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Speaker 1: R and B Money.

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Speaker 2: We thank.

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Speaker 3: Valentine.

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Speaker 1: We are the authority on all thing R and D ladies and gentleman. My name is Tank Valentine and this is the only money podcast, the authority. Yeah yeah, the old thing alrn B.

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Speaker 2: This ship ain't iffy old.

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Speaker 1: To be young yeah yeah, in in the streets, Oh to be young, learning lessons in love, get it yeah and free yeah and.

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Speaker 2: Lit.

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Speaker 1: I mean just like the young fellas they hoop.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we gonna get to that.

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Speaker 1: They dance, Yeah, they get all the pearl Yeah, making every.

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Speaker 2: Week piece of fresh one widow the wow because they're getting the resist.

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Speaker 1: We got our little brothers. Man, listen, no emphasis on little man. That's just an age thing, man. But the big boys what I'm trying to tell you, Yes, sir, damn Darius, Yes, sir, I mean you know, I didn't mean d D. But we got a new thing going right now. It's called block talk.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yes, sir, brothers we made it.

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Speaker 3: Man another mother everybody.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, blood, that's what's crazy, Like that's really dope to see, you know what I mean? Because this business, this thing that we're in, this place that we're in, it can do some crazy things to you and it can. It's it's kind of built to tear things apart, right, and you you all have maintained the brotherhood, you know what I mean, on a high level. And that's that's what I really respect, really respect y'all for like no if ands of butts. It's Dom and Darius all the motherfucking times, all the time, and Bro, it's just it's just incredible, man, And and the work that you guys do continue to do, you keep elevating, you keep growing. Now.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like I watched all y'all was babies you did.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I remember day one coming up us going to the Underdog studio, walking upstairs, just trying to get you all to hear one song from Man when niggas had Mitch Mass, George's and backwards going to reject.

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Speaker 1: Down Cat Daddy. It just came out, was on the radio.

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Speaker 3: And James was like Tank up here. James would be like where the dance Niggas.

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Speaker 2: Just going out with Nash.

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Speaker 1: Niggas do exactly who Daddy's. It was much by young niggas being cool and fly yeah and making a great name for yourselves, a great name.

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Speaker 5: Always left for like a great impression. Yes, everywhere you guys have ever been, you know what I mean, Like, nobody's ever been like those niggas. Y'all have never been those niggas. You know what I'm saying, you guys has always been like man, you know that there is my guys is my little cousins artist from Robbie Jones, your actual family. And you know what I'm saying, like, guys who will Everyone is always champion y'all and that and that should be saluted because a lot of people don't know how to keep their names in good standing. Yeah, I appreciate y'all done an amazing job of that. Man, always good vibes. We want for y'all. We want stay out the mud everything for y'all. Keep my name up the muddy squeaky. Let's let's let's talk this music thing.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 5: Let's let's go back to the beginning, to go back to sack Town.

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Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 1: Listen, sack down Town. Yeah, well makes two brothers decide that they want to pursue music, and not just pursue music, but pursue it together. Where does this begin?

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Speaker 3: You want?

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Speaker 1: I guess when you go all the way to the top of the story.

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Speaker 3: My mom.

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Speaker 1: She was always a singer and music musician. My dad's on the sports side, so we always had to kind of do something in the crib, like I always had to sing or you know, just be doing something like that was they wasn't having it was the entertainment.

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Speaker 3: Pretty much for real. Anybody come over to the dad get them for sure.

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Speaker 2: I'm very familiar.

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Speaker 3: I'm very familiar with this story.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead for her.

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Speaker 3: He was only six.

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Speaker 1: School, so you know, we have to always have to performance, sing and stuff like that. But then kind of bro went into who right in yeah serious manner. So I was just like, well, I mean, I'm athletic and shit, but he loves that, yeah I'm saying, And I just started making beats.

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Speaker 5: Like we can't graze over that right, no way, because I've had NBA basketball, but this is real and y'all know how I feel about sports, and I don't be saying just random ship when it comes to that, I had NBA niggas be like, so you know Darius is Darius Logan. I'm like, okay, you know.

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Speaker 2: What I'm saying like that, like the legend of yeah niggas is like yeah, no, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 5: We went to play aau with Darius Logan, right, I'm like, wait, wait all you seven foot niggas when found him?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I used to play for you know, EBO was based out of Fresnow and I used to play with the Lopez Twins Quincy point Dexter, So I used to go down there every weekend go hoop with them, and I was at one time my sophomore year, I was like ranked number five point guard in the nation. During that time, that's when hoop was everything. I didn't care anything about music, only for the girls, but everything was hoop. Working out three times a day, my dad on our ass or on my ass, torturing me. You know how, it is just like hoop, sleep, get back to hooping, and that's all I knew. Working out didn't have no summers. But when it came to hoop, I was cooking niggas. And then at one point I just honestly fell out of love with it, and I was I knew, I knew, I knew we could always do music, and I was like, you know what, I don't give it a try? Why not?

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Speaker 2: So one day you literally was just like I'm done, I'm done hooping.

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Speaker 3: I kept tweaking my ankle and I was just like, man, every time I got all these damn ankle versus, this ain't working.

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Speaker 2: He's at Steph Curry.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of Steph Curry, we played on the same All American Team Adidas camp when he was becoming Steph Curry. Blast from the Past, but good old days. Played with Titus and Timothy. They played with Kawhi, Leonard San Diego State, all of them is all my bros. My Hoop, Kevin Galloway, Eugene Crockett, all my dogs. Yeah, I was hooping hooping, But then I was just like he was making That's when he started making beats off fruity loops and then he'd be like, bro during the MySpace era, he'd be like, I just posted this beat up there and I listened to it and I'd be like, oh, this is just slip. So he just remixing all types of beats. He figured out what worked for him, and then when I came home, we just started making songs. Like we just started recording niggas discovered auto tune.

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Speaker 2: It was like, yeah, let's.

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Speaker 1: Make a song, Yeah, where you recording the vocals at some my that he bought a set up because he was like, basically like, you're not gonna be doing nothing around here, but Bro doing hoop in a serious way. So I'm gonna get you this equipment, and I have to figure how to open and run protuls by myself or Pops is gonna take all the equipment back. So I'm getting knocked out. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you know he was gonna take the ship back.

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Speaker 3: Debo for sure, debo the whole area.

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Speaker 1: Whole year.

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Speaker 3: He was everybody dad, yeah, big.

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Speaker 7: Get knocked out, Like you said, for sure.

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Speaker 3: What that's gonna do?

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Speaker 1: Before I was getting me mad, but yeah I had, so I had to like kind of like this thick ass book and just I'm just trying to get it to operate, you know what I mean. And once I got it going, we start figuring it out, and different ogs who was in music pop by and be like, oh ship, like I got something going on, just throwing a little advice, how to how to armor track and how to everything all that stuff. So once we kind of got a little flow, and Bro would come home from college and we would just cook and Victoria money, she would It would be us three cooking up at the house like way, No, I didn't know all three of them was sitting in the room cooking. Yeah yeah, the first time. We all the attitude grandma's Yeah, yeah, so crazy. We would just cook up and then we would make songs and print them on the CD and then take them to the Like, my grandma lived across the street from my dad, so he bought a house for her to keep family close. But when she moved back east, we made the studio house because he was and he rented out the room, renting out the rooms, and then we had the master and we put the studio in there.

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Speaker 5: And how old are you at this point, y'are still teenagers? Yeah, but obviously across the street from the house.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's not like you'll.

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Speaker 3: He got the cameras, right, Yeah, you can't ship. We just trying to sneak in girls.

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Speaker 2: Yeah deep deep bo get get to my house right right right? But Dad, you don't even get them.

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Speaker 1: We can.

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Speaker 3: We can see him walking across the street on.

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Speaker 2: The side stuff.

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Speaker 3: Play with your reds by right, seeing the acts, sleeping the clothes.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, that's how, Yeah, that's how I kind of the basis.

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Speaker 5: Of it through our high school from that point, are you you're barely in high school?

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Speaker 2: You're what sophomore junior?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's in eighth grade. I'm a junior senior in high school.

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Speaker 2: His pop's hot when you stop hooping.

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Speaker 5: M hmmm, Because you said y'all doing three of Days, that means that he didn't dedicated his life to it as well.

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Speaker 3: But you know, around that time, I'm just like, all right, bro, I want to start doing my own thing, you know, start working my own coaches, so you know, just start like figuring out what worked for me. But he was hot for a little bit. But then when they was hearing the music, even though you know, were thinking we're making slaps back then, until yeah, it.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't it be there? Hey, well we felt like we was. I thought I was getting the publishing.

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Speaker 3: We did too.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm killing everything the old older There was producers and like in the business that I was signed to playing, but.

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Speaker 2: At least they had you signed.

