WEBVTT - Robin Thicke 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:03.560 R and B money. 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:06.120 We are. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:13.920 Thanks, take out the child. We are the authority on 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:19.160 all things R and B. Ladies and gentlemen, my name 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:19.560 is Tank. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:29.560 Everybody podcast the A Thorty on all things r. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:36.760 Oh my god, I have been waiting. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.560 I have been prayed. 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:41.640 The time has come. 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.559 I have been I have been hoping. 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:50.760 I said, Lord, if you send us anybody, send us that. 0:00:51.040 --> 0:01:01.280 Name doesn't mean it doesn't doesn't name name one of 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.280 the coldst ever. 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:14.960 That's simple, ladies and gentlemen, mister Rob, I want to 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:21.680 do this because to me, to my brother Jay, what's 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:26.119 going on, this is this is really special. I want 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.560 to let you know that. And so for me, I 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:33.360 have a bottle of champagne. Come on, what you're gonna Donna? 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:35.039 I was wanting to celebrate. 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:39.240 I wouldn't like to because we we we've been talking 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:40.360 about this for a while. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.000 They got to stop me from celebrating. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:48.320 You know, they don't they don't earned Listen, you have 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.400 earned the right to celebrate one of your favorite songs. 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.880 Come on, it's a celebrate this another I have I have. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.240 You know, we've talked about this and we've at the 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:04.080 time will come, and the time has come. And this 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.840 is not and the time is right better late than never. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.960 This is in God's own time. The universe is saw 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.000 fit for this to be the moment. Yes, and what 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.120 we're gonna do is that's that, Mama, Lord, what we're 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:15.800 gonna do. We're gonna pop. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:25.480 I told you the muscle. I told you, sir, it was. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.160 Your shirt was all nicely iron. Now you're just ruined. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.200 The want your shirt. I saw you walking in. I 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.400 opened that looking like you've been doing dishes. 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:38.240 Now and stuffs. 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.519 Open up at the bottom of your your shirt. Any 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.920 by any means necessary, you've. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.320 Been just that your pain, not not yet not your brother, 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:53.679 travel to meet it. 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:54.919 Get us right, championship. 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:55.359 Yeah. 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:56.560 I don't know if you know, but those are R 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.720 and B glasses my brother money. It was money. You 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.239 know glasses say R B money on them. They don't. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:08.440 Yes, yes they do, My lord from. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:12.680 The United Center, Come on, United Chicago, United, the United 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:14.960 Center gave us our own glasses, our own Uh. 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.959 Yeah. The house that Michael Jordan's in, the house that 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:20.160 R and B Money lives in. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.760 This is this is this is for us. You being here, brother, 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.520 it means the world to us. Man, we have been fans, 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.240 and we have been brothers for a long time. Man, 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.840 but today we get to celebrate you, man, the way 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:34.800 we've always wanted to. 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:42.400 Man. You know, R and B runs in my blood. Man, 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:44.000 what's my name? R O B. 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:50.920 Come on now, all, I'm gonna take you back to 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:52.880 the beginning. I'm gonna take you back to the beginning. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.000 There's a there's a there's a good friend of mine 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:05.240 by the name of Dreno, and Dreino says to me, Nicole, 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.280 I got I got some I got some shoes. You 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.440 need to hear. He about to kill every body, to 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:11.240 kill everybody. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:15.320 Was crazy. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.560 I was like, let me, let me hear this person 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.440 who's supposed to be messing with me and all of 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:28.360 my R and B constituents. And he begins to play 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:35.960 this song. Oh god, he's the man, he said. It 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.080 hadn't even dropped yet, because I'm going to bring a 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:42.080 full circle for you. That was the late Great Andre 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:48.200 heralds cousin O'Neil Dreno. Okay, who is playing this music 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.880 for me? He said, Andre has him has the one 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.159 and and he showed me a picture. 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.120 Of you with with the Lord Jesus. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:06.960 With the whip and I said, he's going to kill him, 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:09.040 all of them. 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:15.279 And I had I had never heard anything like that before. 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:17.799 And I was going for the first album. 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.560 I wanted to just make something that never existed, bro, 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.000 and that was that was a fun album to make. Man. