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Speaker 1: This is Frosted Tips with Lance Bass and my heart

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Speaker 1: reading a podcast. Hello, my little Peanuts, it's me your host,

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Speaker 1: Lance Bass. This is Frosted Tips with me, Lance Bass

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Speaker 1: and my co host dark At Durchin. Hey, guys, I

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Speaker 1: just want to say Lance, it's not that little what nothing? Wait? What?

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Speaker 1: What did you? What do you try to say? Why

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Speaker 1: are you trying to start the show with what? I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I was her little peanut. Okay, what to support you? Okay,

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Speaker 1: you're great, You're great. Um, all right. Today I am

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Speaker 1: super excited because we have a member of a group

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Speaker 1: that kind of started it all for many other groups

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Speaker 1: like In Sync, Backstreet, New Editions. Johnny gil is on

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Speaker 1: the show today. I'm excited to really get to know

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Speaker 1: him because you know, I was a kid, like really

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Speaker 1: young when he started his solo career and then join

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Speaker 1: New Addition. Um, so it's kind of the first memories

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Speaker 1: of listening to R and B music as a kid

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Speaker 1: was New Addition. Yeah yeah, um. And then of course

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Speaker 1: I became like a big Bobby Brown fan because everyone

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Speaker 1: in junior high was it was like, oh Bobby Brown,

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Speaker 1: my prerogative. Um, but he came in right when Bobby left. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't really know. Well, I mean he kind of

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Speaker 1: was asked to leave, but I don't know that whole story.

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Speaker 1: We'll wait till Bobby comes on this show just to

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Speaker 1: explain it. Brown. I mean, I'm sure they're antics, mum,

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited for him to come. He's coming on

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Speaker 1: in just a couple of minutes. But in the meantime,

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Speaker 1: what has been going on? Turkey Church and you just well,

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Speaker 1: you had your LA Art show a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: ago that to not talk about, No, uh, that was fun.

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Speaker 1: We did talk about a little bit a little bit.

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Speaker 1: It was good. You know. This year, I have to

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Speaker 1: say what, I didn't really enjoy it. No. I usually

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Speaker 1: go to the LA and it's great, and La r

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Speaker 1: Show is awesome. It's one of the biggest art shows

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Speaker 1: on the planet. And I usually find some pieces that

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Speaker 1: I just are obsessed with that I can't afford, but

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Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with. I didn't find but maybe a couple

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Speaker 1: of those. This year. There were a few. But also

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Speaker 1: we we only saw like I think, like a third

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Speaker 1: of the art there because all I went through almost

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Speaker 1: all the know, there were still so many other out

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Speaker 1: because we had our kids with us, and they were

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Speaker 1: going a little cuckoo. After like an hour of being there,

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Speaker 1: they did good. It's like our attention span was just

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Speaker 1: cut real short. People were loving Alexander like. People were

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Speaker 1: just coming asking if they could take pictures of Alexander

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Speaker 1: was like a piece of art walking around. He was

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Speaker 1: being orner room. He was running up and down the

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Speaker 1: aisles of laughing. Would not be held, had to walk,

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Speaker 1: had to run making a scene. Yeah, I'm like, there's

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Speaker 1: so much priceless art in here, Oh my gosh. And

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Speaker 1: he's like, watch out, I'm a priceless odd. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: Now he's dancing. Oh my gosh. We're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: with Johnny. He knows how to groove now, keeps the

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Speaker 1: beat he does. He claps on beat. Yeah, but he's

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Speaker 1: been clapping on beat for months now. I know he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be something with Rith. Yeah, maybe a rhythmic dancer

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Speaker 1: in the Olympics or Chippendale's dancer. I know I will

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Speaker 1: support whatever whatever he wants to choose. Whatever he chooses.

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Speaker 1: Pilots not so much. She doesn't respond to music as

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Speaker 1: much as he does no. No, she's a reader. He's

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Speaker 1: a music listener exactly. Yeah, she's gonna be the studious ones.

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Speaker 1: important because we have COVID babies right there, all COVID babies.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be fun the rest of their lives. And

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Speaker 1: all vaccinated and you know, we can be around people. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we call Darren Chris and his wife who just had

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Speaker 1: goodest little chairs. So actually, all these kids are so cute.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, but they all they're good

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Speaker 1: looking babies. But I mean they're just all like gap

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Speaker 1: very pride, which I totally respect. But he is a cute,

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Speaker 1: handsome little credit super handsome kid too, just so cute. Huh.

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Speaker 1: And then we just added then we have GT, our

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Speaker 1: friends g t GT, who owns the biggest kobocha company. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you don't know kemp komboocha out there, um it

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Speaker 1: for me, it's amazing. It really works for me. It's

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Speaker 1: it's that probiotic Lance loves I do. I drink it

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Speaker 1: people out there. I really do research it. If it

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Speaker 1: you to drink your kombucha. Okay. Anyway, his kids are ina,

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Speaker 1: I've now realized, Alexandre, you know how you don't want

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Speaker 1: and he's turning Violet that way. I know she has

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Speaker 1: and Teddy's just the sweetest innocent thing. For long he

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Speaker 1: He's an angel. Good times, good times. Um, whoa, We

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Speaker 1: need to get to this interview. What are we doing

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Speaker 1: talking about our babies? Who cares about them? We should

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Speaker 1: start our own little baby podcast called Scram Kids. Scram Kids,

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Speaker 1: all right, Uh, let's get to well, maybe take a

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Speaker 1: have mister Johnny all right, please welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Johnny gil Junior singer actor from Washington, d C. Sixth

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Speaker 1: and final member of the R and B pop group

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Speaker 1: New Edition was also a member of the supergroup Lsguh.

