WEBVTT - KIPS LIVE SHOW Pt. 2: Cracking The Da'Vinchi Code 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:06.280 All right, now, I hope you all ready for this. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:11.399 All right, My next guest, like me, start off in 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:16.520 music and then he's transitioned into acting. You might know 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:24.120 him as I don't know Darnelle Hayes from All Americans, say, 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:24.960 y'all already. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:29.920 Know being in Mary J. Bliges a lifetime movies or 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:34.440 my all time fave Terry and b a Meth. Ladies 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.320 and gentlemen, David. 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.000 Bring a mouth, bring them out, bring a mouth, Bring 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.000 him out. That's harding yell when thats in your mouth, 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:50.320 Bring him out, bring. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.800 Him out, ring him to, ring him out? 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:05.360 Hey, Davincity, how you feeling I'm feeling great. 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:10.200 I'm feeling great. How y'all feeling? Wow? This is a 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:11.880 great crowd. It's a beautiful crowd. 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:15.720 Listen. They have the best energy. Thank you so much. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.319 It's an honor to have you amongst the kids family, 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:22.080 and we're gonna jump right into it, all right. So 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.760 you are from Brooklyn, New York, Yes, ma'am, and my 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.760 castmate daval is also from Brooklyn. I've heard some wild stories. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.240 What was it like growing up in Brooklyn for you? 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.080 I mean growing up in do we got any Brooklyn house? Brooklyn. 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:40.840 That's what's up. That's what's up? What up? 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:46.240 Not the dopest part about growing up in Brooklyn and 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.800 a fast city like that and just up north in 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.240 areas with trains and buses and all that stuff. You 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.920 grow up fast, or I wouldn't even say fast. I 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:57.360 think you grow up at the rate that you were 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:58.720 supposed to grow up at. I think a lot of 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.480 people are just a little like they get. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:02.400 Coddled a little longer. 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.640 But the way we grew up, it's like we we 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:08.200 became men like kind of quicker and women earlier. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:09.640 That's amazing. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.040 So like when you started with music and then you 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:16.400 transition to acting. For me, music I just I didn't 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.639 fall out of love with it, but I feel I didn't. 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.080 Like the politics of the music industry. What was it 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:22.800 with you that made you decide, hey, I don't want 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:23.200 to do this? 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.600 It was it was definitely the politics. 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.760 Like it's like growing up, I loved music, right, I 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:34.880 was like Chris Brown, the Trey Songs, the Ushers like everyone. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:35.080 Right. 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:36.720 I was like, yo, this is this is like what 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.520 I want to be in all the great rappers, the 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.919 holes fifty I love fifty. I knows better than him. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.160 I know fifty songs way better than him. He don't 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.440 even know, but but nah, like I was really inspired 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.440 by it. But then when you get there and it's 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.480 not a figment of your imagination no more, you're like, nah, 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:59.120 like they really want like a certain thing there. 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.280 And I was just like, all right, I don't know, and. 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.920 I didn't know enough about gospel singers a gospel rappers. 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:06.480 He'd be like, oh, maybe I'm gonna take that route. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.919 So I was just like, you know what, I'm cool 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.200 off this. It's like they sometimes they just really want 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:19.639 some real killers people that's just killing left and right. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:16.360 And. 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.480 It's like, bro, I'm like, bro, Like, I've done some 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.040 bad stuff, but I got a wrestled when I was 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.160 thirteen and stuff, but I never once started about killing someone. 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:30.560 So I'm like, bro, it was a dealing the stolen property. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.720 Oh so yeah, it was stupid, but anyway, Yeah, but 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.680 when I realized certain things, I'm like, bro, I can't 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:39.240 be preaching this message. 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:39.440 Bro. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:41.520 Like it's like I made it out of my situation 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.120 because I stopped doing certain things. So I'm like, for 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.119 me to then do this, I'm like, bro, that's I'm 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.160 lying you know what I'm saying. I feel like God 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.040 is I'm gonna have to answer to God and I 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:52.160 can't sleep well at night. 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:53.040 That's so good. 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.800 I got to watch you twice on Broadway for Thoughts 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:58.480 of a Colored Man. 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.880 Guys. It was such a profound play. 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.760 Just we really talked about the thoughts that are black men, 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.120 what they go through on a day to day basis. