Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: More thing. Everybody's the j M V.
Speaker 3: Charlamagne to God, just hilarious. We are the Breakfast Club
Speaker 3: and we got a special guest in.
Speaker 1: The building, Icon Living.
Speaker 4: His album is out today, The Love Album Off the Grist,
Speaker 4: Ladies and Gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Diddy?
Speaker 2: What up?
Speaker 1: Hollow John?
Speaker 2: Diddy? Show John? I got a bunch of names. What's up, Robert.
Speaker 5: I'm feeling beautiful, feeling like extremely blessed, especially today the
Speaker 5: album's coming out. Being able to just make music man
Speaker 5: for thirty years, thirty years, thirty the bad boys like ah,
Speaker 5: I feel it's just just very blessing, filled with the spirits.
Speaker 2: So good morning to all, God bless your morning.
Speaker 3: Congratulations Again we said, how did that feel?
Speaker 6: Thirty years a bad boy, ten years of revolt, fifty
Speaker 6: years of hip hop? How does that feel? The Shawn
Speaker 6: com somebody who's been so instrumental in the culture.
Speaker 5: Oh man, it's humbling, and it's really like surreal in
Speaker 5: a sense, you know what I'm saying, to really be
Speaker 5: because I remember doing interviews with you guys, just like
Speaker 5: even you know, just from the beginning and just just
Speaker 5: how I've grown up in the industry. It's like really
Speaker 5: surreal just knowing that I saw that out as a
Speaker 5: kid from Harlem and just you know, made it all
Speaker 5: the way to this point and have been able to
Speaker 5: have a positive impact and been able to really witness
Speaker 5: it and be a part of the culture and just
Speaker 5: loving to be putting out music at this point from
Speaker 5: the love of it, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 5: it's dope, man, It's really really dope.
Speaker 6: The one thing I don't like because you know, they
Speaker 6: say thirty years a bad boy, especially when I hear
Speaker 6: this album. You got to put the Uptown in there too,
Speaker 6: So what uptown? How long is it for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it probably be.
Speaker 5: That would have probably been maybe forty nahy forty, like
Speaker 5: thirty four years, forty four years.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So it's a blessing to be able to do anything
Speaker 5: that you love to do, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: And to now be doing it, I feel like I'm
Speaker 5: even better, you know what I'm saying. I feel like
Speaker 5: I'm even better. I was talking Lebron one day at
Speaker 5: the Drake concert. I was like, you're getting stronger, You're
Speaker 5: getting better. Aunties like, yeah, I'm getting better, like you
Speaker 5: really can't get better. I think we have this misconception
Speaker 5: about longevity, you know what I'm saying, when longevity is
Speaker 5: one of the greatest blessings in the world. So I'm
Speaker 5: living out my dream, you know what I'm saying, beyond
Speaker 5: you know, beyond even what I could have even imagined,
Speaker 5: because I don't know a lot of cats that have,
Speaker 5: you know, could say thirty four years of doing something
Speaker 5: they love and now still getting stronger. As far as
Speaker 5: like the splat that they put out in the atmosphere.
Speaker 3: There's a surprise you when you see like see kids
Speaker 3: like the other day, I'm watching you at the VMA's right,
Speaker 3: and you're going through hits that you have that I
Speaker 3: know because I grew up on. But my son doesn't,
Speaker 3: no didty for those hits, So he's like, oh, I
Speaker 3: didn't know. Oh that's all because they hear the old sables.
Speaker 3: That ever surprise you that a lot of these kids
Speaker 3: don't know you for music, they know you for other things.
Speaker 3: Your business. Yeah, whether it's the liquor, or they might
Speaker 3: have seen you on TikTok with Khaled, or they see
Speaker 3: you from something else. Does that ever say, Damn, that's strange.
Speaker 3: Because of such a hole that you had on music
Speaker 3: for so long.
Speaker 5: I think that you know, I'm gone in other areas
Speaker 5: and I also went away from music for a while,
Speaker 5: but I've gone in other areas and have success. Life
Speaker 5: has taken a different journey. So they know me for
Speaker 5: different things, you know. And but but to see you
Speaker 5: know music, you know, my music having a renaissance and
Speaker 5: the sense of everybody sampling it, everybody on the wave,
Speaker 5: and being able to be an artist that's multi generational
Speaker 5: as far as impact and being able to really rock
Speaker 5: a crowd multi generationally. And when you talk about relevancy,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, they know me for
Speaker 5: different things. But to now be able to introduce them
Speaker 5: to my music part, it's also a beautiful thing because
Speaker 5: they know me as being an entrepreneur, They know me
Speaker 5: going into an industry taking this over.
Speaker 2: They know me for something that you know, if they
Speaker 2: really want to take some positivity out of it, they'll
Speaker 2: be able to take something out of it.
Speaker 5: But now when they see me and I'm doing my
Speaker 5: musical bag, then they see, oh, that's that superhero. That's
Speaker 5: something different, that's you know that That's one thing I
Speaker 5: love about it, you know, love about him, and so
Speaker 5: I think it's really dope to really when I get
Speaker 5: introduced to like a younger generation without trying to actually
Speaker 5: play to a younger generation just by being me.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You tell you something, man, I funk with the album.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I fun with that, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: It's very very, very very proper.
Speaker 6: I was telling him that before they walked in, and
Speaker 6: I don't know if I should tell him that or no.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, I appreciate that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We were in the love era. Everybody everyone. I have
Speaker 2: an announcement.
Speaker 1: But that though, because he saw me, was like, are
Speaker 1: you not get funny?
Speaker 2: Yo?
Speaker 5: Because to me and his brother, like we know each other.
Speaker 5: If I'm like, I'm not gonna be honest, I'm exposed.
Speaker 5: If I'm in trouble, I'm calling him for like strategic advice,
Speaker 5: and we talk at a whole at a whole other level.
Speaker 5: So when I come in, I'm like, Yo, damn, you
Speaker 5: really got your game face someone it feeling like I
Speaker 5: feel like, you know what I'm saying, like like magic
Speaker 5: and I or whoever was cool and and say, yo, bro,
Speaker 5: now we're not just going He's like no, and then
Speaker 5: he was like, hmm, I like that album. And I
Speaker 5: was like, but I'm telling y'all, it is all right
Speaker 5: to love it is alright.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 5: I know there's been different stories and the mythology has.
Speaker 2: Going all over the world. But you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: I'm love man.
Speaker 3: And what made you jump back into music with everything
Speaker 3: you know amazing from Revolt to the liquor to everything
Speaker 3: what says I want to get back on the road,
Speaker 3: back to touring, back to making music, and see it's
Speaker 3: a different time now. It's you know, it's it's streaming.
Speaker 3: It's things outside of people actually going to the store
Speaker 3: and buying it. You know, it's playlists, it's things that
Speaker 3: we can't control, what you could have control before. What
Speaker 3: put you back into that mind frame?
Speaker 5: The thing that got me into it, which was the
Speaker 5: love when I when I started making music, I didn't
Speaker 5: make music, okay, like this is a hustle to make money.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 5: I did what I felt, you know, and I did
Speaker 5: like just what I loved. I say to people now,
Speaker 5: it's not about streams for me. I don't want streams
Speaker 5: I want souls. I want to give you that feeling
Speaker 5: that's missing. There is a feeling missing. We are in
Speaker 5: a dark frequency. I'm blessed to be able to purposely
Speaker 5: I try to push my life up into a higher frequency.
Speaker 2: I could walk in the.
Speaker 5: Room and let us all be down, or I could
Speaker 5: I could push us up, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: or whatever it is, or if you want to frown
Speaker 5: at me, I could give you a smile and a hug.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And so it's like, you know, to be able to
Speaker 5: have the power that your music, all of my records
Speaker 5: like kind of make you feel good. People say, like
Speaker 5: when I see your records, it makes me want to
Speaker 5: do the dance with my shoulders. But it makes you
Speaker 5: smile too, you know what I'm saying. And that right
Speaker 5: there was the purpose. And so for me, returning back
Speaker 5: to music was more a self love decision. You get
Speaker 5: it to a point in your life where where you
Speaker 5: have to decide, like, Okay, what do I want to
Speaker 5: do makes me happy? And what really makes me happy
Speaker 5: is my art making music? So I don't I didn't
Speaker 5: get back, you know, even though you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna turn into music after a long time, I
Speaker 5: didn't come back, just like I didn't come into music
Speaker 5: following the rules. I don't follow the rules that's out
Speaker 5: here set for me now, and I don't have those
Speaker 5: rules affect my intention. So my intention with this album
Speaker 5: ain't to get hot, not to be you know, it
Speaker 5: is to be the best. I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 5: It is to be I'm putting out the best music
Speaker 5: that I can. It's one of my best bodies of work.
Speaker 5: As far as like R and B, and I wanted
Speaker 5: to put out that R and B that you could
Speaker 5: dance too. I didn't care if there wasn't R and
Speaker 5: B you couldn't dance too. I wanted to do what
Speaker 5: I do. When I like to celebrate, I like to
Speaker 5: turn up a little bit. But sometimes it's just.
Speaker 2: Like it gets a little get a little toxic for
Speaker 2: my frequency. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Not nothing. So I was like, I'm not you don't
Speaker 5: complain about nothing. You go and if you have the
Speaker 5: power to make music that makes people feel good, that's
Speaker 5: what I want to did to make some R and
Speaker 5: B that you could dance to. R and B that
Speaker 5: you could smash to you know what I'm saying, R
Speaker 5: and B that you could ride in your ride in
Speaker 5: the car with your girl and sing to you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, like, and that's that's what I like
Speaker 5: to do. I like being with my shorty and you know,
Speaker 5: going off the grid, turning off the phone and doing
Speaker 5: what we do for four to eight hours and wanting
Speaker 5: to have some music that goes into that frequency, you know.
Speaker 2: And so man, it was, it was a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2: I wanted to make music. I wanted to work with
Speaker 2: new artists again.