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Speaker 1: Keith sweat Hello. Gil has released eight solo albums, three

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Speaker 1: albums with a New Edition, two albums with the LSG,

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Speaker 1: one collaborative album with Stacy let Us All. Gil sold

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Speaker 1: over fifteen million copies worldwide as a solo artist. Johnny Gil,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Frosted Tips, my man, Thank you. I'm an

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Speaker 1: old lion now and I try to listen to all

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Speaker 1: And I see your sweating your butt off right now

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Speaker 1: because you're in the middle of rehearsals for the Legacy

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Speaker 1: tour coming out. When when can we see you on

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Speaker 1: the tour? We start March and we take off, so

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Speaker 1: thirty one cities, We're all over the place. So I've

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Speaker 1: everything to kind of screw, you know, to get into

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Speaker 1: these joints and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, how are those knees feeling?

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Speaker 1: I feel, because I mean, you're in the same boat

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Speaker 1: that I was. You started young. You get into New Edition,

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Speaker 1: what age what nineteen or something like that? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: what was crazy? When when the guys started I was

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Speaker 1: I just started saying here, but I was I was

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Speaker 1: a few years later after um Bobby left. But it's

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Speaker 1: it was interesting, how you know, what a coincidence that

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Speaker 1: you know, I started the same year. So we're all

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Speaker 1: celebrating now this year. I know it's been forty years,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna get into that. So, Okay, you're born

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Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. Take us back, Johnny, what was

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Speaker 1: it like growing up in your town? I know you're

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Speaker 1: a preacher's son. What was your life like as as

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Speaker 1: little Johnny? Don't say that through that because you know

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Speaker 1: people start cringe when you say a peak, But were

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Speaker 1: you that typical preacher's kid though? Getting in trouble? But

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Speaker 1: you know, it's crazy for me honestly, Um, being in

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Speaker 1: this business for forty years. Uh, the foundation from from

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Speaker 1: I never did simply only because little siege that were

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Speaker 1: we started the same year, but we would cross pass

423
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:38,919
Speaker 1: doing shows. We did several shows, you know, and uh

424
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,919
Speaker 1: that's how we actually kind of got acquint acquainted and

425
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,359
Speaker 1: we talked and saying hi and hung out a little

426
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 1: bit here and there, and that was it. So you know,

427
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:49,440
Speaker 1: but I yeah, definitely a fan. Yeah. And also when

428
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,399
Speaker 1: you did finally make that shift to New Edition, Like,

429
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,920
Speaker 1: how different was it in terms of like your fans

430
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,400
Speaker 1: and performing and going out. Did the fans overlap at

431
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,760
Speaker 1: all with your solo and group career? No, it was

432
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 1: really because they were so huge, and you know, I

433
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: was still just gonna I listen my first couple of records,

434
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 1: Uh uh ship Platinum and came back Wood and there

435
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 1: projects right out there. I mean, they just came out

436
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 1: and shoot back to the top. Yeah. That's what's great

437
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,480
Speaker 1: about these groups, you know, it's you know, the fandom

438
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 1: goes crazy for for guy groups like that. And you

439
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,119
Speaker 1: know now the term boy band has really you know,

440
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 1: expanded and I think includes groups like yourself. Um, do

441
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,159
Speaker 1: you get offended when someone will call you a boy band?

442
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 1: Or I mean, and y'all get the credit. I mean,

443
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 1: your addition does get the credit of being the blueprint

444
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 1: of the modern boy band today. So when you think

445
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: of that at all, I think that it's lesson to

446
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,879
Speaker 1: be first and pharmost to be for someone to be

447
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,120
Speaker 1: able to identify you and the work that we do

448
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 1: and the work that we you know, nobody works hard

449
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,439
Speaker 1: and want their work to go and notice. Um, so

450
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,119
Speaker 1: the impact that we've made, that it's been written in

451
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,919
Speaker 1: stone can't be rased. And when people can, uh, you

452
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 1: know that they have a great appreciation for what we've done. Uh.

453
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 1: And it's a blessing, it's and we don't take it

454
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,360
Speaker 1: for granted. We just don't take it for granted. Yeah, well,

455
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:17,399
Speaker 1: your influence is very impactful, especially for uh, you know,

456
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,959
Speaker 1: musicians of my age. You know, your group. Your voice

457
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:24,439
Speaker 1: is what taught us R and B and how to

458
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,919
Speaker 1: sing and to harmonize, you know what I mean. That's

459
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 1: that's there would be no InSync without new addition. I mean,

460
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 1: there's just it just wouldn't used InSync fan fans and

461
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 1: of all you guys. So it's like, you know, that's

462
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:41,199
Speaker 1: the beauty of watching something that blossoms, that grows, and

463
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 1: how it's just offsprings and you begin to see the

464
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 1: impact that you've made on others. That's the most I

465
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 1: don't think there's nothing more rewarding than watching the impact

466
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: that you had or have had on others. That to

467
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 1: see them just offspring from those things, it makes us proud. Yeah, well,

468
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 1: we thank you very much much. Um. What I love

469
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,640
Speaker 1: about your era of groups too, which I don't think

470
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 1: happened today. I could not see this happening with the

471
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: end seeing Backstreet one direction ners, but with LSG, Bell,

472
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: Bill Da vox, y'all kept you know, switching groups and

473
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: making groups and every dam just evolved. I mean that

474
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 1: that would be so great if we were able to

475
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: do that today. Was that something? I mean, how did

476
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 1: that all happen? How could you join other groups without

477
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: pissing off other guys? And I mean how did that

478
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:33,199
Speaker 1: all work? Well? The thing for maybe when I joined it,

479
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: even when I joined the group. Everyone knew that I

480
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 1: still had once we finished the Heartbreak album that I had,

481
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 1: you know, I had to go back and start working

482
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 1: on the solo album. So that was never a secret

483
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: to anyone. Everyone understood that. Uh you know when that

484
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: happened when I joined the group. So they decided, wow,

