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Best of full interview: Omarion Talks Millennium Tour, The Art Of Swooning A Woman, Love Life + More · The Breakfast Club

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
• 0:02
  Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Morning.
• 0:04
  Speaker 3: Everybody's DJ Envy Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are
• 0:08
  Speaker 3: the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes,
• 0:11
  Speaker 3: sir a Marion, He welcome back.
• 0:14
  Speaker 4: Hey, what was the routine this morning? Man? What did
• 0:16
  Speaker 4: you do to wake up?
• 0:18
  Speaker 5: Prey meditation, little moment to myself. You know what I'm saying,
• 0:22
  Speaker 5: Shower up, get fresh, say my affirmations, put on my ood.
• 0:27
  Speaker 5: I'm here.
• 0:27
  Speaker 4: What was your intention for today?
• 0:30
  Speaker 5: They just have a good time. You know what I'm saying.
• 0:33
  Speaker 5: Not put too much on it. You know what I'm saying.
• 0:35
  Speaker 6: You weren't known as the zen King?
• 0:37
  Speaker 7: Like how do you stay so tranquil, like, so zenful
• 0:43
  Speaker 7: through everything? Like you don't let nothing bother you. I
• 0:46
  Speaker 7: done came at you so many times, so many This
• 0:50
  Speaker 7: man lets nothing get to him.
• 0:54
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to get I'm intentional. Yeah, I'm intentional. And
• 0:58
  Speaker 5: also I don't take things personal. You know what I'm saying.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: The wild thing is, you know, Marion. I just looked
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: it up. Marion is forty years old.
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: Crazy, We've been seeing him grow up.
• 1:07
  Speaker 4: He's still don't.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: Like Marion foty you still got babyhead forty. Yes, yes,
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: that's a blessing.
• 1:20
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 1:21
  Speaker 3: People still look at you as like a young I
• 1:24
  Speaker 3: can't say team, but a young twenty year old because
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: that's what you look like.
• 1:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean it does confuse people sometimes, but yeah,
• 1:31
  Speaker 5: I think I made it to young status at this
• 1:33
  Speaker 5: at this point in time, you.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: Ain't don kid, so is.
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: You can't be.
• 1:44
  Speaker 6: No Millennium Toys back?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, yes, I'm super excited about it. We
• 1:49
  Speaker 5: played Barclays on the twenty first, so if you ain't
• 1:52
  Speaker 5: got your ticket, definitely pop out. It's a moment. It's
• 1:55
  Speaker 5: a moment.
• 1:56
  Speaker 6: What keeps you doing all?
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: Is that?
• 1:57
  Speaker 6: That all?
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  Speaker 4: He is?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
• 1:59
  Speaker 6: What keeps you doing this?
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: He's still doing flips and dead Like, why you twist?
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: You ain't gonna take a long time to heal.
• 2:07
  Speaker 5: No. Actually, I have a routine of making sure that I,
• 2:11
  Speaker 5: you know, stay energized. I'm a performer, so it's important
• 2:14
  Speaker 5: that I take care of my body. But the Millennium Tour,
• 2:16
  Speaker 5: you know, is a series concert that has brought nostalgic
• 2:20
  Speaker 5: literally back on the planet. You know, my error in
• 2:22
  Speaker 5: my time. I'm so happy to been a part of
• 2:25
  Speaker 5: it because you know, it brings you back to a
• 2:27
  Speaker 5: memory and creates a new memory at the same time.
• 2:30
  Speaker 5: You know, so I'm excited. Yeah, were keeping it going.
• 2:33
  Speaker 5: We're keeping that energy going.
• 2:35
  Speaker 8: Can I ask you what forty felt like? I remember
• 2:37
  Speaker 8: how I felt when I turned forty.
• 2:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, where were you?
• 2:40
  Speaker 4: What were you doing?
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: How did it feel?
• 2:43
  Speaker 8: Because to me, it felt like I really into the
• 2:45
  Speaker 8: new dimension when I turned for it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. So I usually don't do anything for myself, and
• 2:50
  Speaker 5: shout out to Janine who helped me put together my
• 2:54
  Speaker 5: birthday party. But I had a birthday party in Malibu
• 2:58
  Speaker 5: and it was such an amazing gathering. You know, all
• 3:01
  Speaker 5: of my friends came out of my family. So I
• 3:03
  Speaker 5: did something for myself, you know, which was thought party.
• 3:06
  Speaker 5: Was a lot of beautiful people in the building. So
• 3:09
  Speaker 5: that's what I did for my birthday.
• 3:11
  Speaker 8: Did you feel like yourself going into a different level
• 3:13
  Speaker 8: of conscience?
• 3:14
  Speaker 5: For sure, a different level of maturity, a certain level
• 3:19
  Speaker 5: of expectation for myself. The things that I'm creating now,
• 3:23
  Speaker 5: you know why am I still doing it? I definitely
• 3:25
  Speaker 5: feel like I've arrived because you know, I'm one of
• 3:28
  Speaker 5: the few entertainers that have grown up in the public eye.
• 3:31
  Speaker 5: So growing up has you know, been a challenge. It's
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  Speaker 5: sometimes in my career, you know what I mean. So
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  Speaker 5: I finally feel like I've arrived to that place where
• 3:41
  Speaker 5: you know, I can have a say so and people
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  Speaker 5: are understanding and respected.
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  Speaker 1: So now, how do you'all figure out who closes the
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: Millennium Tour?
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  Speaker 9: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Who closes that show?
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  Speaker 3: You got so many artists on it, right, and you're
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  Speaker 3: one of the originators on that tour.
