WEBVTT - INTERVIEW: Eric Bellinger On Independent Music Journey, Married Life, Therapy + More 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.240 Every day a week. Click up the Breakfast Club. You 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:06.680 don't finish for y'all done. 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:11.239 Morning, everybody in Steve j Envy just hilarious, Charlamagne the 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:13.159 gud We are the Breakfast Club. Long the roads to 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:13.880 see it as well. 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.400 We got a special guest in the Belding Absolutely, Eric Bellinger. 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:21.439 Welcome you doing man, happy to be back. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:23.480 Now you're in town. You're on tour with Chris Brown 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.759 and Rushing. Yes, sir, how's that tour been going this week? 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:27.120 Nice? 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:31.200 It's a movie, bro U. Craziest show ever, Craziest show ever, 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:32.000 especially on the R. 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:32.440 And B tip. 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.920 Now you come out dead, my ba I've been. 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:42.680 You come out and Mike is all not playing, man, 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:43.800 you'd be getting to it. 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:47.199 I'm so freaking proud of you to see on. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.960 Those stadium stages like stop playing people know, Eric Bellan, 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.520 So proud of you, bro Thank you appreciate. 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.720 That you know one thing about you you You've written 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.720 a lot of hits for everybody right like you. I've 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:07.840 always wondered for songwriters like yourself, the songwritering ever become 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.440 a prison, like you're making other people's staws. 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:12.720 Nah, because the thing is a songwriting job. 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:17.000 Is It's a privilege, honestly, like to be able to say, yeah, 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.360 I was a part of that song, part of this song. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:23.679 It's a big, big bar. I'm just also passionate about 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:24.640 my artistry too. 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.119 But is it tough to like write songs for other 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.560 people and they make them stars that you still trying 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:32.559 to convince people your. 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.240 I think for the for the songwriting part of it 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.920 is just like, Okay, these songs have a completely different 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:42.000 type of push. 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.360 Every song I've been working on with somebody's most. 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.880 Likely like major label, big building behind it, and then 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:52.000 I have been on my independent journey. So you know, 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.160 they say comparison is the thief for joy. So I 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.240 never wanted to even cloud my mind to thinking they're 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:01.800 better or I'm less than because the music it's the 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:02.760 same quality. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:03.120 Yeah. 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.920 Yeah, how did the tour happen? How did you get 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:07.960 on the tour? 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:08.520 Man? 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:08.840 So? 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.200 I was at a concert actually be two K concert 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.600 in LA and right behind me it's Chris Brown. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.639 He just tapped me on the shoulder like yo. I 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:18.519 was like, oh see me. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.840 He was like, yo, I'm putting together this tour and 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:24.200 I want you to be a part of it. I 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:25.480 want to you know what I mean, pitch it till 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.919 you pitch the idea. I was like, no pitch necessary, 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:30.840 he said. He said, no, I'm still want to picture 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.560 to you like nah, gang like send me the info 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:34.720 in details when it's time. 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:36.080 Man. That was it, and that was it. 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:36.840 He kept his work. 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.040 He did, Wow, Yeah, that's a writer. Do you have 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.000 to go back and forth like should I give this 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:43.520 to an artist? Should I keep it for myself? Kind 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.160 of like with Cholamine said, do I want to be 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:46.919 my own start? H I know this is a hit, 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:48.320 and I know when I give it to him, I'm 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:49.000 giving a hit. 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:50.560 Yeah, for sure. 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.640 It's sometimes that I like will be keeping in the 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.239 Eric Balancer folder and then maybe Usher hit me like yo' 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:57.960 what's cracking? 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.799 You got anything but da da da, And then I'd 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:07.920 be like, Okay, I was saving this one, but it's ussure. 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.919 So if I can get him to sing this song 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.880 and take it to the next level, if I'm Eric 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:15.799 Bellinger forerroal, I should be able to write another one. 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.280 Do you ever feel like being the industry secret weapon 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:19.880 cost you any like mainstream fame? 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:25.359 You know, for a long time I was skeptical about 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:30.040 putting out what I wrote a long time and saying, hey, 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:31.560 I had something to do with that. He ad because 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.600 I had like a whole situation happened where I was 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.160 posting about the music and somebody went for me on 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.560 Twitter crazy. So I think from then I was kind 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.880 of traumatized about putting it out there. 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.920 And then I seen stuff happen to people like Quinin. 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.760 Miller and like, you know what I mean, like the songwriters, 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.600 they were just getting frowned upon for being proud of 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:55.080 their work and their accomplishments and their compositions. So I 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:56.760 just kind of kept it low key for a while, 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.520 and it was if you know, you know, but it's 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:00.600 starting to out. 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.520 Whether the artists that came for you. Yeah, I almost 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:09.360 have missed that one. Nah, damn No, I didn't miss it. 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:11.040 I know what you're talking about. 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:12.640 I thought what she's looking at. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.840 I was gonna ask what changed because at one time 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.960 writers didn't necessarily talk about the songs that they wrote, right, 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.000 But most times people didn't think about it. People didn't care, right, 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:23.640 they just you heard the song, it's a dope soul. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:25.040 You keep it moving. But now it's to the time, 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:26.840 like you said with quintin it and yourself and some 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.120 of these other writers where people attack the writers like 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.200 that's your job, Like I'm writing, this is my check. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:33.960 This is where I get my brother, I get my publishing. 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.160 I wrote, like when when did the time change where 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.400 it became okay now where people are more understandable. 