485
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 1: I was working on my solum. Uh. Jimmy Damn came

486
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 1: up with this concept for Bell Bill de Vaux and

487
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 1: then said okay, and they came up with this concept

488
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 1: for for Ralph. You know, so it was kind of

489
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 1: like everybody just knew we was gonna take that bag,

490
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna do some stuff, and that we would return

491
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 1: back at the roup. But you know, so I think

492
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: it helped really in a lot of ways. That really

493
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: gave this group legs and I think even longengevity by

494
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: doing that. And I think the own problem sometimes with

495
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: groups these days doing it everyone when they're trying to

496
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,360
Speaker 1: go solo, they're not trying to come back. Yeah, that's

497
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 1: I mean, it's true, that is true. Yeah, I know

498
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: a little bit about that. Yeah, but it's true. And

499
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: you know these days, especially bands that are manufactured by

500
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: you know, television shows and you know, record labels they

501
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: do cho choose lead singers like everyone's lead singers, and

502
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 1: so yeah, a lot of them go off like I'm

503
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: not going to go back to this band. The money

504
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 1: is in. This is easier, I get more over here. Yeah,

505
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: it was never about that for us, just about the

506
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 1: money too. It was about the whole brotherhood thing. And

507
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 1: that's the other thing that sometimes you can't manufacture, and

508
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 1: you can't you know, nobody can control these guys. They

509
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,719
Speaker 1: were all they all grew up together and as kids,

510
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: you know, so there's a bond there. And then for

511
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 1: me to come along, you know, it was just like

512
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: and I was I'm the oldest, so for me to

513
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 1: come along and join and become I mean, the craziest

514
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,199
Speaker 1: thing with Ralph and myself, even when it first happened

515
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,439
Speaker 1: where he wasn't really feeling that, we ultimately while we

516
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,680
Speaker 1: were there recording started to uh to hang out man

517
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 1: him and we became the closest. It was the craziest thing.

518
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 1: We realized we just had so much in common and

519
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 1: men him would just hang out when we finished a

520
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 1: recording and talking and going to eat and stuff. And

521
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,640
Speaker 1: then it was just like things just kind of just

522
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 1: Mesh just came together. Speaking of the money part, you know,

523
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: most of us more modern boy bands got really screwed

524
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: with our record deals or management. Did you have to

525
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: go through that at all, and earlier in your career

526
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 1: having to absolutely, I don't think nobody in that business

527
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 1: at that air that time didn't get screwed over. It

528
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: was just a part of the way the business was,

529
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: and you had to realize understand that it's still even

530
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,880
Speaker 1: through all of that when you look back and think

531
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 1: about what we went through and what we had to

532
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: sacrifice when it comes down to the money, the fact

533
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: that what you guys have done, what we've done, the

534
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: world has seen it and it's been written in stone

535
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: and it can it can never be raised, regardless of

536
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: what it took the goal to get there. But it

537
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 1: was a big price we paid. But still I wouldn't

538
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 1: trade change trading for nothing in the world. The fact

539
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 1: that we made great music, the fact that we impacted

540
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: so many people's lives. It wasn't their fault that the

541
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: business was what it was. We had to just live

542
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: with that and understand that that's just what it was.

543
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: But ultimately being able to be in front of people singing, dancing,

544
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: doing what you enjoyed doing the most. God put us

545
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: here and getting anointed every teach and every one of

546
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: us as far as I'll give you, know, what more

547
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: can you say besides that that's what it was. It was,

548
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: we learned from it, we grew from and became much

549
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: better from it. So still it's a good lesson to

550
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: learn at an early age. That's what I always say. Yeah, absolutely,

551
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: word yep. Now you have collaborated with many legendary artists,

552
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: artists like you said Stevie Wonder a baby face. But

553
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: I want to talk about a little Whitney Houston. Um,

554
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: what was it like to collab with Whitney? Because of

555
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,479
Speaker 1: course you know that that was what I grew up

556
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: on in the eighties. It's just Whitney, Michael Janet. But

557
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: as huge Whitney fans, can you give us a little

558
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: insight of what it's like to work with her? Man?

559
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: Just her whole aura energy was so like full of

560
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 1: life and she just I'm telling you what, she just

561
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: comes in the room. It's just like she just comes

562
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: in with this enescy that just to have you. So

563
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: it's so funny because when we started working, Um, she

564
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: would call me and she says, um, you know what

565
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: you gotta do right, And I'm like, no, what, you know?

566
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 1: You gotta get this gospel album together? And I said.

567
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: She goes, you know you know better because she grew up,

568
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: and I said yeah yeah. And she kept telling me,

569
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: she said, I'll help you. I help you. But and

570
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: so at times when we would all get together and

571
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: we all hang out, She'll go, I'm not talking to

572
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: you and I'm like, why what. She goes, you know

573
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: what you gotta do do it? I said, I'm good,

574
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: I don't get around to it. We never did, and

575
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: I think about that a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we

576
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 1: love her gospel stuff. I mean, we're listening to Whitney

577
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: Houston channel right now and it's just all these amazing

578
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: just b side you know, and then live performances and

579
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: it's just and when she takes you to church, it

580
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: is nice. She was just absolutely there's no there's no

581
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: one like her ever, and they love being when the

582
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: one like And you never got around to the gospel album,

583
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: never got around to it, And I kept seeing to

584
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: myself that I was going to do it and dedicate

585
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: it to her because she stayed on me. Every time

586
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: you see me. Well, let's get on this, Johnny. I will.

587
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: I definitely will, all right. So here's the frost, the

588
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: tip I need from you. To this day, you're still

589
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: working with New Edition, your solo music, your own record label.

590
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: What keeps you motivated to continue working in this crazy business?