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Speaker 1: They were, yeah, that's trash, what this weak?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 8: Hard?

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Speaker 1: I had my TV, I had a PV keyboard, the DPM four yeah, and I was shut up and I only really had nine tracks to make the beat. Yeah, And sometimes I would have to layer two instruments on one track. Like it was just it just wasn't it just wasn't, you know, conduced. I figured I figured that whole out. But in the beginning of making those beats on that particular keyboard, Oh no, they was laughing at me, laughing. I go, man, listen, you ain't got a chance, like motherfucker.

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Speaker 2: So did y'all start producing locally? Yeah, y'all, I'm reducing. I've been sacked me like for you know, for different artists up there in the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: I was while bros in college, I was making money. I was making I was already showing beats, making money.

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Speaker 2: How much you selling beats for hun.

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Speaker 1: They could walk with the beat like no publishing need like it was buying the whole beat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I didn't even understand that part, of.

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Speaker 2: Course, because that was independent anyway. Yeah, put it out.

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Speaker 1: And came out anyway. But sit I knew it was. I knew it was something when I bought my mama washing and dryer mm hmm. I was like, oh yeah, I'm having my way. And so when broke Yeah, when Bro would come back and we lock in and we just start, we just created a flow like just we just worked together really well.

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Speaker 2: I mean then we brothers.

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Speaker 1: Of course, you know you have an occasional once a year fight or some ship.

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Speaker 3: Like that argument.

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Speaker 1: But it's always progressive to make the song better.

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, but my man vib just fight up a basketball. We don't fight everything else. Be cool about basketball. We really want to kill each other.

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Speaker 1: You got to learn what that is when first playing basketball over the two niggas, I'm like, so are they brothers?

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Speaker 3: Like the same blood? I could see Bob talking ship the whole time.

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Speaker 1: I love it crazy, So you sell them. You in the hood, slinging slinging beats, serving the base, serving. And I had me and my homies. We had a little rap group. It's called Team heiphe Mom's right, and we was we was recording my boy Dre, Marcus, Doug Eric my nigga and we would just record like nobody. We would just imitate like all the hyphey movement shells and rap ship and then but when Bro came, like that's when we was like doing more singing stuff, and my mom would be like overead, like yeah, let us again, try and do less of this, listen to more of this gotch you like you know stuff. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So then my dad knew a friend he used to do like community service hours for like his youth program or whatever. And this guy named jim Or knew fly styles. Mm hmm.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: He introduced us to fly styles. And during that time, Robbie introduced us to Andre Merrick.

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Speaker 9: Gotcha okay, so yeah nothing nigga, I can hop, Yeah, I digga, shoot the hell out of man, shoot it and right the hell out.

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Speaker 6: Of some song.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So during that time, while we're trying to figure out we think we mak it, slaps Robbie like he here and he like, I'm gonna sit it to my friend Andre, maryy. We don't know nothing about the business. Yeah, we talked to Andre.

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Speaker 5: Robbie already in l A, already already already one tree here, one tree hell yeah yeah.

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Speaker 3: Adre on the phoney like, yeah, the music is not good.

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Speaker 1: I'm just keeping I'm gonna keep it real with y'all. Y'all need to keep on, just keep on, keep on saying this stuff. But you're not there, not what you think. Like, you know, we was feeling like we don't to record. We're supposed to be down here we're supposed to be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, me not knowing then I'm just like taking that competitive nature from sports and men like.

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Speaker 1: I'm about to show them.

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Speaker 3: And then during that whole during that time, we met Fly. Yeah, we met Fly, came down here Fly, he was working with us, or during that time the first met up Brown.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's working with Brown because we did the song called Michael and Me. Jesus Christ, that's where it is. We did the song called Michael and Me, and it was like, we love Michael Jackson. So we did this tribute kind of like everybody gotta love Michael. And then like you know what I'm saying, like we was doing it for Michael or that was the idea to Fly was trying to run with, you know. And then Chris heard it and was like, let me record it and do it as a tribute. And that's how we met Chris. That's how that all happened.

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Speaker 3: I was like sixteen, Yeah, when we met Chris at the Grammy party.

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Speaker 1: That's why. That's initially why yeah, And and then you know, all the other stuff happened, and it just it kind of changed the narrative on but we knew at that point, like we need to be here. Yeah. Now it's like we Yeah, so we went back that last time. I mean we ran away. We packed up the equipment.

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Speaker 2: How am I didn't tell your mom and dad? I was going, No, we literally right away.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you was grown I was grown away.

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Speaker 1: I read Wait.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I had my little Ford focus. We packed up all our stuff in the back, waited, let's go to La Nigga.

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Speaker 5: To me, neither nobody all these years, I know, y'all, Yeah, you will run away this whole time.

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Speaker 1: He really is.

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Speaker 3: A road man sick. You had a big.

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Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 1: That right there makes it so much better. Wow, y'all had no choice.

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Speaker 3: We didn't have no choice to make it. I had no choice. It wasn't going back.

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Speaker 2: So what's that phone call?

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Speaker 3: Like I was dodging, ignore nation, ignore, ignore ignore. I wasn't ready ye because I'm just like trying to figure out you guys, big brother. I had to do what I had to do. Yeah, And I was the one that was like, bro, we need to go. And I was like, man, we got to figure this out. He's just like, let's go, And I'm like, you know what, let's just go, let's load up. We out. I had been to l A because you know, the camps and hooping. So I was aware, but I know we knew Fly and I knew some of his other hommies. So I was trying to figure out the living. Meanwhile, he's just thinking about music. I'm like, we gotta figure this out. What we're gonna say. Yeah, So he was living out the focus for a good two or three months to three months. Yeah, living out the focus, trying to figure out where we was gonna stay, and trying to get to the studio. When we first pulled up to l A coming from Sack where we go to go see Polo, we're sick.

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Speaker 1: And when that times, like we gotta meet Pop. We're here to meet Polo. Yeah, I had never met him before. No niggas still got raised there. Yeah, so y'all get to the timetime. Oh god, yeah, what happened? Pool comes out?

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Speaker 3: He like, hm, hmmm, y'all talented, but this how you do this? How you do this? Bro? Like you don't know, y'all. We're like, nah, we're just trying to play some music. He's like, nah, Jesus, but he laughed, laugh while they all go and then we just leaving them, what like a month later, we ended up staying at Fly's friend Dennis. Yeah. Let the stay there.

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Speaker 1: Was playing the rent there, like half the rent as long as we could, and then uh we we left there and started living with Fly and Fly had his camp over there. It was us t Fly and Notch and Rob a rest in Peace and so he was like trying to, you know, do his executive thing, like I got these producers and trying to get records off and stuff, and we was in that mix, but it just it didn't work out. Ultimately, Prince Charles is over there too, crazy yeah crazy, yeah, yeah, crazy, And then uh, it just didn't work out all the way around. But that was like the basis of when we first got here, when we just do records, record, record and not. When we got off the freeway, Notch was going. We didn't know where it was going. We called Notch and he was like, pull up to the studio. Then we met the New Boys and that's how we got our first placement, no no, with the It's called New Girl Okay, And we got a feature on there too, which the vocals were.

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Speaker 2: Terrible, horrible and y'all fresh in the city.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, for sure. We they was the New Boys was recording in Guardina Guardina. Yeah, so we're coming straight from straight to the hood, going in the recording the garage. M h and not you there, like come on over here, you know not. So that's how we got our fir that first check. We got behind McDonald's on fifteen yep, fifteen split it.

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Speaker 2: We got paid behind the McDonald's. Yeah, we signed up with Donald's.

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Speaker 5: Got producer because we had to sign your producers there. Yeah, at McDonalds. At McDonald's okay, all right, at mc donald's. Yeah, did you read it or did y'all just take it?

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Speaker 3: Was like we was at McDonald's all right, he was already already hungry.

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Speaker 2: That's a great way to do that, thank my witch.

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Speaker 3: Exactly.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I need a maxf man. We're going large large. I want the big drink.

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Speaker 2: I gotta.

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Speaker 1: Check and drink.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Look, you mess your question just as as creatives, right because shout out down dream mary head. It definitely hits you with the you know what I'm saying, You're not there yet, you ain't got it. At what point did you feel like, because now before you get to this placement, at what point do you feel like you're a competitive like you have something that that now is on the level of what you hear on the streets. For me, it was a Micael record how much swell. It was like Fly was trying to take it to a kon and it was like conversations that we're a part of now that we've never been a part of. So that's what had the battery pack of me or I'm like, we need to that's what we need. We need the micro record.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to get out, we need to be there were in the game now.

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Speaker 1: So at that point you felt like y'all had something yeah. Yeah, And then we're going back and forth with dre during this time too, So when we started saying this stuff, it was like this fire, it's getting better.

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Speaker 3: Did that record ever place? With the micro record?

