Speaker 1: Well we are. That's crazy. We was in the record
Speaker 1: plane in the hallway right near the door, but to
Speaker 1: our yeah, no, he was going. And then you would
Speaker 1: just do something just like, oh, how you knew the
Speaker 1: young Niggers was cracking? Now, it's how you would know
Speaker 1: at Record Plan they would have the scooter with they
Speaker 1: name plates. Yeah, you're walking there? You see the breezy school?
Speaker 1: Do you see the little Mariot here? Okay? Okayis never
Speaker 1: gave me a school? Did she get record? I fuck you?
Speaker 1: Then let me get the court though, let me get
Speaker 1: the goddamn school. Okay, I ain't spend enough money, ain't
Speaker 1: record plan. Here's here's here's another good. Here's a good
Speaker 1: another piece that I want you to address, right, because um,
Speaker 1: we always talk about the highs, but we also, um
Speaker 1: we also addressed address lows or what appear to be lows. Right,
Speaker 1: and so you take off go crazy, oh trying to
Speaker 1: all mean tour like absolutely crazy? Right? What is the
Speaker 1: moment in between all of that and getting to supposed
Speaker 1: to be? It was a lot. It was a lot.
Speaker 1: You forgot touch you've got ice box, I don't forget.
Speaker 1: You're being disrespect forget. Let's do this dog. It was
Speaker 1: just like the dude is dog. You know. The transition.
Speaker 1: The transition started um after Uh Dinny Inner and Lisa
Speaker 1: Ellis uh left Columbia. That's when the transition happened because
Speaker 1: you know, Um, I pretty much growed up in the
Speaker 1: you know, grew up in the business where certain things
Speaker 1: were taken care of, you know what I mean, And
Speaker 1: I didn't understand the importance of having those key components
Speaker 1: and you know record business, you know, or a company
Speaker 1: that you know was an extension and ordered representative of me,
Speaker 1: and that actually really gave a funk about what I
Speaker 1: was doing, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, just understanding
Speaker 1: how that worked, you know what I mean, knowing that
Speaker 1: you need champions in the building, knowing that you need
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like and also the game
Speaker 1: was changing, you know what I'm saying. From the Napster age,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It was like we started
Speaker 1: downloading music and the I the little first iPod came out,
Speaker 1: you know what i mean, And that was the twenty
Speaker 1: one album. You know, Donnianer gave me my biggest you know,
Speaker 1: a check, you know what I'm saying, The biggest check
Speaker 1: I ever received in an advance, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: And you know it was it was a couple of ms,
Speaker 1: you know, saying a couple of ems, saying a couple
Speaker 1: of couple of ms. Yeah, drop then back then right now,
Speaker 1: right now. So after I had the twenty one experience,
Speaker 1: which you know, entourage and ice Box you know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: she was watching me walk always trying to show off
Speaker 1: your little cakes anyway, But after that experience and all
Speaker 1: of that success, you know what I'm saying, it was
Speaker 1: like transition time, you know what I'm saying, which would
Speaker 1: you know, be considered a low you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: which you know, I just want to say for the record,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, the ups and downs and
Speaker 1: make for a great story. You cannot you know, a
Speaker 1: great story is not like this, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like you need you need those ups and downs. And
Speaker 1: you know that really helped me kind of just stepped
Speaker 1: into my business more because that was when I went
Speaker 1: over to a capital and you know that was when
Speaker 1: I you know, first experienced doing you know, a co
Speaker 1: pub I mean a code deal, you know, which was
Speaker 1: like a partnership at that point. Yeah we know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So can Studio shout out
Speaker 1: to the can M Studio. Ye y'all was with me
Speaker 1: the whole way. I'm riding in the car, right and
Speaker 1: I hear I get it in on the radio, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, ship right, this is gonna link the record.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, which which which? Which side? Which? Which? Which?
Speaker 1: By the way, you know, okay, okay, yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I wouldn't even you know, uh savvy
Speaker 1: in that way you know, of releasing records and knowing
Speaker 1: how to you know, build and you know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying before you go into that. Yeah, not to cut
Speaker 1: you off. Most people don't know initially you're going to
Speaker 1: be the first artist on Young Money, right right, I
Speaker 1: get it in has a verse a very exquisite we're
Speaker 1: having about Jody by Little Wayne. Come on, there was
Speaker 1: a whole plan. But now you're learning the business exactly.
Speaker 1: And I gotta stand up for myself, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So after I signed the Young Money, you know,
Speaker 1: and I tell the story. I told the story many times,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But after I got signed
Speaker 1: a Young Money and the business wasn't business, and I
Speaker 1: was like, hold hold up, I gotta make moves. I'm out,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Um. And then that's when
Speaker 1: you know, me and Wayne and Macmain you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: decided to part ways, you know what I'm saying. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that that was my learning curve. That was
Speaker 1: my learning cura. Now. Yeah, and you know, if if
Speaker 1: the businesses is not business, and you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: if you can't take see you know, I already come
Speaker 1: from a business family style perspective, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And now at this point in time when I'm you know,
Speaker 1: over at Capital, I'm getting my feet wet, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So what do I mean by the
Speaker 1: business wasn't business? And it was like people wasn't keeping
Speaker 1: their word and I just didn't have time for that.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. If you say it's one
Speaker 1: thing and then it's another, I don't have time for that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So that was that uh moment,
Speaker 1: because you know that that uh what was that song
Speaker 1: called that Lloyd end up getting on? Um? Yeah, that
Speaker 1: went on to be a you know, crazy record. You know,
Speaker 1: I did get the Drake record. I mean I did
Speaker 1: get to you know, uh do the Yeah, but what
Speaker 1: was that on U? So far gone, so far gone?
Speaker 1: But I did get to So it was still some
Speaker 1: good work that record that we're not gonna brush over
Speaker 1: that record. Yeah, yeah, that record is special. Yeah, shout
Speaker 1: out to Brillar Milestu. That's the homie. Great people made
Speaker 1: a record about you. Yeah that record, bro. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like that record was an introduction to where R
Speaker 1: and B was going straight up, straight up, dam no,
Speaker 1: no no singing off the beat on the beach. It was.
