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Best of full interview: New Edition & Boyz II Men Talk Brotherhood, R&B Evolution, Industry Rumors, Group Tour + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Every day away up the Breakfast Club Morning everybody. It's
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  Speaker 1: the j n V.
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  Speaker 2: Jess Hilarious, Charlamage, the guy we are the Breakfast Club
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  Speaker 2: Law and Roses here as well, and we got some
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  Speaker 2: icons ends today, ladies and gentlemen, we have new addition
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  Speaker 2: and boys to men.
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  Speaker 3: They're going on tour together. I feel like this should
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  Speaker 3: have been happy, right. Why did it take so long?
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: Who wants to start?
• 0:40
  Speaker 4: I think that there's a lot of logistics that go
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  Speaker 4: with having two groups, two groups with such great success.
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  Speaker 4: In order to get that together, scheduling has to be right. Also,
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  Speaker 4: the you know what I mean, the energy has to
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  Speaker 4: be right, the climate has to be right. And I
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  Speaker 4: just believe that this is the time. God put this
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  Speaker 4: time as the time to show the world what this,
• 1:03
  Speaker 4: this whole vibe is all about. New addition, boys to men,
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  Speaker 4: Tony Box and it's a real thing. And this is
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  Speaker 4: the moment God placed it right here, not his.
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  Speaker 5: Boys to Benfield.
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  Speaker 2: I got to ask, because you guys, they were your idols,
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  Speaker 2: right and still you seeing them, you know, when y'all
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: had to show in Philly, y'all coming to the bus
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  Speaker 2: and y'all singing and.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, that's not actually how it went, you
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. No, no, no, I don't mean to.
• 1:29
  Speaker 4: I don't mean to, but you know, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: like in order in order for the story to to
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  Speaker 4: to actually be uh told in the movie, sometimes you
• 1:38
  Speaker 4: have to, you know, make it all go together in sequence,
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  Speaker 4: you know, for people can see this. So there's truth
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  Speaker 4: to that. But it was Michael Bibbins, Ricky and and Ron.
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: They were actually coming off stage at the Powerhouse and
• 1:52
  Speaker 4: they were in Philly and they were introducing that you
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  Speaker 4: guys were going to be BBD and we had just
• 2:00
  Speaker 4: by the time they came off stage, we had just
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  Speaker 4: snuck backstage. We passed past us back and before we got backstage,
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  Speaker 4: and as soon as we got there, they were coming
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  Speaker 4: off stage, and I guess, uh.
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  Speaker 1: Nate asked Ricky can we sing for him? You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? And Ricky was like, yeah, got it tape.
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  Speaker 6: Y'all.
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  Speaker 4: He said yeah, yeah, got it tape. And we was like, no,
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  Speaker 4: we ain't got no tape. And he was like, well,
• 2:26
  Speaker 4: y'all need a tape, you know what I'm saying. He
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  Speaker 4: started writing down the address, but then Nate was like, yo,
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  Speaker 4: let me go to BEIV. So he's like, BIV, can
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  Speaker 4: you know, can you know, you know, can we sing
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  Speaker 4: for you? And he was like, can y'all do it
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  Speaker 4: right now? Boom we busted into can you standing right?
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  Speaker 7: In?
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  Speaker 1: A capella? So it was backstage.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't at a tour bus, but you know what
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  Speaker 4: I mean the story nonetheless, it definitely resonated.
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  Speaker 1: The tour bus was more exciting.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right right, there was a
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  Speaker 4: lot more sexy.
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  Speaker 3: I do want to ask you every every artist, manager, artists,
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  Speaker 3: executive relationship has its highs and lows. When you look back,
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  Speaker 3: what was some of the biggest misunderstandings or lessons y'all
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  Speaker 3: learned from you know, each other.
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  Speaker 8: I guess you could say, like when any relationship, I
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  Speaker 8: mean in a group, because even when BIBB signed his
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  Speaker 8: years ago, it was almost like him being a fifth
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  Speaker 8: member at the time, and I think it was more
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  Speaker 8: like a dynamic type thing. You know, we learned a
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  Speaker 8: lot about each other's personalities as well as just understanding,
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  Speaker 8: you know, how the business went. So you know, you
• 3:29
  Speaker 8: had your share of highs and lows and ups and downs,
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  Speaker 8: but at the end of the day, it's all about that.
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  Speaker 8: It's better is the end of.
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  Speaker 1: A thing than the beginning and the other thing.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely, So it's one of those things where it's like,
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  Speaker 8: here we are, look at this.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 8: A lot of people didn't think that this, you know,
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  Speaker 8: situation would even happen. But as you mentioned, yeah, poison
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  Speaker 8: men owe a lot to new addition.
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  Speaker 9: But this is what succession looks like. You understand what
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  Speaker 9: I'm saying.
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  Speaker 8: So so it's one of those things where it's like
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  Speaker 8: these guys did what they did, and they gave us
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  Speaker 8: the ball and we ran with it so that now.
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  Speaker 1: We can rule all together now with it together.
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  Speaker 5: Now, how often do y'all rehearse?
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  Speaker 10: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Because it's a lot of different characters, with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of different families, with a lot of different moving pieces.
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  Speaker 5: But people love the old dances.
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  Speaker 2: They love to see in sick, They love to see
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  Speaker 2: somebody going left, somebody going right, the outfit.
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  Speaker 5: So how is rehearsal for y'all?
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  Speaker 8: That's gonna That's that's the beautiful thing about new addition
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  Speaker 8: in itself, Like they carried the torch of what R
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  Speaker 8: and B groups should look like. They are the standard
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  Speaker 8: and when it comes to this tour that we're gonna
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  Speaker 8: show that, like it's all gonna be implemented in the
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  Speaker 8: in the whole production along with Tony. So it's like
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  Speaker 8: rehearsals we haven't started yet because this is our this
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  Speaker 8: is our first promo run. So but once we do,
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  Speaker 8: we're gonna lock in and it's gonna be dope.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be the smartest.
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  Speaker 6: So he came in with the crutches because he knew
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  Speaker 6: what was gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: With This is just prep This is prepp right here.
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  Speaker 10: Game.
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  Speaker 11: You know what I'm saying that that might be an excuse.
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  Speaker 11: That's not right, there's an excuse right now. I get
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  Speaker 11: through tsa quicker than y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all, how long is the show because you'll all have
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  Speaker 2: so many men individually, yes, as long as the show.
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  Speaker 11: As individuals, you know, we probably give them, you know,
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  Speaker 11: ninety minutes, maybe even two hours. But when you put
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  Speaker 11: all of this excellence together, you know, in one night
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  Speaker 11: on one stage, that's got to be you know, prince like,
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  Speaker 11: you know, it's almost three hours. It's got to be Springsteen,
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  Speaker 11: you know, three hours and some change. And I'm excited
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  Speaker 11: about it because how do you put that in ninety minutes?
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  Speaker 11: You can't, can't you know, when you got success in
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  Speaker 11: the legacy that we all have and all the joints
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  Speaker 11: and even the individuals that are you know, within this
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  Speaker 11: conglomerate right here, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Just excited about it.
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  Speaker 11: You know, we didn't start rehearsal, but mister Brooke Payne
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  Speaker 11: gave us a date for probably December first, And like
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  Speaker 11: Sean said, when we lock in, it's going to be crazy.
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  Speaker 12: Who chooses the track list? Like who the autists all
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  Speaker 12: sit together?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, we're gonna put it all together.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, We're all gonna sit down and
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  Speaker 8: we're gonna figure out how this whole thing works. Because
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  Speaker 8: the truth is, again we are connected, we are from
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  Speaker 8: different cities, but the story is the same. So it's
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  Speaker 8: gonna be deeper than just doing songs. This is telling
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  Speaker 8: his story. Yeah, this is more so, and unlike any
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  Speaker 8: show that you've ever seen, this isn't just about you know,
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  Speaker 8: lights and cameras and all this other stuff.
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  Speaker 9: We are literally bretering, like from beginning to end.
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  Speaker 8: So we have to tell that story and amalgamate that
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  Speaker 8: story to make people understand why this is important.
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  Speaker 9: This is deeper than just a genre.
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  Speaker 8: This is deeper than just all it's just a bunch
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  Speaker 8: of black folks on stage, Like, this is history between
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  Speaker 8: us New Edition and Tony Braxon. It's one hundred and
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  Speaker 8: fifty million records. Got so, So the thing is is
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  Speaker 8: that that that has to be celebrated and this is deeper. This,
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  Speaker 8: This is why we urge everybody to come because this
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  Speaker 8: is history. This is something you will never see anywhere
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  Speaker 8: else in in decades.
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  Speaker 9: So it's bigger than us.
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  Speaker 3: Can we expound on the brotherhood you know between all
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  Speaker 3: of y'all, man, you know, I love seeing all of
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  Speaker 3: y'all together after all these years. What have y'all learned
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  Speaker 3: about forgiveness and just staying together as brothers?
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  Speaker 4: We audition and boys, Well, I could say, go ahead, gohead,
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  Speaker 4: you said.
