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Speaker 3: Thanks, take out the child. We are the authority on

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Speaker 3: all things R and B. Ladies and gentlemen, my name

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Speaker 4: Everybody podcast the A Thorty on all things r.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I have been waiting.

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Speaker 3: I have been prayed.

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Speaker 2: The time has come.

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Speaker 3: I have been I have been hoping.

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Speaker 1: I said, Lord, if you send us anybody, send us that.

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Speaker 3: Name doesn't mean it doesn't doesn't name name one of

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Speaker 1: That's simple, ladies and gentlemen, mister Rob, I want to

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Speaker 1: do this because to me, to my brother Jay, what's

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Speaker 1: going on, this is this is really special. I want

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Speaker 1: have a bottle of champagne. Come on, what you're gonna Donna?

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Speaker 2: I was wanting to celebrate.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't like to because we we we've been talking

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Speaker 2: They got to stop me from celebrating.

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Speaker 5: You know, they don't they don't earned Listen, you have

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Speaker 3: Come on, it's a celebrate this another I have I have.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about this and we've at the

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Speaker 1: time will come, and the time has come. And this

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Speaker 1: This is in God's own time. The universe is saw

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do is that's that, Mama, Lord, what we're

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Speaker 1: gonna do. We're gonna pop.

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Speaker 3: I told you the muscle. I told you, sir, it was.

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Speaker 3: Your shirt was all nicely iron. Now you're just ruined.

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Speaker 3: The want your shirt. I saw you walking in. I

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Speaker 2: Now and stuffs.

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Speaker 3: Open up at the bottom of your your shirt. Any

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Speaker 4: Been just that your pain, not not yet not your brother,

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Speaker 4: travel to meet it.

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Speaker 2: Get us right, championship.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you know, but those are R

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Speaker 3: and B glasses my brother money. It was money. You

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Speaker 3: know glasses say R B money on them. They don't.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes they do, My lord from.

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Speaker 1: The United Center, Come on, United Chicago, United, the United

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Speaker 1: Center gave us our own glasses, our own Uh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The house that Michael Jordan's in, the house that

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Speaker 1: This is this is this is for us. You being here, brother,

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Speaker 1: and we have been brothers for a long time. Man,

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Speaker 1: but today we get to celebrate you, man, the way

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Speaker 3: Man. You know, R and B runs in my blood. Man,

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Speaker 3: what's my name? R O B.

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Speaker 1: Come on now, all, I'm gonna take you back to

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Speaker 1: There's a there's a there's a good friend of mine

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Speaker 1: I was like, let me, let me hear this person

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Speaker 1: for me? He said, Andre has him has the one

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Speaker 1: With the whip and I said, he's going to kill him,

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Speaker 3: And I had I had never heard anything like that before.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to just make something that never existed, bro,

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Speaker 1: I think it was like, you know, because I think

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Speaker 3: So I'm like, what is this? And how is he

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Speaker 7: How?

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Speaker 3: How are you doing that? Robin right on the back cover,

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Speaker 1: Take me to the beginning to where you even where

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, the funny thing is, you know, I

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Speaker 2: My dad was a soulful guy, you know, love to

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Speaker 3: So all of this this stuff has been built.

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Speaker 2: I joked that my family's been trying to be black

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Speaker 3: Right, you know what I mean. We made it. We

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean I love.

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Speaker 3: Back, gangster like, you know. So I've always been what

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Speaker 2: I love really soul music, R and B music, hip

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Speaker 3: Out of here. We all grew up on the Jet

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Speaker 3: Beauty a week, Beauty a week No my mom.

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Speaker 2: To have that, got to check it out when I

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Speaker 1: You know, it was you know in hearing that in

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Speaker 2: I don't want to go nowhere else because.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's not living a lot. He's telling the

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Speaker 2: I mean, I got I got the same guy in

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Speaker 3: And that's that's just who I am. And it's always

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Speaker 1: You're coming up in this family of so many generations

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Speaker 1: When does somebody say oh he's got it too.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it doesn't. I'm sorry, how do you mean,

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Speaker 3: Did did did you discovered or did or did somebody

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Speaker 2: Tab was in that group, you know Tab. So this

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Speaker 2: It starts with Tab.

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Speaker 3: He becomes mine.

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Speaker 2: This is how you're go I started dressing like him.

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Speaker 2: So this is how much information I'm getting as a

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Speaker 2: No shooter.

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Speaker 1: Wow, I never knew that that might be the best

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Speaker 2: That's a great part of art, man, is that it

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Speaker 1: Give me your energy as this album drops, because I

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Speaker 1: What was your where are you artistically? And even mentally

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Speaker 2: Well, what happened was there was so much hype in

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Speaker 3: I had.

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Speaker 2: All of the cool people were listening to it. Jay

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Speaker 3: But but then what happens next is I go through Uh?

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Speaker 3: What what do I do now?

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Speaker 2: And that is the evolution of Robin Thick. All those

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Speaker 3: Would that make you love me?

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Speaker 2: I'm lost without you. I got to ask myself what

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Speaker 2: Can you believe when all hope is gone? I need

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Speaker 2: How will you get by angels?

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Speaker 2: And that's when the magic happened, man. And that's those

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Speaker 2: and that we recorded to I said, that's so cool.