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.119 We laughed, we cried. It was a really good plan 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.800 and you were amazing in it. But you also the 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:13.760 star of BMF. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.760 I want to know. I want to know what is 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:20.640 your favorite Broadway or TV? In film? 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:27.080 Broadway was hard. Broadway was really hard. I ain't gonna 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:30.120 lie like it was like. It was great because it 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.039 teaches you something that film and TV can't teach you. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.479 Film and TV there's a bunch of cut in at 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.200 the end. It's like director, cut, give you note, throw 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:39.000 something new out. 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.800 You get so many chances to redo it. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.760 But a Broadway, once you lie and you you front 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:46.080 of a crowd like this, it's like. 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:46.760 Bro, I gotta go. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.840 And when you make a mistake, it's like you better 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.719 hope your partner just like wing it with you. Like 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.320 there was moments I was just winging it and everyone's like, oh, 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.040 it was so good. I'm like, you don't even know. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.680 I fucked this up, Like I messed this all up. 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.599 But but it was great. Acting TV and film is 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:07.280 great because I mean, you it pays the bills, you know, 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.840 But Broadway it's like when you're doing Broadway, it's more 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.560 of a craft thing. I mean, I don't know what 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.559 the producers make on it, but as an actor, you 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.240 you it's work. 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.520 It's a love project. 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:21.719 But it was great. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.360 I learned so much and it shout out to Keenan Scott, Yes, 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.560 and the writers and directors like everyone like I learned. 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.680 I think that was the biggest class for me in 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:31.080 my career. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:32.000 That's amazing. 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.400 I always hear that actors who really take their craft 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.840 serious go do Broadway. Yeah, they say, there's nothing like it. 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.120 There's no training course like it unless you work on 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.680 a Tyler Perry set. Because we get one take. Tyler's like, 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.279 we're on Broadway. I'm like, hey, can I get one more? 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.919 Then you decided that she wanted to pick up comedy. 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.600 Now I tell people all the time that I'm funny. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:59.920 Yeah exactly. I'd be like, I'm funny but I don't 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:01.680 if I had the chance to do stand up? 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.400 What made you say I'm gonna give. 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.240 This a shot? You know, that's a great question. 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:11.000 I feel like as an artist, you always want to 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.880 push yourself, and for me, stand up is like it's 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.120 like going skydiving. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:16.919 You know. 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.040 It's like, what is gonna happen if I go on 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.320 stage and I just talk Shita? 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.560 Can I for yourself? 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.200 Okay, Okay, I'm gonna fix my language. I'm sorry forgive 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.440 me mom, but but nah, It's like I was like, yo, 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.360 what if it's like the conversation that me and my 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:43.000 boys we having, just like just have it here. And 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:44.880 then the thing is, it's like I've been doing mental 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.080 health tours as well, so I was like, if I 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.760 could infuse a little bit of that and make it educational, 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.520 just a little funny, like what could happen? 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:53.680 And I was like, even if I got. 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.320 Booed, it's like, you're gonna leave with a message because 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.279 it's not just like like stupid little jokes and me 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.800 making fun of you people. It's like you really listened 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.800 to You're like, oh no, that that kind of makes sense. 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.320 Yeah, I love that. Now are you planning on doing 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:07.760 a tour for your comedy as well. 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.400 Yeah, last year I'd hit ten cities up because we 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.640 were just like, we didn't make an official tour. We 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.080 was just gone, was like what can we doing? Like 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.200 we're selling out here so out They were like, okay, okay, 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.520 But it's because of like all American and being math. 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:22.600 You know what I'm saying. It's not because like people 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.120 are respecting me as a real comedian. 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.559 But I wouldn't say that. You're probably coming from because 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.000 they saw you on TV and they wanted to see 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:29.360 what you did. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.160 Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:32.960 But I think over time that I'm gonna get that 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.160 respect as a comedian if I keep pursuing it. But 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.840 I definitely think this summer I might, I might, I 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:38.480 might do a tour. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:40.320 Okay, we check y'all going to check them out. 