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.479 She So the beginning was all good. You knew that 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.599 the Temptations wasn't writing the songs. 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:44.800 You know what I mean? 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:46.839 People cared though it is good music. 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:48.080 Good music, entertainment. 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.719 But I think once the rap era began, it was 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.080 more so about the MC and more make. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.440 Sure your bars is you can't rap nobody else bars. 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.800 And then the line started getting blurred because the rappers 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:02.280 started having melody. 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:04.760 So now maybe the rapper didn't. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.839 Write that song, but they still have to persona or 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.320 have to feel like, nah, it's my lyrics. And you know, 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.000 maybe the insecurity could show you know, and it was 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.560 just like yo, just ghostwriting is the thing now, like 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.080 but I have no ghost You're gonna know that I 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:22.760 did it. You know what I'm saying. I'm getting this publishing, 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.120 I'm getting credit. My lawyers is handling the producer deck. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:26.440 We're doing all that. 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.160 Different genres, though, I think that it's more acceptable in 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.080 R and B, Like, yeah, a rapper getting somebody to 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.880 write his raps is like I think, so, you know 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:35.680 what I'm saying. 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.360 It though, I think so maybe if it's if it's 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.960 a battle rapper, this is a battle raper, but doctor 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:42.000 think about. 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:46.640 Like a French Montana or something like that. About no stylist, 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.760 Yeah go cut that, do that, bro, But that's different. 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:51.799 It's a hook Like I don't mind a song, okay, 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.920 but I'm talking about your actual bond that you. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.800 Speaking Yeah, yeah, yeah, the bars m it's it's it's 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.120 tricky for a rappers rapper, you can't call your so 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:00.520 for rapper. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.320 You just gotta be like I'm an artist. I'm an 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:03.360 artist artist, but. 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.120 Sometimes the writer can't be the artist because they ain't 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.640 got the delivery, don'et got the penmanship, and sometimes the 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:10.719 artists don't have the penmanship. 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.880 So it's a dynamics of the artist. 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.680 I agree with it, especially me. That's the money, you 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:18.239 know what I'm saying. 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.280 So for people to you know, frown upon or down 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.120 upon the songwriter. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.320 Nah, that's the that's the first step for disaster. 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.200 Honestly, Like you got to get a professional songwriter to 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.239 give you a professional song. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.520 What's one song you gave away you didn't want to 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:35.440 or that came out here and it was like ship, 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:36.600 I shouldn't knew I shouldn't. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:42.640 Yeah, man, I think my favorite vibe that could have 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.920 actually fit for me was let Me See Usher featuring 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:47.640 Rick Ross. 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:49.760 Oh my god. 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.880 Hey you know what I mean? 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.000 The club song with the falsetto like that was the 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.360 That was a contrast that was just dynamic. 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:02.920 And I just learned something I did not know. You 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:04.280 wrote that. That is my ship. 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.680 Yeah, but it makes so much because I feel like 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.720 all writers there's like a brand of sound that if 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.160 you're good, we can hear. 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.200 And be like Eric, I recognize that pin was. 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.520 That part of the Were you talking about Tory Lanez earlier? 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.520 No, I was talking about Nicki Minaj. 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:19.320 Oh okay, because I'm. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.320 I know even Tori had a thing too, But it 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.040 was over the song and like the tag and the 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.200 vibe favorite song. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.760 When he did it, I was just like, hey, look, hm, 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.040 bro didn't like that. I said, hey, look what. 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:34.320 Was what was nick mister? 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:34.400 It? 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:34.800 What was Nikmi? 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:39.000 Mina was mad at So it was back in twenty fourteen. Right, 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:44.080 she claimed, uh, a very long time ago. So Nicki 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.600 Minaj and Eric had a dispute on social because you 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.080 had said that in different interviews that you co produced 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.760 her hit single in Dakonda Innakonda, and she didn't like 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:54.440 that because she's known for her own pen. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:54.920 Yeah. 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.200 I think she was just trying to dad it because 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.600 she didn't want people think I was writing her bars. 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:03.760 But I was on the protection side. Yeah, it's what 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:04.240 it is. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.040 Eric, tell you something that's not one to claim. Okay, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.960 that's been cool. You want to be cool arguing over. 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.400 But my section was that my ad don't. 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:22.520 Yeah, you know, I'm like, hold on, you should slip 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.840 the sample like this, this is the arrangement, throw this 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:26.080 baseline on it. 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.120 It was I involved myself with. 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:30.680 I hated that record too. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.840 She said, you was thirsty for attention. That's why you. 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.160 Because I posted it. Everybody I looked and the other 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.360 producers posted it. It was like, okay, this is the way. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.199 This is a tiny post. Were excited about the ram, right, you. 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.240 Know how many bitches my an I kind. 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.000 Of don't. 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:48.240 That whole little thing. 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.440 Did you have an official credit on a song? 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:51.160 Nah? 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.560 It just got real ugly. It's like, Noah, he's not 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.760 involved on that song. I said, but I am though. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:58.760 Why are you man of God for protecting you? 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:05.040 That's crazy? Jesus Christ s Nazare. 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.720 We're talking about what happened, and I'm explaining it. If 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.280 I work on a song, I work on a song 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:11.960 my pub and don't dot me wrong. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:17.040 Did you get paid negatives like I'm saying. 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:18.840 It's like, I just like, so you just left it. 