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Speaker 1: Chris is gonna cut it at that time, and then all the Reary stuff happened. So it's just like the whole train just derailed. It was like and y'all never tried to put on nobody else. No, we just came back and just kept creating.

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Speaker 5: That song, created the conversation to get your yeah right, yeah, Okay, So now y'all got cat Daddy.

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Speaker 10: Going, so Cat Daddy's Next, Cat Daddy's Next, before this new girl did Caddaddy Yeah, and then man we get silent universe, no Jay Hawk producive. But I kind of like tz old if you will, you know what I'm saying. I did all the edits and recorded it and moving, arranging and doing all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: So it was pretty like you know what I'm saying, like put this in the beat, additional production, you know.

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Speaker 2: So and then we was all we was actually in the.

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Speaker 1: Reject and the rejects. Yeah, so it was like we was going everywhere in the Vands seven Rejects, popping out, backward Skinnies, Miss Master Jordan's dancing, dancing everywhere we went. And we we really couldn't do much at the house growing up, like as far as like partying, so we were that's why we are how we are Witness. No, it's Christian, Christian base, but Po just didn't play that ship.

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Speaker 3: He's real militant. But he was like that for everybody in the neighborhood, like like I respect for your dad and yeah, but we just live with him, so that's our dad, so like, no, you're not doing that.

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Speaker 2: But he kept y'all block straight. Yeah, yeah, no, I get it.

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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Speaker 1: I get it.

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Speaker 5: So when y'all get out here, now your niggas become rejects, right okay, all right yeah yeah, and y'all dancing with your pants on backers?

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, everything I activated.

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Speaker 5: I know Pops probably saw the video, like, man, it was too late though, I see them whooping them.

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Speaker 1: I'm kicking that is coming, hella mess, I know you've seen motherfucker.

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Speaker 3: Man. It was that.

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Speaker 2: It was that I wouldn't have let y'all come to the studio.

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Speaker 3: I have known that.

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Speaker 8: Pop said like, I can't come round, y'all can't come here.

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Speaker 3: Right in fact, y'all's.

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Speaker 1: Got to go now. I don't want no trouble.

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Speaker 3: Man was a different error. Yeah, But once we got past that, we had got signed with Universal, Rondor with Kevin Hall was over there and he put us with Damon. That was the best thing they did was put us over there with that then.

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Speaker 5: So Kevin hard to just introduce you out of that. Yeah, okay, okay, Yeah. The deal we song was horrible, terrible?

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, who signed a life away compubsing deal? Yeah? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: How many songs?

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Speaker 3: Three?

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Speaker 5: Three hundred percent songs? Three songs, three, three, four song? How much I got. Let's let's just let's just talk about it.

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Speaker 3: Man two two for one, Yeah, put both of y'all yeah to split.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. He could have signed in the back of McDonalds.

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Speaker 3: We signed that with that Kevin some money rings all that time. Do you think good there? Carora Hall was sitting there like driwskie, Yeah, sign right here out here.

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Speaker 1: But three hundred yeah, Yeah, that was tough. That's tough. Yeah, I had five hundred.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean we got out of that thing. No, for sure, of course, it was just but you know what I think. I think and me and j have talked about this before, like, yeah, it sounds like a bad deal, but you ultimately were betting on yourself. Yeah, and whatever by any means necessary. You had to eat and you have to survive, and you were just going to charge it to the food loops and the microphone.

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Speaker 2: Because the other the other question is.

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Speaker 5: Would you sign it again if you were in that same position, if you knew that it was going to lead to you guys being here the success that you've had, And that's you got to ask yourself. I think you know a lot of times people hindsight is twenty twenty obviously, But you have so many people who.

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Speaker 2: Said, I'm trying to figure the best way I could say it to.

00:29:24
Speaker 1: Fuck it.

00:29:24
Speaker 5: You got people who are outsmarting themselves.

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Speaker 2: They're just too business savvy in the beginning.

00:29:33
Speaker 5: Because what people don't understand is, in the beginning, you really don't have any bargaining chips. You don't have any leverage, and the leverage you think you have is really in your head. Right unless you got some crazy bidding war, everybody's chasing you down and you can leverage that into the best deal possible. But when you are trying to eat, yes, sir, Yeah, and you don't want to sell dope no more, talk about it. You don't want to live in your daddy house no more, you don't want it. Means so many different variables that come into play that people just tend to overlook. Yeah, like yes, because the objective is to one day be able to laugh.

00:30:20
Speaker 2: About it, right sir, Right, for sure, not. But the only way to be able to laugh about it is to be successful.

00:30:28
Speaker 3: Right.

00:30:28
Speaker 2: Most of the people that I see complaining, don't you.

00:30:32
Speaker 3: Do it, don't you do it, don't you do it?

00:30:40
Speaker 2: I've been successful. Right, you've only done it once.

00:30:47
Speaker 5: And you got a bad deal with that one time that you got you was cracking. I get it, I get I get the frustration. I get the frustration. But it if you've done it over and over and over and you've you've gotten to this place, this wonderful place called renegotiation, right, you laugh at that shit.

00:31:11
Speaker 3: For sure. We always we definitely got the last love the last laugh. For sure.

00:31:15
Speaker 5: Y'all got twenty, I got thirty five, really got twenty five. Then I got a little ten on top later, right, but it really only got thirty five. It got thirty five, all leaving the seventy five I was supposed to get. Y'all got your whole twenty. It was twenty and y'all got twenty.

00:31:30
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:31:31
Speaker 1: It was supposed to be more attached, like as we progressive the deal, right, but it just ended up us getting out of it me too, not have just yeah same thing for you for you, short money deal.

00:31:46
Speaker 2: They can't take the big money. It didn't put him in a head lot. I got that hot one seventy five.

00:31:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the Lord way.

00:31:58
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but it was it was it was prison. It was all jail, jail ball violence. There are no bad deals, man. Yeah, Like I just I just feel like you have to do what you have to do. Like I've been in situations where I was owed a lot of money, a lot of money, and it was either fight that or settle for less and get back. Cracking, right, Cracking is the remedy.

00:32:41
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.

00:32:43
Speaker 5: Cracking is the remedy. So let's get to crack, get the crack, and let's get the crack.

00:32:49
Speaker 3: Which cracking on, it's a couple of episodes like that. Come on, let's let's start.

00:32:54
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on, y'all eating up now.

00:32:59
Speaker 5: After the what y'all, what's your first record that you're like, Okay, we can breathe a little bit for y'all, and y'all mind, I.

00:33:08
Speaker 3: Would say to those your camera, the streets for sure, streets and these screechs.

00:33:14
Speaker 1: And how long.

00:33:16
Speaker 5: So these people can know how long has y'all had y'all been in the streets before streets got cracking? How long y'all been in la figuring it out? You know, as I would call it.

00:33:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, the hamster wheel, the hamster will before that record does what it does for y'all.

00:33:36
Speaker 2: How many years had it been?

00:33:38
Speaker 3: Well, this is year seventeen, so that was what.

00:33:43
Speaker 5: Thirteen Yeah, y'all have been surviving this ship and thirteen years.

00:33:49
Speaker 3: Thirteen years living out the whip, making slaps niggas stealing our drip. We're doing our type of stuff. Your shit, we didn't get it here. We didn't give a lot of niggas a lot of drip.

00:34:02
Speaker 2: And it's fine.

00:34:02
Speaker 1: We got a lot of serns. It's okay, we got a lot of Hey, we've got a couple more lessons for you'll come back. Yeah, yeah, but this time we getting our link back.

00:34:13
Speaker 3: Anyways, you feel that Dojah Cat Street record, Yeah, it took off like a man, what's wildfire?

00:34:21
Speaker 1: What's crazy is that record was out Yeah for like a year before it cracked off like the internet just on some leak type ship on the album erupted late m hm, like because that's not a normal Doja Cat record either though.

00:34:38
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a very black doj R. And b Hey, Doja, I like black Doja. You should do more of those records due And I'm so just so you know, I'm looking to camera. I'm a huge fan. I love Doja Cat I think Doja Cat is one of the most talented artists amazing in this ship, not female artists period. She is a she's different and I love her on that R and B Field. Yeah, come on, hot pink, hot, hot, hot pink, love that money. So when when you get a record like that, what are the conversations after that?

00:35:17
Speaker 1: For y'all?

00:35:19
Speaker 3: I felt like everybody that was the first door really kicked down, like boom, oh, y'all about to have a Well, can y'all do it again? That's what it was. It's just luck. It wasn't said, but it was like, Okay, y'all got one, but can y'all do it again? And then after that we got iffy with Chris Brown. Yeah mm hmmm hmmm, and ify that was that was a great error because I was doing COVID. We was hooping with Bro every day. Yeah, you know, we've been doing Chris throughout the years forever, but we really locked in with Bro because there wasn't nothing to do hoop make music makers. So we low key had advantage because it wasn't other producers at the quarter court Yeah, quartercourt slippery, slippery into the full half court court, yes, but yeah, if he was amazing. Bro, just kept playing it every day. He was playing the strugg gold with this one. Yeah.