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  Speaker 6: I've said before in talking about the fact that when
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  Speaker 6: you're talking about true brotherhood, it's a real true brotherhood
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  Speaker 6: and we're like real siblings. And I've said that that's
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  Speaker 6: why you see we go through our ups and downs,
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  Speaker 6: our battles. We then had some ups and downs and
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  Speaker 6: all of the above, but at this stage of our lives,
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  Speaker 6: when we come together, man, it's like it's just nothing
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  Speaker 6: but laughter. It's like, at this point of our lives,
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  Speaker 6: we didn't been through a lot, and I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 6: more to deal with as far as challenges go, but
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  Speaker 6: we've come full circles just as grown men, just as
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  Speaker 6: as human beings, and and we have fun when we
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  Speaker 6: come together.
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  Speaker 5: I was gonna say, y'all need to talk with y'all
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  Speaker 5: just like, look.
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  Speaker 4: This this is the deal again. We this is the
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  Speaker 4: first time that we've even come together in this circumstance,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Other times it's been you know,
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  Speaker 4: we've been on shows with with BBD, We've done a
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  Speaker 4: few shows with Johnny and Bobby and you know, and
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  Speaker 4: we I think we did one gig that we all
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  Speaker 4: were together. But I feel like in order for the
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  Speaker 4: energy to actually get to the place where it's supposed
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  Speaker 4: to be something like that, a break bread moment has
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  Speaker 4: to happened. You know, some things, you know, some things
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  Speaker 4: that we might have on our hearts may need to
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  Speaker 4: come out, you know what I'm saying. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 4: that's what brotherhood is about, you know. And and I'm
• 8:36
  Speaker 4: a big fan of atonement guys. You know what I'm
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  Speaker 4: saying I'm a big fan.
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  Speaker 1: Of of of of.
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  Speaker 4: Letting it go, especially at the age that we're all at.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm trying. I'm trying to. Yeah, man, I'm trying.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to. I'm in I'm in coach mode. You
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. I'm really trying to be in
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  Speaker 4: coach mode.
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  Speaker 1: This is the time.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go out, let's make some money, and let's entertain
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  Speaker 4: these people and be on That's.
• 9:01
  Speaker 13: All conversation, like that initial conversation.
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  Speaker 10: But we did.
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  Speaker 8: What he was saying was it's it's one of those
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  Speaker 8: things where because we're on the road and because we
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  Speaker 8: have the time, it's going to be one of those
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  Speaker 8: organic things. We don't want to make this a melo
• 9:17
  Speaker 8: drama and it ain't no negativity, ain't no mess like
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  Speaker 8: like you know what I'm saying, None of that ship
• 9:22
  Speaker 8: excuse me, none of that stuff like it. It's really
• 9:25
  Speaker 8: just about understanding how important this meant or this was,
• 9:30
  Speaker 8: and not only to the fans but to us. So
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  Speaker 8: this is what we're doing. We're celebrating, we're going to
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  Speaker 8: have a good time. We're gonna go on the road
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  Speaker 8: and we're gonna sing and dance our asses off.
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  Speaker 9: Absolutely, We're gonna give people the greatest show they've ever
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  Speaker 9: seen in their life.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: You have fun doing this, have fun doing it.
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  Speaker 14: That's right, Michael.
• 9:46
  Speaker 12: Anybody ever tell you that you look like Yo Gotti.
• 9:53
  Speaker 15: We took the peture together at what was that the
• 9:56
  Speaker 15: BET Awards, so there's a picture.
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  Speaker 14: Of him and not standing side by side. It was
• 10:00
  Speaker 14: just cool to meet him too.
• 10:01
  Speaker 15: I think he was right at the beginning of him
• 10:04
  Speaker 15: coming through the door.
• 10:05
  Speaker 14: He was hustling. He was standing.
• 10:06
  Speaker 15: Outside on the red cop it with not no bodyguards
• 10:09
  Speaker 15: and all that.
• 10:10
  Speaker 14: He looked like he was.
• 10:11
  Speaker 15: He had his crewel there, but he was a little
• 10:13
  Speaker 15: more loose and it was It was good. We just
• 10:16
  Speaker 15: looked at each other like okay, and we just smiled.
• 10:20
  Speaker 16: It was like, oh, so y'all looked like y'all could
• 10:24
  Speaker 16: be brothers.
• 10:25
  Speaker 15: Everybody said, I think, what's one of the kids looked
• 10:27
  Speaker 15: at the TV. It was like that, and it couldn't.
• 10:30
  Speaker 13: Figure it out.
• 10:32
  Speaker 15: You know, one of my kids, like he looked like that.
• 10:37
  Speaker 15: I don't know if it was Shilah Starler was one
• 10:39
  Speaker 15: of them. They was a little you know, it was little.
• 10:41
  Speaker 14: Yeah. So it was all good and shout out to
• 10:43
  Speaker 14: him man, hell of a CEO.
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: Now, what do you think there's missing in the R
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: and B game right now? Why don't you think there's
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: more R and B groups?
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: They're missing us?
• 10:51
  Speaker 14: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, you know, I just.
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  Speaker 6: Think the times is changed. And that's the thing that
• 10:56
  Speaker 6: we understand about time. Uh, and the world is constantly
• 10:59
  Speaker 6: going and we've seen nothing stays the same. And the
• 11:02
  Speaker 6: part of the thing is that we have to learn
• 11:04
  Speaker 6: and have the attitude and take that mindset that you know,
• 11:07
  Speaker 6: you have to learn how to work, continue to do
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  Speaker 6: what we do in that compromise that we are, but
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  Speaker 6: also understand where the world is and figure out how
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  Speaker 6: we can fit in it, because well, ain't stopping.
• 11:15
  Speaker 10: For us that thinks. We live in a YouTube society
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  Speaker 10: and everybody's selfish. Nobody wants to share with their friends
• 11:21
  Speaker 10: or their brothers and their cousins. Nobody wants to make
• 11:23
  Speaker 10: a group. Everybody wants their own shit, absolutely with.
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: Their own money.
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  Speaker 14: Well go ahead, No I'm not going before you. I'll
• 11:30
  Speaker 14: go means might got an R and B group and
• 11:33
  Speaker 14: to cut some are I was just going to make a point.
• 11:35
  Speaker 15: But if you want to jump in, jump, I was
• 11:38
  Speaker 15: gonna say, bro Honestly, I think it started at the Recordly,
• 11:43
  Speaker 15: I think people that are hired now some of them
• 11:46
  Speaker 15: don't have an eye for talent.
• 11:47
  Speaker 14: They have an eye for their computer.
• 11:49
  Speaker 15: Sometimes you have to go in the street, like we
• 11:53
  Speaker 15: met in the street. You know, they're singing to be closed,
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  Speaker 15: and I think they look at it as the hits
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  Speaker 15: of the computer makes them a hit group.
• 12:03
  Speaker 14: But it's so much more to it.
• 12:04
  Speaker 15: And back in the day, like for myself as the CEO,
• 12:08
  Speaker 15: I stayed the two in the morning and kept looking
• 12:11
  Speaker 15: at the pictures, listening to the music, the an R
• 12:15
  Speaker 15: and the people at the office. Now they're on the
• 12:16
  Speaker 15: red carpet before the artists get there. So the responsibility
• 12:20
  Speaker 15: and the care the detail is missing. And if someone
• 12:24
  Speaker 15: would just slow down and say, yo, how many times
• 12:27
  Speaker 15: we gotta look at the Grammys and not one R
• 12:29
  Speaker 15: and B group is on the shove right right? And
• 12:33
  Speaker 15: the first time we see in an R and B
• 12:35
  Speaker 15: group in the last five years, well, you know, we
• 12:38
  Speaker 15: saw what Bruno on them did, but that was a
• 12:40
  Speaker 15: different thing. I'm talking about someone from the hood, like
• 12:42
  Speaker 15: a yoga signal audition Boys to Men. Jagged Edge is
• 12:45
  Speaker 15: when Wan Suns was on there, and Jesse gave them
• 12:48
  Speaker 15: the shot. That's the first time we seen black kids
• 12:51
  Speaker 15: on the Grammys ever in a long time. And that's
• 12:54
  Speaker 15: where it starts. It starts younger and Scott's shot at
• 12:57
  Speaker 15: the office or it's gonna have to come from us.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think people are looking for talent no more.
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: I think they're looking for people that are just doing.
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely you don't even have to have a record deal.
• 13:06
  Speaker 4: You get the numbers and then you get a record deal,
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, And really just understand that
• 13:12
  Speaker 4: there is a blueprint, you understand, a blueprint that we
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: followed to get to where we are.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 13:17
  Speaker 4: There's the groups of old of our time that actually
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: helped shape the.
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  Speaker 1: Entertainment value of all of us. You know what I'm saying.
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: So all these artists have to do is keep looking
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: at the blueprints, because the blueprints still exists.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: That longevity just means.
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: That you did something very very right. You understand and
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: understanding behind it is. They're not looking for longevity, They're
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: looking for the quick fix. Social media is the fastest
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: way to become famous, but also the quickest way to
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: lose everything.
• 13:50
  Speaker 8: You know what I say, like everybody's obsessed with going
• 13:53
  Speaker 8: viral and not understanding a component to the word viral
• 13:56
  Speaker 8: is virus exactly? Like why would you want to be
• 13:59
  Speaker 8: a viral? Like there's two things that happens the viruses.
• 14:02
  Speaker 8: One they get killed or it kills everything, Like why
• 14:07
  Speaker 8: would you want to why would you want to base
• 14:09
  Speaker 8: your career off of going viral? Like there's there's no
• 14:12
  Speaker 8: future in that, and that's what the industry is.
• 14:16
  Speaker 15: Sean, Honestly, I would have went second on that question,
• 14:21
  Speaker 15: but I think we should ask Ralph what do he
• 14:23
  Speaker 15: think is missing?
