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INTERVIEW: Davido Talks '5IVE,' Tiwa Savage, Burna Boy, Wizkid, Chris Brown, Nigeria, Healing, Family +More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning everybody is DJ Envy just hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: Charlamagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. You got
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  Speaker 2: a special guest in the building.
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  Speaker 1: Out you bet. I'm good. Good morning and good good morning.
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  Speaker 3: How you feeling, man?
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  Speaker 1: Feeling good?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 1: Just a little bit tired, been all over the place,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Promoting this album that comes
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  Speaker 1: out soon. So it's just been crazy.
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  Speaker 5: The new album dropping April eighteenth, It's.
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  Speaker 1: Called five five. What's album?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Fifth album?
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  Speaker 3: Yo?
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  Speaker 5: You you the one am out of hype surrounding you.
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  Speaker 1: Yo.
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  Speaker 5: Like seriously one of the most followed African artists on
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  Speaker 5: ig and Twitter YouTube. Anything you drop, go crazy do
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  Speaker 5: crazy numbers, all your collapse everything. How's all that success impact?
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  Speaker 1: Man? Feels good?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 1: You know, just just you know, you know, I stayed
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  Speaker 1: here a little time of my life, so just to
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  Speaker 1: see everything come around full circle for the culture, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Even since when I was in school,
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  Speaker 1: I was always like pushing the African narrative and just
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  Speaker 1: naturally pop off. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: You feel like one of the godfathers of afrobeats and afrobeat.
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  Speaker 2: Music because you were one of the first to really
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  Speaker 2: pop and definitely virtualization pop.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, you know what I'm saying, especially in the
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  Speaker 1: new age of the commercialization of the genre. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Yeah, but we have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: godfathers though that came before me, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: But we commercialized it, you know what I'm saying, made
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  Speaker 1: it cool, made it popular. So yeah, I take that.
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  Speaker 2: Did it hurt a help because it was It's it
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  Speaker 2: almost felt like it was commercialized so fast. Everybody jumped
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  Speaker 2: on it so fast, and then it slowed down so
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  Speaker 2: much you felt like it heard a help with.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you always have to have your backing, which
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  Speaker 1: is home, you know what I'm saying. That's why, like
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  Speaker 1: you notice that we always go home any chance we
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  Speaker 1: get just to be around. And there's so much going
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  Speaker 1: on in Africa that we was okay for a law
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  Speaker 1: long time, you know, Taylor popped up here. Then we
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  Speaker 1: come out here for tours. So I feel like we
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  Speaker 1: always have the backbone to be able to you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of always be able to be able to go home,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. If anything, like if this
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  Speaker 1: stuff is slow a little bit, always go home.
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  Speaker 5: But something I found so interesting about you was you
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  Speaker 5: didn't even grow up listening to afrobeas.
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  Speaker 1: Rap like.
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  Speaker 3: You always say.
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  Speaker 1: I like when I mentioned the first time because we
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  Speaker 1: were talking because you know, we do the tour, we
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  Speaker 1: do the stadium together in London. So I'm telling I'm looking,
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  Speaker 1: he's just like what I'm like, you don't understanding. I
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  Speaker 1: had the sneakers, I had the video game videos game,
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  Speaker 1: I had the sneakers.
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  Speaker 5: Did you then.
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  Speaker 1: Anything I had like I was crazy about like gu
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  Speaker 1: and that, like all of them, and just to be
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  Speaker 1: able to, you know, go on tour with him. It's like, wow, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, what is your What does your family think about
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  Speaker 4: you being so influenced by somebody from America like that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean they always know, I like, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, And you have to feel like my parents,
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  Speaker 1: you know, did a little bit out here too, so
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  Speaker 1: they understand like American culture as well, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: So you have a look at these raps be like
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  Speaker 4: these poor ass niggas.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I mean they know they non'e know what's going on, man, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but it's all good, Like it's just a different time,
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  Speaker 1: Like I remember like coming out here, like after I
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  Speaker 1: went back home, coming out here in twenty fifteen, you know,
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  Speaker 1: trying to work with people you know, finesse get this.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I had this song with Meek Mial at
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  Speaker 1: the time, and I knew what I had to do
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  Speaker 1: to get to meet meal, Like you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: And it's so much easier now where like my DM
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  Speaker 1: is like they understanding, Now, yeah, let's work. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I'm trying to come to that year.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm like, Oh come, let's you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, come experiences. I love it when they come.
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather meet them there, like I'd rather you come
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  Speaker 1: and you can show a culture most times when they
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  Speaker 1: come and they see how it is and it's like wow,
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  Speaker 1: Like why Jamali was just there because he's on my album.
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  Speaker 1: We shot the video. He's on a single as well,
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  Speaker 1: and he asked me a question. He was like why
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  Speaker 1: do you why do you leave? Like your life is
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  Speaker 1: so dope here, Like you know what I'm saying, Like
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  Speaker 1: he's never he told me that he's never seen this
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  Speaker 1: kind of start doing before, Like you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: like how everybody love you like he's never seen it?
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  Speaker 1: Like why do you come to America? You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, So wow to that. I'm American, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So it's different for me. But apart
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  Speaker 1: from that, like there's so much going on outside the
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  Speaker 1: diaspora with the culture and everything. You know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: at the time, it's slowing down now a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: But did then get mad at you when you say
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  Speaker 4: that in Nigeria when you say you an American?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: No, you know what I'm saying, Like they know it's
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  Speaker 1: like it's it's from my pet naturalization, but like they know,
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  Speaker 1: I still rep you know, Africa, Rep Niger. I'm always
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  Speaker 1: home every chance I get.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so you were born in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: I was born in Atlanta and then you and then
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  Speaker 1: I went back home with my parents. But we used
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  Speaker 1: to come every summer, you know what I'm saying. Every summer.