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: So who closes the Millennium Tour?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it is a co headline, you know, myself, Trey
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  Speaker 5: and Bao, So it's it's kind of meant to be
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  Speaker 5: like a festival vibe. You know, any real performing artists
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  Speaker 5: will tell you sometimes it's not best to close the
• 4:12
  Speaker 5: show because you know the energy is drained. You know,
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  Speaker 5: you kind of want to go maybe second before you know,
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  Speaker 5: the last. So for me, yeah, I don't really trip
• 4:20
  Speaker 5: off of that. But yeah, that's how we decide between
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  Speaker 5: us and the promoters.
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  Speaker 3: How do you headline? So is it like you do
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  Speaker 3: two then you jump in dough two. Yeah, Trey jumps
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  Speaker 3: into do tune and exactly.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe Trey will close and then me and Boo
• 4:32
  Speaker 5: will swap in between you know, him going last before
• 4:35
  Speaker 5: Trey or me be going last before Trey.
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  Speaker 7: So yeah, so I know before you know, the Millennium Tour,
• 4:43
  Speaker 7: it was B two K.
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  Speaker 6: Why not this run?
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  Speaker 5: Well, this one was kind of more so framed for
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  Speaker 5: this class you know, all the If you look at
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  Speaker 5: the you know who's on there now, it's a lot
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  Speaker 5: of non Millennium you know artists, you know what I'm saying, Like,
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  Speaker 5: I think it's so cool that Boosy is going to
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  Speaker 5: be on there, you know what I mean. Yeah, applies,
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  Speaker 5: I think we're gonna get some special guests as well,
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  Speaker 5: so exactly the whole vibe. So it's kind of, I
• 5:13
  Speaker 5: would say, a little bit different than you know, like
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  Speaker 5: the previous years. So yeah, that's that's.
• 5:19
  Speaker 6: How Why are we getting all the old like that?
• 5:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Getting the classic? Getting the classics? Yeah, we're getting
• 5:28
  Speaker 5: the classic. It's actually my twentieth year anniversary of putting
• 5:32
  Speaker 5: in being a solo artist. Yeah, time is flying flying, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: so yeah, we get into classics and also I'll be
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  Speaker 5: introducing some new music, you know, I mean, I got
• 5:44
  Speaker 5: some new music, some new slaps. I'm gonna be performing
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  Speaker 5: as well.
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  Speaker 8: So you said something that was interesting. You said growing
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  Speaker 8: up for you was a challenge. Why was growing up
• 5:52
  Speaker 8: a challenge did you mean personally or professionally both?
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  Speaker 5: All just because you know, when you're young and people
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  Speaker 5: see you're young and you don't change, you know what
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Like physically, you know, because I take care
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  Speaker 5: of myself. You know, people tend to just you know,
• 6:08
  Speaker 5: put you where they thought that you were, you know
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  Speaker 5: what I'm saying. So, yeah, it's been a challenge in
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  Speaker 5: that way. And then also in business, you know, just
• 6:16
  Speaker 5: really being able to like have a say so and
• 6:18
  Speaker 5: then I just be like, Okay, well you're a kid,
• 6:21
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. Any child stars will tell
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  Speaker 5: you. You know, having a foot in control in their business
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  Speaker 5: is a struggle when you start young.
• 6:31
  Speaker 4: When did that change?
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  Speaker 8: Like when did the people start saying, okay, this is
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  Speaker 8: Amri on the grown man, not the kid.
• 6:36
  Speaker 5: I think once I really started taking full responsibility for
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  Speaker 5: my independence, you know, trying different things. I think that
• 6:44
  Speaker 5: you know, when you're in the industry for a long time,
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  Speaker 5: it is peaks and valleys. You know, you're not going
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  Speaker 5: to have ten hot moments, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: You might have a down moment, you might have a
• 6:53
  Speaker 5: transitional moment. I think that it's okay, you know, when
• 6:57
  Speaker 5: you're finding your way and I feel like after my
• 7:00
  Speaker 5: last couple of projects, you know, just supporting myself, being independent,
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  Speaker 5: like I started to feel like, Okay, now I have
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  Speaker 5: control of my career. Oh I want to put this out. Okay,
• 7:12
  Speaker 5: maybe I should put it out this way, you know,
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  Speaker 5: maybe I should do things differently. You know, I grew
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  Speaker 5: I grew into that. So I'm like very proud of that,
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  Speaker 5: you know, because a lot of artists don't get the
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  Speaker 5: chance to do that.
• 7:23
  Speaker 4: That's true.
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  Speaker 8: And nobody talks about that, right, Like nobody talks about
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  Speaker 8: when you're red hot, and yeah, there's an ice box
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  Speaker 8: for your career used to be, you know, Like I mean,
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  Speaker 8: I don't feel like you've ever been through that because
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  Speaker 8: you're always.
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  Speaker 4: On the road.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And I've been gifted, you know, with the talent to
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  Speaker 5: be able to do many things. Like two years ago,
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  Speaker 5: I believe the last time we spoke, you know, I
• 7:44
  Speaker 5: was promoting my book. So there's always something for me
• 7:48
  Speaker 5: to do. Something new that I just did that's really
• 7:51
  Speaker 5: exciting is a show called The Wild Rolls with All Black.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm going to be you know, hitting your TVs
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  Speaker 5: and too. I was in twenty six. I play an assassin,
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  Speaker 5: so it's something different. First of all, Yeah, I'm doing
• 8:05
  Speaker 5: fighting scenes. I'm socking and popping. Wow, so you will
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  Speaker 5: be seeing.
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  Speaker 6: Me hold King is now an assassin.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you know I'm acting, right, but you know
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  Speaker 5: the real true measure of an actor is to tell
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  Speaker 5: the truth. You know what I'm saying. So get to
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  Speaker 5: show a different side of myself. I'm excited about.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like that's a natural transition for all you
• 8:22
  Speaker 4: flexible guys. You Chris Brown movie.
