speaker 1: just looking at the process, like, I was like, Nah,
Speaker 1: this ain't That's not how I do music. That's not
Speaker 1: how I you know, that's not how I want to
Speaker 1: introduce him. I'm gonna introduce somebody like I'm gonna really
Speaker 1: introduce them. We're gonna really, we're gonna really put on
Speaker 1: for him. I was like that, ain't that ain't it?
Speaker 1: And then and then it's like grabbing the paper from him.
Speaker 1: And then I was looking at some of the d
Speaker 1: ms and it was like, yeah, when I get my
Speaker 1: paycheck on Friday, I'm like, nah, because nahn, this, this
Speaker 1: ain't what I want you to spend.
Speaker 2: You know, if you check the check, it's ain't what
Speaker 2: I want you to spend my check on.
Speaker 6: This.
Speaker 3: Ain't that. So I had to get out of there.
Speaker 4: For the rest of the industry of show, I apologize
Speaker 4: all the upcoming you could have you forever.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: We're here now, man, we're together now. Man, so embarrassed.
Speaker 2: God did Bro came out? They're like, who Friday? A
Speaker 2: little baby junk came out that was a different energy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because it was like what I would say about God Did.
Speaker 5: It was like it's an inspirational record, it's so emotional.
Speaker 4: But Forever came out. It introduced me to it. It's
Speaker 4: the streets, the street streets.
Speaker 5: So it was like that song, I'm able to come
Speaker 5: out to the arenas and just you know what I'm
Speaker 5: saying and go crazy.
Speaker 3: So my my EP coming.
Speaker 5: Right after that, it was just a setup, bro, and
Speaker 5: I dropped my Lost and Melody EP. It went crazy,
Speaker 5: like perfect introduction. You know what I'm saying. That's that's
Speaker 5: how that went.
Speaker 4: Yeah, bro, like it's been your your but it was
Speaker 4: a perfect no, no, no no. It was a perfect introduction
Speaker 4: because I didn't want niggas to I just want I
Speaker 4: wanted niggas to know that I'm a regular nigga. And
Speaker 4: God Did came out. It's a lot of niggas they
Speaker 4: hear that song about your gospel nigga. Yes, Forever came out,
Speaker 4: Like no, I'm a regular nigga. I like sure, like
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And it was just a balance for my EP where
Speaker 5: it's like, all right, I believe in what I believe in.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna tell my story and it's the R and
Speaker 5: B side of me. So them two records. It was
Speaker 5: like a perfect introduction everything, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: But like I said, I feel like your path and
Speaker 4: the way you've been able to weave your upbringing into
Speaker 4: your music, it's refreshing. Bro.
Speaker 3: And I'm not I don't come from the church, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Like, that's right, but it's just the fact that you've
Speaker 4: been able to make that relevant in this space exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you can't. There is thisn't we are?
Speaker 1: We are all Listen, my guy put out a record
Speaker 1: church Niggas like we are that whether you like it
Speaker 1: or not, you are not going to be able to
Speaker 1: get away from the emotional and spiritual thing that connects
Speaker 1: you to the higher source. No matter what you're singing about,
Speaker 1: You're You're just it's what separates you that you're able
Speaker 1: to be street, spiritual and emotional. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like all of those things put together. When I listen
Speaker 1: to your project, it's all of that. No matter what
Speaker 1: you're saying about, I feel it differently, Yep, because of
Speaker 1: where you're from. Absolutely, because of your foundation and Jay
Speaker 1: says this all the time. You know, what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and we share this, there's there's a there's a lack
Speaker 1: of that, which is why our music kind of suffers.
Speaker 1: There's a lack of spirituality. There's a lack of connection
Speaker 1: when it comes to our music because we're we're ultimately
Speaker 1: sitting here to change lives. And if we can't connect,
Speaker 1: the message doesn't connect. What are we doing? What's the point?
Speaker 3: And that's the origins is I mean?
