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- 0:00Speaker 1: I'm real people, real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning. Everybody
- 0:08Speaker 1: is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Scharlaman the guy. We are
- 0:11Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest joining us
- 0:13Speaker 1: this morning. Us right the legendary comment comments in the
- 0:16Speaker 1: build the morning sir Peace Peace, what's up? Yea not
- 0:18Speaker 1: comment before you walked in and said, man comments one
- 0:21Speaker 1: of those people. I'm scared of his eyes crazyfidence. I
- 0:32Speaker 1: think by the said comment is one of those individuals
- 0:35Speaker 1: you don't play with. He has that eye that that like,
- 0:37Speaker 1: I'm from Chicago and now you can die to night,
- 0:41Speaker 1: I said. I interviewed a lot of people comment has
- 0:44Speaker 1: that eye music soul child got that. That's a different
- 0:52Speaker 1: But welcome to the show, sir Man, Thank you. I'm
- 0:55Speaker 1: glad to be here. What's up? Man? Or he just
- 0:57Speaker 1: saw the interview off like this? Before the people shot
- 0:59Speaker 1: in Chicago this past weekend fourth of July, it was
- 1:01Speaker 1: like seventy shot. What the hell is going on in
- 1:03Speaker 1: your city? Man? Man, it's just tough out there. Man,
- 1:06Speaker 1: it's been like guns is everywhere. That's the way cast
- 1:09Speaker 1: think that that's the way they think they should handle it.
- 1:11Speaker 1: Is like man, I'm got to pop this cat. That's
- 1:13Speaker 1: that's just the way the youngest's been raised. Now, that's
- 1:15Speaker 1: what they know. So you know, we on a mission
- 1:18Speaker 1: to stop that. That's what I'm on. Like, that's my
- 1:20Speaker 1: whole mission for now to forever. I'm on that. How
- 1:25Speaker 1: I mean, it just seems so violent out there. Man,
- 1:27Speaker 1: it's gonna it's it's gonna take a thing. It's gonna
- 1:29Speaker 1: take a lot. Man. I ain't got all the answers,
- 1:31Speaker 1: but I know for sure like giving short these jobs
- 1:35Speaker 1: because I'd be around like some of the youngest and
- 1:37Speaker 1: they like, man, we gotta get money. And you know
- 1:40Speaker 1: when they get jobs, they're like, okay, man, maybe I
- 1:42Speaker 1: ain't got to go out here and do no hustling.
- 1:44Speaker 1: I ain't gotta be on the street. So that's one
- 1:45Speaker 1: thing to help me. And Kanye did this something with
- 1:48Speaker 1: our foundations where we helped get twenty thousand jobs for
- 1:51Speaker 1: kids in Chicago. But then this program. You know, think
- 1:54Speaker 1: about when we were being raised, we had stuff to do. Man,
- 1:57Speaker 1: we could play ball, go whatever, play baseball, do something. Man.
- 2:00Speaker 1: You just gotta have something for them to do this productive.
- 2:03Speaker 1: I like, did you acknowledge it's a problem because a
- 2:04Speaker 1: lot of people in Chicago you talk to them and
- 2:06Speaker 1: they'd be like, it ain't that bad here. Stop believing
- 2:08Speaker 1: everything you see on the news. Nah, man, I just
- 2:10Speaker 1: left there yesterday and it was like, man, a little
- 2:14Speaker 1: eleven year old girl just got killed. You having to
- 2:16Speaker 1: sleepover now, it's a problem. Gee, Like when you got
- 2:19Speaker 1: just innocent people getting shot. People thinking like man, everybody
- 2:22Speaker 1: rolling around with guns. It's like, no, that's a problem, man.
- 2:25Speaker 1: You can't ain't can't nobody be proud of that. And
- 2:27Speaker 1: I said, when you go in the neighborhoods and you
- 2:29Speaker 1: see this a lot of houses that are abandoned or
- 2:31Speaker 1: burnt down, it's like, when are they gonna fix up
- 2:32Speaker 1: the neighborhood too? Yeah, man, it's it's I ain't a lie.
- 2:35Speaker 1: When I go home sometimes be like it's sad to me.
- 2:37Speaker 1: I ride around my old neighborhood and it's like, man, man,
- 2:40Speaker 1: this is how it is. But you know, like like
- 2:43Speaker 1: I said, we're making moves. I always try to look
- 2:45Speaker 1: at the positive, be like, man, we're about to change this,
- 2:47Speaker 1: you know. So that's what it is that you know,
- 2:49Speaker 1: I'm teaming up with people that's that's in the field
- 2:52Speaker 1: because there's people out there doing that work every day,
- 2:54Speaker 1: you know, so I'm teaming up with them too. Yeah,
- 2:56Speaker 1: we got superintendents from Chicago want us to come talking
- 2:59Speaker 1: to school. I'm scared, man. No, man, we need y'all
- 3:02Speaker 1: to come talk. You think about my eyes looking crazy
- 3:06Speaker 1: when you see what I'm showing, like yo, I mean,
- 3:09Speaker 1: but really, when you get around some people, you kind
- 3:12Speaker 1: of see, you know, people stop, they'd be happy to see.
- 3:14Speaker 1: They'd be happy to see y'all man. And when and
- 3:16Speaker 1: when they see people like yourself or you know, like
- 3:19Speaker 1: they feel like they can do something because that's all
- 3:21Speaker 1: it is. Sometimes it's just something that they're seeing somebody
- 3:24Speaker 1: that made it, man, because think about it. There they
- 3:26Speaker 1: ain't around nobody that's it's doing nothing. But they got brocked.
- 3:29Speaker 1: They got that's very true. But they don't see that
- 3:35Speaker 1: all the time. And sometimes it's just like man, they
- 3:38Speaker 1: think you so distanced. I remember I did this song
- 3:41Speaker 1: with this girl Drezy from from the Crib and she
- 3:43Speaker 1: on the album and stuff. But um, and when I
- 3:45Speaker 1: did it, like some some some people call me like man,
- 3:48Speaker 1: I feel like, I mean, they call it really something
- 3:50Speaker 1: of my guys, And I was like man, I feel
- 3:51Speaker 1: like we can make it your boy comment messing with Drezy.