• 8:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, women assart, you know, And I got a
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: different respect for you now, right, And I tell you why.
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: So my daughter's dance right uh. And the amount of I.
• 8:38
  Speaker 3: Would say pressure they have one day dance, but also
• 8:41
  Speaker 3: the amount of time it takes the practice. Yeah, like
• 8:44
  Speaker 3: I never thought about it. And then when they go
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: to these competitions, they dance and every day they they
• 8:47
  Speaker 3: do ballet, hip hop, jazz, whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that O Marion has to do that end
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  Speaker 3: scene and not worry about and not lose breath and
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  Speaker 3: remember the steps.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, growing up, how often did you dance?
• 9:00
  Speaker 5: Like how every day? Every day? Every day? That was
• 9:03
  Speaker 5: like a big part of you know, my existence in
• 9:07
  Speaker 5: my career. Dancing his second nature. And the singing part too,
• 9:11
  Speaker 5: you know, the breath you know really uh, you know,
• 9:14
  Speaker 5: being able to know like, okay, this is a live performance,
• 9:17
  Speaker 5: maybe I shouldn't do the routine right here. I definitely
• 9:20
  Speaker 5: have grown in that space.
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: Even even boys. I don't see too many boys, young
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  Speaker 3: boys of men dancing. Yeah, you see every a thousand girls.
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: You see two boys. Yeah, yeah, because I guess it's
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: the thing that a new boy wants to dance.
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  Speaker 5: But it's crazy because it's a whole language, you know,
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  Speaker 5: especially when it comes to women. You know, when you
• 9:40
  Speaker 5: learn how to lead women and dance, you know how
• 9:43
  Speaker 5: to lead them in real life.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: So do you have this chill and dance?
• 9:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 9:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah. My daughter's in gymnastics. My son he
• 9:50
  Speaker 5: more so, like he's too a little too cool for it.
• 9:53
  Speaker 5: I was the same way early on. But yeah he
• 9:55
  Speaker 5: still can. He still can dance.
• 9:57
  Speaker 4: But that's how you used to do some women, Let
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  Speaker 4: me show you some moves, you.
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: Know, that's what you do.
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  Speaker 5: No, I started the mine first. I started with the
• 10:05
  Speaker 5: mine first, and then and then you know, then I
• 10:08
  Speaker 5: get into dance moves.
• 10:09
  Speaker 4: Did When did you first start learning to dance?
• 10:12
  Speaker 5: It's I had my first dance recital at either three
• 10:15
  Speaker 5: or five.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 10:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so and it was tap dance. So I've
• 10:18
  Speaker 5: been dancing my whole life.
• 10:19
  Speaker 4: So they always they always knew that you was going
• 10:21
  Speaker 4: to be an entertainer.
• 10:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, wow, yeah, very much.
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: So with the dance world so big, you never thought
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: about doing something in dance, like you know how they
• 10:27
  Speaker 3: have America's got talent and all these different challenges and
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: all these different shows. You never thought about creating your
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: own because you want to hip hop's dances. Yeah no,
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: I definitely see an old girl at the Olympics and what.
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: People thought hip hop break dance was right right right?
• 10:41
  Speaker 5: Damn I was. I was mad at that. Yeah, I
• 10:43
  Speaker 5: was mad at that. But yeah, I definitely I want
• 10:46
  Speaker 5: to open up some dance studios. I believe I've been
• 10:48
  Speaker 5: talking about it for years, but just you know, really
• 10:50
  Speaker 5: waiting for the opportunity to create a creative space for kids,
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  Speaker 5: because that's how I grew up. You know, I went
• 10:57
  Speaker 5: to the Boys and Girls Club. It was always stuff
• 10:59
  Speaker 5: to do, you know, so I'm definitely gonna do either
• 11:02
  Speaker 5: a TV show or open up a facility for sure. Sure.
• 11:06
  Speaker 7: Now going back to wild Rose, right, because you also executive,
• 11:09
  Speaker 7: like you yeah, producing that too. What was the process
• 11:13
  Speaker 7: of like getting into that role, because I mean because
• 11:16
  Speaker 7: planning assassin that just.
• 11:18
  Speaker 6: Don't come natural to you, or have you kill niggas before.
• 11:20
  Speaker 7: You know, you know, what was that process like?
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  Speaker 5: So that process was deep. You know, I definitely had
• 11:28
  Speaker 5: an assistance with my acting coach, and you know, I
• 11:31
  Speaker 5: really started diving into who is this person? Who is Rose?
• 11:35
  Speaker 5: You know, he has twenty seven bodies, so he does
• 11:38
  Speaker 5: have a lot of uh psychological and emotional issues and
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: how it pertained to you know, this particular scene or
• 11:47
  Speaker 5: you know, at one point in time, we reveal that
• 11:51
  Speaker 5: my family is not no longer with me. That's something
• 11:55
  Speaker 5: that brings him anxiety. He's actually a righteous kill sometimes,
• 11:59
  Speaker 5: you know, he gets in trouble with his agency, which
• 12:01
  Speaker 5: is called Civil By the way, Vanessa E. Williams plays
• 12:07
  Speaker 5: my mom, and I also want to talk about my boy, Yeah,
• 12:14
  Speaker 5: Alan Payne, my boy, Allan Payne plays my father you
• 12:17
  Speaker 5: know in it. So I'm surrounded by great, incredible actors.