591
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: The love, the love for it, the love of it

592
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: and compassion for it. Um. You know, it is truly,

593
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: um a blessing, especially when you meet people who want

594
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: to be in this business so bad and realize how

595
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: tough this business is. And when you look back and

596
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: think about what we were we were able to accomplish

597
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 1: uh in this business. Um, I don't, like I said,

598
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: I don't take it for granted, And I go wow, wow.

599
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: You know, have you ever seen if someone once told

600
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: me that just for one hit record, there's the odds

601
00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: of just having one hit record, So imagine when you

602
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: can have a string of records, hit records and do

603
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: this for a living. This is the only thing I've

604
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: ever done all my life, poor living. It's music and singing,

605
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,959
Speaker 1: So I don't know any other thing, and it's like

606
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: it's just part of my life and I still have

607
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: a passion for it. Yeah, well, being on the road

608
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: in this business. You know, you're a man of faith.

609
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: How do you how do you stay on track and

610
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: keep that faith and when you could easily stray away,

611
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: you know, being on the road. Well, the reality of

612
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: it for me is sometimes life is not always what

613
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: we want it to do, and understanding that with faith,

614
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: Faith doesn't make things easier, it just makes things possible.

615
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: And so yeah, go through the same things that everybody

616
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: else go through, challenges, and you do that was challenges

617
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: with my faith that I believe and know that it's

618
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: possible to get through these things. And that's what I

619
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,959
Speaker 1: hold onto the most um, being able to do this,

620
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: knowing God put us here to do this. This is

621
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: all I've ever done, all we've ever done. And it

622
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: tells you quite clearly that this is I'll call him.

623
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: So it's like you just can't take it for granted,

624
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: because as long as we're here, even forty years, even

625
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: at its fifty, even at the sixty, you know, tomorrow

626
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: is not promised. So it's like, yo, every time we

627
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: step out, I know, I put a mic in my hand.

628
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: I don't care where I'm at. It bits in front

629
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: of three people or three thousand people or ten thousand people.

630
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: I always know, and it's go hard to go home.

631
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: Where do you live now? Are you in Atlanta? Los

632
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: Angeles rehearsing? But Los Angeles? And the craziest thing when

633
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: I was fifteen, when I when I first started recording

634
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: in California and I was I'm from DC, my first

635
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: thought was I'm moving here, like I loved Californias so much.

636
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: And I when I turned eighteen, I ended up in

637
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and I never looked back. It's a look,

638
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: it's a great town, great state. You know. We get

639
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: a lot of crap, you know, for being in California.

640
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: It's just it's an amazing place to live. I'm glad

641
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: that we get a lot of crowd because I don't

642
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: want to move in here. We got too many people. Anyway,

643
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: It's like us living in the valley. Everyone in LA

644
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: makes fun of the valley. I'm like, oh, yeah, it's horrible, horrible.

645
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: Don't come over here, don't visit. You do not want

646
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: very expensive. Oh yeah it's horrible. Oh never mind, Yeah, yeah,

647
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: you can't park anywhere. No, it's horrible, don't come over here. Um,

648
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: all right, we have some fan questions for you. So

649
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: let's get to these. But first I'm gonna play an

650
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: interview question from a youth quake nineteen ninety one interview.

651
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,800
Speaker 1: All right, so get back to your brain in nineteen

652
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: ninety one. All right, So the question is going to be,

653
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 1: if you weren't a singer, what would you be doing instead?

654
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I wanted to be two things.

655
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: An electrical engineer, and at one point I thought I

656
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: was going to be a boxer. A boxer. I loved it,

657
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: and I was until I one day got hit and

658
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 1: it didn't feel good. Yeah, I know, I always think

659
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: about that. I'm like, the first time I get punched

660
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: in the face, I'd be like, I don't think could

661
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: do this anymore for me? Not for me. Yeah, I

662
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,320
Speaker 1: love fixing bangs, and at one point I thought I

663
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,479
Speaker 1: was gonna be an be an electrical engineer. Okay, let's

664
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: see if you said that nineteen ninety one, if you

665
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: weren't doing this, Like, if let's say thing you didn't

666
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: pay very well, Let's just imagine if you can for

667
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: a moment that you like got that first pay check

668
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: and it was really bad. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't want

669
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 1: to be an electrical engineer. That's what I was heading

670
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: for before this happened. And I'm still going to go

671
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 1: back to school for that really. Yeah, And that was

672
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 1: something that I've always been interested in, and I think

673
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: that that's probably what I would have been in two

674
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: by now it matches my back. I like my gig. Yeah, exactly.

675
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 1: Two things from that interview. One, yes, I don't think

676
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 1: you did go to school for that engineering degree. I

677
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,240
Speaker 1: love that she was like, you know, your first paycheck,

678
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,439
Speaker 1: if it wasn't that great, what would you be doing?

679
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that first paycheck was not that great. No, Yeah,

680
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: A golden Nugget ring, the golden Nugget watch, and the bracelet.

681
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: It was. It was done. That was the check, Yeah, exactly.

682
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: All right. A few more fan questions here from G Pixie.

683
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:35,240
Speaker 1: What has been your favorite decade of music? Oh? My god,

684
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:40,359
Speaker 1: I have to say the nineties. I have to say

685
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: the nineties. It was the nineties to me, it was

686
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: just I don't know, it was unbelievable to me. I

687
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 1: just thought the nineties, when you had so many great records,

688
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 1: and I love the eighties, two eighties was cool, but

689
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: the nineties to me sticks out the most. Well, there

690
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 1: were so much going on in the nineties, Rum the

691
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: Seattle grunge to hip hop, exploding R and B, the

692
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: biggest thing ever, into Spice Girls and Hanson like it

693
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: just kind of the country. It's true. I mean the

694
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: nineties had so many different genres of music, like in

695
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: the Forefront too, you know, it's all over the place.