- 3:53Speaker 1: It's just like sometimes you think they think Oprah is
- 3:56Speaker 1: just a distance, you know, like a president. Yeah she
- 4:00Speaker 1: is party op Yeah, bro, we just did I don't know,
- 4:09Speaker 1: I don't know about this, but she might have. Yeah.
- 4:15Speaker 1: So the name the album is Nobody's Smiling. Is that
- 4:18Speaker 1: anything to do with Chicago? Yeah, that's what That's what
- 4:20Speaker 1: that's for. That's it's really talking about the situation in Chicago.
- 4:24Speaker 1: And uh, like I said, it's a call to action
- 4:26Speaker 1: more than just being like, hey, we're gonna stay like this.
- 4:29Speaker 1: Of course that came from that rock Himp thought, you know,
- 4:31Speaker 1: from the ghetto and he said Nobody Smiling. But you know,
- 4:34Speaker 1: it was just it was just me and no idea
- 4:36Speaker 1: discussing what we could do to give back because I
- 4:38Speaker 1: feel like I've always represented Chicago, but I could do more.
- 4:43Speaker 1: You know, I got my foundation, I got different things.
- 4:45Speaker 1: But it's like when you see what's going on, you
- 4:47Speaker 1: feel like, man, I gotta do more. You know. You
- 4:49Speaker 1: did a lot of collaborations with artists from Chicago as
- 4:51Speaker 1: well a lot of the upcoming artists from Chicago. So
- 4:54Speaker 1: that's a great thing. Yeah, like Little Herb and Treesy
- 4:58Speaker 1: and um you know, I got Bibby and Audience and
- 5:01Speaker 1: like who else g count and just dude k D.
- 5:04Speaker 1: I got all them on my cover on my album covers,
- 5:06Speaker 1: like I did different versions just saying hey, man, y'all
- 5:09Speaker 1: because you know, one thing was like they were looking
- 5:11Speaker 1: at me like, oh man, you know you know you're acting,
- 5:13Speaker 1: you're doing this. I'm like, man, I'm here with y'all.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Like I mean, I ain't. I ain't every day in Chicago,
- 5:18Speaker 1: but I'm I'm here. I'm gonna do what I could
- 5:20Speaker 1: do to help y'all. So that's what That's what I
- 5:22Speaker 1: was going to ask that, you know what, you're doing
- 5:23Speaker 1: so much acting and your movies are successful, why do
- 5:26Speaker 1: you continue to do music like it's it's it's no
- 5:28Speaker 1: money in the music industry no more. That's no money.
- 5:32Speaker 1: It's it's harder to make money in the music industry now.
- 5:34Speaker 1: It's not like before we you know, you could go
- 5:36Speaker 1: into and make a couple hundred grand. It's just well,
- 5:38Speaker 1: it's money. When your man becomes the executive vice president
- 5:40Speaker 1: of the depth jam, let me cut this check for
- 5:44Speaker 1: you for you know, yeah, you know what's what's good
- 5:50Speaker 1: though with no id Man Like obviously I grew up
- 5:53Speaker 1: with him since fourth grade and now we you know,
- 5:55Speaker 1: we kind of went our separate ways for a second
- 5:58Speaker 1: after three albums and then we got back to together
- 6:00Speaker 1: after he's working with YA. But Man, one thing about
- 6:03Speaker 1: him being executive at the label, it's kind of I
- 6:06Speaker 1: work smarter because before you know, you being a studio
- 6:08Speaker 1: recording using up your budget. But now you know, like
- 6:11Speaker 1: you got somebody that knows how record companies work, and
- 6:15Speaker 1: it's a lot of good insight that you get from
- 6:17Speaker 1: having somebody. Plus man, they care about hip hop, him
- 6:19Speaker 1: and hip hop. They them dudes like care about the culture.
- 6:22Speaker 1: So that made me like be like, man, I definitely
- 6:25Speaker 1: want to be on Deaf Jam. It's it's like a
- 6:26Speaker 1: great place for me. If he wasn't the executive, it
- 6:31Speaker 1: just depends on who was a person that was that
- 6:33Speaker 1: was signing me really more than anything. But you know,
- 6:35Speaker 1: as soon as it because at first he was like
- 6:37Speaker 1: we was talking about it and he was like, Manna,
- 6:40Speaker 1: I might you know be the executive And I was like,
- 6:42Speaker 1: all right, we'll let me know because I was just
- 6:44Speaker 1: really for me you and you was asking why I
- 6:46Speaker 1: make music. You gotta have a purpose for me. I
- 6:48Speaker 1: gotta have like, like, what motivated me to do this
- 6:52Speaker 1: album was I was like, man, this is a chance
- 6:54Speaker 1: for me to give back for real and really talk
- 6:56Speaker 1: about what's what's going on from a different perspective. You know,
- 7:00Speaker 1: y'all here, You know, you got we got the Chief Keys,
- 7:03Speaker 1: we got Little Reefs, we got Dirk, we got Baby Chance.
- 7:07Speaker 1: It's a lot of people just talking about Chicago. But
- 7:09Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna give a different perspective just because
- 7:11Speaker 1: of what I've seen. Was there a period of time
- 7:13Speaker 1: when you thought you and no Id wouldn't ever work
- 7:15Speaker 1: together again, because y'all really had like a major you know,
- 7:18Speaker 1: I think he felt slighted, like he wanted you to
- 7:20Speaker 1: call on him to work and you just weren't. And yeah,
- 7:23Speaker 1: I mean no, it was definitely for a while we
- 7:25Speaker 1: weren't you know, we weren't cool point blank. And uh,
- 7:28Speaker 1: I ain't know when we was going hook back up.
- 7:30Speaker 1: But it was luck, you know, it was just like, man,
- 7:32Speaker 1: he was working with ya in the studio and we
- 7:34Speaker 1: just started getting back cool. It's like somebody you know
- 7:37Speaker 1: him since fourth grade. You could always one thing when
- 7:40Speaker 1: I'm working with him, he could always go back to, like,
- 7:42Speaker 1: come on, man, you that south Side. You know you
- 7:44Speaker 1: that a guy from the crib. Man like he reminds
- 7:47Speaker 1: he reminds me of what we what we did this
- 7:50Speaker 1: for him? What were doing for you know, you still
- 7:52Speaker 1: work coosely with Kanye. Yeah, we didn't worked together in
- 7:55Speaker 1: a long time. But you know, that's my guy. But
- 7:58Speaker 1: it's like for me, I like work when ye when
- 8:00Speaker 1: he in that zone and want to work, like, I'm like, yeah,
- 8:03Speaker 1: if he you know, because he gotta be motivated. Yeah,
- 8:06Speaker 1: is that type of person that's gotta like he's been
- 8:07Speaker 1: working on his music. But you know, if he like, man,
- 8:10Speaker 1: come on, Rosch, let's do this, let's do this, then
- 8:12Speaker 1: I you know, then I'm with it. But if not,
- 8:14Speaker 1: then I'm just like, man, we're good, we're friends. We
- 8:16Speaker 1: ain't gotta work. You know, who do you think about
- 8:18Speaker 1: his ranch and stuff? You ever put them to the
- 8:19Speaker 1: side to give him some some og wisdom? Yeah, you know.