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.920 I'm good you're getting money because regards of it, like 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:23.560 that song and not that was a big song for her. 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:25.720 I'm good it was exactly. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.160 I'll tell you one day, I didn't realize you was 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.000 independent because I mean, hearing your name for so long, 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.160 I never even thought about it. 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.080 I never when you said that, I. 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:34.880 Felt like I knew it because I always felt like, 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.280 why isn't why don't you get certain things? Like I 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.840 feel like people in the industry themselves, not the labels 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.000 look out for you, like they put you in places 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.079 like you whose siney DES's where you did you do 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:45.720 with Usher? 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:46.280 Usher? 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:46.600 Yes? 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.200 And that was like a big moment. He made sure 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.280 he gave you like love there like the artist. You're 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.480 like an artist artist, they love it, but when you 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.520 drop your music, I feel like, sometimes we don't know 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:57.160 what's happening. 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.000 Yeah, I think for me a lot of the project 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:01.280 being independent. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.520 Uh, I'm an artist, I'm a songwriter. 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.800 But on the business side, I might not have known 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.120 the proper channels to plug everything in. So it was 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.000 like it kind of could have gotten missed by a 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.000 gang of people. But the people that were tapped in 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.319 was like, what's going on? The music is crazy, but 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:19.880 I'm not seeing it where I was supposed to see it, 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:20.800 And it was like, oh, I don't even know. It 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:22.439 was supposed to be over there. I was supposed to 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:23.760 be at the studio and I was there. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.600 So music always been your passion because you turned down 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.280 USC football scholarship. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:30.959 Yeah, to go and do music. 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:32.400 But it was real nice in football. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.360 I was nice in football. I need you try to 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.000 go to a YouTube dop car you know what I'm saying. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:37.560 Everybody was highlights because. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.360 People were like, yeah, right, yeah, your boy was nice 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:44.559 out there. I was running back and yeah, and kickoff 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.439 return specialists like get that ball up there, we out 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:47.680 of here. 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:49.760 He was gonna say running back, yeah, because of. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:50.480 His height and his. 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:52.440 Running back. 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.959 But I only know that because I used to work 0:10:56.040 --> 0:11:00.880 in real sports at State. I remember who don't matter. No, 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:02.880 I used to work like during that time. I worked 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.000 at the gym, so you would see the different players 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:06.480 coming in and you I would have to check them 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.480 in so I would know who was playing what, and 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:09.880 I learned the shapes of the people. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:16.120 Ye are you like six kids? 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:16.680 Not that song? 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:22.120 I got some boots on today. Okay, I got the 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:22.800 Princes Daddy's. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:26.800 So although you were really good at it, you were 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:28.880 like nah, even with a nah. 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:29.560 I got hurt. 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:31.920 I got heard my knee was hurt in the All 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:33.880 Star Game, the six o five All Star Game right 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.920 before college. I also got a deal at the same time. 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:41.040 I offered to sign to an Epic Records with Max Goose, 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.560 and it was my first time really being introduced to 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.200 music on a professional level like that, and I was 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.280 just like, I'm willing to give it a shot. 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:50.880 M know what I'm saying. 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.439 But you did sign the deal at one point. 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:54.760 Yeah, when I was like eighteen, I was in the 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.000 R and B group though like B two K days. 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.000 Yeah, what's one line of music? And discreet tells artists 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:02.280 about needing a major label. 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:08.960 I think they make you think you need because there's 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.679 just is so many things like I've learned now, I 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.280 would have I would have keep been like, you don't 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.000 need to deal if you ask me like a year ago. 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.400 You know, this is my first deal I just signed 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:23.400 and I'm seeing now like, oh. 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.280 That's why, because everybody's just like, what's going on? Why 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:25.920 you're not old? 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.120 Because I didn't have people working the DSPs properly, and 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.240 I didn't have people that had relationships at Apple and 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:33.480 Spotify and now. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:34.080 You know what I mean. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.960 It's a difference when the radio station hears from a 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.080 major label and says we need you to play this 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.160 Eric Belencher song, or we need you to take this meeting, 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.439 then me and my team that you know what I mean, 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.280 we building calling being like hey. 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:48.800 I can talk me in online one. You know what 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:49.200 I mean. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.720 It's just it's just different, and I'm experiencing both sides 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:56.520 now so I could appreciate the nose that people were 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:00.120 giving me so that I can now just really hear 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.040 it's this joy of the yes. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.960 The song on the project when you talk about experiencing 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.800 the nose and all that stuff right in that song 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.160 you talk about like how you felt like it was 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:15.120 almost like a protective thing. You ever regret though, sometimes 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.320 like are you ever sitting like dang? But if that 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.319 was a yes, I would be right here, like is 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.559 there ever any regretting? Haven't accepted now? 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:26.480 No, because my mental now is like prepared now, I'm ready. 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:31.679 I think everything before was Eric Bellinger the flesh wanting 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:37.520 it now, but now it's like, okay, Eric Bellinger, the man, 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:38.559 ready for it. 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:41.480 That's why the name of the record is thank you 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:41.960 for telling me? 