• 14:25
  Speaker 14: Because let me, let me, let me finish.
• 14:30
  Speaker 15: I'm gonna tell you why the responsibility of being up
• 14:34
  Speaker 15: front is even something that's in you, you're born with.
• 14:37
  Speaker 15: And I feel like that question you gotta ask yourself.
• 14:40
  Speaker 15: When he sits and watch a group of YouTube he's
• 14:42
  Speaker 15: looking to see who reminds him of himself. He's got
• 14:44
  Speaker 15: that route treasurment. So Rizzo take the mic and tell
• 14:48
  Speaker 15: us what do you think there?
• 14:50
  Speaker 14: It is?
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: What was the question, what's missing in R and B?
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: What's missing about the group's R and B likes?
• 14:58
  Speaker 17: There's a lot missing that game.
• 15:00
  Speaker 18: It's all changed, it's not even the same place that
• 15:02
  Speaker 18: we were in when we started. So everything has changed,
• 15:07
  Speaker 18: and man, can you hear me? Yeah, I'm sorry, it
• 15:11
  Speaker 18: seems like everything has changed. Man, nothing's how it used
• 15:13
  Speaker 18: to be, you know, when we're out here trying to
• 15:15
  Speaker 18: think about something in particular that can bring it back
• 15:18
  Speaker 18: like it used to be. And I don't know, I
• 15:20
  Speaker 18: don't have no answers with all that. I just feel
• 15:22
  Speaker 18: like it's evolved.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: But it's interesting even you know, for Bible to say
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: Ralph was the lead because you were the lead technically,
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: but then Bobby went off and was a great leading man,
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: and Johnny was a great leading man, and BBD had.
• 15:35
  Speaker 13: Success like all of y'all could have been a leading you.
• 15:39
  Speaker 18: Now he's talking about how it started all off A
• 15:41
  Speaker 18: candy girl Michael Jackson analogy. Can'dy new audition? Candy girl
• 15:46
  Speaker 18: Jackson's that vibe is what Mike's speaking on. And during
• 15:49
  Speaker 18: that time period.
• 15:50
  Speaker 17: It wasn't a whole lot of examples for us.
• 15:55
  Speaker 18: We just had what was in front of us or
• 15:57
  Speaker 18: behind us, and trying to take what we had learned
• 16:00
  Speaker 18: and make something.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: New out of that. Exactly.
• 16:02
  Speaker 17: It's not adding what was going on in the current times.
• 16:06
  Speaker 10: You know what there.
• 16:09
  Speaker 19: And I just think that back when we first started,
• 16:11
  Speaker 19: what motivated us, what influenced us, the artists, you know,
• 16:15
  Speaker 19: the Temptations, Blue Magic, the Jackson's his death, that's not
• 16:18
  Speaker 19: the motivation today. Before we even like knew anything about
• 16:23
  Speaker 19: how to even get a record deal, because that was
• 16:25
  Speaker 19: actually the furthest.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Thing from my mind.
• 16:27
  Speaker 19: There was no way that you do that to approach that.
• 16:30
  Speaker 19: So our main motivation was to how do we put
• 16:32
  Speaker 19: on a good show. And we've rehearsed probably for a
• 16:35
  Speaker 19: couple of years before we even stepped on the stage,
• 16:38
  Speaker 19: and we were more excited about making the crowd scream,
• 16:42
  Speaker 19: you know, than actually making a new record. And so
• 16:45
  Speaker 19: now today, like Sean said, it's the motivation is how
• 16:48
  Speaker 19: do I become famous? Not really about how do I
• 16:51
  Speaker 19: put on a good show.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: But it has to feel good.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Like I said, viv videos of my daughter seven years
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: old singing new audition records, which is crazy because it's
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: the music is a feeling, and I feel like sometimes
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: you don't get that with these artists, Like music doesn't
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: last at the time that it does.
• 17:08
  Speaker 18: Well, you don't think that's a big piece of what's missing.
• 17:10
  Speaker 18: When I think of it, it's love. Like when we
• 17:12
  Speaker 18: came up, it was.
• 17:12
  Speaker 17: A lot of love and right.
• 17:15
  Speaker 18: And it seems like love is not a part of
• 17:17
  Speaker 18: the major the topics now it's not. It's not about
• 17:20
  Speaker 18: it's not even in the music. It's not in the
• 17:22
  Speaker 18: approach towards when you the passion that we had. We
• 17:25
  Speaker 18: had love for this. We wanted to do what we
• 17:27
  Speaker 18: saw the Jackson's doing. We really wanted to make it happen.
• 17:30
  Speaker 13: You wanted to be great.
• 17:31
  Speaker 8: The industry, the industry doesn't groom legends anymore. They don't
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: groom longevity anymore because it doesn't benefit them.
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: Like think about it when you when.
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: You have a company and you know that you can
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: go viral with a kid for fifteen minutes, get your
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: ad revenue, and then kick them to the side.
• 17:48
  Speaker 17: Right, and then move on to the next thing.
• 17:51
  Speaker 9: That's a good money maker to anybody. I was there,
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: you know what I'm saying.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: And the artist suffer, yeah.
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: But but the bottom line is is that the artist suffer,
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: but the artists still have the hand. And what I
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: mean by that is a lot of the things that
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: we don't like about you know, because I'm be on
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: group chats with a lot of producers and managers and
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: stuff like that, and they complain about the same thing,
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: and my thing.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Is change it, that's all.
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: Just change it, stop doing stop chasing the carrot like,
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: because everybody wants to try to fit in the system,
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: knowing damn well, it doesn't benefit them. So the music
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: industry isn't an industry without the music. So change it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: Change the paradigm, change how music is consumed.
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: Change you know, who has the power to create that
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: next thing and then.
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: Hold it so these industry people don't try to put
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: their grubby hands on trying to make it like a
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: you know, a viral thing or you know or whatever.
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: It's partially our fault because we fell into the whole system,
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: and all we gotta do is change it.
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: Period.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Now with Bobby with so many hits, how many hits
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: are you going to do on stage?
• 18:55
  Speaker 14: Oh?
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Man to the mic? And then because that's the time
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: where everybody could take a break.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: You have so many records single, how are you give
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: us a break?
• 19:08
  Speaker 13: Me and break?
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know.
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: It's up it's up to Brook and it's up to
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: you know, the guys. How much they want me on
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: the stage.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: I don't plan to do no more than the next man.
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: I know that.
• 19:35
  Speaker 16: Okay, So for boys and men, how long did it
• 19:37
  Speaker 16: take y'all to complete a whole song in the studio?
• 19:40
  Speaker 16: Because you when I say when the song's be going off,
• 19:43
  Speaker 16: you'd be like, no, no, no. I got some more.
• 19:52
  Speaker 17: Specific with it.
• 19:53
  Speaker 12: The Christmas album that.
• 19:54
  Speaker 16: I bumped all year round, Christmas Dierversations.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Wow, thank you, my favorite Creciate play all year round.
• 20:02
  Speaker 12: How only did it take you all to complete a
• 20:03
  Speaker 12: single song?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you this. It took us two weeks
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: to do the Christmas album.
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: What that's all?
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: We had two weeks that's all we had.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: And we recorded it in Europe, London, in London, yes,
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: with Brian McKnight.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: We sat there because we were on tour.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: We were on tour in London, right, we had, Yeah,
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: we had to meet the deadline and we sat in there.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Of course we wrote songs on the road, you know,
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: like Sean would call me to his room. He had
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: joyous song. I came up with why Christmas. And Nate
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: had a cold December Nights. Mike did no No, Michael's
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Cold December Nights and they had what was the record
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: of Share Love, Share Love. So yeah, so the idea,
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: like literally to to do a new standard Christmas album
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: was It was grueling because we didn't have much time,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: but we wrote the hell out of that. Like every
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: aspect of it was straight from the you know, the soul,
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. It was real, real moments.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: So we did and we didn't want to make it
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: all like you know, jingle bells, you know what I mean.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: We wanted to make it. We wanted to make it
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: so that so that so that we could feel it,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, so that you could actually
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: play that John straight.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: So yeah, you know, once you you know, once the
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: standards come and play, you know, of course you can
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: make choices, but when you have new Christmas records that
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: people fall in love with, that's the only choice.
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: That's why we decided not to make another one.
• 21:27
  Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, I want you please, but if y'all don't
• 21:32
  Speaker 16: need to, because that that's one of my favorite albums.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate that.
• 21:37
  Speaker 12: Why did you kill Give Love on Christmas Daily? Because
• 21:39
  Speaker 12: that's my favorite Christmas song?
• 21:40
  Speaker 16: Like y'all was singing these Christmas songs like women were
• 21:44
  Speaker 16: leaving y'alls.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Because they were.
• 21:51
  Speaker 10: That's all I had to give. I didn't have money
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: back then.
• 21:55
  Speaker 14: All I have with loved offer.
• 21:59
  Speaker 20: What is it like for y'all when y'all are on
• 22:01
  Speaker 20: stages and doing the different things that y'all are doing,
• 22:03
  Speaker 20: and you run into people like Jess who are still
• 22:05
  Speaker 20: filling the music's impactfully, but also different generations and things
• 22:08
  Speaker 20: are being recreated TikTok and all these different places.
