Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Keith Sweat On Receiving Key To The City, Relationship With 50 Cent, SWEATFEST + More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Morning everybody, It's Steve, j Envy, Jesse, Larry as Chelam
- 0:08Speaker 2: and the guy.
- 0:09Speaker 1: We are to Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in.
- 0:11Speaker 3: The building, a legend of icon.
- 0:13Speaker 2: Man.
- 0:13Speaker 1: G keep sweat, ladies, gentlemen, what what how you're doing?
- 0:17Speaker 1: How you feeling, man, I'm amazing, I'm great, I'm great.
- 0:20Speaker 1: I can't complain.
- 0:21Speaker 4: Man.
- 0:21Speaker 5: Congratulations on receiving the key to the city in Harlem.
- 0:24Speaker 1: That's right, getting that this weekend. About time, hallerm yeah,
- 0:27Speaker 1: about time, About time, I got something. I got some baby.
- 0:34Speaker 3: How does it feel to be recognized?
- 0:36Speaker 1: It's amazing, man, you know, growing up in Harlem two
- 0:38Speaker 1: blocks away from the Parlem, you know, for those that
- 0:40Speaker 1: don't know her, twenty Fish Street, four thirty West on
- 0:43Speaker 1: twenty fifth Street more than time Amsterdam is It's an
- 0:46Speaker 1: amazing feeling, you know, to be recognized and get the
- 0:49Speaker 1: key to New York City. I mean I didn't expect it,
- 0:53Speaker 1: but you know, I take.
- 0:54Speaker 5: It growing up. Did you see anybody receive it and
- 0:57Speaker 5: you was like, damn, I wouldn't mind it.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Not really, you know, I've seen you know, not really,
- 1:02Speaker 1: but like I just wanted to make an impact on
- 1:08Speaker 1: what I was doing in my music career. I wanted,
- 1:10Speaker 1: you know, to you know, do something that I could
- 1:13Speaker 1: look back and say, Damn, I did that, you know,
- 1:15Speaker 1: make it last ever for thirty six years. Somebody said,
- 1:18Speaker 1: thirty seven thirty seven. I don't even know it has
- 1:21Speaker 1: been at all. It's been a long time. I spoke
- 1:24Speaker 1: it into existence. You know, they say you can speak
- 1:26Speaker 1: things into existence. I spoke it into existence.
- 1:28Speaker 3: I guess is there anything that? What else is Hall
- 1:31Speaker 3: of them done?
- 1:31Speaker 1: All of them?
- 1:31Speaker 5: I'm sure you've received other accolades from Hall them before, right.
- 1:35Speaker 1: No, wow, for real? No, no, no, no no. And
- 1:39Speaker 1: that's why I say it's you know, I never got
- 1:41Speaker 1: a Grammy, never got a BT Award, never got you know.
- 1:47Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I don't play the politics. I
- 1:48Speaker 1: don't play politics. Well yeah, you know you know how
- 1:51Speaker 1: that is. You got to play the politics to get
- 1:53Speaker 1: certain things. So, you know, I think my flowers are
- 1:56Speaker 1: coming cause I still, I mean, I'm still able to
- 1:59Speaker 1: head on shows. They'll able to see like five six, seven,
- 2:03Speaker 1: eight thousand people at the shows. Still able to go
- 2:06Speaker 1: on toward people like new Audition, and you know, like
- 2:08Speaker 1: we did that new addition to it too. I'm still
- 2:10Speaker 1: able to do things like that. That's to me though,
- 2:12Speaker 1: the those are my rewards because I'm still able to
- 2:15Speaker 1: do what I've been doing for the since the eighties.
- 2:18Speaker 3: That's how you know, awards and accolades don't really.
- 2:21Speaker 5: Mean much because I would have never I didn't even
- 2:23Speaker 5: think about it, Like in my mind keeps what is
- 2:25Speaker 5: one of the most decorated artists of all time?
- 2:27Speaker 1: You know, But you know, I don't. You know, you
- 2:29Speaker 1: can't take that to the bank, you know what I'm saying.
- 2:32Speaker 1: But you know, like the people you know acknowledged me,
- 2:37Speaker 1: and the people recognized me as being one of the
- 2:40Speaker 1: people that open doors for a lot of people that
- 2:42Speaker 1: came out, you know, after me. So I don't, I
- 2:45Speaker 1: don't really recognize it. And then I look at all
- 2:47Speaker 1: my friends like Tank and Bat Joe and all the
- 2:49Speaker 1: people that rock still rock with me and to be
- 2:51Speaker 1: there for me when I call them and Johnny, you know,
- 2:54Speaker 1: those those type of things mean a lot to me.
- 2:56Speaker 2: Now, fifty wanted me to ask you go to street
- 2:58Speaker 2: Port in two weeks want me?
- 3:00Speaker 1: That's as ask keep it.
- 3:02Speaker 2: He is he come in the shreems Port or August tenth.
- 3:07Speaker 4: As showing up August third to keep to the city
- 3:12Speaker 4: on side.
- 3:14Speaker 1: And stop batting stars. Somebody's gonna put that nine that.
- 3:19Speaker 1: That's my man, though, you know, like you know, I
- 3:24Speaker 1: talked to him after the show the other night, so
- 3:26Speaker 1: he made me laugh fifty crazy, But that's my man.
- 3:29Speaker 5: I saw when you posted the video and you had
- 3:31Speaker 5: how to Rob playing, and I didn't even think about
- 3:34Speaker 5: it because you just only think about all the rappers
- 3:35Speaker 5: he was talking, right, But when you first heard that record,
- 3:38Speaker 5: what you think, because I don't know if people realize
- 3:40Speaker 5: that Keep Sweat is really a street niggas.
- 3:42Speaker 3: That's right, don't get it, that's right. So what did
- 3:44Speaker 3: you think when you first heard that record back in then?
- 3:46Speaker 5: Say?
- 3:46Speaker 1: Who this dude is talking about? Hell? I mean back
- 3:51Speaker 1: in the day that I was laughed at it back
- 3:53Speaker 1: in the day because it was, you know, funny to me.