- 8:22Speaker 1: I didn't talk to him, not about not ring, because
- 8:25Speaker 1: I like the fact that you know, he's speaking his mind.
- 8:27Speaker 1: I'm like, y'all, man, speak your mind. I think it's
- 8:30Speaker 1: I think for me. It's like showing a certain courage
- 8:33Speaker 1: to go out there and just say what you're feeling. Man,
- 8:35Speaker 1: And that's what it is. He always been like that too,
- 8:38Speaker 1: So I ain't never I don't never be like man,
- 8:40Speaker 1: don't do you because he'd been he'd been like that
- 8:42Speaker 1: since I know him. He come to my basement saying
- 8:45Speaker 1: not saying some of the exact same things, but he
- 8:47Speaker 1: had just say it's whatever's on his mind. So and
- 8:50Speaker 1: my homies would be ready to box him, they'd be
- 8:53Speaker 1: ready to move up on you know. That's just but
- 8:55Speaker 1: but anyway, it's like I talked to him about this
- 8:58Speaker 1: stuff that's going on in life, and then you know,
- 9:00Speaker 1: he might gather some information, but the same token, I'll
- 9:02Speaker 1: be learning from him too. You know, did you go
- 9:04Speaker 1: to the winding? Yeah? I went to the wedding. It
- 9:06Speaker 1: was good man, man, it was real top man. It
- 9:09Speaker 1: was like simple, it felt real family. It seems simple
- 9:12Speaker 1: and all. It seemed simple. Look, you know how you
- 9:17Speaker 1: could buy something real nice, but you ain't gotta like,
- 9:20Speaker 1: you ain't gotta ball it out like you know, like
- 9:21Speaker 1: you could get a dope car you ain't gotta put on.
- 9:25Speaker 1: It was that type of sample Okay, you're influence Italy.
- 9:27Speaker 1: You're looking at this beautiful place. Well, you ain't got
- 9:29Speaker 1: to do a whole lot. They had like just simple stuff, nice,
- 9:33Speaker 1: nice wine, champagne and all that, and then you know,
- 9:36Speaker 1: just good music man. And it felt family. Man. Everybody
- 9:39Speaker 1: was having fun. Castle was wrapping, you know, at the wedding.
- 9:42Speaker 1: So that's why I'm saying it just felt simple. Went
- 9:45Speaker 1: like I was thinking, you know, I ain't know what
- 9:47Speaker 1: I ain't know what to expect to be honest, right,
- 9:53Speaker 1: but it was real cool. Man. I went, my mother
- 9:55Speaker 1: went with me and we just we just kicked it.
- 9:57Speaker 1: You think you ever get married? I don't know, man,
- 10:00Speaker 1: I was I was thinking about that last night talking
- 10:03Speaker 1: to one of my friends as lady friend. I'm like,
- 10:05Speaker 1: I don't know if if I'm marriage material maybe maybe
- 10:08Speaker 1: one day this before after you hit it. This is before.
- 10:13Speaker 1: Why would you say you're not marriage material? I mean,
- 10:16Speaker 1: I'm just like, man, I'll be focused on on my
- 10:18Speaker 1: music a lot, and and work a lot acting in
- 10:21Speaker 1: different things. So sometimes it's hard to balance with a relationship.
- 10:26Speaker 1: You know, likes kind of guy. I do like relationships,
- 10:29Speaker 1: But I'm saying a lot of times I've been in
- 10:31Speaker 1: relationships I make I mean, I don't make my best albums,
- 10:37Speaker 1: and like sometimes it's like, you know, when you're in
- 10:40Speaker 1: a relationship, put it this way, you got to find it.
- 10:43Speaker 1: I would have to find the right relationship or something.
- 10:47Speaker 1: She could produce the album. No, no, no, But I'm
- 10:49Speaker 1: just saying, a woman that understand the time you got
- 10:51Speaker 1: to give to your work, you know what I mean,
- 10:53Speaker 1: that's really more than anything, because I mean, ain't like
- 10:55Speaker 1: I'm just only doing music. It's like I'm working to
- 10:57Speaker 1: do other things. And a person got to really understand that.
- 11:01Speaker 1: I think I saw somewhere where you said you were
- 11:02Speaker 1: done with industry checks, like you wanted like to day
- 11:04Speaker 1: to teach your journalists or something. It was done, he said.
- 11:08Speaker 1: I say, I'm saying I ain't. You know, I was
- 11:11Speaker 1: kind of over for a second for show, Like second,
- 11:14Speaker 1: I don't want to be peeping on songs. So then
- 11:19Speaker 1: so so for me now it's like who you know,
- 11:21Speaker 1: if the right woman coming, if she a teacher or
- 11:24Speaker 1: or actor, actress, I'm with it. You know, I'm just
- 11:28Speaker 1: gonna look at the person more than anything. You have
- 11:30Speaker 1: a nice little roster industry chickens. Yeah, Serena Williams. That's
- 11:35Speaker 1: that's about Washington. Ain't scandals easy easy? She married that
- 11:51Speaker 1: you admitted the combat Jack. I think it was that
- 11:55Speaker 1: everybody really does got that that good good like to
- 12:00Speaker 1: know what it is. I mean, Erica got something with us,
- 12:03Speaker 1: She got something special, mankind and twisted for a little bit.