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.280 Yeah, yeah, I know, yeah, them bars, them words is 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:49.520 everything found out. Your rejection was my protection. It's such 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:53.000 a blessing, you know. That's the Every song is on 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:53.640 that energy. 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:54.839 You know what I'm saying. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:56.640 I completely agree with that. 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.040 That's why I don't triple over nothing that doesn't happen, 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:00.719 you know for me, because it. 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.120 Clearly wasn't meant for me. Yeah. 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.199 And I always feel like you get way more nose 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:05.400 in life than yeses. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.400 Anyway, But you just need that one yes to change everything. 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.440 Nobody tells us that I like that, which you just said. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.720 It's like you get more nose and yes, it's y'all right, 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:15.800 It's cool. But we just only want to hear yes. 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.200 But just know that them nos gonna come with it 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.320 like basketball shots. They know they ain't gonna make every 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.440 shot that's right, them boys that go in, yeah, is 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:24.920 the one that's on. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:26.160 How many times have you said no? 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.720 Like if all this asked to work with, you just 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.800 didn't feel a vibe, didn't feel rare, rare, rare. 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.840 Just yeah, I'm just like kind of honing in on 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.480 I gotta I can't right now. But my whole thing 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:42.880 has always been due for others, as is you wish 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:43.960 to be done unto you. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.960 So I'm treating everybody like I got you. If I 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.120 can't do it, I do it. You know what I'm saying. 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:50.760 I got If I can't, I got you, And I 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.800 just will always overextend myself to just try to make 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.119 it happen. And in my mind, I was playing seeds 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.760 so that when that favor came around, people would be 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.360 willing to do the same. But once I started seeing like, 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:04.760 hey dog, so I'm about to be doing this, I 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.040 need you to hop on this joint or hey you 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.120 think I could, Like damn, they not really returning that 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.040 favor like I thought. So that was one reason that 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.360 made me just locking on myself. 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:20.080 It's successful your last two three years crazy, I've been 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.000 seeing you everywhere, but I've been with you and listening 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.680 to you and Fido for a long ass time. 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:26.920 You know. 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.840 I'm just so happy to see you, like yeah, right, 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.600 and actually getting up to where you where. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.800 You want to go. But like you also, you lost 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.200 your mom years ago. 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:42.200 Yeah, and what did that put into perspective for you 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.360 to make you even keep going like this? Because that 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.400 wasn't a long time ago, right, you know, yeah three 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:48.880 years ago. 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.640 It's like, yeah, no, that was like life changing. You know. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.960 I think I focused so much of my time and 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:01.960 my energy and my love to my mom that I 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:06.760 didn't even realize it. But mentally, especially with her being sick. 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.760 She had sickle cell, so it was in and out 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.280 at a hospital a lot, and I always was like, okay, 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:15.440 now let's move you closer than me. 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.440 Boom, that's one thing. Okay, now I could be the 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.120 one to take it to the DIALSTI to take to 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.920 the hospital. Boom. Now she got sick. Now it's like, okay, 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:22.760 let's put her in the home. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.480 Like I was just responsible for everything, and it was 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.920 like I just didn't realize it. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:35.400 But once when she passed, I was just like mentally 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:36.440 drained to. 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.360 The point where I just was like, I don't have 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.960 nothing to do, and I don't want to do nothing. 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:42.360 I don't care to do nothing. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:47.080 And so incidentally I had a tour that was already 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:51.480 playing like a month later, so she knew about the 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.240 tour and everybody knew, you know, But once she had passed, 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:55.680 I was like, am I gonna go on the tour? 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.040 Am I gonna cancel the tour? 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.840 And the way that I was feeling while sitting at home, 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.040 I was like, nah, I can't sit in this. So 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.560 for me, it helped to actually keep going. My fans 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.080 were so supportive of me, and they were the ones 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.760 that kept me filled, kept me preyed up, giving me 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.200 blankets with you know, pictures of me and my mom, 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.560 giving me mugs, giving me wind chimes, giving me all 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:25.239 of these things that just reminded me that you know, 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:26.479 she was always with me. 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.879 Does it still get hard for you at times? These 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.080 shows night after night? And you you know the song 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:33.920 for her too, just like you. 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.800 Yeah, I wrote just like you just to thank you, 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.920 to like let everybody know, like man, I am who 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:45.119 I am because I always wanted to be just like you. 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:45.359 You know. 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.400 So when people hear that, they're gonna they gonna get 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.879 a piece of me, and you know, and for their 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.800 mom because people that have heard it and their moms 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:55.960 are still here, they're like, yo, I sent that to 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:56.440 my mom. 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.160 She loved it. So it's beautiful to still, you know, 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:00.720 be that rip in the ocean. 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.840 And have you given yourself a chance to grieve? Because 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.240 they always say staying busy as a response to trauma. 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.040 I think so I agree. I agree. I don't even know. 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:12.440 I don't know if I have yet. 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:17.320 I think that although I am busy, it's like the 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:18.320 life of an artist. 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.800 We got a lot more free time than people think. 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:22.800 You know what I'm saying. It's a lot of hurry 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.480 up and wait. And in that time and in those moments, 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:33.160 I embrace that alone And especially in a hotel room, 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.280 it's like what all right, y'all goes to the hotel you. 