- 3:55Speaker 1: You know, at least he said he was gonna rob
- 3:58Speaker 1: me and not do something else to me. I mean,
- 4:01Speaker 1: so I laughed at it back in the day. So
- 4:03Speaker 1: it was funny because when he asked me, you know,
- 4:05Speaker 1: when he asked me to come to Street Port, I
- 4:07Speaker 1: was like, you know, you know, I always want to support,
- 4:09Speaker 1: you know, because I did this other thing in Houston,
- 4:13Speaker 1: uh year before that got tayccoon Fest, and that was fly.
- 4:16Speaker 1: So you know, so when he had me to come,
- 4:20Speaker 1: I just said, Man, I'm ana zoom this to you.
- 4:25Speaker 1: He said, this boy and this boy crazy, he said,
- 4:27Speaker 1: he said, what's wrong with these a niggas?
- 4:29Speaker 2: The you know, the all b dudes is the way
- 4:31Speaker 2: that fight?
- 4:34Speaker 1: Ll all be dudes fighting. But I left. I left
- 4:37Speaker 1: before they started fighting that Taccoon Fest. I went and
- 4:39Speaker 1: there what I had to do and left, you know,
- 4:41Speaker 1: and then I'm seeing pleasure and all of them getting
- 4:43Speaker 1: in the back. I was wrong with them, you know.
- 4:45Speaker 1: So you know, so when I did that, he said,
- 4:47Speaker 1: what's wrong with these y'all?
- 4:50Speaker 3: Used to getting them little dust ups back in the
- 4:51Speaker 3: day too. Don't keep fuffles.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, you know, sometimes you know, I'm
- 4:58Speaker 1: one of them people that you you know, everybody know
- 5:01Speaker 1: what it is, so you know, I don't really have
- 5:03Speaker 1: to say too much. You know, I'll be like, all right,
- 5:05Speaker 1: it is what it is. You know. Sometimes I just
- 5:07Speaker 1: let it just rub off me. I'm gonna let it
- 5:09Speaker 1: rub off me and then we'll talk about it. When
- 5:11Speaker 1: I'll see you. But half the time I just let
- 5:13Speaker 1: stuff rother because if you take everything and run with it,
- 5:17Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, you be fighting with everybody.
- 5:19Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So some things you just
- 5:21Speaker 1: have to let be because you know what it is.
- 5:23Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna fight with everybody, you know, Like, man,
- 5:25Speaker 1: come on, you can choose your battles. Yeah, I pick
- 5:27Speaker 1: and choose.
- 5:28Speaker 5: And when you come from a certain environment, it don't
- 5:29Speaker 5: be used sometimes to be the people around you.
- 5:31Speaker 1: And sometimes people just want to, you know, do stuff
- 5:34Speaker 1: because you are at a certain point and they want
- 5:36Speaker 1: you to bring them up to that point. So messing
- 5:38Speaker 1: with you, you allowing that you're they're being brought up to
- 5:42Speaker 1: that point because you allowing yourself to get caught up
- 5:45Speaker 1: in that ball, you know what I mean. Like, I'm
- 5:46Speaker 1: not if I'm here and you there, we're not there's
- 5:50Speaker 1: no conversation. Why am I even gonna address what you're
- 5:53Speaker 1: saying to me? It's not worth it.
- 5:55Speaker 3: When you remember the first time you met fifty Yeah.
- 5:58Speaker 1: Going through airport, going through airport. So but we was
- 6:02Speaker 1: cool going through airport, and you know, I mean, that's
- 6:04Speaker 1: my man. We ain't got no problem, you know, I
- 6:06Speaker 1: mean period, that's my man. No issue nothing, no we
- 6:10Speaker 1: all good, it's all good everything. I'm all go with
- 6:13Speaker 1: everybody now, all right?
- 6:14Speaker 5: And you got a new single or Lay You Down,
- 6:17Speaker 5: and that hit number one on the billboard at R
- 6:20Speaker 5: and B airplay.
- 6:21Speaker 1: Charge man, how did that feel? Well? That felt good?
- 6:23Speaker 1: You know. I feel like when I want to come
- 6:25Speaker 1: out and get a number one record, I could just
- 6:27Speaker 1: come out and do it. You know, everybody don't do
- 6:29Speaker 1: that key sweat begging.
- 6:30Speaker 2: Stuff missing begging because you know, back in the day,
- 6:35Speaker 2: you know people be you be begging for that woman
- 6:37Speaker 2: come back, baby baby please, baby baby baby please.
- 6:39Speaker 1: A lot of people will. They was begging, you know,
- 6:41Speaker 1: because you know I'm still doing what I do. Like
- 6:43Speaker 1: I said, I'm still touring crazy. So the begging works.
- 6:47Speaker 1: All those that that said, you know, I'm tired of
- 6:50Speaker 1: hearing that begging. But you know they know who to
- 6:52Speaker 1: put on what they want. Some you know, I was thinking,
- 6:55Speaker 1: we got a lady in the room, so I got
- 6:56Speaker 1: his praises right away. Maybe the poor Poom was just
- 6:59Speaker 1: better than the eighties and it was worth begging.
- 7:02Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess, yeah, I guess you ain't ran through generations.
- 7:11Speaker 1: It's a different kind of poom poom now.
- 7:18Speaker 5: Let you down as the love making record too. And
- 7:20Speaker 5: we had Tank up here in Tanks that he feel
- 7:22Speaker 5: like singing about making love with a dying art like
- 7:25Speaker 5: people don't do it no more.