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.760 I think it was like, you know, because I think 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:31.240 we all have we all have a natural judgment when 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.240 it comes to things and all, and it all starts 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.640 from it all starts from the look in the appearance. 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.040 And it's like when I first when I saw the picture, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.120 I heard the music first, then I saw the picture, 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:46.839 I'm like, how how the fuck did that happen? Because 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:54.720 I'm saying, I'm saying this like almost like disco esque 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.840 vibe with the with with the with the with the 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:58.919 Tony Montana. 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.120 So I'm like, what is this? And how is he 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:03.880 doing that? 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:05.159 How? 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:10.480 How are you doing that? Robin right on the back cover, 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:11.000 right like. 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.000 Take me to the beginning to where you even where 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:21.280 you even start constructing the fibers and the textures that 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:23.080 that design who you are. 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.480 Well, you know, the funny thing is, you know, I 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.960 come from six generations of musicians. My grandfather was a 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.160 jazz trumpet player. His father was a jazz trumpet player. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.760 My dad was a soulful guy, you know, love to 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.480 write songs, love to sing h you know, wrote with 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.080 Richard Pryor and you know, and all these kind of things. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.440 So my dad was a soulful guy and enlightened for 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.360 his time, you know. And my mom her number one 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.160 song was Friends and Lovers in the eighties with Carl Anderson, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:51.400 a black R and B singer. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.680 So all of this this stuff has been built. 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:56.680 I joked that my family's been trying to be black 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:00.520 from sixth generations, and I'm just to get it. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.760 Right, you know what I mean. We made it. We 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:08.920 made it, Joe Shit, we did it, Joe, It did it? 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:09.279 Joe. 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:12.560 Yeah. I mean I love. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.920 I really loved the culture just as a kid. I mean, 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.440 whether it was Eddie Murphy or or you know, Michael 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.880 Jackson and Prince And when I was a seven between 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.560 seven and twelve years old, it was all black music, 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.680 black culture, and and then and then rap music and 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.800 then then hip hop and then when Joe Desy and 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.760 Boys to Men and that era happened. I was thirteen 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:36.800 and I was very impressionable, and I was in a 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.440 singing group with three other black guys, and it was 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.040 all legit. It just you know, And so my whole 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.720 life and my whole culture has been black music and 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.280 black culture. And when you come to my shows, it's 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.600 ninety percent black people. Like it's not even you know, 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:57.200 that's just, oh, we were as one as one, you know, fourteen, 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:03.480 because we're all black. And I'm fourteen years old and 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.080 I'm wearing a double breasted Steve Harvey suit and I 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.160 got a cigar in my hand and my hair slicked. 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.280 Back, gangster like, you know. So I've always been what 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.360 I am, you know. And I love R and B. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.080 I love really soul music, R and B music, hip 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.360 hop music, black coach, black comedy I watched, I watched 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.800 B e T. I showed up to school with the 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:25.720 Jet magazine when I was fourteen. 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.880 Out of here. We all grew up on the Jet 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.840 Beauty a week, Beauty a week No my mom. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.079 To have that, got to check it out when I 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.520 was fourteen. So and you know, then then being married 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.600 to Paula Patten and just you know, my whole life 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:46.040 has been embedded in the black experience in black culture, 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:47.319 and that's that's where I belong. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.079 You know, it was you know in hearing that in 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:55.720 your first entry, it was like there was no there 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:59.920 was no try, there was no there was nothing extra 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.520 on it. It was very author I was like, I 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:03.680 was like, where is he from? 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:05.679 I don't want to go nowhere else because. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.559 Yeah, he's he's not living a lot. He's telling the 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.520 truth in this music. What he's doing. 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.640 I mean, I got I got the same guy in 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.319 me that you know that the Baptist Church got in 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:18.319 and you know what I mean. Whatever it is like 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.360 like we feel the music, we feel the soul, we 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.360 feel the pain, we feel the history, We understand the 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.440 journey where we need to support each other, we need 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.839 to believe in each other. We need to you know, 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.360 stay on the right paths and and and just be 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.640 a family. Like when I go to the BT Awards 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:37.800 or something like that, that's like a family reunion for me, 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:38.480 you know what I mean. 