• 12:23
  Speaker 5: But yeah, I did my due diligence, and also I
• 12:26
  Speaker 5: really wanted to bring the character to light because he
• 12:28
  Speaker 5: struggles with I think a lot of things that a
• 12:31
  Speaker 5: lot of men go through, and that is is wanting
• 12:34
  Speaker 5: to have a foundational relationship with with their family, you
• 12:39
  Speaker 5: know what I mean. It's obviously tumultuous because I'm an assassin,
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: but I show that journey. I end up Bodygarden for
• 12:47
  Speaker 5: this very famous singer named Somaya. Shout out to Casey Gardner,
• 12:52
  Speaker 5: a new actress that's going to be on the scene,
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: and shout out to DAIJ. Lib Ray. But it's gonna
• 12:57
  Speaker 5: be something to watch, so look for that All Black
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 8: That's got to be tough, though, when you are a
• 13:04
  Speaker 8: person who practices mindfulness the way you do, Yeah, to
• 13:07
  Speaker 8: get into a person who's dealing with so much, it
• 13:10
  Speaker 8: is how did you get out of get out of character?
• 13:14
  Speaker 5: I made certain ticks, you know, for the character, and
• 13:17
  Speaker 5: I also, you know, lend myself to it, so it
• 13:21
  Speaker 5: was never in a negative way. You know, there are
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: certain scenes where you know, I, without giving away too
• 13:29
  Speaker 5: much of the story, there are certain scenes where I
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: had to like really dig deep beyond myself and do
• 13:35
  Speaker 5: the research, like, you know, how would I feel if
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: I killed someone? You know, what would I feel?
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 13:43
  Speaker 5: And because I've you know, stitched out the character so well,
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: I'm able to kind of say, okay, this is the
• 13:49
  Speaker 5: difference between me and him. You know, now I can
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: take him off and I can be myself. So little
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: stuff like that my wardrobe, the way I looked, I
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: looked differently.
• 13:58
  Speaker 8: So do you have boundaries for as far as far
• 14:01
  Speaker 8: as how far you'll go as an actor?
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: Like how far you how deep you go?
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: I haven't found any yet. I haven't found any yet.
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: I think the only maybe challenge would be like cutting
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: my hair, Yeah, because you know, my hair is sacred
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: to me. It's something that is spiritual for me too,
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: my spiritual antennas. So that's like, uh, I went out
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: for a bunch of different roles. Actually I went out
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: for a Sammy Davis Junior row. That was a conversation.
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: That was a conversation. That was a tough one, just
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: because I feel like, to a degree, you know, you
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: don't want to lose yourself in certain characters. You know,
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: you're playing a character for three months. It really does
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: become who you are. So I'm very mindful that that's
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: probably my only challenge.
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: But there's wigs.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: You put all that under wigs, now you can't.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: You can wrap this thing up.
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: You feel me padded down. It's some real profect in
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: this game.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Trust me.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: Yo.
• 15:02
  Speaker 8: That's interesting, man, because I wonder what's more important nowadays,
• 15:05
  Speaker 8: your personal or your professional because it's only like you said,
• 15:07
  Speaker 8: it's only three months. Yeah, but then I got to
• 15:09
  Speaker 8: live the rest of my life and I'm the one
• 15:11
  Speaker 8: that got to deal with this.
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: Exactly Is it worth it? I don't know, you know.
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: I think I think for some people it depends on
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: the check, you know. And for a person like me,
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: I think it it depends on the story. It depends
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: on where I am and if I really do feel
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: like it is my duty as as an actor to
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: tell this story. So I think it's some factors, you
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: know what I mean. But I'm very like connected with
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: myself spiritually, and my hair is a is an identity,
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: you know, for for myself.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: So what's the spiritual connection with your hair?
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: Just your intennas? You know. I think when you see
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: people that grow hair, you know that it takes time.
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: Anytime you see any elders that have long hair, you know,
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: you respect them automatically because you know it's a process.
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: And also I come from a hair family, so you know,
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: having healthy here has always been just you know, mandatory.
• 16:03
  Speaker 9: So you look down on ball people, nah, because I
• 16:10
  Speaker 9: am filically challenged. None of this, you know, people, there
• 16:18
  Speaker 9: is no Actually it's certain ball people you just don't
• 16:21
  Speaker 9: want to mess with, you know what, So disrespect.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: I want to get into R and B music. What's
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: your thoughts on R and B music now?
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Growing up, there was always R and B groups.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Right, whether it was white or black, whether it's New
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Addition or Pretty Ricky or B two K or whoever
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: may be voiced.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Man, you don't see that now?
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Why is that? And why do you think that is?
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: What's your thoughts on R and B music today?
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: I think that R and B music is an ever
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: evolving changing you know, just like all genres of music,
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: you know, country coming back. I feel like it goes
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: through a type of evolution. I think R and B
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: is is is definitely rearing its head back in the
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: sentimental and expressive way that we talk about our emotions.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: You know, that's why I loved R and B. I
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: loved R and B because you know, there was this
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: sentiment that you know, if it was your ice box,
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: you know, representing your heart, these metaphors that kind of
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: allow men to express themselves. So I feel like it's
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: it's in a it's in a dope state. Like one
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: of my favorite songs out right now is Mutt by Leon,
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: So it's like when people like him and you know,
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: some other new artists that you know, have really put
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: the time in to express their emotion. I feel like
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: it's it's going.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Back a specifically groups.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Okaymore, do you think people don't want to put the
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: time and energy and effort into it anymore?
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: They want to quick turn around?
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: No, I think I think I think it's that that's
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: a factor. And I also feel like I don't know
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: if there's I haven't seen a lot of people banded
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: together outside of like hip hop and gangs, you know
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying, Like it's not I'm pretty sure there's
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: some out there, but not at the forefront yet, And
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: I feel like that time, you know, maybe within a
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: year or two, we'll probably see some some really dope groups.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: But it's just like I think everybody also to have
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: the expectation that at some point in time they'll break up,
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: you know. So I think that there is a brotherhood,
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: a type of brotherhood you have to kind of display, and.