- 7:27Speaker 1: No they don't. You know, everything is just I just
- 7:29Speaker 1: want to bang, and that's it. Bang and we out banging,
- 7:32Speaker 1: we out banging, we out you know. That's why. You know,
- 7:35Speaker 1: that's why I like, I'm a singing, i'ma I'm gonna
- 7:37Speaker 1: do the full play thing and then I'm gonna go
- 7:40Speaker 1: ahead and see how far I get me. That's maybe
- 7:42Speaker 1: that's why the poom poom is a little different nowadays,
- 7:44Speaker 1: because everybody just want to bang. Maybe, you know, you
- 7:48Speaker 1: gotta just a good point, you gotta you gotta like
- 7:50Speaker 1: curate it right, like man, they put it in the frigerator,
- 7:56Speaker 1: they get to where it needs to be. You know
- 7:57Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's like begging instead of Michael, when
- 8:00Speaker 1: you got and let it get back before you microwave.
- 8:02Speaker 3: Man.
- 8:02Speaker 5: Maybe y'all need to start pulling some of these young
- 8:04Speaker 5: boys to the side and not just have conversations about
- 8:07Speaker 5: what they're singing. About, but the life that you need
- 8:09Speaker 5: to lead to even create these kind of records, you
- 8:12Speaker 5: know what I mean, Teach them some game.
- 8:14Speaker 3: I don't know if they got no game.
- 8:15Speaker 1: I man, you know that's all them. I ain't losing
- 8:22Speaker 1: what I got teaching something.
- 8:26Speaker 2: You do you think you could live in this eraror
- 8:28Speaker 2: growing up with all the phones, with all of the
- 8:31Speaker 2: social media, because I'm sure you can imagine some of
- 8:34Speaker 2: the things you did that nobody else know about you.
- 8:37Speaker 1: Hell no, this is too much. As soon as you
- 8:40Speaker 1: do something, people know about it. I mean, I'm glad
- 8:42Speaker 1: I was. I lived in that era where you could
- 8:44Speaker 1: get away with certain things. You know, everything don't need
- 8:47Speaker 1: to be seen and heard. So I'm glad that I
- 8:51Speaker 1: was able to experience that. Now experiencing this and I
- 8:54Speaker 1: can tell my sons, I feel sorry for y'all, you know,
- 8:57Speaker 1: because it's a different day in different times. I really
- 8:59Speaker 1: feel sorry for I mean this day and age. You know,
- 9:02Speaker 1: like we had fun back in the day, like like
- 9:05Speaker 1: crazy fun. Like it's like no fun.
- 9:07Speaker 2: Really not only that, like even when when you see
- 9:10Speaker 2: all this performing before you had to listen, you were
- 9:13Speaker 2: into the concert, you were into the show. Now I
- 9:16Speaker 2: mean when you perform out does it feel when you
- 9:17Speaker 2: see thousand camera phones?
- 9:20Speaker 3: And you know, I mean you seen.
- 9:21Speaker 2: Busted yell at somebody the crowd the other day, But
- 9:23Speaker 2: like put the cameraphones down, just enjoy the moment.
- 9:26Speaker 1: But you know, I mean that's the day and time
- 9:27Speaker 1: we are. Baby, you just skin it is what it is.
- 9:30Speaker 1: You know, life goes on, things go, It's gonna be
- 9:33Speaker 1: what they are.
- 9:34Speaker 3: I see you about to go back out on tour tour.
- 9:36Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta get that money the sweat Hotel tour
- 9:41Speaker 1: right right?
- 9:41Speaker 3: I mean did you gonna do?
- 9:43Speaker 1: I mean, like I get dates all the time, so
- 9:45Speaker 1: it's like it's many that it's coming. I can. It's
- 9:49Speaker 1: fortunately like I can do three four shows a week,
- 9:51Speaker 1: so it doesn't bother me. Well, a lot of people
- 9:53Speaker 1: can't do that. I can still do that type of thing.
- 9:56Speaker 1: My voice still holds up, so I mean, if they
- 9:59Speaker 1: give me, it doesn't matter. I mean, for whoever want
- 10:02Speaker 1: to see me, I'm coming.
- 10:04Speaker 5: You feel like going out on the road at the
- 10:06Speaker 5: attended age of sixty three.
- 10:08Speaker 1: Man, I love going on on the road. Man. I
- 10:10Speaker 1: love showing people like yo, I love showing people, showing
- 10:14Speaker 1: people up. I mean, I love doing what I do,
- 10:17Speaker 1: so you know, I definitely want to go out. I
- 10:19Speaker 1: definitely love doing what I do. People when people see me,
- 10:22Speaker 1: they don't expect that my show is has as much energy.
- 10:28Speaker 1: I got twelve dancers, full band. You know, do my
- 10:32Speaker 1: change on nobody. You know what I'm saying, Like Sherry
- 10:35Speaker 1: Shepard said, when I go down and do that, drop
- 10:37Speaker 1: down and come back up and I do all that,
- 10:39Speaker 1: I could just still do that. Left ain't nothing changed
- 10:41Speaker 1: on the Sweat Hotel.
- 10:42Speaker 2: Baby, what about a residency? You ever thought about doing
- 10:44Speaker 2: a residency.
- 10:45Speaker 1: I did a residency before. I did the Flamingo before,
- 10:47Speaker 1: and I did that five years ago. I was at
- 10:51Speaker 1: the Flamingo, and I mean, I was gonna like it.
- 10:57Speaker 1: It's cool. It's like, you know, I think, you know,
- 11:00Speaker 1: it just got sort of boring to me because I
- 11:03Speaker 1: was in one place one time and all that there
- 11:05Speaker 1: was gamble, go to club, gambled, go to club through
- 11:07Speaker 1: the residency, so that it kind of got like, Man,
- 11:10Speaker 1: I'm tired of gambling. I'm tired of being in one spot.
- 11:12Speaker 1: So after a while, I just wanted to go around
- 11:14Speaker 1: the country again. So, but I'm thinking about it depends
- 11:18Speaker 1: on whether they put me. I mean, last year I
- 11:21Speaker 1: did this in Begels was at the Palms. So the
- 11:25Speaker 1: casino it has to be the right casino for me
- 11:27Speaker 1: to go into a residency.
- 11:29Speaker 3: What's your favorite place to be now.
- 11:32Speaker 1: As far as Oh, I don't know. I mean I've
- 11:37Speaker 1: been in Atlanta so long, you know, so I mean,
- 11:39Speaker 1: and where I'm at in Atlanta, I mean Alfano in Atlanta.