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:36.840 Man, you know what I mean, it's you in the walls. 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:39.880 So a lot of thinking and a lot of healing 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:41.560 takes place when I'm by myself. 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:43.720 I enjoy that time the most. The hotel time yeah, 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:45.680 because you don't really think about it. But when you're 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:47.480 on the road and you're in that hotel and yeah, 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.159 you know, for me, my kids are home, my wife 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.000 is home, and everything shuts down. 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:51.600 It's a balance. 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:53.560 That's some of the best times ever. I could just 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:55.760 relax and just think, I agree. 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.600 So, how is your beautiful wife? I was gonna call 0:18:59.640 --> 0:18:59.960 it your brother. 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:06.920 She helps you, man, so she So that's the song 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.680 crying Friend of You, which is the single. It actually 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:14.040 stemmed from me feeling that safety net and feeling. 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.399 Like I could actually cry to her. 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.960 And she not gonna weaponize it. She's not gonna judge me. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:21.960 She's gonna comfort me. She's gonna rub my back. She 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:23.920 gonna baby, I'm here, I got you, you know what 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.840 I mean. So I'm just grateful to have, you know, 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:31.840 someone that is for me. She on the flight right now, 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.000 she's finna be here, no coming to you. 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:40.880 Yeah, that's right, good ones, I'm checking the flight. Ain't Now. 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:46.560 What's something marriage taught you that Dayton never could? 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:49.640 Because I know, I mean I think that I think 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:50.400 the marriage, when. 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:54.280 You really locked in, you just don't worry word up. 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.840 When you're not married, you ain't married. 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:01.399 Bron you you just ain't so whatever she did, if 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:03.440 it ain't no ring, And he was like, but we 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.400 had a commitment, where is it agible? 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:08.600 Is it come with ink? 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:18.200 He's doing it because he says, because you gotta date, 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:23.359 you gotta date. He'd be forgetting that. He wasn't always 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:26.119 a husband, was a stupid friend who then grew up 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:31.200 and you know him. 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:35.960 First, I just mentioned it, and I. 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:40.639 Don't because I know where you're going always be getting 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:42.800 on because she's not married, where you're going to go. 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:44.840 You can't just get in the relationship and straight get married. 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:47.280 You gotta get to know, get to the level. 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:51.119 You gotta date with the intention, the chill. Otherwise it 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:54.120 just got to be I think communicated. I think if 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:56.760 the man or the woman lets the other person know, like, hey, 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:58.760 I'm not really trying to be in no serious relationship. 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:00.560 Person just got respect that. 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:03.119 But even when people say that, sometimes they still be like, 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:04.280 but watch. 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:13.720 This right, watch this time, Like I did everything and 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:15.000 you still didn't change for me? 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:16.119 Like what hand me? 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:18.239 The people don't change for you. 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:20.399 People change when they for them, when they want to 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:21.200 for themselves. 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:22.480 Right, I agree, I. 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:23.119 Want to go back to you. 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:25.480 In the hotel room, right, is that the moments where 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:28.600 you realize you can't run from yourself. Yeah, you're dealing 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:29.760 with gonna always catch up. 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:32.240 Yep, for sure. That's that's one. 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:36.040 And a plane, that airplane when you're just chilling, you quiet, 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:38.399 you try to go to sleep, but after a while 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:40.280 you up, You're like, all right, I gotta just sit 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:44.520 here and face those things. The gym is another one. 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:49.600 Yoga. I love yoga and like even on a treadmill running. 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:51.680 Give yourself thirty minutes on that boy, just get up there, 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:54.840 you know, and all of those times it's like not 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:57.960 only working out physically, but it's also mental. 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:00.920 That's all you're talking about, how black men should feel 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:03.840 more empowered to dive into like their grief and their 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:05.200 mental health. 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:08.320 Yeah, I think mental health is just slept on. Like 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:11.200 everybody is just tough. We're just tough, no matter what 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:12.920 you know. I mean, the lazier is tough, the phallas 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:18.159 is tough, and it forces us to put, you know, 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:20.520 push things under the rug. Like we don't actually go 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:24.080 to therapy, we don't actually do those things. I'm actually 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:29.760 into sound bowls and the sound healing and the vibration body, 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:34.240 like it really feel crazy. And that's such another thing 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:37.960 that nobody is talking about, like, but it should be normal, 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:39.280 like float baths. 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:42.040 I don't know if people know about that, but yeah, 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:42.560 when you can. 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:45.760 Actually yeah, you're talking about the floating tanks. 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:46.400 Floating tank. 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:51.720 You know how they got Egypt where you could like 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:55.159 lay but they got them Like here, what does. 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:58.560 That do for you me? It gives you, like because 0:22:58.560 --> 0:22:59.680 it was very hard for me to medic. 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:01.160 I did that years ago, but it was very hard 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:03.320 for me to meditate because I could never get my 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:05.000 brain to be quiet with. 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:07.560 That float tank. When you finally. 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:09.399 Just let go because you gotta gotta you gotta let go, 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:11.960 right you got you know, you're jumping like oh, but 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:13.040 then you find let go. 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:15.800 I felt like I don't know, I don't know where 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:17.639 I went, like when the light came. 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:21.280 Back, and I'm like, oh, it's that let go. 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:23.080 You only know if you if you do it, because 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:25.879 your body actually like what you mean, it's just no, 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:27.639 you have the end of your backlow key go a 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:29.960 little bit more because there's nothing. 