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Best of full interview: Mario Talks Growth, Going Song For Song With Ray J, Interracial Relationship, New Album + More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Every day a waiting click, yours up the Breakfast Club
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Speaker 1: finish for y'all done morning.
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Speaker 2: Everybody is d J n V, Jess, Hilary, Charlamagne, the
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Speaker 2: guy we are the Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 3: Law La Ros is here as well.
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Speaker 2: We got a special guest in the building.
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Speaker 3: What's that? What's that?
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Speaker 4: How you feeling?
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Speaker 3: How you doing that right now?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I'm good, bro, I'm good. Back of the roll Back
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Speaker 3: on tour. Yeah, on tour right now, Moose Wings. You
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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. The new ep out on tour,
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Speaker 3: it's been amazing. I won't say you're want to start
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Speaker 3: right now? You shook that man saying that man front.
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Speaker 2: Of you the other day, but he said what he said, Jess,
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Speaker 2: that can beat him universe.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I mean you know he had that.
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Speaker 3: You know he had to be on music.
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Speaker 5: I ain't talking about singing. I'm not talking about like this.
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Speaker 5: I'm not talking about singing vocally. Yes, music, you think
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Speaker 5: they lost his mind?
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Speaker 4: You ain't let him on that stage, was going to
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Speaker 4: have and.
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Speaker 3: Yeah you said I didn't let him on stand wanted
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Speaker 3: to do right not there? You can ask ray Je
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Speaker 3: what happened backstage? I was like, yo, let's do it.
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Speaker 3: Let's make it happen. He was like, nigga, shrink me.
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Speaker 3: Just just I don't care what you do, just don't
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Speaker 3: just just make it happen. I'm like, I didn't even
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Speaker 3: know he was gonna be there bad.
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Speaker 4: I got you.
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Speaker 3: They didn't let him on stage. It wasn't me.
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Speaker 4: That's not story, Reje story was. I wanted to do
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Speaker 4: the verses right then tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Out of all people, you trust Red's story. Damn you
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Speaker 3: trust Rege story people. I don't know. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know what was happening back there, like it
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Speaker 3: was a plan and then it did happen. So you
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Speaker 3: know what, you know each other again.
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Speaker 4: I know why they keep sleeping on.
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Speaker 3: You, why they keep sleeping on me.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Vocally, hold on, you said, hold on? We got he did.
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Speaker 1: He said what he said, three and the possible.
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Speaker 4: I don't think you can fuck with.
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Speaker 6: You crazy about ten six.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's kind of crazy, bro.
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Speaker 4: But by the way, one he said one song for one.
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Speaker 3: Song, and he said new music because he can only
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Speaker 3: do run songs that really like really like people be like,
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Speaker 3: that's a strong because versus you got It's like it
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Speaker 3: gotta be strong. You gotta have some strong it's not
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Speaker 3: you know that, it's not a joke. If you're going
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Speaker 3: with the right you're going against the right person. You
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Speaker 3: gotta have strong records. People people you don't know how
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Speaker 3: they're gonna be feeling that day. They might want the
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Speaker 3: song one day. One day it might be like that's
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Speaker 3: better what people aren't consistent.
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Speaker 7: But you can do one of those three times because
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Speaker 7: technically definitely, but he only got one wish and then
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Speaker 7: but you can do it three times and then you
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Speaker 7: no for sure he got got Wait a minute.
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Speaker 3: Bro, he got a couple of records, bro, Bro, and
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Speaker 3: then what but like they're not timeless, classic records that
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Speaker 3: make you feel like it's just a different Just stop
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Speaker 3: taking me out of these conversations, bro. Honestly, I gotta
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Speaker 3: stop taking out of these conversations. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: I get passionate and about it and I love all
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Speaker 3: my peers. Well, like you know what I'm saying, The
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Speaker 3: internet shit is the Internet shit?
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Speaker 4: Like whatever?
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Speaker 3: But like y'a, I got to put me in different conversations.
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Speaker 3: But I get I get that, you know. During my hiatus,
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Speaker 3: like I've had to prove, like remind people that yo,
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Speaker 3: like I really God put me in this because the
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Speaker 3: gift is really there. My persistence and my ability to
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Speaker 3: continue to push and continue to put out music is
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Speaker 3: still there. My passion is still there. I'm still hungry,
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Speaker 3: you know. I take it serious, you know, but I
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Speaker 3: think some people are like Internet, have fun on the Internet,
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Speaker 3: and then some people really take it serious. I'm one
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Speaker 3: of those that take I.
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Speaker 2: Think people forget because of your hiatus, right, And the
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Speaker 2: reason I say that because I forgot and we went
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Speaker 2: on to that and shit, we went on like an
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Speaker 2: R and B tool and I DJ for Mario doing
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Speaker 2: that tool. Fact, and when you understand when we're playing
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Speaker 2: six songs in those deck, fifteen thousand, arena is singing
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Speaker 2: them six songs, but.
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Speaker 3: Only because we only got fifteen minutes. We would play
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Speaker 3: more music. But yeah, go ahead and say.
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Speaker 2: But the six songs, you understand, It's like, oh, I
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Speaker 2: get it there, and that's why you said it.
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Speaker 4: I'm like the other day when he was playing, I'm like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 4: I forgot that. Oh yeah, I did forget that one.
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, now it happens. I think it's natural, you know.
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Speaker 3: I saw your interview with Mike the other day, I
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Speaker 3: was like, Yo, it was a great interview because he
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Speaker 3: made some good points about people forget you know, you
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Speaker 3: got to remind people. And I think that it's just
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Speaker 3: the way of the Internet as well as just like
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Speaker 3: this this new world of like everybody's receiving stuff so fast,
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Speaker 3: and it's like, if you don't put music out for
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Speaker 3: six months, nigga, you where you've been at, you know
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Speaker 3: what I'm saying. But for us as artists, a six months,
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Speaker 3: that's that's a small campaign. It might take, especially in
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Speaker 3: R and B, it might take six months for people
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Speaker 3: to even though you got a joint, that's that's heating up,
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Speaker 3: you know. But that's just a part of the process.
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Speaker 4: You've been against. You were a teenager.
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Speaker 5: What's something the grown version that you had to unlearned
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Speaker 5: from the young version of you.
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Speaker 3: A lot of things, bro, But I would start with,
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Speaker 3: you know, not falling in love with my creation, meaning
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Speaker 3: you know, when when you create music and you put
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Speaker 3: it out the world, you gotta let it go. You know.
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Speaker 3: You got to let the people that connect with the
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Speaker 3: music and connect with what you're doing connect with it,
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Speaker 3: and you got to keep creating like keep creating, don't
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Speaker 3: pigeonhole yourself to oh you got to make another hit
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Speaker 3: like let Me Love You, you gotta make it. It's really just
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Speaker 3: about evolving, bro, because there's so many other things that
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Speaker 3: happening in life as to why the music sound the
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Speaker 3: way it does now. Right, mood Swings is a completely
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Speaker 3: different vibe from Glad You Can, which I released just
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Speaker 3: a year ago, completely different energy, work with completely different people.
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Speaker 3: My my creativity is in a different place. So really
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Speaker 3: just being free in the creative process because we're in
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Speaker 3: a world now where it's about exploring. I was talking
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Speaker 3: to one unexact yesterday and we were talking about, you
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Speaker 3: know how different the game is even for labels, Like
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Speaker 3: labels now have to play a different game. If they're
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Speaker 3: not in the game of having a movie sinks their songs,
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Speaker 3: sing the movie their songs, you know, as many places
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Speaker 3: as possible that they own. They're not going to have
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Speaker 3: the lion share sometimes, you know, so it's like you
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Speaker 3: have to tech even like, you know, investing in different things.
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Speaker 3: Even though Doctor Dredam they already did that, right. They
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Speaker 3: was like, Yo, we want to show you all how
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Speaker 3: to get this music money. But we want show you
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Speaker 3: how to also have some headphones and some speakers, and
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Speaker 3: so it's just about being as versat though mentally as
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Speaker 3: possible so that all these other opportunities can attract you.
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Speaker 3: That's where I'm at now.
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Speaker 8: Are you like picking up the phone and calling where
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Speaker 8: you're going through the process of like I gotta re
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Speaker 8: remind people or I'm trying to make this sound different
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Speaker 8: than that and not chase that record. But ego wise,
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Speaker 8: like there has to be a part of Mario that's
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Speaker 8: like this has to be big because I'm Mario, Like
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Speaker 8: who coaches you through those battles?
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Speaker 1: Coaches me? Just a god?
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Speaker 3: Honestly, God, I'm gonna be honest with you because you know,
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Speaker 3: I think a lot of people that's around me every
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Speaker 3: day they just believe in me. You know, they're they're
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Speaker 3: they're believe they get they tell me real shit, but
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Speaker 3: they believe in me, and it's like they understand how
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Speaker 3: strong I am mentally. But that's no person that I
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Speaker 3: call to ask advice about those types of things, because
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Speaker 3: I think that my journey is my journey and I
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Speaker 3: just have to trust God and I gotta trust the
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Speaker 3: people that I entrust creatively, right so when I went
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Speaker 3: to the studio to start mood Swings, me and my
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Speaker 3: boy Dre More, who I met through one of my managers,
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Speaker 3: ak with three six five. We've been on each other
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Speaker 3: for years, Like he did a bunch of future records,
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Speaker 3: but he never hopped into his R and B back.