Speaker 1: It was a vibe like, yes, Shan is the ultimate
Speaker 1: vibe we always had, that is what it is. But
Speaker 1: this was like the R and B hip hop. I'm singing,
Speaker 1: but I'm talking to right and I'm emotional. Right, that's facts,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like it but it had
Speaker 1: it was the merge. Yeah, that's fact. That became the
Speaker 1: Bryson Tillers, that became the Weekend that became Scissor, Like
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying that It was literally like listen,
Speaker 1: I'm on a vibe. That's facts, Like I get it,
Speaker 1: I get it right, y'all. Trying to fix vocals and
Speaker 1: ship we vibe right, and I remember that like talking
Speaker 1: to women about that record and being like, you know,
Speaker 1: because we come from a very purist R and B
Speaker 1: stance and we've had to re tune at times, and
Speaker 1: hearing it at first, I'm like, I just like it
Speaker 1: all the way on and this ain't this. And then
Speaker 1: I'm like, but this ship killed. It's wrong, but it's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I gotta shout out Forty because how that how
Speaker 1: that record even came about was because of him, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. We was at the Beverly Wilshire
Speaker 1: and they was just finishing up that keep page, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. He was like, hey, you wanna
Speaker 1: come hop on this record, like you know, successes on
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, cool. I laid down the melody
Speaker 1: and then Drake came back and then we finished the song.
Speaker 1: He was like, I got this melody. He's like, this
Speaker 1: is the best one go off of this, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, so shout out to forty because
Speaker 1: his deal, you know, you know, he's special, special, super special,
Speaker 1: I think, and you made a decision that it's tough
Speaker 1: to make because a lot of times when the business
Speaker 1: isn't businessing because of who it's not businessing with you
Speaker 1: kind of just try to stick around and stick it out.
Speaker 1: You know, this is I mean, this is right. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know because from our side of it too, though, right,
Speaker 1: because we ultimately went in with you on faith and
Speaker 1: that's true belief in our in our little brother, and
Speaker 1: that's fact what I mean, Like there was no upfront
Speaker 1: anything I want to pull up and pull up. We
Speaker 1: put in work with you, and I think initially, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you and I had a conversation about this,
Speaker 1: but I think initially I was upset about it. No,
Speaker 1: it was some friction. I remember, it was some friction. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. I was upset about you know what I
Speaker 1: mean if anybody that knows me like I don't I
Speaker 1: wear my heart on my sleeve and what I'm saying
Speaker 1: like and but then I had to also understand the
Speaker 1: business that you were moving into as your own businessman,
Speaker 1: and with us being businessmen. It made me have more
Speaker 1: understanding and be like, you know what these these this
Speaker 1: is his career. This is songs for us, but this
Speaker 1: is this young man's career. I can't be mad at
Speaker 1: him for how it's playing out. And doing what's best
Speaker 1: for him. And I think a lot of time we
Speaker 1: spoke about this before we got you know, before we
Speaker 1: start recording our feeling about communication. Yeah yeah, and you
Speaker 1: didn't run from that communication, even at a at a
Speaker 1: young age, because still you at this point, you're what before,
Speaker 1: but you didn't run from that. You were like, bro,
Speaker 1: like this is this a situation? Bro? Because I'm like, nigger,
Speaker 1: they leaking the records and they're playing this niggas first,
Speaker 1: we ain't got all this together. You know, we're going
Speaker 1: through that whole phase and you're giving me your side
Speaker 1: of it. Made me have a better understanding and be
Speaker 1: like you know where bro, I get it? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: not get it. You know y'all y'all have been so essential,
Speaker 1: you know, not only just to you know, the music
Speaker 1: that I've I've made, but in this business also you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, you know, y'all standing on
Speaker 1: y'all on two feet. You know, the time I've spent
Speaker 1: with you separately, the time I've spend with you, y'all
Speaker 1: are y'all are men, y'all are real men. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And y'all know that don't really exist
Speaker 1: in this business like that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's a small percentage of people that are gonna stand
Speaker 1: by what they say. And y'all have always been that way,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And that's why I've always
Speaker 1: appreciated y'all and and shown that mutual respect because you know,
Speaker 1: y'all stand on business. You know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: you ain't never you know what I mean. It's been
Speaker 1: times where you know, I'll be in the studio with you,
Speaker 1: I'm like, who is this? You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Who you know what I mean? And it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: go ahead, bro, you know what I mean, Like a
Speaker 1: little brother, you know what I'm saying. Just real love,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You and this man. I
Speaker 1: brought both of y'all to San Francisco. Yep, my thirtieth
Speaker 1: birthday party. Come on, and it was up the city
Speaker 1: with the city embraced you. Niggas like, and you had
Speaker 1: your tank top on. At the end of the night,
Speaker 1: you was ready to fight. Hold up what nigga is
Speaker 1: on right now? Hold up? I was like, Oh, this
Speaker 1: is the real Ja Valentine, This is the real Ja Valentine.
Speaker 1: At the party, his daddy here, the whole family here
Speaker 1: to see out of family different. Oh my goodness. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was tripping that night. Hold up, hold up, it's
Speaker 1: just you know, you know, I was doing gangster dances
Speaker 1: and I'm just jumped me in right now doing our
Speaker 1: right now with my gun at right t doing to
Speaker 1: get you show love. But I've always I've always appreciated
Speaker 1: you for that. My family to this day they love
Speaker 1: you to death the death like man pulled up performed,
Speaker 1: and that was the thing. In this industry, we lose
Speaker 1: the human side, and I think it's something that him
Speaker 1: and I have tried to continue to stand on more
Speaker 1: than even standing on business, stand on being solid humans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, solid humans. Yeah, just to start with yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that. And for you to come out there and
Speaker 1: perform show love, you know what I'm saying. And then,
Speaker 1: like I said, in turn, we we had you know,
Speaker 1: we had the dust stuff about what was going on
Speaker 1: with the music and then but it was so much
Speaker 1: human activity. Yea of of real brotherhood and Nigga's really
Speaker 1: really fucking with each Yeah to say, you know what,
Speaker 1: that's my guy, Yeah, that's my guy. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, Okay, this little business ship happened, but
Speaker 1: that's my guy. Yeah, so we're rocking. Facts, we're rocking,
Speaker 1: and that's how we took it. That's how we took
Speaker 1: were just like, hey, yo, it didn't happen as it
Speaker 1: was as it was strategized. But nigga, we're on and
Speaker 1: we're rocking. Yeah. Yeah, so that ship happens. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, it's about communication.
