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INTERVIEW: Rotimi On Fatherhood, Bringing Afrobeats To America, 50 Cent's Marketing Genius, New Album + More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 1: Morning everybody, it's the j Envy Justseilarie Charlamagne the guy.
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Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest
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Speaker 1: in the building today. We got Roll Timmy. Yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: I'm good, bro. How you doing. How you doing, family,
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Speaker 1: I'm good. Good to see you, Good to see you.
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Speaker 1: It's been a couple of years.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you were working.
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Speaker 1: I'm doing what i can to my family because last
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Speaker 1: time we see him, he wasn't married. He about the
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Speaker 1: music park. I'm talking about both. I'm talking about like this.
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Speaker 2: I'm he has the husband and dad glow. You know
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Speaker 2: that's amazing.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. Yea being and being and being
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Speaker 1: a father man. And it's changed my life man, because
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Speaker 1: having a three year old boy and a two year
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Speaker 1: old girl, like, I'm just learning so much about myself
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Speaker 1: as a man, and it just does it. So anybody
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Speaker 1: father's man, like, please spend time with your children because
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Speaker 1: at this age I'm seeing how much it is that
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Speaker 1: affects them. But I'm not there, you know, So it's
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Speaker 1: it's it's a beautiful thing just to see him grow
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Speaker 1: and them both grow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, is it a difference, Like, I know you had
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Speaker 2: your son first, was it that anything changed when you
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Speaker 2: had your girl?
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Speaker 1: So yeah, so being a Nigerian mine now of paranting that,
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Speaker 1: you know, but my son, Like, so I'm blessed because
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Speaker 1: my son is actually a genius. So like and everybody
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Speaker 1: say that about you know that. We really can't put
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Speaker 1: him in school because his brain, the way he takes
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Speaker 1: information is at an eight year old level. Damn, So
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Speaker 1: we had to take So he's doing preschool just to
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Speaker 1: be around other kids for socialia, but in terms of
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Speaker 1: we have to get a tutor because it's too advanced.
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Speaker 1: So he's doing his alphabets backwards. He's speaking Spanish learning
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Speaker 1: Sea at three, so like, and so I tell him
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Speaker 1: things and he gets it once, So I'm blessed. But
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Speaker 1: then the funny thing is my daughter is actually faster
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Speaker 1: because she's watching her brother right, so now they're both
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Speaker 1: going through the same thing. So it's a blessing because
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Speaker 1: it's like the house teaching, y'all ship yes, yes, that
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Speaker 1: x y z z gg and that's not I know
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Speaker 1: my CBA. I'm like what you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: So it's been beautiful, man, But I'm done. With too, though, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm finishing. She you just have. He just told me
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Speaker 1: so much love, you know what an experience. But I'm done.
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Speaker 1: I'm done because this generation, dude's too many. You need
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Speaker 1: you need to focus on what you can. I'm already gone,
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Speaker 1: so I'm already at a disadvantage. So like just making
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Speaker 1: sure two is good at this in this time, then
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Speaker 1: I think that's enough for me personally. That's what I
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Speaker 1: said at first, too, and then you five six to it.
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Speaker 1: First I got a twenty three. She just turned twenty
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Speaker 1: three yesterday, twenty three, twenty one, and then we waited
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Speaker 1: like ten years, and now I got eleven or ten eight?
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Speaker 1: Wow in a two year old. Wow. I love being
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Speaker 1: a father. Like being a father is, it keeps you young,
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Speaker 1: it keeps you on your toes. It just it keeps
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Speaker 1: you hungry as well. Absolutely, and I enjoy it. Now.
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Speaker 1: Your wife said that after two days of meeting you,
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Speaker 1: she knew you were the one. Yeah, did you know
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Speaker 1: she was the one? After two days? Oh?
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Speaker 2: Boy, don't get him in trouble.
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Speaker 1: Not because of her, but because I wasn't ready for
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Speaker 1: what she already was ready for. And usually women are
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Speaker 1: smarter than us you get what I'm saying. So like
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Speaker 1: she saw it, I knew it. I fought it, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. I knew that I never experienced
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Speaker 1: something like that. I knew that I met someone that
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Speaker 1: was already challenging me as a person in spiritually. She's
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Speaker 1: a prayer warriors, so like her whole thing was we
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Speaker 1: speaking in tongues for an hour and a half, were going,
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Speaker 1: were reading the Bible together, like, so she approached me
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Speaker 1: on a way that like it made me say, damn, bro,
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Speaker 1: you really aren't who you think you are as a person.
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Speaker 1: You're still a boy, you know. And so she made
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Speaker 1: me mentally level up. So I still was like, nah,
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Speaker 1: she's lit. But everybody then I'm like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: I can't stop thinking, I can't stop vibing. I can't
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Speaker 1: stop I don't want nothing else. It was a gradual
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Speaker 1: how did you meet? We the Essence Fest, so so Visa.
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Speaker 1: She's she's an artist, but she retired, but she's an artist,
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Speaker 1: and she was headlining as well on the main stage
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Speaker 1: of Essence. It's a funny quick story that I was
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Speaker 1: there for Power, but I was also performing. So I
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Speaker 1: went to a private party. Okay, I'll stop. The time
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Speaker 1: I went from a private party and I actually had
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Speaker 1: a girl there with me. Oh there, yeah, like a fly,
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Speaker 1: like a nice little weekend vibe. And I'm still in
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Speaker 1: the whole Timmy Days. You know what I'm saying. I
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Speaker 1: was doing Timmy Days. So now I'm still violent, you know.
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Speaker 1: But it was Shorty was like, Yo, I don't feel
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Speaker 1: too well. I'm going to stay in and I was like, well,
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Speaker 1: I gotta go to this Spotify party really quickly. I'll
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Speaker 1: be there ten minutes. I meet you in a book.
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Speaker 1: She's like, I don't feel like going. But she was
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Speaker 1: with me the entire day. I go to the party
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Speaker 1: and all my power crew was this way, and I
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Speaker 1: was like, man, I just seen all these niggaves, I've
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Speaker 1: seen him. I'm good. Let me just do my own thing.
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Speaker 1: And there she is, like literally sitting on the pool table,
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Speaker 1: and it was just like like, oh wow, who is this?
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Speaker 1: And then we spoke for three four hours. So the
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Speaker 1: illest thing that I did that I feel like change
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Speaker 1: the trajectory of our relationship was the fact that she
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Speaker 1: was like, look, I really want to get to know you.
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Speaker 1: I think you're super lit. Let's see each other tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: And I said, honestly, like I have somebody here, I
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Speaker 1: don't want to cross ties. I don't want to play
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Speaker 1: you like that. I didn't want to. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to put you in a situation where you view me
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Speaker 1: as this guy. So let me handle this first and
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Speaker 1: then we can link, you know, whenever, when there's no distraction.