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Speaker 3: He's always wanted to. I say, Yo, let's less less like,
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Speaker 3: I want to hop into this darker, moodier part of
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Speaker 3: me as an R and B artist that's like moody
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Speaker 3: and still musical and R and B, but just like
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Speaker 3: more authentic. And so he was like, Yo, let's get
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Speaker 3: in a studio, let's go, and it was it was
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Speaker 3: like working with a friend. Is somebody that you go
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Speaker 3: over their house, they come over your house. You know,
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Speaker 3: they kids, you know they family, but y'are both really
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Speaker 3: young ghosts. It's different than working with somebody that's like,
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Speaker 3: I'm a fan of your music. I've always want to
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Speaker 3: work with you, but I don't know where you live,
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Speaker 3: I don't know you know what you're into us. It's
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Speaker 3: a different thing and the foundation is there, so that
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Speaker 3: to me and I trust the team that I work
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Speaker 3: with and we just make the music that we love.
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Speaker 3: We going to studio. We might go in a studio
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Speaker 3: and play verses with ourselves, like yo, you play your
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Speaker 3: favorite five records ever, and I'm gonna play mine against
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Speaker 3: yours and that inspires to get the studio session started.
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Speaker 4: But you won't do that though.
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to. They don't want no smoke with me
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Speaker 3: on any level. He knows that's why he got to
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Speaker 3: always you know, he's a major troller. Though It's like,
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Speaker 3: how do you how do you how do you execute
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Speaker 3: a major troller? Even if you execute him, he gonna
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Speaker 3: come back from.
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Speaker 4: The dead.
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Speaker 1: Undertake it did not take it personal?
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Speaker 3: What did you realize that? And not take a personal
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Speaker 3: real nigga ship, because it's different from like and I
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Speaker 3: had other people that like hit me really got on
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Speaker 3: some really some sissy ship. But like ray J, like
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Speaker 3: like we we talk, you feel me. So it's like
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Speaker 3: he can say some wild ship and I might say
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Speaker 3: some wild ship the next day. But it's like he's
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Speaker 3: a major troller, so he gonna go deep in the
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Speaker 3: quicksand whereas I got this ship go on, I'm on
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Speaker 3: tour right now. It's like, you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 3: ain't gonna go that deep in the quicksand but yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's whatever.
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Speaker 4: Mario was mad too.
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Speaker 3: He was pissed off.
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Speaker 4: It is like he.
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Speaker 3: Was, you know, it's crazy. Can I be honest? Yes?
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Speaker 4: No?
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Speaker 3: No, no, honesty is that all we were doing is have
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Speaker 3: a conversation about things y'all have, but nobody don't really
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Speaker 3: talk about it all the way. We're just having a
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Speaker 3: conversation the same ship everybody do. People in the comments
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Speaker 3: actually went crazy on everybody else spoke about or answer
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Speaker 3: the question about. Then I did like you giving niggas
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Speaker 3: too much grades and it's like, damn is it that serious?
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Speaker 3: Why is it that serious?
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Speaker 4: Because you're an artist can actually And I'm sure they
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Speaker 4: looked at like that Mario dope and ship, but he
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Speaker 4: don't feel the same way.
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Speaker 3: That's crazy, Like everybody got strengths and weaknesses, like if somebody,
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Speaker 3: if somebody can dance, they ass off and they asked
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Speaker 3: somebody question like yo, who the who out of these
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Speaker 3: people gonna ask who can dance and who can't? Let's
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Speaker 3: just say always on that he was like, yo, can
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Speaker 3: Mario danced? He was like miss I would laugh, I
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Speaker 3: would laugh. I would be like, damn, he right, because
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Speaker 3: I don't because that's the But they know him for dancing, right,
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Speaker 3: they know that's his craft, right, So that's you know,
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Speaker 3: it's just niggas take shit too serious. Bro.
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Speaker 8: So y'all haven't spoken since he said he's not gonna
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Speaker 8: do no more songs with you or any collapse with you.
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Speaker 3: I seen him at the Ebony event and we were
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Speaker 3: sitting at the same table.
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Speaker 6: Yeah that's what. I was literally right next to y'all.
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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know what he did when when it
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Speaker 3: was recording all.
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Speaker 6: That so the time, so okay.
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Speaker 3: One after that, I don't see him after that anything him. Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 3: because I'm like, he's saying nothing to me about it.
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Speaker 6: That's right.
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Speaker 3: If I really feel some type of listen everything I love,
10:33
Speaker 3: if I really feel some type of way about something,
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Speaker 3: somebody said, I'm gonna pull him to the side something
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Speaker 3: I might not say that from everybody. I'm gonna figure
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Speaker 3: out a way to get it off my chest. I
10:42
Speaker 3: didn't know. I had no idea he felt some type
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Speaker 3: of way about about that. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: I've had days where I've been hitting miss Nigga on stage.
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Speaker 3: I don't always hit every note the same every night. Like, nigga,
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Speaker 3: let's be real. We gotta be real. I have fun
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Speaker 3: and like not take it too serious. Bro, Listen, we
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Speaker 3: were young black, We are opportunity. We still hear bro
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Speaker 3: twenty four years later, like we still here is a blessing.
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Speaker 4: But what do you feel?
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Speaker 7: Like?
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Speaker 9: Mark mood swings, right, so you up and down on that.
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Speaker 9: This is like move love angry.
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Speaker 3: It's a mixture of like love, you know, It's really
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Speaker 3: a conversation. It's a conversation. When I started mood Swings,
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Speaker 3: it was just about nineties R and B vibes. And
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Speaker 3: when I think of the word mood swings, I think
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Speaker 3: of nineties R and B. I think about two thousands
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Speaker 3: of R and B and I'm like, Yo, how do
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Speaker 3: we take that feeling and like update it? And this
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Speaker 3: was like the approach, And then I would have, like
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Speaker 3: a couple of Dre Mornen executive produced it. We're with
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Speaker 3: a lot of great producers are here. But yeah, the
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Speaker 3: conversations are different. And also the textures of what I
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Speaker 3: singing is different. Like I got a song called fortune
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Speaker 3: Cookie in there that I've never spoken like this before.
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Speaker 3: But the actual texture of the way I'm using my
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Speaker 3: voice a song called Moan. Same way, I'm giving you
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Speaker 3: different moves of who I am as an R and
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Speaker 3: B artist, How I think about intimacy, how I think
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Speaker 3: about love, and just you know, just talking my shit. Honestly,
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Speaker 3: fortune cookie damn man with Asian women, that's crazy. It
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Speaker 3: wasn't an Asian woman. It's just it's just women in general.
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Speaker 3: I think women are like fortune cookies, bro. Like, you know,
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Speaker 3: it's like you never know what you're gonna get if
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Speaker 3: you really dive in and really get to know a
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Speaker 3: woman on those more intimate levels, you know. And it's
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Speaker 3: something that I've always prided myself phon wone getting to
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Speaker 3: know somebody. I'm in a relationship now, and I'm still
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Speaker 3: learning my girl. I'm still learning like how to unlock
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Speaker 3: certain parts of her and and you know, how to
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Speaker 3: make her feel safe in moments where I'm not around,
12:41
Speaker 3: and like, just so many elements to having a relationship
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Speaker 3: with a woman, whether you're just a friend or whether
12:47
Speaker 3: you're in something deep like I am. It's just you
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Speaker 3: never know what you're gonna get. You gotta crack the open.
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Speaker 3: A fortune Cookie, obviously, record goes a little deeper into
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Speaker 3: something like that more intimate shit, but like, yeah.
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Speaker 8: How did your girlfriend deal with all of the like
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Speaker 8: being Mario's girlfriend? Everything it's public? Like when you post
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Speaker 8: to her, there's like such a big response because they're like,
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Speaker 8: she's not a black woman, Like how she deal with
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Speaker 8: seeing stuff like that?
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Speaker 3: I think that she she's a very like analytical person
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Speaker 3: like me, Like she dives into things to understand the
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Speaker 3: psychology behind it and like like what's the what what
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Speaker 3: does it really mean? She understood to a certain degree,
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Speaker 3: but she's also human, you know. So we've had conversations.
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Speaker 3: She's like I clap back at people. Before she clapp
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Speaker 3: back at a couple of people, I'm like, yo, just
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Speaker 3: don't don't even don't let it, you know. And then
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Speaker 3: once that first initition would happened, she was like, oh, okay,
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Speaker 3: I get enough. And I told her, you know, it's
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Speaker 3: it's one of those things where people until they understand
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Speaker 3: that you got something real, people hate you before they
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Speaker 3: love you, you know what I'm saying sometimes and that
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Speaker 3: and that they don't even have to know you, right,
13:44
Speaker 3: but then there's a lot of support I don't want.
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Speaker 3: And I think sometimes the internet, like the dark and
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Speaker 3: the ugly shit get more highlighted than the love. Right
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Speaker 3: even with me, sometimes I see all these love you know,
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Speaker 3: I love what you're doing. We know you love black women,
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Speaker 3: we know, and then at one or two comments that's
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Speaker 3: like dark, You're like, you know, and that's just human nature, right,
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Speaker 3: So we just work and do it together. It's my
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Speaker 3: first like real public relationship in this way, whereas though,
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Speaker 3: like the picture, we were going on vacation for my
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Speaker 3: birthday and we had took some pictures that she posted
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Speaker 3: a picture of her pregnant on her page before I did.
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Speaker 3: But her page is probably like babe, nobody's gonna say.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, babe, I'm go ahead right next thing, you
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Speaker 3: know is you know. So I was trying to tell
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Speaker 3: her like you know, but I was I'm not ashamed
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Speaker 3: of it. So it's like, yo, go ahead and do
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Speaker 3: your thing. And so it was beautiful, Like I'm really
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Speaker 3: proud that I'm able to say, out of all the
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Speaker 3: men in my family, especially on my mom's side, like
14:43
Speaker 3: that I can give my son something that I didn't have.