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.760 And that's that's just who I am. And it's always 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.880 been real to me. Yeah, when did is your is your? 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:46.079 Is? 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:50.280 You're coming up in this family of so many generations 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.520 of of of really incredible musicians. When does someone point 0:09:54.600 --> 0:10:00.000 out that you are actually going to continue in that line? 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.360 When does somebody say oh he's got it too. 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.640 Well, I think it doesn't. I'm sorry, how do you mean, 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:07.400 like at what age. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.560 Did did did you discovered or did or did somebody 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.959 say you have it? 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.400 Well? It started with you know, my good friend Tabiso 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:20.240 and Kye, who ended up writing hit songs and being 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.959 a music manager and a music publisher. And he was 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.480 the first. He was when I was fourteen. He was 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:26.600 in the group with me as one. 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:28.240 He was my group. 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.280 Tab was in that group, you know Tab. So this 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.640 is what so Tab was my first So Tab had 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.199 Tab told me how to take pictures, how to go 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.160 into the office. We would go to the office and 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.960 I would sing jodasy and commissioned songs. 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:47.360 Yeah yeah, yeah, I am here. Yeah, running back to you, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.440 running back Yeah yeah. 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:50.600 It starts with Tab. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:52.640 He becomes mine. 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.640 This is how you're go I started dressing like him. 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.280 I started, you know what I mean, like he was 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:57.920 like he was just this is stuff. You know how 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.600 long I've known Tab? Yeah, and this is the first 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.000 time ever hearing this story. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:03.960 Yeah, that's my brother. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.240 And then so then we did some demos that got 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:11.199 heard by Tricky Stewart's camp. M So I go in 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.880 the studio at fifteen years old writing with Tricky Stewart. 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.800 So this is how much information I'm getting as a 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.640 fourteen to fifteen year old songwriter and singer. Then next 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.079 door working to Tricky Stewart is Brian mckknight, who I 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.480 had studied. Brian McKnight's whole first album that was a 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.080 huge album and a huge influence on me. Brian, here's 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.760 what I'm doing with Tricky. He brings me in. He 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.280 signs me to his record label at Interscope Records when 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.040 I'm sixteen years old. So now I'm writing with Tricky Stewart, 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.400 I'm working with Brian mckknight. Then Jordan Knight from New 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.360 Kids on the Block. Here's the work I'm doing with 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.360 Brian McKnight. I go in the studio with him, I produce, 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.599 I write and produce his whole first solo album. And 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.520 guess who Jordan Knight takes me around to work with 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.640 and be in the studio with Jimmy jam and Terry Lewis, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:12:01.280 Walter Affinasif Raphael Sadik, I'm seventeen years old, he A'm 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.719 seventeen eighteen years old, and I'm writing with all and 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:05.240 producing with all of those guys. 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.440 So the I went to school. 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:13.120 I went to Harvard and yale A Music when I 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.760 was sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old. Brian McKnight, you know, 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:18.760 I mean, the Take six would come by and be 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.480 singing Army. I'm just sitting there learning, just listening watching. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:23.760 I mean, and Take six is how I learned how 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.240 to riff the main group that I that I studied, 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.480 and that's when why when Brian and I came out, 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.400 we were also excited because I was a huge Take 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:31.839 six man. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.360 But I learned every Take six song and riff. That 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.599 was it. That was the training that was that was 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:37.720 done right there. You know what I mean. 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:39.440 Once you learn how to sing Take six, you could 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:40.960 sing anything. You can sing anything anything. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.200 Well, are you actually going to school at this point too? 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:44.320 There? 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:45.079 Are you are? You know? 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.520 I was out my senior year. I decided to move 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.440 out my senior year. My dad was very disappointed. Shout 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.400 out to Alan Thick, we love you and miss you. 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.560 Dropped out because I had a record deal, I had 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:59.560 a publishing y Jody saying yeah pretty much. 0:12:59.600 --> 0:12:59.760 No. No. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.719 What I did was I got the tutor and like 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:04.880 and like paid three hundred dollars for the tutor to 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:06.599 give me a bee, you know what I mean. And 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.559 then I just showed up a graduation and with the 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:10.840 cabin gown and all that. Everybody was like, what hell 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.400 you doing a day? You were here like the first 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.440 week in September and they had come back like. 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:20.400 You ain't paid at three hundred read my god right here. 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.360 So so yeah, so I just snuck out. 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.719 But really my senior year, I already had a record deal, 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.600 I had a publishing deal. I was in the studio, 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.280 you know, ten twelve hours a day with these kind 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.679 of talents, you're professional. Yeah, I mean I was in 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.160 and the training that you know here those ten thousand hours, 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.400 the outliers theory and stuff. I got ten thousand hours 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.240 by the time I was twenty one, and then it 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.160 was time for me to focus on my own career. 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.440 And then who comes into my life? Andre around because 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:47.240 I knew what to do. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:48.160 I didn't know. 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.040 I'm not saying I was having a great time as 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:51.959 a songwriting producer, but I didn't know who I was 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:53.599 going to be as an artist. And the album that 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.280 I made with Brian Knight by the time we started, 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.319 when I'm sixteen. But by the time I'm nineteen, Jimmy 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:58.920 I mean, was like. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.920 You know what it it's okay, it's good. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.360 I give it a B plus, you know, but we're 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.079 not going to spend a lot of money promoting and baa. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:06.079 I was like, you know it, don't even put it 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:06.960 out shelfit. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:08.360 I'm out of here. 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.040 Let me go work on myself and and figure out 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:12.800 who I'm going to be as an artist. Then Andrea Herrel, 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.400 like the angel comes into my life. Teaches me how 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.200 to walk and talk it, how to connect with people 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.160 instead of just paint, how to make the painting connect 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:21.560 you know what I mean, And how to be a 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:25.280 part of the culture. Executive. He taught me, you know, 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.160 he took me shopping, he bought me, you know, he 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.480 told me what music. So he walked in with the 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.320 fifth of Beethoven. He when I was making the album, 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.120 he said, you know this Saturday Fever album. He said this, 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:36.880 this is the kind of sound. This disco. Everybody loves 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.720 this go just go last for everybody. Want to celebrate, 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.000 everybody want to dance, listen to this album. So I'm 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.080 listening to the album and first thing that camera mout 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.520 I wrote that in about ten minutes, you know, and 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:46.320 that ended up being. 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:50.800 The first single of my artistic career. You know, did 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.040 you did I perform that song? I do now. 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.200 Sometimes, but I didn't. I didn't perform it live in 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:56.920 our shows. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:58.120 No, why not? 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.680 I know, I probably should all the time? What I 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:01.680 probably should all the time? 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:02.760 Shoot? 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.640 Well, you shooter most of the time. Yeah. Oh, the 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.200 set's different. The set's different since I, uh, what, yeah, 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:11.880 we do that, we do that usually. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:16.560 Said, this guy's been robbed before. Guys had to be 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:17.600 And I was in. 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.880 The bank when it got robbed. Yeah, I was laying down. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.720 The whole story is true. Hold on what that whole song? 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.080 I was eighteen years old, Paula was sitting in the 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:26.960 car outside waiting. 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:27.120 I was. 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:28.680 I went in to get like three hundred dollars, but 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.400 we're going to go to Santa Barbara to my dad's 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.800 ranch and spend the weekend together. A romantic eighteen year old, 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.400 you know, get away and I go in the bank 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.840 and all of a sudden, they get get down on 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:40.880 the floor, but get the buck on the floor. I 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.480 turn around. Three guys. One's coming right. He points the 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.680 gun right at me because I'm standing at the counter. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:48.840 He points the gun right at me. I get down. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.080 Of course, he comes to the counter, he hops over 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.440 the counter, you know, goes for the money. And then 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.040 the rest of the story that develops. Lady walks into 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.360 a shotgun surprise. A lady walked in to the guy 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.120 that had a shot gun at the front door. Every 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:02.960 word of that song is true. The fuck out of 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.880 here at eighteen, story at eighteen. And then you know, 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.800 luckily nobody was hurt in the end. But when even 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.080 when I say when I say, lady walks into a 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.480 shocking surprise, drops down to her knees, saw her life 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.400 for her eyes. He said, bitch, she's gonna get at. 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.040 Everybody going regret it. I'm your That was he did. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.440 He said, if anybody moves this, bitch is gonna get 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.320 so those all those words in this song are true. 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:27.880 My hands up, my hands up. They want me with 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:28.560 my hands up? 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:29.120 No shooter. 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.320 Wow, I never knew that that might be the best 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.080 songwriting story that I've ever heard. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.120 Write your life the second verse just for the funny 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.120 it because that's what we're doing. The second verse is 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.760 thiefs flying off at the mouth talking about dumping and 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.160 wetting me something because they were like, you're about to 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:49.760 get dumped on. 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:51.400 You're just about to get wet up in here. And 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:57.560 I'm like these white people don't know what translator. I'm like, 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.360 lucky on me. I'm like I told you I'm part 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.280 of the cultures. I'm I'm like, I know a dumbing 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.480 and wedding is. But again, but lay down, guys. 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.439 What they're saying, yeah, okay, everyone, they're trying to They 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:08.520 just want you to lay down. 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.119 You're gonna get dumped on and get wet on. Okay, 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:14.080 I mean shooting. You don't want that. They're gonna shoot, 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:15.800 and none of us want that to happen. Are you 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:17.640 kidding me? Yeah? 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.119 That's a great part of art, man, is that it 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.600 can come from anywhere. And when I was younger, I 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:27.080 really challenged myself for those kind of things. 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.840 Give me your energy as this album drops, because I 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.000 think the album the album dropped and the first single, 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.800 of course, where we all heard the first single, but 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.840 comparatively speaking, this wasn't the blast off as we as 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.560 we as we know hindsight looking. 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.080 Correct, this is where the magic happens. 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:53.440 What was your where are you artistically? And even mentally 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.800 after this project drops, because there's still so much work 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:59.639 to do, even with this great music you have. 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.359 Well, what happened was there was so much hype in 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.639 Andrea Herrel connecting me to the most fabulous people in 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.760 in you know the world. At times, I was very 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.600 ahead of my accomplishments. 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:13.040 I had. 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.600 All of the cool people were listening to it. Jay 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:17.560 Z was listening to it, Forarre was listening to it. 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.600 Usher had it. You know, every they all had it 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.159 because Andre had was friends with all of them, so 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:23.760 it was easy for him to get all of the 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:25.000 coolest people in music. 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:25.920 Mariah had it. 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.280 So I threw a Halloween party before the album came out. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.840 Naomi Campbell was there, but Mariah Carey was there, Paul 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:35.879 Thomas Sanderson and the movie director Mariah Maria's is the 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.159 Halloween party. Maria's got pom poms and she's dancing on 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.080 the dance floor till you know three am. So we've 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.480 got oh Seal was there, So yeah, so, and we're 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:46.560 just listening to my album before it even comes out 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:48.520 in my studio at my house at top of Blue 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.639 Jay Way, you know what I mean. So I was 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.120 so I thought I was about to beat that thing, 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.679 you know what I mean. I'm you know, so then 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:57.880 all of a sudden it drops, sales don't happen. 0:18:58.280 --> 0:18:59.399 I go to Jimmy, I'm you know. 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.200 Months later, I'm like, Jimmy, don't feel like you you know, 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.160 with support of the record, Jimmy goes in, he goes 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.080 tell me, tell me the Robin Dick numbers. Tell me 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:08.960 the numbers on Robin Dick goes six million, six million. 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:10.760 I spent on this, you know whatever it is, so 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:16.240 so everyone believed. Everyone believed it doesn't hit, it doesn't sell. 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:22.800 Culturally praised, uh, Rolling Stone magazine said it was Marvin 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:29.000 Gaye backed by Radiohead, and you know, so so we 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:30.439 had that, you know what I mean. 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:37.399 But but then what happens next is I go through Uh? 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.200