696
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: I mean it was hard to stand out because it

697
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,959
Speaker 1: was so much. And even Aeron too. I think Wayam

698
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 1: might have been in the Yeah. Wam was definitely you know,

699
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 1: late eighties, like early nineties for sure, but even you

700
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: know mc Hammer, right, I mean yeah, starting with mc

701
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: hammer and ending with jay Z, Like just how that

702
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: just that one decade transformed hip hop just right there. Yeah,

703
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: it's crazy, all right. What you got some other questions

704
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: is from well, I'm no, I'm gonna do one from

705
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: Underscore Booze mommy, Oh, Booze Mommy. That's this question. M

706
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you this question earlier. You had

707
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: the new edition of the miniseries you guys did with

708
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: bt Um and so a Boot His Mommy wanted to

709
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: know how accurate was the new edition mini series and

710
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: were you happy with your portrayal very accurate. I thought,

711
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 1: oh my god. You know, of course we had to

712
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: condense everything to try to you know, within that. Yeah,

713
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 1: but I mean the stories themselves were actually true. M

714
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: James did an incredible job. I met with twice because

715
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 1: I was My mom wasn't doing well and I was

716
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: while they was doing the film. In the movie, but

717
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: I was. I told him, yeah, a question blah called

718
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,720
Speaker 1: me and we met twice and one time he asked

719
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: me about something called me. But he did. When I

720
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: looked when I watched that movie and watched how he

721
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 1: embodied me, that was scary. I was just like, oh shucks, wow, yeah, no,

722
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 1: that's great because there was so many of these, you know,

723
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 1: movies of groups and artists. You hear like that was

724
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: not true, like that it was all b s. I

725
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: never had up in that way. Well they tell you, well,

726
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 1: they tell you that they probably just like without that

727
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: was very accurate, and I don't want to know that

728
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 1: it was on the whole process of the movie. I'm

729
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: making sure stories were being told the group ourselves. We

730
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 1: were hands on involved in every step of it. So

731
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,760
Speaker 1: sounds great. Oh yeah, yeah, you gotta get that final

732
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:21,879
Speaker 1: letter for sure. Like I would never do a show

733
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:25,720
Speaker 1: unless add final let it nowhere all right from life

734
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 1: with my low Oh, this is a good tip here.

735
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:32,280
Speaker 1: What is the best advice you would give to someone

736
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 1: young dealing with all the stress and pressures of the business. Oh,

737
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: my goodness, man, because times has changed and it's so

738
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,439
Speaker 1: tough because you know, coming up in our my era,

739
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: um getting a record contract back in the day was

740
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,879
Speaker 1: it was huge if you get a record deal well

741
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: and you were actually supported by the record label. Now

742
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: it's just I feel like record record companies now are

743
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,439
Speaker 1: just a pr firm at this point, and they don't

744
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 1: like to develop the artists. They just want you to Hi,

745
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 1: here's the full album already done, just we release it

746
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: for us. That's how I feel it is like so

747
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 1: times has changing for them. I thinking for young people

748
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: who are in this business, I still want the one

749
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 1: thing that could never change in the business is a

750
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: key word. I just said business, Learn the business that

751
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:23,839
Speaker 1: could be the end of all. Tell all as far

752
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 1: as how far to go into business and how you

753
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,720
Speaker 1: can recover if you've made some mistakes and it's falling

754
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: along the way. It is important to not just want

755
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: to sing, dance, and hold the mac in your hand

756
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: or make beats, but to also understand the numbers, understand

757
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 1: those things and what you're walking yourself into. Having lawyers,

758
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 1: never walking into situations and taking them for granted, because

759
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: you know, you could sign something that could put you

760
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: in a situation for years to come guilty. Yeah, a

761
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: lot of people, and it's common, it is so many people. Yeah,

762
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: and you know people will still do that even with

763
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: all the warnings we've all given anyone right for decades

764
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 1: in this industry, that young person is still going to

765
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 1: sign that contract. What else are they going to do exactly?

766
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: I mean, you're coming into a business, you don't have

767
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: any power, you don't have fame at that point, and

768
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,439
Speaker 1: it's like this or nothing. You're gonna you're gonna sign

769
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,879
Speaker 1: it anyway. But yeah, it's a shame that can even

770
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 1: just happen legally. You have you're so hungry to be

771
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: out there and to be you know, to be able

772
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: to showcase your talent. A lot of people do it

773
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: even knowing what they're walking into, even if you try

774
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 1: to explain it. So it's just one of those things

775
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,720
Speaker 1: that you just have to really be in a place

776
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 1: where you just got to think about what it is

777
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,879
Speaker 1: you're doing, figuring out even if you're gonna let them

778
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: beat you over, how long are you gonna let them be?

779
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 1: Yeah about renegotiation. Yeah, here's another question from New York

780
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 1: born California dreaming. I want to know this one. Yeah, um, yeah,

781
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,959
Speaker 1: this is the big one. We've heard a few people

782
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 1: ask this one for us. Is a new addition a

783
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:03,359
Speaker 1: Vegas residency ever going to happen? Absolutely? We were, we

784
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: were close to doing it, yeah, this year, but we

785
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: had to make a decision between this year is being

786
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: our fortieth and that's a milestone. So we're you know,

787
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: let's celebrate this fortieth. Go out here with our fans

788
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: and celebrate our fortieth. Then we'll come back, circle back

789
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 1: around and and and get that locked in uh later

790
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: on in next year and you know, keep it rocking.

791
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: So how's the choreo coming? Oh? Oh lord Jesus, do

792
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: you really want to know? They really share the paramedic

793
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: standard all year? It was, but you know, it's crazy.

794
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: The first week is really really the toughest. Yeah, second

795
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 1: week it's tough, but you go, okay, I can. I'm

796
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: starting to work my way through it. Third week it's like, Okay,

797
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 1: I'm starting. It's starting to really wear off me. Now,

798
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: way I can kind of get through the process. But

799
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: that first week, I don't wish that all my worst enemy.