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Speaker 3: You know, when he touches, when he incarnates on his planet,
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Speaker 3: he's going to have a different life than I had.
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Speaker 3: I'm proud of that, you know, and the growing pains
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Speaker 3: of being an artist who's now more open with his life.
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Speaker 3: I should have did this seven years ago, ten years ago,
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Speaker 3: but now I'm being more open. So this is the
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Speaker 3: part is the part of it. You got to go
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Speaker 3: through it. I'm ready, come on, iratulations to you real quick, girl.
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Speaker 3: I want to give you your flowers. I'm so proud of you, Jess.
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Speaker 3: I'm so proud of you. Know where we come from.
15:19
Speaker 3: You know, you're raising a young king, you got another
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Speaker 3: baby that you just had, You're married now get married
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Speaker 3: now like you're doing your thing, and I'm proud of you.
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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I love you and I'm
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Speaker 3: proud of you. You know what I'm saying. I just
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Speaker 3: wanted to say that. Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 5: Do you what do you feel Mario the man has
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Speaker 5: grown the most compared to Mario the Artist.
15:38
Speaker 3: That's a great question.
15:39
Speaker 4: Thank you.
15:43
Speaker 3: I think that I've been able to shadow working myself
15:51
Speaker 3: on a more honest and authentic level than I have before,
15:57
Speaker 3: because not just because I'm about to be a father,
16:01
Speaker 3: but because I see I see the world around me
16:04
Speaker 3: changing in ways that I'm like when things get out
16:09
Speaker 3: of control, if you can't always control how your environment
16:14
Speaker 3: is going to what's going to happen in the environments
16:18
Speaker 3: around you. Because when you're an artist, things happen around you.
16:22
Speaker 3: You have to be exposure. If you want to have success,
16:24
Speaker 3: you got to be out here, right, And so it's
16:26
Speaker 3: really important for me to have controlling myself on a
16:29
Speaker 3: deeper level and control of my emotions and control of
16:32
Speaker 3: my how I view the world, how I view people,
16:36
Speaker 3: how I view my relationships with people, getting better at
16:39
Speaker 3: relationship building because I wasn't good at that as a
16:42
Speaker 3: young kid and as a young adult, and so just
16:46
Speaker 3: really doing that shadow work, bro, and also becoming a
16:50
Speaker 3: better friend to people that I consider important in my
16:55
Speaker 3: life instead of being like closed off or being like, okay,
17:00
Speaker 3: I can't trust nobody, like I'm not opening up to
17:03
Speaker 3: like having a little bit more grace and understanding that, Bro.
17:07
Speaker 3: With greatness comes the opportunity for leadership. And with the
17:11
Speaker 3: opportunity for leadership, you're able to actually see the world
17:15
Speaker 3: from a different space when you take on that role
17:17
Speaker 3: of being vulnerable and being a leader, which means coming
17:22
Speaker 3: up with solutions, right, and it could be anything that
17:24
Speaker 3: could be in work, It could be in your personal life,
17:26
Speaker 3: it could be for your family, it could be for free.
17:28
Speaker 3: And I think that that's something that God blessed me
17:30
Speaker 3: with experiences to get through so that I can help
17:33
Speaker 3: people come up with solutions, you know. And it could
17:35
Speaker 3: be small things, Bro. Somebody could call me one day
17:37
Speaker 3: and be like, Yo, I'm going through this. You know
17:39
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. I just made my first you know,
17:42
Speaker 3: twenty thousand dollars, Bro, my first time, Like, well, how
17:45
Speaker 3: should I woo woo? It's like those small things. I
17:47
Speaker 3: fucked up money before I know how to. I could
17:49
Speaker 3: give you advice on that. If I can't give you
17:51
Speaker 3: advice on something, I know somebody who can. Just being
17:53
Speaker 3: more open and vulnerable about life, man, and knowing that
17:57
Speaker 3: everybody's not out to hurt you, you know, and that
17:59
Speaker 3: comes from growth and doing shadow work.
18:01
Speaker 4: When you first did your shadow work, did your shadow
18:03
Speaker 4: self scale.
18:06
Speaker 3: It scared me when I felt like people weren't respecting
18:12
Speaker 3: the work that I was doing myself, and that triggered me.
18:14
Speaker 3: It was like, what the fuck is the purpose of
18:18
Speaker 3: doing it? If nobody cares and they still gonna judge
18:21
Speaker 3: you they still And it realized, like, yo, Bro, it
18:23
Speaker 3: doesn't matter if people don't see the work that you're doing.
18:26
Speaker 3: You can't change their perspective. You can't change how people
18:29
Speaker 3: see things because they can only understand things on the
18:31
Speaker 3: level that they're experiencing.
18:32
Speaker 4: Right.
18:32
Speaker 3: I was reading this book called the author's name is
18:35
Speaker 3: called Power Versus Force if you ward of that, But
18:37
Speaker 3: it's really good, and it basically talks about life by
18:44
Speaker 3: way of calibration. Like it's from zero to six hundred, right,
18:47
Speaker 3: so you can have a conversation with your homie about
18:50
Speaker 3: running down on somebody that might be calibrated at like
18:53
Speaker 3: a ten or twenty. But then you can have a
18:55
Speaker 3: conversation about growth and health and building, community building, and
19:00
Speaker 3: that's calibrated at like a four to fifty five hundred.
19:02
Speaker 3: And it just talks about how these things affect your body,
19:04
Speaker 3: how to affect your mind. And I got it from
19:07
Speaker 3: this chiropractor. But he doesn't do regular chiropractor work. He
19:10
Speaker 3: does like spiritual chiropractic work. Whereas though he finds where
19:14
Speaker 3: your traumas are, you know, where you're lying to yourself,
19:18
Speaker 3: where you're not being honest. On the first time I
19:20
Speaker 3: worked with him, he brought me He does it like
19:24
Speaker 3: in his backyard. He lives in la And then he
19:28
Speaker 3: was like, he said, hold both your arms out. He's like,
19:30
Speaker 3: I'm gonna ask you a question, and you could choose
19:34
Speaker 3: to tell me the truth or tell me a lie.
19:35
Speaker 3: The one where I lied on him, my arm got weak,
19:39
Speaker 3: like literally didn't mind bushit. It was like if it
19:42
Speaker 3: was like and I knew I was lying. And then
19:45
Speaker 3: the one where I told the truth, it was like
19:46
Speaker 3: my arm was steady, it was strong, and I was like, damn,
19:49
Speaker 3: that's crazy. You don't think that like your body and
19:52
Speaker 3: your mind and how everything worked, like the truth, even
19:56
Speaker 3: if it's ugly, it's more powerful than a lot. And
20:01
Speaker 3: I mean, you could take that in so many different ways.
20:02
Speaker 3: But I would like to think that I want to
20:05
Speaker 3: live in a in a space where I can live
20:07
Speaker 3: as much truth as possible and the lies aren't as
20:11
Speaker 3: that I tell myself. You know what I'm saying. So
20:13
Speaker 3: I don't know. All of that stuff is just a
20:15
Speaker 3: part of my journey.
20:16
Speaker 4: Now. You talked about the try it. You get that.
20:22
Speaker 3: Better than I.
20:29
Speaker 1: We talked about the hiatus.
20:30
Speaker 2: For most that don't know, during that time, which is
20:32
Speaker 2: a long time, what was Mariel doing during that time.
20:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, you know I was exploring. I was exploring
20:45
Speaker 3: so many things in life, like just really trying to
20:47
Speaker 3: understand what it was all, what the purpose was, you know,
20:49
Speaker 3: what's the purpose of relationships, what's the purpose of family,
20:53
Speaker 3: What's the purpose of me being an artist? What's the
20:55
Speaker 3: purpose of it? Or why am I here? You know?
20:58
Speaker 3: What is religion? What is all these things?
21:01
Speaker 4: You know?
21:02
Speaker 3: What is fear? What is trauma? What is you know,
21:05
Speaker 3: why do people choose addiction over going to get help
21:09
Speaker 3: and really fighting through it? Because it's such a strong
21:12
Speaker 3: like it's such a strong intention. Like when people are
21:17
Speaker 3: addicted to something like they will go through anything to
21:19
Speaker 3: get that fix. You know, how do you transmit that
21:24
Speaker 3: into something towards something you want to build for yourself
21:26
Speaker 3: in life? How do you transmit that to your family
21:27
Speaker 3: and love all life? So it really just started studying
21:30
Speaker 3: understanding like human behavior right now. I started there and like,
21:33
Speaker 3: you know, wanted to understand, you know, what was hell?
21:37
Speaker 3: What is heaven? You know? What is all of this?
21:40
Speaker 3: Because I got thrown in at such a young age
21:43
Speaker 3: that I wasn't able to process the death of my grandmother.
21:46
Speaker 3: I wasn't able to process being adopted. I wasn't able
21:48
Speaker 3: to process now you're an artist, now you're moving around,
21:51
Speaker 3: now you're in this world. I wasn't able to process
21:53
Speaker 3: that and enjoy the process. Like maybe a lot of
21:56
Speaker 3: other younger artists. I don't know their process, but sometimes
21:58
Speaker 3: they look happier, right, So I think that at that
22:01
Speaker 3: time of like, after let me love you, after going
22:03
Speaker 3: on to our Destiny's Shout, after all these things, it
22:05
Speaker 3: was like bro, I moved back home and then I
22:08
Speaker 3: went through another dark moment and I was like, yeah,
22:10
Speaker 3: I gotta get out of here.