Speaker 1: It's about communication and having those conversations and not um
Speaker 1: not just disappearing on niggas getting ghost you know. I
Speaker 1: mean a lot of nig to get ghosts. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's get ghosts man, instead of just standing in
Speaker 1: front of it and say amazing, you know what, that's
Speaker 1: my bad, bro. Yeah. I think also, you know, it's
Speaker 1: important to be utilized and you know, and not just used,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And that's always been my
Speaker 1: energy in any workspace, you know what I'm saying. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, working with y'all has has definitely you know,
Speaker 1: shaped my writing, you know what I mean, and shaped
Speaker 1: you know, uh what oh Marian music sounds like because
Speaker 1: you know, in the beginning, you know, it was y'all
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I definitely want to
Speaker 1: salute y'all and tell y'all that you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: If I never expressed that to y'all, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like much respect, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: because you know, y'all have not only been a part
Speaker 1: of my career, you know what I mean, but y'all
Speaker 1: helped shape me too, you know what I'm saying as
Speaker 1: a creative, you know, yeah, straight up, like you would
Speaker 1: when we're in that studio, bro, Like you would be
Speaker 1: so fixed on people the way you were studying, right,
Speaker 1: and I like, are you looking at me? But you
Speaker 1: were like you weren't just listening for the notes, like
Speaker 1: you were studying mannerisms. You were like, yeah, come on,
Speaker 1: let me see it. What is it you were downloading?
Speaker 1: All up? That's facts. He's a different kind of month. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: that's facts. That's facts. But you have to continue to evolve. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's facts. And I think so many artists get in
Speaker 1: their own way of oh, I'm just this, this is me, Like, no,
Speaker 1: we're all pieces facts of what and what comes after.
Speaker 1: If you want to stay current what you mean, Drake
Speaker 1: is a great example of that he respects the art.
Speaker 1: If you don't, hey little yeah, you don't. I need
Speaker 1: you from the gutter, right, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: trying to figure out be respect. I respect it's great artistry.
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson. Yeah, that's facts. He he told you the
Speaker 1: guys that he was watching. Yeah, he made homage to
Speaker 1: him that. I mean, like, this is what we're supposed
Speaker 1: to do in this business. We gotta stop getting in
Speaker 1: our own way of I'm just this and I'm that. Nigga,
Speaker 1: you don't have a season, come on, come on, come on,
Speaker 1: and that season is going to end. So hopefully you
Speaker 1: know how to evolve and transform into other things that
Speaker 1: people are still interested in. Survive that winner exactly. Winter,
Speaker 1: Winter is coming. It's always come, so always coming, It's
Speaker 1: always coming. It's always go for real. So okay, so
Speaker 1: you go through that phase. You're now you're getting into
Speaker 1: your business. Made back, Oh, made back? Oh, because I
Speaker 1: remember being at the house and I'm like these classes.
Speaker 1: What is he doing? Yeah, I had like a press
Speaker 1: conference and ship. Yeah, you know that was that was
Speaker 1: you know, I really attribute that experience too. Really just
Speaker 1: wanting to you know, belong to something, man, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's essentially where I came from. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I came from a camp, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And when I ran into Rose,
Speaker 1: you know, for the first time, he was just like, Yo,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do some business, you know what i mean,
Speaker 1: And it has been so long since I've seen somebody
Speaker 1: you know, interested, you know, in that way, you know,
Speaker 1: to allow me to just you know, creatively do my
Speaker 1: thing and also to contribute to his business. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Um So yeah maybeck oh what a time, man,
Speaker 1: What a time, just just you know, uh, tapping into
Speaker 1: you know, another me, another version of me, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Those records, those people that I was
Speaker 1: working with, you know, completely just a different era, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, They're different time. Man. I have
Speaker 1: fun too, you know what I'm saying, because you know,
Speaker 1: as a young child protege, you know, I felt restricted,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I felt it restricted as
Speaker 1: far as you know, like my movement and how I
Speaker 1: needed to move. And you know what I mean. When
Speaker 1: I started flying out to a Miami you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, vibing with a Rose a good place. It
Speaker 1: was different. It was just like it was different. Hold
Speaker 1: up on the boat today, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We hold on you know it was it was a
Speaker 1: complete vibe. Could become intoxicating. It was. It was intoxicating. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. We made a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of great records out of Miami.
Speaker 1: Remember remember us being in King of Diamonds. You know,
Speaker 1: me and and the Valentine just played basketball and he played.
Speaker 1: We was playing basketball. Did I win the money that night?
Speaker 1: I played the one on one? I think you did.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you still it was just like, yeah you
Speaker 1: got you gotta come on you um And we stayed
Speaker 1: and we stayed in King of Diamonds until King of
Speaker 1: Diamond's closed, because that's just that's what they needed. This' say,
Speaker 1: who tried to kidnap Jack? Okay you always got kidnap?
Speaker 1: Yeah it's grown. I don't know if it's a grown nap,
Speaker 1: it's to grow. Yeah. She was aggressive, she was aggressive.
Speaker 1: What do you need? Oh wow, home, I gotta get that.
Speaker 1: So we go, we go to the hotel, get a
Speaker 1: little rest, get to the studio, and literally make I
Speaker 1: can't make you love me? Come on. I'm still drunk
Speaker 1: singing those vocals. That's crazy. But Miami is just survived
Speaker 1: from making the Fox, you know, Jamie's album, that unpredictable
Speaker 1: until like I just got moments man working on a
Speaker 1: Rico love. Yeah, yeah, it's just a fine houses. Just
Speaker 1: come on, always a vibe man. The clutch was formed
Speaker 1: out there. The clutch was formed out there. Hit factory, yeah, factory,
Speaker 1: working with Tim out there. I waited on Tim for
Speaker 1: four days. Oh four Yeah, but my name is in place,
Speaker 1: you can wait four days. But for Timberland, I would
Speaker 1: have would have got to wait. Yeah, my favorite producer.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting. I go down to Prime and wait for
Speaker 1: I don't really drink like that, so wait, wait and pryme.