Speaker 5: I wanted to be able to just just really do
Speaker 5: what I loved because if I got into the way
Speaker 5: that the game is set up now, it's just set up.
Speaker 5: It's mostly a hustle. It's a hustle. I'm not knocking
Speaker 5: nobody's hustle. This is not a hustle to me. This
Speaker 5: is an art form.
Speaker 2: This is a love.
Speaker 5: This is a god superpower, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And so you know, I'm just out here doing what
Speaker 5: I do. And you know, I'm just I've gotten better
Speaker 5: because of life experiences and actually fighting through the frequency
Speaker 5: of darkness and the gram and the this and the that,
Speaker 5: and you know then the alcohol and the chicks and
Speaker 5: all that ship and it came out on the other
Speaker 5: side on a love frequency, with a love era like
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna lift it up. And you do that
Speaker 5: through your art.
Speaker 2: You do that.
Speaker 5: You do that through you know that God gift that
Speaker 5: he got you, not just making money, but making money's
Speaker 5: good too.
Speaker 4: So stepping away from music for seventeen years, you have I.
Speaker 2: Was thirteen thirteen, Dirty Money, thirty, Last Train of Paris.
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, even stepping away from it for that long,
Speaker 4: it didn't make you nervous going back into it. I
Speaker 4: mean with with you being Diddy is only one Diddy,
Speaker 4: but you were still and you're still very much present
Speaker 4: and everything else that you need. Just stepping away from
Speaker 4: it that long, yeah, were you even nervous a little bit?
Speaker 4: We got those new artists and all that stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. I don't really get nervous.
Speaker 5: I live in a real feelings zone, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. Stepping back into it, I'm real confident then
Speaker 5: on Like me being a producer, I don't make beats,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, Like, I actually.
Speaker 2: I produce you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: But the crazy part about it, I don't playing any instruments,
Speaker 5: I don't program, but the sounds that I hear in
Speaker 5: my head, I know how to really explain what's the
Speaker 5: frequency that I want. So so me getting back into it,
Speaker 5: I really felt like you know, I mean, I felt
Speaker 5: like Jordan getting back into basketball, as far as making
Speaker 5: R and B, as far as like making hip hop,
Speaker 5: soul and all the different you know, the sounds that
Speaker 5: I have. So when I came back into it, I
Speaker 5: came back into it it really really excited because I
Speaker 5: knew I was ready to step back into what they
Speaker 5: call a full full circle. So I went back into
Speaker 5: like Puffy the producers. Just like the first time you
Speaker 5: may have had two turntables and the first time you
Speaker 5: learned your first dance or whatever you told your first joke,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It returned me back to that.
Speaker 5: Like ah, and so my first record I produced was
Speaker 5: Come and Talk to Me by Jo Desy the Remix.
Speaker 5: And so when I started making these records, it was
Speaker 5: feeling like that I had to return like back to.
Speaker 2: The basement, the basement producer.
Speaker 5: It was just me and there and just man It's
Speaker 5: just been a beautiful experience man, to be able to
Speaker 5: return back to your love and not let the business
Speaker 5: and the money and the fame get you caught up,
Speaker 5: because in this industry you only got like a zero
Speaker 5: point zero zero one percent chance to success, to be
Speaker 5: able to be really longevity and keep up your marbles
Speaker 5: and your heart and your soul together. And so when
Speaker 5: I was back in there now, I was like, Nah,
Speaker 5: this feels good. I thank God that I'm able to
Speaker 5: come and you know, make some music today. Like I
Speaker 5: give thanks and pray every time I go in the studio, like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, this is a dream come true.
Speaker 6: Because it is. Though you got the record Closer to
Speaker 6: God with Leanna Taylor. But go deep on that with
Speaker 6: the producer thing, because everybody has always talked about.
Speaker 1: That for years.
Speaker 6: When it came to you, like they don't actually make beads,
Speaker 6: you know, what did he actually do in the studio?
Speaker 1: But we know it's a sound. We know it's a
Speaker 1: bad boy, a uptown sound. So what are you going there?
Speaker 1: Like just say I want it to sound like this.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no.
Speaker 5: I'm an orchestrator, so I hear all sounds. I hear
Speaker 5: all sounds from the vocal, how the vocal should be presented.
Speaker 2: It's like being a director of a movie. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I may not be in there actually doing the scene,
Speaker 5: but I'm directing the movie. And I have a special
Speaker 5: talent as far as like directing sonics in the way
Speaker 5: something is. It's almost like even Quincy Jones. Quincy Jones
Speaker 5: is more of an orchestrator. All of the live musicians
Speaker 5: and everything he did. He didn't go and play every
Speaker 5: instrument that was the drum machine at that point.
Speaker 2: Very Gordy was an orchestrator.
Speaker 5: So I come from more of a producer experience like that.
Speaker 5: So when I'm in there with a Mary J. Blige,
Speaker 5: I'm in there with a week and I have something
Speaker 5: to say. I'm not just watching them do a thing.
Speaker 5: I'm not sending it over. What if I'm in the
Speaker 5: studio actually creating and molding and shaping the sonic sounds.
Speaker 5: So for an example, like so I hed like closer
Speaker 5: to God.
Speaker 2: When I'm with you and I want more more intensity
Speaker 2: and I want you to you're like closer the guy
Speaker 2: let you.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, It's that just regular communication.
Speaker 5: It's not a it's not a it's something that's not complicated.
Speaker 5: It's just me communicating from my heart and like knowing
Speaker 5: where to go.
Speaker 2: And so if there's.
Speaker 5: Cause and I mean here, no, no, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, and so yeah, so it's it's it's it's
Speaker 5: me also writing the music, that's the music that's in
Speaker 5: my head and translating it to like, you know, a
Speaker 5: Mario Winans or Stevie j And so my thing has
Speaker 5: always been collaboration. But my sound, no matter what producers
Speaker 5: I work with, my sound sounds like my sound. When
Speaker 5: you hear it, it sounds exactly like my sound. But
Speaker 5: I've just been a little bit more open about no one.
Speaker 2: Man can do everything. Every last producer.
Speaker 5: Has had a team, you know, Motown had the Funk Brothers,
Speaker 5: I've had the hit Men, and so a lot of
Speaker 5: times people don't, you know, don't believe that I could actually.
Speaker 2: Be good at this.
Speaker 5: Many things like I gotta I have to be front
Speaker 5: and or doing this and doing that.
Speaker 2: And so that's why I have the receipts.
Speaker 5: I've been filming myself since I was nineteen years old.
Speaker 5: You see me in the studio producing with people. And
Speaker 5: you know, I don't have nothing to prove to anybody
Speaker 5: that says anything but the feeling that I've given you
Speaker 5: for over thirty years, given your mama this feeling, and
Speaker 5: I've given it to you and it feels good.
Speaker 2: Take that. Yeah, he's impossible.
Speaker 1: He's impossible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just telling you.
Speaker 1: About my drink about to drink something.
Speaker 3: I was going to ask how much influence does your
Speaker 3: son have on you? And the reason I asked that
Speaker 3: I seen him at the BET Awards and I was
Speaker 3: asking him about is it a competition? At first he
Speaker 3: said no, and then he said no, no, no, this
Speaker 3: is a competition. I want to make records better than
Speaker 3: my dad, and my dad's trying to make records better
Speaker 3: than me. So I said, well, how does that work
Speaker 3: with picking beats? And he was like, I have to
Speaker 3: grab the beats before my dad. So is it a competition?
Speaker 3: And how much influence does your son have one you
Speaker 3: making records?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: I let I don't really let anybody influence me on
Speaker 5: on on making records. I'm definitely not in a a
Speaker 5: competition with my son, And you know, I'm more, if anything,
Speaker 5: in a competition with myself I've never been in a competition.
Speaker 2: You know, with anybody else.
Speaker 5: But it's a blessing to actually be like the first,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, the first father son duo.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, like and we take pride
Speaker 2: in that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We all act like Jojouster.
Speaker 5: The first to have a number one record, the first.
Speaker 5: And it's no disrespect to nobody. We're just saying respectfully.
Speaker 5: We're saying respectfully that all the other father son teams
Speaker 5: that me and my son we won the championship, we
Speaker 5: had number one records together and that saw.
Speaker 2: It's just proud dad ship.
Speaker 5: It's not saying nothing, it's not It's just when we
Speaker 5: have the narrative, sometimes y'all be forgetting about the Diddy history.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: You sometimes we forget who have invented certain things. Now,
Speaker 5: I'm not going to be defensive. I'm just going to
Speaker 5: state facts.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Out there, the first to have.
Speaker 5: A number one together together.
Speaker 2: That's it's very hard to have a kid and have
Speaker 2: that kid have success.
Speaker 5: That kid has to fight through so much stuff because
Speaker 5: and those kids had to fight through a lot of
Speaker 5: different things through their father h we're not talking about
Speaker 5: the first we're talking about the father son team to
Speaker 5: play together, you know what I'm saying, and win a
Speaker 5: championship and that's me and King.
Speaker 2: Comes and I take a lot of pride in that.
Speaker 4: And then speaking of King Holmes, would you ever give
Speaker 4: the blessing for him to do your biopic? Because that's
Speaker 4: that's the biopick I would want to be in for one.
Speaker 4: But I want to see that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I mean, he he's me. I know
Speaker 5: that he'd be able to do it. You know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, I definitely give him, give him my blessing
Speaker 5: because I mean, he'd be biopicking me.
Speaker 2: Now I'm looking at him.
Speaker 5: I'm on stage the other night, and you gotta understand
Speaker 5: how like much of a blessing this.
Speaker 2: Is, y'all like like like like.
Speaker 5: I know y'all as you know on their personalities. I'm
Speaker 5: just telling y'all like it's human beings to be able.