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Speaker 1: So she remembered that because I know if she would
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Speaker 1: have met me doing this, she would have been thinking
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Speaker 1: forever that, like anybody's like that, you know. So that's
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Speaker 1: how we met, and you know, we've been together ever since.
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Speaker 1: And she she wasn't living in the States at the time.
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Speaker 1: She was in Tanzania, so she flew out. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: so the young lady that you left in the hotel,
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Speaker 1: I was sick. She must feel sick. Why I gotta
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Speaker 1: be sick? Why you got to go out and leave me?
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Speaker 2: It could have been a headache from our drink. Too
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Speaker 2: much left to sit girl in want to go back somebody.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm saying. It was crazy. So
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Speaker 1: how was that conversation with her? Because now it's like,
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Speaker 1: you know, yeah, if you wasn't sick, you could have
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Speaker 1: been the one. Yeah, I don't even know she could
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Speaker 1: have been the one. Okay, yeah, but she was dope.
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Speaker 1: But again, I wasn't in that mindset of anything. I
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Speaker 1: just met someone that made me say, oh, gotcha, this
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Speaker 1: is different, bro, don't lose this.
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Speaker 2: But I do respect how you told the like, I'm
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Speaker 2: here with somebody and I don't even you know, I
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Speaker 2: don't want you to cross.
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Speaker 1: I love that, And I feel like again, like you know,
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Speaker 1: the way you meet people, sometimes people never forget because
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Speaker 1: then it starts being like, okay, well you did this
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Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, so then everything is always been integrity,
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Speaker 1: yeah you know, And so I wanted to start it
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Speaker 1: off that way. And then I had the conversation short
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Speaker 1: you like, look like you know this is this is
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Speaker 1: a vibe. We cool. I had a good time, you know,
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Speaker 1: I think we're just gonna and she was like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: come the problem It was nothing. It wasn't deep. So
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Speaker 1: how long were you together with your wife before you
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Speaker 1: actually asked the question? Oh, a year and a half.
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Speaker 1: And how did you know? Because nowadays I feel like
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Speaker 1: people wait a lot longer because they want to make
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Speaker 1: sure with you know, so many people talking about toxic relationships,
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Speaker 1: so many people getting divorced. What say this is the
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Speaker 1: one that I want to do it now.
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Speaker 2: You just said he was speaking tongues for four hours.
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Speaker 1: Lord. Yeah. Nah. You know. The onliest thing that I've
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Speaker 1: always done in my career personally is I've always trusted
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Speaker 1: my instincts and I've always trusted my intuition. So I
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Speaker 1: never second guess anything, you know, And that's because I
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Speaker 1: never took an acting class, I never took music lessons.
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Speaker 1: It was always whatever. So this is no different that
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Speaker 1: I knew that it was Okay, this is the time, Oh,
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Speaker 1: this is gonna be it, this how it goes. And
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Speaker 1: I'm very in tune with God, so everything was just like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is who it needs to be and this is
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Speaker 1: who it is. So it was it was ordained, Bro.
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Speaker 1: I can't really tell you, like, yeah, it was just
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Speaker 1: like this woman doesn't deserve to wait, you know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, what am I doing? I already know?
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Speaker 1: So why I waste time?
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Speaker 2: So what is the rotiney prayer and the prayers for.
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Speaker 1: This man?
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Speaker 2: The way you speak about v his wife, they're gonna
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Speaker 2: be asking for that prayer. I want to know how
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Speaker 2: has been a husband and a dad affected your music?
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Speaker 2: Like did it change make you want to sing different
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Speaker 2: about different things?
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Speaker 1: Or he keeps saying you got like nineteen songs.
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Speaker 2: But how does this impact your music now the family life?
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Speaker 1: Oh well, I'm able to make records that So for example,
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Speaker 1: I have a song called Blessed Right and it just
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Speaker 1: basically says on the album, basically says I have everything
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Speaker 1: I need and it's a mixture of afrobeat with gospel.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's a one version. Then I have a
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Speaker 1: version of you know when I met her in essence
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Speaker 1: and I wrote from the perspective of I don't need
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Speaker 1: nobody else, it's you, and put it on some cool drums.
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Speaker 1: So that love has been easy to transp because it's
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Speaker 1: transcribed because it's just naturally what's going on. And me
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Speaker 1: and Punch we did this whole project together. So my
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Speaker 1: stories are easy to convey to my brother, you know,
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Speaker 1: and so we're able just to get these going. But
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Speaker 1: as a father, you know, like you said earlier, like
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Speaker 1: before we even started, just being able to look in
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Speaker 1: my kids eyes and say yo, like I have no
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Speaker 1: choice but to win, yo, Like I have to do this.
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Speaker 1: I don't have a regular nine to five where I
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Speaker 1: can clock in, do what I need to do and
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Speaker 1: go home. I have to earn everything creatively and think ahead.
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Speaker 1: So when I look at him and he's happy and
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Speaker 1: he's doing his alphabets backwards, I'm like, I gotta fund this,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And so that mindset has
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Speaker 1: made me even bigger hustler when it comes down to it.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I was going through a lot of
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Speaker 1: mental issues, not issues, but mental moments where it was
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Speaker 1: like COVID at the time, and then dealing with a
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Speaker 1: woman who I genuinely love for sure, but postpartum is
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Speaker 1: a monster that men don't really talk about that we
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Speaker 1: got to deal with as well, and being giving and
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Speaker 1: giving and giving. So I was going through so much
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Speaker 1: at the time that music was my therapy. So that's
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Speaker 1: why it took so long to make this next, this
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Speaker 1: project now, because one I had to get myself right
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Speaker 1: mentally and then make sure my family was good and
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Speaker 1: then kill a lot of my bad habits of who
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Speaker 1: I was before I go to the next stage. Now,
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Speaker 1: did you have to go to Derby? Yeah? I did,
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Speaker 1: I did. I tried it. I tried it. What made
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Speaker 1: you try it to? Because I'm usually the guy that
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Speaker 1: everyone goes to for answers. I'm using the guy that
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Speaker 1: everyone goes to for prayer. I'm using a guy that
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Speaker 1: everyone goes to, like, Yo, can you help me through this?
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Speaker 1: And when you're like a leader, or who do you
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Speaker 1: go to? You know? And my wife definitely is there.
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Speaker 1: But there's certain things men go through that no one
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Speaker 1: else can really and a lot of people don't go
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Speaker 1: through the same things I deal with on a daily
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Speaker 1: of fame and pressure and anxiety and you know, being
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Speaker 1: around people that just cloud chasing. It's a toxic industry.