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00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,119
Speaker 2: That's so it's actually a fireplace sweeper. Is the shaker

444
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,920
Speaker 2: on Loss Without You? But yeah, So about a couple

445
00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 2: of weeks later, I started thinking to myself. I was

446
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:54,520
Speaker 2: trying to write the verses, and I actually thought, I

447
00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:56,680
Speaker 2: was like, you know, if I was writing for Usher

448
00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:58,120
Speaker 2: or something, because I really wanted to be a big,

449
00:21:58,200 --> 00:21:59,560
Speaker 2: big hit, you know, and usually I just kind of

450
00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:00,600
Speaker 2: go to art up and I was like, if I

451
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,040
Speaker 2: was writing this for Usher, how would I do the

452
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,639
Speaker 2: verses because I just worked with Usher on his project

453
00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. So so I kind of wrote the

454
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:09,720
Speaker 2: verses thinking that I was writing for usher.

455
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:15,960
Speaker 3: How funny is that smash? Some mash smash?

456
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,200
Speaker 5: So okay, So all these years you put in your

457
00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:36,920
Speaker 5: twenty thousand hours at this point, like no, seriously, right,

458
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:38,720
Speaker 5: like you put it, you put it, you put in

459
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:43,920
Speaker 5: real time. Like I remember when I got my first

460
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 5: solo deal.

461
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,520
Speaker 3: They took me to your house. They took me, yes, yeah,

462
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 3: they took me.

463
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:53,400
Speaker 5: Daryl Williams from from from Elektra took me to your house.

464
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,920
Speaker 5: And you hadn't had your music out yet either though.

465
00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 3: Oh wow.

466
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah that ear he was writing, writing for

467
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 2: a lot of different y Stone up there.

468
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we seen in me a line

469
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 3: we had people were.

470
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 5: And I'm like, yeah, maya and they playing in pro

471
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 5: jus like the whole thing. So I saw the process,

472
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 5: you know what I mean really really early on. So

473
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 5: after you you've done all that, you're writing for people,

474
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 5: you working with everybody, now you have your first smash.

475
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:25,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's the feeling for you at this point? Oh man?

476
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,119
Speaker 3: Just you know, I remember just being feeling like, Okay,

477
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 3: I'm not crazy, I'm okay. I thought it was good.

478
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 3: I thought it was pretty good music.

479
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, no, you just you just kind of

480
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:41,680
Speaker 2: say thank you God, you know, and you just you

481
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,240
Speaker 2: just enjoy the moment and and then the ride happens

482
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 2: quickly and then you know, next thing, you know, I'm

483
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:48,200
Speaker 2: on Oprah twice. A couple of months later, I do

484
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:49,479
Speaker 2: a summer tour with Beyonce.

485
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 3: So that's all within like six summer tour with beyond.

486
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:57,400
Speaker 2: Oprah twice, Yeah, and Oprah com Oprah had me back

487
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 2: a month later because she, you know, was a brad

488
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 2: the album I loved and Yeah, and the numbers were

489
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 2: so high once once I was on Oprah, the number

490
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 2: the sales sales from your Yeah, so it was just

491
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 2: like weekly and again it was all you know, we

492
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 2: had number one R and B album for like twelve weeks,

493
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like it was Yeah, it

494
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 2: was we was in there. Wow.

495
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 3: And you know, it's just you just stay grateful.

496
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 2: And then and then comes, you know, the roller coaster

497
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 2: of fame and the stuff you've been you know, waiting

498
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 2: for for twenty years and all the complications that come

499
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 2: with that.

500
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 1: Did you perform I could be mistaken, but I feel

501
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 1: like you performed lost without you on the Grammys or

502
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 1: good they were doing, we were doing and everything amazing performance.

503
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 3: Amazing performance. Thank you. I appreciate that, absolutely amazing. I

504
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 3: was like, he's really good.

505
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:59,879
Speaker 1: Because it's like you said, those type of hits, the

506
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: those are once in a lifetime moment for people because

507
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 1: we'll get.

508
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:09,640
Speaker 2: To even just the songwriting connection, like when you when

509
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 2: you write a song and you know the feeling and

510
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 2: that song comes on in the audience and there's this

511
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 2: collective wave of love and appreciation and sentimentality and positivity

512
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,640
Speaker 2: that just flows out of that song. Makes people feel yeah,

513
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 2: because they they had so many good times to that song,

514
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 2: and you can't take that away from them. They they

515
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 2: were in the bed with somebody they loved listening to that,

516
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 2: you know. They they were on vacation dancing with the

517
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 2: one they loved when they heard that, you know what

518
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,879
Speaker 2: I mean. And that's I can't take away that that

519
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 2: that feeling and that connection.

520
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: I feel like anytime a song can fill in the blanksh.

521
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 3: It just it just takes voicemail. This is what I

522
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 3: want to say to you. It feels in the blanks.

523
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 3: It's just it's just something about it.

524
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 1: And as you say, these songs mean so much more,

525
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: Like you know, twenty whatever years and you're you're like

526
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,120
Speaker 1: when they come on, it's like it's deal and puts

527
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:11,479
Speaker 1: you back there.

528
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 3: And now it's like.

529
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 1: These songs are refreshing because of everything else that's going on.

530
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 3: Now that's just not like it.

531
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, you know, the best things standard

532
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,119
Speaker 2: test of time, and and love is in the end.

533
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 2: You know, love is that connection we're all looking for

534
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 2: and the best songs. You know, a man or a

535
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 2: woman or whatever you're each side of the partnership can

536
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 2: listen to the same song and feel the same connection

537
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 2: to it, even though you know they're both on different

538
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 2: sides of the relationship. Yeah, as the song just when

539
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 2: it speaks for all of us, it connects to all

540
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 2: of us.

541
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 1: You know, I want to ask you a question before

542
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: before we go to the monster, I want to ask

543
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 1: you a question. Me and me and Jay talk about

544
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 1: this a lot. You came you you you came up

545
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: and not only just a very talented family, but.