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: It's the biggest compliment ever. Yeah, the fact that these
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: songs out are older than some of our kids and
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: people are still enjoying them, and it just it is
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: proof positive of I guess the work that we put
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: in and the type of music that will last way
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: after we're gone again. What Ralph was saying is we
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: do this for the love. We did it for the love,
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: and we continue to do this for the love. I mean,
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: it's nice that we get paid well for it, but ultimately,
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: what you're going to see and what people are going
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: to witness on stage is love. Why we do what
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: we do. And I wanted to touch too about how
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: the fact that the industry is made not reaching back
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: to history uncool. It's like when I see a lot
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: of young kids like talking, they talk a lot.
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: That's that old shit it, yeah, but that's that good ship.
• 23:02
  Speaker 13: You know.
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: The the reason why songs last as long as they
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: do is because it just like Ricky even mentioned, like
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: they're idols, were the Jacksons and Blue Magic and the stylistics,
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: like you got to reach back to history to understand
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: how to move forward in the future. And the bottom
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: line is that a lot of these kids don't understand
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: what was, which is why the sound of it And
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: let's be honest, because y'all radio folks, y'all know the
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: sound quality is different.
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: Y'all know it don't hit here. It's just a bunch
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: of sonics.
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: It's just a bunch of drums and sound effects.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: But it don't change a lot.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Right when I do R and B parties, right, y'all,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: records ring like newer records even more to the point
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: where it's like I'm watching people do the dance and
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: this is festival. So it's like with different groups. I
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: would say with y'all, definitely Mary J. Blige, it hits
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: different because those songs keep going and these are younger kids.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: He could be twenty one year olds, These could be
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: nineteen year olds in college when we do these parties.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: But it's still hits that make me happy.
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: What was the kids say about low frequency?
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: Like a lot of the songs, unfortunately not all of them,
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: but a lot of the songs have very low frequency.
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: It's the reason why these songs that we've done for
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: the past what forty years fellas like in some MUDs,
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: you know, but that they still ring true because again
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: it still has that thick analog feel to it.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean?
• 24:30
  Speaker 16: Something right now in twenty twelve, my baby father played
• 24:35
  Speaker 16: me mister telephone man.
• 24:36
  Speaker 12: That's how I got a baby right.
• 24:37
  Speaker 21: Now, mister telephone Damn if it was that easy.
• 25:00
  Speaker 20: So you talked about you talked about the not being
• 25:03
  Speaker 20: cool to throw back to like you know, legends and
• 25:05
  Speaker 20: iconic moments and music. How much of the business has
• 25:08
  Speaker 20: made it where that's why the kids are doing that
• 25:10
  Speaker 20: and has it made it hard for you guys trying
• 25:12
  Speaker 20: to do business because of that feeling?
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: Well, first off, let me say just to answer the
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: last part, our business is doing well. And this this
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: is the crazy part too, that a lot of people
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: don't get because we're not always on the front pages
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: of certain websites and things that nature, that they don't
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: think that we're doing well. As you look around, you
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: see everybody's skin glowing.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 25:41
  Speaker 20: That note channel.
• 25:44
  Speaker 13: We're good.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: To book them and see their numbers.
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: And that's the thing is like the industry has got
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: everybody so gassed to think that, Yo, if you're not
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: on this this particular platform, then you're not doing well.
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: And again this is this is proof positive. Like we're
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: about to do Arenas thirty dates.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I love it, We're fine. Let me.
• 26:10
  Speaker 15: Again, let me say this like honestly, Envy, it means
• 26:15
  Speaker 15: a lot to us when you're in New Orleans and
• 26:17
  Speaker 15: you make that call twenty minutes before we hit the stage,
• 26:20
  Speaker 15: sorry and say, BEV leave me some tickets. He's always
• 26:23
  Speaker 15: in the front, singing and stepping with us, and that
• 26:26
  Speaker 15: means a lot. And I thought that was part of
• 26:28
  Speaker 15: what you asked. What do we feel when we see y'all?
• 26:30
  Speaker 15: It feels good, bro, because you're not being you know,
• 26:33
  Speaker 15: the radio guy that got you it being someone that
• 26:37
  Speaker 15: enjoys the music. And that's probably why your tickets is
• 26:40
  Speaker 15: always there.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: But this group is one that I see every time
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: y'all in town, every time I'm in the town, because
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: it gives me that feeling.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: I can see you once, I can see you twice.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: I know the dances.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: If somebody gets hurt, I can jump in for y'all.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I don't think.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: My question is is there a song that you guys
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: hate to do that?
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Like, I just don't want to do that song y'all
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: looking at you, I know what was one?
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: And Still of the Night?
• 27:16
  Speaker 13: I hate that song.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you why you hate it. So so so
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: we're in Salt Lake City and and uh, the record label.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: I'm sure BIF has something to do with this. Ship
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: the record label and was like, yo, we need a
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: record for the Jackson's Mini series, and we wanted to
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: be in Instill in the Night.
• 27:40
  Speaker 14: Now.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: We could think of so many.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Other records that we would have been excited to do,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean, But they wanted in the
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Still of the Night.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: So okay, it's a very easy record, guys, you know
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: what I mean.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Of course, with our harmony structures, we kind of we
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: kind of do it a little bit different because it's
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: not the regular triad. But the issue is is nobody
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: wanted to sing the lead.
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: It was a day off weekend and we wanted to
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: go snowmobill.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Exactly right, exactly, so nobody wanted to sing the lead.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: So anything right right?
• 28:10
  Speaker 17: Right?
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, hell no, we don't want to sing
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: the league because it's in the other night, right.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: So we flipped the coin.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: That's how we did every That's how we That's how
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: we cleared every alter case, every situation.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: We would just want to slip the coin.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: One and we left, We left the studio. We left
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: his ass right there.
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: We left him and we did our parts and flipped
• 28:38
  Speaker 9: the coin. And who was going to sing lead?
• 28:40
  Speaker 10: Nate one, We.
• 28:43
  Speaker 13: Love you.
• 28:46
  Speaker 10: I don't even remember, bro. I was so pissed off
• 28:50
  Speaker 10: looking out the window, snow cap mountains and ship hilarious.
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: Pumi addition has to yeah, I want to know that.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's all y'all hate to do?
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: I love doing if it is in love, but I
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: don't like doing it.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: I don't because it's like by the times like this,
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: you're like, I'm telling what you don't like doing.
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: I don't like to do the dance. It's a real
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: difficult I dig.
• 29:22
  Speaker 11: For me, it would probably be You're not my kind
• 29:24
  Speaker 11: of girl? What Yeah, lyrics, It leans in on the
• 29:29
  Speaker 11: dance side. This one move that we do what you
• 29:32
  Speaker 11: know later on my ass hurts everything.
• 29:41
  Speaker 20: Dance moves in like things you're not going to touch
• 29:43
  Speaker 20: this time around.
• 29:44
  Speaker 11: On way, we are definitely gonna I think we do
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: want to give people a different experience. Like m b said,
• 29:59
  Speaker 11: some of the classics stuff that people have come to
• 30:01
  Speaker 11: know us for if it isn't love, maybe even you're
• 30:04
  Speaker 11: not my kind of girl. Some of those things we're
• 30:06
  Speaker 11: gonna keep in place. We might add some variances, but
• 30:09
  Speaker 11: I think people want to see us do something new
• 30:12
  Speaker 11: and fresh and different, and we're excited about the challenge
• 30:15
  Speaker 11: of coming up with those things. For whether it's the
• 30:18
  Speaker 11: poison breakdown or every little step you know, where people
• 30:22
  Speaker 11: might understand in the aisles, like Mike said, they're anticipating the.
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: Move, but we're gonna throw a curveball.
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: This time around, and that's what it's all about. I
• 30:32
  Speaker 11: think the reason why we've been able to stand the
• 30:35
  Speaker 11: test of time for forty plus years is because we've.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Always challenged ourselves.
• 30:40
  Speaker 11: You know, we always really felt like we had to
• 30:42
  Speaker 11: go deep because the bar was raised for us from
• 30:46
  Speaker 11: some of the greats that we used to love to
• 30:49
  Speaker 11: see and when they poured into us, I mean Lakeside.
• 30:52
  Speaker 11: We would stand on the side of the stage every
• 30:55
  Speaker 11: night when we were on tour with them, just taking
• 30:57
  Speaker 11: that energy in. I remember time where my uncle would
• 31:01
  Speaker 11: have a sit Indian style on the floor, you know,
• 31:05
  Speaker 11: in a little meditation polls and he would play the
• 31:08
  Speaker 11: Jackson's Live album and he would tell us to close
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: our eyes so we can ingest. You know what that was,
• 31:14
  Speaker 11: and it's paid dividends. So we definitely want to give
• 31:17
  Speaker 11: people a different experience.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: But you can't do everything that ballplayers get older, they
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: even got to adjust their game.
• 31:22
  Speaker 13: But the.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Right thank you, You gotta appreciate.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: You, gotta tell you.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Gotta tell Brooke that because he ain't trying to hear
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: that expect that they want the same look from twenty one.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: He'd be like, you try, that's what you're telling you.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Try.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: Sometimes the running man just ran out.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: The walking man.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: It's something that you all appreciate about each other than
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: now that you probably took for granted back then.
• 32:03
  Speaker 13: Matthew Ralph, Yeah.
• 32:05
  Speaker 17: I think everybody's gifts, you know. I think back then
• 32:08
  Speaker 17: we didn't realize how talented is.