Speaker 5: I see how you love your kids, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. I know everybody loves their family, But to
Speaker 5: be on stage with him and be looking at him
Speaker 5: from what he wanted to be at four years old
Speaker 5: and really like doing stuff. And then the other night
Speaker 5: with my girls like this is like you know, it's
Speaker 5: like that's everything. We can talk about a whole bunch
Speaker 5: of things, but you know that that right there is
Speaker 5: just everything to me.
Speaker 2: So it's it's a blessing to see him keep fighting.
Speaker 5: Every day because as a combs, we gotta fight through
Speaker 5: a lot of hate.
Speaker 2: It's just it's all right, we can handle it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, whom is given, you know, much is expected and
Speaker 5: we respect that.
Speaker 2: But it's all right for you all to start loving me.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's about It's about time. Yes, yes, my teeth everything,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Everything is fresh, I could,
Speaker 5: I'm I'm I swear, I'm stronger. I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's beyond Benjamin Button. We like an I P Man
Speaker 5: or something.
Speaker 6: Literally, why didn't you Why didn't you have any form
Speaker 6: of bad boy artists perform on stage two at the
Speaker 6: VM for such an iconic moment.
Speaker 5: It was it was more like I wanted to. I
Speaker 5: did them metally so much with everybody. We had so
Speaker 5: many different iconic moments, and that was that was me
Speaker 5: as an artist.
Speaker 2: You know a lot of people forget.
Speaker 5: How many number one records I have as an artist,
Speaker 5: and so you know, it was it was it was
Speaker 5: just really like.
Speaker 2: I wanted to give people something different.
Speaker 5: I didn't give them Keisha Cole really I wanted to
Speaker 5: give him the present me and young and then you know,
Speaker 5: I had wanted me and Mace to do something, but
Speaker 5: the schedule that didn't that didn't like work out, and
Speaker 5: it was just like a that's that's all that was.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to have like something that was different.
Speaker 5: So I thought me and Mace would have been different,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So every time I come out,
Speaker 5: I'm trying to give y'all something like different in an
Speaker 5: award show performance, because to be honest, I do a
Speaker 5: lot of award shows, so I try to keep everybody
Speaker 5: on their toes. So in the beginning, I did, you
Speaker 5: know something from the new record, and I just went
Speaker 5: more thirty years, you know what I'm saying. And then
Speaker 5: you know, so, but the way God wanted to work
Speaker 5: out me doing more money with my son was the
Speaker 5: greatest gift to that I could have ever ever experienced,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. And you know, but I'm
Speaker 5: always going to be performing with the bad Boy artist
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, and doing things with them
Speaker 5: as I always have, you know what I'm saying, And
Speaker 5: they've always they are always a phone call away. Like
Speaker 5: I could have had, you know, like nads on there,
Speaker 5: I could have had different people, but still whatever, And
Speaker 5: I was just like, yo, I really want to get
Speaker 5: I want people to feel this. This this Keisha Cold record and.
Speaker 1: All my favorite records of all.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and also I just want also wanted people also
Speaker 5: do understand like you know that that you know, I
Speaker 5: got a good like forty five minutes straight a bangers.
Speaker 2: Just by myself on stage.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Like like I go to Yeah,
Speaker 5: nobody should be afraid because it's all love. But you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, it's a lot of hits, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So I did want to say
Speaker 5: that because I'm about to jump out here on tour
Speaker 5: and stuff like that, and you could come see me
Speaker 5: and have a great time. If I'm just by myself too,
Speaker 5: you can see me. If I'm with the bad Boy family,
Speaker 5: you can see me with other people.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: But it was I wanted to you know, also as
Speaker 5: a performance, like I think it's time that I like
Speaker 5: stand on my own two feet, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And so that's why I did that move.
Speaker 5: But we will be having, you know, out there with
Speaker 5: all the bad boy artists and everything like that.
Speaker 3: It was mentioned all the artists, you mentioned Mace and
Speaker 3: recently you said that you were giving the artists back
Speaker 3: there publishing. Yeah, what made you decide to do that?
Speaker 3: And what was the artist of Did you speak to
Speaker 3: every artist when you did it or how did how
Speaker 3: did that happen?
Speaker 2: How did that work?
Speaker 3: Break that down?
Speaker 5: Yeah, when I when I had went and called out
Speaker 5: the Grammys, I also you know, I had to make
Speaker 5: sure that I had also looked from within. Once you
Speaker 5: start like asking for change in this world, you you
Speaker 5: have to look within and be a part of that change.
Speaker 5: So this actually was done two years ago, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. It was actually done two years ago,
Speaker 5: and it was it was more of of me just
Speaker 5: evolving as a businessman, you know, a person that that
Speaker 5: really wants change in the world, you know, and and
Speaker 5: progress most importantly, because you can have change but not progress.
Speaker 5: And you know, it was the right thing to do
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. It was that it was
Speaker 5: the right thing to do in this It was is
Speaker 5: the frequency that that I'm in, and it's the love frequency.
Speaker 2: If it wasn't for.
Speaker 5: Like these people that you know have have helped me
Speaker 5: with all of these records, everybody, if there's anything you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying that like like like that that
Speaker 5: you know, just just doing the right thing. That's just
Speaker 5: with the frequency that I'm in. And I think the
Speaker 5: frequency we should all be in is not being afraid
Speaker 5: to look inward and then make decisions like that. So
Speaker 5: I want reform in all industries. I want reform in
Speaker 5: corporate America. If I got to ask corporate America to
Speaker 5: look at something and change their ways and the world,
Speaker 5: then it's just like it's I have to be responsible
Speaker 5: and accountable for that for myself. And so that was
Speaker 5: done two years ago, So it's not like two years Yeah,
Speaker 5: two years ago, I had a signed and then the
Speaker 5: lawyers had to work everything out because it's not an
Speaker 5: e it's not a it's not an easy thing, and
Speaker 5: it's it's it's it's called reassigned. It's not you know,
Speaker 5: not I didn't give nobody anything, it's just reassigning because
Speaker 5: of the contract, the contracts and everything.
Speaker 2: Is up to par.
Speaker 5: You don't have to business his business. You don't have
Speaker 5: to change the contract. You don't have to make changes
Speaker 5: in the world. But if you have a chance to
Speaker 5: do the right thing, why wouldn't you do the right thing?
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, And that's the world that
Speaker 5: I want to live in, and so you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, I want to be that change that I want.
Speaker 6: What do you say to the people who say they
Speaker 6: feel like the publishing has no value now and you've
Speaker 6: already made all your money off it, so now you
Speaker 6: want to give it back because it's not not really
Speaker 6: worth anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's just not the truth.
Speaker 5: Whatever your value your publishing is, that's the value of
Speaker 5: your you know, of your publishing, And it's really not
Speaker 5: It's really about just me evolving and wanting to do
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. What I feel is like
Speaker 5: the right thing that we should all do. We should
Speaker 5: all look at where we're at in the world today,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: I can't go on like I'm not doing things for people.
Speaker 5: I'm doing things that God has in my that God
Speaker 5: tells me to do. So I don't like what somebody's
Speaker 5: gonna say or how somebody gonna take something puff.
Speaker 2: I ain't even knowing that. You know, I'm not for everybody.
Speaker 5: Jesus wasn't for everybody, not comparing myself to Jesus for
Speaker 5: somebody that.
Speaker 2: I look up to.
Speaker 5: As far as as the story, you know what I'm saying, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's all right, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Then giving back to publishing fixed any damage relationships.
Speaker 1: That you might have had.
Speaker 5: I wasn't there so many misconceptions that people think they
Speaker 5: know what's going on. I never I didn't have no
Speaker 5: problems with people. Mace, me and me and yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 5: a major with me and Mason. Me and Mace, we
Speaker 5: we we we we brothers. And may I got unconditional
Speaker 5: love for me, so me and Masa. I don't know
Speaker 5: if me and Mason stopped arguing now or something like that,
Speaker 5: but I'm gonna still love Mace. I give him thanks
Speaker 5: for like really really helping to really launch my career
Speaker 5: as an artist, and you know, was there with me
Speaker 5: from the beginning and stuff like that. But when you
Speaker 5: and a when you're like in a group with somebody,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, you know, tied together for life.
Speaker 5: Y'all have your brotherly ups and downs. But I always
Speaker 5: love Mace, always give thanks to Mason. And yeah, me
Speaker 5: and Mace we also got you know, spoken was just
Speaker 5: like you know, had a real conversation. Cause I think
Speaker 5: even though if I didn't agree with Mace, he was
Speaker 5: a catalyst for me to look from within, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. And so sometimes somebody that you may
Speaker 5: not agree with or something you don't think is good.
Speaker 5: God uses like certain situations, even if something's like yo,
Speaker 5: where did that come from? That's your left field, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. And so yeah, man, I don't
Speaker 5: I don't. I just get into right now with God
Speaker 5: telling me to do so there's a clarity. It's not
Speaker 5: a like, Okay, I'm gonna do this and I'm worried
Speaker 5: about what you're gonna think of Charlemagne if they're gonna
Speaker 5: stay on here or you know what I'm saying, I'm
Speaker 5: just moving in.
Speaker 2: God's God's purpose.
Speaker 5: So it's really at a point you get to a
Speaker 5: point in your life, especially me as a successful businessman
Speaker 5: where you pick purpose over profit. And that's kind of
Speaker 5: the season that I'm in to really really be a
Speaker 5: part of this radical chain.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: You gave me more credit for launching your solo career
Speaker 6: and Big, because I thought Big was the person that
Speaker 6: pushed you to really want.
Speaker 2: To know, Big push me. But but but Mace gave
Speaker 2: me the words.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Mace, You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: was you know, was was was like you know.
Speaker 1: Was like right and craft music.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean you know we was. We
Speaker 2: was like a group. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: You ain't want to see no puff without Mace or
Speaker 5: Mace without puffing.
Speaker 2: You saw him, you saw me and me him.