800
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: Yeah yeahs. Last time we before, we did Coachella a

801
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: few years ago, and I know I hadn't danced in forever,

802
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: especially within seeing, and we were just doing Tearing in

803
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: my Heart, which is like the simplest choreography from nineteen

804
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: ninety six. Oh my gosh, my knees were killing me.

805
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,919
Speaker 1: I mean it's a thing like protect any young people

806
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 1: listening right now. We did not take this advice because

807
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 1: I remember a lot of people are like, oh, don't

808
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: do that, don't do that move because you're gonna be

809
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: filling it in twenty years. And I do. My knees hurt.

810
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,800
Speaker 1: You know, I can't relate. I can't tell me, but

811
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: I did though this time. Yeah, the first time I

812
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,879
Speaker 1: started we're working out. The first day we got here,

813
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 1: well that's the first day that the fifth ding we

814
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: got here, started working out. And the only thing I

815
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: do is walk. I walk on I walk into treadmills

816
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: for forty five minutes. So that's all we can do

817
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:03,320
Speaker 1: these days. I'm actually, believe it or not, I'm seventeen

818
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: pounds lighter than I was three weeks ago. Wow. So

819
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: it's crazy because of course it intimate. Yeah, I've been

820
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: doing it all like everything, what's the fastest other tricks?

821
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:22,479
Speaker 1: So it's crazy. But what I've learned every day after

822
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 1: I do my walk and an incline and stuff on

823
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 1: the treadmill, I don't let a single day go without

824
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: doing light leg presses. I don't do nothing heavy, but

825
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: just every single day. And I noticed when I was

826
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: it was hurting me the first week to bend down

827
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,319
Speaker 1: and go through some of those routines. Now I do

828
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 1: them at ease. Every single day I do the light

829
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 1: leg precess and it made a difference and I was like, oh,

830
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: this is the trick stretched stretch. I know. We say

831
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 1: that every day. We're like, we're gonna walk on the dreadmill.

832
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 1: That's what we do. We walk on the treadmill on

833
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: an incline, and then it comes to like time to

834
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:59,239
Speaker 1: do it, and we're like, well maybe tomorrow. A lot

835
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,320
Speaker 1: of tomorrow. All you have to do is twenty minutes

836
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: on a treadmill with an incline and all it is

837
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:10,399
Speaker 1: a phone to ring or something happened anything anymore talk

838
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 1: myself out of working out anytime? Good good, Well. Speaking

839
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: of tour, what is your favorite song to perform on

840
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: the upcoming tour. It's my favorite, but it's the toughest

841
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,399
Speaker 1: one for me because I put some reason you gotta

842
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: just if it isn't love has this thing where it's

843
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 1: that being in sync. It's no punt in it. But

844
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 1: yoe me a dime? So are you olu prom on

845
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 1: a dime? Oh beauty when you're watching it and we

846
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: watched how when we are locked in and downed in

847
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: But it's like you gotta breathe, Like it's you know,

848
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: just the different turns and twists and stuff you can

849
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 1: going down, going back up. And I mean it's like

850
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,919
Speaker 1: it's a bunch of little movement pieces in that choreography

851
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,919
Speaker 1: that makes you go by the time you finish as much.

852
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 1: I love hearing the reaction by the time. I love

853
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: it also here and getting to the very end of it.

854
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 1: But it is amazing what the fans, the energy they

855
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: give you on stage really just make you not feel

856
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: the pain as much. Yeah, um, all right, are we

857
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: gonna hear some new music from new edition anytime soon. Yeah. Absolutely,

858
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,800
Speaker 1: we've been people have been produced, has been submitting songs

859
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 1: right now. So we're just trying to figure it out

860
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: where which one are we're gonna We're gonna gonna dive

861
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 1: in on and yes, keep it rocking. I mean, you know,

862
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: we've been able to do this for forty years. And

863
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,800
Speaker 1: let me tell you, make no mistake about it, forty years.

864
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: It hasn't been no walking apart. We have had some

865
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: serious challenges we have had with internal issues with us

866
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 1: as brothers, uh, dealing with life, dealing with business, dealing

867
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 1: with each other. And it was no, it's not a

868
00:46:55,840 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: wasn't no walking apart. But somehow somewhere there was something

869
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: that something had happened that allowed us to learn something

870
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: which was more important. And I made the first phone call,

871
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 1: and that was to understand that part of our biggest

872
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:19,919
Speaker 1: problems for us, how group, was about everyone wants to

873
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: feel a sense of value and need to be heard.

874
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: We had the biggest problem with you know how people

875
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: talk over you and you when somebody saying something that

876
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:29,839
Speaker 1: you don't don't, you don't agree with, and you cut

877
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: them off, and it's all this other stuff and it

878
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: was always all that kind of stuff, and so I

879
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: made everyone do was become more conscious and aware that listen,

880
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 1: I don't care if they're saying the craziest thing there

881
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:45,280
Speaker 1: is on the planet. We still have to allow every

882
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:49,760
Speaker 1: individual to speak NPR. Then we can begin to start

883
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: to figure out what's the next thing here, how we

884
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 1: resolve these issues, or how are we going to go

885
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,919
Speaker 1: about it. But everyone got a chance and we still

886
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 1: do it to this day. Everyone's voice is heard and

887
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: then we sit down and figure out how we going

888
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,240
Speaker 1: to what's going to be the next move. We're doing it,

889
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: but we've learned that more everybody came on board and

890
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,360
Speaker 1: was more ampt to work together when they just wanted

891
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: to be heard their idea and you know, so it

892
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,439
Speaker 1: made a world of a difference for us. Yeah, it's

893
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:20,240
Speaker 1: it's so true. Everyone just wants to be heard, and

894
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: so many times we just forget to listen. Um, So

895
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 1: that is a very good tip right there. Yeah. Well,

896
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:29,399
Speaker 1: especially with your crew, I know you've had many They've

897
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:34,840
Speaker 1: had many moments over the course of the past decade together.