• 32:10
  Speaker 18: I don't think back in the days we realized how
• 32:13
  Speaker 18: talented everybody really was and what they had to bring
• 32:16
  Speaker 18: to the tablet had to offer. When we first started,
• 32:19
  Speaker 18: we was trying to do like a mixture of the
• 32:21
  Speaker 18: Jackson's Missed the temptations.
• 32:24
  Speaker 17: That was our idea of us. So everybody was supposed
• 32:25
  Speaker 17: to have a role.
• 32:26
  Speaker 18: When we came to the Candygirl album, it was more
• 32:28
  Speaker 18: of this Jackson five ish vibe, which we would have
• 32:32
  Speaker 18: switched it out the gate. It would have came int
• 32:34
  Speaker 18: gate a little bit more with everybody's talent talents being
• 32:37
  Speaker 18: showcased out the gate. So I think that what I've
• 32:41
  Speaker 18: learned is the brother how smart everybody is, how much
• 32:45
  Speaker 18: they actually added to the table and brought to the
• 32:47
  Speaker 18: table that you take for granted because everybody's.
• 32:50
  Speaker 17: Supposed to do that part, which just taught you do
• 32:52
  Speaker 17: your role.
• 32:53
  Speaker 18: But then you look back later on, it'say, what if
• 32:55
  Speaker 18: that he didn't know how to do that, or he
• 32:56
  Speaker 18: didn't have that give, this might not have.
• 32:58
  Speaker 17: Worked at all. That's what I've learned.
• 33:01
  Speaker 18: I've learned that everybody's gifted, extremely smart and knows exactly
• 33:04
  Speaker 18: what we're doing. It has gotten better over time and
• 33:07
  Speaker 18: we're really a real brotherhood.
• 33:10
  Speaker 13: What about y'all.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: I think that in the beginning of our career, we
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: actually we were groomed, you know what I'm saying by
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: great people. We had, you know, Michael Bivens, we had
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: Kylil Rountree, we had Jerl Busby, and a lot of
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: the things that they were doing was cultivating what they
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: already knew existed at some point it Mike would tell
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: you, you know, they didn't know what to do with us
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: because we weren't doing what everybody else was doing at
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: the time. So, you know, when it came down to it,
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: it was more so, you know, knowing what we were
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: capable of vocally, because that's what the nucleus was. How
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: good can we be with our harmonies? How can we
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: set ourselves aside from the rest of the people that
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: are singing at this time?
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: And you know, I.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: Think that that was what we focused on more than anything.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: We didn't really get into the brotherhood until I guess
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: things started going awry, you know what I mean, Because
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: there's not a there's there's always levels to this, you know,
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: it's ups and down. So when things started getting to
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: a certain point. I think that's when we said, Okay,
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: now we have to hold on to each other. Now
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: we have to hold on to the brotherhood. And as
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: you can see, we're lesser brother you know what I'm saying.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Because when the chips are down, you know, it's that's
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: that's a real thing, you know what I'm saying. Everybody
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: has to stay as strong as you did in the
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: beginning when you were doing it for nothing, you understand.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: So that's what it is. And then we just started
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: realizing when things were at a certain level that we
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: needed each other more than anything. We already knew what
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: we were capable of, I mean, and we gave each
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: other roles all the way from the beginning. I mean,
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: there's always been the business guy, you know what I mean.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: Shawn's always been kind of like the the creative and
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: the balance of it all.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: And I'm just a crazy motherfucker, you know what I'm saying,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: And and but them, because I have a responsibility to
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: the integrity of my group, I had to.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Bring that down.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: And that was because I have people like Brooke and
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: and you know they they saw it and in their
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: in their realm, and they.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Were like, Okay, let's let's bring him in. Let's let's
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: draw bring.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: Him back so he don't end up in a in
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: a different way, you know what I mean.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: And and no bull crap, I'm gonna tell you this.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: My dude, the dude that saved my life in numerous
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: instances that he he don't even remember.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Is this guy right here you understand, yup? He has.
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: And because Kyle used to say it all the time,
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: you ain't gonna be like that motherfucker.
• 35:47
  Speaker 13: Remember that name.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Was Publish, You be like that motherfucker. I was like,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: but I love him, you know what I'm saying Like.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: That, and and and and it was. It was an
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: unspoken connection until I met him and then he literally
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: I will tell that story another time. But this guy
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: right here, man has.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: He's checked on me even when like he wasn't.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: In New addition, you know what I'm saying, he checked
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: on me, Like, yo, dude, you in atl I'm like.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Hell, yeah, you know what I'm saying. What we're doing,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: But that's the thought process. The thought process is everybody
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: got us to a certain point. It was up to
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: the ups and the downs, the struggles to create the
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: nucleus that boys to men is right now that to
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: know what we are all capable of, and we all
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: play our roles perfectly, which is the reason why God
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: is blessed us to be so successful at this.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: I want to go back to someone Ralph said, when
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: you talked about, you know, leaning into everybody, leaning in
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: everybody's talents earlier, when everybody broke off and had success
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: outside in the audition, did y'all ever look at each
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: other and be like, I didn't know they could do that,
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Like I didn't.
• 36:52
  Speaker 13: Know BBD to do that. I ain't nobody could do that.
• 36:55
  Speaker 10: Not me.
• 36:56
  Speaker 18: I was just static every time something blew off, when
• 36:58
  Speaker 18: somebody was winning, I was ecstatic.
• 37:01
  Speaker 17: I was at home like day go. That's Bobby was the.
• 37:04
  Speaker 18: Dance entertainer, mastering our projects absolutely. You know, when we
• 37:08
  Speaker 18: grew up, I just knew he was better than all
• 37:10
  Speaker 18: of us at dancing and entertaining and just just being live.
• 37:13
  Speaker 17: You know what I'm saying. He was that dude, and
• 37:16
  Speaker 17: so not the world.
• 37:18
  Speaker 18: The world not being able to see that as a
• 37:20
  Speaker 18: part of our group, there was a big dynamic missing it.
• 37:23
  Speaker 18: So when he's when he stepped out and he did it,
• 37:26
  Speaker 18: It's like, yes, they get to see that we have
• 37:28
  Speaker 18: that in us too, because there was a lot of
• 37:30
  Speaker 18: stuff that was becoming real candy girl, real them boys
• 37:33
  Speaker 18: is real soft or this bubble gum and we don't
• 37:37
  Speaker 18: get bubble gum.
• 37:38
  Speaker 17: So you don't you don't hate it, but you don't
• 37:39
  Speaker 17: like it either.
• 37:41
  Speaker 18: So having another body, and when BBD started representing and
• 37:43
  Speaker 18: Bobby started representing, Johnny's in the group. Now he's doing
• 37:46
  Speaker 18: his thing with his grown master. He's just turning everything
• 37:48
  Speaker 18: to what we I really knew what we had and
• 37:51
  Speaker 18: letting the world see it. So for me, it was
• 37:54
  Speaker 18: just finally the world's getting a chance to see what
• 37:56
  Speaker 18: were really made out of.
• 37:57
  Speaker 8: Ralph let me let me, let me give you all
• 37:58
  Speaker 8: y'all flowers and say that this has been no group,
• 38:01
  Speaker 8: white or black, that is done what New Audition has done.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Ever, not to me, not for us.
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: There's never been a group alive, past, present, or probably future,
• 38:12
  Speaker 8: that has been a group broke up, all went platinum,
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: came back again and went platinum again.
• 38:20
  Speaker 13: Only one literally, Yeah.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it.
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: So I just want to just put that out there,
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: like they've done something that is unprecedented.
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: And the only way that that could possibly happen is
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: if we make it happen.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: We can help.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: If we can help a group get to that point,
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: then that's the only way.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: They have to follow the blueprint.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: If they're not going to follow the blue blueprint, then
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: it's it's not possible.
• 38:46
  Speaker 8: You can't be successful without following what we've done exactly.
• 38:49
  Speaker 12: And speaking of that, one more big boy too low time.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Yes, I love them, Thank you for them.
• 38:58
  Speaker 12: I mean we're talking about the boy got the voice.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I am so ready to tap in.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: And you know, God blessed them definitely, and they're passionate
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: about it. And with with different opportunities that come my way,
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: I'm going to definitely make sure that you know, we
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: we we tap in.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: You know, Oh man, thank you so much.
• 39:22
  Speaker 11: When you think about some of the things that allow
• 39:25
  Speaker 11: you to be successful, you know is discipline, and they
• 39:30
  Speaker 11: do and they do.
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: On top of the discipline, you have to have consistence.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. It's something that.
• 39:35
  Speaker 11: We had, as Rick said, early in our career before
• 39:39
  Speaker 11: the opportunity presented itself. You know, we were prepared because
• 39:42
  Speaker 11: of the consistent consistency time, rehearse, rehearse, rehears. But we
• 39:47
  Speaker 11: see them putting their videos out and make sure that
• 39:50
  Speaker 11: they're staying consistent, working on their craft.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: You know that they have to have.
• 39:54
  Speaker 13: To get to.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Touch thee. Yeah, we're going to be on. We got
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: to definitely make oh Man.
• 40:01
  Speaker 14: Come on, you know what to Charlamagne.
• 40:05
  Speaker 15: Like, there's quiet storms in our group and you guys
• 40:09
  Speaker 15: just really get to hear the music, send the concept.