Speaker 4: Because like you know, obviously me not growing up in church,
Speaker 4: I had enough of the music from the R and
Speaker 4: B artists who did you know what I mean? So
Speaker 4: you know, like I grew up on Charlie Wilson, on
Speaker 4: Stevie Wonder, you know what I mean. Like you know,
Speaker 4: I go down the line, these these guys Aretha Franklin
Speaker 4: with Houston, like this is all church. They're just singing
Speaker 4: R and B songs. I'm not knowing I'm receiving it
Speaker 4: that way, you know, but I'm still I'm still getting
Speaker 4: it now in our music. It's a little tougher because
Speaker 4: from an R and B standpoint, because it's not, in
Speaker 4: my opinion, you know, enough church guys still in R
Speaker 4: and by you know what I mean, still giving that
Speaker 4: vibe to R and B music, and that's why we're
Speaker 4: you know, obviously it's picking back up, but that shift
Speaker 4: has to happen, and I feel like you're in the
Speaker 4: forefront of that, like you having a song with Maverick City,
Speaker 4: which I love that songs, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: Like you having that record and you taking that chance
Speaker 4: coming off of two rap records.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like you have to make
Speaker 3: that conscious decision. I'm like, Okay, what can I.
Speaker 4: You can say as many times you won't like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm not doing that, but you are.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I know what I'm doing. Yeah, I'm doing it in
Speaker 4: a great way where I put it like everybody believe
Speaker 4: in something, bro. Yeah it is no matter who you're bro.
Speaker 4: I play Blessing. I was buying some jewelry.
Speaker 5: It's like a lot of you know, a rad Jewish
Speaker 5: people like they hear I got a song called Blessing.
Speaker 5: It's like love this song, bro, blessings, Brother Blessings.
Speaker 3: So it's like translate.
Speaker 5: Everybody, bro believe in something. And I put it in
Speaker 5: a way where it's like anybody could listen. It don't
Speaker 5: feel like no church it just feels like a nigga
Speaker 5: that believe in something that's putting it on the record
Speaker 5: that everybody could relate to.
Speaker 4: Even the Maverick City records. We done came way too far.
Speaker 4: I'm not talking though. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying it, But I put it
Speaker 5: in a way where it's like inspirational.
Speaker 3: That's what I like.
Speaker 2: I wrap it up in a way like any anybody
Speaker 2: listening up, Bro, it sain't.
Speaker 3: No you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Listen, bro, I know gangsters that wouldn't miss church on
Speaker 2: something exactly exactly right, y J.
Speaker 3: We played ray J the album. He like, bro, some
Speaker 3: ship you lead a club to and go right to church.
Speaker 4: Of course I never forgot you, Like of course I
Speaker 4: never felt good about that ship.
Speaker 3: But it's like you go from the Chris Brown joints.
Speaker 5: This joints Like yeah, I was like, yeah, that's what
Speaker 5: it is for real though, Like how you just said it?
Speaker 1: As I heard the Chris Brown record. Of course Chris
Speaker 1: played Chris played for me his He's liked, you're here's
Speaker 1: the Friday Joints.
Speaker 3: She's crazy like this. It was like that's on I said,
Speaker 3: you guys. He said that's on his album. I said, ship.
Speaker 1: So I was already looking forward to you dropping. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was already saying you.
Speaker 3: Was you was him?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Shout out Chris, Yeah, shout out to breath and the.
Speaker 4: Fact that you the fact that that you're on the
Speaker 4: mission that you're on, as far as even just delivering
Speaker 4: the music. Like most new artists, they don't drop projects.
Speaker 4: They're not ready immediately. They're not ready. You were, you
Speaker 4: were ready for your time. Yeah, you have two projects out.
Speaker 4: You gotta EPNA album out? And what has it been
Speaker 4: a year and a half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I said, I studied it, bro.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I done been to concerts where you think is
Speaker 5: the biggest artists and.
Speaker 2: Everybody in there waiting for the one banger.
Speaker 5: Like you know you've been in them concerts, everybody waiting
Speaker 5: for that one hit when it's coming, when it's coming.
Speaker 3: We just came to see one song, bro, Like, when
Speaker 3: are you about to see that? Ship?