22:12
Speaker 4: Left.
22:12
Speaker 3: That's when my process of like getting through everything started,
22:16
Speaker 3: like processing it, putting it all on the table, being confused,
22:19
Speaker 3: being hurt, being in the dark, not having nobody around me,
22:23
Speaker 3: and it just brought me closer to myself and brought
22:25
Speaker 3: me closer to God. And that's what I started to
22:27
Speaker 3: realize that life and cycles and time and space and
22:32
Speaker 3: all of it is, it's all happening all at once, right,
22:36
Speaker 3: and you know you really just got to like pull everything,
22:41
Speaker 3: pull all the fragments back in, and then balance it out,
22:45
Speaker 3: release what you like, releasing truly releasing it. For me,
22:48
Speaker 3: it was a twenty six day fast where I released
22:51
Speaker 3: so much. You know, man, I cried on nights, I
22:53
Speaker 3: had cold sweats on nights. I was seeing things, hearing things.
22:57
Speaker 3: I was really like traveling through these different portals of
22:59
Speaker 3: everything that I've been hiding from. And that's what kind
23:02
Speaker 3: of brought me back. And then after that, so I
23:06
Speaker 3: had met this doctor named Dhoti and Calli and him
23:09
Speaker 3: made these organ cleansing tablets and I was taking those
23:15
Speaker 3: and I was doing it during this time. It was
23:17
Speaker 3: a popular fast, but most people were doing it for
23:18
Speaker 3: like three to five days. I did it for twenty
23:20
Speaker 3: six days. Cayenne, you know, honey, lemon? Uh? What else?
23:27
Speaker 4: Was it?
23:28
Speaker 3: Ginger? And yeah, it was a lot back, but I
23:30
Speaker 3: took it for I was like, yo, once I got
23:32
Speaker 3: to like my second my first week, I was like, nah,
23:36
Speaker 3: this is I feel too. The first week, after the
23:40
Speaker 3: first five days those the next two days you feel great.
23:42
Speaker 3: Then you feel like shit for like three days. Then
23:45
Speaker 3: you feel empty. Now your your skin is tingling and
23:50
Speaker 3: you're hearing like things that the highest capacity, and you're
23:54
Speaker 3: the light. You could see things clear, like it's just everything.
23:56
Speaker 3: I wasn't sleep. I was only sleep for like three
23:58
Speaker 3: hours before I couldn't sleep long and I have so
24:00
Speaker 3: much energy. And so then I was like, okay, who's
24:03
Speaker 3: the person? Like what how does food affect you? Then
24:07
Speaker 3: I started studying what I was feeling. I was like,
24:09
Speaker 3: how does food affect your mind? How does food affect
24:12
Speaker 3: your energy? How does it affect your sleep? And I
24:14
Speaker 3: was realizing like, damn, we overeat in this country, and
24:18
Speaker 3: like I'm like, yo, we really we eat emotionally. We
24:21
Speaker 3: eat when we feel, you know, out of a breakup,
24:25
Speaker 3: We eat when we horny and we don't get none.
24:28
Speaker 3: We eat like you know, so consumption right, And so
24:31
Speaker 3: then I started really diving into like why physical, mental,
24:36
Speaker 3: and spiritual consumption all leads to your decisions, all leads
24:40
Speaker 3: to what you're attracting your life, how you attract things,
24:43
Speaker 3: and it affects everything in your life. So I went
24:45
Speaker 3: down that road for years of just like being becoming
24:47
Speaker 3: a mystic and studying different things and not being afraid
24:50
Speaker 3: to be judged by people during that time, if you
24:53
Speaker 3: were practicing and working with chrystals. I was doing this
24:56
Speaker 3: in two thousand and eleven twelve when it wasn't cool,
25:03
Speaker 3: you know, and I just wasn't talking about it. I
25:06
Speaker 3: didn't share it because my journey was different. And yeah,
25:10
Speaker 3: So I did that for years, bro, and then I
25:12
Speaker 3: decided I'm like, okay, I'm ready to start making music again.
25:15
Speaker 3: Like I think I'm ready to start. And the first
25:19
Speaker 3: record I released out of that, I think was Somebody
25:21
Speaker 3: Else with Nikki that is my yeah shit, yeah it
25:25
Speaker 3: was like that one in fatal distraction. Fatal Yeah, fatal distraction.
25:29
Speaker 5: Yeah, that makes so much sense beause the shadow work
25:32
Speaker 5: gives you greater self awareness because it helps you understand
25:36
Speaker 5: a lot of your blind spots that you might not
25:38
Speaker 5: even have been aware of.
25:39
Speaker 3: Man, it's a real thing. It's so true, bro, and
25:42
Speaker 3: it's like you got it. It's almost like you gotta
25:44
Speaker 3: forgive yourself because you Sometimes we can do the work,
25:48
Speaker 3: but then we still haven't really forgiven ourselves. We still
25:51
Speaker 3: haven't really been like, Yo, tell your younger self, I
25:54
Speaker 3: love you. Forget you know, forgive yourself for the people
25:58
Speaker 3: that may have hurt you. I'm still working through it, bro.
26:00
Speaker 3: They don't stop, Bro, you don't. The truth is, it
26:02
Speaker 3: never stops because we live in a space where we're
26:05
Speaker 3: constantly reminded of our past.
26:07
Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying, That's the first thing that
26:08
Speaker 8: came to mom when I heard you talk about all
26:09
Speaker 8: this work you were doing, because I watched you on
26:11
Speaker 8: Camp's podcast Monkey Friday, Yeah, and hearing you talk about
26:14
Speaker 8: a lot of things I didn't know it, like your
26:16
Speaker 8: mom and your adoption, and like you never had the
26:19
Speaker 8: time to kind of make amends with all that stuff
26:22
Speaker 8: because you were famous at fourteen. Yes, So what was
26:24
Speaker 8: Mario saying to or I guess twelve eleven year old
26:27
Speaker 8: Mario during the time where you got.
26:29
Speaker 6: Away from everybody, like, don't know what your younger self.
26:31
Speaker 3: I didn't know how to speak to my youngest stelf then,
26:34
Speaker 3: So I wasn't really speaking to my younger self at
26:36
Speaker 3: the time. I was more so processing what I was
26:41
Speaker 3: trying to understand and like doing the work of at
26:44
Speaker 3: least getting to a point where I could actually look
26:46
Speaker 3: at it and see it from a different perspective in
26:51
Speaker 3: terms of like the science of it and the actual
26:54
Speaker 3: work of it, Like why do I make the decision?
26:56
Speaker 3: Why do people make the decisions? Where am I lacking
26:59
Speaker 3: at for me not to be able to be happy today?
27:03
Speaker 3: What is this thing I'm holding on to? Right? So
27:05
Speaker 3: I had to work through that first, I think that
27:08
Speaker 3: talking to my younger self, it's gonna happen more. Even
27:13
Speaker 3: when my son is here right being able to understand
27:20
Speaker 3: give him the thing. I think he's gonna help my
27:23
Speaker 3: I'm not like putting it on him to help me,
27:25
Speaker 3: but I think being a dad will also help me
27:27
Speaker 3: work through my younger my issues with my younger self,
27:30
Speaker 3: if that makes sense.
27:31
Speaker 4: That makes the world.
27:32
Speaker 5: Man, It's it's like, man, God, it's so amazing because
27:34
Speaker 5: you've done the work.
27:36
Speaker 4: You're doing the work. But God didn't even.
27:39
Speaker 5: Allow you to have your first child until you was
27:42
Speaker 5: a much more healed, clear version of yourself.
27:45
Speaker 3: Man, that's crazy bro's eye. Consciously obviously, just like I
27:50
Speaker 3: didn't want a child yet and I did certain things
27:53
Speaker 3: to make sure I didn't have a joy yet. But
27:55
Speaker 3: what you're saying is so true. And you know it's
27:59
Speaker 3: one day. Story can the plot they can't there, But
28:02
Speaker 3: like that's one of the things me and.
28:04
Speaker 4: My girl talk about all the time. Was like, yo,
28:06
Speaker 4: like I.
28:07
Speaker 3: Knew I loved her and I knew I felt safer.
28:09
Speaker 3: I knew we knew each other for a long time.
28:10
Speaker 3: We knew a lot of things about each other, but
28:12
Speaker 3: it was all God when it came to her actually
28:15
Speaker 3: conceiving like it was all God, bro. And it's like
28:19
Speaker 3: I feel this energy already, like we both pray, pray
28:22
Speaker 3: about our lives. It's amazing, Bro, it's amazing. I'm excited
28:26
Speaker 3: about it.
28:26
Speaker 4: How is healing shape? The man you are to.
28:32
Speaker 3: Gave me more confidence. It gave me more confidence being
28:35
Speaker 3: an artist that you know, took time away and making
28:41
Speaker 3: a resurgence doing this digital crusade, you know, gave me
28:46
Speaker 3: so much confidence on who I am as a person.
28:47
Speaker 3: I don't think that there's anything that could happen and
28:51
Speaker 3: these phones are online that could change or make me
28:54
Speaker 3: want to be anything other than myself and have my
28:59
Speaker 3: found day. Shouldn't be strong for the things that really matter.