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  Speaker 1: We had a house in Atlanta, so every summer. And
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  Speaker 1: mind you, my siblings didn't live in night Jerid. They
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  Speaker 1: stayed in London and America. So I was I was
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  Speaker 1: just lying the last child of five kids, so I
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  Speaker 1: was the only one at home with my parents because
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  Speaker 1: they want at least one kid with them. So I
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  Speaker 1: didn't leave, Like I got to come every summer, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't come and stay until I was like fourteen fifteen.
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  Speaker 5: So you started the basketball world. So you had the
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  Speaker 5: trenches because we're part of Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: No, I wasn't, I was saying, But my cousins used
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  Speaker 1: to stay in Good nat on the door side, so
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  Speaker 1: I'd go there and go there chill, smoke. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I can't do that at home. But
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  Speaker 1: that's why I really experienced real Atlanta culture. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You know, start tapping in with the Jordans,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: First it was just.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, my mom was one of the first, probably person
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  Speaker 1: in the world to get there's this particular Chanel bag
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  Speaker 1: at this time. This bag was like twenty ten thousand
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  Speaker 1: at that time. I'm talking about eighties. She was the first.
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  Speaker 1: Like my mom was stylish, Like if you walk in
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  Speaker 1: this building, you're smelling the perfume like door, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So like we've always they've always been
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  Speaker 1: flying because like I said, they understood the American culture
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  Speaker 1: a little bit as well.
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  Speaker 4: I can't keep up with how much afrobeats has evolved though,
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  Speaker 4: because you have that. I'm a piano now. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 4: like what's the difference between.
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  Speaker 1: You see, like afro beats is not like how it's
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  Speaker 1: not a sound, it's not how it's not a type
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  Speaker 1: of music. Actually, it's kind of like it's the genre
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  Speaker 1: that we called because in the UK there was this
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  Speaker 1: song that blew up from the Banch. The band is like,
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  Speaker 1: he's all like that's all like Jay type stuff, like
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  Speaker 1: he broke all the barriers. So at the time in
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  Speaker 1: the UK, they didn't want to call it African music
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  Speaker 1: because you know how it's over there, so they called
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  Speaker 1: it afrobeats. But afrobeats was actually a genre that fell
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  Speaker 1: I was doing. That's fellas on genre which has a
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  Speaker 1: distinctive sound. It sounds a kind of way, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So when they were describing the music
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  Speaker 1: for the afrobeat, it's just called it afrobeats as a whole,
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  Speaker 1: which described so if you're an African artist and you
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  Speaker 1: sing R and B, like, we have people back home
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  Speaker 1: that don't even like they sound like R and B
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  Speaker 1: type usher type singing, and the dudes like Odu Modu,
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  Speaker 1: who's really trap, sounds like he's from Bronx, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like type beat type type of vibe,
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  Speaker 1: but they still call them aprob artists. So it's like
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  Speaker 1: it's an umbrella that hasn't been used and it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of too late now to be like, oh no, it's
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  Speaker 1: not afrobeat and explaining it and all that. So it's
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  Speaker 1: just like we just ran with it.
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  Speaker 4: Like you know, so what are you currently doing, Like
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  Speaker 4: when you look at your new album five, Yeah, what
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  Speaker 4: is that on there?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's it's African music, African music.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously if you go on the genre, they'll say
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  Speaker 1: it's afrobeats, you know what I'm saying, But it's African
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  Speaker 1: Music's like the song with Victori Money, it's not aphrobeats
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  Speaker 1: to me, it's like for R and B song of
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  Speaker 1: Becky g is like kind of like Latin, but our
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  Speaker 1: music sounds alike anyway, you know what I'm saying. But
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  Speaker 1: definitely like you have original ifro beat David, those songs
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  Speaker 1: on there. But what I'm saying is that that's just
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  Speaker 1: the Umbrella used you know what I'm saying. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: a piano. It's from South Africa. South Africans since time
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  Speaker 1: always had great dope music and funny enough, since earlier
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  Speaker 1: in my career, I've been collaborating in South Africa very
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  Speaker 1: early in my career. So my piano came in like
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  Speaker 1: i'd say, like five years like to my knowledge, it's
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  Speaker 1: been going on there like since time, but like it
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  Speaker 1: became like everywhere in Africa like five years ago. And
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  Speaker 1: then definitely you know how Nigera retapped in with the
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  Speaker 1: sound too as well. You know, I was working with
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  Speaker 1: their producers. And one thing about Nigerian producers they can adapt.
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  Speaker 1: They they could remake anything. It make it sound like
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: Six, So does Nigeria have a sound because I was
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  Speaker 4: listening to some of the records.
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  Speaker 1: Off as a sound but like South Africa and my
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  Speaker 1: piano is actually their sounds. That's really like I don't
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: want to say, don't gate keep it too like, but
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  Speaker 1: that's really they sound like I Every time I do
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  Speaker 1: a song that's like I'm a pianost it's either I
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  Speaker 1: involved one of their producers or I involved one of
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  Speaker 1: the artists. One of my biggest records, the unavailable record
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  Speaker 1: is featuring Musuki, which is he's South African on the
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  Speaker 1: album too. He produced like two records which he produced
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  Speaker 1: and they actually am my piano records. So I feel
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  Speaker 1: like because every everybody has that, you know, image of
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  Speaker 1: Nigeria being a giant in Africa and also not like
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  Speaker 1: carrying other countries along musically because if you look at
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: look at the numbers the top I say, the top
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  Speaker 1: five to ten artists that globally, you know know, not
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  Speaker 1: as aprobb the artists. I'm eighty per Nigerian, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I do my best, you know,
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  Speaker 1: carry them along. But now like they killing it with
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  Speaker 1: their parties and they have amazing DJs too, and they parties.