- 11:42Speaker 1: You know, I built everything in my house that you
- 11:45Speaker 1: know I want. So my favorite place to be is
- 11:47Speaker 1: at alant at home, real talk, real talk. I mean,
- 11:50Speaker 1: I don't really like I'm an introvert. I don't really
- 11:54Speaker 1: like going nowhere. You know what I'm saying. I like
- 11:56Speaker 1: being home. You know what I'm saying. And I got
- 12:00Speaker 1: my room. Everything is in my one room, my black room,
- 12:02Speaker 1: you know, refrigerator and make away. Everybody know how I am.
- 12:06Speaker 1: It's like yo, And once I close that door, that
- 12:08Speaker 1: means leave me alone. I won't be bothered by nobody.
- 12:11Speaker 1: That's it.
- 12:12Speaker 3: You make a lot of love love songs, right like how.
- 12:14Speaker 1: Deep is your love?
- 12:15Speaker 3: I'll give all my love to you?
- 12:17Speaker 1: Has keep sweever truly been in love? Oh yeah, you
- 12:20Speaker 1: know a few times, you know, but it is what
- 12:24Speaker 1: it is. You got your heartbroken, that's the question. Yeah,
- 12:27Speaker 1: hell yeah, everybody get their heartbroken. I just don't want
- 12:29Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about it all the time.
- 12:34Speaker 1: I want to share a heartbreak with y'all.
- 12:39Speaker 3: You just put it in music.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Yeah, put it in music. That's all they need to
- 12:42Speaker 1: hear their music. Let me alone about my heartbreak.
- 12:47Speaker 3: Are you taking care of yourself? Man? You look good?
- 12:49Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 12:49Speaker 1: I take care of making your doctor's appointment all the time,
- 12:52Speaker 1: all the time. Get my ivs and take my ibs.
- 12:56Speaker 1: Put that vibe. I do that weekly, you know, give
- 12:59Speaker 1: my check. Everybody need to do that, you know, go
- 13:02Speaker 1: to the doctor. Make sure you're good, because you never know,
- 13:04Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You might feel good, but
- 13:06Speaker 1: it might be something going on. I just did my
- 13:08Speaker 1: my you know thing with my heart.
- 13:10Speaker 3: You know, the bascular tesch Yeah.
- 13:12Speaker 1: I did all that. Yeah, so I'm good, baby. Yeah.
- 13:15Speaker 5: I man, I look at brothers like you, and you know,
- 13:16Speaker 5: just dispensed piragy because.
- 13:17Speaker 3: It's like you. I want to be here.
- 13:20Speaker 1: Yep.
- 13:20Speaker 5: You know, when I look at somebody in these sixties,
- 13:22Speaker 5: still getting it, still looking good, still doing what it
- 13:24Speaker 5: is that they love to do.
- 13:26Speaker 1: Salute man. I don't smoke. I don't do none of that.
- 13:28Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I think once in a while,
- 13:30Speaker 1: even though people be saying, yo, he drunk on stings,
- 13:32Speaker 1: I'm like, but y'all get that bullshit?
- 13:33Speaker 5: We thinking you be drunk as hell. Like there's a
- 13:35Speaker 5: little skit. Look, there's a skit I do.
- 13:38Speaker 1: And you know around the third song, you know, it's
- 13:40Speaker 1: basically you take the I get my hennessy and I
- 13:43Speaker 1: sing a song. This ain't no T this is hennessy.
- 13:45Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So it's a skit. So
- 13:47Speaker 1: when I do it, people be like, I said, what
- 13:49Speaker 1: the hell y'all do? Like if you got one person
- 13:51Speaker 1: that says something, then everybody gonna say it. Like it's
- 13:54Speaker 1: I say, man, come on, give me a break, like
- 13:56Speaker 1: the way I look, the way I take care of myself.
- 14:00Speaker 1: Somebody that's drinking all the time, don't run. You know
- 14:03Speaker 1: I run twice this day. They don't do what I do.
- 14:05Speaker 1: Come on, now, give me a break with all that.
- 14:07Speaker 1: So I just let it be. So now I got
- 14:09Speaker 1: T shirts that they just ain't no T that's Defindicedly
- 14:11Speaker 1: buy my T shirts in the front.
- 14:12Speaker 3: Now it's still dating girls half your age.
- 14:17Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
- 14:18Speaker 4: I keep you, come on, baby, keep you man what
- 14:22Speaker 4: man stuff? Don't start that ship here, y'all go here,
- 14:29Speaker 4: y'all go. I'm getting ready to get up and leave.
- 14:30Speaker 3: Now keep one time. I keep telling me, keep saying,
- 14:34Speaker 3: said what I look like dating a woman?
- 14:35Speaker 1: In my head?
- 14:37Speaker 6: I said that ship, Yeah, ladies, I ain't say that ship.
- 14:43Speaker 6: Listen to start ship. Everybody was ladies, I.
- 14:46Speaker 1: Ain't say that. Don't believe it's man. Believe y'all know
- 14:50Speaker 1: I wouldn't talk about y'all like that. Come on, y'all
- 14:52Speaker 1: look good to Come on now now you start. You
- 14:55Speaker 1: start to some of your shoulders. When I seen you
- 14:57Speaker 1: and you sample Drake the light skin keep sweat. Have
- 15:00Speaker 1: you and Drake chopped it up at all? No?
- 15:02Speaker 3: Never?
- 15:03Speaker 1: I mean, well, that's all once and that was it.
- 15:05Speaker 1: You know, you know that was it. Don't slap that either.
- 15:12Speaker 1: So you're getting ready to go somewhere. But I know, y'all,
- 15:16Speaker 1: I'm gonna cut your at the time.
- 15:21Speaker 5: I don't think a lot of people know about all
- 15:22Speaker 5: the business ventures you got going on too.
- 15:24Speaker 3: Man, you don't talk about that either.
- 15:26Speaker 1: Yeah, we could talk about.