Speaker 5: And so yeah, nah, Definitely as an artist, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, I would say Mason definitely. You know,
Speaker 5: you know Jada Kiss as far and source money, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I mean a bunch of people I have to have
Speaker 2: to credit it with.
Speaker 5: But as far as me breaking through like that I
Speaker 5: could be an artist, and I was an artist, Big
Speaker 5: Cad taught me that. But as far as like you know,
Speaker 5: if I had to say, say one person, I would
Speaker 5: have to say, you know what I'm.
Speaker 2: Saying, mace right for you?
Speaker 1: If anything?
Speaker 5: Victory victory and the and then and to get money remixed,
Speaker 5: which I was like.
Speaker 2: I was like, man, I ain't ready for that. And
Speaker 2: so those are seeds?
Speaker 6: Did that ssanposed to be your first You figured that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in front of it, and I didn't do it.
Speaker 5: I was like, no, I ain't ready for that. And
Speaker 5: then and then and then but when I heard that
Speaker 5: Benjamin's and then Mastrope, that can nobody hold me down?
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, now I'm ready. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I like this, did he we should have a drink?
Speaker 6: You really turned down a nine figure deal for the publisher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was. I wouldn't say turned it down,
Speaker 2: as I said. You know what I'm saying, It wasn't.
Speaker 5: It really wasn't an option, you know what I'm saying
Speaker 5: as far as because it was just at the time
Speaker 5: that I was getting it, I was just I wasn't
Speaker 5: really even wanting to sell nothing. But I was just like, man,
Speaker 5: these people are getting people are getting a lot of
Speaker 5: money out here.
Speaker 2: And I was like, you know, if anytime this is
Speaker 2: the time that you know what I'm saying that.
Speaker 5: That you know, because the people will offer him so
Speaker 5: much money for catalog.
Speaker 2: It was just it was a time where I just
Speaker 2: went in.
Speaker 5: It was like you shopped a little bit or no, no,
Speaker 5: it wasn't shopped, as people were calling.
Speaker 1: Us, and so bring some cups, y'all.
Speaker 5: So it was something that, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: something that you definitely consider. And and then it was
Speaker 5: just a change, you know what I'm saying. The chain
Speaker 5: of events, chain events, chain of events just had me
Speaker 5: really was just like, man, I need to just you know,
Speaker 5: call all the artists they need and all the writers.
Speaker 5: What I'm saying this this is a this is a time,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying to not just Andre Horrell
Speaker 5: was telling me don't just talk love be love. And
Speaker 5: so he's like, this is a time just to to
Speaker 5: do and listen to what God is telling you to do.
Speaker 3: And so now we're cracking, open up, talk about we're
Speaker 3: talking about the hour.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we drinking, drinking celebration.
Speaker 1: You know what today is?
Speaker 2: Today is did he day? Diddy? Did he?
Speaker 4: Did he?
Speaker 2: Proclaimed?
Speaker 6: In one episode you just brought up Andre and this
Speaker 6: album has so much of the Bad Boy Uptown record sound.
Speaker 6: So it made me wonder, did you miss Andre's mentorship
Speaker 6: in the creating this album?
Speaker 5: Not at all, because the crazy thing about it is
Speaker 5: like even if the physical is not there, it's like
Speaker 5: the spirit is there, you know, his physical And also
Speaker 5: I mean him being there, thank you for advice as
Speaker 5: as like a father figure. It's missed so much, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. And and you know sometimes I
Speaker 5: definitely feel lost without him and him being there the
Speaker 5: two people that I would go to for advice that
Speaker 5: would keep me totally straight. But as far as musically,
Speaker 5: I was able to like keep his him in my
Speaker 5: head as far as like what to do.
Speaker 2: And also I dedicated this album to Chucky Thompson, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, one of the greatest be producers ever,
Speaker 2: so you know he was.
Speaker 5: Andre definitely came along the ride with me on making
Speaker 5: this and it was like that catalyst with that uptown music.
Speaker 5: That's the catalyst of my hip hop soul sound and and.
Speaker 2: Chance to love.
Speaker 4: Yeah man, And speaking of love, my favorite someone is
Speaker 4: What's Love?
Speaker 7: I do like that? And deliver me number two just
Speaker 7: in case you yeah.
Speaker 5: That dirty Money we back, yeah, in effect making some
Speaker 5: you know, beautiful train music as I call that.
Speaker 1: What made you go back to that? What made you
Speaker 1: want to reconnect with Dirty Money?
Speaker 5: This honestly was a record that it's Jay Diller.
Speaker 2: I got a chance.
Speaker 5: Buster brought me this J Deler joint, and I was like,
Speaker 5: y'all get a chance to even though Jay Diller's in
Speaker 5: our head, to.
Speaker 2: Actually do produce a record with Jay Diller.
Speaker 5: So then I put the music on top of a
Speaker 5: J Deler beat and Dirty Money we were doing it.
Speaker 5: And at first we were doing it, Bustle was like,
Speaker 5: let me get that joint and I was like, he
Speaker 5: never used it. Then, when I was putting this project
Speaker 5: together that there's certain songs that I did a long
Speaker 5: time ago, so this song was one of them. And
Speaker 5: then you're not to ask girls if they wanted to
Speaker 5: be a part of the neighbors, like yeah, and and
Speaker 5: then just like the the that's a record called Deliver
Speaker 5: Me and busses on that and Dirty Moneys on that,
Speaker 5: and that's our first record in thirteen years, and yeah,
Speaker 5: what's your favorite? And then I would say one of
Speaker 5: me I did eight years ago, another one of me, yeah,
Speaker 5: another the Weekend another one of men.
Speaker 2: Eight years ago I did record. Yeah yeah, twenty one,
Speaker 2: that's definite one and twenty.
Speaker 1: No. What's your favorite? I think I know what it is,
Speaker 1: but it's probably the one.
Speaker 7: I don't have one.
Speaker 3: Favorite Homecoming is Dope stay a wireless Dope? What's one
Speaker 3: with the seven o.
Speaker 2: Two so much the Weekend? I'm gonna get this.
Speaker 6: You're speeding the Weekend record with twenty one in French?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can say that's his last collab.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's the Weekend that this is his last feature.
Speaker 5: And you know, I think we're we you know we
Speaker 5: we we love the Weekend on his features. The Weekend
Speaker 5: always does a dope feature. So I'm definitely honest, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. You know, I really love him
Speaker 5: as an artist. Everybody on this album it's like I'm
Speaker 5: fans of Is.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I'm like, really fans of IS and really love their voices.
Speaker 5: Like when I made the album, it wasn't okay, let
Speaker 5: me get this person because they have this type of
Speaker 5: these type of streams. It was like I wanted to
Speaker 5: tell my love story. I wanted to tell you know,
Speaker 5: I wanted to be able to utilize these voices to
Speaker 5: translate my feelings. And these are all like my favorite voices,
Speaker 5: from Jazmine Sullivan to her to the Weekend the Summer
Speaker 5: wal because even sway Lee, like the frequency of his
Speaker 5: voice reminds me like of a Ralph treasident. You know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, just sound so yeah, Justin Bieber and
Speaker 5: Justin Bieber, Like I know Justin.
Speaker 2: From R and B.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Like from when he first
Speaker 5: got into it, just being with Usher singing R and B.
Speaker 5: So me hearing all those riffs, being able to get
Speaker 5: with him, Tianna Taylor being able to get her in
Speaker 5: the studio, and like really work hands on with these
Speaker 5: artists from like one of my favorite records is this
Speaker 5: record called I Like By. It's Kaitlyn for real, for
Speaker 5: real in myself, but then Jodysy and Jeremiah and it's like,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying is bridging the gap. That's
Speaker 5: one thing I wanted to do with this album. This
Speaker 5: is the super Bowl of R and B.
Speaker 2: I want it. I'm not here to save R and B.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I'm not There's a lot of dope R and B
Speaker 5: that's out there. I just make my type of R
Speaker 5: and B, and I want these artists to come in
Speaker 5: and experience it. It so having Jodasy on a record with
Speaker 5: Jeremiah and Kaitlyn for real, for real in myself, it's
Speaker 5: just like getting back to that feeling.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: So I love Dad, John, I love brought my Love
Speaker 5: to you because it's like not a lot of records
Speaker 5: that you could play at you know, at the cookout
Speaker 5: or at the celebration, A lot of arm B joints
Speaker 5: that you could you could play and so and so
Speaker 5: that one was. Look, I mean, I love the whole album.
Speaker 5: It's a whole by your work, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Purposely was on there where you could you could get
Speaker 5: your stroke onto it. This is for the strokers, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, a lot of cats they be
Speaker 5: they like the rabbit style, you know what I'm saying
Speaker 5: this this, this is for the strokers. You know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. Casts that like to really make love to
Speaker 5: your woman. Your woman like to make love to you.
Speaker 5: Look deep in her eyes and it's the stroke. How
Speaker 5: long is the strong stroke of the second or you
Speaker 5: just no No, it's more of a rhythm thing, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. It's more of a feeling though,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying.
Speaker 5: But it's just not like a let me just you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. You could you could throw that
Speaker 5: in there as like a song tempo change, but it's like,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, You can do that, like like,
Speaker 5: but that's your only go to you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: That that's not the frequency of love that we talking about.
Speaker 2: This is that R and B.
Speaker 5: This is that that should take your time, beg your
Speaker 5: girl will come back.
Speaker 2: You know how you lay it down.
Speaker 5: I got three records that have stay in it, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Because because that's my life.
Speaker 2: I'm always like, oh man, baby, can you just stay?
Speaker 2: Don't leave me? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And so it's just like the way you make love
Speaker 5: when you're trying to get your girl to stay is different.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. So it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: it's off the grid experience. Go off the.
Speaker 5: Grid with your girl, bring the album, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, and do whatever you do and turn off
Speaker 5: your WiFi. Yeah, because I'm into the long type of
Speaker 5: multiple round love making vibe sessions.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. If your girl, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, I just want to sit there.