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: That does take a lot of time, right, I mean,
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: like even like because what you can do solo, it
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: would take what ten times long in the door with
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: the group because that's like one band, one sound, y'all
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: have to get on one accorder exactly all a linearman is,
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: you know, all of that. So that did it took
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: a lot of time. It did with making music with
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: B TWOK as supposed to doing it yourself.
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, can you can you have a great group
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: or maybe even a great R and B singer without
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: artist development.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: I feel like that's what's missing from the game.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: That is missing from the game. Yeah, And I will
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: say that is the reason why, you know, for us,
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: you know, when I was in the group, that we
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: had the run that we had because we spent so
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: much time together. We had one common goal, you know,
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: we were focused on one thing, and it's so hard,
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: you know, after success to kind of keep that path.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: So it is a little bit more difficult unless it's
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: like family. But even family, you know, family fight too,
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. So yeah, I think it
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: is you know, about developing something, and I would love
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: to do that in the future, you know, if I
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: ever had an opportunity to, you know, bring a group
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: to the forefront, you know what I mean. I feel
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: like that's what's missing too. It's just like having elders,
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: having people that have gone through certain experiences is like,
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: you know, some of the Wayians, you know, they don't
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: have big homies, you know, they don't have people that
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: could be like, I'm going through this, you know what
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: do you think? I can't wait for the game to
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: get back to that place.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: And also, you know what we jacked Edge was here.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were talking about people don't sing to the
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: vagina anymore.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Ask, they don't at me like that talking, they don't
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: beg anymore.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the vagina has.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Changed genetically modified.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the vaginant has changed changed. Yeah. I feel like,
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: you know, you know, there's this thing called soft girl era,
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean, And I don't know, it's
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: just I feel like it's so materialistic, you know what
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: I mean, Like in order to really you know, swoon
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: a woman. You have to really find a particular type
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: and you have to appeal to her, you know, differently
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: than you maybe had to appeal to her generally speaking
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: back in the day, you know what I mean. So
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: I would say it's it's different, you know, how you
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: can wake up those senses. It depends on the woman,
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. Because some women will not
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: be turned on by a nice guy, you know, I mean,
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: some women get turned on by assholes and people who
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: are disrespectful and call them out their names. Some women
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: are really just into that, you know what I mean.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Some women you know, vagina only get wet with money,
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. So, yeah, I think I
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: think it's a little bit different than you have to
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: be more specific if you really want to entice a woman,
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean?
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Lyrically, doesn't that require us to vibrate? Idle?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: And what I mean by.
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: That if a woman is only used to eating fast food,
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: but yeah, you know, she's out the country and she
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: eat a real fruit and you're like, damn.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: In Jamaica, you know, so don't require us to vibrate.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: I agree, I agree, that's that's the tip I'm on,
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: you know, I mean outside of being mature and having
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: my experiences, you know, really uh, just being able to
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: have a good conversation, you know, and in depth conversation.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Somebody asked me the other day, like, what are some
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: of the questions that I asked on you know, a
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: first gathering. I don't call them dates gathering gathering, yeah,
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: because I think a date carries a certain level of expectation,
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: you know, whether that be a place or whether that
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: be a price budget, you know what I mean. I
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: think a gathering kind of keeps it on a very
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: just non assuming, low level expectation. And really, when you're
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: getting to know somebody, you don't need much, you know,
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: you just need conversation and great questions, you know what
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: I'm saying, and nice ambiance. So yeah, from my first gatherings,
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: you know, I asked very serious questions, you know, like,
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: you know, what is your purpose in life? You know
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: what I mean, You're just going to.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Jump straight out.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: What you're going to do to a baby?
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: That's a great question.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Do you know what you're doing baby?
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: Do you have another experience? But yeah, questions like that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: But I think you set the tone because they see you. Oh,
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: so they see you on Instagram, they see how you've
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: grown in the ball, they see what you on so
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: they feel like they got to be there too. I
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: would think, yeah.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean I definitely have my own personal
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: challenges as well, because again, you know, we are a
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: vibration of people, you know what I mean. So sometimes
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: things can look good on the outside, but then once
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: you really get into it, you're like, oh, there's some
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: there's some things you have to fix that I can't
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: help you with, you know what I mean. So I
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: always give myself room. I say that my timeline is
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: like two years. I give myself two years with the
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: person to really figure out if I'm you know, going
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: to continue with them. You know, I mean I got
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: to see their family, I gotta see their best friends,
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: and we actually have to go through something to see
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: if you can be in my life.
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: It would have been turned off by a woman's trauma
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: because you can't be a person here.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. I think particularly women
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: that drink that overdrink, you know what I mean, it's
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: really hard because as they masket with the drink, you know,
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: in a good time, you're never able to really see
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. Like, so fasting is a
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: part of uh, you know, being with me too.
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: Has that ever been too much for a woman as
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: a woman ever said? Look, man, I like you, but
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: I'm not with all of this mind stuff that you want.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, I don't really run into that issue.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: And I don't frame it in the way. I don't
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: frame it in a way. It's just more so like, yo,
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: let's be healthy, Like I'm about to go in the
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: fast you want to join, you know what I mean?
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: There's no pressure.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: So what does the love life look like for today?
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: I mean to be fair, you know, I have two
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: beautiful and amazing kids. And you know any parent will
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: tell you once you have kids, there's the love level
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: is just astronomical when you have kids, you know, because
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: they love you. They don't care what you did yesterday
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: and today. You know. So I'm I'm just chilling right now,
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. I'm first generational wealth builder,
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: so I'm still focusing on continuing my legacy and building
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: for them. You know, I have I have a friend
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: of two you know what I mean. But but you
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: know it's nothing, it's nothing serious.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Now we've seen your love life play out on TV
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: a little bit. Yeah, would you ever do that again?