- 15:28Speaker 5: You got the luxury bags, platinum status bags, you got
- 15:31Speaker 5: Kansas by Keith, and you got the Twisted Pie pizza
- 15:34Speaker 5: restaurant in Atlanta.
- 15:35Speaker 3: Man, what made you want to diversify your portfolios?
- 15:38Speaker 1: Well, you know, when I first got to Atlanta, I
- 15:40Speaker 1: opened a restaurant called the Industry, you know, back in
- 15:42Speaker 1: the day that people you know, So I started there,
- 15:45Speaker 1: but you know, uh, I was the sole owner, and
- 15:49Speaker 1: you know, being the sole owner and me trying to
- 15:51Speaker 1: travel and and be on the roads too, it's like
- 15:54Speaker 1: too much. So you know, now I got partners with
- 15:57Speaker 1: you know, Twisted Pots, Vegan Pizza, a Douglas Field. You
- 16:02Speaker 1: go there and get this food. You ain't gonna want
- 16:03Speaker 1: no other food, I promise you. You know, and you
- 16:06Speaker 1: know who can do it better than me? Nobody? Baggy
- 16:10Speaker 1: So no, I got that, you know. Uh, you know,
- 16:13Speaker 1: executive produce movies as well.
- 16:15Speaker 3: I saw that though, what's it called a trouble man
- 16:17Speaker 3: coming up?
- 16:17Speaker 1: Trouble man coming up? Uh. I'm one of the execular producers,
- 16:21Speaker 1: not the execular producer. But I'm working with Darren Hinson
- 16:24Speaker 1: on something you know, and I'm executive producing that with him. Uh.
- 16:29Speaker 1: What else I got. You know, I've done you know,
- 16:31Speaker 1: a few things Stepmother one two with Chris Dookes, not
- 16:35Speaker 1: alone with Michael job that I executive produce. So I
- 16:38Speaker 1: did it. I've been doing quite a few executive producer
- 16:40Speaker 1: things on the movie side.
- 16:42Speaker 5: When you look back on your whole career, is there
- 16:45Speaker 5: a key to longevity? Like if somebody was nobody younger
- 16:48Speaker 5: than you said it's the key to longevity. Is there
- 16:50Speaker 5: really a key to longevity?
- 16:51Speaker 1: Yeah? You know, you know, well, I just don't concentrate
- 16:55Speaker 1: on one thing. I got various things I do, you know,
- 16:58Speaker 1: just in case one thing work, you know, you can
- 17:01Speaker 1: fall into another thing, like y'all know that. Y'all know
- 17:03Speaker 1: about that.
- 17:03Speaker 3: Yo.
- 17:04Speaker 1: You just can't put everything in the one situation because
- 17:07Speaker 1: if you do, you know, if that don't turn out,
- 17:09Speaker 1: you kind of messed up. So so, you know I
- 17:12Speaker 1: do with real estate, you know all that. I do
- 17:15Speaker 1: everything anything that I feel like I can be successful with.
- 17:18Speaker 1: You know, I do it so because.
- 17:20Speaker 3: You really don't if you wanted to, you you didn't
- 17:22Speaker 3: have to do.
- 17:23Speaker 1: You don't have to do if you don't want to know,
- 17:24Speaker 1: I mean, because you know I play the stock market
- 17:26Speaker 1: every morning. You know. So you know, I didn't play
- 17:29Speaker 1: it this morning, but I'm up at four o'clock when
- 17:32Speaker 1: they open open over overseas, I'm watching the pre pre
- 17:37Speaker 1: market open, so like I do that. So I do
- 17:40Speaker 1: quite a few things that to keep me at a
- 17:43Speaker 1: certain point in my life at this point. But everything
- 17:46Speaker 1: I do now I just do for my kids now.
- 17:48Speaker 1: I mean, I'm good right there. So what I do
- 17:51Speaker 1: is to make sure that they able to keep the
- 17:53Speaker 1: Sweat name, you know, growing and flowing. You know, I'm
- 17:57Speaker 1: not I don't care about you know, it ain't about
- 18:00Speaker 1: Keith Sweat right now. It's about Keith Sweat offspring at
- 18:03Speaker 1: this point. So everything I do, from going on to
- 18:05Speaker 1: it everything else is about making sure they good.
- 18:08Speaker 2: What do you think about you know, back in the
- 18:09Speaker 2: day growing up, artists never really spoke about politics, right,
- 18:12Speaker 2: But now it seems like everybody's looking for an artist
- 18:14Speaker 2: to say something about politics, right, So what's your thoughts
- 18:17Speaker 2: on that?
- 18:17Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm not one that speaks on politics,
- 18:21Speaker 1: you know, because everybody have an opinion as to what
- 18:23Speaker 1: they should do, and if you say the wrong thing,
- 18:25Speaker 1: they people looking at you like you crazy. You know,
- 18:27Speaker 1: what I'm saying so when I do my thing, whether
- 18:29Speaker 1: I vote or who I vote for, I do it for.
- 18:32Speaker 1: You know, I keep it to myself who I'm doing it,
- 18:34Speaker 1: because I just don't. I'm not trying to hear what
- 18:37Speaker 1: people opinion about me. With that, you know, I'm at
- 18:40Speaker 1: a point I'm too old for that. I'm not trying
- 18:41Speaker 1: to hear all that. You know what I'm saying. It's like,
- 18:44Speaker 1: if you feel a certain way, then you know, that's you.
- 18:47Speaker 1: If I feel a certain way, that's me. But you know,
- 18:49Speaker 1: people do need to vote, you know I say that.
- 18:52Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying because if in order to
- 18:54Speaker 1: have change, you have to be one one to create change.
- 18:58Speaker 1: So you don't sit around talking about what somebody else
- 19:01Speaker 1: is doing or what somebody else is not doing. If
- 19:02Speaker 1: you're not voting or blank, you don't.
- 19:04Speaker 5: Strike me as a person that even cares about other
- 19:06Speaker 5: people's opinions when the last thing you even cared what
- 19:08Speaker 5: somebody thought.