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Speaker 1: So when you go through so much of that, no
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Speaker 1: one really is there to talk to. So then I
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Speaker 1: was like, God, help me. I did that. At the time,
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Speaker 1: I wasn't ready for that true conversation. Then I went
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Speaker 1: and said, let me just talk to somebody, and it
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Speaker 1: was great. But I think it's really important to have
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Speaker 1: the right therapist too, absolutely, you know. So it didn't
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Speaker 1: really match. And then that didn't work, but I could
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Speaker 1: see how it does work. Then it was like, no,
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Speaker 1: let me just let me just go to the Bible. Man,
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Speaker 1: let me just go to the Bible. And then I
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Speaker 1: just opened up Peter, and Peter became my therapist. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I just kept reading the Bible,
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Speaker 1: I read James and like, those two books changed my
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Speaker 1: mindset and just gave me like the guideline of how
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Speaker 1: to be a good man and a cerebral man. And
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Speaker 1: so that changed my life. Man, I genuinely changed my life.
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Speaker 1: So therapy helped open the door. But then I just
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Speaker 1: used God and disciples as my therapist. But you're going
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Speaker 1: through depression. Is that why you said I have to
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Speaker 1: see therapy. Was it something that you was like, I
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Speaker 1: need some help? Like what got you to the point
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Speaker 1: where was like I need this help? Was it anxiety?
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Speaker 1: Was it? Yeah? It was it was anxiety. It was
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Speaker 1: anxiety that I never felt before. It was feeling like
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Speaker 1: at the time I really couldn't speak to anybody, that
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Speaker 1: the world is shut down. And then also I had
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Speaker 1: a hit record, like so in my bed was going
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Speaker 1: ridiculous at that time, but I couldn't travel, you know,
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Speaker 1: so I couldn't promote it the way it needed to promote.
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Speaker 1: So you're seeing it go viral, but you're like, damn,
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Speaker 1: I can't even really do anything, you know, And so
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Speaker 1: that also played into it. But then it was also
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Speaker 1: just like you're not able to move, so you're starting
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Speaker 1: to see the bank account go a little, you know,
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Speaker 1: and so you're just like, hey, I never felt this.
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Speaker 1: I've always been good, and so being able to start
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Speaker 1: viewing self awareness like Okay, why do I feel this way?
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Speaker 1: What are my triggers? What do I go through that
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Speaker 1: makes me say? Okay? Let me use this as an outlet.
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Speaker 1: Who am I like? And I didn't have those answers
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Speaker 1: at the time, and I was praying, but I wasn't
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Speaker 1: as close to God as I am now, and it
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Speaker 1: was just like, man, I just need to talk to
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Speaker 1: another person, you know, with an unbiased and just give
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Speaker 1: me some advice. And I did it, and it was beautiful.
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Speaker 1: It was just that I wish that well, everything happens
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Speaker 1: for the reason, but I could see how it works
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Speaker 1: for people, and I just said, okay, you know, no more,
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Speaker 1: no more trying to tough it out. Why Why am
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Speaker 1: I toughing it out when I'm hurting myself? You know?
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Speaker 1: And I think as black men, we need and people
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Speaker 1: in general, as black men, we need to be okay
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Speaker 1: with being vulnerable. We need to be okay with dealing
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Speaker 1: with insecurities. We need to because it makes you strong
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Speaker 1: when you attack them, you know, and and starve the
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Speaker 1: things that you think are vices, you know. And so
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Speaker 1: I did that. I stopped drinking, stop smoking, stop doing
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Speaker 1: everything I was doing, and really just said, you know
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Speaker 1: this two years is going to be about me before
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Speaker 1: I even write a record. And that's when when I
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Speaker 1: got right. It was when everything just started falling in
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Speaker 1: my together. You know, are you drinking too much, were
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Speaker 1: you're smoking too much? Or where is it controlling your
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Speaker 1: life to the point where you it's like I have
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Speaker 1: to stop. It wasn't like an addiction, right, but it
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Speaker 1: was more of like for ten years of my life
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Speaker 1: through a whole power run, through music, through having platinum records.
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Speaker 1: You're in the club and doing this three four days
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Speaker 1: a week, so liquld becomes a vice. Liquld becomes and
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Speaker 1: then you're having some time you didn't even realize social
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Speaker 1: anxieties or things. So you're like, damn, I don't want
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Speaker 1: to really talk to these people, but this is soothing me,
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Speaker 1: so let me drink this to get through the moment,
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Speaker 1: you know. So you don't realize and then you're like, damn,
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Speaker 1: I gotta show I'm on tour and the like, why
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Speaker 1: do I feel like I need to drink a little
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Speaker 1: bit before I hit the stage? Man? Yeah, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You know, as a community, you know
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Speaker 1: you're on stage.
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Speaker 2: You've had the same thing. Yep, And now I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't.
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Speaker 2: Well, when I was pregnant, of course I couldn't drink,
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Speaker 2: but before that I did stop, like, yo, why do
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Speaker 2: I need a going It's just like that nervousness and
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Speaker 2: anxiety and you didn't even know it's that until you
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Speaker 2: go through something and you're like, damn, I don't need
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Speaker 2: that exactly.
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Speaker 1: And so for me it was like not again, it
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Speaker 1: was it was a it was a crutch, not rather,
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Speaker 1: not a dittion. I didn't need it, but it was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: this is good for what I need right now, you know,
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Speaker 1: and smoking and things like that, and it was just
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Speaker 1: like escape, you know. And so when I realized, damn,
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Speaker 1: I'm using this as an escape rather than just for
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Speaker 1: joy or pleasure of whatever. I don't I don't want that,
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Speaker 1: it's how do you deal with it now? Because your
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Speaker 1: life still wraps around clubs in the industry, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: you still have those anxieties of going to a club
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Speaker 1: and not want to talk to people or performing on stage.
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Speaker 1: How do you deal with that? Now? I think I
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Speaker 1: realized that that vices and liquor and things are are
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Speaker 1: the isn't the problem? I realized that there was. That's
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Speaker 1: just the solution. It's not the problem. It's a deeper
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Speaker 1: thing that it's it's me. So once I started getting
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Speaker 1: knee whole, Once I started realizing, yo, you are enough, bro.
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Speaker 1: Once I started realizing there's a relationship with God that
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Speaker 1: needs to be top tapped, and more, once I started
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Speaker 1: realizing that the devil is a liar, you know, Once
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Speaker 1: I started realizing self awareness is going to change this.
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Speaker 1: Once I got me right, I didn't need those things.
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Speaker 1: I liked how I felt better without them, actually, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. So it's like it wasn't a solution.