Speaker 1: Fish Sta hip hop community, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Um I wait. I waited. Tim sat not ready to
Speaker 1: say okay, wait until he's ready. That was the Dela
Speaker 1: Oh yes, sir, yes, sir. Yeah. All my trips to
Speaker 1: Miami were so. That's actually when I got first introduced
Speaker 1: to Noble. I was working with for rel and O
Speaker 1: y no no. I was just just a fun fact,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Because he introduced me to
Speaker 1: Noble you know what I mean, Oh to the actual guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm like, oh, but we was
Speaker 1: at his restaurant too, you know, I'm sure, yeah, what's
Speaker 1: the other look at? What's the other? Look at? He
Speaker 1: was there? Okay, yeah, yeah, I've real which is you know,
Speaker 1: which records with his stuff? He told me he's going
Speaker 1: to do a record with me. Prell told me. He's like,
Speaker 1: I got you, We're gonna do something to me. I'm
Speaker 1: looking into the camera hopefully he's looking for come on,
Speaker 1: you can do the touch, then come on, page you
Speaker 1: gotta learn. He was dancing in the video. He was
Speaker 1: kind of dancing. I can do that same robbing I
Speaker 1: challenge you off anyway. Um, let's move forward, man, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's move forward. Let's move forward. Yeah. So after after
Speaker 1: the may back music, Um, where do we go after that?
Speaker 1: Oh supposed to be? Yeah, that's what That's what posts
Speaker 1: to be happened. Yeah, so that was video. Shoot you
Speaker 1: was yeah, man, I paid for that video. I remember,
Speaker 1: I was taking responsibility. It was time, you know, I
Speaker 1: got the phone cart It was like man, oh man,
Speaker 1: I'm like, of course, yeah, yeah, no, it was it
Speaker 1: was that was a special time just because you know.
Speaker 1: That was when I was on Atlantic and Man, it
Speaker 1: seemed that you know, I had that, I had the
Speaker 1: whole building. I had to support, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I was sitting down with everybody, and then it was
Speaker 1: like then I didn't and I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I need to do something. I need to do something
Speaker 1: to help me promote this song, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And that's when I went on Loving hip Hop, you know,
Speaker 1: and that what that was, that was my that was
Speaker 1: another transition moment. But initially I went on there because
Speaker 1: I knew number one that it was trying for me
Speaker 1: to really grow up. You know what I'm saying. Um,
Speaker 1: you know a lot everybody didn't allow me to come
Speaker 1: out of the you know, that's phase, even though I
Speaker 1: had been su exactly. It was like I couldn't. I
Speaker 1: couldn't get away from that, you know what I'm saying. Um,
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know that's that's initially why I went
Speaker 1: on Love and hip Hop. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I had my relationship, you know, I had my child,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that essentially was my real
Speaker 1: exactly How was that experience for you though? Like letting
Speaker 1: your life play out on TV. Well, see, because you know,
Speaker 1: I have experienced you know, TV, and I understand what
Speaker 1: it means to edit and make a storyline. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: I was. I was prepared because we talked. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was prepared. We got it. We we glanced over when
Speaker 1: you was acting, but you know you got served. Come on, Hey,
Speaker 1: it's a legendary movie. Classic, classic, man classic. I showed
Speaker 1: it to my kids just a few maybe a few
Speaker 1: years ago. My kids, they weren't around at that time, y'all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they was interested in it. That's that's how you
Speaker 1: test things out too, especially not in their time frame,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, and my daughter just
Speaker 1: watching Drumline the other night, she locked it. You got service,
Speaker 1: one of the movies that translates. Yeah, yeah, come on, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a whole time a little sa you know
Speaker 1: you know what I actually, I actually wrote a dance film,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Um, I personally believe, you know, um,
Speaker 1: not only because I'm a part of the dance community,
Speaker 1: and I'm in the dance community. It's so many great
Speaker 1: stories and the thing about dance what people don't even
Speaker 1: understand is it's a full display of exuberance when you're happy,
Speaker 1: you dance. When you win money, you dance. So dancing
Speaker 1: is you know, culturally uh necessary, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So what's the thing that used to have? What's the carnival? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The carnival? Yeah I think that. Yeah years ago, I
Speaker 1: forgot who invited me. I have no idea. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: to come about the whole community in the world of dance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's this is fucking amazing. Yeah. Yeah, so it's still amazing.
Speaker 1: It's still some dance films to be made. You know,
Speaker 1: if anybody's gonna do it, it's gotta be come on now, yeah,
Speaker 1: come on now, you gotta do that movie. It's supposed
Speaker 1: to be out smash yep, yep after six months though,
Speaker 1: after six months of working the record myself. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Your money? Yeah, your money remember the time.
Speaker 1: That's a different that's facts. I needed that one because
Speaker 1: because people don't understand that, you know, especially when you're
Speaker 1: getting like partnerships and things. Because were you were you
Speaker 1: an artist deal at that point? Were you in a
Speaker 1: partnership with no, I was in a I was in
Speaker 1: uh with may Back Music. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They were a part of supposed to be it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were a part of that. Yeah, ok, yeah, because
Speaker 1: um that album was sex Playlist. Yes, so that was
Speaker 1: the album that essentially came after the a few other
Speaker 1: songs that we put out on some of them, I
Speaker 1: want to call them mixtapes. You know, the volumes. Don't
Speaker 1: lead a video. You said, don't leave, should have had
Speaker 1: a video. Come on, come on out. You delivered that.
Speaker 1: Come on. Remember shout out to our brother Micael. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Micah shout out to Michael. Yeah. You know, we went
Speaker 1: to high school together to that's how we know each other.