- 12:07Speaker 1: She hit you about that, like, why are you talking
- 12:08Speaker 1: about my box on on interviews? Noah, she just read
- 12:10Speaker 1: she just retweeted some good stuff, like, you know, Erica
- 12:14Speaker 1: raw girl. Man, she got a lot to us. So
- 12:16Speaker 1: she from the hood, point blank. She just one of
- 12:18Speaker 1: those people from the hood that's artsy, artistic and spiritual
- 12:23Speaker 1: and all this shit. You know, she got a lot
- 12:25Speaker 1: to us. But you can't be man when it guys
- 12:26Speaker 1: it's positive things about your box. Yea, girls, tips, she said,
- 12:30Speaker 1: drink raw cranberry juice. How you get that about? She said,
- 12:37Speaker 1: I saw a lot of veggies green juices. Yeah. Now
- 12:40Speaker 1: I also read somewhere that you were thinking about investing
- 12:43Speaker 1: in Broadway plays and and things like that. Yeah, that's
- 12:46Speaker 1: something you're considering, because I heard it's pretty rough. Yeah, No,
- 12:49Speaker 1: I want I want to do Broadway. I'm gonna do Broadway.
- 12:51Speaker 1: As an actor. But also I'm looking, you know at
- 12:53Speaker 1: producing some some Broadway plays because I'm getting into that
- 12:56Speaker 1: as far as my live performance, making it more the
- 13:00Speaker 1: tore like, you know, because it's just, man, I've been
- 13:02Speaker 1: rocking shows for a long time, so I want to
- 13:04Speaker 1: bring something new to the table for the audience too.
- 13:07Speaker 1: But pay needs you right now. Just ended Sunday and
- 13:12Speaker 1: everybody's seeing the play is pretty good, but it just
- 13:13Speaker 1: you know, I don't I don't think it's Financially they
- 13:16Speaker 1: said it, they said financially it was just really rough.
- 13:18Speaker 1: They didn't know all the things they had to pay for.
- 13:20Speaker 1: And you know, as far as getting the audience to
- 13:22Speaker 1: half a million dollars a week, hip hop on Broadway
- 13:25Speaker 1: is tough for audience. Yeah, I mean I think you gotta,
- 13:28Speaker 1: you know, bring something that's gonna have it. It's gonna
- 13:31Speaker 1: be real true. But at the Saint Token Universal, I
- 13:34Speaker 1: don't know, you know, I didn't get to see the play,
- 13:35Speaker 1: so I can't say how that play was. But I
- 13:37Speaker 1: do check out theater and that's why I want to,
- 13:39Speaker 1: you know, do some theater myself. What would you recommend
- 13:42Speaker 1: to go see your play? For? Well, all the guys
- 13:44Speaker 1: out there looking to take somebody on a date. I
- 13:46Speaker 1: go to brower all the time. What's some of your favorites.
- 13:49Speaker 1: The last thing I saw was Rocky on Broadway. I
- 13:51Speaker 1: believe how was that? It was good? I didn't like
- 13:53Speaker 1: it as a musical. I want to see Motown to musical.
- 13:55Speaker 1: I'm taking my mom to see that. My mother. I
- 13:58Speaker 1: went with my mother and my grandmother to see that.
- 14:00Speaker 1: That was a good play. I mean, a good musical.
- 14:02Speaker 1: But I like stuff to drama, like like, oh this
- 14:05Speaker 1: this is this play called Death of a Salesman. It's
- 14:07Speaker 1: like an old classic play and Philip seymo Hoffman was
- 14:11Speaker 1: in that. Before you pass I went and seeing Seeing
- 14:13Speaker 1: Now I'm going to see I'm going to see this
- 14:15Speaker 1: one called Cabaret. This lady named Michel Ways. You know,
- 14:18Speaker 1: I'll be into the different things because as an actor,
- 14:20Speaker 1: I gotta keep learning too and keep growing. So that's
- 14:23Speaker 1: why I'll be checking out everything. As you as you
- 14:25Speaker 1: get older, do you look for other ways to perform
- 14:28Speaker 1: as an artist? Because I always saying you're one of
- 14:30Speaker 1: the artists that as you grow, you're not gonna look
- 14:32Speaker 1: stupid performing the songs you got. Yeah you know, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 14:35Speaker 1: I feel you on that. Uh. I actually have been
- 14:38Speaker 1: like I've been growing with my performance because I used
- 14:40Speaker 1: I used to just like jump, just feel the energy
- 14:43Speaker 1: and jump up. But now like lately, I've been understanding
- 14:46Speaker 1: that the presentation go like you give it that drama
- 14:49Speaker 1: and stuff, you know, and that's part of that is
- 14:51Speaker 1: coming from me just understanding what the story is. And
- 14:54Speaker 1: so now my live performance sometimes I'm just like, man,
- 14:57Speaker 1: you know, I might do a song sitting on the
- 14:59Speaker 1: stool for second and then just come out and then
- 15:01Speaker 1: just get live on another turn up on another song
- 15:04Speaker 1: then you know. So yeah, my performance is definitely growing.
- 15:07Speaker 1: And it's like you said, I want to make music
- 15:09Speaker 1: that like when I'm sixty years old, I could be like, man,
- 15:13Speaker 1: this song was cold, and I'm still could rocket. I
- 15:15Speaker 1: was surprised when I seen you perform, and I'm surprised
- 15:16Speaker 1: a lot of people don't talk about your performance because
- 15:18Speaker 1: you go from, like you said, sitting on the stool
- 15:20Speaker 1: to break dancing in the middle of the set, and
- 15:22Speaker 1: I'm like, you ain't gonna be doing that when you're six. Yeah,
- 15:27Speaker 1: but I mean, but you know, that's I feel like
- 15:30Speaker 1: a show. I've seen seen people doing great shows like
- 15:33Speaker 1: you know, I used to see Big Daddy Kane and
- 15:35Speaker 1: care Us one and shoot, I've seen the Jackson five
- 15:38Speaker 1: when I was a short. That was my first concert.