Speaker 5: And I'd have been the concerts where it's like the
Speaker 5: artists that got dropped albums and projects, where it's like
Speaker 5: the whole show turned.
Speaker 4: It's the most little experience. So it's like I know,
Speaker 4: as an artist or artists got to know too. It's
Speaker 4: the projects that that build a real fan base where
Speaker 4: you get them sticky fans that will never leave you.
Speaker 4: It's because of them projects that emotional experience. It's not
Speaker 4: one song, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they'll go to the next nigga that they give
Speaker 5: it a nice another song right next the girl that
Speaker 5: got a viral moment. So it's some projects. It's like,
Speaker 5: I know this where you get your real fans. This
Speaker 5: where you get them people to buy your tickets.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I'm seeing that now.
Speaker 3: How was How was the feeling a performing at the Grammy? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Was crazy? Like how was that feeling for you? Bro?
Speaker 3: Like I said kyl especially with who you perform with.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Kylin always told me, Bro, we're gonna be at
Speaker 4: the Grammy, trust me.
Speaker 5: So I know the Grammy's coming up. I got my
Speaker 5: I'm getting ready. Probably found out two weeks before. My
Speaker 5: manager called me and say you're performing, Bro. You gotta
Speaker 5: think I ain't performing? Probably ain't performance college, bro? And
Speaker 5: then then from.
Speaker 3: Church first show here it's my first show, bro, why not?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I couldn't even sleep bro, Right.
Speaker 3: Because you can't get those guys together anywhere else.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously haven't done this song anyway and do it.
Speaker 4: I did it sometimes. It just came out at club
Speaker 4: live with DJ Callen. You know what I'm saying, just
Speaker 4: out but like this where it's like this ain't a club.
Speaker 4: Niggas about to hear you sing, bro, and niggas want
Speaker 4: to hear you saying the same way you seeing on
Speaker 4: that record. So it was like, Bro, I couldn't sleep
Speaker 4: for like two weeks, bro, because I was just so nervous, BRO,
Speaker 4: thinking like I could fuck up a jay Z performance.
Speaker 3: No, no bullshit, it's like not yourself. I can suck
Speaker 3: up a jay Z, but you do not want to
Speaker 3: be there, like you keep up the whole performance, bro.
Speaker 5: And it was like, Bro, I couldn't sleep the whole
Speaker 5: like two weeks. Probably that week came up. I was
Speaker 5: just in the shower just singing it every day, Bro, nervous,
Speaker 5: just he I remember the day of Grammys, We're in
Speaker 5: the trailer, Cali brought his people out. It's on my
Speaker 5: TikTok the video, and then he put the instrumental in
Speaker 5: my ear before we're about to the stage, and I
Speaker 5: just started singing it. He didn't even expect me to
Speaker 5: sing it. I just started singing in front of the people.
Speaker 4: It was like, all right, bro, ready And then from
Speaker 4: there I just got that confidence hopped on stage.
Speaker 3: I've seen jay Z.
Speaker 5: That's up, bro, I might get ready. It was it
Speaker 5: was easy since then from there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was your first time wearing EANs, bro, it's
Speaker 4: my first joke. I'm saying that you Yeah, that's my
Speaker 4: first time when that's my first real joint.
Speaker 3: So it's like, because that's the thing that people don't know.
Speaker 3: The transition from.
Speaker 4: Its just a way different thing because now you're singing
Speaker 4: in your head.
Speaker 5: Yeah, facts, and that was different. But I'm you know,
Speaker 5: it's kind of like the studio. Yeah, but it was
Speaker 5: just like a whole different experience.
Speaker 4: And it was like from God did and forever You
Speaker 4: gotta think Forever video ain't come out yet. I think
Speaker 4: Forever video came out after the Grammy's a Little Baby.
Speaker 3: Nobody knew. It was more you really know what you
Speaker 3: look like exactly.
Speaker 4: It was like we know the voice, yeah, we hear
Speaker 4: about everywhere, but this was like the first time the
Speaker 4: world about to see me.
Speaker 3: Type. After the Grammys, it was like it was like
Speaker 3: a shift.