Speaker 5: I just want to just like it's your girl or
Speaker 5: your manner, your girl, your whatever.
Speaker 2: You're you're into. Nobody's judging.
Speaker 5: Just go off the grid, woman, like like how you doing,
Speaker 5: how you feel, and get into their brain, they soul,
Speaker 5: they mind, and this is the music that you can
Speaker 5: have in the background.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I know it's your album, but why did you feel
Speaker 6: the need to be on every record for the reason
Speaker 6: you just said? Because sometimes you being a vibe and
Speaker 6: then it's just like I don't want to hear the
Speaker 6: rap right now.
Speaker 1: I just want to hear the music.
Speaker 5: I'm really like on six records out of like twenty
Speaker 5: six damn. You know it's it's you know, you do
Speaker 5: what you feel. I don't think you go, okay, I
Speaker 5: want to be on this rec Especially with an album
Speaker 5: like this, it's more about me as the producer. So
Speaker 5: I didn't you know, I wanted records to just keep
Speaker 5: you in your vibe and me to be like the
Speaker 5: narrator of the situation.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, And so.
Speaker 1: I feel like you on every record.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's probably just because my sonic sound, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Just just just it's less, it's more for me, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: But like speaking on records regardless, even if it's not rapping.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to go back.
Speaker 6: Somebody said though I felt like sitting when I was
Speaker 6: sitting in the living room and I'm listening to this
Speaker 6: last night, and that I felt like, oh I got
Speaker 6: to go lanyd the bell with my girl, like I
Speaker 6: should not be listening into this by myself.
Speaker 1: To your point about being that kind of but did you.
Speaker 7: Really get up and go Na? Yeah, you stayed on
Speaker 7: the count, so right.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 7: Yeah, listen without you.
Speaker 5: But it's also if you if you just love this
Speaker 5: is a style of on B bro.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: You could you could be into toxic stuff, or you
Speaker 5: could be in the stuff that you could sing and
Speaker 5: you can think about.
Speaker 2: Your girl, or you could be in love. I don't know,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: At whatever whatever point, it's even like it's not heavy
Speaker 5: though neither you know what I'm saying, it's just a
Speaker 5: beautiful body of body of work and survived, you know.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying.
Speaker 7: And once you step to a couple of the songs,
Speaker 7: now listen.
Speaker 4: Speaking of once you step, my Baltimore brother Bunkie tried
Speaker 4: to teach you to dance.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're still out here doing that, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just you know what it is.
Speaker 5: I have my own individual style of moving and whenever
Speaker 5: I try to move like somebody else, it doesn't work
Speaker 5: for me. So it's like getting your bag in your bag,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no,
Speaker 5: I should get all right, but I get the flow,
Speaker 5: but I gotta move away in my body, like actually move.
Speaker 5: So it's it was it was more I like, I
Speaker 5: like dancing and and like just learning different styles of
Speaker 5: dance and stuff like that. But I always will, like
Speaker 5: you know, translated my way, I'm in a big dance
Speaker 5: season in my life when when when a record comes on,
Speaker 5: but I promised myself I'm going to dance to the
Speaker 5: fullest on every record.
Speaker 2: It's just like, you know. So it's that I actually flew.
Speaker 5: Bunky in to do a dance session because that's part
Speaker 5: of my audio home Bunky is a guy many Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: Bunky is like the originator.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know what I'm saying of.
Speaker 7: Destruct destruct but did because show Diddy was killing it.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, no, no, no, I'm gonna show y'all.
Speaker 5: Y'all know, everybody, come out to Brooklyn. I'm doing this constantly.
Speaker 5: I'm starting to do do you know, go out there
Speaker 5: and do shows and bring the frequency to take the
Speaker 5: you know, the the the frequency on the tour. Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm not told I'm not a human. I'm a frequency.
Speaker 5: I'm past human. Okay, I'm a frequency. So come out
Speaker 5: to Brooklyn. We're gonna be strutting with Corney Island Boardwalk
Speaker 5: is gonna be historic.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep I'm getting out there early to get on.
Speaker 5: The rides because it's about living life. Why go to
Speaker 5: amusement park and not get on the rides. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: get on the rise. I'm just you know, that's that's
Speaker 5: what we're doing.
Speaker 3: That one time you were thinking about buying purchasing BT
Speaker 3: mm hmm, is that still on your mind? And and
Speaker 3: and why because you got revoked?
Speaker 1: So was BT.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I really I wanted to look at it.
Speaker 5: I mean there's no way to go unless you really
Speaker 5: kind of you know, go into acquisitions, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. So right now I'm I'm really looking heavy
Speaker 5: on acquisitions and really building the world's biggest.
Speaker 2: Black media company. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I'm on my second mountain. I really feel like I'm
Speaker 5: just beginning in my career. I feel like my my
Speaker 5: purpose is sharpened, you know, and and I've gone from
Speaker 5: me to we. So it's like, you know, the things
Speaker 5: that I'm looking at are really really big moves. You know,
Speaker 5: I want to really take over Disney.
Speaker 2: You feel me.
Speaker 5: I want us because I know there's gonna be a shift.
Speaker 5: I know there's gonna be a change. I know the
Speaker 5: alien's coming. I know that, you know, the last shall
Speaker 5: be first, the first shall be last. I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: be sitting here surprised. I'm gonna be ready. You know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying as far as is how big and
Speaker 5: how bold my thinking is. And so you know, looking
Speaker 5: at where I have Revolt and where Revolt is at
Speaker 5: now is like one of the most profitable networks that
Speaker 5: are that are out there. We was able to pass,
Speaker 5: you know, as far as our digital footprint, you know,
Speaker 5: past complex that was a big thing for us. When
Speaker 5: we started, we didn't really own our own culture, and
Speaker 5: so now Revolt has really stepped into that, you know,
Speaker 5: to that position. So I was looking at BT and
Speaker 5: after when you're looking at buying a company, you got
Speaker 5: to do your due diligence to see if it if
Speaker 5: it fits your strategy, and so even before they decided
Speaker 5: not to sell it, it didn't make sense to me.
Speaker 5: So I basically had told them before that, but I
Speaker 5: didn't make an announcement about it because it really wasn't
Speaker 5: about that, you know, So you know, I'm looking at
Speaker 5: I mean exactly, but but I had to look and
Speaker 5: see the possibilities because BT is one of the most
Speaker 5: profitable companies because we only get one percent of advertising dollars.
Speaker 5: People don't know how crazy like like like like like
Speaker 5: people know how bad we get treated as people of color.
Speaker 2: But it's like, I don't think we really faced.
Speaker 5: The reality about the the that that that that we
Speaker 5: had more wealth when we was like slaves than we
Speaker 5: have now.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like this is a reality.
Speaker 2: The numbers don't lie.
Speaker 5: And so when you b ET gets a agel portrait
Speaker 5: of black advertising dollars because they only give us one
Speaker 5: percent because that's what we accept.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: So Revolt is definitely coming out here to change your tone,
Speaker 5: and I felt like combining the forces I could change
Speaker 5: the tone. I feel like the only way we're going
Speaker 5: to change your tone is by unifying, so unifying the
Speaker 5: black brands and getting a chance to be at that scale.
Speaker 2: And that's why I wanted to do it with Tyler Perry.
Speaker 2: I want to do things.
Speaker 5: I feel like we have to combine our money in
Speaker 5: order to take back what's ours and so you know.
Speaker 5: But when I was looking at it as far as
Speaker 5: me just doing it by myself, the dollars didn't make sense, so.
Speaker 2: I withdrew my offer before it.
Speaker 5: But it's the things I'm looking at are to really
Speaker 5: combine things and have the biggest, most powerful media company
Speaker 5: that we could be free with what we want to
Speaker 5: say and how we want to say it, because you know,
Speaker 5: like on here, one of y'all can still get fired
Speaker 5: for saying something black and really proud and really saying
Speaker 5: something that's right that you need to say that Revolt,
Speaker 5: you ain't gonna get fired.
Speaker 2: You feel me, so I should go over there.
Speaker 5: No, not necessarily, it's it's it's just it's it's just that,
Speaker 5: you know, it's it's beautiful.
Speaker 2: When you look at Revolt, you have to look at
Speaker 2: really what it is.
Speaker 5: It's the only thing that's owned by a man of color,
Speaker 5: a person of color.
Speaker 2: I mean, you have a radio one. Kathy Hughes. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: shout out to Kathy Hughes.
Speaker 5: She's definitely we were talking about like from our culture
Speaker 5: that really is dealing with things like this that you
Speaker 5: know that that.
Speaker 2: When we need to go somewhere and say what's really.
Speaker 5: Going on, y'all gonna go to Revolt because seeing they
Speaker 5: ain't gonna have y'all.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: ESPN, you say something wrong that's about sports, they get
Speaker 5: rid of that, get rid of you just.
Speaker 2: For speaking in your mind.
Speaker 5: And so if you can't speak your mind, you can't
Speaker 5: speak truth to power. Through the media, the media is
Speaker 5: the strongest form of anything, you know what I'm saying, anything,
Speaker 5: there's nothing more.
Speaker 1: A man who controls the media controls the mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so so so so.
Speaker 5: We're revote, we're looking at making big moves because not
Speaker 5: because I need it because we need it as a people.
Speaker 2: We need a black free press.
Speaker 5: We need a place that we could go to and
Speaker 5: be free and talk how we want to talk and
Speaker 5: do what we want to do.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and speaking of top me off real quick, speaking
Speaker 4: of one of my favorite.
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, you know what I know,
Speaker 2: you can start up. You got to just live your life.
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't even know when when. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we got off of that. He wants.
Speaker 6: It's reflets just no reason.
Speaker 2: Played.
Speaker 5: I played the pause game. But I'm unpossible. I'll be
Speaker 5: saying the most poising things. You know, I don't know
Speaker 5: what it's called freedom right.
Speaker 7: So speaking of Revolt being a place where you can
Speaker 7: go and if.