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:42.600 Yeah, we appreciate that. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.720 So something I talk about a lot of times with 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.160 my peers is that people do not see the journey. 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:50.920 They don't see what we go through. 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:55.720 We live and we work in a very rejection driven 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.720 This is that like a career, like we get told 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.880 no so much, y'all, you guysn't have real self esteem 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.720 to be an actor facts. I can't count how many 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:06.320 no's I got before I got a yes. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:08.320 And it takes a hit. 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.560 If you're not really strong with your self esteem, it 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.800 can take a hit. How has that journey been for 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.440 you and did you have any moments where you were like, oh. 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:16.520 This is too much. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:19.760 Yeah, it's been. It's been bad. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:23.320 It's like it's crazy because I got over probably like 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:27.560 a thousand no's and I only got like eight yeses. 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.800 Hear that, yeah, and the three of the eight yes. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:35.000 It is all American b in math and like another 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.240 movie and grownish that like started making me like famous, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.880 you know what I'm saying. But it's it's what they 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:46.320 laugh You're funny. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.439 Yes, I was like I'm pouring my heart out on 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:53.360 the laughing like I was in a joke. You got 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.080 a mean audience. That's crazy. 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.200 Hey, y'all gotta act like y'all got some home training. 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:03.480 Don't come to myself like, nah, this is but but nah, 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.520 it was. It's tough. 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.680 I mean, this is one of the few businesses in 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:11.400 the world that you're constantly being scrutinized for how you look, 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:21.600 your size, like you're you're constantly being scrutinized, so it 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:22.840 it plays with your head man. 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:24.640 And a lot of times, like I remember it was 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:25.720 just a producer. He was talking to me. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.520 He was like, you gotta remember this is the entertainment business, 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.400 not the entertainment arts, you know what I'm saying. So 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:32.840 like when he told me that, I was like, oh, 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.559 I stopped taking things personal because it's like like, for instance, 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.319 like I've went out for Haitian characters before I'm Haitian 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:44.200 both parentation, I speak the language fluently. English ain't even 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:44.920 my first language. 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:45.560 I speak French. 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.240 And give me some give us a little bit. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:50.920 Okay he's out of lindsay. 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:52.199 Give me some friends. 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:55.120 Through wow. 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.679 But but nah. 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.560 But it's like it's crazy though, because I would go 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.520 out for hate characters and. 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:05.719 They calling my team like he doesn't look haation. You 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:06.240 know what I'm saying. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.960 They want to make everyone look a certain way that 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:11.920 you know what I'm saying. They're telling the narrative for us, 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.160 and it's like it's offensive, you know what I'm saying 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.079 to me. So it's like there's a lot of moments 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.360 to where you know, I got a love hate relationship 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.520 with his business. But that's why I try to invest 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.880 and set myself up financially completely outside the business, just 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.960 so if everything goes south, it's like my house ain't 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:29.560 going nowhere. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.840 My other house ain't going nowhere. You know what I'm saying. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.439 So it's like, yeah, yeah. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:34.640 That's so good. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:38.520 Speaking of finances and financial literacy, I know when I 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.360 first started making real money, because you go from waiting 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.200 on a pay check from the IRS you can't wait 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.000 for the refund to come back, to having to pay 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.520 and you just did a really funny video on Instagram. 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:52.880 As a way I can pay you back. But my 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.800 plan is to show you that I understand. Talk about 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:58.280 paying taxes. I felt that. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:02.120 I said, I want to talk about that because so 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:06.839 many times in our culture we're not educated on how 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.640 to manage our finances on a on a normal level, 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.680 and then we make it and we're definitely not ready. 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.960 I can't tell y'all that first tax bill. I said, yeah, 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:17.960 we're gonna we'll get. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:18.880 To that, right. 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:20.840 I ain't even know. I was in no hurry to 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.000 pay it, and it was like, no, you gotta pay. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:22.920 I said, pay what? 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:23.640 Fact? 