Speaker 4: I'll say, that's dope, that's dope, that's dope.
Speaker 1: So you got an album out man, Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: tour time. Yeah, you sell out. Let's start there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, niggas be on tour.
Speaker 2: Niggas be on tour. They don't always say.
Speaker 4: Ten minutes to following ten minutes. We just sold out
Speaker 4: London like one day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we had an added dated a blessing brod.
Speaker 4: Hell Yeah, what's your prep for that? Knowing that now
Speaker 4: you have sold out shows? Is that does that adjust
Speaker 4: the playlist? Does that adjust?
Speaker 2: You? Know? How you create the urgency in terms of
Speaker 2: creating your sonic for the show, your visual for the show. Like,
Speaker 2: what's the thing.
Speaker 3: Now, because before you probably have a plan.
Speaker 4: You're gonna do these songs, We're gonna vibe out, We're
Speaker 4: gonna do such as Now it's like you're sold out
Speaker 4: in every city.
Speaker 5: It's like it's a mental thing for me. I know
Speaker 5: the people are here for an experience. Like you said,
Speaker 5: my music is a little different, so it's like I
Speaker 5: know people coming out here for a different reason, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So it's like I try to
Speaker 5: get my mental right like you know what I'm saying
Speaker 5: more than anything, and then it's just like the how
Speaker 5: the songs just putting together?
Speaker 2: Shut out my man, Josh, it.
Speaker 5: Just it just got a flow right where it's like
Speaker 5: it's just a flow through the whole show, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So it's just more of a mental thing for me,
Speaker 4: and you know what I'm saying, and I got to
Speaker 4: make sure my being right, everything right.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love the way you start the show,
Speaker 1: like you know, you started out talented, walked out there,
Speaker 1: you see the god that you see what the Lord
Speaker 1: has done, and then you go to the piano and
Speaker 1: as soon as you hit the first chord, they know
Speaker 1: exactly what time it is and they are with you
Speaker 1: as soon as you open your first word for sure.
Speaker 1: How does that feel?
Speaker 2: Bro? It's amazing?
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like first show, I probably I cried on stage. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it was like, this is the first time everybody here
Speaker 4: to see me.
Speaker 2: Nigga.
Speaker 1: Nobody can be you tell every artist, nobody can be you,
Speaker 1: but you. Nobody can tell that story.
Speaker 3: But you I can here with your original pim.
Speaker 2: Today my friends that you got for today. We're approaching
Speaker 2: the end of the week. A special day. We always
Speaker 2: look forward to.
Speaker 3: It's our favorite day. But even our favorite day has
Speaker 3: some favorites.
Speaker 2: Brother Friday, if you don't mind me calling you, brother Friday.
Speaker 3: He said he might go back to Francis, Brother Francis Friday.
Speaker 3: We want to people want to know your.
Speaker 6: Top five, your top five, time five, your top five?
Speaker 2: What is R be leasten guys, Yeah, al and me songs.
Speaker 3: We want to know you got this show all on
Speaker 3: these days they don't matter, but Friday, we want to know. Yeah, yeah, top.
Speaker 4: Your Friday's.
Speaker 3: Fun. Yeah, go on, I agree by playing.
Speaker 2: It sounds so good? Don't you agree? Sounds so good?
Speaker 2: Don't you agree? Friday? Top five?
Speaker 4: Your top five R and B singers? All right, I
Speaker 4: take it back. So it's like boys and man Jamie
Speaker 4: FOXX Wow, come on Fox making appearance.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna go, Chris Brown, what you mean it's
Speaker 5: not tough? Then you go usher taking it up like yeah,
Speaker 5: and then the last ball, the last boy.
Speaker 4: I gotta give a new ball. Yeah, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna just say T pain. Yeah, what's gonna say?
Speaker 4: Todd Dollard, I'm gonna say T Pain.
Speaker 1: I love T Pain that niggas cold.
Speaker 3: T pain cold yeah cold, Okay. I like what you
Speaker 3: did there. Yeah, like what you did there? All right
Speaker 3: here top five R and B songs.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go, Uh water runs dry, but man, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go. Uh Jimmie Fox, I wish you were here.