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:33.919 It's like, oh my back cracked. When I was like 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:38.520 I just laid down in the water and floated in 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:39.160 the backs head. 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:42.760 I was like, Oh, it was just you gotta trust 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:45.080 the salt. 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:44.600 Trust the salt. 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:46.240 So you do a lot of therapeutic hip. 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:50.440 Yeah, that's my vibe. I need to massage often, please 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:55.480 once a week. Shrooms for sure. Chocolate vibes, yeah, only 0:23:55.880 --> 0:23:56.440 choclate vibes. 0:23:56.480 --> 0:23:58.280 You know, the first time I actually tried to plant 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:02.640 joint me and my wife Beyonce concert. 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:04.479 Why would you? Why would y'all do that? 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:14.399 I was like, beyond was flying. It was a rope. 0:24:14.520 --> 0:24:15.520 I ain't seen no rope. 0:24:20.400 --> 0:24:20.440 No. 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:23.480 It was such a small dosage, but it was enough. 0:24:23.960 --> 0:24:26.359 It was enough. They say that micro is enough. It 0:24:26.440 --> 0:24:27.680 is gang. You don't need too much. 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:27.880 Man. 0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:30.960 When you find somebody you can shrim with, that's beautiful 0:24:31.000 --> 0:24:33.399 because a lot of parts that me and my husband 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:33.920 streaming together. 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:35.639 That's a whole vibe. 0:24:35.760 --> 0:24:39.640 That you go to therapy as well. 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:43.800 Yeah, a couple therapy that too. I think that's like 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:46.119 that really made it to her. It's like, all right, 0:24:46.160 --> 0:24:46.960 were married forever? 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:49.120 What mad y'all go there? You know what I mean? 0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:52.040 I think it was just time, you know, it was 0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:56.240 things happening that like we started arguing about little things 0:24:56.720 --> 0:24:59.000 and for me, I was always like, yo, we should 0:24:59.040 --> 0:25:01.800 never argue. Everyone to argue, you never have to argue, 0:25:02.200 --> 0:25:04.240 and she was like, we gonna argue, yeah. 0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:06.480 But I was like nah. 0:25:06.720 --> 0:25:08.480 And then once it started happening, I was like, oh, 0:25:08.560 --> 0:25:10.920 it's been year, three, year, forty or seven, you know 0:25:10.920 --> 0:25:14.240 what I mean, You're eight and I'm like, okay, what 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:15.000 is happening. 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:16.520 I don't even know what's going on. 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:19.879 So we got referred to this dude and we just 0:25:19.920 --> 0:25:22.520 started having these like zoom sessions with him, to the 0:25:22.560 --> 0:25:23.240 point where it. 0:25:23.160 --> 0:25:25.320 Was an hour. And when that hour came, he was like, 0:25:25.320 --> 0:25:26.159 all right, y'all, I gotta go. 0:25:26.600 --> 0:25:30.000 If we was boo crying, if we was no matter what. 0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:31.560 Bro was like, alright, I'm out, and I was like, 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:36.200 you know what I mean. So it was crazy because 0:25:36.280 --> 0:25:39.080 during those times he would pull so much out of 0:25:39.160 --> 0:25:44.680 me that I wasn't necessarily thinking it was her time, 0:25:45.600 --> 0:25:46.800 but that was her time to learn. 0:25:47.600 --> 0:25:48.880 I'm just getting it out. 0:25:49.160 --> 0:25:51.280 But then when it's her time and now he's asking 0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:54.040 her questions and I'm listening, she's talking, but I'm like 0:25:54.480 --> 0:25:55.479 I'm learning about her. 0:25:55.560 --> 0:25:57.320 I'm like, oh, you know what I'm saying? 0:25:57.359 --> 0:26:02.119 Finding different like the trauma points when they first started, like, oh. 0:26:02.000 --> 0:26:05.080 That's why she's like that, That's why she does this. 0:26:05.200 --> 0:26:08.720 She's the older sister, or she her dad wasn't there, 0:26:08.880 --> 0:26:12.280 or she's overcompensating, or you know what I mean. So 0:26:12.760 --> 0:26:15.480 when I got to understand her, it just allowed me 0:26:15.560 --> 0:26:19.080 to just give her so much grace in every area, 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:21.000 and I think vice versa her from me. 0:26:21.160 --> 0:26:23.320 Was that the hardest season of your marriage that people 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:24.000 never got to see? 0:26:24.359 --> 0:26:24.919 Definitely? 0:26:25.680 --> 0:26:27.560 Yeah, because for sure, for the longest I was like, well, 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:29.560 you know, therapy, like I'm smart, you smart. 0:26:29.600 --> 0:26:31.320 We love each other, we respect each other. 0:26:31.359 --> 0:26:35.960 Smart, smart bear, you know what I'm saying. 0:26:36.000 --> 0:26:40.200 So after we would you know, get our things off, 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:43.720 and we would still like be on silent mode. I'm like, oh, yeah, 0:26:44.359 --> 0:26:46.480 I don't like this energy, so let's see if we 0:26:46.480 --> 0:26:48.720 can get some help. And he did to the point 0:26:48.720 --> 0:26:50.760 where after a while I was like, are. 0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:51.480 You good, I'm good? 0:26:51.560 --> 0:26:51.920 You good? 0:26:51.920 --> 0:26:52.160 Gang? 0:26:52.240 --> 0:26:57.080 Yeah, we good because that bill crazy listen like you 0:26:57.119 --> 0:27:01.200 paying like a bout fifty hours m M Part three hundred. 0:27:01.000 --> 0:27:03.440 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, it was crazy. Yeah. 0:27:04.280 --> 0:27:06.960 I think it was like, now, now I know that 0:27:07.320 --> 0:27:08.480 makes you happy that niggad be. 0:27:08.480 --> 0:27:14.720 Like all right, I was, you know, it was a 0:27:14.760 --> 0:27:18.080 package deal. I think when we got to eight, we 0:27:18.119 --> 0:27:19.919 got to eight or teen, I was like, it was like, 0:27:19.960 --> 0:27:25.919 you want to renew. I was like, babe, go, I 0:27:26.000 --> 0:27:29.639 understand you. I know why you're you. Yeah, and you 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:30.440 know why I'm me. 0:27:30.920 --> 0:27:32.919 Is the closure on your on your project? Is that 0:27:32.960 --> 0:27:34.159 a personal story. 0:27:34.000 --> 0:27:36.879 Or is that personal story personal story? 0:27:36.920 --> 0:27:39.840 When I, you know, linked up with my wife, like 0:27:39.840 --> 0:27:42.679 when we reconnected, we had known each other for a 0:27:42.720 --> 0:27:44.520 long time, like since I was in the R and 0:27:44.520 --> 0:27:46.840 B groups and she was in isis. We have the 0:27:46.880 --> 0:27:50.440 same manager, so a long period of time has separated 0:27:50.520 --> 0:27:54.240 since then. But me and the girl that I was 0:27:54.240 --> 0:27:56.720 with at the time was like, let's take a break. 0:27:56.800 --> 0:27:59.480 This ain't really coming together. Let's take a break for 0:27:59.520 --> 0:28:05.199 a second. During that time just warring you off. You 0:28:05.280 --> 0:28:09.320 take a break, just be prepared, because I didn't expect 0:28:09.359 --> 0:28:11.760 that to happen. But yeah, I linked up with my 0:28:11.840 --> 0:28:14.320 baby Boo Maya and I was out of there. 0:28:15.080 --> 0:28:17.920 I didn't go back. I didn't go back. I lost 0:28:17.960 --> 0:28:19.439 the key, I lost the addie. 0:28:19.800 --> 0:28:23.760 So you said she found out on the internet though. 0:28:23.720 --> 0:28:29.640 Yeah, because the baby shower. But I'm saying she found 0:28:29.640 --> 0:28:32.960 out about the baby she found out about. Wasn't with 0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:34.440 each other, He wasn't with each other. 0:28:34.480 --> 0:28:36.480 It was a break, nigga, No, that was a break. 0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:38.560 Were you still like he was with he just was 0:28:38.600 --> 0:28:42.640 over there. But the rules of the break though, likeation. 0:28:41.920 --> 0:28:44.640 Let's take a break. I don't this ain't really I'm 0:28:44.720 --> 0:28:45.400 not feeling this. 0:28:45.440 --> 0:28:49.760 Right now right now. A break that means I'll be back. 0:28:50.120 --> 0:28:53.560 How long was the intention was to go back? 0:28:54.000 --> 0:28:55.040 How long was the break down? 0:28:55.240 --> 0:28:56.080 You're tripping down? 0:28:56.440 --> 0:29:06.000 I would say about three weeks later? Three weeks yeah, 0:29:06.000 --> 0:29:07.920 but we was together like boyfriend and girlfriend. 0:29:08.080 --> 0:29:09.400 When when did she get pregnant? 0:29:10.360 --> 0:29:12.400 Your wife? Yeah? A year later? 0:29:12.600 --> 0:29:14.360 Okay, I was like that you started rolling. 0:29:14.120 --> 0:29:18.440 In three weeks. I'm just saying it was the whole thing. 0:29:18.560 --> 0:29:20.880 Like she found out on the internet about the baby, 0:29:20.920 --> 0:29:22.400 but she knew that that was my girl. 0:29:23.160 --> 0:29:24.560 Why did she feel the titled have to know that 0:29:24.640 --> 0:29:25.680 you was about to have a baby. 0:29:27.120 --> 0:29:29.360 I don't even know she felt entitled. I'm just saying, 0:29:30.480 --> 0:29:32.320 just have some questions. Just have some questions. 0:29:32.720 --> 0:29:34.480 Are all just dating, you know what I'm saying. 0:29:34.520 --> 0:29:37.040 You end up with your soulmate, and I love that 0:29:37.160 --> 0:29:38.280 because I love the thing. 0:29:38.360 --> 0:29:42.680 That song I feel like I was listening to the confused. 0:29:42.680 --> 0:29:44.840 I'm like, I've never heard of any scandals with him. 0:29:44.880 --> 0:29:45.880 Where did this come from? 0:29:45.920 --> 0:29:46.960 I didn't know about the past. 0:29:46.960 --> 0:29:48.360 Off, It's just like a past. 0:29:48.440 --> 0:29:51.000 You know, just had somebody you're dealing with, and then 0:29:51.040 --> 0:29:52.400 you start dealing with somebody else. 0:29:52.480 --> 0:29:52.760 But just. 0:29:54.400 --> 0:29:55.600 Ask your question, because. 