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  Speaker 1: Should you should really visible?
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  Speaker 6: Why do you think that is?
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: Though?
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  Speaker 4: Why do you think like Ghana hasn't gotten thee They
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  Speaker 4: got artists, but it's not like Nigeria's. I've ever got
• 10:08
  Speaker 4: artist but it's not like Nigeria. Why do you think Nigeria?
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  Speaker 1: I think, first of all, the kind of people we
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  Speaker 1: are as well, were very like in your face, like
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like if you go to
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  Speaker 1: any who even in New York, like you see that
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  Speaker 1: jazz everywhere. Like, so that's just how it. The kind
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  Speaker 1: of people we are were very I don't say, like
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: I don't use the word bully, but.
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  Speaker 4: Like give me your credit card, jesus, not the credit card,
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  Speaker 4: your own school man credit card.
• 10:33
  Speaker 5: No, they just asked for the numbers now, not to
• 10:35
  Speaker 5: call numbers.
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  Speaker 4: How you're doing it now to be I don't know, I.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I know, I know that's digital. Man. Man.
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  Speaker 2: I want to ask you know, since you was such
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  Speaker 2: a fan of fifty, you never tried to sign the
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  Speaker 2: fifty when when you first started.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't even know. I didn't meet him. The
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  Speaker 1: first time I ever saw fifty, I was a kid
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  Speaker 1: in Vegas. I was like, kind of have a picture.
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  Speaker 1: He was like no, no, luke me said no, like
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: looked at me. I was a because my brother was
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: turning twenty one, so my dad took everybody to Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm like fourteen, I can't do nothing, so they're
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: doing their own things. I just seen him in the
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: lobby and I actually used to love Lloyd Banks. That
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  Speaker 1: was actually my favorite, and so I saw him when
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: I went to him I'm like, oh, Lloyd Banks And
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: I took a picture of him that I saw fifty
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  Speaker 1: and I went to him. I'm like with my accent.
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  Speaker 1: Then like Nika well Fit said, I love a picture. No,
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  Speaker 1: I just walked off.
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  Speaker 3: Do you tell him about that when you met him?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 1: Later on, I told him, what do you say? You're
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: here now? Right? Like I seen him in New York
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: and then he brought me out Jay and then yeah,
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: we're doing London together with may J Blood in the stadium.
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: And then and then like they saw like the they
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: saw the reaction of putting me on the tour. He's like, yo,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to come on more days. This little
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: boy lit. So this is a good feeling. Man, That's
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: what's up.
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  Speaker 5: Another person that you collaborate with that I I love
• 11:56
  Speaker 5: each and every song Chris Brown.
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  Speaker 1: I always see when you talk about it, you know it.
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  Speaker 5: But you know one song that I loved that I
• 12:03
  Speaker 5: felt like completely went under the radar because it was
• 12:05
  Speaker 5: so both of y'all was doing so much stuff at
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  Speaker 5: one time, was blow my Mind. That was your first
• 12:09
  Speaker 5: that was your first.
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  Speaker 1: Single together, right, that was testing, testing.
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  Speaker 5: Testing a song like that.
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  Speaker 1: Like when we did Blow my mind. I had met
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  Speaker 1: Chris because he was already doing like African stuff kind
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: of the artists, but I never personally met him, but
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: he had it as a Nigerian best friend. Big dude
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  Speaker 1: that's always with He's full like he's Nigerian. So who
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: he kissed me up like yo, because I had dropped
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: the song that I did for my wife at the time.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Assurance Huge you were like huge in the Caribbean,
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  Speaker 1: and Chris liked that song. So from there we linked up,
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  Speaker 1: and then I came to America, came to La I
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: reber the first time linking up with him, like he
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: was just so cool. We haven't had even done the record,
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: and then we did the record. Then he's like we
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: were Then he came to Atlanta and I linked him.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, yo, let's shoot the video. And this is
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: all happening in like a week, so I'm like, is
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  Speaker 1: this real? Like yeah, okay, let'shoot the video. So I go.
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  Speaker 1: Because I've I've been in situations like you know how
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: you do, like working American artists, Like when I first came,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know, like, oh, you have to get
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: songs cleared all that, you know, what I'm saying, I'm
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: heading over a bread like they never get that verse
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: and calling me too, I want some more money. I'm like,
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: what this is like way before I met Chris, you
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, that's a whole other situation. And
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: then I met Chris and how everything just went video
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  Speaker 1: was everything free to close, everything free crazy. And then
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: at that time, that's when like I think Beyonce had
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: the Gift album. There's a lot of things were happening
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  Speaker 1: for the culture. And then me and c be dropped,
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: you know, blew my mama mind as well. And then
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: from there we just became really good friends and just
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: kept on doing music music, music, and he's been on
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  Speaker 1: like all my albums since then. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I co wrote the Under the Influence with him and
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  Speaker 1: my producer. That ended up becoming huge.
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  Speaker 5: I'm amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Then from there we just locked in and then we
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: just did the Sensational and then.
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  Speaker 5: Is he is he on five?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, he's there, he is on.