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Speaker 1: It was it was a solution to a problem that
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Speaker 1: I had to work in within myself, you know. And
16:21
Speaker 1: so once I realized that it took the power away
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Speaker 1: from anything, you know, I didn't need validation even and
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Speaker 1: in this industry you get so used to getting validated
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Speaker 1: and you're lit. It becomes oh, this is how I
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Speaker 1: need to feel. It's a normal thing. So when you're
16:35
Speaker 1: not getting that at times, it's like, what's wrong with me?
16:39
Speaker 1: What changed? What happened? You know? And so even going
16:42
Speaker 1: through that, so just I tell my boys and tell
16:44
Speaker 1: people like, listen, man, it's okay to use these things
16:47
Speaker 1: as testimony because more people are going through these things
16:50
Speaker 1: than not, you know. And so when you can see
16:52
Speaker 1: somebody who's just happens to be in a public space,
16:56
Speaker 1: I'm no different from you.
16:57
Speaker 2: You know.
16:58
Speaker 1: I just worked on myself, you know, I did the
17:00
Speaker 1: little things. And again it is not a saying an addiction.
17:03
Speaker 1: It's just I know that when there was an issue,
17:05
Speaker 1: i'd run to something or you know, and so I
17:07
Speaker 1: just would make it where I didn't run to anything.
17:10
Speaker 1: I just ran to God and I ran to myself
17:13
Speaker 1: and my family, you know. And so that was what
17:14
Speaker 1: it was.
17:15
Speaker 2: I love hearing that you got the song Bestie, Yes
17:17
Speaker 2: you sampled from the Lauren Hills killing Me Softly? Did
17:20
Speaker 2: she need to hear that before you?
17:22
Speaker 1: Yes she did.
17:23
Speaker 2: How was it working with her even even just let
17:27
Speaker 2: her hear that?
17:28
Speaker 1: So Bessie is one of my favorite records on the album,
17:32
Speaker 1: and it's one of those songs that is divine man.
17:34
Speaker 1: So Lauren Hill went to my high school. So we
17:37
Speaker 1: all went to me, Sizza, Lauryn Hill, a lot of
17:42
Speaker 1: other people, you know what I mean, and so yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
17:46
Speaker 1: so yeah. So we all from that, from that cloth,
17:50
Speaker 1: and it was amazing because full circle really quickly. I
17:55
Speaker 1: was a freshman when she came and did her Hall
17:56
Speaker 1: of Fame speech. So I was third roll sitting watching
18:00
Speaker 1: her get her speech, and I'm like, man, I'm telling
18:02
Speaker 1: my boy, I'm like, yo, bro, Like I'm gonna do that, bro.
18:05
Speaker 1: And they don't really give They give it like maybe
18:07
Speaker 1: every ten years to somebody, you know. And I was like,
18:11
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be me, bro, And it's like, there's
18:12
Speaker 1: like four thousand people that go to our school, so
18:15
Speaker 1: the odds of it being you is not really likely.
18:17
Speaker 1: So and I just worked, worked, work, and I did
18:20
Speaker 1: the little things, man. And in twenty eighteen, I was
18:24
Speaker 1: inducted to my high school Hall offesto, you know what
18:26
Speaker 1: I mean. And I brought my boy, who I told
18:28
Speaker 1: I'm gonna don't you know. And then but also that
18:31
Speaker 1: same year, Sissa was invited as well to the Hall
18:35
Speaker 1: of Fame. So she and and a lot of people
18:37
Speaker 1: don't understand that when we grew up, like I was
18:40
Speaker 1: a ballplayer, singing girls, that popular kid, and she was
18:45
Speaker 1: like kind of like an outcast, you know what I
18:46
Speaker 1: mean to herself. Really didn't and she'll talk about it.
18:49
Speaker 1: But I was always been like, yo, come hang out
18:51
Speaker 1: with us, come kick it with us, when everybody was
18:53
Speaker 1: like pushing away, pushing away because we didn't understand the
18:56
Speaker 1: swag then like she was swaggy like this this then
18:59
Speaker 1: you know, so it's different, you know, and it was
19:02
Speaker 1: like whatever, So so it was dope to hear, you know,
19:05
Speaker 1: acknowledge that in her speech to that, you know, like
19:07
Speaker 1: Rod took care of me when I was in school.
19:08
Speaker 1: But do you call it now? But like your remember
19:10
Speaker 1: when the whole school was against you, charged about it
19:15
Speaker 1: right now, But remember it's so dope because during the
19:23
Speaker 1: time that love rhythm was going crazy and my bed
19:25
Speaker 1: was going crazy, and then she called me and was like, yo,
19:29
Speaker 1: I love what you're doing. Let's get it. It's going
19:31
Speaker 1: And then literally when like two weeks later, her stuff
19:35
Speaker 1: started going bsurd and it was like okay, Uhlana, you
19:42
Speaker 1: remember that song that you said it goes in this
19:44
Speaker 1: and me td you know, one, you know, So it
19:48
Speaker 1: was it was cool, but you have to respect it.
19:51
Speaker 1: But sorry, So Lauren Hill she heard the record, thank
19:54
Speaker 1: god for Empire to clear it, but she had to
19:56
Speaker 1: clear it first. But I wasn't there when she heard
19:58
Speaker 1: it though. But but yeah, from what I heard, it
20:01
Speaker 1: was love. And you know, again like having a legend.
20:05
Speaker 1: You know, I've used her sample twice actually, you know,
20:07
Speaker 1: from in my bed. Oh yeah, you know. And so
20:10
Speaker 1: it's always paying homage, you know. And so that record
20:12
Speaker 1: doing well was really cool. But yeah, it's been it's
20:15
Speaker 1: been a it's been a it's been a beautiful journey,
20:17
Speaker 1: beautiful journey.
20:17
Speaker 2: Speaking bed. Do you ever feel pressure to match the
20:21
Speaker 2: success of Lover for them or in my bed?
20:24
Speaker 1: Uh? As a competitor, yes, you know what I mean.
20:28
Speaker 1: As a dog, yes, but you know it's it's it's
20:31
Speaker 1: this moment you know there. Oh yeah, and that's but
20:34
Speaker 1: the thing is too, I was making those type of
20:38
Speaker 1: records right while I was feeling power, right, so the
20:41
Speaker 1: label will be like, yo, dog, you got two days
20:43
Speaker 1: to make a hit, Go to la do what you
20:45
Speaker 1: need to do. I was never able to comfortably make
20:50
Speaker 1: music like these other artists are able to do so
20:53
Speaker 1: I was thank God for the talent. I was able
20:55
Speaker 1: to go make a record, go back to set. While
20:58
Speaker 1: I'm making a record, studying my lines in the booth,
21:01
Speaker 1: there's a meeting. All right, so's supposed to okay? Cool?