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:24.600 What? 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:25.520 Yeah? 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.840 No, No, it's it's sick. It's like you think student 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.640 loans are bad. It's like like if you get a 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.600 bill that you gotta pay Uncle Sam a million dollars, 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:34.960 like y'all y'all don't got enough? 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.800 Like what am I? Like? 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.120 How am I contributing to this? Like it's it's like 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.760 it's not it's sick. Like I remember the first time. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.560 I remember I was talking to my CPA and I 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.360 was just like I was just shocked. I was like, no, 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.559 it's like this doesn't make sense, like I don't understand. 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.360 I really did not understand that they was asking my 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:54.440 little ass for this much money. 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.640 I'm like, bro, y'all good, Like y'all good? I was 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:58.760 like yeah, I was. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:00.880 I was mad as hell, and I was like, can 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:04.200 I just do a payment plan? Like like honestly, but 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.160 it's just like no, it's like you so having a 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:07.800 Chris talker. I was like, yeah, I'll pay the ship, 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.199 but right I was mad as Oh. 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:12.520 My gosh, we've all been there. 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:17.000 I tell you understand, as your star has risen, at 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.200 what point did you realize that you had to shift 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:20.400 the way you moved. 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:30.280 Ooh that's good. I think three years ago I dealt 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:35.719 with like it's everything in life has a side effect. Right, 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.040 It's like you fly in an airplane, Like the coolest 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.160 thing about our inventions human beings, we're so smart with 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.280 our inspiration from God. But as though as a side effect, right, 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.280 So like if you fly in an airplane's radiation, you know, 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:50.880 if you take a car somewhere, you run the risk 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:52.640 of X, Y Z and what is doing to the planet. 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.280 But it's like it'll cut time down. You know, instead 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.400 of walking to California it's gonna take you three months, 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:58.200 you'll do it in a. 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.000 Couple of hours. But it's like it's a side effect 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:01.640 being on screen. 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.960 The cancer of that is fame, Like fame is not 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:08.600 what it's all cracked out to be. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.720 Like when Shorty's be online. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:15.160 Like my man, my man, my man, y'all dead ass, 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.600 Like when y'all see us out and like we would 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.079 our ladies, our significant other and whatever, and we like, 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.400 y'all really on that type of time, And I'm just like, 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.520 what give you. 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:27.280 The he's. 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.000 And I was just like, I'm like, what have I 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.840 done to make y'all feel that this is okay? But 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.520 because when you're an artist, you're in such a unique 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:41.439 experience a position because you allow people to. 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:43.160 Feel this emotional connection. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.719 So their brain is like undergoing neuroplasticity while looking at 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.480 your face right, So it's like it's reshaping it. So 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.400 like you're if you're learning something watching an artist, it's 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:58.800 like your brain is literally designing itself, right, It's malleable. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.040 It's like play thof So it's like, so you guys 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:05.040 associate those nostalgic moments with us and we'll just be 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.320 I'll be in a grocery store just chilling and someone's like, 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:08.840 they just run up to you and. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.040 They'm like, what are you doing to you? I'm like 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.000 I gotta eat too, and I'm just like, what are 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:14.400 you doing here this close? 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.720 Like it's like this is crazy, you know what I'm saying. 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.240 I'm like, this is not normal. But they feel so 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.720 like involved and like I've been followed before, and it's 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.200 like and it's like, I don't get me wrong, I 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.560 love the fans a artists. I've never in my life 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.360 thought I would ever be in a position to where 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:34.040 somebody is saying my resume and then like you know, 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.720 everyone start clapping like it's a great position of being. 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.480 Don't get me wrong, but there is a side that 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.280 comes with it that Sometimes. 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.320 It's like, bro, it's a lot of pressure. You know. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.520 It's just even simple things like if I wear this 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.520 out and out and I take a picture, can't wear 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:48.920 it again. 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.080 We're gonna normalize that I can't wear it again. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:53.760 Like it's like, yeah, well if I'm caught. 