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  Speaker 1: My album excited, there's all my albums and it's all
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  Speaker 1: my way. He's just you know, we was in South
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  Speaker 1: Africa together. I came, Oh my god, like that that
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: experience alone, and it was just a full circle moment
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: for everybody, like for me, for him. Everybody was just
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: so happy for c B. Like finally everybody gets it,
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because I've always been there,
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  Speaker 1: Like like I'll be talking to him the next five minutes,
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  Speaker 1: ten backflips on stage. I'm like, how you know what
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about? Like he's not human, you know what
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So it's like seeing taking him to Africa,
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: and I'm so happy that I told him. I was like, look, America, now,
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: America now woke up and you have to just show them,
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: like you have to come to Africa. And they saw
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: it and they're like yo.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: I was like eighty.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: So I told him, I was like, see, now you're
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: doing the stadium tour. Sometimes you have to go outside
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: and let people see from far like yo, other people
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: are appreciating what we have. You guys have Chris Brown.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: That's a that's a gift that was given from God
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: toward music in America, you know what I'm saying. Just
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: the same way. So when he came out there, I
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: feel like he saw that full circle moment and it
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: was just I was just happy to just be involved
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: in that, you know what I'm saying. And then he
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: got the Grammys after like how many years, you know
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and off off off music that I
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: worked on. It's just so you got a Grammy dent
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: No no, no, no, I don't get a plaque. Yeah I
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: worked on it. What's the songs on the album?
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: What's the meaning of a will telling you?
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Its okay? Just like it's just like a chance like
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: together and as happiness, you know, all good things. You
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: know what our music entails like, we don't really be
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: singing about deep stuff like that, but we do have
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: deep songs. But I'm saying with this particular record, that's
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: what he means.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Do you chase the us chorts? Still?
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: I mean if everybody chases something, you know what I'm saying.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: But you being so big overseas, being big everywhere.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Like when they happened. I remember when Sensational got into
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: How one hundred. I got a call I trying to understand,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah we so we in the hot hundred.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, but then the records are already
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: performing everywhere sun out arenas, So you know what I'm saying.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: So it's like it's give and take. But like you know,
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: we have our own billboard Afrobeat Charts, yeap, so we
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: followed that as well. We have a UK chart. But
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: it's always amazing to see an Aphrobb song skilled into
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: the upper echelon of charts. You know what I'm saying.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Every time, I wonder if the labels get it though
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: in the radio stations because the song like Unavailable that
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: should have been number one crazy, I know number one
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: in the UK?
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Well yes, yes, yes UK, yes, Like I mean, it
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: just depends. I feel like maybe if I got in
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: like a Latin remix or something, that would have gone
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: crazy or stuff like that. But also like it's just
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: to me, it's just now the game is different, like
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: somebody could just a random pace could just do your
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: TikTok and blow up. Look at Young from song a
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: song from right twenty years ago. He's doing shows everywhere
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: everywhere now. It was like, you know what I'm saying,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: So the ind and I feel like unavailable and because
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I was just coming back from what I just went through.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I was mourning for a year, you know what I'm saying,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: So me dropping that album like even we didn't believe
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: it was gonna be that big, you know what I'm saying.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: So by the time we dropped it, you know what
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm like, damn, I gotta get ready. I
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: gotta get ready for tour. I gotta you know what
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So by the time all that was happening,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and then we had to
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: go on tour and it was just crazy and we
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: just were just like, you know what, I think, we
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: just we missed that opportunity for unavailable in the States.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: Classic record though wise, I mean.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: We went gold. I gotta gold play on the way
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: to platinum, So it's like still made bread, you know
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: But yeah, you know, you have been through a lot personally,
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: especially with lost kept you grounded.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: My family, man, ah, my family, because you know I'm
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: my family's very big right, And what I noticed was that,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, you know, you grew up
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: in the family since you were a kid, like I've
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: always been the youngest around. That's little David. That's little David.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: And then I blew up obviously, and then I know
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: how many times like I'm like I'd be so busy,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: like out of it, and then like even go to
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: a point where like I be like it my siblings again,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: upset like yodeed, we're still your family, like you know
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, call talk to your nephews, blah blah blah.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: And then when my world went dark, like they was
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: the only ones there, like you know what I'm saying.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Every day obviously my wife and her family were there,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: but the only thing that got to us. And we're
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: both strong, like me and my wife are strong. But
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: apart from that, the people are around us that were
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: there at the time. You know what I'm saying, really
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: did a great job. And I want to give kudos
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: to my father. You know, my dad really stepped in,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: like he put everything on pause, like the business everything
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: gonna pause, just to make sure that you know what
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. We're okay. You know what I'm saying. We
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: got twins law. So it's like a boy and a girl.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: And the boy looks exactly like my son that was
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: like scary exactly fact the same, the same everything he
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: used to do like he does so like mede me
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: and me and my wife be like he came back types.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Wow, you know when you when I know you're a
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: spiritual person too. So it's like your faith and your family.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Is that what carries you?
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: Or do you ever just sit with the pain sometimes?