29:02
Speaker 3: And I think that that is why God put me
29:05
Speaker 3: through all of these different obstacles, is there's there's a
29:08
Speaker 3: bigger column on my life that I'm tapping into that's
29:12
Speaker 3: so multi dimensional in terms of like even the things
29:15
Speaker 3: that I'm into now and the things that I'm attracting
29:18
Speaker 3: and the people, for example, you know, investing in Redemption Bank,
29:23
Speaker 3: who is which was founded by Britanice King and Ashley Bell,
29:32
Speaker 3: and they're great people. Who have a great vision for
29:34
Speaker 3: our community. But just you know, financial literacy in general.
29:38
Speaker 3: I've been learning so much and just really wanting to
29:40
Speaker 3: be a part of changing the narrative for us, you know,
29:45
Speaker 3: as you know, there's so much work to be done.
29:47
Speaker 3: You know, you've been in a room with a lot
29:49
Speaker 3: of people who understand what needs to be done, and
29:50
Speaker 3: so just wanted to be a part of something bigger.
29:53
Speaker 3: So God's been preparing me for that, right, So that's
29:56
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. When we have these conversations about music,
29:58
Speaker 3: I'm like, Yo, it's it's so funny because my day
30:00
Speaker 3: to day life is nat It's so far from that
30:03
Speaker 3: in terms of the conversation that people I talked to.
30:05
Speaker 3: But I get it. It's just that we haven't fun
30:07
Speaker 3: whatever whatever. But yeah, so it's a it's a lot
30:09
Speaker 3: of work, and I think God's just been preparing me
30:11
Speaker 3: for it all. Yeah hm hmmm.
30:13
Speaker 4: So look.
30:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:17
Speaker 9: You're going to add a comedy component.
30:19
Speaker 3: Yo, Listen, we could put something together. And I know
30:25
Speaker 3: it was talking about during it during the pandemic, you
30:27
Speaker 3: were talking about some stuff and you had.
30:28
Speaker 9: A great idea, and I wish I would have like
30:32
Speaker 9: hone in on it, like I wish I would have
30:34
Speaker 9: jumped on it. You had an idea to do, like
30:37
Speaker 9: I think it was like comedy virtually, like where people
30:39
Speaker 9: because it was something.
30:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I thought.
30:42
Speaker 9: It was so smart. And then I see somebody else
30:44
Speaker 9: doing I'm like, damn you, Mario.
30:45
Speaker 4: You'll put me.
30:46
Speaker 3: Try to put me on to that like five years ago.
30:49
Speaker 3: Good listen, just you naturally listen, like Mike was saying,
30:53
Speaker 3: like it's some people who wake up and just funny. Bro.
30:55
Speaker 3: Like you different, Yes, you're different, Like you know what
30:58
Speaker 3: I mean, days like having fucked up days and all
31:00
Speaker 3: your pages come on and that just changed my whole ship.
31:04
Speaker 3: Like you different, like you you're literally one of I
31:07
Speaker 3: think you're one of the young goats, Like you know
31:09
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, Like keep doing that ship, like I
31:13
Speaker 3: know you hustling it, but like tap in, like you
31:16
Speaker 3: really wanted them for real.
31:17
Speaker 4: Like I think about all the people who had good
31:19
Speaker 4: days and you clown them and.
31:22
Speaker 3: Think that it's a part of it.
31:23
Speaker 4: Though, I just want you to think about all aspects.
31:26
Speaker 3: I feel like true comedy comes from truth though, like
31:29
Speaker 3: real comedy come from truth, it does, and depending on where.
31:32
Speaker 4: You're from Yo.
31:33
Speaker 9: People don't understand the Baltimore. They just think we're just
31:35
Speaker 9: straight all aggressive.
31:37
Speaker 3: Nah, for sure, you know what I'm saying, We'll be
31:39
Speaker 3: saying it that they think about. And I think that
31:41
Speaker 3: that's like that's the thing. You know, We're gonna always
31:43
Speaker 3: get the you know, the backlash we say ship that people.
31:46
Speaker 9: That's why it was so many people that got mad
31:47
Speaker 9: at you and Cam.
31:49
Speaker 3: Answer you them questions, yeah, man, it's yeah. That interview
31:52
Speaker 3: was interesting. Man, it was interesting.
31:54
Speaker 4: But did you have fun? Though?
31:56
Speaker 3: Not all the way Honestly it was cool, but then
31:58
Speaker 3: it just got to the point where like he wasn't
32:00
Speaker 3: being real about ship and it wasn't fun no more.
32:03
Speaker 3: Now now I'm like, you're not being even you're talking
32:06
Speaker 3: so much about your own life. And I with him, right,
32:10
Speaker 3: but it was just everybody. So it was just moments
32:13
Speaker 3: where I was like, Yo, you're not being real like
32:14
Speaker 3: a cool I see what this is. Yeah, I like, listen,
32:20
Speaker 3: fuck with came real quick, just said that you can
32:22
Speaker 3: remember all the moments. It's too many.
32:24
Speaker 4: Just said one time your actually going in and out Baltimore.
32:29
Speaker 6: You're talking to me about the Ebony's not it?
32:32
Speaker 3: Do it? And I get.
32:36
Speaker 8: Get madmore and then I forget what I asked you
32:40
Speaker 8: about and it was like and I was like, oh yeah.
32:43
Speaker 4: From there because I haven't heard it this interview. That's
32:45
Speaker 4: why I've been living.
32:47
Speaker 3: I've been living in l A for like fifteen years now.
32:49
Speaker 3: So ship just if I go home for two weeks
32:52
Speaker 3: said when he gets it's crazy when he gets upset
32:55
Speaker 3: about something that ship.
32:58
Speaker 1: They're trying to get mad. Look definitely don't at all
33:07
Speaker 1: some question, right, but but.
33:09
Speaker 3: It I'm mad at you for kicking the cameraman off stage.
33:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I thought that was kind of crazy because
33:14
Speaker 2: that's your time to before you don't know what this
33:16
Speaker 2: DoD is on stage.
33:17
Speaker 3: I think that it was just people not used to
33:19
Speaker 3: seeing me like that, bro, like mad, yeah, like you.
33:22
Speaker 3: So it's like I try not to get mad, bro,
33:25
Speaker 3: because when I get mad, I get mad, you know
33:28
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. And then it's like I'm like, it
33:31
Speaker 3: takes a lot to get me mad, right, So when
33:33
Speaker 3: I get there, hopefully I don't want it to be
33:35
Speaker 3: seen ever, Like I don't want people to see that
33:37
Speaker 3: side of me, like and it's not like I'm not human,
33:40
Speaker 3: I just it can get taken out of context, which
33:42
Speaker 3: it did, right, So I'm gonna tell the story officially
33:45
Speaker 3: here on Breakfast Club.
33:48
Speaker 1: They hit us for this.
33:49
Speaker 3: Fair I'm like, okay, it's close to LA. We'll take
33:52
Speaker 3: the spring up. Go up there, due it, knock it out,
33:54
Speaker 3: we come back to the crib, right, cool. Family only
33:56
Speaker 3: say all right, cool Lloyd, a couple of us, let's
33:59
Speaker 3: do it. I get to my shows usually if it's
34:02
Speaker 3: Souls with other people, I get there like like when
34:05
Speaker 3: we're doing a drink, not to gett like ten fifteen
34:07
Speaker 3: minutes before, because I don't like sitting in the dress room.
34:08
Speaker 3: I get assy, like man, So no one told me
34:13
Speaker 3: that a camera man was going to be on stage
34:15
Speaker 3: at all. So when I go on stage, I'm performing
34:19
Speaker 3: and I keep seeing a figure around and the stage
34:21
Speaker 3: is pretty big. If I keep seeing a figure and
34:24
Speaker 3: I'm like okay, then when I saw him for the
34:26
Speaker 3: first time, I'm like, damn. Then he jump up from
34:27
Speaker 3: because he didn't have a camera, bro, he had an
34:30
Speaker 3: iPhone on a joint. Go look at the video. So
34:33
Speaker 3: I'm like, he must have jumped from out of the crowd.
34:35
Speaker 3: He came on my irony trip or whatever. He over
34:37
Speaker 3: there but then he got comfortable and on the stage,
34:41
Speaker 3: they got they had too many speakers. They have more
34:43
Speaker 3: speakers because usually every artist get to say what they
34:46
Speaker 3: wanted the stage to be. Like, they left the other
34:48
Speaker 3: artist speakers on the stage, so it was more speakers
34:50
Speaker 3: than were supposed to be. So I'm looking for where
34:52
Speaker 3: he about to go, and I tripped one time over
34:54
Speaker 3: the over court. I ain't say nothing. I'm like, man,
34:56
Speaker 3: shit crazy, I gotta watch up. Then as I'm walking
35:00
Speaker 3: back to the right side of the stage, he's all
35:03
Speaker 3: the way downstage, like near the speaker, like you should
35:07
Speaker 3: be like further back, like you feel me. And then
35:10
Speaker 3: that moment is like, Yo, you gotta get the fuck
35:11
Speaker 3: off the stage. Bro, you didn't already like you get
35:14
Speaker 3: to It wasn't even like I hate you, nigga, get off,
35:17
Speaker 3: Like it was just like, nigga, get the fuck off.
35:18
Speaker 3: I just feel me. It was like that apologized shortly after.
35:24
Speaker 3: It was hot as a half ass apology. But I
35:26
Speaker 3: didn't even realize he went on tour. He went on
35:31
Speaker 3: he went on a press tour about it. So like
35:33
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm like, bro, you know, let me
35:35
Speaker 3: just do it. But yeah, that's what happened. He was,
35:38
Speaker 3: but he was supposed to be there parently and then
35:40
Speaker 3: you know, but it really was just I didn't know
35:43
Speaker 3: he had an iPhone. Are we getting any visuals?