546
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 3: Pops was guy.

547
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: Pops was a god like you had You had the

548
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 1: you had the fame, you had the money, you had

549
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: the you know, probably all the things that you needed

550
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: to just be cool. But you are still chasing this

551
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: with a hunger like like you don't have it, like

552
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 1: you don't come from it. Yeah, yeah, what does that

553
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 1: come from? I think it's just you know, it's that rare.

554
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 3: Thing that that.

555
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 2: All of us have it. But when you when you

556
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 2: know it early and there's no doubt about it, Like

557
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 2: when people try to tell me, like, you know, what

558
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 2: do I need to do to be? You just are

559
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 2: you just are? You already see it? You already know

560
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 2: what's going to happen. You've are you know, you just

561
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 2: know it very early on, Like nothing's going to stop

562
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 2: me from learning what I need to learn, practicing what

563
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 2: I need to practice, out working the guy or girl

564
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 2: next to me, and sooner or later, you know, my

565
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 2: some form of these dreams will come true and I

566
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 2: will I will get to that that place.

567
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: But it's like most people who are in this comfortable

568
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: space growing up in this we already have it, don't

569
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: have that level of hunger or even confidence in their

570
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: own ability to get their own.

571
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

572
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: Was there like was there a thing in you to say, Okay,

573
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: popsot his, but that's his, I gotta get mine.

574
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 3: Yeah.

575
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 2: Of course there's a competitive spirit and that that happens

576
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 2: in a lot of families. Whether it's if you're a lawyer,

577
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 2: sometime just becomes a better lawyer or bigger, or because

578
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 2: he had the connections or he had the information. Because

579
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 2: Dad's connections didn't totally help me that.

580
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 3: Way, but his belief in me. He put me in

581
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 3: the room with David Foster.

582
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 2: When I was thirteen, I was in the studio like

583
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 2: these with Natalie Cole when she was recording Unforgettable.

584
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 3: I'm glad we got I got to come. He's poor

585
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 3: in it.

586
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 2: But the last, the one, the coupe de gras, the

587
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 2: one that takes the cake is One day I'm at

588
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 2: Joe Tory baseball camp in an Encino and I come

589
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 2: home and Kevin Costner is there at the piano with

590
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 2: this beautiful black woman and David Foster sitting and playing

591
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 2: a song and they are practicing I Will Always Love You.

592
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 2: Before they give it to Whitney.

593
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 3: I knew where he was going.

594
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 2: I knew, and I just walked past the piano and

595
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 2: I go into the uh, you know, going to my

596
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,719
Speaker 2: room like it's not none. Then, like, what's Kevin Costner

597
00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 2: doing here?

598
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 3: You know, my dad's not even there.

599
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 2: He just let David use his house because David was

600
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 2: working on another project at a studio right around the corner,

601
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 2: probably you know, one of those, and he said, I

602
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 2: need enough. I'm gonna have to come to your house,

603
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 2: Alan and use your piano and meet with Kevin real quick.

604
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 3: So that was that was what I walked in. That's

605
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 3: what my dad knew.

606
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 2: Everybody everyone loved him and he was, oh yeah, no

607
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 2: on linder Sin's day one did Lyndon was around when

608
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 2: I was born.

609
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 3: Oh this is great. Oh yes, this is great, bro.

610
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 2: That is how crazy is that? It's a good time.

611
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 3: I don't know, that's the quzy. It's just my life.

612
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 3: Probably it's my life.

613
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 2: And you know when when my dad passed away, Magic

614
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 2: Johnson sent me a note and was or he said

615
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 2: in the paper actually and he said it to me

616
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 2: personally again when I saw him recently, but he said,

617
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 2: Alan think was the first celebrity that I met when

618
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 2: I came to Los Angeles. My dad was at every

619
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 2: basketball and hockey game. He lived at the Forum. He

620
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 2: didn't miss a game. In fact, I was born when

621
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 2: he was headed to the Forum for a game and

622
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 2: my mom was like pregnant two weeks early. And I

623
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 2: remember my dad, you know, having fun of joke. Well,

624
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 2: you better be right, because I've got VIP parking passes,

625
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 2: you know, forever the comedian.

626
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 3: But yeah, he just lived in those games.

627
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 2: He lived in that culture, and he was great friends

628
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 2: with Jerry Buss and Magic and Wayne Gretzky. Actually, when

629
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 2: Wayne Gretzky was traded to the Kings, he was staying

630
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 2: at our house with Janet for two weeks. My dad

631
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 2: was in Russia with my older brother, and I was

632
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 2: at home at Joe Tory camp again.

633
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 3: And this is na storry to comedian guys. Yeah, this

634
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 3: is coach.

635
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 2: Of the New York Yankees Championships. But so I come

636
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 2: home and oh no, I'm at home in the morning.

637
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 2: At seven o'clock in the morning, the phone rings. I'm

638
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 2: getting ready to go to camp. And I answered the

639
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 2: phone as Bruce McNall, the owner of the Kings, and

640
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 2: he says, hey, Robin is, can you put me on

641
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 2: the phone with Wayne? And I go, well, he's sleeping.

642
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 2: You know, I really don't want to wake him. He goes,

643
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 2: you need to wake him. I need to talk to

644
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:03,239
Speaker 2: him right now.

645
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 3: I go in there.

646
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 2: I say, hey, Wayne, Bruce is on the phone. You

647
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 2: gotta get it, he says. So Wayne answers the phone.

648
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 2: I go to camp, I come home Wayne's and Edmonton

649
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 2: at the podium. He was traded that morning. That was

650
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:16,959
Speaker 2: the phone call when he got traded.