Speaker 5: This is our tiph anniversary of Revote anniversary Revote, we
Speaker 5: are proud. I'm saying we want to thank y'all officially
Speaker 5: the Breakfast Club. Y'all helped to put us on the map.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, you'll help to get us
Speaker 5: in the game. We did some great things together and
Speaker 5: we're still family and the first.
Speaker 2: To believe in us.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, BT, I mean BT got this idefferent Revolt.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 5: Yes, y'all were with us, and how many how many
Speaker 5: know that's my vision. I saw y'all and I was like,
Speaker 5: I know that they starts. They got something that's going
Speaker 5: to break the internet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I saw y'all. That was me.
Speaker 3: I was like, did He was like, I want that camera,
Speaker 3: I want that view. I wanted to be gritty.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: See remember involved to see that.
Speaker 2: That's the thing with Diddy, is that y'all be trying
Speaker 2: to burn his receipts. No no, no, no, no, no no no,
Speaker 2: but hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, everybody chill.
Speaker 5: So Diddy actually wrote the Breakfast Club They first check. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: the first one to believe in them and take them
Speaker 5: Moti TV, yeah TV.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're talking about Answerley.
Speaker 5: And come yeah you too good on your ancleary income.
Speaker 2: Let me get my receipts. Take that.
Speaker 1: Man the check and all that check.
Speaker 2: Was. It was something. It was.
Speaker 5: It was a stepping stone, glorious career. Don't skip over
Speaker 5: it because I'm a black man, all right.
Speaker 2: It wasn't nobody nobody else to check.
Speaker 7: Are you gonna write nothing?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: And I know it to be much more now knowing that.
Speaker 6: How difficult was it to make the kim Porter record.
Speaker 2: It was extremely easy to make the kim Porter record.
Speaker 5: My desire for wanting to be in her presence somehow
Speaker 5: is a constant like thing that I yearned for, and
Speaker 5: so when I made that record, I really believe in
Speaker 5: the power of music.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 5: I felt like if I made that record for her,
Speaker 5: that with the intentions of her her coming to visit
Speaker 5: me in my dreams, like I have the best of
Speaker 5: both worlds. I know I can't have any physical but
Speaker 5: to be able to just be able to like like
Speaker 5: that's my dog, like that's my friend. I wasn't just
Speaker 5: like my baby mama and my girlfriend. It was just
Speaker 5: like the only person that I listened to, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. It was like my navigation and then
Speaker 5: like my navigation is off and I got to like
Speaker 5: try to find a map. That's how crazy, like you know,
Speaker 5: you know it was, And so I was just like
Speaker 5: I really know how powerful my music is. And so
Speaker 5: you know, I told Babyface the story and then I
Speaker 5: told John Legend, like this is why I don't.
Speaker 2: Want to make the record for streams. The record is
Speaker 2: like you know.
Speaker 5: It's a real like just like expression of love or
Speaker 5: real love letter to Kim. And you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: it's really how my love feels. And so it was
Speaker 5: beautiful to be able to do that. And she has
Speaker 5: come and visited me and my dreams after.
Speaker 2: Record, yeah, after I made that record.
Speaker 6: On the record in the middle, you say, you know,
Speaker 6: you know, Kim, I know you can hear me. Yeah,
Speaker 6: what was that in the dream if you don't mind
Speaker 6: us as.
Speaker 5: We were just talking shit smoke on the joint in
Speaker 5: the dream. It's a couple of times just just yeah,
Speaker 5: just just just what we do wasn't nothing. But I
Speaker 5: was saying, I know you can hear me because I'm
Speaker 5: sending the message to I'm sending that. I'm sending that
Speaker 5: frequency too because I believe like there's a whole other
Speaker 5: dimension and I don't think you like look back, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. But I just needed her to
Speaker 5: just just just you know, just just to stay at
Speaker 5: the stay and come visit me.
Speaker 1: And you aren't featured on that record.
Speaker 6: It's baby facing John legend with it too hard to
Speaker 6: come up with a verse, or like you didn't like
Speaker 6: anything people were giving you, or you just didn't like
Speaker 6: no words could really express what you want to express.
Speaker 2: I just was just doing what felt right for the stroke.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. You know, like you know
Speaker 2: if you man, why would you do that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, because because I don't know where your mind is at.
Speaker 5: When I'm thinking about strong, I'm thinking about my woman.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I can't get into none of this
Speaker 2: homophobic stuff y'all got going on. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 5: I'm just like, yah, I don't know y'all can play
Speaker 5: that game. I just like, I'm just me. I'm just
Speaker 5: seeing when I'm thinking about that, I'm telling you how
Speaker 5: I'm making the music.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I'm a scorpio king. I'm a scorpio. That's that's that's
Speaker 5: that's my thing. My thing is my stroke, baby, and
Speaker 5: that's my music. That's the vibe my music is. But
Speaker 5: you the stroke, your woman. Don't don't think about my stroke,
Speaker 5: think about your stroke.
Speaker 4: You think about thinking about envy, and then it's like
Speaker 4: a lot going on.
Speaker 1: This is awkward.
Speaker 2: You're awk with I don't know. I'm confused. I'm confused.
Speaker 5: Be comfortable within your skin.
Speaker 2: Problem, I'm very comfort and.
Speaker 6: Also in the record in the hook. You keep saying
Speaker 6: seven days, six nights. Yeah, what's the significance of that?
Speaker 2: Very good question.
Speaker 5: So you know, before the internet, if your girl and
Speaker 5: if your girl like wanted.
Speaker 2: To disappear on you, she was, man, she just go black.
Speaker 5: You be calling her mom's crap like, hey, hey, miss Porter,
Speaker 5: you know where Kim is at? Honey, I don't know where.
Speaker 5: I don't know what y'all doing. Don't put me in
Speaker 5: the middle of that. You be calling every place. You
Speaker 5: be outside, That's when stalkings start.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: You be outside in the car like where she asked.
Speaker 5: She definitely not there. She had a girlfriends house. You
Speaker 5: don't even know this girlfriend. They and they on the run.
Speaker 5: They're on the lamb.
Speaker 1: You all go.
Speaker 5: All over the place and be six days, seven nights.
Speaker 5: I would be waiting just to hear the sound her.
Speaker 2: Voice, just to pick up that phone. Hello, yeah, hello.
Speaker 2: That's where the six days and seven nights waiting for
Speaker 2: her sound like. She was a very very like, stubborn,
Speaker 2: stand strong person.
Speaker 5: It's like when she would just disappear, it would like,
Speaker 5: you don't know if it would be forever.
Speaker 2: You feel me.
Speaker 6: The extension of last night kind of then yeah, last night,
Speaker 6: there's a bunch of records.
Speaker 2: I Need a Girl Part two.
Speaker 1: Wow do you regret not marrying her?
Speaker 2: M M No, I don't have any regrets, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Like, as I said, our relationship was was was bigger
Speaker 5: than just okay.
Speaker 2: This is a relationship.
Speaker 5: I got you, married, you my girl, you, my baby
Speaker 5: mom or this like you know what I'm saying, it's
Speaker 5: like the like the connection of beings, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. And it really taught me, you know, how
Speaker 5: to love, and that's the way I love right now.
Speaker 5: So that's why I don't put different things in like
Speaker 5: categories like that because I feel like, you know, the
Speaker 5: people that's going really mad in your life, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, made I don't know if it's going
Speaker 5: to be your wife, because that's the title you put
Speaker 5: on it, you know what I'm saying. I don't know
Speaker 5: if that's gonna be your best experience if that's you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And so you know, my brother love, just love. It's
Speaker 2: just love, everybody.
Speaker 1: It's just love.
Speaker 2: It's not brother love.
Speaker 5: It's not a nineteen seventies new name it's a modern
Speaker 5: new name. It's just love, love, love, love love. When
Speaker 5: you see me, throw your l in the air, say love, love,
Speaker 5: love love.
Speaker 3: Now. After the VMAs, there was rumors that Young Miami
Speaker 3: was pregnant. She played into it.
Speaker 1: When was that that name?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I can't believe you didn't hear.
Speaker 2: So it's true.
Speaker 5: Kari should be throwing y'all for a spin. She I'm
Speaker 5: been telling y'all right now, k should be having fun.
Speaker 5: It'd be like a video game.
Speaker 2: We just we just asking, is you know?
Speaker 7: I mean no, no, no, I'm not pregnant.
Speaker 2: Is your wife pregnant?
Speaker 5: I'm gonna tell you straight up, you mean you beat?
Speaker 2: You beat the craziest one.
Speaker 5: Asking about somebody's girl or personal joint Became't nobody even
Speaker 5: say nothing to you about nothing?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know your play boy. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 5: you man that man, we don't. I don't talk about
Speaker 5: my relationships with nobody like that.
Speaker 3: Anybody asked me a question, you can ask me whatever
Speaker 3: you is.
Speaker 5: I'm not I don't care, but it's not my business.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying about you and another woman.
Speaker 3: If somebody disrespects it's another level.
Speaker 2: I can't even imagine somebody disrespecting me exactly.
Speaker 3: But that's that's my feeling, that's how I feel. It's
Speaker 3: easy for people to go online.
Speaker 5: I'm just I'm not I'm not coming.
Speaker 2: Coming.
Speaker 6: The beige rage was coming, the maige rage.
Speaker 2: It's going.
Speaker 5: Really, I don't know if you gotta go into the
Speaker 5: love frequency.
Speaker 1: And I agree with you, you gotta go.
Speaker 6: I told him that, yes, you've been having a year,
Speaker 6: so we gotta get him out of whatever frequent sage
Speaker 6: him or something, turn over you something.
Speaker 2: You've definitely been on the pup Dad, you've been.
Speaker 3: And then when I go to the may, I gotta
Speaker 3: take it too far?
Speaker 1: What I do.
Speaker 2: It's a problem.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he is drinking water, he's hydrating.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 3: I'm happy.