00:36:15
Speaker 1: It was like it's great in concept too. Yeah, it's great.

00:36:19
Speaker 3: And because you know, you cut so many records so you'll be like you never know and COVID really has stuff. So I'm just like, you're still gonna put that. He's like, no, no, no, we're good.

00:36:30
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, you know he's gonna send this to don't you can't.

00:36:34
Speaker 1: Ye got advantage now, you got right right.

00:36:40
Speaker 3: Call her right there. You can put it on there, remember that if he Yeah yeah, actually pulled up a couple of times and we was all we was all hooping.

00:36:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, went out. There must have some people around here, you know, strong man.

00:37:00
Speaker 3: I remember that let it out, you know, definitely.

00:37:04
Speaker 2: Yes, that's so that now it's starting. Now it's going up.

00:37:07
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:37:08
Speaker 1: And that we did in the City and hate Me tomorrow too. Yeah, so it was you know, now you're getting production it production.

00:37:17
Speaker 5: Answer, yeah yeah, yeah, no more fast food, parking lot fast yeah.

00:37:23
Speaker 1: Yeah. You have your own.

00:37:24
Speaker 3: Lawyer now yeah yeah yeah. Yeah, we're gonna have a meeting at Mastrows now.

00:37:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta eat. Yeah, here's my question if you if you talk to your dad yet. I was at that point. You know, we had talked about we already we had thirty years.

00:37:47
Speaker 6: The answered the phone right now.

00:37:53
Speaker 3: For thirty years.

00:37:54
Speaker 2: It's crazy he called.

00:37:55
Speaker 3: You what what in the stranger things?

00:38:00
Speaker 2: This is crazy.

00:38:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had talked to run a cat Daddy era, like really started building our relationship again in a new way. It's like, not yo, baby, boys, but as you're grown men now, you know, surviving and pushing to thrive.

00:38:19
Speaker 3: In the music industry is you know, being Pops overprotective. And then it's like, all right, we got it.

00:38:23
Speaker 1: That, like, well yeah, and I think and I think you know, Pops can he can respect that part of it, you know, you you boys, you know, making your own way to become men, right, you know what I mean, and taking that leap of faith. Yeah, And so I can imagine him, you know, of course, wanting to protect you guys, and and and and be there for you. But I can imagine you know, he's proud as well, because y'all i'all in the belly the.

00:38:50
Speaker 3: Beast, right definitely, you know what I'm saying.

00:38:53
Speaker 1: And you living and you ain't You ain't backing down from no phasee you like we out here.

00:38:58
Speaker 2: Right, Did y'all ever moved back? Not at any point I stayed the whole time.

00:39:05
Speaker 1: That's because that's the tailing.

00:39:07
Speaker 3: Damn.

00:39:08
Speaker 1: I respect that, bro.

00:39:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, there's been a couple of moments, right, it's just like, all right, I guess we're about to go back here we come, sack care, we're coming. Then a blessing come through a place to come through. Every time I'm just looking like, man, we don't get through this bread right now, I have no cheese. Jesus bnd. Within twenty four hours, Blessed got that call. Let's pull up to the studio and cook. Every time I'm about to leave it, it's like that's how I know guy, he's watching it, making sure that we're good.

00:39:37
Speaker 5: Because y'all do the work. That's one thing too, right. I've seen so many people come here. Obviously I'm a transplant. Tank is a transplant. We none of us are from here. But I've seen so many people come here and get so caught up in the life and the lifestyle of LA Right, and listen, y'all some part the niggas I just go, y'all are who y'all are, but y'all never got caught up in it to the point where y'all didn't do the work for sure, right, And there's you know, because I think for me, I've always just did the work. I never really parted, never really my thing because I just knew me right, Like I'm just like, I gotta focus on this. But watching y'all as a big brother, watching y'all like yo, they can still like ll y'all can attest to this. I've never pulled y'all to the side and say, yo, y'all doing too much because I just like, no, they still do the work. I've only done that to people and they'll know who they are who didn't do the work that you're supposed to do. And y'all have done the work. And that's why you said you be flat on your back, fucked up thinking you going back home. And then twenty four hours later, either y'all got to check coming through. Y'all got another opportunity coming through because y'all have been a reliable call. We've called y'all multiple times from the TGT Chief Project Tanks project me as an artist like we've always might.

00:41:05
Speaker 3: We gotta call the guy.

00:41:07
Speaker 5: I gotta called the guy because y'all gonna show up and do the work and do y'all things, and it's gonna be great work. Yeah, you know what I mean. So salute to y'all for that. And y'all have had a good time. It's been fun for me to watch from the outside of young niggas have a good ass time.

00:41:22
Speaker 2: You know.

00:41:22
Speaker 3: I feel like the party is just it rolls up into the music.

00:41:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely feeds it. Yeah that makes feel good music. Yeah, it feeds it.

00:41:30
Speaker 3: Yeah. I like hanging out honestly, Tank, you literally like the first person out. You are the first person to be Like when we was in the studio working at Damon the Harvey studio, he was like the first person to be like validated us, be like, no, these niggas are dope. Nobody was trying to hear this, you know how it is during that time, it was y'all who was all at the studio. I was.

00:42:09
Speaker 1: Popping up Mansur that whole just that whole the uh yeah yeah yeah track. So y'all like when y'all kind of stepped it's like it's cold. Like then Harvey and everybody else started like listening from a different kind of There was a different look in the building. Yeah, because I was like, that was like music school Motown for us, you know what I mean.

00:42:35
Speaker 3: It was learning.

00:42:36
Speaker 1: That's that was a good too. That's where you get residuals from facts that house, right that right without us you learned there. Yeah one we the knowledge we.

00:42:47
Speaker 5: Got because yeah, I was the young dancing niggas at that point, right, like, y'all, that's that's what your vibe was, and y'all were a good time.

00:42:55
Speaker 2: The music hadn't fully got there yet.

00:42:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, the niggas, y'all was like, shit back and watch, like, damn, this song ain't good either.

00:43:07
Speaker 1: Uncle, be like give me the files, come back and be a record you like, m Yeah.

00:43:12
Speaker 2: Okay, Now you guys were You guys were privy to.

00:43:17
Speaker 5: Some really tenured people in the business who actually cared about y'all too, though, you know, from Jamond Harvey, uh, you know what I mean, Like there was like a general consensus around there like no, no, no, these are our little brothers. Like all of us took a liking to y'all to the point of being like no, no, no, we have to pour into them, and we're just glad that ship worked out because we'd been like man.

00:43:43
Speaker 1: Niggas was weak.

00:43:48
Speaker 3: The song.

00:43:56
Speaker 2: Joseph.

00:44:00
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:44:04
Speaker 5: But it's really cool though, to have those conversations right to be sitting with you know, l A Read and you know he's playing me Jayden and then he plays y'all record and as he's like, oh yes, these guys right.

00:44:29
Speaker 2: But now that that those moments feel good though.

00:44:31
Speaker 5: Honestly, bro, and seriously like those those moments feel good to know that we saw it saw we you know, and we believed early and facts definitely.

00:44:44
Speaker 1: Yah.

00:44:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, y'all did y'all part?

00:44:47
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

00:44:48
Speaker 2: Y'all did y'all part?

00:44:49
Speaker 1: Bro? Yeah? I think you guys are like, you know, just so everybody can you know, understand the type of producers that you are. You know, you guys are like you guys do anything. Yeah literally literally yeah. Like I've called y'all and asked y'all for some OUTLANDI ship and JB like, what are you doing? I'm just hanging out with my young guys doing young fields.

00:45:23
Speaker 3: I'm not always the voice of reason. I'd like to have fun.

00:45:28
Speaker 1: No, No, I get on my turn up and I need that fix. I hit the black tuxedo text Shaine, turn.

00:45:42
Speaker 3: Me up the way.

00:45:45
Speaker 5: I still remember the shots fired. I don't know if y'all know what really happened.

00:45:52
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly, No, no t g T happened what.

00:45:58
Speaker 5: So So that's what ultimately we were asked, yes, very very politely and nicely from the label.

00:46:08
Speaker 1: To get away from shots Fire.

00:46:11
Speaker 3: Oh so they killed the record.

00:46:15
Speaker 5: Because they had they spent a lot of money for this TGT album and they needed Tank to get in TGT mode.

00:46:23
Speaker 3: And it was smart they would have used the momentum.

00:46:27
Speaker 1: But at that time is a different from It was a different time like you were as an artist. You hyper focused on the thing, on the task at hand, and and it was nobody was really having two conversations at the same time.