- 19:10Speaker 1: Never I mean, because see, let me say this to you, right,
- 19:14Speaker 1: I've learned this. Right, you can get eighty five percent
- 19:17Speaker 1: people that'll say something amazing about you, and then fifteen
- 19:21Speaker 1: that won't. That fifteen percent will bother you and it's
- 19:24Speaker 1: crazy because that fifteen percent will stick out more than
- 19:27Speaker 1: that eighty five, because that's how we are built, you
- 19:30Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So now I get to the
- 19:32Speaker 1: point where, man, I don't even let it. I don't
- 19:34Speaker 1: even look at it, and I don't let it bother me.
- 19:35Speaker 1: I just run away for But sometime its it. In
- 19:39Speaker 1: some ways it has motivated me to even be better
- 19:45Speaker 1: because sometimes them they say it is to make you
- 19:47Speaker 1: feel like, Okay, let me prove a point. You know
- 19:49Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Sometimes that'll give you more, more strength
- 19:52Speaker 1: and more energy than all that other positivity that you're
- 19:55Speaker 1: getting from other places. So that's how I feel. I
- 19:58Speaker 1: let that be my drive. You know, sometime I let
- 20:01Speaker 1: that negativity be my drive. So that's why I guess
- 20:03Speaker 1: I'm still in the game because you know, you have
- 20:05Speaker 1: so many people when I came out that it was hating. Well,
- 20:09Speaker 1: you know, he can't say better than me, or he
- 20:10Speaker 1: can't do this, he can't do that. It's like, yo,
- 20:12Speaker 1: come on, calm down, calm down. What I do is
- 20:15Speaker 1: what I do. What you do is what you doing.
- 20:17Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. If I win, I win,
- 20:18Speaker 1: If you win, you win. I don't care.
- 20:20Speaker 5: You think they were just intimidated because you were the
- 20:22Speaker 5: new hot cat.
- 20:24Speaker 1: Most of the time, that's what it be. You know,
- 20:26Speaker 1: most of the time when people come out, I just
- 20:29Speaker 1: I just I don't care about what somebody else do,
- 20:32Speaker 1: you know, But most of the time people are intimidated.
- 20:34Speaker 1: You know, why he doing this and why I'm not
- 20:37Speaker 1: doing it? Or why is he in that position? And
- 20:39Speaker 1: why I'm not in a position? You know, and I've
- 20:41Speaker 1: done the same thing, or I look better, I dress better.
- 20:44Speaker 1: You know, That's how I mean. You know, that's how
- 20:46Speaker 1: people are, that's how they think. So you know, you
- 20:49Speaker 1: just allow them to do what they do, and you
- 20:50Speaker 1: do what you do, and you're gonna win at the
- 20:52Speaker 1: end of the day because you know, you can't get
- 20:54Speaker 1: caught up in what somebody else is saying. You be man,
- 20:57Speaker 1: you'll be a messed up person crazy. You know that
- 21:00Speaker 1: drive you crazy if you worry about what this person
- 21:02Speaker 1: is saying, Well, this lady woman is saying, this person's
- 21:05Speaker 1: saying over the drive you crazy man. Later for all
- 21:08Speaker 1: that shit.
- 21:08Speaker 5: That's why, like what you said about the eighty five
- 21:09Speaker 5: percent and fifteen percent nowadays with social media everything, so
- 21:13Speaker 5: that fifteen percent will be so magnified.
- 21:15Speaker 1: And sometimes niggas will just get on on there to
- 21:18Speaker 1: talk just to fuck with your day, you know what
- 21:20Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's like they'll see all the positivity you're
- 21:23Speaker 1: getting and you'll have that one I'm just gonna say
- 21:25Speaker 1: something to mess up his day, That's right, you know,
- 21:26Speaker 1: that's what it be, you know, because they got a
- 21:28Speaker 1: fucked up life. That's what Nine times out of ten,
- 21:31Speaker 1: that's what it is. Somebody who ain't who ain't moving
- 21:35Speaker 1: the right way, or who life is messed up some
- 21:37Speaker 1: kind of way, shape or form. You know, they want
- 21:40Speaker 1: to bring you into that they were, you know what
- 21:42Speaker 1: I'm saying. So so if you allow them to do that,
- 21:46Speaker 1: it's gonna happen.
- 21:48Speaker 2: How many times you got to turn down somebody asking
- 21:50Speaker 2: me to perform at their wedding? Yeah, I mean you
- 21:52Speaker 2: must get that all the time, A zillion like have to.
- 21:57Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I've done it, but I really
- 22:00Speaker 1: don't do weddings. So I've done it for a few people,
- 22:04Speaker 1: and you know, but I get it all the time.
- 22:07Speaker 1: I get it all the time. And you know, not
- 22:09Speaker 1: to say that I don't like to do it. I
- 22:12Speaker 1: just don't do it because I don't. I don't. I'll
- 22:16Speaker 1: do it for certain people and certain people I've just said, Okay,
- 22:19Speaker 1: I'm done it. I don't want to do that bad.
- 22:22Speaker 5: When you look at all the screaming services and social media,
- 22:26Speaker 5: you think it's easier for a harder for like talented
- 22:30Speaker 5: people to break through, like as opposed to when you
- 22:33Speaker 5: was when you started.
- 22:34Speaker 1: It's eiier, But the longeviary it's like they're not as
- 22:42Speaker 1: like back in the day when you broke through, people
- 22:44Speaker 1: knew that you had the talent, people you had to
- 22:47Speaker 1: work to build what you had, or if they saw
- 22:50Speaker 1: you and you wasn't what they thought you were, you
- 22:53Speaker 1: was over. It was a round. Nowadays you can make
- 22:55Speaker 1: it and it doesn't take as much not no, just
- 23:00Speaker 1: respect to the people that's winning on one or two
- 23:03Speaker 1: records nowadays. But the work is not as hard as
- 23:07Speaker 1: it was back in the day to make it. You know,
- 23:09Speaker 1: because if I listen, if I came out back in
- 23:12Speaker 1: the day with all the social media, I would be
- 23:14Speaker 1: selling fifty million albums, you know what I'm saying. So
- 23:18Speaker 1: nowadays it's like you can come out and win, But
- 23:22Speaker 1: I don't know if the longevity is as long you
- 23:25Speaker 1: can sustain as long as you know, twenty years and
- 23:29Speaker 1: that type of stuff coming when people come out the
- 23:31Speaker 1: way they come out now nowadays, somebody said that you
- 23:35Speaker 1: got an unreleased music with Babyface and Teddy Rowley, Like
- 23:38Speaker 1: y'all got records in the stash that y'all never put out.