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Have your life never again?
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, nah, I think it hurts you, will help you.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: I think of a little bit of both. Yeah. I
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: think in order to really transform as a man, you know,
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: it had to be a little painful, you know, in
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: order for you to change and be like ooh, I
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: don't want to go through that again. But yeah, I
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: love love and I'm definitely not a person that's like
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: so hurt that I can't open myself up to it.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: So is everything better with you and the mother of
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: your children?
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, we're in a better place. We're in a
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: way better place. I mean, you know, Mega's ten, my
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: daughter Shill be nine March seventh, so you know they're
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: they're getting older. So yeah, you know, time and time
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: really help helps things. So yeah, we're in a better place.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Have you ever, how do you avoid trauma bonds?
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: I asked questions, you know, I ask questions, and I
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: think that that is what you know, gives me the
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: foresight to know on like, okay, this person is on
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: that level, you know what I mean, to make sure
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: that I'm not And also I check in with myself
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And I make sure that
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: you know I'm dealing with whatever personal issues I handle it.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: So that's how that's how I.
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: You know, I got a extra I seen a TikTok
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: go viral where U I said, I was about to
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: say some raving Simone has said, uh, she was pregnant
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: by you a long time ago, in the younger days
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: when that happened.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: So this is you know, the intern is a wild place.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: So if you look at the regular the normal interview,
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: the regular interview that they did, someone edited and they
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: and they had her saying that because what happened was
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: she was saying on set that you know, they have
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: this certain level of expectation, and people thought that she
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: was pregnant with my child she was. Yeah, so she
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: didn't actually say that. Okay, yeah, she didn't say.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: That was all speculation and everything.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: I've never been in the room but naked with her,
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. So yeah, but we did
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: live in the same apartment complex when we were younger.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: There was this complex back in the day. All of
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: the entertainer kids stayed there.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: So yeah, really.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was like a conflict with all like yeah,
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: I mean everybody that was making money. Really, Yeah, everybody
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: lived there. Three O W lived there, Raving Simone, A
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: bunch of actors, Yeah, a whole bunch of people. Who's
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: in the studio city.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Like a TV show.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: Before the TV show. Yeah, it was pretty good fun
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: going to the gym and seeing whoever. Okay, you're working
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: out today?
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: What time was?
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: He was applying a little bit of pressure on the alnga.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: I saw her this weekend.
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: I didn't see a present, but I saw her on
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: Instagram at beautiful.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: Oh, she's beautiful. I would love to work with her.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I'd love to teach you how to dance.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: I would love to work with her.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Have you ever really shot your shot?
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: No? Actually, after that moment, we were at like a
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: party and she was occupied, so yeah, no, I didn't
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: get the chance to look at her in her eye.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: We're both scorpios, so I'm not sure what the energy
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: would be like. But yeah, she was to catch the
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: eye context. Yeah, no, she's she's a beautiful woman. And
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: then you know, also, I don't know. I don't know
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: how young her son is, but I don't know how
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: I don't know how young she goes. I don't know
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: how exciting. She wants her life to be long.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know. Fifty five, maybe fifty one.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I don't think.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: I don't know the longer I got.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I gotta look it up. But yeah, you know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: I'm not afraid to learn what is your he got
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: every end?
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, fifty four, that's not even old.
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, th' too old for you?
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: Fifty four, Na, not when it's nie along, not when
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: it's knee along, because I know some other fifty four
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: is Yeah, yeah, I said, I said.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: My age cut off would be like forty seven, you
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: know what I mean. But a young, a young fifty
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: a young fifty five, Yeah, I would definitely you know
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: what I mean, have a gathering.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: They're all killing the young girls, by the way, facts
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: along the Angela facets of the world. They killing facts
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: as facts.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: I would love to, you know, get in and get
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: into their mental state, you know what I mean, because
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: they are women that kind of stay away and they
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: only pop out when it's time to. So I would
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: love to like have a conversation and see where their
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: mind are.
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: But you know, they only accept in honesty. They're old
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: and they don't got time for the.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: Love I lead with that, you know what I mean that,
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: You know, being a young man and leading with honesty
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: is like a double edged short because you know, some
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: some younger people are just not prepared for that, you
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: know what I mean. But older women they don't care.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: I don't care about that.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: So that's why you.
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: Like that Leon Thomas record, because he's being so honest
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: he is. Have you ever had to say that this
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: is somebody just let him know straight up, like, look,
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: I'm not trying to.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Down I wouldn't.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't frame it like that like I'm a dog
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: on a mutt. But yeah, yeah, I definitely anytime I'm
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: you know, involved with a woman, I let them know.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: You know, I'm not a traditional man. I'm not someone
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: who subscribes to specific titles, you know what I'm saying.
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: I like to create what, you know, what I want
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: to call whatever it is that we make.
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: So, yeah, do you say grand Rising or good morning?
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: I say the Rise is grand, the rise grand baby? Yeah.
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: Okay, So what what is your relationship going back?
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: What is your relationship now with B two K with
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: the rest of with the other three because it's not
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: it's technically not B two K anymore?
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Is it.
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: I mean, I always will you know, my group, my foundation,
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: and you know where I come from. Uh As far
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: as personally, you know, we don't really have a relationship, No,
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: not not really. You know. I will say that Bud
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: did come to one of my shows and we chopped
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: it up, you know, So there'll always be a type
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: of love there. You know, we we grew up together,
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: and you know we we did something in all of
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: our lives that no one in our lives did, you
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: know what I mean? So I think that there's always
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: an honor system there, you know, not to speak negatively ever,
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: and it just be like, yeah, you know that was that.