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I mean it depends what you like faith. Some people's
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: faith are stronger like me, I believe in god fully absolutely.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Like my dad, we grew up seven day in venics,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: like Saturday, going to church Saturday, doing the Sabbath, six o'clock,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: no TV, no ear rings. That's how I grew up.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Like with my father and my other siblings, they go
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: to like Methodist church, normal Catholic stuff like that. But
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: with my faith, stuff like that. If you don't have
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: faith after that, I don't know what is what faith is,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But with me, like I'm
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: a Christian, you know what I'm saying, But I don't
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: really have like a certain certain church or a certain pastor.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Like you talk to anybody and when you talk about
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: how you had to go on the road when unavailable
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: started popping, do you ever feel like fame and celebrity
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: getting the way of like really healing.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, definitely, definitely, Like I could see sometimes like I
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: was like kind of I would have sayd healing too fast.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: But like I'm on the road, like you through, like
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: my wife at home chilling, like he comes one or
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: two shows. You know what I'm saying, go back, but
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: see me, I'm on the road. My journey is pumping.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I'm seeing in a week, I'm seeing a million dollars,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Like I'm seeing all the crowd me in the car.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: They're chasing us. So it's like you're smiling, but it's
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: like you need to kind of slow down, you know
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So you know what I'm saying. That's
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: why things like me getting married. You know what I'm saying, like, Okay,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: look you need to this is how. This is how
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: we got lit last time. And you know what I'm saying,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: for a gun to our family. So you know what
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, slow down a bit. You know what I'm saying.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I told my boys like, look, I just go take
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: your home real quick. You know what I'm saying. So
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: gotta move my wife to Atlanta. Everybody the kids got
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: a crib. You know what I'm saying. So I just
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: be home. This is be prior to doing five. You
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. After the toy was done. You
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. We got married, her mom flew
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: her mom to America to be with her with the
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: kids and everything. So like I'll just be chilling like
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: the crib and it's like I'm like, yo, this is
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: not bad.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Like sometimes I'm like that's right.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: It was. So it was so crazy that I'm tiring out.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Sat for so long, like I was having anxiety, like
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: my boys, let's go out, Like we will go out.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you we're going out. We'll go out
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: with lit the bottles. I'm like, you sleep. So the
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: other day we went to we had to win to
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Trinidad for the carnival. Me and my shout dropped the record.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: So I performed. So he and my boys talking in
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: the room. I was like, I know, I tied the room.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I said, what are you guys talking about? Man, I
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: don't have at any fun. You've changed, man, you go?
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I said, where are the girls? Then when I get
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: in trouble, everybody run away me to face the internet
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and all that Liken Like boy and me. Women have
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: dealt with me in my career. So it's like boy,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: like I'm good on that, bro, Like trust me like
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I've seen. I've been at the highest of the highest,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the most. The best time is when there's no problem
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: at all. I don't care how much you make. I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: don't care how much I've had. I've made it all.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: When that that's sleep and wake up that your your
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: hat is not bit to check your man like that.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I went to my friend in high school recently, so
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: he just got married. So he calls me, and I'm
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: back in that year. I'm like at home. So he
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: calls me, like, David, you know I just got married.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Come and come and visit my wife. You know, my
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: me and we just got this new nice there's nothing big,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: something nice, something small mothers and his wife as kids.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, yeah, I pull. I'm like yeah, but
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I got to many people with me now, so let
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: me come like later in the night when everybody's kind
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: of like gone to bed. And then I drove to
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: my guy's house, just low key me and my security
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and I just sat in his living room. His wife
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: brought food for me. Me and him were talking. I
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: was just looking at team like this. I was just
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: looking at his life. I said, good, I know, I'm
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: happy you did all this for me. But boy, I
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: switched this.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Switching this right now.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: He was telling me that God, your life is the best.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I said, bro, my life is the best of brew.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: You don't know what you have, like the way you
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and your wife I even played you. Guys know there's
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: nobody knows you. You know, I can't go out. Nobody
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: knows you. Do you know what I'm saying, Like when
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: my situation is way different. So it's like it's give
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and take. But you know, sometimes it's a dream that
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I wanted and what if it never happened too, So
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: it's like I'll just be thinking about that.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: So now, so I'm gonna come at you like like
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: a real not no African, like real American niggas. So
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: like it's done, like you I know.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Once while I you know, I said, I don't want
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: thank you. No, I'm okay, I'm on Miami swag. But
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: you can if you want to, if I want to,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: because you froma I have four four kids. I have
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: five kids and four women with four women. You know
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: So you know you've done.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: It's it.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: I want to go home.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: I'm sweat, imprting for you, and certain reasons in Nigeria.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: You can have more than one.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: It's not certain reasons. It's like if you.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Want to, if you want, you just it don't have
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: to be a religion. It don't have to be anything like.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, not for example the eastern parts of Nigeria, which
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: is like the evils and stuff like. I've seen a
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: lot of situations, especially like the Night Delta parts of
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of situations where it's like multiple wives.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Like my uncle that's the governor, he got two wives.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I have I know that
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: uncle that his all his wives live with him like
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: they be playing with each other. Like but he's Christian.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: How much money he got done? Very rich exactly.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But I mean that don't
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: mean nothing. You know what I'm saying. But it's all
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: your money. There's still and leave. We said, how my
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: old that guy is living? You know saying maybe because
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I've maybe I've had bad experiences, you know what I'm saying.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Sometimes the experience is the best. Teacher feel like it's
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: just never not worth it because when it happens. I
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: know how many times when we was having on the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: yachts and yeah, me having the best time. And then
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: when it happens, what you're gonna be saying, damn, I
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: should go.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're talking about that we're talking about not cheating
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: if you're able to have another wife under the laws
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: of Nigeria.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: No no, not now.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: I don't believe African only telling the truth and they
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: say no, no, no, no, you said one long though.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I thought it too, man, like I blew up my
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: first song, blew up when I was seventeen.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm with you have one woman.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: That's the most beautiful thing in the world, beautiful family,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: nothing better than that.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: That man was a paper talent.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I was.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: I was expecting you to come in here a little