651
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 3: You took the call.

652
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 2: I took the call and told Wayne to get on

653
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 2: the phone. The day he was traded to the Kings.

654
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 2: It's pretty crazy. Your life was crazy, crazy crazy. This

655
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 2: is absolute And that's just by the time I'm twelve,

656
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, we didn't even we ain't

657
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 2: even got into nothing yet.

658
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 5: So there's one thing though, as we talk about these

659
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 5: great songs, because I'm like a I'm a deep cut guy.

660
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a deep cut guy. You've got this song

661
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 3: called Teach You a Lesson.

662
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Yeah, I love that song. That's special, that

663
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 2: whole I still do that in the longest shows because

664
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 2: it's just such a moment, you know, because the way

665
00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 2: you talk to people, like when you when you talk

666
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 2: to somebody and you really oh and you know how

667
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 2: personally that moment was. That was a real moment where

668
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 2: I felt every word of that.

669
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. Amazing that a cocaine Oh

670
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 3: that was that was a true story. Well, it was

671
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 3: about all the temptations.

672
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 2: I'd never done cocaine, and it was all about the

673
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 2: temptations surrounding me in this fabulous lifestyle and these Hollywood

674
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 2: people and yeah, and as I was getting into the

675
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 2: world of these superstars and you know, the late night

676
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 2: parties and some of that kind of stuff and so, yeah, manies.

677
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 3: But the funny not me. I wasn't arrested. But I

678
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 3: saw a friend of mine in that world.

679
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 2: And I was driving through Beverly Hills and I just

680
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 2: saw him in an alley getting getting put into a car,

681
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 2: and I was like, that's my homie, and I just

682
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 2: I just didn't know if it was cocaine or whatever.

683
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 2: But when I was getting into all that world, that Hollywood, No,

684
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 2: I just.

685
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 3: Don't know what it was.

686
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 2: I remember that visual and being afraid for him. It

687
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 2: turned out he was carrying a gun and it wasn't drugs.

688
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 2: But but the fact that I saw a friend who

689
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 2: I thought might have gotten caught with cocaine inspired the

690
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 2: line of I'm standing in an alley with my hands

691
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 2: behind here.

692
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 3: I am listening to the album like man rob up. No.

693
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 2: No, I never, man, I had never. It was all

694
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 2: about the temptations and how do you stay away from it?

695
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 3: And that that.

696
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 5: Songwriting, but that is actually a song where you put

697
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 5: people in a place. No matter what it is, it

698
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 5: could be good bad whatever.

699
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 3: You write screenplays, bro, Yeah, man, there's some good ones man,

700
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 3: you know.

701
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 2: But I love That's the thing. I love music, and

702
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,320
Speaker 2: my songs are my story, you know, and that's what

703
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 2: I leave behind, you know. And so when you listen

704
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 2: to my songs that they are literally telling my life story.

705
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 3: You know.

706
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 2: Besides, if you dance record, yes, and then dance records,

707
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 2: like when you make a dance record, you just want

708
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 2: people to dance, you know.

709
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 3: I'm in record playing right there in the in the

710
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 3: first room on the right with a guy by the

711
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 3: name of t I. He's working on some music. I'm

712
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 3: in there with him. Were actually working with me this

713
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 3: story after you heard it, Actually esp actually working.

714
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: On We have an artist we're working on together. At

715
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: the time, we had a little partnership. We're doing it.

716
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: So we're just in the studio kicking it and somebody

717
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: walks in and says, hey, I need you to get

718
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: to this Robin record.

719
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 3: He's like, He's like, hey, all right, do it up.

720
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 3: Pull it up.

721
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 1: He said, this is the record. We think it's going

722
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 1: to be a big record. We need you want it.

723
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: He's got to have you on it. And he's like,

724
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: all right, played that motherfucking record. The T I says,

725
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:55,280
Speaker 1: turn the micael I love it, goes in the booth,

726
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 1: listens to it maybe one more time and does that

727
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: entire rap from top to box.

728
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 3: No, he does not. Absolutely watched. I watched him do it.

729
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 3: I was like, no way, I've never seen him in

730
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 3: studio before. For a moment, I didn't know that.

731
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 2: That's amazing.

732
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: Top to bottom, didn't write nothing, nothing. Yeah, it's a talent.

733
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 2: And I looked that said oh that's why you okay

734
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,439
Speaker 2: r T I, Yeah, that's that's that's amazing. I can't

735
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 2: believe he just went in and dropped.

736
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 3: It like that. And I'm there and I'm like, this

737
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 3: is going to go crazy. Yeah.

738
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 2: Jay and Wayne did the same thing when I worked

739
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 2: with them. Yeah, incredible how they.

740
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 3: Can do that.

741
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 1: But I just I remember hearing that song and knowing

742
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 1: that nothing or no one was going to be able

743
00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: to stop you. When this record came out, and then

744
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: the video. I saw the video and I said, everything

745
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 1: was right.

746
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 5: Everything made all the right decisions, man, at least from

747
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:09,240
Speaker 5: the outside.

748
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 2: I remember Jimmy I having called me as soon as

749
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 2: he saw the video. It calls me at seven thirty

750
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 2: am and goes, Robin.

751
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 3: Is going to be the biggest record of your life.

752
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 3: There's going to be number one all around the world.

753
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 2: This is incredible.

754
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 3: I love this record.

755
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 2: I love this video.

756
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 3: It is the best thing you've ever done.

757
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 2: It's gonna be huge.

758
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make sure of it. And I remember, and

759
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 3: now it's not just on the radio. It's not just

760
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 3: you know.