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: Did you guys know each other before the group started?
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: Or you guys were brought together as the group?
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: We were brought together as the group. Yeah. The first
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: time I met them, it was at a New Year's
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: Eve party and they performed and I performed, and it
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: was like you want to be the lead singer? And
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: I was like yeah, so so yeah, yeah.
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: And what about you and Marcus Houston? Are y'all close
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: or no?
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Got you?
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah? I don't know why we thought y'all was real
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: brothers that.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: Everyone you know, that was our thing that was our
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: thing back then, you know what I mean. Anybody that
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: was a part of the camp was found. You know,
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: it's like, oh that's my cousin, you know what I'm saying.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: But yeah, no, real blood time.
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: You were one of the few people who probably experienced
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: real celebrity, right because I don't feel like there's real
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: celebrity no more. That's true, Like y'all had to like.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Run from crowds, be ducked off in disguise. Yeah, how
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: did that feel?
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: And was it hard when you weren't feeling it anymore? Yeah?
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: No, I felt like it was amazing. You know, it
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: was amazing to you know, look back on what there
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: was sometimes where you know, I think Bull got hurt,
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: he got lifted up into a crowd. It was like dangerous,
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean, because five little strong girls
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: is stronger than the biggest man, you know what I mean.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: But looking back on that time and having it, you know,
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: be a part of my experience as far as the
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: organ you know, energy between you and your fans was amazing,
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: and when it changed, it changed not just for me,
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: for everyone, you know. I think you still have a
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: little bit of a fandom still today. But it's viewed different.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: It's almost like are you okay? Why are you screaming?
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: Are you okay?
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: You know, I still I still receive that love. You know,
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: no matter where I'm at on the planet, people still
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: come up to me and be like, wow, my childhood.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: Can I take a picture with you? So I always appreciate,
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: you know, the influence that I've had on people's life
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: experience through music, through movies, through So yeah, I don't
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: feel no way about it. You know, I definitely feel like,
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: you know, a sort of an elder on the scene,
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean, that has had all the experiences.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: So it's just different when you got that when you
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: were a child.
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: That's what I guess that kid, you know what I mean,
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: Like they act different, yeah, than everybody else period.
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: And those fans are still with me to today. I'm
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: so thankful for those fans that stuck with me because
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: we're able to put on the Millennium Tour. We're able
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: to you know, bring that nostalgia back on the planet, which,
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: by the way, before the Millennium Tour, you know that
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: wasn't the show, That wasn't the you know, the set
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: list for you know, all of these productions, you know
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: what I mean. To have a little bit nostalgia in
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: your production, you know, is a great thing.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Tell us the craziest story as a child what Charlmonne
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: was talking about, right, We always hear about the Michael
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Michael Jackson story, people waiting in the airport for for
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: days weeks. What was the craziest story that you remember
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: as a child.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: And a girl being in our room before we got there,
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: you know, the security would have to like check the room.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: I always thought that was weird because you know, nobody room.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: How would they girls sitting in there crouching down as
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: soon as we walk and we're like, oh.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: Room, or it was a.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: Green room and then all my personal room. One of
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: the workers just let themselves in and I was like
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: half sleep and I woke, like what are you doing?
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: It was a girl.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: It was trying together and she was like, hey, she
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: was trying to gather. I'm like, wow, I'm sleep, No
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: what are you doing?
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: Though?
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: You gotta go? Yeah?
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. So that was when it was like a
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: little scary you as a kid. Yeah, Jesus Christ.
• 35:13
  Speaker 8: When were you able to like walk around the mall
• 35:15
  Speaker 8: by yourself? Because I know, I know there was a
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: point y'all couldn't even do stuff like that.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know. I still I still don't.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean I'm talking about like pandemonium riot.
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: Oh maybe that happened after after the group separated. Yeah,
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: after the group separated, it shifted, you know, because if
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: you walking into you know, the mall with with I
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: mean B t K was already four people and then
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: plus four security guards. It's like, you know, you in
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: there and you a mob, you know what I mean.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: So people are like, but you know, if you want
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: to do things quickly, you go along. And that's what
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: I learned, you know, how to be stealthy.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: So yeah, did you find that your fans grew with you?
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: Yes, that's a lot of them. I mean a lot
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: of them. Still, you know, you'll pop up to the
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: shows and come to the meet and greets and everything.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, girls I grew up with from New
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: York City, they know who they are, you know what
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: I mean, still come to my shows, got kids, got
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: got work, all kinds of stuff.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: So you never bring any of the kids, and they
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: got baby heads and you know long.
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, say what's up? To the kids kids named after me. Yeah, yeah,
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: kids named after me and everything like, yeah, it's it's,
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: it's it's. It's a few kids out there named after Omar.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: They look like kids for real.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, no, no, at the ghosts at the
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: meet and greets, that's what you're asking.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, no, no, I haven't met any of those yet,
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: but I'm pretty sure that I've you know, inspired some
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: kids out there.
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: You know, you've worked with a lot of legendary labels, Epic,
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: he was with Young Money for a little bit, made
• 36:49
  Speaker 8: Back of music. What did you learn from each one
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: of those experiences.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: That it's it's very important to make sure that you
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: create the relationship that you want. And you know, like
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: you said, I've dealt with so many different layers and
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: levels of business people. You know, at this particular time,
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: you know, me and my team, we're only dealing with
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: the head, you know, paulse We're dealing with the top people,
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: the people that are decision makers. So I think through
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: all of that, you know, I mean being on made
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: Back because you know, they were working with Atlantic, they
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: were you know, I won't say a subsidiary, but they
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: did a you know, a deal together. Yeah, joint venture,
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: that's what the word I was looking for. So, yeah,
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: just really dealing with the top people, that's decision makers.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: That's the difference to today. Like you know, when I'm
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: doing business, I deal with the people that can move things.