Speaker 5: It's the energy, the frequency is the energy of the celebration.
Speaker 2: God Pap God about it.
Speaker 5: Congratulations also to me being Diddy day returning back to music,
Speaker 5: being alive.
Speaker 2: Up this morning. I got a second chance. Oh man,
Speaker 2: it ain't nothing to get it.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you.
Speaker 6: You are a leader, and you are a person who
Speaker 6: disrupt systems. Yes, and you did that a couple of
Speaker 6: years ago with the Our Black Party, Our Black Party. Yeah,
Speaker 6: presidential election is next year? Are you bringing all Black
Speaker 6: Party back?
Speaker 5: I'm really in a reflective, a reflective like like mode
Speaker 5: of just like where my time is as far as solutions,
Speaker 5: you know, so when I look at like like change,
Speaker 5: I'm not looking at the regular.
Speaker 2: Way of solution.
Speaker 5: I'm looking into more radical things, right, I want like
Speaker 5: radical change. I don't want us like to be looking
Speaker 5: up twenty years later than the same thing's going on.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: We have the sixtieth anniversary of March on Washington and
Speaker 5: things are actually worse.
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't really realize that.
Speaker 5: Martin Luther King's last words were, last time we went
Speaker 5: to to d C, we was marching to be you know,
Speaker 5: included now we're going.
Speaker 1: To DC to get the check.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, and so and so.
Speaker 5: You know, I think about some radical solutions. So that's
Speaker 5: why like empowered global. You know, it's a big thing
Speaker 5: for me.
Speaker 2: A solution for us to circulate our dollars, not for
Speaker 2: me to just talk about it.
Speaker 5: Political power was was something that as far as not
Speaker 5: not power, political political power us unifying uh and weaponizing
Speaker 5: our vote something I was, you know, looking at so
Speaker 5: I definitely have supported like one of the first you know,
Speaker 5: black political parties, But I'm still like working out the infrastructure.
Speaker 4: Clean up mess, clean up, Daddy mess, clean up.
Speaker 5: With the political party politics, I don't know if it's
Speaker 5: my solution.
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna have to get more impressive. I
Speaker 2: don't know if we.
Speaker 3: Voted, they gonna need it because a lot of people
Speaker 3: don't feel energized.
Speaker 1: Comical.
Speaker 2: But I can.
Speaker 5: I cannot tell you that that the political route is
Speaker 5: what's going to get to the change that I want.
Speaker 5: So I'm spending my time on just more radical things
Speaker 5: like our own digital main street, on economic power, because
Speaker 5: once we can turn our economic trajectory around, I think
Speaker 5: that's the only thing that I can save. It's just
Speaker 5: like putting the mask on first, what thing do you
Speaker 5: decide to put your time with? And so I'm really
Speaker 5: focused on economic power, you know, of us, you know
Speaker 5: as far as with you know, circulating our dollar and
Speaker 5: supporting us.
Speaker 2: So that's what empower Globals is about.
Speaker 5: I have other different things that are solutions with I
Speaker 5: thought it was a solution was you know, our Black Party,
Speaker 5: which was you know, going after political power. But I'm
Speaker 5: only one person and I want to do things I
Speaker 5: feel can have the most radical impact. And I think
Speaker 5: that right now fighting the economic war against corporate America
Speaker 5: as a whole, because even with you gotta understand, even
Speaker 5: with Diajo, it's not just about Dajo. It's not like, oh,
Speaker 5: Diago's a villain. This is going on across all of
Speaker 5: corporate America.
Speaker 2: And so that's that's the fight that I'm into right now.
Speaker 3: We seen you give a million to eyl Foundation and
Speaker 3: also to Jackson State and State.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I think it's about you know,
Speaker 5: I could I could come in, I could talk about it,
Speaker 5: or I could show you my receipts. You know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. And that's all. I just want y'all to
Speaker 5: just with me. Just go let's let's let's look at
Speaker 5: the receipts. Let's not never go on with somebody saying,
Speaker 5: let's look at it. If they have the receipts, they
Speaker 5: have the numbers, and they have the things to back
Speaker 5: it up, is it adding up? Because I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: like run around and be, you know, ever just trying
Speaker 5: to prove myself. You know what I'm saying. My thing
Speaker 5: is to just do it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And so when you see the things that I'm doing now,
Speaker 5: I'm you know, I'm.
Speaker 2: Going on a love rampage. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I ain't hiding nothing, I ain't scared nothing, it ain't.
Speaker 5: That's the season that I'm in. I'm filled with the
Speaker 5: Holy Spirit. And you could take this love or you
Speaker 5: could you can actually not take it. It's up to you.
Speaker 5: But I'm here to give that love.
Speaker 1: What you're gonna rephrase?
Speaker 2: Take that?
Speaker 1: Take that. You know I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Shut help.
Speaker 5: No, No, it's it's it's it's it is.
Speaker 2: We keeping take that.
Speaker 5: But the frequency that's in it depends on what what
Speaker 5: what dimension you in. If you're in a LOWD dimension,
Speaker 5: you're probably not gonna be We ain't gonna be on
Speaker 5: that same level.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I'm not really for you if you're in a low dimension.
Speaker 5: If you're ready to come up to a high dimension,
Speaker 5: high frequency, That's where I'm at.
Speaker 6: What's success like in regards to this album? What would
Speaker 6: be a success for you?
Speaker 2: Mmmm?
Speaker 5: Just just I always I always may measure success with music.
Speaker 5: If somebody's at home singing the song while they're just
Speaker 5: cleaning up the house or you know, a card that's
Speaker 5: next to me and somebody's just in there singing it
Speaker 5: just for people to.
Speaker 2: Really really, you like, love the music as far as.
Speaker 5: You know, and some babies to be made and some
Speaker 5: some dances to be had, and you know it's to
Speaker 5: spawn just you know, more of this type of you know,
Speaker 5: more like love like.
Speaker 2: Man, woman, man, man, woman man.
Speaker 5: Whatever it is, right, whatever your love is, that feeling,
Speaker 5: bringing that feeling back and not just the toxic feeling
Speaker 5: because life needs a balance.
Speaker 4: And it's definitely album that people can enjoy each other to.
Speaker 4: Like you said, I think it's just the impact that
Speaker 4: it will have on you know, man and woman like together.
Speaker 4: It makes you want to talk to your partner. It
Speaker 4: makes you want to be like, oh you.
Speaker 2: Heard this, and it's cool for a woman or woman.
Speaker 4: Woman sorry man and or you know them to have
Speaker 4: whoever you know, just to really enjoy it.
Speaker 7: I want to you know for that. I love that.
Speaker 7: I actually like the back of what your jackets say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this this is the slogan.
Speaker 7: Are we selling thoses? Anyway we can get those?
Speaker 1: You can?
Speaker 2: This is.
Speaker 5: Hopefully of like the role out we're gonna keep on
Speaker 5: like bringing y'all into it.
Speaker 2: I have to have this movie.
Speaker 5: Rollouts, and the fun of it's the fun of explaining
Speaker 5: your process. As I said, you know, some people have
Speaker 5: to do it for hustle, and I respect that some people.
Speaker 2: Do it for the art. And you know, you know,
Speaker 2: I love Scissor.
Speaker 5: I love Brent Faire as you know love Rice and Tiller,
Speaker 5: Chris ground Us, He's summer Walker Scissor.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like, shout.
Speaker 7: Out to Brent from Columbia, Maryland. That's one of my brothers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, everybody, the whole R and B, all the producers,
Speaker 5: the whole R and B universe and family. Like even
Speaker 5: when I did the R and B Is Dead, it
Speaker 5: was just too to make sure that people we we
Speaker 5: got a perspective that R and B and hip hop
Speaker 5: are two different things. It's like we may look the same,
Speaker 5: but that didn't mean it be the same. R and
Speaker 5: B is like baseball. Hip hop is like soccer. It's
Speaker 5: not the same thing. It shouldn't be competing. It's not
Speaker 5: the same, you know, frequency, And so it limits the
Speaker 5: success of younger hip hop artists if they got to
Speaker 5: compete against I mean younger R and B artists. I'm
Speaker 5: sorry if they have to compete almost against in like
Speaker 5: a divide and conquer soulful musical situation.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. So us coming together is
Speaker 2: gonna really shine light on light boom. This is R
Speaker 2: and B.
Speaker 5: We're our own category, you know what I'm saying. This
Speaker 5: is hip hop, they're their own category. We respect what
Speaker 5: each other does, but it's different. Yes, we're part of
Speaker 5: the same lifestyle or culture, you know. But this album,
Speaker 5: I think, with the Unity, is going to really make
Speaker 5: that clear.
Speaker 3: You know, I love I love the music. I love
Speaker 3: what you're doing with business. But the one thing I
Speaker 3: respect about you the most is how you all with
Speaker 3: your kids. Because that's the balance with this industry and
Speaker 3: most industries, right is you want to work hard, you
Speaker 3: want to get that check right because you want to
Speaker 3: support You want to make sure your kids have things
Speaker 3: that you didn't have. But a lot of times when
Speaker 3: we do that, we don't have the time. And when
Speaker 3: I look at Love or Diddy or Puff, you make
Speaker 3: the time. You're at the kids cheer, you know, playing
Speaker 3: with the baby, you know, on the floor in the grass,
Speaker 3: you're going around with the baby, you with your kids,
Speaker 3: whether it's music or acting, whatever it may be. And
Speaker 3: that's what I respect the most because I love seeing
Speaker 3: that because I feel like a lot of times when
Speaker 3: we talk about what we don't see a lot of
Speaker 3: times we don't see that enough. Yes, and I respect
Speaker 3: that the most when it comes to you.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: And it's inspiring for most that because it's like shit,
Speaker 3: if Diddy can do it, Diddy worth a billy.
Speaker 2: I can do it.