761
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:37,919
Speaker 1: I remember being an Arenas with you watching every night

762
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: this song shake the fucking arena.

763
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 2: Wow, not a couple of nights, those were times every night.

764
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 2: Those are times every night.

765
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 3: That's Temple records are tough for soulful guys anyway already,

766
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 3: but that that's different, man.

767
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,919
Speaker 2: As the brilliance of phar Real Mania was the most

768
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,800
Speaker 2: talented person I've ever been in a room with. You know,

769
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 2: he's so the story behind it, well, we had three

770
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,320
Speaker 2: days in the studio. We did three records, one record

771
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 2: a day. Blurred Lines was on the third day. My

772
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 2: dad actually came by the studio just to say hi.

773
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 2: But he happened to be there the night Blurred Lines

774
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,800
Speaker 2: was made, and it was the kind of song like

775
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 2: you know, people were hearing it from the other studios,

776
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 2: and the lady at the front desk and the manager

777
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 2: of the studio and everybody just kind of started putting

778
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 2: their head in, you know what I mean, and wanted

779
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 2: to hear it. And then and as we were adding

780
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 2: those last little ad libs whatever, but you know, we're

781
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 2: playing it loud, we're figuring out what the little pieces

782
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 2: that are missing, and but right from the start, next thing,

783
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 2: I know, the whole room is dancing, and you know,

784
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 2: it was just that kind of and people couldn't stop

785
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 2: coming in from outside to uh to hear the record.

786
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 2: You know, Here's and there were like some other there

787
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 2: was a crew of other rappers that Farah was working with.

788
00:38:55,480 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 2: I can't recall right now, but they all wanted to

789
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 2: come in and hear it. And that's when we kind

790
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 2: of knew like we had something.

791
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: Here's a questions as a vocalist, right, this song, this

792
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: song has so many different things stylistically that you did

793
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: vocally that was different. Was that Pharrell saying no, do

794
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 1: it like this? Or was that you just in character,

795
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: saying I feel like this right now, like this.

796
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 3: Is where I think.

797
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 2: By then, I had already learned a lot from Pharrell,

798
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 2: And you know, when we did want to Love Your Girl,

799
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 2: he was like, make it sound a little more a

800
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 2: Britch and I did a little more British because he

801
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 2: wanted it to sound you know what I mean. But

802
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 2: by then him and I it was our third day together,

803
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 2: which is very rare to get three days in a

804
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 2: row with Pharrell anyway, and by the third day the

805
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,720
Speaker 2: flow was just so pure. He would say, yeah, because

806
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 2: I think the record just opened itself for being really

807
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 2: silly and playful, where a lot of times, with being

808
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 2: an R and B soul singer, are you trying to

809
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 2: emotion emotion emotion? But that song has a lot of

810
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 2: humor in it, you know, And that's why I think

811
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 2: it just it's just so much fun to listen to

812
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 2: because it's sexy, it's funny, and it's got the humor

813
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 2: in it.

814
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 1: The first of all, I want to say that Pharrell

815
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: owes me a studio session. He came to me one

816
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: day and said, man, I want to work with you,

817
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, I want to work with you.

818
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to work with you.

819
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:28,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm available now I'm not sure and I've never

820
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: gotten my studio session with Farrell.

821
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 3: If you talk to him, you know, you know that.

822
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 2: Man is on a different plane. I mean what he's

823
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 2: doing with us Vuitton and everything. He's just he's evolved

824
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 2: into all things and and an inspiration in all categories,

825
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, just as a human being

826
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:52,320
Speaker 2: and a man of the community and a man of

827
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 2: art and every facet and he's a leader generation with

828
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 2: question you.

829
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 3: Uh, first, congratulations for getting Struck by Lightning.

830
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 5: Song now twelve million, Yeah, so all time, Okay, Yeah,

831
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 5: we did all right on that one.

832
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 2: There's you know, in years in ago, I got I

833
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 2: got divorced, I got sued, my father passed away, my

834
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 2: manager passed away, my house burned down, Andre Herrel passed away.

835
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 2: So all that was like boom boom, boom boom for.

836
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 3: Me, you know.

837
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 2: And so so this album is about how I got

838
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 2: through that, where I'm at now, what's important to me

839
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 2: now and my family and trying to replace that broken

840
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 2: family that I lost when I was a kid.

841
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: I love that because you know, you're sitting next to

842
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: fathers are who are actually fathers, yeah, real real dad

843
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: And you know, people always ask like, how do you

844
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 1: find balance, and I'm like, there is no balance. There

845
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: is just there's just ripping and running and trying to

846
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: be all you can be in those spaces, but more

847
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: important portantly for your kids. Like you want to be

848
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 1: all you can be in the space that provides for

849
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,399
Speaker 1: your kids, exactly, but you also want to be all

850
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: you can be in the space with your kids.

851
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 2: And if you think of it percentage wise, if I

852
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 2: have six people, I mean five people, you know, my

853
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 2: lady and four kids that I need to provide love, attention, humor, cuddles.

854
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 2: You know, they all need it. They all need it,

855
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 2: they all want it, you know what I mean. So

856
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,839
Speaker 2: that's that's twenty percent each of my time. And now

857
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 2: I haven't even gone to work yet, absolutely, you know.

858
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 3: What I mean.

859
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 2: So now you cut that in half, that's fifty. Now

860
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 2: they're down to ten percent each of them of my

861
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,439
Speaker 2: time and my love and my energy. So you really

862
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 2: have to conserve it. You have to stay present in it,

863
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,839
Speaker 2: and you have to make sure that that the time

864
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 2: is being spent valuably so everybody is getting enough to

865
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 2: feel that, you know, Papa's love or whatever that is,

866
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:55,879
Speaker 2: you know, and so we have a lot of work

867
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 2: to do.