00:46:42
Speaker 5: And shots Fire wasn't attached to anything exactly. Remember Tanke didn't have an album.

00:46:46
Speaker 2: It wasn't you know. It was just like you know, that was.

00:46:50
Speaker 1: Moving about moving list. Brown say hey, I need you to perform with me at the at the Power of Face. I said, dude, what, I'm on stage with the Brown? Yeah, with the Brown? What He Then we went to the club after part of the night. He was like just let's do shots fire in the club. I said, absolutely, right ready, we found Off in the club. I'm on l a radio going crazy. It really was. It was a boy like it really was.

00:47:28
Speaker 5: Not for sure, it was and it was a really it was a tough spot for us just from a from a business standpoint.

00:47:36
Speaker 2: It was a tough spot because.

00:47:39
Speaker 5: Tank had already signed on and gave his word to the Groove Right and to the label that he was also you know, both deals were there. Yeah, Tank solo deal was there. T G T was there, and it was like we kind of got to get into it because this album got to get turned in, y'all. Was part of those sessions. Obviously we mentioned it love and what's what's the second one? Don't take it don't take it wrong, take it wrong, take wrong right, take it wrong. But so it was one of those things where you know, him and I had to sit down and I'm like, Chief, you know, hurt me.

00:48:17
Speaker 3: Man, I was supposed to be our first one that was It's a lot involved.

00:48:20
Speaker 1: Hurt me.

00:48:21
Speaker 2: Those are the tough those are the tough parts of this business.

00:48:23
Speaker 3: Bro I was still eating McDonald's. A stronger ship.

00:48:28
Speaker 2: Had told us Bro was part of my argument our niggas is.

00:48:36
Speaker 3: Is that twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, that was when that.

00:48:40
Speaker 1: Was well.

00:48:43
Speaker 3: Yeah man, yeah label yeah man, that's crazy.

00:48:47
Speaker 5: But you know I needed that song too. Yeah, it's going crazy ship crack. I remember the video video show Chris is going It was it was crazy.

00:48:58
Speaker 1: It was crazy. Listen, I'm thinking, you know, pull up, pull up for me a little bro, pull up Chris and just you know, we're just gonna do a little part of the video. You just and that. Nigga said, I have other plans. Flight the bar crazy, So what are you doing? Nikka jumped on that bar. I remember I said.

00:49:19
Speaker 11: You'll be rich transformed, So I said, he transformed different, Nika, I.

00:49:30
Speaker 2: Said, are we rich rich?

00:49:33
Speaker 3: Right? We did the two shots?

00:49:35
Speaker 2: I said, oh god, I'm the hottest old nigga.

00:49:42
Speaker 1: Hey, listen, I can always count on you guys too to help me find something different that that I can do. You know what I'm saying, you guys are you guys are great at producing and writing in a space to where it's like, okay, but you don't need to say that yeah right, but you can say this, yeah, you don't need to feel like that but it can feel like this, you know, see what I'm saying. Yeah, And it's like a lot of times I'm listening to y'all as long as i've been doing it, I'm like this, Yeah, okay, cool, and you'll be vocal producing me, big bro, trying to take that down, stay writing, stay right in here with it got you. And that's the cool part about all of this, you know what I'm saying. As you guys have probably learned some stuff from us. We've learning stuff from y'all for sure.

00:50:38
Speaker 3: For sure. The fact that you even want to the fact that you even trust us to be like, I'm gonna listen to what you say. Who means the world already already because we in the studio, like I said before, trying to just get a yes from y'all.

00:50:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that means a lot. Yes, it's like a mouse resision. Then asked you a question. Do you remember when you played Residuals at my house in the studio and I said, what in the fuck? What's Chris?

00:51:15
Speaker 3: Honest? You heard Chris version the first version heard?

00:51:18
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:51:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, the first one was brown? Yeah, what was it done?

00:51:23
Speaker 3: It was doing? It was brown?

00:51:27
Speaker 1: It was because he was like, he was, you wasn't sure. Yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right.

00:51:32
Speaker 3: And I said.

00:51:36
Speaker 1: The album had dropped album and dropped and it wasn't on the album.

00:51:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, it was basically on a Breezy album exactly. That's what started the Breezy album was Residuals, Residuals and Uh Hate Me Tomorrow? How old was that song?

00:51:55
Speaker 1: We didn't win that time around the time the Breezy album came out.

00:52:00
Speaker 3: That No, he's saying when we actually made.

00:52:02
Speaker 1: It, yeaheen when when the Breeze the of them come out.

00:52:08
Speaker 3: It was like twenty twenty two.

00:52:11
Speaker 1: It was like.

00:52:13
Speaker 3: Early in the year.

00:52:14
Speaker 1: It was like we made him like February or something like that February, but it was when the album came out.

00:52:18
Speaker 3: Later that year. I'm saying when we actually made the song was twenty nineteen. We actually like created the song, but we've been played it for Bro and then Bro cut it, cut it yeah initially twenty.

00:52:30
Speaker 5: Two yeah, two yeah, and then the song doesn't come out to what twenty four Yeah, so this is five years old when it comes out.

00:52:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, yeah, I heard it. I heard half a listen. I remember him telling me that he's like nigga. I said, brazy, what's no, no, no, bro, that's that's going on. The bonus ques, that's that's going let's go it. Ye that record if it wasn't he was just trying to figure out how to get this damn right yeah right and say it was like, I mean I don't really dress.

00:53:04
Speaker 3: Fine, you want that hoodie?

00:53:07
Speaker 2: Already?

00:53:07
Speaker 6: Fine?

00:53:08
Speaker 2: That one?

00:53:12
Speaker 1: I like, right, where to the you talking about a song? I want it?

00:53:20
Speaker 3: Man? Man?

00:53:23
Speaker 5: It was that's what okay, So this is all these challenges. These are songs you want. I wanted that song bad.

00:53:32
Speaker 3: That makes sense.

00:53:32
Speaker 1: I wanted that song. Y'all played that song? I said, so he's not used to he's kind of using.

00:53:39
Speaker 3: He double checked.

00:53:41
Speaker 2: Asking about the girl. So y'all how far did y'all? How well do you know her?

00:53:52
Speaker 3: Was she your girl?

00:53:52
Speaker 6: Girl?

00:53:54
Speaker 1: Or I think that had breathing me listen man, residualus man, man, what's going on? Oh yeah?

00:54:04
Speaker 3: Using that? Yeah? You should? Right, you should?

00:54:10
Speaker 1: Yeah? I wanted that one. Man.

00:54:20
Speaker 3: It was originally for Usher. The idea was for us, and we was like, man, how could we do something that's close to any of the songs on Confessions, and I was just saying, the same week we did if he and Residual is the same week.

00:54:33
Speaker 1: I think it was just on like one that Tequila was Tequilian on One Man Tequila Tequila and Helian Tequilian Tequila. Listen, what a song like?

00:54:50
Speaker 3: What a song.

00:54:53
Speaker 6: Like?

00:54:53
Speaker 1: Song so powerful that it didn't need nothing. It didn't need no campaign, it didn't need no budget, it didn't need nothing, just for him to sing item. They know different, they know I love they know as a member of Team Breezy.

00:55:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, how many teams are you a part of?

00:55:28
Speaker 1: Well, I'm in the Beehive okay, and I'm Team Breezy.

00:55:35
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm Team Breezy.

00:55:38
Speaker 1: I'm in my own I'm a soldier in my own There you go, my own fan base as well.

00:55:43
Speaker 2: You're a fan of you.

00:55:56
Speaker 1: I remember I was over. It was in London. I gotta I got a video to and I think I think I might have posted when he was singing the song, and I was just like, like, I feel I felt like Breeze hadn't had that moment yet that you talked about, that we talked about that that literally just stand there flat foot, flat footed, get to it and and and let them let him just look at you, right yea, Like when I'm standing in London and watching, I'm like this my god. Yeah it is a rap.

00:56:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, that takes you to a different place, especially as a especially as a performing artist, you know who's known to move and dance a lot when you when you're still, but you gotta have a certain record that you can get that off the microphone came.

00:56:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's standing at the bigger as screen and.

00:56:58
Speaker 1: People are just they're just that right, they have a moment like you're in off Chris all the time. He's always doing something amazing, right, but for him to just stand there and them to be able to have one focus point, nobody else on stage, nothing else, just him, and people were like.

00:57:25
Speaker 3: It was crazy crazy.

00:57:27
Speaker 5: How does how does it feel as a creative of someone who's that was a part of that record to watch that.

00:57:37
Speaker 3: It's amazing the one in New York, the one in New York and the one that so far, so far.

00:57:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, just when when as soon as you see it, it's like Michael putting the glove on. It's like, oh, I know it's WoT to come on, right, come on now, I got the phones up, I got my phone out. Man, I'm looking like this, just looking around like all these people.