- 15:40Speaker 1: So it was like, Man, I think about shows and
- 15:43Speaker 1: they I really, you know, want to perform. And one
- 15:46Speaker 1: thing I know I gotta do is like in performances,
- 15:49Speaker 1: some some songs. Sometimes I'm doing shows, ain't like the
- 15:52Speaker 1: crowd know all my songs. Sometimes they do, but when
- 15:55Speaker 1: they don't, you gotta you gotta win them over. So
- 15:57Speaker 1: it's got to be in the performance. Then then just
- 16:00Speaker 1: like you know, if I had all just all hits,
- 16:02Speaker 1: it would be a different thing. But but I still
- 16:04Speaker 1: want to give a performance just because of where I
- 16:06Speaker 1: come from. You know. Now you reacted to Marvel Comics
- 16:09Speaker 1: andnown seen that there's a black Captain America. You said
- 16:11Speaker 1: you thought it was a great thing. And I remember
- 16:13Speaker 1: at one point you were supposed to play a green
- 16:15Speaker 1: lantern before. Yeah, man, yeah, I was. I was a
- 16:20Speaker 1: green lantern for a minute because we was doing the
- 16:22Speaker 1: movie Justice League or you had the gig. Yeah, I
- 16:24Speaker 1: had a gig I had. We went down to Australia
- 16:28Speaker 1: and man, I had to suit on and everything it
- 16:30Speaker 1: was like I was ready, man, but I mean, you know,
- 16:36Speaker 1: I was gig because I was like man at that time,
- 16:38Speaker 1: this was two thousand and eight. I was like, man,
- 16:40Speaker 1: it ain't really black superheroes out there. And this dude
- 16:43Speaker 1: that was it was a Latino brother too, that was
- 16:46Speaker 1: playing He was playing Superman. And at the time we
- 16:49Speaker 1: was like, man, black and Latino kids go see us
- 16:52Speaker 1: and be like, damn, I could be a superhero because
- 16:54Speaker 1: you think about a lot of superheroes ain't seeing it's
- 16:56Speaker 1: just only white. So anyway, it was one of those
- 16:59Speaker 1: things that it didn't the movie didn't go after a minute.
- 17:02Speaker 1: But if it come back around, hopefully I'll do. You know, well, no,
- 17:05Speaker 1: it's coming out. They're doing it. They starting with the
- 17:07Speaker 1: Batman versus Superman, introducing a lot of the Justice League
- 17:10Speaker 1: and that they supposed to do the movie in like
- 17:11Speaker 1: twenty sixteen or so. I'm just hoping they used the
- 17:14Speaker 1: black green landish Yeah, Superman, that would be That would
- 17:19Speaker 1: be dope. But now they already got that Superman, so
- 17:21Speaker 1: they probably gonna use that Superman. They gotta have some
- 17:24Speaker 1: Spanish cast in it somewhere. Man, how did they tell
- 17:26Speaker 1: you that, Joe, You're just you're not gonna be green
- 17:27Speaker 1: Landing no more. Now. Now, what happened was the movie
- 17:30Speaker 1: just didn't then it fell apart with where it just
- 17:33Speaker 1: didn't golf because it was a writer strike at the time,
- 17:36Speaker 1: and they was like, nah, but but really the truth
- 17:39Speaker 1: I heard that, you know, the people that were doing
- 17:42Speaker 1: behind Batman was like, we don't want to have no
- 17:44Speaker 1: Justice League come out before we finished the Batman trilogy. So,
- 17:48Speaker 1: I mean, I understand that he's ruining that whole franchise. Man,
- 17:51Speaker 1: he sucks. Yeah, they I mean, I'm a Marvel guy. Yeah,
- 17:54Speaker 1: your mother green chattered on his own. Absolutely, mane that's
- 18:05Speaker 1: your favorite. Absolutely. You hate that you have that tattoo.
- 18:09Speaker 1: I do because I mean it means something to me.
- 18:11Speaker 1: But I don't want to walk around with the water.
- 18:12Speaker 1: Ain't my daughter six and she's asking me about why
- 18:15Speaker 1: do you have that on y'all having no real explanation
- 18:17Speaker 1: for it. Man, that's the only that's the reason why
- 18:19Speaker 1: I ain't really getting no task, And I'll be changing
- 18:21Speaker 1: my mind too much. I'd be like, man, I wouldn't
- 18:24Speaker 1: like it maybe three three months later, you know what
- 18:26Speaker 1: I mean? You ever thought about getting one? Though? I
- 18:28Speaker 1: mean sometimes I thought about it quick, but I ain't
- 18:30Speaker 1: what you get, man, I don't know. I have to
- 18:33Speaker 1: be something like man, I think angel wings or something
- 18:42Speaker 1: like that. You know, but I ain't really that ain't
- 18:44Speaker 1: mean the tats ain't me Serena really break your heart? Man?
- 18:47Speaker 1: Because I saw an interview with black TV you admitted
- 18:49Speaker 1: that the whole issue with drink was over Serena. Well,
- 18:52Speaker 1: let me let me let me break it down real
- 18:54Speaker 1: quick so I can be specific. Okay, it's like, you know,
- 18:57Speaker 1: me and Serena was together, we broke up. I don't
- 19:00Speaker 1: know specifically a hund drake if if you know, obviously
- 19:03Speaker 1: it felt like something's going on. I ain't. I ain't
- 19:04Speaker 1: dwelling it too much. He thought Drake was hitting it
- 19:06Speaker 1: when y'all together, nah after and then so they ain't.
- 19:09Speaker 1: I ain't got no problem with that. You do what
- 19:11Speaker 1: you do, even even if even if somebody dealing with
- 19:13Speaker 1: your lady, why you would have they ain't They ain't
- 19:16Speaker 1: they fault. That's that's that's on your lady, You and
- 19:18Speaker 1: your lady. So I wouldn't. I wouldn't. So I wouldn't.
- 19:20Speaker 1: I wasn't tripping on that your friend, unless stay your friend,
- 19:23Speaker 1: right friend, he looked so um so like she was on.
- 19:33Speaker 1: Drake was on. After while, I felt like in some
- 19:35Speaker 1: of his songs he was like saying stuff that I
- 19:37Speaker 1: felt like it was subliminal to you, and I was
- 19:43Speaker 1: like about him. Yeah, I was like that. I was like,
- 19:45Speaker 1: you know, you know, you just don't know it like nowadays,
- 19:48Speaker 1: you know, cast be doing them sneak this is. I'm like, nah, man,
- 19:52Speaker 1: I just come out and say what I gotta say.
- 19:53Speaker 1: So I feel after while, it was like I don't
- 19:56Speaker 1: know enoughing. It was like one it was a show
- 19:58Speaker 1: where I was at. Now I left, and then Drake
- 20:01Speaker 1: was like, man, he said something to the you know,
- 20:04Speaker 1: out out in the crowd, like man, you know, he
- 20:06Speaker 1: was saying some tough stuff. So then I can't remember,
- 20:09Speaker 1: like man, but it was something like man, yo, don't
- 20:12Speaker 1: they don't they know, they don't know. They don't want
- 20:14Speaker 1: to mess with me though, and can't mess with me.