35:49
Speaker 4: Yeah?
35:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm about to put a video out from Home,
35:51
Speaker 3: uh in like a week period. Yeah, yeah, it's coming
35:54
Speaker 3: to visual for Home is coming in. It's fire, It's fire,
35:57
Speaker 3: It's you know, it's nineties R and B. I'm giving
35:59
Speaker 3: you our real arm on this project. So and more
36:01
Speaker 3: to come as well. Moose swings too. More music. Definitely
36:05
Speaker 3: tapping back into the movie space as well. I'm building
36:08
Speaker 3: a lot of things behind the scene when new citizens
36:10
Speaker 3: and the investment side, the creative side, hopefully signing some artists.
36:16
Speaker 3: I got my eyes on a few. I want to
36:18
Speaker 3: say it because last time I did, somebody sign him.
36:21
Speaker 3: But it's just like, yeah, I have a color. It
36:24
Speaker 3: was this kid. His name is Chosen. I forgot his
36:27
Speaker 3: last name. His name is Chosen, but like he's super soulful.
36:30
Speaker 3: I showed you off off off of the joint. But
36:32
Speaker 3: he got signed by Quality Control, you know what I'm saying.
36:36
Speaker 3: And we was talking, but yeah he's already been signed
36:39
Speaker 3: by SO but yeah, super talented but really looking for
36:42
Speaker 3: like raw talent man that I can help evolve through
36:45
Speaker 3: this industry, you know, and and understand that, like outside
36:49
Speaker 3: of music, there's so many other opportunities, right, So generational
36:52
Speaker 3: wealth like that's that's really what the whole New Citizen
36:55
Speaker 3: for me represents. You know.
36:57
Speaker 4: So have you taken your girl to Baltimore? Yeah?
37:01
Speaker 3: Bottomore? Like three, she went with me on Thanksgiving one year.
37:05
Speaker 3: Uh we went to Bottomore, went to Philly Family, Philly, Baltimore.
37:08
Speaker 3: She from, she's Mexicans from she's from.
37:11
Speaker 6: Uh, sacrament He got hold on.
37:16
Speaker 9: I don't comfortable with hands.
37:22
Speaker 3: She got me as well, thank you. But he and Mexican.
37:30
Speaker 3: I think man's street Mexican. I cannot ask you a questions.
37:33
Speaker 3: What does it matter? It don't matter, you know what
37:38
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
37:39
Speaker 4: I just want to know how.
37:42
Speaker 6: That your girlfriend is Mexican.
37:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, like doesn't matter.
37:45
Speaker 4: It don't matter to me. Doctor, She's not that kind she.
37:51
Speaker 3: Legally yeah, man, everybody legal.
37:54
Speaker 4: I love.
37:55
Speaker 3: Love is definitely love.
37:57
Speaker 5: But but I do like to see black men with
37:59
Speaker 5: black women. But that that's that's just because that's what.
38:03
Speaker 4: I feel for sure.
38:04
Speaker 3: I love to see all of it. I love to
38:05
Speaker 3: see all.
38:06
Speaker 4: But I want you to be in love if you
38:07
Speaker 4: love her.
38:08
Speaker 3: Love is nice, man, I wouldn't be I wouldn't be
38:10
Speaker 3: here if I didn't love her. I wouldn't We wouldn't
38:12
Speaker 3: be here if we didn't love each other. Pro creating
38:14
Speaker 3: like this exactly like we're having a beautiful experience right now.
38:18
Speaker 3: The only you know, the hardest part obviously is always
38:21
Speaker 3: the traveler, right being away from home, checking in, being like, damn,
38:25
Speaker 3: if I'm on stage and something's happening and I will not,
38:27
Speaker 3: I can't get that. You know what I'm saying. It's this,
38:29
Speaker 3: This has been This has been hard because it's like
38:32
Speaker 3: things were already in motion, these toys are already playing,
38:34
Speaker 3: you know. But I get off tour in December, and
38:36
Speaker 3: I'll be home for all the holidays, So I don't know.
38:38
Speaker 4: I don't think you owe anybody an explanation, though. I
38:40
Speaker 4: think that's it's like, why are you explaining who you love?
38:44
Speaker 2: You know?
38:45
Speaker 3: It's not so much explaining who I love is. It's
38:47
Speaker 3: it's the the narrative of oh Mario doesn't like black
38:52
Speaker 3: women that I have an issue with, and where this
38:55
Speaker 3: narrative was created from. That's the thing about the internet.
38:57
Speaker 3: Is like, you can't just leave that, you know, out
39:03
Speaker 3: in the air. That's crazy, you know what I'm saying.
39:05
Speaker 3: So I'd rather confront it so people understand that it's
39:09
Speaker 3: a lie and it's it's not true, versus not saying
39:12
Speaker 3: anything aboudy, which I've done in a couple of interviews
39:14
Speaker 3: since that interview, you know. But the way he asked
39:17
Speaker 3: it was so he set me up.
39:21
Speaker 1: One of the question.
39:23
Speaker 6: The question set up like what's your relationship with black women? Right? No,
39:27
Speaker 6: that wasn't the first question.
39:28
Speaker 3: No, that was like that. He was like, do you
39:29
Speaker 3: have a problem with black women?
39:31
Speaker 4: That's a wild question.
39:33
Speaker 1: The way you answered it.
39:35
Speaker 8: The way you answered it that we played that clip
39:37
Speaker 8: here answered it. I don't think it it didn't make
39:40
Speaker 8: it any worse, but I think it made people try
39:42
Speaker 8: to find another reason why you don't like.
39:44
Speaker 3: Black Psychologically, these podcasts and people when people are not
39:50
Speaker 3: everybody doesn't have the same way they receive things. And
39:57
Speaker 3: we're dealing with y'all know, we're dealing I ain't got said,
40:00
Speaker 3: you know, we did a way in the coming, you know,
40:02
Speaker 3: and so it's like, yes, of course, like I come
40:04
Speaker 3: from I'm a black man, who comes from a black city,
40:07
Speaker 3: who comes from the struggles of black people in this country.
40:14
Speaker 3: So I come from what my course, a lot of
40:16
Speaker 3: my core fans come from. So of course it's like
40:19
Speaker 3: if someone says something like do you have a problem,
40:20
Speaker 3: but the people who never even heard the question will
40:23
Speaker 3: be like, wait, you got a problem? It's like here, right,
40:28
Speaker 3: of course, I gotta say. You know what I'm saying,
40:30
Speaker 3: I'm defending that to say that I love black women
40:33
Speaker 3: and black women the most beautiful creatures on this planet,
40:36
Speaker 3: and why do you hate them?
40:39
Speaker 4: Talk about.
40:41
Speaker 1: Say?
40:42
Speaker 6: I feel like it made people do what he's doing
40:44
Speaker 6: right now.
40:46
Speaker 3: Bro, I look for everybody who hates Charlamagne. But where
40:53
Speaker 3: did you mean? What we met? I met? I met
40:59
Speaker 3: her in Florida years ago when I was living in Miami.
41:01
Speaker 3: We met and her mind was living at the time
41:03
Speaker 3: we met. Well, she was like, we knowing each other
41:07
Speaker 3: for like for like nine years. You know what I'm saying.
41:09
Speaker 3: So we've seen each other through relationship. We've been friends
41:12
Speaker 3: for so long.
41:13
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's about your when you talked about your experience,
41:17
Speaker 9: I had a problem with people having a problem with that,
41:20
Speaker 9: Like you just talked about you went into it more
41:24
Speaker 9: you were saying, because yeah, the question was asked, oh
41:27
Speaker 9: why don't you why do you have a problem with
41:28
Speaker 9: black women? And you're like, it's not that I don't
41:30
Speaker 9: have a problem with black women. You talked about your
41:32
Speaker 9: experience with the black women who was you know where we.
41:37
Speaker 3: Got to that the questions was just outrageous, Like, I
41:40
Speaker 3: don't even know, I don't know where these allegations began,
41:43
Speaker 3: these questions beg That's that's the point. I don't let's
41:45
Speaker 3: just set this straight. I don't know where they begin,
41:47
Speaker 3: and they're not I don't hold those like that's for
41:51
Speaker 3: like clickbait and all that. But when we got around
41:55
Speaker 3: to speaking about my experience that that came out of
41:59
Speaker 3: me saying, how could I have hate? Like, it's not
42:03
Speaker 3: it's not hate. Yes, I haven't had a beautiful experience
42:07
Speaker 3: as far as like the my story, you know, but
42:10
Speaker 3: that doesn't lead to hate, bro, that doesn't lead to hate.
42:12
Speaker 3: You know.
42:13
Speaker 5: It's interesting you're right about the questions because I you know,
42:16
Speaker 5: I'm interviewing you for years.
42:17
Speaker 4: I've never heard that before. But so when you hear
42:19
Speaker 4: a question like that, you think yourself.
42:22
Speaker 3: I'm gonna oh, he has wrong with it, so, you know,
42:26
Speaker 3: but I think it's just it's a matter of people
42:28
Speaker 3: getting to know me more, you know. And I'm like, okay,
42:30
Speaker 3: this is why interviews are important. This is why. And
42:33
Speaker 3: then when you get to a certain level when you
42:34
Speaker 3: want to do anything, no more cool because now they
42:37
Speaker 3: just talking about your music. But you have to have
42:38
Speaker 3: something in place of that for them to talk about. Right,
42:41
Speaker 3: So yeah, I get it.