00:57:59
Speaker 3: This is crazy.

00:58:00
Speaker 1: We made this song in a little studio room. Everybody got that motherfucker now in a stadium in stadium. I was like, it also makes me want to take everything like a little bit more serious too, like what we talk about in these records and like in the future, because it's like it's really touching people, Like it's it's in their homes and their phones and they you know, a part of their lives, all of our lives, like never know what what record is going to be that like, especially right now. There's fire right now on Fire, Yeah, having a moment. There's the there's the residuals too, so uh, he'd be worried about it him. I seen a couple of records. Yeah, I got a couple of records on there. I got a couple of records.

00:59:00
Speaker 5: What's the what's the like, what's the lineup right now? Like of the records that y'all got coming, y'all got out the news and talk about.

00:59:08
Speaker 3: We just did three on B two K's album.

00:59:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that.

00:59:13
Speaker 3: We have the first single on there gave them boy some some heat smackers working.

00:59:18
Speaker 1: I love working with those guys, great imagy because.

00:59:22
Speaker 3: When we when we was working with them, it was like bro, we was letting them know, like bro. It was Michael Jackson The Winings and then y'all growing up, like because our dad wouldn't let us going back to Pops.

00:59:32
Speaker 2: He wouldn't let us sit.

00:59:33
Speaker 5: That's a wild combo. Michael Jackson The Winings and B two.

00:59:38
Speaker 3: K Yeah until like m P.

00:59:40
Speaker 1: Three players came out that we were just like throwing whatever on there at that point because he didn't know, he couldn't monitor it. But before we got to watch one of six and Park listen to the Winings and Luther vandros Oh god, I hate that, Oh god, every time I love I love you. No, no, no, you know that one song. We have to sing that thing for a whole summer.

01:00:04
Speaker 3: What's the song? Uh? Yeah? So yeah, I was all right. Soon as soon as we're walking, get up, get up.

01:00:16
Speaker 5: My mom is like this, Oh god, some moms can sing. Yeah, Dad can't sing nothing. No, hell no, y'all y'all was fully his entertaining watching You're gonna be looking like my uncle laugh at that far for sure.

01:00:37
Speaker 2: No, that was K That was yeah, I was that was it. That's gonna be dope.

01:00:42
Speaker 1: Who else?

01:00:43
Speaker 3: Who else?

01:00:43
Speaker 1: You got K Brown on a new on the Brown album. We got a joint two on there. Yeah, we did a joint with Jeanne that I hope that it's just really good.

01:00:57
Speaker 3: Have a special one coming with Nice Nice. Yeah. And then we got the Black Taxedo product.

01:01:01
Speaker 1: I was about to say, man, yeah, man, it's time we're about to start dropping these bobs. The Black Tuxedo Project.

01:01:08
Speaker 3: First single with your A and R. Yeah, you did what you did? You did you did?

01:01:14
Speaker 2: When's the first record dropping for black?

01:01:17
Speaker 1: Yeah?

01:01:17
Speaker 2: I know yet.

01:01:19
Speaker 5: A sack As I told them, niggask my bad ad Okay, I mean I'm directing this to it a sat directing.

01:01:27
Speaker 2: Listen, listen, come on, come on, stand on the table bro listen.

01:01:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, talk your ship crazy.

01:01:34
Speaker 1: These motherfucker's right here have been talented and gifted for a long long time, yes, sir, and they've been using their talents and their gifts to elevate everybody else. Now it is time for their gifts and their talents to elevate them. It is selfish. Time you've earned it, You deserve it. Yellow Yeah. Period. I know all these records is gonna come out on all these artists, and it's gonna be good. It's gonna be fine. The level of production and writing and the things that you do in that space unquestioned.

01:02:23
Speaker 3: For sure, you.

01:02:24
Speaker 1: Understand what I'm saying. But Black Tuxedo time.

01:02:30
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, first time, first single, call crash Out, just so you'll come on first young called crash Out.

01:02:37
Speaker 1: Man, come on, man, ep on the way, it's called Boys and the Band, Come on, come on, Yeah, listen, shit about to get interested.

01:02:49
Speaker 3: Listen.

01:02:51
Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell you right now. You talk about promotions, I'm I'm what's the what's what's the fan club? What is the fan club? Tuxedo game at the house. I got that house the text, he doesn't respect it. The Tuxedo Gang is in full effect. Yeah, yeah, for sure, it's soap is so good. It's so good that I that I be mad that it's not out.

01:03:27
Speaker 3: Oh no, it's coming out, for sure.

01:03:29
Speaker 1: But I know you got damn right, it's coming out. Yeah, y'all gonna put it out or somehow somehow get another one.

01:03:40
Speaker 3: Looking for y'all.

01:03:42
Speaker 2: They ran away from l A.

01:03:46
Speaker 3: Like motherfuckers, I got my taxi.

01:03:53
Speaker 1: Y'all can be like like why is why? Why? Why's taking one of six? You're marrying a song? Boys in the band, my new group tigning to answer the phone records and run away the table.

01:04:17
Speaker 2: My daddy had a label car Runaway Slave. Dame is label that runaway Slave that Runaway Slave records.

01:04:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah that was the log.

01:04:37
Speaker 3: Records record the record.

01:04:41
Speaker 1: I got so many jumps back, but I don't know how the people are gonna take them. So I'm not going to do the imagery of the logo I got.

01:04:59
Speaker 2: No, you don't try not bring this ship up.

01:05:07
Speaker 1: You cut it out. That's great, that's great. That What about you? What about this? You talked the drip man? What about the fashion man? Because that's another part that I think plays a major role in like how you guys are received too, right, like your your appearance. You you niggas look like somebody Oh yeah all the time? Put that yeah bathing you feel me respect? Yeah, it's happening. And how important do you feel that that is? It's I think it's everything. You never get a second chance to make a first impression. So when they seen me they got to see this.

01:05:56
Speaker 3: I mean, I just take it as this is just how I feel today, you know what I mean. It's so much easier being yourself than somebody else. So this is me and a lot of niggas like to steal from me. I just stole a couple of fish.

01:06:11
Speaker 1: From It's all good.

01:06:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, they got a handshake exactly exactly. They got it here, you.

01:06:32
Speaker 1: Got cool, sha, they got nobody in our face.

01:06:45
Speaker 3: This is great, bro.

01:06:46
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm proud and I'm excited for you guys, you know what I mean. And I just and and and we just you know, we we thought it was important, like to get your conversation. Yeah, and and and and your recognition.

01:07:05
Speaker 3: You've got to see you niggas.

01:07:08
Speaker 1: They got to see and understand what we're so excited about.

01:07:12
Speaker 5: That's the purpose of this show, man, for all of us, to make sure that we're seeing in our spaces, man, and for us to to to have this space for y'all, you know, for y'all to pull up and to tell y'all story and to introduce yourself in a different way to the world, not just through the music, through your personalities, through the fashion, through you know, your lifestyle. You know what I mean, Like this is, this is this is the place for it.

01:07:40
Speaker 3: Man, Like we.

01:07:42
Speaker 2: Really we really want to I mean we man, we one hundred.

01:07:48
Speaker 5: And sixty plus episodes at this point, Like you know, this is this is the this is the purpose, you know what I mean? And y'all y'all mean a lot to what we're doing, you know, I mean it means a lot to us. Bro Like y'all really family man, y'all really family man. Appreciate you, Proud of y'all.

01:08:06
Speaker 1: We love y'all, Love y'all, y'all. This platform that you're created, it's going crazy. It's going crazy. It's going crazy.

01:08:13
Speaker 5: Recognize at the gas station and shipgas were talking about.

01:08:18
Speaker 7: Creaks now things, trying to get some little zoom zooms and show listen people have people have said that they listened to the podcast.

01:08:32
Speaker 1: I get way more of that than I do get records.

01:08:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, open up a whole you know what.

01:08:36
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like it's but again it's because it's because.

01:08:41
Speaker 5: Of this, you know, we can highlight y'all and highlight our peers and for us, people that we've just we've looked up to, people that we just met like this. This has been really cool man, and I just had a moment just looking over at you and be like, damn, this is crazy that we got a platform that we can, yeah, really lean to our brothers to come on here.

01:09:03
Speaker 1: And do their thing.

01:09:04
Speaker 3: Man.

01:09:04
Speaker 2: Man, this this makes me happy for sure. I need this music out. I need this Black tux prodjact.

01:09:11
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:09:13
Speaker 1: That is the Black Tuxedo site, the Black Tuxedo Graham and TikTok the It's It's time back Tuxedo YouTube. Yeah, Black Tuxedo Man, like the world see those gang world wide, world wide?

01:09:30
Speaker 3: Man, what's up?

01:09:31
Speaker 1: Like like.