- 20:16Speaker 1: But look at that right there. So then I was
- 20:19Speaker 1: like I was like, all right, you know, all right,
- 20:22Speaker 1: nice time. You know, it was that time because I
- 20:24Speaker 1: knew he was directing it to me, so that's when it,
- 20:27Speaker 1: you know. But we kept it on record and then
- 20:30Speaker 1: everything got squashed. That's real for you to admit that though.
- 20:32Speaker 1: Did you ever like call Serena and say, yo, you
- 20:34Speaker 1: messing with homie? Yeah? I mean I definitely talked to
- 20:37Speaker 1: about it. I definitely talked to about it. But you know,
- 20:41Speaker 1: at the end of the day, once once they you know,
- 20:44Speaker 1: she ain't your lady, ain't too much. You know, what
- 20:46Speaker 1: can I say that ain't got gonna do with me
- 20:48Speaker 1: at that point? Would you do anything different now? Like
- 20:49Speaker 1: would you reach out to him for us and be like, hey,
- 20:51Speaker 1: you stubbing me and that's not your friends? Yeah, I
- 20:54Speaker 1: don't know him like that. And but you know, if
- 20:57Speaker 1: I had a song, I would have said face to
- 20:59Speaker 1: face because I'm I'm I'm a person who go confront
- 21:01Speaker 1: the situation like that's just what it is. And I
- 21:04Speaker 1: would have just said, face to face, y'all, you're dissing me,
- 21:06Speaker 1: what's up? You know? Like what's up? Like you got
- 21:09Speaker 1: something against me? You know, and we go from there.
- 21:12Speaker 1: But you know what the worst is when you date
- 21:14Speaker 1: somebody and then she starts dating somebody else, but she
- 21:15Speaker 1: tells them your business. Oh man. Yeah, yeah, see I
- 21:19Speaker 1: try not to even you know, I try not to
- 21:21Speaker 1: even get with women that I feel got that got
- 21:23Speaker 1: that gene. And you know what I'm saying, like like
- 21:25Speaker 1: I if she if if a woman talking a lot
- 21:28Speaker 1: around me about certain stuff, all right, it ain't she moving.
- 21:32Speaker 1: You talk to you about people, she'll talk to other
- 21:33Speaker 1: people about exactly exactly, so she talking to me about
- 21:36Speaker 1: So I don't even you know, I don't even keep
- 21:38Speaker 1: them in my circle. They easily I don't work about
- 21:40Speaker 1: do stage right? You changed a lot. What was the
- 21:43Speaker 1: craziest thing that that relationship made you do? Can you
- 21:47Speaker 1: auction off some of those office now? But I think
- 21:52Speaker 1: the craziest thing I did was drinking wheat grass all
- 21:56Speaker 1: the time. That was grassed people. That was a great thing.
- 22:01Speaker 1: But what that was a positive? Okay that that was
- 22:06Speaker 1: It wasn't bad then, Actually that that relationship wasn't bad.
- 22:10Speaker 1: It was like it was it was some changes going on,
- 22:13Speaker 1: but it was like good change. Like we're talking about
- 22:15Speaker 1: weak grass and it went like and it went like
- 22:17Speaker 1: she was like, yo, drink this. It was like like
- 22:21Speaker 1: you around somebody that's healthy and you and my goal
- 22:24Speaker 1: was like, man, I want to be healthier. You know.
- 22:26Speaker 1: I came to New York and I was starting to
- 22:28Speaker 1: get you know, get it to myself more. Moved to
- 22:30Speaker 1: Brooklyn and was like, man, I'm gonna do this. So
- 22:33Speaker 1: I was around people that was like creative. Like it
- 22:35Speaker 1: went like she was like, yo, you should put on
- 22:37Speaker 1: that crochet she you know, I was trying to find
- 22:45Speaker 1: my I was trying to find my style. But then
- 22:51Speaker 1: that you know, within my individuality, within that. But you
- 22:54Speaker 1: know that's a that's a strong woman. I give it
- 22:57Speaker 1: up to each she comes in Chicago City to you
- 22:59Speaker 1: when you was like where you at, bro They was like,
- 23:02Speaker 1: what where you at? Man? What's up? What's like? What's popping? Bro? What?
- 23:06Speaker 1: We need to come talk to you? Man? We need
- 23:08Speaker 1: what we need to do? My friends? You know, my
- 23:11Speaker 1: mother said, mom, you lost me around Electric Circus Like
- 23:16Speaker 1: he's a bit out there, right, Yeah? Yeah, I mean
- 23:17Speaker 1: I went out there sometimes. You know, honestly, sometimes that
- 23:21Speaker 1: for me, like that's part of being a like an artist.
- 23:24Speaker 1: You gotta go through those things because if I kind
- 23:27Speaker 1: of keep creating or keep doing the same thing, then
- 23:30Speaker 1: people throw that away. So it's like you gotta follow
- 23:32Speaker 1: whatever you really are and if it's something that you
- 23:35Speaker 1: know you're gonna lose some people. You lose them. Hopefully
- 23:37Speaker 1: you come back with with a B after that or something.
- 23:40Speaker 1: You know it's gonna be like all right, cool, you
- 23:42Speaker 1: you're back with some stuff. You know, nothing to hope
- 23:44Speaker 1: what happens to Kanye. I feel like Jesus was his
- 23:46Speaker 1: electric Circus. I hope his next albums is B. Yeah.
- 23:49Speaker 1: I mean I thought Jesus was. I think Jesus is dope,
- 23:52Speaker 1: but I also think that Jesus was. I mean the
- 23:54Speaker 1: reason why I called it his electric Circus because some people,
- 23:58Speaker 1: some of his natural fans, was like, what is this?
- 24:00Speaker 1: But he he knows how to make songs and market
- 24:03Speaker 1: them so well. Electric Circus didn't get no like publicity. Really,
- 24:07Speaker 1: it was like it was like this and like you know,
- 24:10Speaker 1: it wasn't getting out there like Kanye was out there
- 24:13Speaker 1: with with Jesus, you know what I mean. Record. Yeah,
- 24:16Speaker 1: he's so record and he and he went out to it. Yeah. Ever,
- 24:19Speaker 1: feel like you've missed out with about due because you
- 24:20Speaker 1: didn't get a baby like all the other got a baby.