Speaker 1: But that's the like that l A Southern California thing, bro,
Speaker 1: Like we spoke about this, like and I told you,
Speaker 1: I like there's a there's there's something about l A
Speaker 1: Southern California, l A County representatives and people who are
Speaker 1: really from here, like right, like taking our outside is
Speaker 1: we're not from here, So there's always a home that
Speaker 1: we can go to away from the business. Right you
Speaker 1: and I just spoke about the other night. Can you
Speaker 1: kind of speak to that a little bit, bro of
Speaker 1: there's no or else for y'all to go. This is
Speaker 1: this is this is home and it's and it's so
Speaker 1: connected emerged into this business, that's true, that it's like
Speaker 1: you can't get away from it. There's a Nikka who
Speaker 1: is a full gang members, full killer, probably doing a
Speaker 1: honey years. That was your neighbor, Yeah for sure, that's
Speaker 1: like Yo, I went to school with Marian know he
Speaker 1: was Mari then though, and he pressed over. Yeah no, actually, actually,
Speaker 1: my my boy, my best friend. We went to elementary together.
Speaker 1: Um he um. He just got a letter that he'll
Speaker 1: be able to come home a little bit early. He'd
Speaker 1: been in there twelve years. I think you might have
Speaker 1: met him. His name, his name is Bony. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, just to speak to that. Yes, but we
Speaker 1: got relatives everywhere, but even within this industry of like
Speaker 1: sometimes you know, like we had CO sign on and
Speaker 1: I me and CO spoke about the situation where he
Speaker 1: went back to Chicago, and I got on his ask
Speaker 1: about going back to Chicago. So I'm like, nigger, don't quit, right.
Speaker 1: I know that's where you're from, but you're not going
Speaker 1: there to to build something else at home. You're going
Speaker 1: there because right now you didn't win in l A.
Speaker 1: He was forced to go home. Speak on the pressures
Speaker 1: of this being home. Yeah, there's nowhere for y'all to go.
Speaker 1: It's nowhere to retreat to of like I used to be.
Speaker 1: I used to be. You can't get away from it.
Speaker 1: So that has to be a whole another pressure. It is,
Speaker 1: it is, but it is and it's not you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Um, you know, uh, you know, we
Speaker 1: still take the back streets, you know, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: we still take the back streets you know of for
Speaker 1: me because we come from because I come from such
Speaker 1: a place where entertainment or you know, let's just say
Speaker 1: a lot of people from other places come and make
Speaker 1: their dreams come true. You know. Um, you still, you know,
Speaker 1: got to navigate in a way that you can you know,
Speaker 1: maintain your you know your size, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And I do that. I do that well, you know,
Speaker 1: with not always being where everybody is, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, But it is true in fact that all
Speaker 1: of us that are born and raised here is Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, we could go to New York, but you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, we're we're appreciated there too. They
Speaker 1: love us there, you know what I mean. Like I
Speaker 1: got a huge fan base in New York. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, but it's not home, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, you know, our culture is everybody's culture.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Our food is everybody's food,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So being from here, you know,
Speaker 1: and not having essentially a place to go home to,
Speaker 1: I think I think. I think the way that I
Speaker 1: look at it is more souls like just I just
Speaker 1: appreciate where I am, you know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: appreciate this place. When it's time for me to do business,
Speaker 1: I know where to go, I know where to be,
Speaker 1: I know where the time to go, what not to do.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's just kind of always
Speaker 1: been that way. You know what I mean. I mean,
Speaker 1: but but I can't go take a drive up to
Speaker 1: Big Bear. You know what I'm saying. I can't go
Speaker 1: drive to Vegas. You know what I mean. I still, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can go to but you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I still get you know what I mean. I'm in
Speaker 1: the valley over there, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: you know, it is places the duck off. But for
Speaker 1: the most part, you know what I mean To speak
Speaker 1: about what you're saying, Like, yeah, man, this is home.
Speaker 1: This is what it is seven. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: All day every day where we're going. Who house we
Speaker 1: going to? Okay? Are were lining up? Okay? What's up?
Speaker 1: We were working what? You know what I mean, like
Speaker 1: it is always something to do here. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean. All right, let's let's get to it. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the Okay, I don't come on, let's get down.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about it. You're standing backstage. That backstage was
Speaker 1: out of control, and listen you you're so zin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you had zin room. And there was a moment with
Speaker 1: me and Tank was like, we gotta go see all.
Speaker 1: You know, they had us, they had us in another room, right,
Speaker 1: Pleasure the turnout. There's Jamie Fox is puff Daddy, there's
Speaker 1: Pleasure Peace and most people don't know that. They do
Speaker 1: know it comes to throwing house party. Yeah, there's puff Daddy,
Speaker 1: Jamie Fox and Pleasure. Motherfucking that. Nil know how to
Speaker 1: throw a party, and he knows how to throw a
Speaker 1: backstage and somehow, I won't say somehow it's probably my
Speaker 1: fault because we're on the record together. We're in the
Speaker 1: party room. But there was a moment me and Tank
Speaker 1: looked at each other. It was like, we gotta go
Speaker 1: see all we go. Let's go get some zin keep
Speaker 1: your ballance coming to room in backstage bance. Everybody's focused
Speaker 1: on the show and then we should go right here.
Speaker 1: Here's what I want to ask you. I'm backstage the time.
Speaker 1: I mean, the show was three hours, two hours behind,
Speaker 1: like crazy. I got the babies at the house by himself,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm like, I'm like, I gotta get
Speaker 1: out of here. And I'm standing there with line and
Speaker 1: Line It's like, no, you just you just hang out.
Speaker 1: It's gonna it's gonna be time soon. And and I'm
Speaker 1: standing there and I'm watching, like all right, I'm just
Speaker 1: you know, chill out. You know, everybody's going back and forth,
Speaker 1: you know, the words going back and forth, and the
Speaker 1: will I'm not thinking about that. But then there's something
Speaker 1: strange happens. And I've never seen before on the stage,
Speaker 1: and I've never ever seen ever, ever ever. You were
Speaker 1: the first, you and your brother. I saw somebody walk
Speaker 1: out some watermelonis. How do you walk out water? I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know. The watermelons a pit and I
Speaker 1: and then you say, and this is how, this is
Speaker 1: how it goes down and y'all started eating the watermelons.