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: chubby though, cause I know your wife is a chef too.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: When you're actually gained it. I just got back on
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the road. So like, if you think about me, when
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I'm active, I lose weight quick, but I gain weight
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: quick too, So it's like when I'm home and the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: kitchen is right in front of boy cooks everything.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Like that was then ass being on the road, you
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: have any anxiety because you're leaving your family again and
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: leaving your kids, any anxiety like when.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I was leaving this time, and like, you know what
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, just natural, you know, family stuff, you know
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like I'm like, I'm on the road.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I'm on the road, but it's like they have to
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: handle stuff back at home as well, and just balancing it.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: You know, it's it's crazy, but I feel like you
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: can balance it. I'm not the first person to be
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: married and be a superstar. Nothing happened, you know what
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. I mean, things happen, But you know what
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. I've seen people way more success than me,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: way more successive, handle it.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: I bet you since you've been married and you know,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: really devoted to your wife being faithful, I bet you've
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: seen your.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: Life just go up, up, up up.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, like everything, like every time my wife
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: has always had this thing over me since we're young.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Every time I fights her, something bad happens, something bad
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: happens to my business. Just so if I find that
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: you said you fighting me, I be your album is
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: call me you want to fight to me? You know
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you because it's like she has that Chris,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, like over me and like everything.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: You know, my kids. You know, she don't have all
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: my kids, but you know what I'm saying, like my
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: kids love her. You know what I'm saying. My daughter
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: love her. So I'm just happy to see like growth.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: You know, there was a time that there was a
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: time I will scheduled even bring my other kids around her,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So the girl just made
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: me understand, Like you know, I didn't even have to
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: tell my daughter like, oh this is your She kind
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: of just like it just happened. She just got it,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And the next thing, we
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: was in Bahamas and my wife braiding her hair. I'm
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: looking at the girl.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: How I'm looking at Yes, you've been together for a while.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like before we got married, we was together like
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: eleven years. Yeah school you know men in school girlfriend,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: and then we got married. We're meant to get married.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Y'all were young, like you was young when time.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: She was like I was, well I was eighteen, yeah,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: she was seventeen in school and then we just finished
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: school together, I mean.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: In school sixteen and then another thing what I what
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: I because I'm not married yet, But I do understand, like, no,
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: I'm engaged, I saw, I saw, yes, thank you, thank
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: you so much. No, I don't know yet, is the
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: schedules whatever, But I do understand when you get married young,
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: it's certain things that you do have.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: To live out.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: Because there's a lot of infidelity in my parents' marriage.
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: But they got married right out of high school. So
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: you're not able to live that bachelor life. You're not
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: able to be you know, had that whole phase as
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: a woman, you know what I'm saying, Like, it's certain
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: things that you just don't get to experience, and then
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: you grow up with the person and something sometimes some
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: things do happen or whatever. You just push pa.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: You know. The culture that I really apart from, like
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: like we have our own African culture back home, but
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: like it's when I actually went to school in America
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: that was like almost they don't play with relationships. You know.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Back home, boyfriend girlfriend is like like we yeah, but
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But you know, it's when
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I go to America, it was like, boy, they don't
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: like people lose endorsements over cheating on your wife. You know.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: As a back home you know, what I'm saying because
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: of the culture. It's like it's different, you know what
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like you got you okay? For exact this
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: is just an example. You know what I'm saying. It
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: might not happen a lot of her households, and it
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: goes for also the groom, and it goes for also
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the wife. So let me give an example of like
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: for a guy for example. Now, a lot of husbands
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: in some families, like a lot of them, they grew
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: up with their mom. Their mom is everything, you know,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: those kind of something that they can't live even if
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: they get married. Their mom almost been the house controlling this,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: doing that, anything, the anything the husband does right or wrong,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: she's supporting the husband. That is mentality in Nigeria. Now
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the same thing for women too. Do you understanding the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: parents who always support their daughter no matter right or wrong.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Where in like in America, it's like me and you
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: get married, you your parents by your brother. But this
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: is between me and you, you know what I'm saying.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: So like in Nigeria, you never really leave that family
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: ever seen in Nigeria, wedding it's not about the group
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and bride is about the family. Family, you know what
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, coming together and doing that. So I'm doing
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: my white wedding in Miami in August was traditional.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: Oh that was like a national holiday.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Crazy man girls crying like, oh my god, he's off
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: the market.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: It was that was like, Yo, that was really a holiday.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: The whole worlds still. You know why too, because me
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: and my wife's relationship was kind of in the public eye,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: especially after I did that one song. So a lot
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: of things have happened, apart from even us losing our child,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: but like I don't messed up a lot of time
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: on some other stuff, you know what I'm saying. So
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I feel like that full circle woman. Everybody was like, man, finally,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: you know, I finally got his things together and really
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: gave this girl because she's like, she's the best. You
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: call my wife. You can never see I go to
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: any interview, you know what I'm saying, my husband is
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: or take a phone or go live you normal things
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: that you know what I'm saying, like, And I appreciate
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: her for that because she could you know what I'm saying.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: If I see I was sitting I light to you,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I say, oh I perfect. Nobody's perfect. Go through things.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, she's just that one man.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: How's the relationship with the Big three? You know, yourself,
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: Burner and Boy's kid, what's the relationship?
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, we don't have. We don't have personally, I
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: don't have a personal relationship with them. I did. You
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: know that's a point in time. But I feel like
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: the culture is just so big, you know what I'm saying,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: And the conversation is bigger on the Big three right now.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: That's that's truth. You know what I'm saying, that it's
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: really my there's our style. You know what I'm saying.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: There are so many artists for us to just really
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: make this thing about, you know us. I feel like
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: right now, we all three of us understand that it's
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: bigger on us. And you know, whatever it takes for
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the culture to group whichever I wei. You know what
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, That is true.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: But a lot of times, and you notice from living
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: in Atlanta, what it takes for a culture to grow
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: is unity and group operation.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: It takes all three of y'all maybe coming together doing
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: records together.