• 40:12
  Speaker 15: You don't get to get on the conference calls where
• 40:14
  Speaker 15: this shit really goes down. He don't come in the
• 40:16
  Speaker 15: dressing room where this shit really goes down. But I
• 40:19
  Speaker 15: would just say this and Rizzo, you know, he's always
• 40:23
  Speaker 15: gonna say it so eloquently because that's how he speaks.
• 40:26
  Speaker 15: But you know, Ralph's important. When he shows up to
• 40:29
  Speaker 15: do the show. It gives us a sense of strength.
• 40:32
  Speaker 15: When he walks through the door. It's like Brady coming
• 40:34
  Speaker 15: through the door. Yes, it is what it is. And
• 40:38
  Speaker 15: you know when Bob is hurting or his leg and
• 40:41
  Speaker 15: he's just like, fuck it, let's go.
• 40:43
  Speaker 14: I'll just stand over here.
• 40:44
  Speaker 15: He's like, basically, I can't do that shit, but I'm
• 40:47
  Speaker 15: gonna rock this bicrophone and that means everything to the
• 40:50
  Speaker 15: audience right when we're trying to make a decision. You know,
• 40:54
  Speaker 15: Big Bro Johnny Gill, he's he's a heavy voice in
• 40:58
  Speaker 15: our group. You know, he's a he's older, he's wiser,
• 41:02
  Speaker 15: he's not just a singer, but he's a leader by conversation,
• 41:06
  Speaker 15: and he keeps us at a high standing. Just just
• 41:09
  Speaker 15: some ship we not accepting, and that's just that. And
• 41:12
  Speaker 15: in prayer that's mister Ricky Bell. Whenever we need to
• 41:17
  Speaker 15: hear a good kind word, he'll close the car. And
• 41:20
  Speaker 15: that's so powerful to keep us together. And of course,
• 41:23
  Speaker 15: you know Bro over there when he was speaking about
• 41:25
  Speaker 15: the dance moves, it's because he makes us reach for excellence.
• 41:29
  Speaker 14: And that's Ronnie.
• 41:30
  Speaker 15: You know what I'm saying. When we want to go
• 41:32
  Speaker 15: sit down and grab some water. Nah nah, let's go
• 41:34
  Speaker 15: two more times. And you see that in his performance
• 41:38
  Speaker 15: on stage. So I was just gonna say what makes
• 41:41
  Speaker 15: us tight? What Ralph said is everyone brings something to
• 41:44
  Speaker 15: the table, and I want to say it on the
• 41:46
  Speaker 15: Breakfast Club because I don't know when we'll all be
• 41:47
  Speaker 15: back here together.
• 41:48
  Speaker 18: Hold on, Mike, let me get you before you finish,
• 41:53
  Speaker 18: And Mike slaughter is the point.
• 41:54
  Speaker 14: God thanks Zill.
• 41:56
  Speaker 18: He hands the ball to everywhere he carries the ball,
• 41:59
  Speaker 18: he knows next play to make. He's thinking of the
• 42:01
  Speaker 18: next play to make, and he knows who to deliver
• 42:04
  Speaker 18: the ball to to make sure that we get we
• 42:06
  Speaker 18: scored the basket.
• 42:07
  Speaker 14: You know what I'm saying.
• 42:07
  Speaker 17: We win the game.
• 42:08
  Speaker 15: Yeah, thanks bro. And I want to say this because
• 42:11
  Speaker 15: it ain't over. But because of this guy. You know,
• 42:15
  Speaker 15: he's mature. When I met him, he was just ready
• 42:18
  Speaker 15: to sponge get all the information. But if it wasn't
• 42:21
  Speaker 15: for Nate Morris, I would have never been to CEO.
• 42:25
  Speaker 15: He's seen something in me that I didn't see it myself.
• 42:29
  Speaker 15: So I always wanted to tell him. I tell him
• 42:31
  Speaker 15: in Texas, I tell him on the phone, but I'm
• 42:33
  Speaker 15: gonna say it to the world.
• 42:34
  Speaker 14: Thank you.
• 42:35
  Speaker 15: He changed my life. He helped me see something I
• 42:38
  Speaker 15: didn't see. I was nineteen. I know my words in
• 42:41
  Speaker 15: Curson was heavy, but that's because I loved y'all and
• 42:44
  Speaker 15: I wanted y'all to be the best, and I just
• 42:46
  Speaker 15: wanted to stop.
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: Come on, let me finish, let me finish.
• 43:03
  Speaker 13: What did you see what.
• 43:06
  Speaker 10: I mean? I just it just seemed like from the
• 43:08
  Speaker 10: outside looking and you gotta remember we we weren't in
• 43:11
  Speaker 10: the industry at the time, but you know, from the
• 43:13
  Speaker 10: outside looking in, I saw what what Ralph just said,
• 43:17
  Speaker 10: you know what I'm saying. It just felt like he
• 43:19
  Speaker 10: was a guy that kind of held the group together.
• 43:21
  Speaker 10: He had, you know, put everybody in different positions, and
• 43:24
  Speaker 10: at that point, I felt like, you know, it's a
• 43:26
  Speaker 10: group that we look up to. I mean honestly, and
• 43:29
  Speaker 10: I mean I've never never told Mike, but I mean
• 43:33
  Speaker 10: he did. He was. He was my first hero in
• 43:35
  Speaker 10: the music industry. I mean, that's pretty much what it was.
• 43:38
  Speaker 10: So for me, it was like, if if he can
• 43:42
  Speaker 10: do that for them, you got to be able to do.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: It for us.
• 43:45
  Speaker 13: And that's crazy. Like I said, I just idea.
• 43:48
  Speaker 17: I thought there was going to.
• 43:49
  Speaker 14: Be real quick, but be able to.
• 44:02
  Speaker 10: Here's the deal, We're gonna have our conversation. We ain't straight,
• 44:06
  Speaker 10: but we know we ain't straight, but we all know
• 44:11
  Speaker 10: we're gonna go get this money. We're gonna please these fans,
• 44:13
  Speaker 10: and we're gonna figure out what we gotta do. Either
• 44:15
  Speaker 10: we're gonna fix it or not, but we all gonna
• 44:18
  Speaker 10: go out here and do what.
• 44:19
  Speaker 13: We that's a smarter move.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well let me ask the question, Biff, if you
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: could go back and renegotiate that first deal with boys
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: and men with everything you know, now, what would you
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: do differently?
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: That's a good question. That's a good question.
• 44:36
  Speaker 15: So honestly, I think some of those deals was something
• 44:40
  Speaker 15: that Gerald suggested. See he's the one that said be
• 44:44
  Speaker 15: an executive. He said do a production, do publishing do
• 44:48
  Speaker 15: or I didn't even think like that, you know what
• 44:50
  Speaker 15: I mean? And if the same choken, he was totally
• 44:53
  Speaker 15: against it. He didn't really like boys to men, you know,
• 44:57
  Speaker 15: so I'm fighting for them to be heard and to
• 45:00
  Speaker 15: be seen. He helps him destructure stuff, and I thought
• 45:03
  Speaker 15: that it was a it was a gamble. And the
• 45:06
  Speaker 15: thing is like, we never had a lawyer sit in
• 45:09
  Speaker 15: the room with us when we signed. It was just
• 45:11
  Speaker 15: us and them. Yeah, and we went through the paperwork
• 45:18
  Speaker 15: and we just did it. The good thing about it
• 45:21
  Speaker 15: is it was successful, right, and the record label, honestly,
• 45:25
  Speaker 15: the record label needed a hit to keep the light
• 45:29
  Speaker 15: song that we mother fucking kept the light song right.
• 45:32
  Speaker 15: We were thinking about it, right, and then so so
• 45:38
  Speaker 15: to think to think the thing is this even in
• 45:41
  Speaker 15: all of that. What was the easier way to do
• 45:44
  Speaker 15: it was fifty to fifty. Now remember, and their fifty
• 45:47
  Speaker 15: is for them. In my fifty, there's one. And so
• 45:51
  Speaker 15: a lot of the stuff that might, you know, look
• 45:53
  Speaker 15: a little different later, it's through success. So a lot
• 45:57
  Speaker 15: of that stuff there might have been the things that
• 46:00
  Speaker 15: made it look a little crazy, made it feel a
• 46:02
  Speaker 15: little different, but I was crazy. Yeah, But at the
• 46:06
  Speaker 15: end of the day, what was able to come out
• 46:09
  Speaker 15: of it and what was able to do.
• 46:11
  Speaker 14: We didn't fail, or we wouldn't be here.
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: I was gonna say, Mike and the fall that was
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: Joe was your mentor. And just like what you know
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: we were talking about earlier about the other guys talking
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: about us being their mentors. And it's so funny because
• 46:25
  Speaker 6: when you influenced or you're being taught the game, you're
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: rocking with the game. You're rocking with it, and you're
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: learning as you go. But I can say this in
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: a nutshell Listen, we all have been through a journey,
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: been through some ups and downs and changes and turnarounds
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: in our lives. And when you look at where we
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: are today, we're blessed.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: We're all blessed and guess what, so what we had
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: to go through to get here.
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: At the end of the day, here, I'm not mad
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: at anybody because this is like looking at God and
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: smacking them in the face, because you're saying, I'm mad
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: that you took me through this.
• 46:56
  Speaker 9: To get here towards riving today, I'm grateful.
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: And nobody has walked the road and that has been easy,
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: and that has been just that simple.
• 47:04
  Speaker 9: It doesn't work like that.