- 24:24Speaker 1: A baby. Look, I don't you know, I don't want
- 24:28Speaker 1: to be in um. I got I got one daughter.
- 24:31Speaker 1: I definitely don't want no more baby mamas. You know,
- 24:34Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So it's like, but then you also
- 24:36Speaker 1: don't feel like your marriage material. So basically so I mean,
- 24:39Speaker 1: I can't look let me, I'll say this, I might
- 24:41Speaker 1: walk out the building. It might be a woman there,
- 24:44Speaker 1: and we started talking and the things started going forward.
- 24:47Speaker 1: I'm just saying right now, I guess I'm just in
- 24:48Speaker 1: the mode or like, like, man, I'm enjoying being single.
- 24:52Speaker 1: I don't mean I don't like go out. I'm be
- 24:53Speaker 1: going out with ladies and dating and then you know,
- 24:56Speaker 1: as things evolved, if it happens, it happened. Um, but
- 24:59Speaker 1: but as far you know, I definitely made a decision
- 25:01Speaker 1: after one child, I'm like, I'm only having a baby
- 25:04Speaker 1: if I'm married that at that point, because you know,
- 25:07Speaker 1: the baby mamas situation ain't the best. If you got
- 25:09Speaker 1: to slip up though, ain't no slip ups. Man, you
- 25:12Speaker 1: gotta hear, I'm grown man, now you can't you know
- 25:14Speaker 1: what you're up. Yeah, I know what I'm but it
- 25:19Speaker 1: ain't no slip ups. Has your mom ever met one
- 25:23Speaker 1: of your women that you were dating and wanted you
- 25:25Speaker 1: to get married to them? Yeah? Yeah, she definitely My
- 25:28Speaker 1: mother has been. You know, she even like man, why
- 25:31Speaker 1: don't you get married? She wants the best for me
- 25:33Speaker 1: and she thinks marriage is the best. But you know,
- 25:36Speaker 1: I know what's good for me, so I do you know,
- 25:37Speaker 1: I do what's right because I know I'm a person
- 25:40Speaker 1: who's like I'd rather be honest and be like I
- 25:42Speaker 1: ain't at that point yet, than they'll be leading somebody
- 25:45Speaker 1: on and it's the saint token, like I ain't gonna
- 25:47Speaker 1: just do it, get married because that's what you're supposed
- 25:49Speaker 1: to do it. Because my mother say, yeah, why don't
- 25:52Speaker 1: you get married? It's like, nah, man, you gotta be
- 25:54Speaker 1: something that's real sacred for real out of Taragi, Erica
- 25:58Speaker 1: and Serena, who the mom really ain't carry that's the carry, Like,
- 26:00Speaker 1: that's I think carry first. Um My mother loves My
- 26:06Speaker 1: mother loved to Rogie and she am funny enough. She
- 26:10Speaker 1: got cool with Serena, like even more after we broke up,
- 26:15Speaker 1: which is crazy we broke up with Serena. It was,
- 26:22Speaker 1: but now I'm you know, at the end of the day,
- 26:24Speaker 1: after a while, I was kind of like, man, that's
- 26:26Speaker 1: I like how they got a little sisterhood, you know,
- 26:28Speaker 1: because it's like, at the end of the day, I
- 26:30Speaker 1: got love for Serena, so I want to see us successful.
- 26:32Speaker 1: So she talking to somebody older and getting some advice,
- 26:35Speaker 1: or they just kicking it. It's all good. But it
- 26:37Speaker 1: was funny that they got cool after. I mean they
- 26:39Speaker 1: weren't like enemies or nothing before, but they got cool after.
- 26:42Speaker 1: That's me Serena really loves you, man. She wanted to
- 26:44Speaker 1: keep in touch on ways someone euse. She needed that connection.
- 26:46Speaker 1: You know, that's your words, that's get it back. I
- 26:52Speaker 1: don't go back, bro, go back? Why why don't you
- 26:56Speaker 1: go back? I mean it's like, once I've experienced that person,
- 27:00Speaker 1: and I feel like, man, I just feel like sometimes
- 27:03Speaker 1: life moves on. I can't say I never would go back,
- 27:07Speaker 1: but most of the times that like Serena and Erica
- 27:11Speaker 1: was the most serious relationships that I had as an adult.
- 27:15Speaker 1: And after one of those things where I'm like, man,
- 27:18Speaker 1: I just I gotta move forward because to work with it.
- 27:20Speaker 1: I was real love right that both of them women
- 27:23Speaker 1: I was about to I could have married, you know
- 27:25Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So at the end of the day,
- 27:27Speaker 1: it's just like, well, you know I got obviously ain't
- 27:30Speaker 1: supposed to be there. That's what I feel like. It's
- 27:32Speaker 1: like when I ain't supposed to be there, We're just
- 27:33Speaker 1: supposed to be friends. So I just keep it moving, right,
- 27:36Speaker 1: How did you all develop such a great relationship with mine? Angelo?
- 27:39Speaker 1: But we was yeah, rest in peace to to doctor Angelo.
- 27:44Speaker 1: You know what. I did this this benefit with her,
- 27:46Speaker 1: And actually before I did the benefit, I went to
- 27:49Speaker 1: went to her house just to meet with her because
- 27:52Speaker 1: she knew me, but she ain't knowing me that well.
- 27:54Speaker 1: And then she just wanted to get to know me
- 27:56Speaker 1: before I did the benefit, and we just was talking, man,
- 27:58Speaker 1: and just talking about talking about um, talking about Paul Roverson,
- 28:03Speaker 1: talking about all type of things in life, and then
- 28:05Speaker 1: we just got cool. We did, and then I would
- 28:07Speaker 1: go down for her birthday parties and uh, like, I'm
- 28:10Speaker 1: glad I went to Oprah through her this party like
- 28:13Speaker 1: last year, and I was like seeing if I could go,
- 28:15Speaker 1: it couldn't go, and I just went. Man, I was
- 28:17Speaker 1: feeling sick. I went. Man, I'm glad I made it
- 28:19Speaker 1: because it was like, well, yeah, that was the last
- 28:23Speaker 1: time I seen her, and uh yeah, man, I'm glad
- 28:25Speaker 1: I went. It was one of those things. We had
- 28:27Speaker 1: a great time too, but it's just one of those things.