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: Especially now.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's not impossible. It's just sometimes just
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I feel like people around us, you know what I'm saying,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: wouldn't want that to happen, you know what I'm saying.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: So actually, like you said, wouldn't want it to happen.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like I mean some people make money off just us,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: not just not just being cool. I guess you know
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But like with me, you know what
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, there's been situations where we've all you know
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like all been cool over years, so
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: much success, so much.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: People in between, you feel like the fans pitch out
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: against each other of course, like it'd be annoying, you
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Like even the other day, So
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I just did yesterday two days ago.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: So Victorian way, She's asked me like, Yo, what are
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: these people? What are these people saying? So I'm looking
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: at it like yeah, don't read so anybody you see
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I'm telling it like anybody you see with this emoji,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: so they're gonna say something. So just everybody other side,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: So yeah, you don't call me about this before, like
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: like yo, why they what what's going on? So you
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like it's cool because it happens
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: in America too. You know what I'm saying. In America too,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: I see it everywhere, you know what I'm saying. So
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: it's just I think about it. The fans also, it's
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: also a thing for them. They wake up like who
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: are we doing today? How we's the agenda against David?
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: They make money off it. You know what I'm saying.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I've had I've seen somebody that has been used to
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: abuse me on online for a long time. It used
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: to abuse me like talk, you know, talk down on me.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: And I was like, you know a lot of people do.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: These people don't have faces. But it's luckily for me.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I saw this guy the public, yes, but he didn't know.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I knew that that is him because he had no
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: he didn't have a face. But this guy, he has
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: been stolding me so much. So I paid one of
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the fans. I said, come, I give you five thousands,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: tell me where this guy is. I didn'tone's doing this.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I don't have a conversation. And we did have a conversation,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: and I just realized that your it doesn't even have
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: nothing against me. It's just what he's working for him economy,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: especially now Elon Dunn made them make money. What if
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I tell you the crazy things they even I can't
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: wishow my wife because I know that my wife will
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: just break down. I'm like, I'm like, yo, bucket. And
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: then you get the guy and he's like, I don't
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: need to David, please forgive me. I don't need to
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: feed my family.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: He was a yes, oh wow, you know it's crazy.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: I told Charlemagne and I told Justice the other day.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: These sites reward people for doing this. So the worst
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: they talk about you, the more followers they get, the
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: more likes they get, and they get paid for it.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: So they gonna keep doing it and keep going on
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: and on and and and it's it's fucked up.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: But it's crazy. Like even the new artists like I
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: have a label, you know what I'm saying. So I
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: have artists down under me too, and I just sometimes
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I just see them. I'm like, what you doing. I
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: just seen him on their phone. I said, stop Red,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: this comment will finish you. Stop me. If I think
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: in the history of Nigeria music, I think I've been
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: the boosh, disrespected artists for.
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: What I've done because of your upbringing, because.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: It's part of that but let me tell you, judges stists,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: anybody that has typed I think because of me and me,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I got OT. That's something we call ots orientation. You
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. My mom, My mom met my
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: dad rich, but my mom was from the like from
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the hood, you know what I'm saying, So she gave
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: me and my sisters that I still have that orientation.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: That's why when I was going to school, I went
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: to the most expensive high school in Nigeria at the time,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: but after school, I'd go to the hood to be
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: my cousins in them. That's how I even got to music,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: knew myself how to record. So that OT. I feel
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: like that just OT is what has helped me kind
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: of find the middle ground. Because they're like, damn, these
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: guy's pops a bill in there, but y'all here finding
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: with us. He's more humble than the people that I'm
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: from the hood. With us, he can't see I can't
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: sit with them. We can sit down, we can talk,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: we can go out, we can eat. Everybody in my
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: house eats the same food. My wife doesn't play that,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: my driver, my cool, my electrician, anything, everybody we eat
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: the same food because That's how I was brought up.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: So I think that two has helped me in the industry.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: But my initial entrant into the game, there was not
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: having it. Boy Like they don't like they don't Nigeria.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: It doesn't work that way. Your son of a successful person,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: you gonna get it. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: But I'm lucky to come from a very great family
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: that we my dad's university sixty seventy percent of the
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: students are free, you know what I'm saying. So people
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: know that. People know my family for like being cool headed,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: very very humble people. You know what I'm saying. I'm
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: first generational entertainer in my family. You know what I'm saying.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I'm doing that. Nobody knew who my dad was. It
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: was just silence. Be doing it, you know what I'm saying.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: So I'm doing. I came out and I sang a
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: song saying, ah, my dad is this blah blah blah,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: And then it blew up.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: And what made you want to do that?
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Though your dad's a billionaire, I could run the company,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: just relax and chill.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: You ain't got to deal with the bs. But you
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: was like, no, I want to go this.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Way to fifty mm.
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: Your daddy.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Listen, listen. Do you know what I watched the other
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: day on YouTube top top twenty Charlomagde Funny More, you
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: know the funny one when the guy was talking about
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: you were like, we're not gonna laugh. We're not gonna laugh.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: He's like when I was young, Damn yeah, I said,
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: But but I respected though you come from a wealthy family,
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: but you still went out and earned your own name.