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: I agree, I agree totally. I agree, Johnny, But you know,
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: under the circumstances as human beings, you know what I mean, emotions, emotions,
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: me and everything. As human beings, you know, you have
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: thought process. We have to respect the human in each
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: other because it might be easier for some people to
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: get over things than others, you know what I'm saying.
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: Like for me, you know, my getting over it is
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: very simple. I was the youngest and I lived in
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: the projects. This man saved my life. You understand, he
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: gave me an opportunity by the grace of God. God
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: saved my life through bi He gave us the opportunity.
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: So in my mind, he did what he was supposed
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: to do for me. It was up to me to
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: go the next to the next place. It was up
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: to us to do that, and we did. You know
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: what I mean, under the circumstance of forgiveness and all
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: of those things. A communication is everything, you know what
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, And it does not take away from the
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: fact that you guys are our heroes, our mentors.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: You understand that way.
• 48:00
  Speaker 10: And again, like I said, I don't I don't speak
• 48:03
  Speaker 10: much because I only want to speak about stuff that matters.
• 48:06
  Speaker 10: But in this case, like I said, you know, we've
• 48:09
  Speaker 10: been able to be where being the nucleus that we've
• 48:14
  Speaker 10: been for the last few years, and like one said,
• 48:16
  Speaker 10: we all just got into the room together for the
• 48:18
  Speaker 10: first time in a long time. And that's the feat
• 48:22
  Speaker 10: in itself. I would say, even with with whatever it
• 48:24
  Speaker 10: might be, whatever we'll handle or deal with whatever, it's
• 48:27
  Speaker 10: a feat in itself. There's a lot of groups out
• 48:29
  Speaker 10: here today that you know, get emotional about things and
• 48:32
  Speaker 10: don't know how to handle business correctly, right and the kids.
• 48:35
  Speaker 10: You handle business first, and then you handle your family
• 48:37
  Speaker 10: stuff in the back room and not on the internet
• 48:40
  Speaker 10: in the media. So that being said, again, it ain't
• 48:43
  Speaker 10: nothing but love in this room. Whatever else we're gonna
• 48:45
  Speaker 10: deal with we'll deal with deal with us.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, I love, I love the fact that your
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: guys are coming together, right because you'll all had individual
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: battles in the press.
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: And the public, in the group and all that. But
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: the fact that you look at how many you know,
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: even rappers and R and B singers on this wall.
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: Let's no longer.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: Ahead, you know what I mean, the fact that there'd
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: have been so many should have or could have or
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: dann that would have been dope, y'all are actually pulling
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: it off like that could have been.
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: It's going to happen on this tour.
• 49:10
  Speaker 9: That's why this is important to see.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: That two amazing groups that can really sing and can dance,
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: Well say y'all, but singing dance to pull off this
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: show is amazing. And it ain't a small Beacon theater.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: No disrespect to becing theater, y'all doing arenas So for that,
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: we applause, y'all. And I know I'm so excited to
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: see multiple dates and I'm gonna be on the side
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: of the stage just the case one of the members
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: ain't there.
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: I know, both groups.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: If y'all name your uniform, because it's about to be
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: reverse racis because I don't see that many light skin.
• 49:42
  Speaker 13: That's why it was so successful.
• 49:50
  Speaker 10: Ain't even that light year.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: He ain't that lights year, Ronnie, my wife says, Peanut butter.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: Are y'all helping Bois and men develop their biopic? I
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: remember there was rumors of a boys men biopick at
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: one time.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: To see that happen.
• 50:11
  Speaker 8: I mean, we're still in the embryonic stages of it,
• 50:15
  Speaker 8: still trying to get things together because we want to
• 50:17
  Speaker 8: make sure that the story is told the right way,
• 50:19
  Speaker 8: because there are a lot of things that by design,
• 50:23
  Speaker 8: we have not said. You know, there's been a lot
• 50:25
  Speaker 8: of things that's been mentioned about the group and said
• 50:28
  Speaker 8: about the groups and things that nature that we.
• 50:30
  Speaker 9: Just kind of watched the last kept quiet, you.
• 50:32
  Speaker 8: Know what I'm saying, because you know, it's it's funny
• 50:35
  Speaker 8: how certain people in the industry tend to think that
• 50:38
  Speaker 8: they can score points on us because maybe we don't
• 50:41
  Speaker 8: because oh Jesus Christ, I won't gonna say now, but
• 50:44
  Speaker 8: but my point, my point is that a lot of
• 50:46
  Speaker 8: people tend to try to score points on us because
• 50:49
  Speaker 8: we're not affiliated with a gang, or we wouldn't roll
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: up on somebody.
• 50:53
  Speaker 9: Because we do, and we don't say that. We keep
• 50:55
  Speaker 9: it quiet, busy because and.
• 50:58
  Speaker 8: A lot of the things that that are said it's
• 51:01
  Speaker 8: hilarious to us, especially because when you see the people
• 51:04
  Speaker 8: that are actually saying it, you gotta always consider the source, right,
• 51:10
  Speaker 8: and when and when you see their positions and the
• 51:13
  Speaker 8: lives they're living and things that nature outside of all
• 51:17
  Speaker 8: of the shock value of oh, somebody said this, If
• 51:19
  Speaker 8: you look a little deeper, you say, oh, okay, that's
• 51:22
  Speaker 8: why they said that.
• 51:24
  Speaker 12: Now.
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: You know. The thing about the industry, though, is that
• 51:28
  Speaker 8: everybody knows everything about everybody.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: If I wanted.
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: To come on this this radio show and talk about
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: certain people, I know I could because I know exactly
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: what happened, who did it?
• 51:41
  Speaker 9: The whole nine yards.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: People.
• 51:44
  Speaker 15: You know is we're in the error where you could
• 51:50
  Speaker 15: just reply with your fingers, right, say what you say.
• 51:53
  Speaker 15: You can tell someone meet me at such and such whatever, right,
• 51:56
  Speaker 15: But you gotta look at it this way. Within the
• 51:59
  Speaker 15: nine of us, I'm sure all of us have been
• 52:01
  Speaker 15: through something and learn something. I would say this sitting
• 52:05
  Speaker 15: next to Bob. He might have some of the toughest
• 52:08
  Speaker 15: skin I've ever seen any individual. Hats and the one
• 52:12
  Speaker 15: thing I never seen though I was gonna.
• 52:20
  Speaker 14: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
• 52:21
  Speaker 15: This was gonna say this, but I've never seen Bob
• 52:27
  Speaker 15: really wild out the way you may say it.
• 52:30
  Speaker 14: I'm just saying.
• 52:31
  Speaker 15: I hear people say ship to Bob to me, and
• 52:34
  Speaker 15: I say to myself, I like the way he carries
• 52:36
  Speaker 15: himself and sometimes you gotta pop off. But I'm just saying,
• 52:39
  Speaker 15: the skin is deep, and we got that somebody in
• 52:42
  Speaker 15: our group. That is what you're talking. The ship, the
• 52:44
  Speaker 15: ship he got to hear when he's sitting on with
• 52:46
  Speaker 15: his kids, that ship just go to the soul.
• 52:50
  Speaker 9: And as brothers, we.
• 52:52
  Speaker 15: We check somebody when we're around someone and say no, no, no, no, no, no, nigga,
• 52:56
  Speaker 15: you can't do that. We're not gonna do that, and
• 52:58
  Speaker 15: you're supposed to do that if he But see, the issue.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: The issue is not us though, you know what I mean,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: it's the people.
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. Everyone has an opinion, you
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: know what I mean. They call it social media, but
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: there's nothing social about it at all, you know what
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: I mean. The thought process about it is when someone
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: says something about you, it's fine, especially if it's true.
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: I don't care but I'm tired of people lying about us.
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: They lie about us, and we never say nothing. Well,
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: I got a messed up knee, I got three schools
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: in it, and I'm getting myself together. Before you go there,
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: I want to give him an example of how we
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: don't say anything like people been talking about our fourth
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: member forever.
• 53:44
  Speaker 10: Oh, y'all did this to him. Y'all kicked him out,
• 53:46
  Speaker 10: he was sick. Y'all ain't give a shit about him.
• 53:48
  Speaker 10: Y'all don't know the story. And that's okay because we
• 53:50
  Speaker 10: keep that in. But I tell you one thing we've
• 53:51
  Speaker 10: never done. We've never said anything about him until the
• 53:56
  Speaker 10: latter years, to make sure that man, if he's not
• 53:59
  Speaker 10: here and have a.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Career, absolutely absolutely you don't do that.
• 54:04
  Speaker 10: So we don't. We don't do that. That's not I mean,
• 54:07
  Speaker 10: I'm the least social media guy on the planet. Yes, yes,
• 54:09
  Speaker 10: it is no need for I don't live in that space,
• 54:11
  Speaker 10: so it's no need to go in there and deal
• 54:13
  Speaker 10: with all the craziness.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: So when someone is doing that and telling stories like
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: literally fabricated stories, I feel like it's it's just felt
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: like time, you know, time to to defend the integrity
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: of my group of my fellas, myself, you know what
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: I mean. And you know, look, I'm not gonna say
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: boys to men. We was the cleanest niggas on the
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: planet Earth. You know what I'm saying. We did some stuff.
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, a lot of people. You know,
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure we puts some people off, you know
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: what I mean? And right, but at the end of
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: the day, we were trying to protect our brand. We
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: were trying to protect it. We didn't have Michael bibbins
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: on over us anymore to protect us. We didn't have
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: Kyle lil Rountree he got murdered.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. We were trying to figure
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: out all kinds of things managerial.