21:05
Speaker 1: Got it? Like I'm getting that, and thank god it
21:08
Speaker 1: was able to go platinum. But at the same time,
21:11
Speaker 1: I never had the opportunity that other artists had. So
21:15
Speaker 1: now I was like, ro let me get yourself right,
21:18
Speaker 1: take care of your family. This is a season that
21:20
Speaker 1: you're supposed to grow home because when it goes crazy again,
21:24
Speaker 1: the foundation got to be solid. That's why you're sitting down,
21:26
Speaker 1: you know. So then it was like, okay, but in
21:29
Speaker 1: the meantime, let's make the best music possible. So that's
21:33
Speaker 1: why this project took two years, because I wanted to
21:36
Speaker 1: make eighteen in my bed moments, you know what I
21:40
Speaker 1: mean with this double album, and so I feel comfortable.
21:43
Speaker 1: I was able to take my time, visualize it. And
21:46
Speaker 1: the cool thing about it is that I was doing
21:49
Speaker 1: in my bed and servicing my afrobeat fans instead of
21:53
Speaker 1: the R and B side would be like, yo, where's
21:54
Speaker 1: our record? You know, And so now we were like,
21:57
Speaker 1: let's literally make a double album nine records, Afrobeat, nine records,
22:02
Speaker 1: R and b's called in My Heart for the R
22:04
Speaker 1: and B side, in My Veins for the Nigerian Blood.
22:07
Speaker 1: So you get in two versions of row timmy full
22:10
Speaker 1: album and these are my life stories, you know. But
22:14
Speaker 1: then it was like yo, some people just like the
22:16
Speaker 1: acting side, So like, let's figure this out. Let's fund
22:21
Speaker 1: and pay for every music video to be shot. So
22:24
Speaker 1: we put, we put money down, we put I put
22:27
Speaker 1: about a quarter million and make every video. And then
22:30
Speaker 1: then the labels like, yo, we got ten songs for you, bro,
22:33
Speaker 1: we can only do ten. I was like, now I
22:35
Speaker 1: don't want to do ten, I want to do eighteen.
22:37
Speaker 1: Well okay, well you gotta pay for it. Pay for
22:41
Speaker 1: the other eight paid. The producer paid everything. So it
22:44
Speaker 1: was like again I tell artists or people man like,
22:47
Speaker 1: you have to invest in yourself. You gotta believe in
22:50
Speaker 1: yourself because I know what this is gonna do and
22:53
Speaker 1: you may not see it right now, but I know
22:55
Speaker 1: what this is gonna do, so let me take this
22:57
Speaker 1: upon myself to make it happen with no question. So
23:01
Speaker 1: they were like, we could do two record, two videos.
23:04
Speaker 1: It was like all right, cool that standard. This is
23:05
Speaker 1: great stuff, thank you, you know what I mean. But
23:07
Speaker 1: now we're doing eighteen. You know, we're gonna service it
23:09
Speaker 1: out for everybody to be able to have a moment
23:12
Speaker 1: with this song because it's real to me acting as well.
23:15
Speaker 1: So you get in the R and B side, you're
23:17
Speaker 1: getting the afro B side, and you're getting the actor,
23:19
Speaker 1: you know, and I directed everything, you know what I mean,
23:22
Speaker 1: And so shout out to Beyonce because I know Beyonce
23:24
Speaker 1: has done something whereas the double album and you know,
23:26
Speaker 1: but what we're doing differently is we're treating every song
23:31
Speaker 1: like a single. So the album drops, every song is out,
23:36
Speaker 1: but every three weeks you're gonna get a new video.
23:39
Speaker 1: So you're gonna be getting new content from the same
23:42
Speaker 1: project for about seven eight months.
23:44
Speaker 2: This is the real definition of a body of work,
23:46
Speaker 2: a body of work.
23:47
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, Like, if I'm gonna I'm not
23:50
Speaker 1: gonna come out and do everything that a regular artists go.
23:53
Speaker 1: Two weeks, they do promo and then you don't hear
23:55
Speaker 1: nothing else that's done. Nah, I work too hard for this, yo.
23:58
Speaker 1: I put my life on this. I put a half
24:00
Speaker 1: a million into this thing on my own it has
24:02
Speaker 1: to work. So we're gonna melt this, make it go,
24:05
Speaker 1: make the music undeniable. You're not a messy artist. You're
24:07
Speaker 1: not talking to somebody that's gonna talk about somebody like I know, bro,
24:11
Speaker 1: Like I know I can get up here and have
24:13
Speaker 1: three strippers and put a thousand dollars on each of
24:15
Speaker 1: the ass and be like, it's up, what's up. Yeah,
24:19
Speaker 1: I'm single and it's gonna go viral, and then listen
24:24
Speaker 1: to the breakup song about my woman. Then everybody listening
24:26
Speaker 1: to I know, take that clip and say that you
24:28
Speaker 1: wanted to be We're gonna cut that up, so go ahead,
24:32
Speaker 1: go yeah, well you know what I mean. I know
24:35
Speaker 1: I can do that. I know I can manipulate the
24:37
Speaker 1: system because it's what it is. People like that type
24:40
Speaker 1: of you.
24:40
Speaker 2: Have done that before, because I was looking at an
24:43
Speaker 2: interview where you said it was Fitty's idea to say
24:45
Speaker 2: that you owe him money to keep the momentimum.
24:48
Speaker 1: Going yeah, yeah, yeah, yes. So Love with Them Loved
24:53
Speaker 1: Them was number one at the time, and he was like, yo, bro,
24:56
Speaker 1: honestly I got this idea, man, Like, Okay, I I left,
25:00
Speaker 1: I got out. My deal with fifty was a deal
25:03
Speaker 1: or it was a two album deal, but I had
25:06
Speaker 1: one more and I said, bro, I want to do
25:07
Speaker 1: this on my own. You know, I believe in this,
25:10
Speaker 1: And why did you want to get out? Did you
25:11
Speaker 1: feel like no? I think I think at the time
25:14
Speaker 1: there was a lot he had just fired everybody, you know,
25:16
Speaker 1: and so like there was a lot going on at
25:19
Speaker 1: the time, and the show was so on fire that
25:22
Speaker 1: it was like, there's no way that there could be
25:25
Speaker 1: focused on what this is at this particular time, especially
25:28
Speaker 1: because my character's going O d Lin crazy. Yeah what
25:30
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So I'm like, let me just take myself
25:33
Speaker 1: out of this because at the timing wasn't right to
25:38
Speaker 1: be a focus. So I was like, let me just
25:40
Speaker 1: bet on myself, you know what I mean. And thank
25:42
Speaker 1: God for his his his his love for me and
25:44
Speaker 1: his wisdom. He was like, look, I'll let you out,
25:47
Speaker 1: but you know, mechanically, you owe me three hundred thousand
25:51
Speaker 1: for the investment that I've put in there. So I
25:53
Speaker 1: had to pay him back mechanically. So from the sales
25:55
Speaker 1: of my project product is how he'll get paid back,
25:58
Speaker 1: which is standard, you know what I mean. So like
26:01
Speaker 1: I didn't have to give him three hundred thousand like this.