Speaker 1: It's back staves and I don't know what to do
Speaker 1: right now. I'm here to support my brother, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what to do right now. Yo,
Speaker 1: It's so funny. It's so funny. It's so funny because
Speaker 1: you know what made you say? I want to Because
Speaker 1: because you're a performer, right, You're a performer, You're a
Speaker 1: you're a strategic performer. What made you say? And then
Speaker 1: when we pull out these watermelons were gonna kill it? Well,
Speaker 1: you know the watermelon. You know what I'm saying. Uh, Well, first,
Speaker 1: let me tell you where the idea, you know, struck.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know, there used to
Speaker 1: be a time back in the day you're for me.
Speaker 1: You noticed when it's that time, when it's time to
Speaker 1: get sexy, it's time to speak metaphorically to the womb.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Yeah, you got to talk
Speaker 1: to the womb directly, to talk directly to it, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But seeing the world we live
Speaker 1: in nowadays, you know, they're just not open. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, They're not open. They don't see how
Speaker 1: you know, the watermelon has to really do with the
Speaker 1: pH balance, you know what I'm saying. So we you know,
Speaker 1: displaying the importance of fruit and also the importance of
Speaker 1: the sweetness of the nectar of a woman. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So you know, um, no, no, we
Speaker 1: we we need to see. Yeah, we neat to see
Speaker 1: them from Yeah, we we gotta eat to see the one. Bro. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't. We don't want to eat them, you know,
Speaker 1: biological from the come I'm saying, I ain't never had
Speaker 1: one before, you know what I'm saying. But yeah, come on, conte,
Speaker 1: you come on. So you know, uh, you know, me
Speaker 1: and me and my bro, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We we had to make that moment, you know, which
Speaker 1: essentially came to you know, the old melon. That's what
Speaker 1: they call it online. Old melon. Yeah, and we're about
Speaker 1: to we getting prepared. This is the first time y'all
Speaker 1: hearing it. You know, I'm about to get a watermelon company.
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, man saying about to get a
Speaker 1: watermelon company called the Old Melons. I don't know if
Speaker 1: y'all have ever experienced the orange watermelon or the yellow watermelon.
Speaker 1: Have y'all experienced that before? Okay, so when the season
Speaker 1: comes back around, I'm gonna come personally bring bring y'all son,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I want my melons, no for real. But
Speaker 1: it had changed your life, man, yellow but the orange
Speaker 1: one O. Whoa, my lord, I knew what you were doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, it was just it was just fun.
Speaker 1: Just never been done before. Yeah, just fun in front
Speaker 1: of the hood, and I was supposed to come out.
Speaker 1: It was a very hood verd the hood, like the
Speaker 1: most hood is in the middle was singing up and
Speaker 1: I see a girl say saying that ship nigger right, yeah, numbers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we have fun with the water.
Speaker 1: Man's just be honest. I just had to message you
Speaker 1: don't know what ladies were men of the cloth ladies.
Speaker 1: I don't care what you know, what I mean, what
Speaker 1: he think? What don't know about you? This is about you, baby,
Speaker 1: and I want you to know. That's your camera right there.
Speaker 1: That's that's just about you, baby, And I want you
Speaker 1: to know. Okay, this is a surprize. My moth is surprized.
Speaker 1: If you if you ever, if you ever get the
Speaker 1: opportunity to be affectionate and we're on that level. I
Speaker 1: meet you up like a watermelon, baby, like a watermelon.
Speaker 1: How may eat you? Like water man or melon? You know,
Speaker 1: it's something so sweet about a watermelon. Will you be
Speaker 1: my watermelon? Can I tas s? Yeah? Yeah, they could
Speaker 1: just go Hannibal. Let your brother was sure the old melon,
Speaker 1: he's coming to a grocery near you. It's gonna come.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come. But yeah, you know, we man versus
Speaker 1: what an experience, you know, whatever, what a you know,
Speaker 1: all the guys on their shut up you and Mario
Speaker 1: setting the table for an amazing event, an amazing event.
Speaker 1: Shout out the pleasure. P ray J, who ran across
Speaker 1: the stage eighty five times on the Warrior was called
Speaker 1: um Bobby V. Sammy Like yeah, you guys, and you
Speaker 1: know there's always gonna be you know, noise of course,
Speaker 1: always going to be the negative and the and they
Speaker 1: should have did this. I wish they would have done that.
Speaker 1: But you're on that stage. You can't critique my entertainment.
Speaker 1: You ain't on that stage. And I am entertained they
Speaker 1: didn't call you. They didn't call you. They're called them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we and we humbly accept what you gave us. Hey,
Speaker 1: I appreciate Hey, I appreciate that, and thank you for
Speaker 1: coming through. You know what I'm saying, Because I came
Speaker 1: over you feel me. I'm like, Yo, that's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do, you know. And although you know it wasn't
Speaker 1: like the perfect knight for me, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: it still was a great night. And it still was
Speaker 1: like what an opportunity, you know what I'm saying to
Speaker 1: you know represent you know all the music that I
Speaker 1: come from, you know what I'm saying, and and be uh,
Speaker 1: you know, important to that, to that music. And we
Speaker 1: don't deal in perfection. We're dealing showing up. Of course,
Speaker 1: we're dealing showing up. Of course we look. We don't
Speaker 1: mind having a little dirt on it. Come on, man, hey,
Speaker 1: guess what, nobody's perfect. We won't be, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So yeah, listen to let's listen, let's talk.
Speaker 1: Let's already to talk some R and B okay, because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you you know, um,
Speaker 1: you gotta really love you gotta really experience a woman,
Speaker 1: You gotta really experience multiple women in order to really
Speaker 1: tap in to R and B. You know, um, fucking
Speaker 1: is one thing, you know what I'm saying. Having sex
Speaker 1: is one thing, But you have to experience making love
Speaker 1: in order to properly articulate R and B. And I
Speaker 1: just want to say that for the record, because you
Speaker 1: know the music, you know the words, the context. You know,
Speaker 1: as someone who makes music from experience, you feel me.