01:09:34
Speaker 2: You got it? You shot it? Bro?

01:09:38
Speaker 5: Bro performing at our Grammy event of course. Yeah, what what we're doing?

01:09:44
Speaker 3: Crash out first single, Black Tuxedo.

01:09:47
Speaker 1: I got jumping around.

01:09:49
Speaker 3: I love ship.

01:09:51
Speaker 1: I'm jumping.

01:09:52
Speaker 3: I got to show you the first clip of the vid too. It's crazy.

01:09:55
Speaker 1: I'm jumping around, jumping around. I promise you it's a Tuxedo gang.

01:10:00
Speaker 8: Remember, hey, man, love up your piano back. There's not even a camera over there. Looking at the cameras right here. Bro, don't mean my tik. He has nothing to do with my side.

01:10:18
Speaker 1: Broy was like, what what.

01:10:24
Speaker 3: Did I do?

01:10:27
Speaker 1: Stage, diving, shout is gone, wreck, the whole party, the whole tripped out, tank, tripped out, fire Marshall shut it down. He's on one. It was a fire.

01:10:39
Speaker 3: He's on one.

01:10:40
Speaker 1: Take him to a corner with a fire by I.

01:10:49
Speaker 3: Just put you with the fire, the fire. It's gonna be a fun listen. I can't wait for y'all to get y'all here record.

01:10:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. I'm excited.

01:10:58
Speaker 3: I can't wait. I can't wait.

01:11:00
Speaker 5: That's gonna be another that's gonna be a party watching y'all have a here.

01:11:04
Speaker 3: He's gonna be great. It's gonna be grid. I know you are.

01:11:08
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be there. Sure be right there. Yeah, can get out of the picture.

01:11:14
Speaker 2: I gotta you move, you move.

01:11:19
Speaker 3: The show. Comfortable smile is great. Brows do that right with a little creepy smile.

01:11:50
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah, m hmm.

01:11:59
Speaker 1: Yeah.

01:11:59
Speaker 2: You He create his owns the thing.

01:12:05
Speaker 3: Mm hmmmm. It look like.

01:12:13
Speaker 1: Domon Darius. You've you've listened to some music growing up by only three artists at first, but after that you were able to expand.

01:12:24
Speaker 3: Your palette, yes.

01:12:33
Speaker 1: Three, into some music that has shaped your artist set. The people want to know, They want to know man, huh, they want to know your.

01:12:53
Speaker 3: All right?

01:12:55
Speaker 1: Top five, Top five, come on with it, top fire, your top I.

01:13:10
Speaker 3: Would be using us.

01:13:14
Speaker 2: All the songs.

01:13:18
Speaker 3: Were out to wait by you go. We're on this show.

01:13:23
Speaker 6: Go on boat in.

01:13:25
Speaker 1: Your top TI.

01:13:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, Top five sneaker, Randy you.

01:13:44
Speaker 2: Tim Fletter bring it on home?

01:13:52
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, m hm.

01:14:11
Speaker 3: Definitely Randy watching.

01:14:20
Speaker 1: A right right right your top you know what we'll we'll mm hmm. You the top five R and B singers. Do you all agree on much?

01:14:42
Speaker 3: Yeah?

01:14:43
Speaker 1: That don't sound just the handshake. Yeah, okay, all right on this one. You do two, you do three?

01:14:53
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna say Michael Jackson.

01:15:03
Speaker 1: And uh yes, strong strong, I gotta go tankh Taxi looking brown c b.

01:15:21
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.

01:15:23
Speaker 1: It's just R and B right, No, sure, will do what you want to do. You got a Carraybar.

01:15:30
Speaker 2: Kimbresolutely Kim Barell. She called me, she called me to I.

01:15:35
Speaker 3: Wish I called she called me. I got this is who? Yeah?

01:15:40
Speaker 2: Who you want me to hold for?

01:15:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, y'all need to do a song again.

01:15:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm all I'm all wait, I'm waiting.

01:15:50
Speaker 3: What is that happening? Yeah?

01:15:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta call it okay, all right, Now we're gonna do top five R and B songs. You three, you do too, don't be scared of your own music. He let just throw that out there.

01:16:06
Speaker 3: Residuals ah.

01:16:08
Speaker 1: We have to do that, absolutely, We gotta do that absolutely.

01:16:12
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, hm hmm. Joe, I want to.

01:16:18
Speaker 1: Know, Yeah, yeah, yeah, a song that's just what I referead it right.

01:16:26
Speaker 2: Whe don't drink your juice and it it was.

01:16:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh hm hmmm, damn god, damn it, you got you got. That's I guess I'll go. Oh, I'll go with Marion Gay dance with me.

01:16:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not like some of your pop will listen to for sure. Yeah, I'm starting to. I'm starting to pick up his vibe. You got too human nature crush. Yes, Yeah, I'm gonna'ma double up on Michael and another part of me musicality and some of those songs is just the musicianship out of this world?

01:17:13
Speaker 3: What was Michael on?

01:17:15
Speaker 1: Whatever?

01:17:16
Speaker 3: Ever heard another song like that?

01:17:17
Speaker 1: Whatever? He wanted to be one?

01:17:19
Speaker 5: Yeah, free, he was on, he was on, he was on some y'all can't do this?

01:17:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, man.

01:17:27
Speaker 2: And Prince keep making these hits.

01:17:28
Speaker 1: So I got to.

01:17:31
Speaker 3: Listen.

01:17:32
Speaker 5: They cap each other so sharp. Michael Jackson and Prince high Man high level sharpening. People can say whatever they were. Oh yeah, you know they were too. I guarantee you, nigga. That's when he just dropped right and Quincy get.

01:17:51
Speaker 3: Over here hit the laft to nay nigga. He was like, what you saying? What Michael said said the lad tonight because you're like ship.

01:18:03
Speaker 1: Man, ship man man, We're going to keep it going four o'clock in the morning. Sure you want to vocals this early in the morning.

01:18:15
Speaker 3: You don't want to stretch your cards.

01:18:17
Speaker 1: Cross Okay, all right, that battle is great going, man, I mean I can dig it. Man, you're super groovy, Mike ship all right, let's build your vol trod, your super r and B artists. Who you gonna get the vocal from performance style, styling, passion of the artists. Who's going to produce for this artist and who's gonna right for this artist? Yeah, those wrinkles and now start with you where they're gonna get the vocal from. Where you're getting the vocal from one vocal? I gotta go back, Michael.

01:19:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna hit false He's gonna hit everything, all of it, top tier m.

01:19:25
Speaker 1: Hm down performance style.

01:19:30
Speaker 3: Bro mm hmm.

01:19:33
Speaker 1: Nobody's fucking bro you got it, got it, yeah, no doubt about it, no doubt about it.

01:19:40
Speaker 3: I've seen my boy flying here.

01:19:43
Speaker 1: Then I seen it.

01:19:44
Speaker 2: I was I was worried.

01:19:46
Speaker 3: Wow, how did you get Are you okay?

01:19:49
Speaker 2: Nothing? I can do.

01:19:54
Speaker 3: Nothing. I see they see where they bring you back down? Right, I can't.

01:19:59
Speaker 2: I can't get it right, I'm overseas.

01:20:02
Speaker 1: Before before they changed some of the plot because they had the big pillars in the back of the stadium before in the front right, but you know people couldn't see that with blind spots, so they moved it. But before he would go to the pillar and it would be at the top and he would he would land on the pillow stand. He would be on the top of that. Nah, jam no it was, I said, Oh he he was in the rafters. Yeah, Superman. Then when you want upside down, I said, Okay, my post nasal drip ain't gonna allow me to be upside down.

01:20:50
Speaker 3: Remember my bad Put right.

01:20:59
Speaker 1: For me back right side, okay, just put me down my head there, just put me down, get out, okay, okay. Vocal mike forming style, brown styling.

01:21:16
Speaker 3: Who's gonna steal your style? Damn? Whose style would you steal? Yeah?

01:21:27
Speaker 1: Yeah for real?

01:21:28
Speaker 3: And Kanye ship for sure? Yeah yeah. And I thought about Michael you know he had that Versati thong.

01:21:36
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, what what what are you talking about? When he had depends with and it was over the top man, Okay, you had the button up in the middle.

01:21:45
Speaker 3: Only he only didn't do that, said a super artist real ones. Yeah he was on this.

01:21:52
Speaker 1: That's a lid talk. They gotta like with the button underneath snappy, that was different. I said, he a wow, boy, nigga caught it the beside. You though, I was gonna look at slot.

01:22:09
Speaker 3: No, I'm not. And it was gold than you got.

01:22:13
Speaker 6: Me's Mike Bro. You added, hey, bro, don't be day a fighting man had a pero big thong. I'm gonna stick up.

01:22:39
Speaker 1: Ship man, Michael Man, you wown yourself. Do you want to go?