0:29:55.400 --> 0:29:57.160 I know you three weeks. 0:29:58.760 --> 0:29:59.880 Said something you were saying. 0:30:00.400 --> 0:30:04.120 He said that Shorty knew that you that that uh 0:30:04.640 --> 0:30:08.320 Ma Mayah was your girl. But how she knew that 0:30:08.440 --> 0:30:11.240 she was your girl when when she was a girl 0:30:11.680 --> 0:30:13.600 and all was on a break because you aren't feeling 0:30:13.640 --> 0:30:14.840 that ship right now? 0:30:14.960 --> 0:30:16.720 No, I told Ma, I don't got a girl. 0:30:18.520 --> 0:30:18.880 The boat. 0:30:23.440 --> 0:30:27.760 But it was like I didn't say a yo. I 0:30:27.760 --> 0:30:29.840 don't think this should continue. I think we should like 0:30:29.880 --> 0:30:33.120 stop this and completely break up. It was love peace. 0:30:33.280 --> 0:30:33.920 I didn't do that. 0:30:34.160 --> 0:30:36.560 No, we know because said break, I'll be back in 0:30:36.600 --> 0:30:37.320 a second. 0:30:37.400 --> 0:30:38.240 I'm gonna be right back. 0:30:38.520 --> 0:30:40.080 But you didn't say I'm gonna be right back. 0:30:40.200 --> 0:30:41.920 No, No, he just said I'm not now. But you 0:30:42.000 --> 0:30:43.800 know how it is if Shorty wasn't ready to take 0:30:43.840 --> 0:30:45.480 the break, and that's how you and that's how you 0:30:45.520 --> 0:30:48.040 presented like right now. 0:30:48.240 --> 0:30:50.440 Are you still call the house? 0:30:50.720 --> 0:30:51.760 He definitely didn't call him. 0:30:51.880 --> 0:30:55.040 He left when I said he wasn't feeling that ship 0:30:55.080 --> 0:30:57.000 right now. He left the house and went to see 0:30:57.040 --> 0:30:57.680 baby Boom. 0:30:58.120 --> 0:30:59.240 I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. 0:30:59.800 --> 0:31:04.200 You did, and then walked off your job. That's technically 0:31:04.240 --> 0:31:05.840 what he did. He took a breaking his left. He 0:31:05.920 --> 0:31:08.200 was like, I ain't coming back, but see didn't in 0:31:08.200 --> 0:31:09.640 the two weeks not serious? 0:31:10.320 --> 0:31:11.720 How long was you in the old Girl together? 0:31:12.400 --> 0:31:13.440 Two and a half. 0:31:13.400 --> 0:31:14.080 Years and a half? 0:31:14.160 --> 0:31:14.920 What weeks? 0:31:16.800 --> 0:31:17.120 Years? 0:31:17.200 --> 0:31:17.640 Come on? 0:31:17.680 --> 0:31:19.360 Brought the job? 0:31:19.400 --> 0:31:25.000 It was, I get wrong even and a half. I 0:31:25.040 --> 0:31:33.200 can't trying to tell you there we go. 0:31:33.480 --> 0:31:36.000 Yeah, you know, I get it, but I just was 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:38.360 surprised to hear that there wasn't a clean break like 0:31:38.400 --> 0:31:40.000 I've always known you to be, like, well. 0:31:39.880 --> 0:31:41.200 I don't know. 0:31:41.200 --> 0:31:42.360 On the maya I thought it. 0:31:42.560 --> 0:31:43.840 Was I've always known it. 0:31:44.480 --> 0:31:47.840 I don't know when you just said, was she like 0:31:48.040 --> 0:31:48.840 ready for the break? 0:31:49.400 --> 0:31:49.560 Right? 0:31:50.760 --> 0:31:53.000 That's probably why I felt like, because yeah, I was 0:31:53.040 --> 0:31:55.719 mentally like yo, I could even been using that as 0:31:55.760 --> 0:31:58.880 an excuse. Maybe maybe I wasn't just mad enough to 0:31:58.920 --> 0:32:01.600 be like, hey, for sure, I'm out, because that cared 0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:03.200 the feelings were real. 0:32:03.280 --> 0:32:04.840 All you had to do was singing to a nigga. 0:32:05.360 --> 0:32:07.360 Here go the song I saw. I say, it been 0:32:07.520 --> 0:32:08.680 like ten years now. 0:32:08.720 --> 0:32:10.320 We got to start it off like this is a 0:32:10.360 --> 0:32:14.000 long time ago and there was no closure. 0:32:14.280 --> 0:32:15.000 Do you still see them? 0:32:15.160 --> 0:32:16.280 Have you spoke to him? Yeah? 0:32:16.280 --> 0:32:17.720 Because now we're be in l A, so l A 0:32:17.840 --> 0:32:19.120 is like maybe at a party. 0:32:19.040 --> 0:32:22.880 Like you about to go live, right, I've been waiting on. 0:32:22.760 --> 0:32:28.600 This, like the song, and I'm like, well, who did 0:32:28.680 --> 0:32:30.760 he do this to? Because I ain't Nobody never came 0:32:30.760 --> 0:32:31.880 out and saying nothing like you. 0:32:32.520 --> 0:32:33.920 It was very much usher. 0:32:33.920 --> 0:32:37.360 Confessions, your confessions. I think it was just such a 0:32:37.560 --> 0:32:38.960 such a tour. 0:32:39.200 --> 0:32:43.520 Okay, yeah, it's making sense, makes sense all the. 0:32:46.240 --> 0:32:46.560 Different. 0:32:46.880 --> 0:32:47.400 I get it. 0:32:47.760 --> 0:32:50.480 I get it. I just I just had to put 0:32:50.480 --> 0:32:51.000 it in the song. 0:32:51.040 --> 0:32:52.040 It all worked out, y'all. 0:32:52.080 --> 0:32:58.080 Are I would have? So I'm happy, said you. 0:32:58.120 --> 0:33:00.640 Know it, don't. I was there. 0:33:00.720 --> 0:33:03.200 I was confused because I'm like, I've always just known 0:33:03.240 --> 0:33:04.600 you and Lemiah to be together. 0:33:04.800 --> 0:33:05.640 Yeah, so I'm like. 0:33:05.600 --> 0:33:08.320 Whom divine misdirection? 0:33:09.560 --> 0:33:10.120 I agree? 0:33:10.200 --> 0:33:12.440 I agree it was and then it was it was 0:33:12.480 --> 0:33:17.160 a moment in a session where the producer harmony, you know, 0:33:17.200 --> 0:33:20.040 it was like, yo, I think we should, did you 0:33:20.080 --> 0:33:23.000 know what I mean? So it's collaborative as well, you know, 0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:25.040 like what about the past? Is there any song for 0:33:25.080 --> 0:33:25.680 the past that. 0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:27.120 We can make? You know what I mean? And I 0:33:27.200 --> 0:33:30.000 was like, it wasn't my idea, but it was my execution. 0:33:30.400 --> 0:33:30.680 Yeah. 0:33:31.200 --> 0:33:34.440 Now yoh, speaking of marriage, right with your with the 0:33:34.520 --> 0:33:38.640 tour the new album, A dad of two boys? 0:33:39.360 --> 0:33:39.840 How do you and. 0:33:39.920 --> 0:33:42.640 Lmija even get to protect your time to spend together 0:33:43.040 --> 0:33:46.640 because she is on her acting. 0:33:46.880 --> 0:33:50.080 Yeah, she's you know, making sure everything is on point 0:33:50.080 --> 0:33:51.480 at home even if she's not there. 0:33:51.560 --> 0:33:55.920 She's a routine specialist. That is a delegation specialist. 0:33:56.400 --> 0:33:58.440 And that's what I'm saying, Like she on the way 0:33:58.480 --> 0:34:01.000 here now, So we make that time. We just make 0:34:01.080 --> 0:34:03.280 the time at home. It's like we low key working, 0:34:03.400 --> 0:34:05.520 you know what I mean. The kids the weekends they 0:34:05.520 --> 0:34:09.080 play sports. It's a different football. Yeah, fill the job. 0:34:09.239 --> 0:34:11.759 So we just be sure to make that time. Like 0:34:12.280 --> 0:34:13.480 you know, you make the time. 0:34:13.560 --> 0:34:14.400 When you want to do it? 0:34:14.719 --> 0:34:15.680 Is that what keeps you grounded? 0:34:16.280 --> 0:34:16.520 Yeah? 0:34:17.200 --> 0:34:19.399 Making the time and as well as like we were saying, 0:34:19.400 --> 0:34:20.680 the balance, because. 0:34:20.560 --> 0:34:23.760 It is healthy to be able to clear my mind 0:34:23.920 --> 0:34:25.400 because now I miss you. 0:34:25.400 --> 0:34:30.160 You know, was there a moment where like success stopped 0:34:30.200 --> 0:34:33.240 being something you chase and started becoming something you stewarted? 0:34:34.040 --> 0:34:34.279 Yeah? 0:34:34.400 --> 0:34:34.800 I think. 0:34:35.640 --> 0:34:41.000 I think I always been on go, just no matter what, not, 0:34:41.000 --> 0:34:44.719 not always for myself, but maybe if I'm not working 0:34:44.719 --> 0:34:47.360 for myself and now I'm on the songwriting hat, you know, 0:34:47.600 --> 0:34:50.840 or if I'm not songwriting now I'm doing the label 0:34:50.920 --> 0:34:53.040 CEO back is I got a label when we got 0:34:53.040 --> 0:34:57.480 fifteen artists, you know that we're nurturing and distributing and 0:34:58.120 --> 0:35:00.319 artists developing, So you. 0:35:00.280 --> 0:35:02.360 Know what I mean, I ain't really got that out now, 0:35:02.480 --> 0:35:03.160 So that's. 0:35:03.000 --> 0:35:09.840 Great, Like, let's let's rebuild the entire structure of what 0:35:10.040 --> 0:35:10.640 is expected. 0:35:10.640 --> 0:35:12.680 And I'm just like, Yo, I'm standing a gap. I'm 0:35:12.680 --> 0:35:14.319 gonna be that, you know what I'm saying. Heavy as 0:35:14.360 --> 0:35:14.800 the Crown. 0:35:15.080 --> 0:35:18.080 The joint on the album is talking about it as well, 0:35:18.160 --> 0:35:20.880 and it's something that I just like honed in on 0:35:21.040 --> 0:35:25.319 and I feel like I'm like wearing it proudly, like yo, or. 0:35:26.280 --> 0:35:27.640 Being on Chris Brown and Usher tour. 0:35:27.760 --> 0:35:29.799 Right, A lot of women, Yeah, how do you stay 0:35:29.840 --> 0:35:32.960 disciplined when temptation is literally part of the job description? 0:35:33.280 --> 0:35:34.719 I mean, I know, black men don't cheat. But I'm 0:35:34.760 --> 0:35:36.880 just saying that for sure. How do you stay disciplined? 0:35:37.400 --> 0:35:40.800 Yeah, I think it's more work than people understand. 0:35:40.880 --> 0:35:42.080 Like you got to go looking for it. 0:35:42.440 --> 0:35:44.680 I don't think nothing is shown up at your doorstep 0:35:44.880 --> 0:35:45.840 without an invitation. 0:35:45.960 --> 0:35:47.640 I agree, you know what I'm saying. 0:35:47.680 --> 0:35:50.799 So when I go to do my set, boom, I'm 0:35:50.840 --> 0:35:52.600 back to my green room. After I do a meet 0:35:52.640 --> 0:35:55.520 and greet, boom, you get the seconds of me being 0:35:55.560 --> 0:35:59.520 with you and for sure giving you my awe right 0:35:59.640 --> 0:36:01.080 after thank you. 0:36:01.120 --> 0:36:02.120 I appreciate you. 0:36:02.239 --> 0:36:04.200 Yeah, that's it. Yeah. 0:36:04.680 --> 0:36:07.040 Now the moment when I pulled the girl up on stage, right, 0:36:07.280 --> 0:36:09.560 the one who who's everybody say that she ain't want 0:36:09.560 --> 0:36:10.600 to be up there whatever. 0:36:10.880 --> 0:36:12.400 You always out there all that time? Or no? 0:36:12.520 --> 0:36:12.960 Yeah? 0:36:13.120 --> 0:36:13.440 All right? 0:36:13.520 --> 0:36:18.279 Yeah, So what you think about that? Because she she 0:36:18.400 --> 0:36:19.960 came up there, although she. 0:36:19.920 --> 0:36:21.920 Didn't want to feel on the you know, sweat, you know, 0:36:22.120 --> 0:36:23.799 you know what I mean, She still came up there. 0:36:23.800 --> 0:36:24.960 She wanted to be seen and everything. 