Speaker 1: You both of y'all. You know you y'all understand the
Speaker 1: importance of speaking the truth. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And I feel like R and B is getting back
Speaker 1: into that place of where people want to feel again,
Speaker 1: and it's important what's being said. But let's talk about it.
Speaker 1: Let's let's let's talk, let's tell let's this is a
Speaker 1: Warrios Top five Top five? Do we need music for?
Speaker 1: Top five? Top five? Do we mix the sname music? Come?
Speaker 1: Top five? Top five five, Top five? We are all
Speaker 1: your top five. We're gonna get into the top five.
Speaker 1: Mario Mario's top come on, Maria, come on. Top five,
Speaker 1: Top five, Top five, Top five Best R and B,
Speaker 1: Top five R and B Singers, Top five R and
Speaker 1: B sing Um definitely, Michael Jackson, Definitely, Stevie Wonder um
Speaker 1: uh definitely, Marvin Gaye, Um, definitely, um uh, Frankie Beverly.
Speaker 1: People don't know how hard it is to sing those
Speaker 1: Frankie Beverly songs in real life. Okay, okay, okay with
Speaker 1: a white hat on arenas, right. Um? And then who's
Speaker 1: gonna be my fifth? Who's gonna take me home? Let's
Speaker 1: just think about this, um, male singers, it's probably, it's probably,
Speaker 1: it's probably, it's probably Fred Hammond. It's probably Fred Hammond.
Speaker 1: And these are all people that you know, I've studied
Speaker 1: and and you know, listen to over the years that
Speaker 1: has helped shape and mold, you know, my tone, because
Speaker 1: my tone is unlike you know anyone else, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So these is you know, representing some
Speaker 1: real man sang you know what I mean. So that's
Speaker 1: my top five. And as we before we go to
Speaker 1: the next piece of top five, it was something that
Speaker 1: I discovered about you just singing with you. As we
Speaker 1: were getting into those sessions, I was like, he's not
Speaker 1: the first tenor yep, like this, these sounds are too high, yep,
Speaker 1: Like we got to bring him back down so he
Speaker 1: can shine in his space exactly because he's also a
Speaker 1: performer exactly, so we don't need him straining to sing
Speaker 1: and working over time trying to perform, like no, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's put him right here. Come on. And you know
Speaker 1: that was that Steve Russell transition into Ja Valentine. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. When I really started to mold
Speaker 1: my sound, but it was it was through y'all sound,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. All right, here more top
Speaker 1: five Marion like the song five? Okay, man, your top
Speaker 1: five R and B songs, Top five RB song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's hard. That's gonna be hard with the jams man. Okay.
Speaker 1: You know when you're riding in one of your nice
Speaker 1: one of your nice expensive should it's so many though,
Speaker 1: it's so many day okay, so just five of them,
Speaker 1: R and B slappers, R and B slappers. So the
Speaker 1: first one that came to mind, But I think I
Speaker 1: want to change it. Um now, I'm gonna keep it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it as w V week that's my one.
Speaker 1: Come on, you know what I'm saying. Um, come on,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Okay? Human nature? Come on? Human nature? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, Um, we gotta get an us your song
Speaker 1: in there. We gotta get. Maybe that's what it's made for.
Speaker 1: Come on now, So that's the three? Right? Yeah? Facts good?
Speaker 1: What's another one? Have you been to Vegas? Yes? I have.
Speaker 1: I took I took my son for his seventh birthday.
Speaker 1: I tell your son was Geeg too, because man, I've
Speaker 1: seen it. He was sitting there. Yeah yeah, okay, So
Speaker 1: I got two more? Right, okay, two more? Let me
Speaker 1: think about two more? Who am I thinking about? They
Speaker 1: gotta be good? Um? Does everybody take long? Or no? World? Okay? Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: because I need to look at my phone. Let me
Speaker 1: look at my phone. Let me look at my phone
Speaker 1: over here. Let me see you what army? Um, I've
Speaker 1: been listening to you because you know I'll be on
Speaker 1: the I'll be on the AfroB vibes. You know they're
Speaker 1: searching for it. Okay, for the next he's making sure
Speaker 1: he's adding corrections. Oh we get. I can name some
Speaker 1: women's songs to right, whatever you want? Okay, top five,
Speaker 1: it's your top five. Okay, it's only your top five.
Speaker 1: No one else is tough. Okay, all right, I got
Speaker 1: I got one, D'Angelo. How does it feel? Untitled? Untitled? Yes,
Speaker 1: no one shout out to rap. That's one of the
Speaker 1: best songs I've ever heard in my life, for real,
Speaker 1: for the first time and for the one thousand times.
Speaker 1: And you get that same feeling in my life from
Speaker 1: the musicianship, from the writing to the vocals. Do you
Speaker 1: know the actual words? And if you're gonna say that,
Speaker 1: if you and if you're havy, I can provide you're
Speaker 1: kidding me? Hello, He's amazing, amazing. That made me realize
Speaker 1: I understood the words because you know, it just wants
Speaker 1: to come on, it just it just happens. Come on,
Speaker 1: I'm titled. That song made me mad too, because when
Speaker 1: the video came out, come on. The girl I was
Speaker 1: with at the time, I was like, I was like,
Speaker 1: what's going on? You? All right? You need something? What
Speaker 1: you need? He was ready to cut off? What you need?
Speaker 1: Can I help you? Was ready to cut off? Relaxed
Speaker 1: you like you like muscle? I got muscle? What's saying?
Speaker 1: I got muscle? He's sweating? Is what is it? Ship?
Speaker 1: You like him sweating? You want to know who down there?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Okay? All right, I got another one,
Speaker 1: m um, it's the last one. May hold up, um,
Speaker 1: let me make sure that's right. Oh um, hold on,
Speaker 1: let me just make sure the titles right because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call it something else. Oh um. Footsteps in the
Speaker 1: Dark by Issley Brothers. M hmm, come on amazing, come
Speaker 1: on amazing, like, yeah, you did it? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Come on, yeah me, come on, come on
Speaker 1: all right? What's you got from? What else you got?