868
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, you get into this space, and especially you know

869
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: in your career and and how you've how successful you've been.

870
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 1: When of one of my friends, Terry's, hit me with

871
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: a phrase a few a few weeks ago, he said, well,

872
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: I don't think that would be the best use of

873
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:16,359
Speaker 1: my time, and you gotta right, And so you gotta

874
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:18,800
Speaker 1: you gotta make those decisions.

875
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 2: And older we get that, you know, we really want

876
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 2: to spend time with the people that make a smile

877
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:26,879
Speaker 2: and laugh and dance and and feel loved and feel appreciated,

878
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 2: and that's where that's what we want to be.

879
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 5: When you when you first sat down before the cameras

880
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 5: went on, you're like, bro, I just did six shows.

881
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,280
Speaker 3: Six cities and seven days.

882
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh no, you that's that's that is the real grind,

883
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 5: and that's how you look up and you've done this

884
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 5: thing for thirty years at the highest level.

885
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like people don't understand that. People don't understand that.

886
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 5: Like even when you talked about how you you know,

887
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 5: you spend your time, like that's time, Yeah, that's really

888
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 5: time dedicated to the craft.

889
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the rest is dedicated to the kids. Absolutely, yeah,

890
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 2: And that's that's what it's all about, coming up right

891
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 2: And you know what yet, well, I've been touring. Actually

892
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 2: I'm with Boys and Men right now. I've been now

893
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:20,920
Speaker 2: doing shows Boys Men. That's a great night because you know,

894
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 2: once again like getting to work with your idols or

895
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 2: just have like I learned every single harmony and ad

896
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 2: lib on that first album for sure, you know, and

897
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 2: then once they started doing work with Babyface and getting

898
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 2: that end of the road and I'll make Love to

899
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 2: you and you know and on bend and knees and

900
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,879
Speaker 2: so these are records that I listened to driving as

901
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 2: a sixteen year old, like I want to be that

902
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 2: I'm going to sing like that. I want that kind

903
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 2: of a hit, you know what I mean? And that's

904
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 2: that that hunger is good for you.

905
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:51,439
Speaker 3: You know. Well we're about to segue, please do yeah, yeah,

906
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 3: how you feel Robin? Because because you look good? You

907
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 3: walked in smelling good and looking good. Do you do?

908
00:44:59,040 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 3: You feel good?

909
00:44:59,760 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 2: Right now?

910
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 3: Now?

911
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 2: I feel delicious.

912
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 3: There ain't nothing wrong with that.

913
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 1: Special segment where we want to go to right now

914
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: and get some information from you know, You've written a

915
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: lot of songs for a lot of people, written songs

916
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 1: for yourself.

917
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 3: We just know that there are songs that have inspired you,

918
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 3: songs that have made you who you are. And we

919
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 3: don't want all the songs.

920
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 6: We just don't want.

921
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 3: We just want a few of the songs. And we

922
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 3: just like to call this your.

923
00:45:46,920 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 6: Top fun, your top five, top five, your top.

924
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 3: Fun, your top R and B singer. Whatelse R and.

925
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 7: B songs.

926
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:13,800
Speaker 4: Were Dogs and doom be more you go bere on

927
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:25,240
Speaker 4: this show. We don't good blow. I mean, yeah, hurrah, Yeah.

928
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 3: Break it down, break it down, your five Robin think

929
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 3: your top five R and B singers.

930
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 2: Oh, top five R and B singers. I mean that's

931
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 2: the at least the name my favorite because because I'm

932
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:06,439
Speaker 2: I'm more of an old school man. Otis Redding. Yeah, yeah,

933
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:14,479
Speaker 2: you can't get past baby locked the door. Yeah, start

934
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 2: with that and then goes solve. I mean the way

935
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 2: he sings, uh uh, try a little tenderness, you know

936
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 2: what I mean, Just try so. Yeah, Otis Redding for sure. Stevie,

937
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 2: of course, gotta gotta get Stevie up in there. How

938
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:37,240
Speaker 2: green Ain't nobody know how to keep it that's small

939
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 2: intimate intimacy that he provides. Marvin, of course, I can't

940
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 2: go without Morvin.

941
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 3: And then oh, oh well, I'm you know, I'm on

942
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 3: a guy.

943
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,439
Speaker 2: I'm doing all my favorite guys because mostly I would

944
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,320
Speaker 2: listen to but Whitney. Then yeah, just you can't. You

945
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 2: can't make it Whitney and Aretha. I gotta do like

946
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 2: five six, Just I gotta have my two favorites, my

947
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 2: two favorites. I listened to so much Aretha and Whitney

948
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 2: that sculpted my vocal career. But as I got older

949
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 2: and you know, becoming a grown man and listening to

950
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,720
Speaker 2: other grown men's stories at that same point in my life,

951
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, that's when I started to

952
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 2: gravitate more towards Otis and Stevie, Marvin and al As

953
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 2: I got into my twenties and stuff like that, you know.

954
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 2: But early on, when I was in my teens, Whitney

955
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 2: was it. You know, you couldn't if you could do

956
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 2: a Whitney run, you knew what she was doing. She

957
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:36,280
Speaker 2: was so quick and powerful.

958
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 3: Oh and just the.

959
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 2: Taste, precise, the taste, impeccable taste.

960
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 3: Robin, think your top five r and B songs.

961
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, let's stay together. What's going on?

962
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:51,359
Speaker 3: Uh?