26:03
Speaker 1: But over time, whatever records I do work with with
26:06
Speaker 1: whoever I work with, next they get he gets that money.
26:09
Speaker 1: So the record we put the song out, Love Rhythm
26:12
Speaker 1: is number one R and B album, Going Crazy, and
26:15
Speaker 1: he calls me. He's like, look, bro, I got this idea.
26:18
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say I don't like you. I'm gonna say
26:21
Speaker 1: I want to punch you in your nose. I'm gonna
26:22
Speaker 1: tell you I don't I'm gonna rock with you what's
26:25
Speaker 1: in there. But the thing I'm gonna do is I'm
26:26
Speaker 1: gonna mention twenty five times that how can this nigga
26:30
Speaker 1: not pay me when his album is number one? So
26:33
Speaker 1: when he did that, the psychological psychology of people is like,
26:36
Speaker 1: what am I missing? Wait? Rog got a number one album?
26:38
Speaker 1: Where what's going on? And that's that's how it blew,
26:41
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So that's Genie's marketing, definitely
26:44
Speaker 1: thousand and his marketing, you know what I mean. So
26:49
Speaker 1: it worked because he got his money back in like
26:51
Speaker 1: four months, you know what I mean. So it works.
26:53
Speaker 1: But at the same time, yes, I know I can
26:56
Speaker 1: do those things, you know, And for me, I was
26:59
Speaker 1: like though only way I can combat gimmicks and being
27:02
Speaker 1: messy and things that just make undeniable product that lives forever.
27:07
Speaker 1: You know. That's why in my heart, in my veins
27:09
Speaker 1: feels like that man. And that's how I grew up.
27:12
Speaker 1: Like being from Jersey, there was no cutting corners, there
27:15
Speaker 1: was no you have to work for what you got,
27:17
Speaker 1: you know. Being Nigerian either as well, I didn't cut corners,
27:21
Speaker 1: you know. I did the little things, you know what
27:22
Speaker 1: I mean. So that's what it was for me. I understand,
27:27
Speaker 1: I understood very early, like the little things is will
27:29
Speaker 1: keep you around the longevity. Where when was the last
27:33
Speaker 1: time you go to your job and you shake everybody's hand,
27:35
Speaker 1: you know, look everybody in the eye, remember everybody's name.
27:39
Speaker 1: That changes the room, that changes the energy. When is
27:42
Speaker 1: the last time you ask how are you? And genuinely listen?
27:45
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like, so whenever i'm I
27:48
Speaker 1: carried those things and those principles got me to where
27:53
Speaker 1: I am. Along with everything else, but those things people remember,
27:56
Speaker 1: you know. And so I was like, I'm not gonna
27:58
Speaker 1: cut no corners, you know, let's do it. This is
28:00
Speaker 1: who I am. I am in a relationship, I do that, kids.
28:03
Speaker 1: I am fly, I do make great music. I am
28:05
Speaker 1: an actor. Let's let's let's write about it and let's
28:09
Speaker 1: talk about it and be pure about it. Now, an actor,
28:11
Speaker 1: do you like being the villain? Because we've seen you
28:12
Speaker 1: in the villain in power shows. We've seen you even
28:16
Speaker 1: with joining Lucas, we see you as the villainy and
28:19
Speaker 1: sometimes I don't like you know, the joint of Lucas
28:25
Speaker 1: made me. I'm like, I don't like them. I have
28:28
Speaker 1: to remember, I know, but it makes me not like them.
28:31
Speaker 1: Like do you like playing the villain? Uh? Okay, yes,
28:37
Speaker 1: but but in doses now you know what I mean?
28:40
Speaker 1: Like when you play something like Dre Man, that's polarizing, bro,
28:43
Speaker 1: and like, I know what that. If I was just
28:46
Speaker 1: an actor, that would be the most amazing thing to
28:50
Speaker 1: deal with being like, damn, bro, you killed that. But
28:53
Speaker 1: I got a whole different other side, you know. So
28:55
Speaker 1: it made music ten times harder, you know, you know,
29:00
Speaker 1: because how do you have you got the number one
29:01
Speaker 1: shows a villain, but then you got a number one
29:03
Speaker 1: record that's R and B in love.
29:05
Speaker 2: So it's like you made me so man on how anyone.
29:09
Speaker 1: Exactly? When it come on it's just like, you know
29:12
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So like that made it tougher, so
29:16
Speaker 1: I had to get over. I had a conversation actually
29:17
Speaker 1: with Tyres about it, like, bro, how do you do this? Man?
29:20
Speaker 1: Like that was a long conversation. I bet y'all just
29:24
Speaker 1: finished that shit. So I had a conversation with him.
29:28
Speaker 1: I'm like, bro, like, how do you do this? Man?
29:30
Speaker 1: It was lit how you explained to me. It was
29:31
Speaker 1: just like, carry the vessel that's bringing you to where
29:35
Speaker 1: you are. Just carry that, make people want to know
29:37
Speaker 1: who that person is. Kill that to the point where yo,
29:41
Speaker 1: who is this tray guy? And then be ready with
29:43
Speaker 1: what you have. That's the only way you can do
29:45
Speaker 1: both and be successful. So I took that and Jamie
29:48
Speaker 1: actually said the same thing too, So it was like, oh,
29:50
Speaker 1: this is how y'all did it?
29:51
Speaker 2: You know.
29:51
Speaker 1: So when I got that information, it was body dre
29:55
Speaker 1: and let people learn about ro Timmy, you know. And
29:57
Speaker 1: So to answer your question about the the villain joining Lucas,
30:03
Speaker 1: I told I said no twice, like I was like
30:06
Speaker 1: really yeah, I was like no, that it was dope,
30:08
Speaker 1: Like it's a dope changed. It was incredible, I said, finally, say, yes,
30:14
Speaker 1: it was. It was a good money. I was like
30:16
Speaker 1: the bad guy, right, you know, and I'm a fan
30:18
Speaker 1: of his. But I didn't want to do videos like
30:20
Speaker 1: I didn't want to and I wasn't to be a
30:22
Speaker 1: video mixer. I didn't want to be exactly yeah, exactly,
30:25
Speaker 1: I didn't you know what I'm saying. You know what
30:27
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I didn't want that. I didn't want that
30:28
Speaker 1: because I had been so quiet musically for a while.