42:43
Speaker 8: You answered the question. Do you think doing the interviews
42:46
Speaker 8: is even helpful? Because you explained and then they find
42:49
Speaker 8: another reason.
42:50
Speaker 3: Then I will say this. I think that there's always
42:53
Speaker 3: different perspectives based on how you enter the conversation. This
42:56
Speaker 3: is a different podcast, it's a different platform, her minds,
43:01
Speaker 3: you know, different energy, like everything is different. I don't mind.
43:04
Speaker 3: I'm an open book at this point. I don't mind
43:06
Speaker 3: having conversations. You know, I understand now how to navigate
43:10
Speaker 3: it better. But you know, you got to go through
43:12
Speaker 3: the through the mud sometimes. I understand, like, all right, cool,
43:15
Speaker 3: we got to make sure we stand and stand on
43:17
Speaker 3: solid girl.
43:18
Speaker 9: What you talk about when you talk about your girl
43:22
Speaker 9: being pregnant and you and something. You can't be there
43:24
Speaker 9: all the time because you wore tour and things like
43:25
Speaker 9: that and your first time, dad, and it's like wow, right,
43:28
Speaker 9: so you don't need this is the first time you're
43:30
Speaker 9: ever going through this. Are these the times where you
43:33
Speaker 9: like say, like damn, you wish your mom was here.
43:37
Speaker 9: Oh my god, You're like, damn, I wish I could
43:39
Speaker 9: just ask her what the hell I could do?
43:43
Speaker 3: I wish my mom was here for a lot of things.
43:44
Speaker 3: I wish my mom was here because she's one of
43:48
Speaker 3: the realist people I've ever known, you know, mother was.
43:52
Speaker 3: She's one of those people like anything that she wanted
43:57
Speaker 3: she could have had. She had a scholarship planning tennis.
44:00
Speaker 3: She was the number one tennis player in Maryland. You know,
44:02
Speaker 3: when she was young, she had a chemist she was
44:06
Speaker 3: a major in chemistry, bachelor's in chemistry. She loved God,
44:13
Speaker 3: you know, and she was a hustler, so she could
44:17
Speaker 3: have transmitted that energy into anything. I think that we
44:19
Speaker 3: would have made a great partnership in business because I'm
44:25
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm more thorough than I've ever been.
44:28
Speaker 3: I don't have any plans on not expand, like I'm
44:31
Speaker 3: expanding it other ways, and I think that she could
44:33
Speaker 3: have been right here with me. And of course having
44:35
Speaker 3: another grandmother for my child and having her be a
44:38
Speaker 3: part of my life. That's I mean, she here the spirit,
44:41
Speaker 3: but of course I would want that. But you know,
44:44
Speaker 3: my my girl's mom is an incredible out wailers so far.
44:48
Speaker 3: You know, she's been there, she's home right now and
44:51
Speaker 3: making sure she's straight. She's excited about it. You know,
44:54
Speaker 3: God don't make no mistakes in terms of like you
44:56
Speaker 3: know what it's meant for you, and how when you
45:01
Speaker 3: pray for things and you prepare for things, how God
45:03
Speaker 3: shows up. I think we're blessed you. But yeah, I
45:06
Speaker 3: would love that.
45:07
Speaker 5: After doing the work on yourself that you've done, finding
45:10
Speaker 5: so many personal answers, did that cause you to have more.
45:15
Speaker 4: Questions for your mom that you probably didn't get that.
45:20
Speaker 3: I've asked a lot of questions, you know. I think
45:22
Speaker 3: the thing that I've the thing that I've been sending
45:29
Speaker 3: her love for lately, because you know, is me forgiving
45:33
Speaker 3: her because spiritually, no one ever really dies, right, the
45:40
Speaker 3: energy doesn't die, it's just transmuted. So it's like sending
45:45
Speaker 3: her forgiveness and support, you know, for whatever her soul
45:49
Speaker 3: may be still struggling with or whatever her next journey is.
45:53
Speaker 3: I think that that's you know, that's what I do now,
45:57
Speaker 3: That's what I focus on now, you know, is that
45:59
Speaker 3: forgiveness for her, forgiving myself and just sending her so
46:02
Speaker 3: much support and love. Because there's been moments where during
46:05
Speaker 3: my spiritual journey when she would come visit me, and
46:09
Speaker 3: you know, anybody who understands the spiritual realm, there's been blockages,
46:13
Speaker 3: like just when I'm able to, like we're able to,
46:15
Speaker 3: there's something that comes in between and blocks it. I've
46:18
Speaker 3: had that happen a lot of times. So I'm like, okay,
46:20
Speaker 3: so I have there's still something I have to work on.
46:22
Speaker 3: So the more and more work on it, the closer
46:24
Speaker 3: and closer I feel that these other entities and things
46:27
Speaker 3: can't even blocking in the spiritual room because it's so
46:31
Speaker 3: much power because she has things that she tells me
46:36
Speaker 3: that I need to know, and when that those blockers,
46:39
Speaker 3: I can't get those. And so it's a real thing,
46:41
Speaker 3: and it happens in real life too, you know, with family,
46:44
Speaker 3: and there's entities that are built out of trauma and
46:48
Speaker 3: they become their own entities in your life and you
46:51
Speaker 3: don't work through those things, you can't heal with your
46:53
Speaker 3: dad or your mom or your sister, or your or
46:55
Speaker 3: your wife or your whatever, you know what I'm saying.
46:57
Speaker 3: So that's a real thing, and I think it doesn't
47:00
Speaker 3: change in the spiritual.
47:01
Speaker 5: Bro, do you believe, you know, after doing all this
47:03
Speaker 5: working on yourself, do you believe your life's purpose is
47:05
Speaker 5: bigger than music?
47:06
Speaker 3: One? Absolutely? Bro, Absolutely, I think that there's a spiritual
47:10
Speaker 3: side of it. There's a community building side of it.
47:15
Speaker 3: When I say that, I mean using my relationships to
47:17
Speaker 3: help build our communities. You know, I've been building myself
47:21
Speaker 3: back up over these past few years, but now I'm
47:23
Speaker 3: like branching out to be like, Okay, how can I
47:25
Speaker 3: use my relationships to make sure in this new world
47:28
Speaker 3: that's happening? You know, my people, my community. You know,
47:31
Speaker 3: we just have a you know, we're put in a
47:33
Speaker 3: position where people understand our power and understand our unity
47:37
Speaker 3: in a different way. And it's it's gonna take a
47:39
Speaker 3: lot of work, but that's like where my head is at.
47:43
Speaker 3: But also just owning things and being able to be creative.
47:47
Speaker 3: Like I'm working on a museum right now that I
47:49
Speaker 3: don't know exactly where I'm gonna put it yet, but
47:51
Speaker 3: it's it's gonna be everything sound. I can't say the
47:53
Speaker 3: whole concept because there's a lot of rich people out
47:56
Speaker 3: there that can make it suit happen, but like, but yeah,
47:58
Speaker 3: it's it's gonna be incredible, and then just a lot
48:01
Speaker 3: of other things. Man, And I feel like it's showing
48:06
Speaker 3: not only my fans and people who's been watching my
48:08
Speaker 3: career for a long time, that yo, you can be
48:10
Speaker 3: whoever you want to be. And we have always been
48:13
Speaker 3: some of the most creative beings on this planet and
48:16
Speaker 3: creating things that's never been created before. This is what
48:19
Speaker 3: I want to do. That's my goal. And it goes
48:21
Speaker 3: for everything from music to tech, business, you know, social experiences, restaurants,
48:30
Speaker 3: all types of things. You know, there's there's a lot
48:31
Speaker 3: of things happening, you know, and even writing being an author.
48:35
Speaker 3: I have like three books that I've written but that
48:38
Speaker 3: I haven't put out yet because I don't know. Every
48:39
Speaker 3: time there's a new version of me, I'm like.
48:41
Speaker 4: You gotta go back and chang.
48:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, yeah, I gotta go back and change.
48:44
Speaker 3: Have you ever experienced that, like you put out books? Like,
48:46
Speaker 3: how does that for you?
48:47
Speaker 4: I can do that with every single book that I've written.
48:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, go back and change certain.
48:51
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, the first book was you know, up
48:54
Speaker 5: to a certain point in my life.
48:55
Speaker 4: So it was these lessons that I learned.
48:56
Speaker 5: Yeah, my second book, I was completely empty because I
48:59
Speaker 5: asked the doing to work on myself and started to
49:01
Speaker 5: go into therapy and stuff. So everything I thought I
49:04
Speaker 5: knew I was like, Yo, I really don't know nothing.
49:06
Speaker 5: I was just I learned a whole bunch of stuff.
49:08
Speaker 5: Then my third book, you know, it really came to
49:10
Speaker 5: me after a plant based experience, you know, with ayahuasca.
49:15
Speaker 5: I went on the ayahuasca journey and the same thing
49:17
Speaker 5: came up for me that came up for you. It's like, yo,
49:20
Speaker 5: stop lying to yourself and stop volunteering those lives to
49:22
Speaker 5: other people. So it's like, yeah, every every book has
49:26
Speaker 5: been a different version of me.
49:27
Speaker 3: So that's where I'm at now. Is just like okay,
49:29
Speaker 3: which which there's all these like versions, all of them
49:33
Speaker 3: have truth, right, but which ones connected dots to where
49:36
Speaker 3: I am right now? So that's kind of where I'm
49:38
Speaker 3: at with that. But yeah, that's it's just I'm just bro.