963
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 2: What's I always.

964
00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 3: Forget the talents out of Bens guy, I always have

965
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 3: been there.

966
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 2: And uh for me, because of the effect it had

967
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 2: on me and my life and career, I would say forever,

968
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:10,840
Speaker 2: my lady.

969
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 3: Why not? Why not? Yeah? Yeah, come on? That did

970
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 3: everything for me, everything for me, Look at me. That

971
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:25,879
Speaker 3: was everything changed my life. Come on that record right there?

972
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 3: Who I used to order that on the jukebox. Remember

973
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 3: to talk about the box, that money.

974
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 2: If I had a girl come over. The first date

975
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 2: that was I was singing. I was standing in front

976
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 2: of Jodasy like I was a member of the TV

977
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,359
Speaker 2: behind me, and oh you know, I went you got,

978
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 2: you got. I went right to my vocals.

979
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 3: Teaching early. Oh yeah, yeah I was. I was a

980
00:49:53,320 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 3: magic mic you know that can sing. Now I'm doing

981
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,359
Speaker 3: town type dances, you know what I mean? One more

982
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 3: one more song?

983
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:09,959
Speaker 2: Okay, okay?

984
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 3: And B songs?

985
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 2: Oh you know what I gotta I gotta get a

986
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 2: Lauren Hill in there. Guys, you know you better watch

987
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:24,800
Speaker 2: out some girls. And that's that's culture forever. That speaks

988
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 2: so many things to both do, both sexes. And cultures

989
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:31,880
Speaker 2: and what a song, what a video? What the musical production?

990
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 2: Just incredible.

991
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 3: We're gonna build your vultron your music. You're a super

992
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 3: R and B artists.

993
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: We want to know who you're gonna get the vocal

994
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: from the performance style, the styling, the passion of the artist.

995
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: And since you're so great at it, who's going to

996
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 1: write and produce for this artist? Let's start at the vocal.

997
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:51,959
Speaker 1: What vocal are you grabbing to build your super RB artist?

998
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,720
Speaker 2: You know what I think because of the most dynamic

999
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:58,280
Speaker 2: I mean, for me, I love the I would pick Marvin,

1000
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, just because there's just there

1001
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,280
Speaker 2: was something he just when when he sings, it feels

1002
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 2: like the gates of heaven are opening up, and you

1003
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:08,320
Speaker 2: know we're all welcome, you know what I mean. And

1004
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 2: uh and and there's a piece and a and a

1005
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 2: hope and a warmth. It's like a big warm hug,

1006
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:19,919
Speaker 2: you know every time he sings. Yeah, performance style, performance style.

1007
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 3: You know I would go.

1008
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 2: I'd go James Brown. I mean I don't think I

1009
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 2: think it all just starts the hardest. Yeah. I mean,

1010
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 2: of course this is Michael, which which is just magic

1011
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 2: that doesn't you can't even really quantify that. But for me,

1012
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 2: just like the the way James Brown and hits with

1013
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 2: his band and just he had he created this whole

1014
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 2: thing that inspired everybody that came after. And you know,

1015
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:49,400
Speaker 2: and I'm a sweat you see me, I swear it

1016
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 2: out when it's time to really go, It's James Brown.

1017
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? The styling of the artists.

1018
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 2: Styling of the artist. Okay, okay, you know what. Then

1019
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 2: I would go Mike because he really he there was

1020
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:06,360
Speaker 2: something that classy. It was dazzling, but it was every

1021
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 2: man could wear it, you.

1022
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 3: Know what I mean?

1023
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 2: And and uh, he just kept evolving and and that's

1024
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 2: what inspired Kanye's type of you know, metamorphosis as a

1025
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 2: as a fashion icon and h And then you can

1026
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 2: go right to who's the songwriter producer? That's Pharrell, you know.

1027
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 2: And I would just go Pharrell, but we.

1028
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 3: Gotta go passions, passion of the artist, the heart of

1029
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 3: the artist, heart of the passion. Oh.

1030
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 2: Then I would go with Otis. I'll go with Otis's

1031
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 2: heart because you know he we lost him early. I

1032
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:39,240
Speaker 2: mean you know that I believe he wrote and finished

1033
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 2: sitting on the dock of the bay and then passed

1034
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 2: before it was released, and and then it became sitting

1035
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 2: on the dock of the bay. Wow, I mean, come on,

1036
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 2: you know. So there was something about the heart, especially

1037
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 2: in the era also the era that he came from,

1038
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 2: you know. And once again I'm picking mostly male artists

1039
00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 2: and producers, but but that's uh yeah, I mean the

1040
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 2: heart heart of Otis and Aretha. You know you could

1041
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 2: you could do the same thing like what came out

1042
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 2: of Aretha when she sang it.

1043
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 3: But oh oh oh no, I got a better one.

1044
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 2: Just the fun Nina Simone, the heart of Nina, the

1045
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 2: heart of Nina. Listen to that voice who for real

1046
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:24,359
Speaker 2: writing and producing it, the passion of Nina Simone. Yeah,

1047
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 2: from the era she came up in as a black

1048
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 2: woman in those times, and the songs she wrote.

1049
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 3: It was so it was so many layers to that

1050
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:37,240
Speaker 3: music and her songwriting, her lyricis, her lyrics.

1051
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:38,800
Speaker 2: It's an amazing.

1052
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 3: We got one more thang for you, please do we

1053
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 3: got one more than because I got to go, I

1054
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 3: got I got to go, got to get home.

1055
00:53:51,120 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 7: I said, yeah, saying no, Nick, saying no name, are you.