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: We have Michael Jackson and Prince telling us to know
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: your works and don't let nobody get over on you.
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: You know, So we we developed a chip a chip.
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: We started looking at everybody like, oh no, you're not
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: going to do this to us. You're not going to
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: do this to us. So when they hear our voices
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: because we were so silent because everybody else was doing
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: it for us, now we're assholes, you know, you understand,
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: just because we're sitting in the studio and we're working
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: on a project, does not mean that we're going to
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: be consorting.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: That's not what boys to men do. When we're in
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: the studio.
• 55:32
  Speaker 5: We work.
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: We don't have time to play games, you know what
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: I'm saying, Because we have a We have to please
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: these fans, you know, So when someone is saying, you
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: know that we said something as specific about a friend
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: of ours, Come on.
• 55:52
  Speaker 20: I saw you jump in the comments and say what
• 55:56
  Speaker 20: you said. But so why now even address that if
• 56:00
  Speaker 20: you know it's not truly.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Because I got time. I got a messed up knee.
• 56:04
  Speaker 17: I was sitting.
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: I was sitting on the damn couch. I couldn't get up,
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: I couldn't drive. I was watching cartoons and playing PlayStation
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: and I saw that shit and I said, hmm, this
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: will be fun.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: And guess what it was. It was very fun because
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: I got a chance to.
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: Let the people who really cared on that page know
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: that it was a lie. Now you could choose to
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: take it wherever you want. I'm just trying to figure
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: out where it came from. I never said anything derogatory
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: about Chili. If you read the comments I said, I
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: love those girls. I said, we have history together. I'm
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: just trying to figure out what happened. I mean, we
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: heard that Tian said, after the past of my thing,
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: I ain't staying for this corny ass shit, corny ass show.
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: That's what you know what I'm saying. And I'm like, why,
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: I love you.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: We love y'all. Like the nostalgia. When we walk into
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: the room, they jump into our I mean, Chili used
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: to jump into our arms.
• 56:58
  Speaker 17: Lie, It's like, what's good.
• 57:00
  Speaker 15: At the end of the day, we were just gonna
• 57:02
  Speaker 15: sell some tickets because because to be honest with you,
• 57:06
  Speaker 15: this where we are and what we're trying to do.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: Were trying to inspire absolutely absolutely.
• 57:13
  Speaker 15: And you guys, this movie is gonna be a great movie.
• 57:15
  Speaker 15: It's gonna be from your point of view. Your fans
• 57:17
  Speaker 15: are gonna love it. And we just want them to
• 57:20
  Speaker 15: come to this so they could see us together because
• 57:23
  Speaker 15: we've never done this, absolutely, you know, and this this
• 57:26
  Speaker 15: is really our first interview. So the Breakfast Club is
• 57:29
  Speaker 15: really the first interview of us all together.
• 57:35
  Speaker 6: Can I just say to you guys and boys and man,
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: let me just say this and I'll shut up. But
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: I'm glad that you guys are telling your story because
• 57:42
  Speaker 6: in the world that we're living in now with social
• 57:44
  Speaker 6: media and everybody can get on there and say what
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: they want, ruin people's lives, ruin your reputation, they can
• 57:50
  Speaker 6: do a number of things.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: It is important. No, you can't fight the whole world.
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: No, we'll never be able to change sometimes people no
• 57:55
  Speaker 6: matter whether it's the truth or not. But when it
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: comes from the horse's mouth and it's written in stone.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: It can't be raised.
• 58:01
  Speaker 6: Can't tell your story nothing else at the end of
• 58:04
  Speaker 6: the day, with your legacy. Anybody want to believe, whether
• 58:07
  Speaker 6: they want to believe, that's all. It's all well and fine,
• 58:10
  Speaker 6: but it has come from the horse's mouth directly in this.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 58:14
  Speaker 8: So so the answer, yes, we're working on the biopic.
• 58:17
  Speaker 8: Bib is definitely gonna put his input into it, and
• 58:20
  Speaker 8: work is.
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: Going to have you know what I'm saying, because it's
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: everybody's story, everybody every.
• 58:27
  Speaker 9: It's everybody's story. But the stuff they want and everybody
• 58:30
  Speaker 9: was touching on man and people that were saying they
• 58:32
  Speaker 9: corny the cornball, I'm like, none of that ship.
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: Hey, he don't internet, he don't he internet? On social
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: media all.
• 58:43
  Speaker 10: I live in the real world. Yeah, nothing has nothing
• 58:47
  Speaker 10: to do with me. I don't know none of those people.
• 58:49
  Speaker 10: I tell my son, if you might just open the
• 58:50
  Speaker 10: front door and just let everybody walk in the house.
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: How many fights you get into on tour when people
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: try to play, Yeah, because people always try to play
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: an R and B artist like you always think of
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: RMB artist a soft bubble.
• 59:04
  Speaker 5: But how many times you got to throw somebody around,
• 59:06
  Speaker 5: move some purture, you know.
• 59:07
  Speaker 14: What They.
• 59:13
  Speaker 10: They try to talk to me like, yo, bro, it
• 59:15
  Speaker 10: ain't worth it.
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 59:16
  Speaker 10: You know, so, I mean it's not a lot, but
• 59:21
  Speaker 10: oh it's not a lot. But I mean, you know,
• 59:23
  Speaker 10: ship man, some people I think.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: They getting twisted.
• 59:30
  Speaker 17: This guy's the difference between R and B and some
• 59:32
  Speaker 17: other genres.
• 59:39
  Speaker 10: The greatest Day. I don't know why, because we speak peace,
• 59:43
  Speaker 10: people think we can't throw no ju the.
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: Bow ties for you.
• 59:48
  Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying. It's one of those things
• 59:49
  Speaker 9: where it's like.
• 59:50
  Speaker 8: We never had this braggadocious bravado, like you know, walking
• 59:54
  Speaker 8: around like tough guys because we have to because we
• 59:56
  Speaker 8: sing love songs.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: Why you're mad at us? We say love? That's how
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: we do.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 9: Don't You don't get it twisted, and.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 10: I mean, it's the shame.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 10: I think it's the same vibe with new addition though,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 10: because people was like calling him, you know, popcorn, but
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 10: you know, or parking popcorn. I'm saying popcorn.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: I've been there.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: I've been there.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 5: Johnny and Bobby go at people and call people like
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 5: what you say about me.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 12: I'm laying.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 13: No, no, he used to play with Johnny.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: I got issues.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 6: Listen, I'll talk about God in a minute, but I'll
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 6: kick your ass in the next and then I turn
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 6: around and asking for forgiveness.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 9: Ship not get off, leave us issues, let us love.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: One last question, if the if, the both, if the
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: early nineties version of y'all could see this reunion now,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: I could see this tour.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 5: Now what you think with.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 12: It?
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: It's long over, dude.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 9: I think it would have been different.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 8: It would have been I think it would have actually
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 8: catapulted both groups to another stage because of the synergy
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 8: and because of the importance of it. But again, we
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 8: we we live in a God's timing, and the bottom
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 8: line is it was supposed to happen now at this moment.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 8: We're older, we're wiser, We understand not just each other,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 8: but we understand each other's places in our lives. We
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 8: know that by osmosis, we're connected. And again, branch that
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 8: we a branch of the tree.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 8: And again let's let's get it twisted. We will always
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 8: pay homage to these guys, you know what I'm saying
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 8: for and thankful for what these guys have done for us.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 8: And this is our way of telling that story in
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 8: an entertaining way. But two and a half three hours,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 8: like Ron said, we're gonna give you guys our story
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 8: and and have the best time ever.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 5: Know, I can't wait get your tickets. If you haven't
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: got your tickets yet, don't be trying to by me.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 14: Because you can't.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 9: Dan and I have an announcement.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 6: Hell now, I'm not giving away no free tickets. I
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 6: did that two tours, and every time I did that,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 6: it was not showing up. And I'm spending all this money.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: Some show up something money.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 10: Listen, this is no, it's a no comp tour. No,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 10: I'm not giving away.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: I'm done tickets.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 5: If you haven't got your tickets, And and I can't
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 5: wait with the tickets sale.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 15: We know what pre sale yesterday, talking to your main
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 15: thing is talking Friday, pre sale Tuesday.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: But the main thing is Friday, Friday, ticket on sale Friday.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: Get you with they're talking about thirty thirty. I'm sure
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be more than that because they have to ask.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sell out so fast.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 13: I'm just having grown folks got something to do.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Man's gonna be man, no audition boys to man.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 5: Thank y'all for joining us having.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 14: That's what I meant.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 13: Why Tony, Why why did y'all decide to get to them?
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 6: We needed a queen and I thought that honestly, she
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 6: was to me. I thought was a great, great part.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 6: It could be a great part of this. This this
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 6: the whole movie, because it's about when you're doing a
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 6: show like this, you want catalog, you want everything to
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 6: be able to fit perfectly.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: And I think that she just fits for the for
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: the first choice. Yes, she was my first choice.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah yeah, that conference call was different, but she's there.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 20: Made the call to her personally, Oh yeah, I did,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 20: you did?
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: I talked to her directly, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
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  Speaker 12: Because I'm happy. I'm going to be seeing her.
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  Speaker 5: It's the Breakfast Club.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 10: Every day.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: A week ago up the Breakfast Club