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: Do you feel like, do you feel like they realize
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: the full potential of O Maria any of those labels.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: I don't think they care. I don't think they care.
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's in the business's nature to care.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: I think that a lot of people in the business
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: are you know, just you know, numbers. I think that
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: there's a few executives that really care about the product
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: and they understand that in order to really make an
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: intentional return, you gotta be invested for real, not just
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: on a financial level. You have to really know where
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: the artist wants to take it. So that's been my experienced. Now, yes,
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: shout out to create. I'm about to drop some new music,
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: you know myself and h M p K. You know
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying. We're just doing a collaborative we create.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: So yeah, what.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: About bow Wow?
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: You think you and Bowwa level do a joint album.
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: Again, I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I feel like,
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: if I'm gonna do, you know, any collaboration, whether it
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: be rappers, singer, I feel like they have to have
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: like current music out, you know what I'm saying, music
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: that and you know, current music of the last maybe
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: three to three years, you know what I'm saying. So, yeah,
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: if I'm gonna do a collaborative, it's gonna be like,
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: okay me music, we're working on new vibes.
• 39:02
  Speaker 8: Why is that just because you feel like, you know,
• 39:04
  Speaker 8: if you made music in the last three years, you
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: actually care.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: You're active.
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're active, you know what I mean, Like you
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: you know, what's you know as far as producers, you
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: know what I mean, like what does that look like?
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: And also I feel like you you have a like
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: a better shot at putting something out, you know, like visuals.
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: I think that today's artists like there's so many things
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: that you have to do in order to you know,
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: really be visible, you know what I mean. So I
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: will want someone that's not just you know, visible you
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: know on social media, but like in the music too.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: I feel like you and Leo will cook up some
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: ship together.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah do that would be dope?
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: And you did you got serve style cameo for JT.
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: That was really dope. How did that come about?
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so JT and there and the people hit me
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: up and they was like, you know, we got this song,
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: you know, and I felt like, in a way, it
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: was also paying homise to Fatman's school, you know what
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: I'm saying, rest in peace. So yeah, it was cool.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: She asked me, and I was just like, I got you.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: And she's such a sweetheart, you know what I mean.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: So I thought that was really really dope. And I
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: wish more artists would pay homage to the generation before them,
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: you know, because we're still relatively young, you know what
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: I mean, the eighties babies. I saw a video and
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: it was like all these kids that were born in
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: two thousand and they were saying that you're old if
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: you're born in two thousand, and I'm like, I'm like,
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: so it seems like being older stops at thirty, which
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: is crazy, crazy, you know what I mean. So yeah,
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: I would I would definitely love to continue to do
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: things like that, work with, you know, some of the
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: younger talent in the business. Yeah.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Have you ever reached out to Leon?
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: No, No, not yet, but we've crossed paths yeah, we
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: cross paths. I love to see what he's doing, you
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: know what I mean, Like he's actually a child star too.
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: You know, he's someone that started very very young. So
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: to see where he's at today is just it's awesome.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: I feel like that's you know, it's very rare to
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: see a lot of child stars continue on and continue
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: to transform. And that's what I've always loved about music
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: is you don't have to stop or you don't have
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: to essentially get old. You know, you can pick up
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: a you know, a flute. You know, you can pick
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: up an instrument, you can write, you can direct, you know,
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: it's so much to do in our business.
• 41:22
  Speaker 8: Child styles don't go crazy like they used to. Like
• 41:24
  Speaker 8: there was a time where for the most part, y'all
• 41:30
  Speaker 8: keeping it together.
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, What do you think?
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: What's the one thing you wish you knew when you
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: first started your career? What forty year old of Maria,
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: what would you tell sixteen year old Mario?
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: I think about like life insurance policies, you know, trust,
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: you know, just certain things that you know, if you
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: wanted to take a break, you could, you know what
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: I'm saying. That's something that I feel like you know, finances.
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: I just I wish I would have, you know, been
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: given that game early on. I feel like, you know,
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: maybe I would move differently, you know, if I had that.
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: But you know, everything is for is for a reason.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, well.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Definitely check them out on tour. Millennium Tour twenty twenty seven,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: New York.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: What's today?
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: We at the Barclays Marsh twenty first y'all pop out
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: March seventeenth, March seventeen, that's.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: What is here.
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: I don't know, maybe let's changed from my city because
• 42:24
  Speaker 7: I know AM come out sixteenth at the Banker and
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: then Barclays is the next day, March seventeen.
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: Oh well, excuse me, I have messed it up. Don't
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: listen to me.
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: I'm looking forward to the music, man, because I'm always like,
• 42:37
  Speaker 8: you know, brothers that are practicing mindfulness and you know,
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: really dealing with their emotional well being. Yeah, I like
• 42:43
  Speaker 8: to see how that translates in their art. Yeah, I'm
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: looking forward to the music.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: I'm looking forward to Wild Rolls.
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: This new series come on coming in twenty twenty six
• 42:50
  Speaker 7: on All Blacks. So I'm looking forward to.
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: That, Thank y'all. So much.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: Just I know we've seen Drake beat you in the
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: dance battle too, and Drake had a dance battle and
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Drake killed him.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: I don't believe that.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: I know, I know that, Adroid.
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: I don't believe when was this at the birthday party?
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: Oh he was at the birthday keeping I was keeping
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: the light.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Lights. Give me up one.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: I don't believe that it was your birthday party.
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: No, it was his, Okay, all right, well it is.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club of Mario.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Club