49:40
Speaker 3: I'm just ready to continue to grow. You know, music
49:43
Speaker 3: is my passion. But you know, with that comes all
49:46
Speaker 3: these other things, more touring, bigger, bigger shows and bigger
49:49
Speaker 3: opportunities and just you know, just growing me and my
49:52
Speaker 3: team growing.
49:53
Speaker 5: What what's the message you think men need to hear
49:55
Speaker 5: today that we don't talk about enough.
49:59
Speaker 3: I don't think men applaud out the better things about
50:08
Speaker 3: each other enough. It's like, you know, if you see
50:11
Speaker 3: your homie like that've been struggling with something for years
50:14
Speaker 3: and he he's getting over it or he's trying to
50:17
Speaker 3: get over it, appalled that, you know what I mean,
50:19
Speaker 3: showing some love, show him you see that, Like, Yo,
50:21
Speaker 3: that's shit, cool, bro, like that shit that. I'm inspired,
50:24
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. I think escapism, escaping the hour,
50:31
Speaker 3: traumas with drugs and you know, maybe nightlife or whatever.
50:37
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, everybody like to have fun, but
50:39
Speaker 3: you know, just really like taking like the time to
50:42
Speaker 3: really take your future serious. You know, sit down for
50:46
Speaker 3: a minute, like maybe save some bread, Like sit back,
50:49
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, look at your life, look
50:51
Speaker 3: at the people in your life, and really analyze, like, Okay,
50:54
Speaker 3: if if something is calling me to grow, all these
50:58
Speaker 3: people around me going to help me g go out there.
51:01
Speaker 3: Part of that part do they want to grow like,
51:03
Speaker 3: because we get comfortable with our relationships. And I've I
51:07
Speaker 3: realized this because I've had so many different people come
51:10
Speaker 3: in and out of my life and a different parts
51:12
Speaker 3: of who I am in my life, you know, different
51:14
Speaker 3: parts of my journey. And sometimes we get scared to
51:17
Speaker 3: let people go and not let them go as in like, oh,
51:19
Speaker 3: I don't fuck with you, but just let them go.
51:21
Speaker 3: Is in't like, Yo, I need this next few much
51:23
Speaker 3: to myself, bro or sist. You know, I gotta I
51:27
Speaker 3: gotta level up in life. There's some things that God
51:29
Speaker 3: is putting on me, you know, and hopefully I can
51:31
Speaker 3: help you with that, you know, But I just need
51:33
Speaker 3: some time. And it's not personal. Not everybody gonna take
51:36
Speaker 3: that well, but sometimes we gotta do that, man, and
51:38
Speaker 3: then circle the block and be like, yo, I see
51:40
Speaker 3: things from a different perspective. I don't think we talk
51:43
Speaker 3: about that enough in terms of it being something real
51:46
Speaker 3: that can really change your life. There's a few things, man,
51:50
Speaker 3: I mean that's yeah, that's just the name of you.
51:53
Speaker 9: Yeah, this is real quick. This ain't even no question.
51:57
Speaker 9: I've always wanted.
51:58
Speaker 6: To tell you. You snapped on.
52:01
Speaker 9: The cry with appreciate. Man, what that's crazy. He'd be
52:06
Speaker 9: snapping on these features.
52:08
Speaker 3: Just thank you. I might put the whole project out
52:10
Speaker 3: with features just for fun for sure.
52:13
Speaker 4: That yeah, you never heard that? Who is Down.
52:23
Speaker 3: Is a streamer?
52:23
Speaker 2: At this point, ray J is coming up this week
52:27
Speaker 2: show anybody what what.
52:29
Speaker 3: Would you say to ray J? Would I say to him?
52:31
Speaker 3: What would you say the ray J? Already man stopped
52:34
Speaker 3: stop his car for his breaks? Break you know what
52:37
Speaker 3: I'm saying, like break it? You know what I mean?
52:38
Speaker 3: But I told you before he ray J, you know
52:41
Speaker 3: he is. He a troller. He gonna troll. But he
52:44
Speaker 3: know what time it is, man, he knows. He said
52:46
Speaker 3: one which is bigger than let me look. But anyway, listen,
52:49
Speaker 3: I'm on tour right now, nothing but us tour. You
52:52
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. We outside New York was amazing.
52:55
Speaker 3: The energy in New York. You know, we got like
52:57
Speaker 3: I think like eight more dates. Project Moose Swings is
53:01
Speaker 3: out right now. Yeah, we were outside, man, I was
53:05
Speaker 3: that's all about to say. You gotta put me in
53:07
Speaker 3: different conversations. Like right, I was on Brandy Show like
53:12
Speaker 3: two weeks ago. We did last weekend. What we do
53:15
Speaker 3: before that we did Jonas Brothers, Like, you know, it's
53:20
Speaker 3: just any stage. I'm on too many stages for ray
53:22
Speaker 3: j D. Even he can't come on.
53:24
Speaker 9: You know, it's up big ship, Big Mario and not
53:27
Speaker 9: Luigi brother, like stop playing, let's play.
53:31
Speaker 3: Wait, I'm not a question, yeah question.
53:35
Speaker 8: You just did it here and it made me think
53:36
Speaker 8: of it when you came out at the Brandy and
53:38
Speaker 8: Monica show.
53:38
Speaker 6: You think Brandy but not Monica.
53:41
Speaker 3: It wasn't even not it wasn't even that type of thing.
53:44
Speaker 8: It wasn't even tried to make it a thing on
53:45
Speaker 8: excellent just say that Brandy, And I'm like, was that
53:48
Speaker 8: like what?
53:49
Speaker 3: Nah? Shout out to Monica. Bro, there's nothing, It's I
53:52
Speaker 3: came out on Brandy set. You know what I'm saying.
53:54
Speaker 3: So I was just giving like, yeah, it was nothing.
53:57
Speaker 3: First of all, Monica is amazing. I love Monica like
53:59
Speaker 3: me and like every time like like it's something dope
54:03
Speaker 3: on like she always comment on her. I come like
54:05
Speaker 3: it's all love, like that's gang. So like, yeah, I
54:08
Speaker 3: think these narratives. It's yeah. And in the moment, like
54:12
Speaker 3: when you're on stage, in the moment sometimes you just
54:14
Speaker 3: like trying to remember everything and be present, like you
54:16
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. But yeah, it's nothing. I'm happy
54:19
Speaker 3: to see both of them on tour, even when I
54:21
Speaker 3: post it. When I was on the stage, I congratulated
54:24
Speaker 3: both of them like I gave them both flowers. Yeah,
54:27
Speaker 3: so people just be taking it out of proportion, man,
54:30
Speaker 3: trying to make me an R and B villain. Man,
54:32
Speaker 3: I don't want to now embrace it.
54:37
Speaker 6: That one was unfair adel because yeah.
54:40
Speaker 5: By the way, about the shadows side though, when you
54:44
Speaker 5: feel comfortable over.
54:45
Speaker 3: There, I'm not trying to embrace that me and I'm
54:50
Speaker 3: me embracing that. It's different, bro, from it's not. I
54:55
Speaker 3: don't need like, I don't need drugs to be dark.
54:57
Speaker 3: I don't need like I don't want to be I
55:00
Speaker 3: don't want to go there. I did. I don't want
55:02
Speaker 3: to go there no more. I don't want to go
55:04
Speaker 3: there because I can't. What if I like it, That's.
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Speaker 4: What I'm saying A little. That's the scared part when
55:11
Speaker 4: you don't want to be there, you know, I feel.
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Speaker 1: Good, like what if I like it?
55:15
Speaker 3: And then it's now I got to create this whole
55:17
Speaker 3: other thing around me And it's like, nah, bro, I listen,
55:21
Speaker 3: I got too many blessings in my life right now
55:23
Speaker 3: to me, things that I'm creating, great partners that are
55:27
Speaker 3: just like wanting to like invest in things I'm doing.
55:30
Speaker 3: I too much. This is too much to lose.
55:32
Speaker 4: I'm happy for you, brother, I appreciate it. I really
55:34
Speaker 4: enjoyed this conversation.
55:36
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
55:36
Speaker 4: Hearing you do the work is good.
55:37
Speaker 3: You want yeah, yeah, weide. I just want to make
55:41
Speaker 3: sure you're missing nothing. Mood swings out right now.
55:45
Speaker 4: You know.
55:46
Speaker 3: Everybody having mood swings right now, you know, and it's hey, move,
55:49
Speaker 3: invite the mood swings, balance it out, enjoy it. You know,
55:53
Speaker 3: Let's get back to love. Let's keep R and B alive, Bros.
55:56
Speaker 3: R and B is such an important genre, you know.
55:59
Speaker 3: It allows us to explore love, and it allows us to
56:02
Speaker 3: explore intimacy, allows us to have fun, and we can
56:05
Speaker 3: have different conversations in it. It's just it's just all
56:08
Speaker 3: encompassing genre. I wouldn't want to pick any other genre.
56:10
Speaker 3: Moose swings out right now. I don't even know what
56:12
Speaker 3: to play of it. We could play home, we could
56:15
Speaker 3: play have y'all heard the EP yet? All right? Cool?
56:17
Speaker 3: When y'all get a chance press play when you get
56:19
Speaker 3: back to the crib, that thing.
56:23
Speaker 4: But you ad.
56:26
Speaker 3: Yo play all right, cool cool, let's hear nobody but nobody,
56:29
Speaker 3: but yeah, yes, the breakfast club is Mario. Hold on,
56:33
Speaker 3: every day, wake up the breakfast club.
56:37
Speaker 4: You don't finish for y'all done.