01:22:50
Speaker 3: You want to go? Go man, I'm gonna stick to Michael Parill and Kanye Fire. You will take a your time, take a lott.

01:23:05
Speaker 2: Who the passion of the artist, the heart of the artists, who means it?

01:23:10
Speaker 3: Oh passion? Beyonce? Yeah, she shouln Yeah.

01:23:19
Speaker 1: All, yeah, that's a different thing. Different Ye, I'm gonna double back to you. Who's producing for this artist? Mean hm hmm, that's a great area. Who's writing for this artist?

01:23:46
Speaker 3: He's gonna you should Yeah. You know when black Tux, you don't get involved. She started moving, ship started shaking, and you get to that.

01:23:59
Speaker 5: Wow, your daddy would let you get.

01:24:11
Speaker 2: I didn't know what was gonna be on these two niggs in the house.

01:24:15
Speaker 3: Bullshit, I can't see you. Yeah, niggas on the Sacramento News to ship. Yeah, actually, mama's over there, mom. Yeah, yeah, I love it.

01:24:30
Speaker 1: I love it all. Right, here we go.

01:24:37
Speaker 2: I ain't saying no names, dames.

01:24:39
Speaker 3: I ain't saying no names. I ain't saying no names. I ain't saying no means. Were we in what you did? Don't say she? I ain't saying no name.

01:25:03
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, good, Yeah, sir.

01:25:07
Speaker 3: I'm a buyas CD.

01:25:10
Speaker 2: You know they print there in six weeks.

01:25:15
Speaker 3: Get it his album.

01:25:17
Speaker 5: So we come to the very important part of the show Man. Okay, well, y'all tell us the story. Funnyer fucked up? Are funny and fucked up? The only rude to the game is you can't say me. It takes for the love of God, you can't say no days.

01:25:38
Speaker 2: I'm definitely gonna say, okay, we wasn't.

01:25:41
Speaker 5: There, Okay, all right, yeah got I got some what you got?

01:25:46
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think you through right now? You go ahead? Yeah, something living in there? Do you want to talk about the what the message?

01:26:03
Speaker 1: That sounds like? Yeah? So so we go to the studio with this artist, right, yeah, they call us in. It's I feel like it's another one of those moments of we're feeling like we got the record and we don't not the record type ship, but the records weren't bad, and uh we pressed playing on the record and Bro grat his necklace around.

01:26:34
Speaker 3: I looked over Bro.

01:26:35
Speaker 1: I said, I'm trying not to laugh.

01:26:37
Speaker 3: I'm black brother.

01:26:38
Speaker 1: And then after after he does all.

01:26:41
Speaker 3: Of this ship, he was like, it's not it, spin dancing to the song and saying, this is not it.

01:26:49
Speaker 1: Boy, we was on fire. We was on fire.

01:26:53
Speaker 3: Ben's the necklace around spend dancing and ship.

01:26:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not it's just not the conversation.

01:27:02
Speaker 3: I want to be right, why are you dance?

01:27:08
Speaker 2: I had a boy?

01:27:11
Speaker 3: He was like yeah, We're like, oh, Yeah, he's dancing. Yeah, he's on air sliding.

01:27:18
Speaker 1: We had it's so disrespectfully, misleading, misleading. It was pain and he's asking why he barely hold it back.

01:27:31
Speaker 3: What're you gonna say that.

01:27:34
Speaker 1: Already? What you want? What you want to talk about?

01:27:39
Speaker 3: He's like, I don't want to call girls pitches, you know. And I'm like, nigga that biggs calling each other bitches. I was just in my moad and DOMD was looking like cut it out, and then he was like, play it some one more time and then he just went back to swing his chain. He kept doing it and it was getting me hot.

01:27:58
Speaker 1: I was like, and I'm looking him like, I can't wait to y'all let me some songs, everybody.

01:28:13
Speaker 8: Yeah, why tanks, eye clothes.

01:28:20
Speaker 3: I'm gonna just say this, Ain't it just that moment again that you gotta try that.

01:28:33
Speaker 1: It's not it.

01:28:34
Speaker 3: You gotta try that. That's not right. Yeah in the corner, Jo going crazy like that, that's.

01:28:40
Speaker 1: Just weak man.

01:28:43
Speaker 3: The life of a producer. Yeah, I have a writer.

01:28:46
Speaker 1: Yeah.

01:28:47
Speaker 3: People don't understand man, for sure.

01:28:49
Speaker 1: They don't like if people just really knew how not guaranteed all of this ship is.

01:28:59
Speaker 5: Niggas thirteen years years going after it.

01:29:03
Speaker 3: You got to be a little crazy.

01:29:05
Speaker 1: No, a little psych absolutely got to delusion with money, long say, the.

01:29:11
Speaker 3: Little look you have to you have to be the a little.

01:29:15
Speaker 1: Little out here to think that you're just gonna pull some out of the sky, yeah, and make a bunch of money with it, right right and make.

01:29:26
Speaker 5: It more been the person gonna swing their chain to it right, actually like it because he didn't like y'all.

01:29:35
Speaker 3: He didn't like for some reason.

01:29:37
Speaker 2: Kept jamming to keep on there.

01:29:40
Speaker 5: This ship is different, man, Yeah, but we do. It's different because a lot of things have to line up too. Because that was the other thing, like, yeah, we make we had, we're making fun of it, we having you know, telling jokes about it.

01:29:50
Speaker 2: But the truth of the matter is he probably liked it.

01:29:53
Speaker 3: Not for him all right, exactly facts Yeah, yeah.

01:29:59
Speaker 5: That of those conversations, it don't hit me right, don't fit that, bro heard it right, And that's tough as writers, bro and pro creative.

01:30:12
Speaker 3: You just said there was like this is for this person. You in there for hours trying to think, trying to look at what they got going on their life. You're doing all types of things the lyrics, right, go in there and get that good old.

01:30:23
Speaker 1: No, it's just and I like, I like to like in it. Like if we put in other professions, like like let's say you build houses, right, and you build what you think is a great house, and you're showing it to everybody like this, how I'm telling.

01:30:39
Speaker 3: You, I got you need to pull in the.

01:30:44
Speaker 2: Right in door court.

01:30:49
Speaker 1: And everybody looks at the house like a right, yeah, you didn't invest it? How much time? How much money?

01:30:59
Speaker 3: I don't like the roof. I'm good, you know what I'm saying.

01:31:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's like I just I wanted to say that some people can really like understand.

01:31:07
Speaker 2: Like because they don't don't understand, they don't get it.

01:31:12
Speaker 1: Oh, y'all got no, this is yeah, this thing easy.

01:31:16
Speaker 5: Waiting for that one yes, and then when you get that yes, then you gotta wait for the world to say yes too after you actually.

01:31:23
Speaker 3: Oh my god, for sure, it's it's not a sperience a marathon for sure. For sure.

01:31:29
Speaker 1: Yeah. Listen, man, well you niggas is in shape, yes, sir, definitely, yeah, in shape? Brother, thank you brother. Don't for no reason, black tuxedo game. I'm gonna be in my text. Change for sure what I'm saying two point two.

01:31:49
Speaker 3: Thank you again for the residuous challenge. Man oh man, you said the whole thing.

01:31:53
Speaker 1: On fire, on fire all my brothers. Man, appreciate it, and I love it was an love with the record, that's the biggest part. Like, I love, I love the record period. But you know the fact that somebody thought there was gonna cause somebody else to do.

01:32:14
Speaker 3: That, Yeah, it's crazy fueled the fire. Yeah call my challenge said, now we got to call Tank shout out my boy Tariq, shut that up. We put it together and uh yeah, man, man like TuS the Tank.

01:32:37
Speaker 1: T see those gang team Breezy Yeah behind. I mean, I'm part of all of it. I just want to say that you brothers are extremely special. Thank you. Can I pray that you know that like that you really know that, and and that it's not a matter if just a matter of when. Keep doing the work, man, just keep doing the work. I promise you. I ain't gassing appreciate it, appreciate just thank us the awards. Yeah, man, oh for sure. It's gonna be nasty long speech. First, I want to go there and listen.

01:33:23
Speaker 3: They're gonna cut that. They're gonna cut that music on things. Get this upstairs, some music already.

01:33:36
Speaker 1: I was all right, no, y'all, y'all are y'all are great man. We we we We're happy. We got to do this, you know what I'm saying us anytime? You know that right?

01:33:47
Speaker 3: Yes, anything but whatever, I'll send in the record.

01:33:51
Speaker 2: What if you need to do? Yeah, Okay. My name is Tank in Time.

01:33:56
Speaker 1: This is the R and B Money Podcast, the authority on all things R and B. This is our family. Yes, and whatever we can do to turn them up, it's up. That's what the fucks me is doing. Yes, Diamondarius, Susy Darl