- 28:30Speaker 1: It was something. Man when she um the day the
- 28:33Speaker 1: day before she the day before she passed, I was
- 28:36Speaker 1: doing this movie. I ain't stunning, but I was doing
- 28:38Speaker 1: this movie with Oprah and we was talking about her
- 28:41Speaker 1: and the truth I was doing this movie were open.
- 28:45Speaker 1: We was talking about her and she was like, I
- 28:49Speaker 1: was like, man, I'm gonna go see Doctor Angelou. And man,
- 28:51Speaker 1: the next day she passed. It was it was kind
- 28:53Speaker 1: of crazy. It was like, I mean, it was crazy,
- 28:56Speaker 1: but she didn't. Man, she lived the full life. Though
- 28:59Speaker 1: she criticized do you want for using the N word?
- 29:01Speaker 1: Did that convoy ever stop you from using it? Or
- 29:04Speaker 1: how did they know? It didn't really stop me because
- 29:06Speaker 1: I understood where she was coming from, and it was like,
- 29:08Speaker 1: I gotta give respect to her, but for saying that,
- 29:12Speaker 1: because you know, she got a whole another understanding of that,
- 29:14Speaker 1: and uh, but you know I am who I am
- 29:18Speaker 1: in the purpose of me using it ain't to bring
- 29:20Speaker 1: nobody down, So like my intentions wasn't that. So that's
- 29:23Speaker 1: why you know, I was like, Hey, I understand what
- 29:25Speaker 1: you're saying. I respect you for. But she the beautiful thing.
- 29:29Speaker 1: She was on that album too, and she you know,
- 29:31Speaker 1: regardless of whether I used that word or not, she
- 29:33Speaker 1: still was like, look, this is my son or grandson,
- 29:37Speaker 1: so she gave me love. That's what it is. Well
- 29:39Speaker 1: albums and stores to because you know he's a socially conscious. Brothers,
- 29:42Speaker 1: someone asking this, what do you think our number one
- 29:44Speaker 1: enemy out here is the police? When you see situations
- 29:46Speaker 1: like Eric Gardener that happened this weekend, are all ourselves?
- 29:49Speaker 1: When you see the forty shot in Chicago, I think
- 29:52Speaker 1: it's I think it's ourselves more than anything, because like
- 29:56Speaker 1: you can't really control other other force, you know, just
- 30:00Speaker 1: like a human being, Like you could control yourself, Like
- 30:03Speaker 1: you could get around a person and if they acting wow,
- 30:06Speaker 1: and they acted a fool, you ain't got to act
- 30:08Speaker 1: the food with them. And like I think the community,
- 30:11Speaker 1: we don't have to act the food. The police could
- 30:14Speaker 1: be acting the food and it will, Honestly, it will
- 30:16Speaker 1: be some some incidents where we may lose some people
- 30:19Speaker 1: to police violence, but I believe we're losing you know,
- 30:22Speaker 1: more people at our own hands and our own like
- 30:25Speaker 1: ignorance and the way we you know, acted towards each other.
- 30:28Speaker 1: But man, it's just it's just lack of love. Bro.
- 30:31Speaker 1: I feel like we hate the system more than we
- 30:33Speaker 1: love ourselves. Yeah, and then when it happened four with
- 30:35Speaker 1: July week, and I think it was like the cops
- 30:36Speaker 1: were involved in like six of the shootings. Yeah, people
- 30:38Speaker 1: were won't matter at the cops than the other seventy
- 30:40Speaker 1: people that got shot by bous. Yeah, man, I mean,
- 30:43Speaker 1: I mean we you know, I hear you know. We
- 30:45Speaker 1: talk about a lot of stuff going on in the world.
- 30:47Speaker 1: I'm like, man, it's a lot going on. And it
- 30:50Speaker 1: ain't just in Chicago. It's all over. But Chicago has
- 30:53Speaker 1: been tough, and it's like, man, you just gotta y'all
- 30:57Speaker 1: ask what we could do to help. Man, we just
- 30:58Speaker 1: gotta get them hope. Man. Short these talking about they
- 31:00Speaker 1: ain't got no hope, and I hate him say that
- 31:03Speaker 1: all the time. I just heard some some kids in
- 31:05Speaker 1: my program like talking about, man, we don't want to
- 31:07Speaker 1: go outside. We don't even want to you know, they
- 31:10Speaker 1: feeling like there ain't nothing they can do. So we
- 31:12Speaker 1: just gotta give them hope in different ways. And it
- 31:14Speaker 1: ain't no just one way. We get them hope. Going
- 31:17Speaker 1: to Chicago, yes, I you coming coming were the worst.
- 31:25Speaker 1: I went to Chicago, I went to Anglewood and tell
- 31:27Speaker 1: them what happened. Nothing, what happened? Shout out to my
- 31:32Speaker 1: guy Spendso from Chicago. I was talking about great young rapper.
- 31:35Speaker 1: You're telling what happened while you were sitting. I was
- 31:37Speaker 1: all over the place. I was in the students shots knowing. Gosh,
- 31:41Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. I heard something in the distance, yea, yea.
- 31:48Speaker 1: When you hear that in Brooklyn sometimes I heard that
- 31:50Speaker 1: on my block. This weekend, environment, we're gonna go out
- 31:56Speaker 1: there and speak to the school with a lot of
- 31:58Speaker 1: fruit of Islam. Security as white guys in suits too,
- 32:03Speaker 1: A couple of people you can call in Chicago. You'll
- 32:04Speaker 1: be fine. Okay, Well, Nobody Smiling is in stores right now.
- 32:09Speaker 1: Make sure you go pick it up as his ten
- 32:10Speaker 1: studio album. We appreciate you joining us, bro, thanks for
- 32:13Speaker 1: having me too long. Usually you gotta come up more frequently. Man, Wow,
- 32:17Speaker 1: I'm here many time you're in town, or you come through,
- 32:19Speaker 1: come through, man, man, thank you A man, I would say,
- 32:25Speaker 1: be like water for chocolate or this new album. Nobody's Smiling,
- 32:31Speaker 1: Okay for real, Alright, it's the Breakfast Club. It's coming
- 32:35Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club.