1056
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 3: What you did? Don't say I ain't saying no.

1057
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:24,800
Speaker 5: It's a very important sec very important secment song, not

1058
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 5: a song because now you wrote so many damn songs.

1059
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 3: Fat segment of the show, Will you tell us a story? Funny?

1060
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 3: Fucked up? Are funny and fucked up?

1061
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 2: Okay?

1062
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,800
Speaker 3: Only rule to the game is you can't say no names.

1063
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, funny story.

1064
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:47,360
Speaker 3: Life and time, Life and time, I'm robbing.

1065
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:58,360
Speaker 2: Thick, okay, okay. So after the met ball, oh, she

1066
00:54:58,920 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 2: know what?

1067
00:54:59,360 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 3: You know what?

1068
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 2: I was, Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it was a great

1069
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,359
Speaker 2: night because uh and yeah, I won't include the name

1070
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:12,359
Speaker 2: that has the punchline, but I'll use some other names

1071
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 2: to help.

1072
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 3: Get the story go. It right's part, but I won't

1073
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:16,759
Speaker 3: use the punchline.

1074
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 2: So Jennifer Hudson is performing, which was amazing because that

1075
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 2: was the first time I'd ever seen her live. And

1076
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:25,320
Speaker 2: after that I was so inspired. I went home and

1077
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 2: I wrote on her debut Grammy winning R and B album,

1078
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 2: and so she was performing. I actually was sitting at

1079
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 2: the table with Rihanna, who was very young in her

1080
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:38,239
Speaker 2: and I had just done a photo shoot together for

1081
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:40,400
Speaker 2: GQ mag It was a GQ Yeah, I think it

1082
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 2: was GQ magazine. Very early in her career.

1083
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 3: And so that night we end up going out.

1084
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 2: It's after party after party. We end up at Richie's

1085
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 2: Butter in New York City. Richie Akiva shout out to

1086
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,560
Speaker 2: Richie Kieva at Butter in New York City. And I'm

1087
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:59,800
Speaker 2: hanging out with this very famous, very talented Grammy Award

1088
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:03,760
Speaker 2: winning artists and We're making friends, We're having a blast,

1089
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:05,799
Speaker 2: and he's like, you know, I after this, man, let's

1090
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 2: go back to my studio and and uh, you know,

1091
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:09,279
Speaker 2: make some music.

1092
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:12,880
Speaker 3: And I was like, man, not tonight, not tonight. I

1093
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 3: was like, you know.

1094
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 2: And so somehow he was affronted by you know, like

1095
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 2: felt rejected or something, and uh, and then it got

1096
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 2: to I don't want to do that, you know, and

1097
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Speaker 2: he was like, hey, man, you know I'm better than you.

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Speaker 2: And I go, I go what I said, I'll take

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Speaker 2: the Pepsi challenge with Joe asked.

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Speaker 3: The Pepsi challenge.

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Speaker 2: And we had already we already spent the night complimenting

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Speaker 2: each other, we had met, we had met at the

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Speaker 2: met Ball, we had already spent the night when we

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00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:47,799
Speaker 2: didn't really leave, we were like hanging out. We ended

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Speaker 2: up going to like, Paul, let's go there. Now, let's

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Speaker 2: go there. So we were making friends very quickly, and

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Speaker 2: by the end of the story, Uh yeah, I think

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Speaker 2: he was offended that I didn't want to go to

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Speaker 2: the studio when we're at this incredible party to you know,

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Speaker 2: I just didn't want to go afterwards, and I think

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Speaker 2: he thought that I didn't, you know, that I was

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Speaker 2: dissing him or something. Just finished with I'll take the

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Speaker 2: PEPs of challenge with Joe.

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Speaker 3: Did you guys remain?

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Speaker 2: You know, we saw each other many years later at

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Speaker 2: an airport Terminal six baggage.

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Speaker 3: Claim, you know what I mean, and just was like it.

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Speaker 3: You know, but man, you know, man, Man, you too.

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Speaker 3: We don't really keep we don't really keep beef. We

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Speaker 3: just don't hang out. We talk about the beef. Man.

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Speaker 2: That is great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a good time. Robin you are you

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Speaker 1: are who you are, man. Thanks for having me. Thank

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you. Man, Hang with you continue success and

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Speaker 1: for you.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on the rise of this show. You know, you

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00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 2: guys are really taking over in a in a category

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Speaker 2: that we really needed. We needed, we needed all this

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Speaker 2: talk and all this laughter and all this appreciation of

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Speaker 2: great R and B Culture and Music.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you, bro, I couldn't have closed it out better.

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Speaker 1: My name is Tank and this is the R and

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Speaker 1: B Money Podcast, the authority on all things R and B.

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Speaker 3: I don't I don't even know what to say. Man,

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Speaker 3: my brother, man, you know I love you.

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Speaker 2: I taught so much with you as an artist and

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Speaker 2: a human being in it. And h and Jay you know,

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Speaker 2: you know I've always loved you, and we've been around

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Speaker 2: each other for so long in this business.

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Speaker 3: But you guys are doing great.

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited part of it. God bless you.

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Speaker 3: Listen, big ladies and gentlemen, R and B Money.

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Speaker 5: R and B Money is a production of the Black

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Speaker 5: Effect Podcast Network. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the

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Speaker 5: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your

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Speaker 5: favorite shows. Don't forget to subscribe to and rate our show,

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Speaker 5: and you can connect with us on social media at

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Speaker 5: Jay Valentine and at the Real Tank. For the extended episode,

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Speaker 5: subscribe to YouTube dot com, forward Slash, R and B Money.

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Speaker 2: Yeah,