- 23:42Speaker 1: I got recordsent the stash that I'll never put out
- 23:45Speaker 1: from that era, from the new Jacks Wing era. Wow,
- 23:49Speaker 1: why not? Because you know I just never put them out.
- 23:52Speaker 1: I mean, back in the day, I was writing so much.
- 23:54Speaker 1: You know, it's ridiculous how I was, how much I
- 23:57Speaker 1: was writing. I got songs that I was writing. You know,
- 23:59Speaker 1: people don't know before I was writing, before I even
- 24:01Speaker 1: had a hit record, and I used to write for
- 24:04Speaker 1: Suture Records, but Adam Leeve and mars Ley with the
- 24:07Speaker 1: Fat Boys. Back in the day, I used to write
- 24:09Speaker 1: songs in eighty five. You know, I got songs online
- 24:13Speaker 1: that I went online and saw that I was ready
- 24:15Speaker 1: wrote and produced for fiveing and had Don't Stop Your Love.
- 24:18Speaker 1: I don't want them because, you know, because back in
- 24:21Speaker 1: the day I used to work with GQ. You know,
- 24:24Speaker 1: you know that was mars Leave being Suture Records, I
- 24:26Speaker 1: did song, used to do songs for Suiture Records, and
- 24:28Speaker 1: then back in the day, so I got you know,
- 24:31Speaker 1: I got tons of records in the stasts. Now I'll
- 24:34Speaker 1: be listening to him be laughing. Oh shit, I wrote this.
- 24:37Speaker 2: You get your publishing royalties for none of that of
- 24:39Speaker 2: but no.
- 24:40Speaker 1: For back in the day and the only song I
- 24:43Speaker 1: don't get no nothing. Yeah, so I get back in
- 24:51Speaker 1: the day. I gotta check, I think. No, I don't
- 24:54Speaker 1: think I get it for back in the day. You know,
- 24:56Speaker 1: I don't think I get those for back But I
- 24:59Speaker 1: get it now for all the songs I've done, and
- 25:01Speaker 1: you know, since you know I was on entertainment, I
- 25:04Speaker 1: get all my stuff from back then. I know I
- 25:06Speaker 1: do that for a fact. But song that I just
- 25:09Speaker 1: still try, I don't think I got those.
- 25:11Speaker 5: Why so why why wouldn't you put out the music
- 25:13Speaker 5: that you're sitting on like all them? Like the baby
- 25:15Speaker 5: Face is it baby faith in Teddy Rally? No, No, no,
- 25:18Speaker 5: I ain't got no song with baby faceing Teddy Rocky. No, No,
- 25:21Speaker 5: I ain't I got those how to put out?
- 25:23Speaker 1: No those are to put out? Okay, you know I
- 25:25Speaker 1: ain't got no song from the only song I got
- 25:27Speaker 1: Teddy Rawley that was put out was just got paid,
- 25:30Speaker 1: But I ain't got my name ain't all that one.
- 25:31Speaker 1: So you know that's the one Jane Griffin got me for.
- 25:35Speaker 1: But you know, I mean, but me and Teddy wrote it.
- 25:38Speaker 1: Me and Teddy the only one that wrote that. Nobody
- 25:40Speaker 1: else wrote that, just got paid. So but it is
- 25:43Speaker 1: what it is.
- 25:44Speaker 5: With all the accolades and awards, you know that you
- 25:49Speaker 5: that you haven't one, just getting this key to the
- 25:51Speaker 5: city make you want to say, you know what, let
- 25:53Speaker 5: me keep going. So hopefully these people start honoring me.
- 25:56Speaker 1: Well you know, I'm gonna tell you something, but normally
- 25:59Speaker 1: happens only takes one to open doors for everything else.
- 26:02Speaker 1: That's right, and New York is, you know, the biggest
- 26:07Speaker 1: or one of the biggest cities between New York and
- 26:09Speaker 1: LA Right, so when people see that, then they be
- 26:12Speaker 1: like all those that don't know about Keyswood, Now they say,
- 26:15Speaker 1: who's this Keysweag guy? You know what I'm saying, You
- 26:17Speaker 1: know how that works?
- 26:19Speaker 3: You don't know keeps what's something wrong?
- 26:20Speaker 1: Hey? But you know, hey, I mean, but you know
- 26:22Speaker 1: you might know me, but you know, you you know
- 26:25Speaker 1: what the problem is I manage myself. I've been managing
- 26:29Speaker 1: myself for the last twenty five thirty years, so that
- 26:34Speaker 1: that that's a strike against me in terms of some people.
- 26:39Speaker 1: I'm not signed to no agency. That's another strike because
- 26:43Speaker 1: I got my own agency.
- 26:45Speaker 3: But you're rich in most artists. No.
- 26:47Speaker 1: But but what I'm saying is, you know, it's not
- 26:49Speaker 1: what you know, it's who you know. You know, so
- 26:53Speaker 1: therefore you know the agencies, who's connected to certain people,
- 26:56Speaker 1: Like this is mine, I got this froster. I don't
- 26:59Speaker 1: know nobody. You know what I'm saying, I'm not giving
- 27:02Speaker 1: I'm not I don't need I'm not trying to have
- 27:04Speaker 1: a middle man. You know what I'm saying. It's like,
- 27:07Speaker 1: send me the contract, let me read the contract, let
- 27:09Speaker 1: me and my lord go to the contract, and then boom,
- 27:11Speaker 1: I'm not giving you ten or fifteen percent my money.