Speaker 5: That opened my eyes up a lot.
Speaker 2: I'd like to say, kind of.
Speaker 3: Keep going, keep Caving's Caving Ship changed my life.
Speaker 4: Bro just he performed that joint in the junk. Remember
Speaker 4: he performed that joint one of his concerts.
Speaker 2: He had a U we had a we had a
Speaker 2: thing that he did for TV where yeah.
Speaker 3: He was older. Ship crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna go some new ship no guy it
Speaker 5: Chris Bro that's special every China joint come on drink dang.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh.
Speaker 1: Legend you said, John don't know, they don't know special
Speaker 1: classic Alzheimer.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's my favorite songs ever.
Speaker 3: That's four Yeah yeah, and I'm a little adoring it.
Speaker 2: Miguel hm hmm.
Speaker 3: Came with that record these that ship crazy. What is
Speaker 3: the fists? The fist?
Speaker 1: This Beard.
Speaker 2: That special special.
Speaker 1: It's a formula that that writers were smart, they would
Speaker 1: pick up on it.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Smoky Rymington all of them, all the greats did this formula.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you what it is, but
Speaker 1: if you're smart, because they have to study like this
Speaker 1: man did. Wow, this man studied. That's why he is
Speaker 1: who he is. That's why is our favorite day that
Speaker 1: we studied.
Speaker 3: If they paid you five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Then we can talk about upcoming artists, writers, producers, m
Speaker 1: real coming up Ship Friday. We're gonna make your Vultron.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make your super your super R and B artists.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get the vocal from somebody. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: the performance style from somebody, the styling from somebody, and
Speaker 1: the passion.
Speaker 2: Of that artist.
Speaker 1: For you, We're adding an extra segment of who's gonna
Speaker 1: write and produce for this artist? Since you do that
Speaker 1: so well, let's start with the vocal to build your
Speaker 1: super arm B artist, your vult Tron. Who you getting
Speaker 1: the vocal from? I'm gonna go with Usher.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I feel like he could do the old school ship
Speaker 4: like they can do it, and you could do the
Speaker 4: new school supert I'm saying he going vocally everything because
Speaker 4: he could.
Speaker 5: Do pope hip hop. Go back to the real arm be
Speaker 5: I'm gonna USh your vocally love it.
Speaker 2: Love it yeah, performance style on stage, get into it.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go breezy, Yeah, breezy, unstoppable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two hours straight stop. I've never seen nothing like different. Different. Okay,
Speaker 1: you got this drink you'd be drinking. It was like,
Speaker 1: would make me to drink. I wasn't even performing. I
Speaker 1: just want to drink to drink because Christ was drinking
Speaker 1: to drink, even the goddamn drink styling. Yeah, the drip.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I would just say.
Speaker 4: He just like, whoever performing he got just like what
Speaker 4: like like breezy, breezy, whoever like gotta have that's gotta
Speaker 4: match that. No boxes with breezy, you know, telling what's breezing?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. It's no rules, it's no.
Speaker 3: Dress. It was four it was four rolls of clothes.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh yeah. I was like what, I said,
Speaker 2: what are you?
Speaker 3: What are you wearing?
Speaker 1: He was like, I don't know. I said, you perform
Speaker 1: in twenty minutes. He said, I'm just scrasp some ship.
Speaker 1: What no rules? He just said, I'm gonna put on something.
Speaker 1: It's gonna look fly. The passion of the artist.
Speaker 3: Who mean it, who's gonna make these people cry? Man?
Speaker 5: I can't shay the gentle thing. I'm gonna say, Uh,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with Charlie. Yeah, that's passion right there.
Speaker 5: I just had church with Charlie not too long ago.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go Charlie. He has a church segment in
Speaker 5: the show every show, for every show. Then it goes, yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm going Charlie. Does it means especially if you know
Speaker 5: Charlie story. Have you ever met Charlie?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Oh, you gotta meet him. Yeah, and you gotta do something.
Speaker 1: You gotta listen to that story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's special a story.
