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INTERVIEW: Omarion Talks Millennium Tour, The Art Of Swooning A Woman, Love Life + More · The Breakfast Club

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