- 27:16Speaker 1: You know, when I could do it myself. Most artists
- 27:18Speaker 1: and most people don't want to do their own work,
- 27:21Speaker 1: and now they end up getting so when you lose money,
- 27:24Speaker 1: of their money get taken. You didn't want to do
- 27:26Speaker 1: your own work, you didn't want to read, you gave
- 27:28Speaker 1: it to somebody else to do it. So you know, now,
- 27:31Speaker 1: when your money come up short, you crying and complain,
- 27:34Speaker 1: But because you didn't want to put that extra work
- 27:36Speaker 1: in to see where everything was going or who was
- 27:39Speaker 1: doing what, that's what happens. But you know, you don't
- 27:43Speaker 1: know if somebody taking fifteen, twenty or twenty five percent
- 27:46Speaker 1: of their money because you're not on top of your
- 27:49Speaker 1: game like that, so you really don't know. So if
- 27:52Speaker 1: my lord can't tell me what this piece of paper say,
- 27:56Speaker 1: and I can't say, okay, I don't want that, to
- 27:57Speaker 1: take that out redlyining through that that, do this, do that,
- 28:02Speaker 1: and then you know, then give me now the deal
- 28:04Speaker 1: is done, all right, Now make sure they cut that
- 28:07Speaker 1: check for that amount of money. How much I gotta
- 28:10Speaker 1: pay you for your time? That's it, boom, were done.
- 28:13Speaker 1: That's how I go. That's how life is. That's how
- 28:16Speaker 1: it is for me. Oh that's how it's been for me.
- 28:18Speaker 1: So that's why how I'm still rocking like that. So
- 28:21Speaker 1: I'm not and that and those are the reasons why
- 28:25Speaker 1: I probably haven't gotten certain things because I don't want,
- 28:28Speaker 1: you know, but I'm good with getting the check, that's all.
- 28:32Speaker 3: With the sweatfest, that's what you're gonna be your festival.
- 28:34Speaker 1: Yeah, I did it. I've done it in Montego Bay.
- 28:37Speaker 1: I've done it in uh uh d r last year.
- 28:41Speaker 1: Now sin can Coon this year. It's my uh it's
- 28:44Speaker 1: my festival. So uh five days, four nights. Yeah, and
- 28:48Speaker 1: and and can Coon baby, So you know, let's get
- 28:52Speaker 1: them tickets. October the tenth to the fourteen. We're gonna
- 28:54Speaker 1: it's going down. I'm performing, Joe's performing, I got a
- 28:58Speaker 1: few other people that's on. The comedians and everything. It's
- 29:01Speaker 1: going down. So we're doing the big I'm trying to
- 29:04Speaker 1: I'm trying to get y'all to come on out in
- 29:06Speaker 1: the front of the sun dance. You know you're coming out. Hey,
- 29:10Speaker 1: you don't sound like you're coming down.
- 29:20Speaker 2: This is where you should go to Shreveport and then
- 29:22Speaker 2: you call fifth and be like fifth out of this
- 29:24Speaker 2: Shreveport you come to sweat Fest.
- 29:26Speaker 1: That's good Outdea. You want to represent me on what
- 29:33Speaker 1: the website for sweats what is it? I gotta see
- 29:40Speaker 1: how got they work for me? So I got back.
- 29:43Speaker 1: That's the little one right there. He annoying sometime and
- 29:45Speaker 1: knowing this ship.
- 29:49Speaker 5: Sweat Best cant Coon dot Com alright, keep sweat man,
- 29:52Speaker 5: when you get that key to the city this uh,
- 29:54Speaker 5: this weekend.
- 29:55Speaker 1: What if you coming down to sweat fest? The key
- 29:58Speaker 1: the sitting.
- 30:00Speaker 3: Me out of town. I'm gonna be out of town.
- 30:01Speaker 1: What kind of ship is this? What ship? I want
- 30:03Speaker 1: be out of town? You know see that's that bullshit
- 30:05Speaker 1: like you, that's that bullshit right there. You do this
- 30:08Speaker 1: ship to me all the time.
- 30:09Speaker 3: You can perform my my wedding. You already got married.
- 30:11Speaker 1: I was gonna see that's why you I know you
- 30:14Speaker 1: already got mad. I see you on social.
- 30:15Speaker 5: Media said they're giving you diddy old key. They say,
- 30:21Speaker 5: did on what you're gonna do? What they got Diddy
- 30:27Speaker 5: name scrapped out and this on it?
- 30:29Speaker 3: What?
- 30:30Speaker 1: Man, they ain't gonna do no ship like that. I
- 30:31Speaker 1: ain't gonna talk about.
- 30:34Speaker 3: I was not man.
- 30:35Speaker 1: I'm drinking I god damn coffee right now. I ain't no.
- 30:37Speaker 4: Hen ain't no this hip man.
- 30:42Speaker 1: You and the king chair. You're over there, this chair,
- 30:45Speaker 1: he said, the back hurt been in that chair, back
- 30:47Speaker 1: hurting that. But and then I should have been that.
- 30:52Speaker 1: You should have his thrown from I want to throw man.
- 30:55Speaker 1: You ain't coming to my goddamn Keithon City.
- 30:57Speaker 5: I'm out of time this week.
- 31:01Speaker 1: What I know about the.
- 31:04Speaker 3: Time aut of town Saturday, I'm.
- 31:07Speaker 1: On the road.
- 31:08Speaker 3: I'm gonna pay.
- 31:09Speaker 1: You're funny, hell.
- 31:10Speaker 6: Man, these weends getting the key in the city and
- 31:15Speaker 6: they ain't gonna be here because they bold by.
- 31:19Speaker 3: Listen, you're doing to keep what mini mix this morning site?
- 31:21Speaker 4: Okay, all right, that's so that's what I'm gonna get.
- 31:28Speaker 4: Then I'm gonna get a mini minutes for the key
- 31:30Speaker 4: in the city break wake that ass up in the morning.
- 31:39Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club