30:30
Speaker 1: I want the first thing that people see is that
30:33
Speaker 1: like always doing videos now, Like I didn't perception, you know.
30:36
Speaker 1: But the bread was amazing. Then I actually heard the
30:39
Speaker 1: record as well, and I was like, oh, this is
30:42
Speaker 1: like a one man show, a straight monologue that I
30:45
Speaker 1: gotta really study because it is about It was about
30:49
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty pages of transcribed lyrics, and I got to
30:53
Speaker 1: match his whole energy and switch up, and I was like, Oh,
30:56
Speaker 1: this is gonna be fun, you know, And I mean
30:58
Speaker 1: I think we should have want to. Yeah.
31:00
Speaker 2: Usually Joiners music videos are like motion pictures.
31:04
Speaker 1: It's phenomenal drama series, it's phenomenal. Yeah. So, but but
31:08
Speaker 1: at this point, I thank god for Lena wafe Man
31:10
Speaker 1: because this new character that I'm playing on The Shy
31:14
Speaker 1: is completely different, you know, And so now I'm seeking
31:18
Speaker 1: roles that are completely the opposite way because there's so
31:20
Speaker 1: much more to me. I can do that easy. That's
31:23
Speaker 1: I grew up around a lot of dre's, you know
31:24
Speaker 1: what I mean. I grew up around niggas like this
31:26
Speaker 1: all the time. So for me, it's just like, let's
31:29
Speaker 1: show the other aspects of Huro timmy is and all
31:31
Speaker 1: the ranges that I have. So the newest character on
31:34
Speaker 1: the Shy, and it's been amazing. Man, we filmed season seven.
31:38
Speaker 1: I was only Again. This goes back to just being
31:40
Speaker 1: a good person. Like I met Lena ten years ago
31:43
Speaker 1: at Sundance. Me and John Boyega did a movie Imperial Dreams,
31:48
Speaker 1: and she had won for Dear White People, and energy was, yo,
31:53
Speaker 1: how are you. You're amazing, You're great, and she was
31:56
Speaker 1: coming up, I'm coming up, and it was we just
31:58
Speaker 1: stayed close and making sure she was good. We haven't
32:01
Speaker 1: seen it. I still haven't seen Lena since twenty and fourteen. Still,
32:06
Speaker 1: but every year I'm saying Happy Birthday, having this, sending gifts.
32:10
Speaker 1: She's sending me kids for my kids, She's sending me
32:13
Speaker 1: things for you know, Happy Father's Day, all this, so
32:15
Speaker 1: we love. Then she finally calls like, y'all got a
32:17
Speaker 1: roll for you if you want to come do an episode,
32:19
Speaker 1: you know, an episode or two? Are you working right now?
32:21
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm not. She was like, all right, cool,
32:24
Speaker 1: let's come to Chicago. Got something for you and two
32:27
Speaker 1: you know again you gotta take to try to tell
32:31
Speaker 1: my story but also give, you know, as much as
32:33
Speaker 1: I can. Where I was only given two episodes, but
32:39
Speaker 1: with those two episodes, I bodied it to the point
32:42
Speaker 1: where it's like I want him for the whole season
32:45
Speaker 1: and hopefully God will for beyond whenever. You know, But
32:49
Speaker 1: every time you get an opportunity in any field, yo,
32:52
Speaker 1: you don't know who's watching, You don't know what's going on,
32:55
Speaker 1: you don't know what hand you just shook, you don't
32:59
Speaker 1: know how you acted that person's life. You don't know
33:02
Speaker 1: how far this could go. So maximize every opportunity you
33:07
Speaker 1: can because they don't come often. And so when I
33:12
Speaker 1: understood that, I realized, Okay, you know, this is how
33:15
Speaker 1: you do it. But then also being a good person
33:17
Speaker 1: and also maximizing the moment, you know, it always happens
33:20
Speaker 1: Now people were mad at you because you said that
33:23
Speaker 1: you brought afrobeats to America. You still stand by that absolutely,
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Speaker 1: but the way it was worded was crazy. Right. So
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Speaker 1: I was the first American Nigerian to bring afrobeats to
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Speaker 1: a place where Americans were able to digest it on radio. Right.
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Speaker 1: So for example, I was going to program directors and
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Speaker 1: plan love rhythm and being they were like, yo, I
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Speaker 1: don't even know how to what's the beat on rhythm?
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Speaker 1: On this?
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Speaker 2: This?
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Speaker 1: What is this? I was in those moments, so when
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Speaker 1: I started doing it, it became a oh, I like
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Speaker 1: this Also doesn't mean that there weren't people before that
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Speaker 1: were doing it, had moments, but because I am from here,
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Speaker 1: and because it's relatable, because mister Butterscott's was doing what
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Speaker 1: it needs, they're so like and what I'm saying is
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Speaker 1: digestible and understood like it felt inclusive. So it was
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Speaker 1: a pacifier to start the movement here, not necessarily them
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Speaker 1: bringing it Wiz and they were always lit. But in
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Speaker 1: terms of the timing, Whiz then had the record with Drake,
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Speaker 1: then the Veto came out, so it was all the
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Speaker 1: same time. But for me it was I remember going
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Speaker 1: to program directors. They didn't even know what it was,
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Speaker 1: and so now this record's going crazy. It becomes oh,
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Speaker 1: I like this, Oh that's what it was. Yeah, okay,
34:46
Speaker 1: And then I came back with in my Bed, so
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Speaker 1: it was like, oh, I was the only one besides
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Speaker 1: really Chris Brown that's out here that's really doing it
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Speaker 1: where it feels like, oh, it's a bridge. So I
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Speaker 1: was definitely would say I was the bridge and that however,
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Speaker 1: the Burners and DAVIDO and Wiz and all them, Yes,
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Speaker 1: of course if affected the world. But I remember going
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Speaker 1: to those moments where they didn't hear the one dance,
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Speaker 1: yet they didn't hear the I gotta ask people were
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Speaker 1: upset with Chris Brown, right, were not upset with Chris
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Speaker 1: Brown the Academy because they were saying that Chris Brown
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Speaker 1: is an American artist and he shouldn't be in the
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Speaker 1: afrobeats category. What's your thoughts on that. I believe that
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Speaker 1: he definitely should. Music is music. Music is music, bro,
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Speaker 1: Like That's what I'm saying. We get so crazy with
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Speaker 1: this trying to box people into things like is it
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Speaker 1: an afrobeat record? Yes? Is he? Is it one of
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Speaker 1: the best afrobeat records. Yes, so yes, he should be
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Speaker 1: in the afrobeat category.