898
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 1: I can imagine I've been we didn't see it all.

899
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: There was time we were in the back and you

900
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 1: couldn't tell. There was bites going on, food on the

901
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: wall and stuff was going on, and we're coming out

902
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: and go ahead. Yeah. Yeah, they just still haven't gone

903
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: to the next steps yet. They're still working on that part. Yeah,

904
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 1: all right, before we let you go, I'd love to

905
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 1: get your opinions on what we should binge here and

906
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: watch right now. So what are you listening to right

907
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: now that we all need to be listening to? Oh

908
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 1: my god, Harry Lennox, Jasmine Sullivan. Yeah, uh god, I

909
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: listened to so much. I like the whole school stuff.

910
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 1: That's why I go back to Steed and Pego Ryanson

911
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 1: and Jeffrey Osborne of those kind of people. But I

912
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,879
Speaker 1: listened to everything because I'm a musician, so a lot

913
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: of things just intrigues me. So I go from one

914
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: end of spectrum to the other. Um. But you know,

915
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: I live, love, and live and read music. So yeah.

916
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 1: One one musician that I've just been reacquainted with is

917
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 1: al Green. I've been listening to his music lately. L

918
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: V maybe one of my top five songs of all time. Now,

919
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 1: So you can't teach singers. It's just when you got

920
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 1: business of this gift anointing that is just unique. That

921
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: God gives every end visual and some stands out more

922
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: than others. And al has and have always had this

923
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,839
Speaker 1: thing that when he opens his mouth, it's like he's

924
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 1: just going, man, you're just you're you're mesmerized. What's your

925
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: favorite movie? Oh my god, there's so many. UM, believe

926
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: it or not, I'd have to say, uh, I love life,

927
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: but Eddie and Martin and so many of our it

928
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: was like, whenever I just want to laugh, that's the

929
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 1: movie I put on. Yeah. I don't know if you

930
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 1: have time to bene TV, but are you binging anything

931
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: right now? We need to be watching my brother and

932
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: my dear friend Tyler Perry. He has a show called

933
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: The Oval. You know what I do to him when

934
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: the season goes, when he goes off, he won't he

935
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: won't walk for it. I start asking him like, come on, man,

936
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell nobody. It's like because he goes

937
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 1: to Hell, goes through his place, and he just and

938
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,359
Speaker 1: he starts writing and getting getting. I mean, he just

939
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: writes to all this stuff, and so I'll just call

940
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: and keep going. Also, what uh, what's gonna happen? Uh?

941
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: He's like, man, I'm not gonna tell nobody. And you've

942
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 1: done a lot of acting, and I'm sure you've been

943
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: in Tyler Perry productions. Why doesn't he throw you into Oval? Well,

944
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: I would love to, And uh, that's one of my favorites.

945
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: I remember when he had The Has Having to Have

946
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: Not just that was a another show where you just

947
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:43,359
Speaker 1: get like, just get engulfed and I can't, like, I

948
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 1: can't turn from it. And that's what's now happening with

949
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 1: The Oval. I'm just like, yo, what the heck? And

950
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: then I'll call him and go, what are you on? Like,

951
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: how did you think? Are you serious? But you sound

952
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 1: very creative? Why don't you create your own series? I

953
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: would love to do that. I actually would love that. Um,

954
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: everyone says I got issues everybody in the name of

955
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 1: the series right there, right there and done. See it

956
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,879
Speaker 1: just writes itself. But for me, I love to laugh.

957
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,319
Speaker 1: And I've been around you know, my brothers Eddie, who

958
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: have been around since I was sixteen, seventeen years at

959
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: the age, all my friends that are most of my

960
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 1: friends that are comedians and stuff. So it's just it's

961
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 1: almost a natural thing that I find humor and everything,

962
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,840
Speaker 1: and it's always NonStop of something I'm laughing at. And

963
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: then I realized later that laughter is the best medicine

964
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:40,879
Speaker 1: on the planets. You just have to laugh to keep

965
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 1: from crying. But it's the there's something out of the

966
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 1: day that I'm gonna find that I'm gonna find, I'm

967
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 1: gonna laugh about that. I just find humor and then

968
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: and it is the best medicine on the planet to me. Well,

969
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 1: life itself is humorous. There's a lot of little jokes

970
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 1: going on at all time, but you just have to

971
00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:00,360
Speaker 1: laugh at it. Yeah, Johnny gil I love having you

972
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:03,760
Speaker 1: on the show. I loved getting to know you better. Um.

973
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 1: You know, like I said, if it weren't for you

974
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: and your guys, I wouldn't be sitting here today. So

975
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:11,959
Speaker 1: I thank you for all the influence that you gave

976
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 1: me and my my brothers. Um, you're a great influence.

977
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: And uh, I wish we could have been together forty years.

978
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 1: That would have been God, I tell you. But let

979
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 1: me tell you we broke up for a long period

980
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 1: of time. Yeah never say never. I mean That's what

981
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Walk around doing that and we was like

982
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 1: and something happened yeah, it's like something can yeah, and

983
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: life and you know the one. And that's why I

984
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 1: said never say never. But more importantly, we're proud of

985
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: what you guys have done, and you guys should be proud,

986
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,839
Speaker 1: and even at some point in life, you've just got

987
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: to realize that at some point when you put things

988
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: in perspective and understand that what you were able to

989
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: accomplish that some many others couldn't. Uh to know that

990
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 1: you can't shouldn't take it for granted and learn at

991
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 1: some point. But one word is called forgiveness. But people

992
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 1: have in the right place, in the right space to

993
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 1: do so. But ultimately, let go let God because when

994
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:16,320
Speaker 1: he put you guys together, when y'all created this whole

995
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: thing as a group that has been successful, understand it

996
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:22,879
Speaker 1: wasn't through you guys. Is just through y'all, and you're

997
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: telling your gift that was through his hands that he

998
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 1: put it on. He put put on you guys, and

999
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: he can do anything but fail. And so all we

1000
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: do is continue to live, continue to appreciate what you

1001
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,399
Speaker 1: guys have accomplished, but at the same time, understand some

1002
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 1: people got more growing to do. And it's okay they're

1003
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:43,279
Speaker 1: not going to get to the bus stop at the

1004
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 1: same time. We don't all get there at the same time.