Speaker 2: Okay, who's writing and producing for this artist?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna just say, baby face.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: I mean he's you know, he's no sense as well.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, he's not just the deal. He's also
Speaker 1: yeah different right there. He's then and now his wardrobe now.
Speaker 3: Is what many four months ago?
Speaker 4: Yeah, this nigga with the youngest bro cool is super cool.
Speaker 5: But I'm gonna go with him. He wrote something like
Speaker 5: a lot of boys man ship. I was young and
Speaker 5: looking it up like what the fuck? And you know,
Speaker 5: back then it was.
Speaker 4: A few writers yeah, probably like five to ten, right,
Speaker 4: only very small. All the hit records he's going. You're
Speaker 4: gonna see his name at some point for sure. Everybody's
Speaker 4: albums you go through, you like, oh and Babyface Whitney Houston, Babyface, Babyface.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going baby Face baby to god.
Speaker 1: Bro, niggas incredible. I'd love to just he just let
Speaker 1: me collect his ass cat for you. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: behold it for a year, just letting million dollar checks
Speaker 1: hang out on the table.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you forget to get you know, that's a nigga
Speaker 4: like they sampling his ship every day to day.
Speaker 3: Bro, His streaming is out of control.
Speaker 1: It has to be. And that's just that's just extra
Speaker 1: extra income. He never even imagined it. He still where
Speaker 1: he comes from, digital world, where he comes from. Now
Speaker 1: there's an additional fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 3: Do the work. Do the work. Do the work, Ladies
Speaker 3: and gentlemen, do the work. Go do the work.
Speaker 2: And it's the crazy part about streaming is that we're
Speaker 2: we we haven't exhausted it. What you mean, there's still
Speaker 2: territories being added, it's still going up. It's still being
Speaker 2: added to devices as we speak. Became a good timer, brother,
Speaker 2: you came at a great time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, someone will say what you got.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I ain't saying no names. Hey, I ain't saying
Speaker 1: no names. Ain't saying no names. I ain't saying no names.
Speaker 6: Where you was?
Speaker 2: Who is weird? What you did?
Speaker 3: Don't say?
Speaker 2: She and I ain't saying no.
Speaker 3: He's showing out.
Speaker 2: He's here, Yeah is here?
Speaker 3: Yeah I was slain. I was slain.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, no, we we We had this very
Speaker 4: very very important segment of the show, very important important.
Speaker 3: Man. The people, the people, man, they wait all week
Speaker 3: for this. Want to know. Yeah, they want to know.
Speaker 3: They want to know because you know, they don't live
Speaker 3: the same life.
Speaker 4: That you live, so you know, they can't get behind
Speaker 4: the curtain. Sometimes they can't sneak into the show, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So this segment of the show is called I
Speaker 4: Ain't saying no names. Will you tell us a story?
Speaker 4: Funny or fucked up? Are funny and fucked up? And
Speaker 4: the travels of the journey of a young man named
Speaker 4: Friday Francis to the high school niggas, but Friday to
Speaker 4: the people, to the people.
Speaker 3: Yeah you ready, yeah, I'm ready, all right? So right now,
Speaker 3: right now, right now.
Speaker 4: One thing we do know is that whatever story he
Speaker 4: tells us, God didn't do.
Speaker 3: I'm so maybe getting you out of it.
Speaker 4: But this is Friday. I ain't saying no names. You
Speaker 4: didn't seen something.
Speaker 3: You just seen something. Business is you know you're gonna
Speaker 3: see something, Yo.
Speaker 2: I ain't see nothing.
Speaker 3: I see nothing.
Speaker 4: No, I really broke because I'm new, bro like, and
Speaker 4: then most places I be is intimate.
Speaker 2: So it's like, you know how we got respect.
Speaker 4: That's just where I go studio career. But I will say, like,
Speaker 4: funny ship I seen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what I'm saying names.
Speaker 5: Is just funny ship. I've seen, it's in it. I
Speaker 5: notice in this industry the niggas is more groupies than
Speaker 5: the females.
Speaker 3: Bro mm hmm, that's what I will see. Say.