Speaker 3: You know, if I'm worth ten thousand, if I'm worth
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand, if I'm working, it doesn't matter. But
Speaker 3: you could put that time in and we see what
Speaker 3: those seeds do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, that's like me being on the stage with
Speaker 5: them the other night. It's just like so surreal. As
Speaker 5: I said, you know what I'm saying, with my son,
Speaker 5: but with my daughters and then my daughter she's an
Speaker 5: inspiring actress and just seeing seeing like man like like
Speaker 5: I did you know, I did something really good, Like
Speaker 5: I really like raised them because fathers, you know, we
Speaker 5: really get like we still got this stigma on this.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: And yeah, and it's just.
Speaker 5: Time to press reset. Man, forget all the stigmas. Who
Speaker 5: was in the past's what's in the now? And I
Speaker 5: get the same inspiration when I see your family, King,
Speaker 5: when I see you like I know you as envy,
Speaker 5: but that's the thing I respect about you, and be
Speaker 5: gonna have his family matching. They gonna be sitting there
Speaker 5: having like we designing the pajamas. It's Christmas. We doing
Speaker 5: the best Christmas card. We don't care what the car
Speaker 5: dash is doing. We got the best Christmas card.
Speaker 1: I can see all that.
Speaker 5: It has me like, yo, we gotta get you know,
Speaker 5: MV really putting it down on this. In Mexico they
Speaker 5: got all the same, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So it's it all, It all goes around, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: It's it's as far as like you know, the things
Speaker 5: that are important to us, and it's like I think
Speaker 5: that the thing Black fathers have been able to get
Speaker 5: over the last couple of years is this this this
Speaker 5: unity and camaraderie as far as like yeah, now we
Speaker 5: we we we playing a part in this.
Speaker 2: Toobe Mama, you know what I'm saying, We got this too.
Speaker 2: But it's just like you know we we we learned
Speaker 2: it though from the black from the from the black woman,
Speaker 2: or the woman period. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: You know, I learned it from the black woman. But
Speaker 5: you know the woman has taught us how to be
Speaker 5: better fathers.
Speaker 1: And a couple more questions. What is bad Boy Records?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: Bad Boy Records right now is where everything's at with
Speaker 5: me totally. It's the second Mountain.
Speaker 3: So is it bad Boys?
Speaker 2: It Love Records? No?
Speaker 5: No, bad Boy Records is the hip hop label. Love
Speaker 5: Records is the R and B label, And so bad
Speaker 5: Boy Records is a part of the future. Love Records
Speaker 5: is a part of the future. So bad Boy has
Speaker 5: you know, my son on it right now. And you know,
Speaker 5: if I as as I get more into music and
Speaker 5: get my feet where I'm starting with R and B
Speaker 5: just because of the frequency of where.
Speaker 2: I'm at, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And yeah, so so right now, you know, both both
Speaker 5: are a part of the future plan of this multimedia
Speaker 5: company that I'm putting together that will empower all these
Speaker 5: different different categories.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and as far as your too, because you're about
Speaker 4: to go back on well, are you thinking of anybody
Speaker 4: to have opened up for you, like like are you
Speaker 4: gonna is it gonna be one man?
Speaker 7: You have a lot of features, so you could bring
Speaker 7: see that.
Speaker 5: But that's that's one of the things for me is
Speaker 5: like every night that you come see me, you'll see
Speaker 5: a different show.
Speaker 2: There be no two shows that are the same, you know.
Speaker 5: I like, as an artist, I'm like, yeah, my music
Speaker 5: is PT Bonum, you know what I'm saying, Like like
Speaker 5: the ring master.
Speaker 2: Of the circus, they call me P. D. Bonum. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And so every night you'll have a surprise. I'll take
Speaker 5: you on a musical journey and my touring and be different.
Speaker 5: I'll go set up in certain spots and for like
Speaker 5: three days, take over the city, bring the love, do
Speaker 5: do do everything to really you know, have have a
Speaker 5: certain impact on the city, you know, in a positive way.
Speaker 5: So it's a different touring plan. But my first my
Speaker 5: first tour day is gonna be overseas, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. And and definitely we celebrating thirty years a
Speaker 5: bad Boy, So it'll probably be one of people's like
Speaker 5: last chances to see like the whole bad Boy family
Speaker 5: together on some of the joints and then you'll just
Speaker 5: see people that you want to see. In the way
Speaker 5: that I'm an unify and bring I bring the future
Speaker 5: of music together, bring them past the music together, but
Speaker 5: I bring that feeling together.
Speaker 2: That's my thing is. It's not about the ego. It's
Speaker 2: not about me, so about me giving you the best
Speaker 2: show that that your money can buy.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna see the JD Diddy versus Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Think I think that you will say you'll see that
Speaker 5: when it when it's set up. I think I think
Speaker 5: that it's good.
Speaker 2: Like JD. It'll be fun because we both make records
Speaker 2: that are in the frequency. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And then and then you know, I would I would
Speaker 2: like to after that.
Speaker 5: I would like to see me and Doctor Dre dance
Speaker 5: or whoever whoever else wants to dance wants to dance.
Speaker 2: I think it's nothing but positive.
Speaker 5: Getting your music and displaying your music out there with people,
Speaker 5: it's all.
Speaker 2: It just makes everything sharp, you know what I say?
Speaker 3: Or would it just be just.
Speaker 6: You say you want next? If you want Dre next
Speaker 6: to me is JD and Diddy, R and B and remixes.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 5: You have so many styles. I can hit you with
Speaker 5: stuff that I hit you from Burning Boys last album
Speaker 5: that I had did. I could hit you with early
Speaker 5: Mary J. Blid stuff.
Speaker 2: I can hit you with artists that you never even
Speaker 2: knew that.
Speaker 5: I mean, I have so many different styles, Like you know,
Speaker 5: in Kung Food, they have the drunken monkey, they have
Speaker 5: the snake style, Cobra spider.
Speaker 2: I have like all them styles in the one. So
Speaker 2: so you can do a couple of versus, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so I could.
Speaker 5: I could do versus like a couple of times with
Speaker 5: whoever really wants to smoke. But you know that's that's
Speaker 5: that's really where we're at.
Speaker 6: You know what I love about this conversation. I really
Speaker 6: do see you vibrating on the higher frequency. And I
Speaker 6: don't know people knew like that. You know, a few
Speaker 6: years ago, I feel like you were like in a
Speaker 6: perpetual state of grief.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like I see the healing.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: No. When we've spoken about this as far as like
Speaker 5: mental health, you're never too high, you know what I'm
Speaker 5: saying to like, like like most.
Speaker 2: People that have success, they like really like burn out.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying or go crazy or you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, it's it's not you know, there's there,
Speaker 5: there's there's different size to it. But just as people
Speaker 5: in general, nobody is nobody is immune to depression, nobody's
Speaker 5: immune to grief hard times. Just because you've been successful
Speaker 5: in anything or even if you I mean, whatever has been.
Speaker 2: The cause that are dealt to you.
Speaker 5: That's the one thing that unifies us, is like this
Speaker 5: anxiety and this mental craziness that that we that that
Speaker 5: has been a result both of the phones and the
Speaker 5: computers and just like you know, just being human, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So it's like that's a choice
Speaker 5: to go vibrate at a higher frequency. It's a choice
Speaker 5: to be kind. It's a choice to you know, step
Speaker 5: into your love frequency. And I've just made that choice.
Speaker 5: But it's a process. You have to go through, a metamorphosis.
Speaker 5: You gotta really tap into to God. You have to
Speaker 5: submit and let God and let go and go to
Speaker 5: wherever it tells you to go. It may tell you,
Speaker 5: it may tell you to fight harder, You may tell
Speaker 5: you to go into this you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: For me, it just told me to become love, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. And so that's where I'm at,
Speaker 5: and I'm you know, it's a constant thing. I'm not
Speaker 5: like perfect, I'm not whatever it is, but that's what
Speaker 5: I'm on.
Speaker 2: I'm just on the love. I just I'd rather smile
Speaker 2: at you than anything else, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I'd rather work it out or get to the solution,
Speaker 5: or be a part of the success of you or
Speaker 5: the happiness of you. I don't want anything else but
Speaker 5: just to be, you know, giving that energy of.
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Sean, yeah, Loiet.
Speaker 2: The album is out right, yes, right now.
Speaker 1: The album is really good, like really really good. It's
Speaker 1: very very problem.
Speaker 7: You can't call him that call him what what you
Speaker 7: call him? What did you say? What is his name?
Speaker 3: You can't call him.
Speaker 7: Only one person can call him, Sean Holmes, and you
Speaker 7: are not that person. Too bad, you don't. You don't
Speaker 7: keep up with Diddy. His name is Diddy.
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentleman, diddyng Angra.
Speaker 5: Thank you go get the Love album, y'all, get it,
Speaker 5: go get it right now. If you love R and B,
Speaker 5: you know me and can tell y'all who's on there
Speaker 5: and give a shout to everybody that's on there.
Speaker 2: Mary J.
Speaker 5: Blige, it's on there. We made our return from My
Speaker 5: Life on the Weekend. French Montana, Coco Jones, Summer Walker,
Speaker 5: Justin Bieber, John Legend, Tianna Taylor, uh Fabulous, the dream
Speaker 5: busterin Rohm's Dirty Money, Todd Dollars Signed, John Queeze, Kalane
Speaker 5: twenty one, Savage Sway, Lee Jeremiah, Jozzy Noble Wave, Caitlin
Speaker 5: for Real, for Real, a Niesia and yours truly her
Speaker 5: Diddy and her her Her, Thank you for having my back,
Speaker 5: herd Thank you, Jeff, thank you to everybody.
Speaker 2: Thank you to everybody ever worked with in New York.
Speaker 2: Your boy.
Speaker 5: When I'm outside and they see me, they see y'all,
Speaker 5: they see New York. Believe that New York stand up.
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 2: Yeah right?
Speaker 1: Club Love, Wake that ass up her in the morning
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club,