1005
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 1: But at some point, as you get older, you beginning

1006
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: to realize and have a great appreciation for the smaller

1007
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: things in life. You begin to look around and those

1008
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 1: things that you start looking around and you start thinking,

1009
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 1: you're asking yourself, what am I? What was that mad about?

1010
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: What was I tripping on? What does it really matter? Yeah?

1011
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: Really that serious? When you get older, you it really

1012
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 1: does start you start looking at the trees and the

1013
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 1: things that are that you never really paid much attention to,

1014
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 1: and you start having a great appreciation for it and

1015
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:15,839
Speaker 1: the reason why we're here at this point, because we're

1016
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:20,800
Speaker 1: the old battles in here around here, So Liance, but

1017
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 1: you are a wise man, and Johnny Gil, how can

1018
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 1: everyone stay in touch with you out there? Real Johnny

1019
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 1: Gil twenty two on my Instagram and um and that's

1020
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: where my and the Real Johnny Guild as well on

1021
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: my Twitter, um and uh the official Johnny Gil Fan

1022
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 1: fan club page you can find find me on so

1023
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 1: and I answer all you guys. It's a lot of

1024
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 1: you guys. But I do I sit when I have

1025
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 1: my time in space. Start going out and answer, and

1026
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: then they want to ask more questions. I'm going, but

1027
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: I'm just responding. You gotta take care of the fans.

1028
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: That's why we have the show right here. We wanted

1029
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 1: the fans to have direct access little all these legendary

1030
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 1: performers from these amazing groups. UM. Super excited that you

1031
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,880
Speaker 1: were here and I hope to catch up again one day,

1032
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 1: and of course the rest of your members have to

1033
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:14,359
Speaker 1: come on the show too. So absolutely absolutely congratulations man,

1034
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: and keep doing what you're doing. We're all proud of

1035
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 1: you two. Man. Well, I'm gonna see you on this

1036
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: Legacy tour. I can't wait. Yeah, yes, please, man, you

1037
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 1: know wherever you want to come, that's done. Deal. You

1038
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: know that we got you ONLCK. Okay, we'll be there.

1039
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold you to that. I'm gonna hold you.

1040
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 1: I got you absolutely all right, Matt. We'll give the

1041
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,360
Speaker 1: guys my love and uh enjoy the rest of rehearsal.

1042
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:37,759
Speaker 1: Get back to this wet No. I thank you for

1043
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 1: giving me this break. Yeah yeah, anytime you need an

1044
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: excuse to be like, well, I gotta talk to Lance now,

1045
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:50,640
Speaker 1: I gotta go. Thank you so much, Johnny, We'll see

1046
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 1: you later. Thank you so much. All right, Aye, I

1047
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:57,879
Speaker 1: love Johnny nice human. I've always been such a fan

1048
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: right of him individually, of the group. Like I've said,

1049
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:07,279
Speaker 1: we can't give New Addition more credit for being you know,

1050
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:09,479
Speaker 1: for us being who we were within Sink Back Street.

1051
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 1: That's just who we were influenced. We were the kids

1052
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:14,319
Speaker 1: that grew up on that music. Oh yeah, they're the

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Speaker 1: ones who gave White Kid's soul, right, like just some

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Speaker 1: final likes. Not me, but you know JC justin Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's they got that soul from listening to Johnny Gill

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Speaker 1: and New Addition. Yeah, just what it is. What a

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Speaker 1: nice guy I know. And we're definitely going to go

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Speaker 1: see that legacy. I would love to see that residency. Yes,

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Speaker 1: of course they need a Vegas residency. A great. Oh

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Speaker 1: that was so good. It was just now I have

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Speaker 1: a huge smile on my face, so that it's just nice.

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Speaker 1: There was things I just kind of sat back and

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Speaker 1: I just really digested what he was saying. That was beautiful, Yeah, beautiful, beautiful. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean there's nothing else we can say after that

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Speaker 1: interview like that. No one wants to listen to us anymore.

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Speaker 1: So we're just gonna leave it right there. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for listening to for roust Tips out there again.

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Speaker 1: You can review, subscribe and rate and rate five stars

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Speaker 1: five stars only anything less pretend you can't do it,

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Speaker 1: and we do love reading and reviews. In fact, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna start reading some of the reviews on this show.

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Speaker 1: Oh can we even the bad Yeah, in the bad

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Speaker 1: one that there's been any bad there hasn't been, so

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Speaker 1: let maybe start writing some bad reviews. No jk at

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Speaker 1: the very end to give it five stars a bad

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Speaker 1: review and then put JK. Yeah, just kidding, No, don't

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Speaker 1: do most. I love it. No, all right, guys, we

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Speaker 1: love you out there. Don't drink and drive, be good

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Speaker 1: to each other. Turket Turchin. It's been a pleasure. It's

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Speaker 1: always it has been all right. Oh yeah, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna end with our new sign off. What's our new

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Speaker 1: sign off? Stave frosted. Okay, I don't know what that means,

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Speaker 1: but it sounds fun. I know it can so many

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Speaker 1: and don't forget stay frosted. Hey, thanks for listening. Follow

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