0:36:25.200 --> 0:36:27.640 But a lot of people gave her backlash because she 0:36:27.719 --> 0:36:30.640 didn't really get up there and draw hump them leather pants. Right, 0:36:30.880 --> 0:36:34.240 you know understand what I'm saying, Like, do you feel 0:36:34.239 --> 0:36:36.600 like she was wrong or it's just like, Yo, everybody 0:36:36.800 --> 0:36:38.520 ain't gotta be up there, you know what I'm saying. 0:36:38.960 --> 0:36:41.080 I don't think she was wrong. I don't think she 0:36:41.200 --> 0:36:41.600 was wrong. 0:36:41.719 --> 0:36:45.799 I think it could have just been you know, he 0:36:45.880 --> 0:36:49.719 maybe adjust her, adjust to her taste level, you know, 0:36:49.920 --> 0:36:51.120 like maybe sit down. 0:36:51.040 --> 0:36:53.960 Like dollar back, Yeah, climbing on top. 0:36:53.800 --> 0:36:55.600 Of me, Like don't it don't got to be that. 0:36:55.760 --> 0:37:00.440 But I mean, at the same time, it is one 0:37:00.440 --> 0:37:04.000 of them, like we're here for a show. You know 0:37:04.040 --> 0:37:05.120 what Chris Brown is doing. 0:37:05.320 --> 0:37:07.080 Yeah, but that's what she came up there for. Here 0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:09.640 come usher ass. She came up there for Chris. 0:37:09.680 --> 0:37:11.200 I think no, But I'm just saying, you know what 0:37:11.280 --> 0:37:12.800 Chris Brown is doing, So we got to compete a 0:37:12.840 --> 0:37:13.239 little bit. 0:37:14.040 --> 0:37:16.399 Yeah, but see she wanted to be up dead for him. 0:37:17.040 --> 0:37:18.799 But Usher big, there's no way. 0:37:19.000 --> 0:37:21.279 There's no way she didn't know she was walking up 0:37:21.320 --> 0:37:23.799 for us here because Chris Brown is on the right 0:37:23.840 --> 0:37:24.799 side and USh was on. 0:37:24.760 --> 0:37:25.480 The left side. 0:37:26.000 --> 0:37:30.640 So she's on the left side. And it's just like, 0:37:30.920 --> 0:37:34.720 was clear. I think she just the story changed five times. 0:37:34.760 --> 0:37:35.120 She did. 0:37:35.400 --> 0:37:38.640 But the auntie got a story, she got a story, 0:37:39.000 --> 0:37:41.520 The boyfriend got a story. 0:37:41.520 --> 0:37:42.320 She had a boyfriend. 0:37:42.400 --> 0:37:45.440 The Auntie said she had I ain't need. 0:37:45.360 --> 0:37:49.000 Oh that's why she was on you. Why didn't you 0:37:49.040 --> 0:37:50.000 even the story. 0:37:50.040 --> 0:37:51.799 I didn't even know she had a boyfriend, honestly, I 0:37:51.800 --> 0:37:53.759 thought that she just went up there and she was like, you. 0:37:53.719 --> 0:37:55.319 Know what, Chris wanted to pull me up. I wanted 0:37:55.320 --> 0:37:56.600 to be on Chris Big. You know what I mean. 0:37:57.080 --> 0:37:58.160 She wanted Chris Brown. 0:37:58.280 --> 0:37:59.439 So that's what our story. 0:37:59.480 --> 0:38:01.600 That trick with the Auntie story, because Auntie was like 0:38:01.680 --> 0:38:06.040 she was to the boyfriend into her son. But then 0:38:06.080 --> 0:38:08.279 she did the TMZ interview and said, but I really 0:38:08.280 --> 0:38:09.040 wanted Chris Brown. 0:38:10.239 --> 0:38:10.959 That's what I said. 0:38:11.040 --> 0:38:11.919 We gotta let them. 0:38:12.160 --> 0:38:16.440 Don't even worry about that question. I gotta know. So 0:38:16.520 --> 0:38:18.000 Mario joined the lineup. 0:38:18.120 --> 0:38:21.840 What is it like with all that R and B history, Mario, 0:38:21.880 --> 0:38:22.080 it is. 0:38:22.080 --> 0:38:23.719 Only four of them, Mario Tank. 0:38:24.280 --> 0:38:29.600 Yeah, I went to this Friday is his This last 0:38:29.600 --> 0:38:32.600 Saturday was his official like they be for the rest 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:34.399 of the tour. But before that he did some spot 0:38:34.480 --> 0:38:36.799 days like Detroit and things like that. 0:38:36.840 --> 0:38:38.640 But he had been shooting this TV show. 0:38:38.719 --> 0:38:43.160 So now he's done with that, and well all powers combined, 0:38:44.360 --> 0:38:45.400 that's crazy. 0:38:45.600 --> 0:38:49.160 Five of y'all powerhouse, Like what is behind the state, 0:38:49.280 --> 0:38:50.680 like behind the scenes. 0:38:50.360 --> 0:38:52.760 Like that's a lot of it's crazy. 0:38:52.800 --> 0:38:56.560 Were singing dressing room, were singing, We're doing vocal exercises together. 0:38:56.680 --> 0:38:58.719 I'm like, oh, you could do that, you know what 0:38:58.719 --> 0:39:01.439 I'm saying. Were going back and forth, and it's really 0:39:01.520 --> 0:39:04.440 a brotherhood that we've picked up that. 0:39:04.440 --> 0:39:06.680 I'm proud of us for doing, you know what I mean. 0:39:06.920 --> 0:39:08.839 I didn't know what to expect because everybody in their 0:39:08.880 --> 0:39:12.600 own right is legend, so we all are students of 0:39:12.640 --> 0:39:15.480 the game still. So I'm getting to see us, you know, 0:39:15.600 --> 0:39:17.960 excited to piggyback off each other, like all right, I 0:39:18.000 --> 0:39:19.480 heard that run you did it made me do this 0:39:19.600 --> 0:39:21.680 or I heard you you know. And Chris is coming 0:39:21.719 --> 0:39:23.839 back to the stage. I'm back to our room after 0:39:23.840 --> 0:39:24.680 the shows and he's. 0:39:24.520 --> 0:39:27.200 Like, hey, now I heard y'all keep going crazy, keep 0:39:27.280 --> 0:39:30.080 you know, so we just keep it in each other back. 0:39:32.239 --> 0:39:34.799 I just wanted to say, like egocause, like I said, 0:39:34.800 --> 0:39:38.560 all of y'a is like five big as stars, legend usher, 0:39:38.640 --> 0:39:40.080 you know what I mean. Chris Brown been in it 0:39:40.120 --> 0:39:44.160 for a while, Tank Mario, yourself, and I like I 0:39:44.440 --> 0:39:46.239 wish women could do that, like, we would have a 0:39:46.239 --> 0:39:47.759 lot more tours if a lot of the R and 0:39:47.800 --> 0:39:50.400 B women were putting old then new you know, they 0:39:50.440 --> 0:39:51.640 should aside and just do that. 0:39:51.760 --> 0:39:52.960 I actually really love. 0:39:52.880 --> 0:39:54.959 That seeing that a lot more lately though. 0:39:58.440 --> 0:40:01.400 Vogue and uh WV did they do it together? 0:40:04.040 --> 0:40:04.239 Yeah? 0:40:07.480 --> 0:40:09.120 Yeah, yeah yeah. 0:40:09.160 --> 0:40:11.600 But did they get upset with you when you was 0:40:11.600 --> 0:40:14.399 on Cam Newton and you said fifty of the tour 0:40:14.520 --> 0:40:16.160 they should give you fifty percent of the because fifty 0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:18.600 percent of it is your pin Nah? 0:40:18.719 --> 0:40:21.080 Because I think because he just said, what do you 0:40:21.160 --> 0:40:23.160 think should for me? 0:40:23.239 --> 0:40:24.360 I'm growing my songs? 0:40:24.520 --> 0:40:25.480 Yeah, that's it. 0:40:25.560 --> 0:40:28.080 I wrote them. I would not they ain't use them, 0:40:29.840 --> 0:40:30.399 so I don't think. 0:40:30.440 --> 0:40:32.560 I think it's just like they know, you know, because 0:40:32.600 --> 0:40:35.120 my my, my words always come with a smile too, 0:40:35.160 --> 0:40:37.840 like I'm having a good time, like it ain't nothing personally. 0:40:37.840 --> 0:40:38.600 I think they all know. 0:40:38.719 --> 0:40:41.160 And I'm not a ghost rider either, so they proud 0:40:41.200 --> 0:40:42.160 to be like, bro, I know. 0:40:42.160 --> 0:40:44.480 You you done wrote some of the songs for me. 0:40:44.600 --> 0:40:46.640 They know it's like it's love both ways. 0:40:46.680 --> 0:40:48.879 But I was real, you think that's what you think? 0:40:48.880 --> 0:40:51.640 This tour is ushering Chris's way of doing the verses without. 0:40:52.200 --> 0:40:55.320 Low key, low key, low key. It's a it's a 0:40:55.400 --> 0:40:57.000 it's a moment where they go back and forth and 0:40:57.000 --> 0:40:57.479 it's just. 0:40:57.400 --> 0:41:01.799 Like, oh this fire yes, the blend that they did 0:41:01.800 --> 0:41:06.319 with the songs, it is just like, damn, when is the. 0:41:06.360 --> 0:41:09.280 Last time your ego, ego almost cost you something important? 0:41:10.080 --> 0:41:10.560 Oh? 0:41:10.640 --> 0:41:16.719 My ego? M you know, almost is the key word. 0:41:17.640 --> 0:41:18.759 Almost is the key word. 0:41:18.840 --> 0:41:21.879 I remember when the label came at me and was like, yo, 0:41:21.960 --> 0:41:25.759 we want to use We're gonna use Jeremiah on the 0:41:25.760 --> 0:41:30.520 hook for on Chill instead of you. But but that 0:41:30.680 --> 0:41:33.319 was like me and while A was excited, like oh, 0:41:33.360 --> 0:41:35.719 because we got our relationship for real, like that's my bro. 0:41:36.440 --> 0:41:40.239 So man, I had to like chill, you know what 0:41:40.239 --> 0:41:43.040 I mean? Because I love Jeremiah too. But I'm just like, man, 0:41:43.080 --> 0:41:45.200 that was supposed to be my little window I noticed 0:41:45.280 --> 0:41:49.239 is a smash and I just kept it cool. It 0:41:49.280 --> 0:41:52.480 was like, let's take you to lunch. We're gonna throw 0:41:52.560 --> 0:41:56.799 extra palette on the number, and I was like all right, y'all, 0:41:56.960 --> 0:41:58.359 But I kept it cool. 0:41:58.880 --> 0:42:01.800 The switch though, like why did they want to switch? 0:42:01.960 --> 0:42:03.480 Like why did they put him on the Yeah? 0:42:03.560 --> 0:42:07.719 I think I think Jeremiah a familiar superstar that you 0:42:07.760 --> 0:42:09.520 know what I mean, has a proven history that has 0:42:09.520 --> 0:42:11.759 a proof of concept, and it was maybe still a 0:42:11.760 --> 0:42:14.840 gamble with Eric Bellinger on the hook so early in 0:42:15.160 --> 0:42:16.520 my trajectory, but. 0:42:17.000 --> 0:42:18.640 You know what I mean, like I think it's if 0:42:18.680 --> 0:42:19.600 you know, you know me. 0:42:19.640 --> 0:42:22.439 And while they got plenty songs together, we got five 0:42:22.600 --> 0:42:26.360 six songs together. So with that one, it was like 0:42:26.880 --> 0:42:29.120 I run it, go ahead, I support you, but I 0:42:29.160 --> 0:42:29.479 was like. 0:42:29.719 --> 0:42:30.359 A credit card. 0:42:30.880 --> 0:42:36.239 Yeah. And then I think Jeremiah he got simpler vocals too, yeah, 0:42:36.480 --> 0:42:37.840 just like more simple. 0:42:43.719 --> 0:42:43.959 Yes. 0:42:44.200 --> 0:42:52.200 Yes, well you could catch him this weekend in New 0:42:52.320 --> 0:42:56.640 York City Friday. Yes, Chris Brown Usher tour Eric belgim 0:42:57.920 --> 0:43:00.560 on the stage, but I'm not trying to come. I'm 0:43:00.560 --> 0:43:01.880 going to stay. 0:43:02.560 --> 0:43:02.719 God. 0:43:02.880 --> 0:43:04.560 The only reason I will come on that stage is 0:43:04.600 --> 0:43:08.000 the battle Chris Brown and dancing. 0:43:07.040 --> 0:43:08.160 New album man and. 0:43:10.280 --> 0:43:13.279 Titled eight twenty one. Thank you so much Man. This 0:43:13.480 --> 0:43:14.520 is the breakfast club. 0:43:15.239 --> 0:43:16.600 Eric Belinger is the breakfast club. 0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:17.880 Good morning, hold 0:43:17.960 --> 0:43:21.200 Up every day a week ago, click your ass up, 0:43:21.239 --> 0:43:23.640 the breakfast club you finish for y'all done.