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.040 See like if me and you was having lunch and 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:57.960 were chilling, we having a good conversation. I just touching 0:14:58.000 --> 0:14:59.640 hand like girls like that was so good. 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.760 Like I'm like, oh, they go together. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.800 Picture go together. Now I gotta answer questions. I'm like, god, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.240 damn you being a gentleman. You holding someone's hands and 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.000 helping them get you know what I'm saying. It's like 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.200 it's like everything you do or say, it's like it's 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:13.160 gonna be used against you. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.320 And you see that's my little bro. 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:22.120 Okay, we just helion right right. 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.000 But it's it's beautiful. I'm grateful for and who much 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.280 is giving? Much is required, you know. So I'm not complaining. 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.840 I'm just letting y'all know what we go through sometimes 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:33.560 and sometimes we're just like oh wow, you know. 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.800 It's like sometimes I have being a serious conversation. 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.760 I'm like talking to my mom about something like no, mom, 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:39.880 like what do you what do you mean? 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:40.360 We can't do? 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.040 And someone's like I'm like, yo, hold on, hold on, please, 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.000 hold on, hold on, and they're just like no, please, Catt. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:46.560 Just get it. And I'm like, yeah, just wait, but 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:48.800 it's my birthday. I'm like, of course, it's everyone's birthday. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.960 Every day, like every day it's someone's birthday, and they're 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.080 making you feel bad. 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.280 And you're just like no, no, no, and I'm like, man. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.000 It's hard, it's so hard. I struggle with that too. 0:15:58.040 --> 0:15:59.960 And I've I've had the stalkers, you. 0:15:59.920 --> 0:16:02.640 Know, and your life changes in the blink of an eye, 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:07.400 you know, And it's scary because when you're just friendly 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.040 and you love people and you love your fans like 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.560 I ride for y'all. I love you guys so much, 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.360 but there are some people that take it too far 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.960 and those boundaries are not respected, and as human beings, 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.880 I wish you would understand just that we are human, right, 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.560 and we have family, and we have issues and things 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.360 that we deal with on a day to day basis, 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:28.440 and some days we wake up and we don't feel 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.520 our best selves, but we have to turn it on, 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:32.640 you know. We don't have the luxury of being like, yo, 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:36.200 get on my face, I am not in the mood today. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:37.280 We don't have that luxury. 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.800 You see some like hey, like you gotta turn it 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.360 on no matter how you feel, because that may be 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.800 the only moment that they get with you, and that's 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.080 their lasting impression of you, like the person they just 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.600 love and they're like, dang, I thought she was like this, 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.880 but not realizing may maybe she's really going through somewhere. 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:59.880 He's going through something. I feel. I love y'all too. 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.840 In that shift, did you also see a shift. 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.040 In your friends or like, as you're like climbing and 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:07.679 realizing we're not in the same place, because you have 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:08.520 to start thinking different. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:09.560 Absolutely, you got to. 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.240 You gotta protect your life because it's like when a 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.960 lot of things start revolving around you. You know, you're 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.440 retiring your parents, by the grace of God, you're taking 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.720 care of so many people, like so many people revolve 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.480 around you. It's like if your life were to stop, 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.960 it's like there's so many other lives that would be affected, 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:31.359 so you can't move normal anymore. And sometimes it's like 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.600 when people have not involved in their thinking and they're 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.239 around you, and you're trying to tell them. It's like, Bro, 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.679 I can't just be hanging on in the corners like 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:40.720 shooting the ships and trying to talk to shorties like 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.879 but I can't do it like going to clubs and 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:45.640 like talking to a girl like but as dad first 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.280 of all, if she belonged to that man, now he 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.280 shoot me, like I've been in like two shootouts already, 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.919 and by mistake, are you buy mistake? And I had 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:55.560 nothing and now I'm not doing nothing to get in 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.960 trouble no more. But it's like sometimes so it's like 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.800 there's certain people I'm like, bro, like I'm not gonna 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.760 I'm not associating myself with you. And it's tough because 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.320 when people say, yo, you change or you Hollywood, it's 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:10.240 just like it's like, bro, I can't even begin to 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.320 explain to them because they don't have knowledge. And the 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:20.240 prophet Hoseiah in the Bible Chapter four, Chapter four, first six, 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.639