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Speaker 2: And it goes the other way too, because last year
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Speaker 2: Tyler won a Grammy over Sexy Red right, So it's
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Speaker 2: like if we can you know what I'm saying, it's
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Speaker 2: just still like a brisk Like if afrobeats can win
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Speaker 2: over win in the category where it's just you know
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Speaker 2: what was that. I think it was like rap or
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Speaker 2: new Artists or something like that, why can't Chris Brown
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Speaker 2: win or even be nominated in the afrobeat.
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Speaker 1: No music has no bounds, man, that's what makes it
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Speaker 1: so beautiful. Like music has no that's saying, Yo, you
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Speaker 1: can't do this and you can't do that. Oh you
36:17
Speaker 1: can't act and you can't sing. Oh you can't be
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Speaker 1: a host of a legendary show and then also be
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Speaker 1: a DJ. You can't do this and be like stupid.
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Speaker 1: Just no, I'm just dope, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: And so that's why for us it was like, let's
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Speaker 1: spoon feed the people. This is an R and B album,
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Speaker 1: this is an afro B album. If we win records
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Speaker 1: on this, then we win records. I mean, remember wars
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Speaker 1: on this. Then it's it's still the same project, but
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Speaker 1: you put it where you want to put it, you know,
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Speaker 1: And so that's how it was. But not definitely. Chris
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Speaker 1: Brown is one of the greatest I ever don it, bro, Like,
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Speaker 1: only few people can do it and be believed, and
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Speaker 1: I believe it, you know, and I feel like he's
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Speaker 1: the only other one for real.
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Speaker 2: What is your favorite song on the album?
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Speaker 1: Y'are honestly fam Like, We've constructed this album to be
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Speaker 1: where I can sit with you and figure out what
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Speaker 1: kind of music you love, and I'll be able to
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Speaker 1: tell you like these will work for you. I'll look
37:09
Speaker 1: at you and be like, yo, Bro, well good bye, Okay,
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Speaker 1: these are your favorites. They're like my kids. I can't
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Speaker 1: I can't pick yeah as my favorite. But there's no single,
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Speaker 1: you know, everything is a single. So if you're like, bro,
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Speaker 1: I love I love classic R and B. I got
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Speaker 1: that for you. Like Yo, I love poppy Phil, I
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Speaker 1: got that for you all. I love hip hop drums,
37:29
Speaker 1: I got that for you. So like it's whatever it is,
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Speaker 1: it's whoever I'm speaking to, I'll make We've tailor made
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Speaker 1: it that way.
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Speaker 2: The album is a candy store.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I got the album of the Year. I love
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Speaker 1: that I got the album of the year, he said it,
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Speaker 1: I got the album of the year, genuinely. Let's get
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Speaker 1: into a record off that album. The album is out today, Yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: what do you want to get into today?
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Speaker 2: Let's get into something off the AfroB side side.
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Speaker 1: Oh when we just all right, let's start with h Yeah,
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Speaker 1: let's go what I wonder? I wonder? Yes, sir, let's
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Speaker 1: go without Dirty December. You can follow up close Dirty December.
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Speaker 1: There's almost dirty Say you choose rather, I wonder Dirty December? Yo,
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Speaker 1: your choice? Retter. All right, well, let's get into it
38:18
Speaker 1: now before we leave. I also got to so Christmas
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Speaker 1: is around the corner, Yes, sir, you have two kids, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and a wife? So what do you do for Christmas time? Oh? Man?
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Speaker 1: Who this is again? Traditions do you have in the household? Well,
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Speaker 1: we're still figuring out the tradition. You know what. It's
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Speaker 1: a new one, you know what I'm saying. So we're
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Speaker 1: still forming it. So I personally like, honestly, man, she's
38:41
Speaker 1: such an incredible human being that whatever she wants to do,
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Speaker 1: if she's like, babe, for Christmas, I want to travel
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Speaker 1: to I want to go home let's go to Tanzania.
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Speaker 1: She says, Babe, I want to just be a in
38:52
Speaker 1: the crib and we all matching whatever if you want to.
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Speaker 1: Whatever she wants to do is there's the routine, bro like,
38:57
Speaker 1: because she deserves that, Like I've I rip and run
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Speaker 1: too much for me to make every decision. So for her,
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Speaker 1: it's like my love, what you want and whatever you
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Speaker 1: want to do, that's the tradition. What's the so happy
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Speaker 1: for him? What's the dumbest thing you've done as a
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Speaker 1: husband or a father? When I mean dumb, Yeah, I'm
39:17
Speaker 1: the dad. Like I dressed up in a ninja turtlesuit
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Speaker 1: for Halloween. All the kids school embarrassed the ish out
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Speaker 1: of a couple of years ago, I dressed up in
39:24
Speaker 1: a baby outfit with a pamper. I embarrassed my kid.
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Speaker 1: I love it, like my kid was like my dad.
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Speaker 1: But I just I try to create those memories that
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Speaker 1: you know when I'm long ago and they'd be like, yo,
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Speaker 1: you remember when dad came to school, and it's like
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Speaker 1: I try to think that, what's the dumbest thing that
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Speaker 1: you've done that you'd be like this takes my jersey
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Speaker 1: cool power away? Oh yeah, So me and my son
39:42
Speaker 1: and my dad. We all matched and I had them
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Speaker 1: do a butterscotch, the butterscotch face, baby Butterscotch butterscotch and
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Speaker 1: the mini butterscotch. So like we all and they have
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Speaker 1: no idea what they just did. But in six years,
39:54
Speaker 1: seven years, they're gonna look and be like Dad, you
39:56
Speaker 1: just like, wow, you are a dick head, bro, Why
40:02
Speaker 1: would you do this? It's forever, It's forever there. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's probably what I said. But let's get into the
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Speaker 1: joint right now. I wonder the album is out right now?
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Speaker 1: Of course it's a double album, In My Heart, in
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Speaker 1: My Veins R and B side, AFRO B side, and
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Speaker 1: we appreciate you for joining us, all right. And I
40:19
Speaker 1: was just gonna say one last thing. Ro Timmy is
40:21
Speaker 1: one of those artists that always call and check up
40:23
Speaker 1: on you. Yeah, no matter what's going on in your life,
40:26
Speaker 1: good or bad, ro Timmy will hit you just checking
40:29
Speaker 1: up on bre you brother. I want to make sure
40:30
Speaker 1: you good as your mental, how's your help, how's the family?
40:32
Speaker 1: He always does that, So I just want to say,
40:33
Speaker 1: appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: And I want to appreciate that too, because he's telling
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Speaker 2: me like I don't know, like you. My family check
40:39
Speaker 2: up on me too, Like this is my friend, you know, I.
40:41
Speaker 1: Do know him. What's his real name. It's Roll Timmy.
40:49
Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake that ass up
40:53
Speaker 1: in the morning. The Breakfast Club.