Speaker 1: That was his top? Okay? Um, we're making the R
Speaker 1: B voltron? Okay, And we want to know as you
Speaker 1: make this voltron, this R and B R and B singer,
Speaker 1: who are you getting the vocals from? Who are you
Speaker 1: getting the styling from, who are you getting the performance
Speaker 1: style from? And who are you getting the passion from.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the vocals to create your vote your machine.
Speaker 1: You're grabbing the vocal from. Where am I grabbing the
Speaker 1: vocal from to make the voltron? Oh, it's it's probably Fred,
Speaker 1: it's probably Fred. H Yeah, you want to soul piercing vocal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you need you need that that that that tone. As
Speaker 1: soon as it's that first tone, exactly who it is,
Speaker 1: you know what's going on? And it's like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: what's going on? So I would say somewhere somewhere in
Speaker 1: there that that tone you. Who are you getting the
Speaker 1: performance style from? Definitely Michael, Definitely Michael m m Yeah,
Speaker 1: soul saving Michael Jack's okay, Yeah. Who are you getting
Speaker 1: the styling from the style of vocal styling or the
Speaker 1: performance styling? Oh? The poor performance the oh easy? Probably
Speaker 1: like probably like a mix between um Pharrell prints and
Speaker 1: Kanye Yah. Yeah, so mixed between them. So, but but
Speaker 1: is out man? What not that outfit? But man is
Speaker 1: button niggut on the horse with like yeasy symbols? And
Speaker 1: but he got he got on some limited limited babes. No,
Speaker 1: he might he might have he might have some some
Speaker 1: some great sweats on with no draws, you know, sitting
Speaker 1: you niggas? Wow, Man just said, what are you saying?
Speaker 1: You started with the print great sweat fans, no draws
Speaker 1: on Marion challenges ship sitting on a draft as is
Speaker 1: that Jack Bard you hold up? I got him clothes?
Speaker 1: That's that's you know what I'm saying, something something that
Speaker 1: shows the you know, the flesh. But also like whatever
Speaker 1: the other pieces are is like they get some great
Speaker 1: piece custom custom Who who are you getting the passion
Speaker 1: the heart of the artist, the heart of the artist,
Speaker 1: the heart of the artists. Um, I want to say,
Speaker 1: I want to say, uh, what's my man name? Teddy Pendergrash,
Speaker 1: the heart of Teddy Pendergrash. I don't know if y'all
Speaker 1: checked out his documentary. Oh so you see how much
Speaker 1: heart it takes. You see how much soul and passion
Speaker 1: it takes to continue to move forward, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? So I would say Teddy Pendergrash. Yeah, great, votron. Whoa,
Speaker 1: that's a crazy vote tron. Know what kind of songs
Speaker 1: coming from there? Unlimited? Yeah, that's facts. Do whatever you want,
Speaker 1: that's facts. So we got this very important segment. Do
Speaker 1: we need music for that music? Fuck it? Fuck it.
Speaker 1: Ain't saying no name, no names names, that's the name
Speaker 1: of this segment. Ain't saying that a story that can
Speaker 1: either be funny er fucked up. Are funnier and fucked up.
Speaker 1: The only rule to the story is that you don't
Speaker 1: say no names. You say nobody that's involved in this
Speaker 1: story with you no names. M hmm, it's gonna man.
Speaker 1: You know, my life has been such an open book,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, It's very few stories. Now
Speaker 1: you got something you got something. Come on, it could
Speaker 1: be c O five Honey stories. It can be Bentley's stories.
Speaker 1: And then listen, you've been my party for a long time,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, it could be some of the
Speaker 1: wallpaper that was you know what I mean that lined
Speaker 1: up the studio at the time. Okay, all right, I
Speaker 1: got one. Okay, so this is Oh Mario came get
Speaker 1: my ship. This is O Mario. Ain't no name. I
Speaker 1: ain't saying I ain't saying no name. I ain't saying
Speaker 1: no name. But one time I heard overheard this convo.
Speaker 1: It was just a word. It was okay, let me think,
Speaker 1: um okay, Uh, Me and uh a friend of mine,
Speaker 1: you know, we was in the studio. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know how much. I don't know if this would
Speaker 1: be surprising or not, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how it ends, but I could
Speaker 1: tell you that me and this particular person was hanging
Speaker 1: out with some young ladies, and um, you know, the
Speaker 1: young lady came to us and she told her she said,
Speaker 1: she said, I want both of y'all. Yeah, she said,
Speaker 1: I want both of y'all to night m hm yeah.
Speaker 1: And I ain't saying no names. Can you play trained music?
Speaker 1: But but but I want to also add that I
Speaker 1: was maybe twenty three at this point, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So, um, even though I was experienced, you know, Um,
Speaker 1: a woman has never been that straightforward, you know. So
Speaker 1: it kind of made me nervous. It kind of made
Speaker 1: me nervous. And I ain't saying old names. What happened
Speaker 1: at the end of the story. But you can come
Speaker 1: to your own ideas. Yeah, there's nothing happened, but things happened,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But I ain't saying no names.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like it's it's when a woman kind
Speaker 1: of assumes a different position, probably the position that you
Speaker 1: were supposed to play. It can sell you all. And
Speaker 1: it did and it did, and if you're not careful,
Speaker 1: it can mess up your blood flow. You gotta be focused.
Speaker 1: And in these type of situations, if someone you know,
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Speaker 1: man of the craft. You gotta be a true cocksman.
Speaker 1: You gotta be a cocksman. You gotta be a to
Speaker 1: perform well under these circumstances. All in all, at that
Speaker 1: particular time, that was new to me, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So that was, you know, without without giving
Speaker 1: any names, that is very interesting, it was. But it
Speaker 1: was a good night. Hey. You know, I always invite
Speaker 1: people to be themselves. See who you're gonna be. She
Speaker 1: ran a train on y'all, she didn't. Okay, listen, man, listen,
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