Speaker 5: I've seen a lot of times muld have been in
Speaker 5: these places with the biggest artists around them next to them,
Speaker 5: and it's like, bro, like, the niggas is the more
Speaker 5: groupies than the females. That's the most shocking ship. I'm like,
Speaker 5: and the group is be niggas that is respected.
Speaker 4: You think it is respected, but they still trying to
Speaker 4: get get close to the nigga.
Speaker 5: You know, what I'm saying so ain't nothing, but I've
Speaker 5: seen some funny shit like that. It was like, you're
Speaker 5: gonna say the nigga's name.
Speaker 2: It's like, bro, it relaxed, Bro, like we're chilling.
Speaker 4: Everybody don't have that button. No, everybody don't have a
Speaker 4: relaxed button. And you'll find out that very early in
Speaker 4: his niggas be trying to prove.
Speaker 1: Themselves and even to add to that, niggas is trying
Speaker 1: to connect themselves.
Speaker 4: You think they're already connected. It's like, Bro, I thought
Speaker 4: you was connected already.
Speaker 1: A lot of people make a living off of staying
Speaker 1: connected or close in proximity to what's cracking and what's popping.
Speaker 1: Now you're in a privileged position to where you cracking,
Speaker 1: so people want to stand next to you. You don't
Speaker 1: necessarily need to stand the next.
Speaker 4: Moment, but you've all so coming this business with purpose.
Speaker 4: You have purpose, You have something you're going for, you
Speaker 4: have something you're pushing towards. Like a lot of people
Speaker 4: in this business, everybody's a transaction. Every new introduction, every
Speaker 4: new room that they get into. They look at people
Speaker 4: as transactions like, Okay, what can I get out of
Speaker 4: this what's the transaction is what can we instead of
Speaker 4: just being like, you know what, we just happen to
Speaker 4: all do the same thing and that's cool, and either
Speaker 4: I like this person or don't like this person, no
Speaker 4: matter if I ever see them again. These people are
Speaker 4: trying to make sure they see them again or they
Speaker 4: get in a room. But also not understanding that that
Speaker 4: that energy would also push push you out of a restaurant,
Speaker 4: especially I mean definitely with us.
Speaker 3: Then we'll be driving off somewhere and we'll be like, man,
Speaker 3: shoot man, they can't come up. It's usually me saying it.
Speaker 3: He tank has never met a stranger. To me, I'm like, nah,
Speaker 3: b B with no bullshit.
Speaker 5: I might think I cenship, but I really don't be
Speaker 5: around like that. Be in a crib bro in the
Speaker 5: studio with the people I funk with the people all trust. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: go back their crib, no bullshit. Through the work, might
Speaker 5: not keep doing what but that's funny shit. I'll be like,
Speaker 5: oh shit, that's the type of ship that make me.
Speaker 5: I don't want to go out bro. Just you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, I'm going back, going back home.
Speaker 2: At twenty six, I wish I would have had.
Speaker 4: Usually went back home, that I'm going back home attitude.
Speaker 3: You had to keep the party going out to ever.
Speaker 4: Ever twenty six in l a hit record outside as
Speaker 4: long as humanly possible.
Speaker 1: Where you are going, where you are going, it's four
Speaker 1: in the morning, man, I know what I do. Won't
Speaker 1: do nothing else, Brother Friday bro phenomenal talent. Bro phenomenal, phenomenal,
Speaker 1: phenomenal talent, amazing spirit. As as Brother Wendel Muhammad used
Speaker 1: to say, God rest his soul from South Philly. Beautiful brother,
Speaker 1: Keep doing that, Keep doing that, keep doing the work
Speaker 1: more importantly, because it's it's it's it's doing all the talking, man,
Speaker 1: it's doing all the talking and then meeting you and
Speaker 1: and just and and just.
Speaker 3: Sharing room with you.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't think it's anywhere you can't go
Speaker 4: anything you won't be able to do.
Speaker 3: Lead the emotional.
Speaker 1: Revolution, the spiritual revolution where music means something to be.
Speaker 3: Lead it. Sure appreciate it, bro.
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