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: But to Envy's point, was there ever any pressure just
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: to take the easy route.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I've been mad a lot of times, like after the
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: fact that I've blown up, Like a lot of situations
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I've happened. You know what I'm saying. I don't you
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I've overcome them now Like we're outside,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Well, before getting here, I
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: know how many situations is I kind of to overcome.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: I know some rooms I wasn't being let in because
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: people felt like, man, he's good anyway, man take us
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: man like we need it, you know what I'm saying.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: But the music spoke for itself, you know what I'm
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: saying to I was able to get in those rooms,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: getting those conversations like I know how long I thought
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: to be like, Yo, yes, I come from a great background,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: but bro, I'm dope, Like you know what I'm saying.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: My music is really dope. Like I'm actually a really
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: really good musician. Over time, you know what I'm saying,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: It was harder for me. People think it was easier
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: for me because of you know what I'm saying, this paper,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: But it's not only paper, because a lot of billing
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: their kids don't try to blow after me, not none
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: of them, one blue, not one. You know what I'm saying.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: So there has been times where I'm like, you know
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: what I'm done. You know what I'm saying. I'm just going,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: y'all can have it, you know what I'm saying. I'm mad.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I think I've even tweeted this before. I think when
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: there was like something on the internet, I'm like, you
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: know what this y'all, y'all can have everything. You know
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I've done my bed, I'm out, and
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: let me tell you if I go work for my dad,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I'm bat back way more. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: So it's like that's still there. Wait in but you
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Right now, we're still.
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: Doing this, but it's hard, right.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: It might be easier now because of you know what
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: artists in our year have done, But when I think
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: about you, when I think about my girl Cuppy, like
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: it would have been easier for y'all to be doctors
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: or something like that, it's harder for you all to
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: go into the entertainment industry and be successful.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Crazy, especially like Couppies a female too, that's right, you know.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: And then she's not an artist, he's like, she's an
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: artist DJ, you know what I'm saying. So I remember
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: her saga going through Cuppy now chilling man, she's got
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: like four ferraris.
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: Love copy.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Do you want your kids to stay in this industry
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: or would you prefer your kids to go work with Grandpa?
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go welcome my dad, you know what I'm saying.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: So every every Christmas, my dad takes all the gun
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: kids to the Caribbeans, either send kids or like we've
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: just said, kids last two years, the last two years.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Last year we did the Bahamas, and I could just
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: see him like up on all the things. He has
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: all multiple private jets multiples. His happiness was him seeing
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: his grandchildren like he he rented that like this leg
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: just he does that and he's single, like he's a
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: single mane you're gay, But yeah, I just saw his happiness, Like, man,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: this is like what life is about. So my kids
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: is like whatever they want to do. Because you know
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. As as much as my dad didn't
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: really want me in the entertainment, he didn't like over
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: kill my dream, you know what I'm saying, he saw that. Damn,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: this boy is really idamant about doing this, you know
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I would have wanted to do
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: that to them as well. And my daughter already like
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: she already singing and dancing, like yeah, crazy.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: How do you stay so hungry when you already so
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: big as an artist and you know you good regardless
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: of the music here and not.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's the passion, man. I think
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: I think I'm just already like I'm obsessed with music,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, I'm obsessed with the life
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: the lifestyle of just being a musician. So apart from
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: that takes it out, Apart from you know what I'm saying,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: The money is good and everything, the fame, but when
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: you love something, when you're passionate about something, That's why
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Ronaldo is keep going, keep going. That's why I'm messy,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: keep going. You know what I'm saying. They've won it all,
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I feel like my
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: what's kept me going is you know, definitely the passion,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And the globalization of the
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: culture as a whole, Like who who who wants to
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: be here now experiencing this Like we've had a whole
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: career before America even tapped in, you know what I'm saying,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: when we did fall that time. Remember, So it's like
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: we've we've had I've had a ten ure career before
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: afro Be popped up here. That's what a lot of
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: people don't know. Like there's so many artists back home.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: They're huge, they do stadiums, they don't care about coming
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: to America. People like he has the whole Ebo culture
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: on his hand, Like he don't need He could come
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: out here and do Barclays two nights and you probably
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: would even hear about. You don't understand what I'm saying.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: So it's like, so what's left you said, you know
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: what's left to accomplish when records you got, So what's
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: left for you that you want?
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Just what's left for me? Man? I think like this
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: album is going to really solidify, you know what I'm saying,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: not all those two records chart and then I'll go
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: on radio in American and I'm like, we want to
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: go to full away, you know what I'm saying. And
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: also bring people with me as well, Like I have
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: a lot of amazing songwriters, producers. I started off as
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: a producer. One of my producers that was on my
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: last album, Timeless. I met this guy through like some
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: random person at the airport that came to me. He
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: just cast a check for like four hundred from publishing,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: gave me to came to my house and dropped off
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: forty thousand for me, like thank you. Like I was like, what,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Like nobody has ever done this, like like just giving me.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, You didn't have to you
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, because I get a check off
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: him anyway, you know what I'm saying. So just like
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: stuff like that, I'm telling you, like African music is
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: changing generations, Like these people are actually blowing doing one
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: hit songs and get it a million dollars off label.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: So it's a lucrative business.
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: Any any of your friendships have ever gone tour over
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: your success or.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Oh definitely, so many, so many come you do good
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: ninety nine times the one time you don't. You know
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I've had so many close with my friends,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Like even my friend from college. Blackmail would be like
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: like then, like a long time ago, like my friend
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: and he was from New York Man. But I'm just saying,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: like he saw me, he saw me actually grow, saw
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: me grind. And then when when we got there, he
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: tried to you know, I'm kind of you know what
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: I'm saying.
• 44:37
  Speaker 6: So I had to send you an email yourself.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: So what happened was that he held the camera like
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: this my boy, So he held the camera. That's my guy.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: So it's like we talk about everything. So there's a
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: clip he had about me talking about another artist. You
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But you know what I'm saying,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: behind closes off you all talk about right right. So
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I'm on my phone, so you know the disappearing messages. Yeah,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I just saw a video and they said you have
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: twenty four hours something something something wow, And I'm like,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: and it was from his phone, like you know what
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. I just called him. I called it my sister.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, this was going on, and called his sister.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: His sister called his mom, and then like the other
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: he wrote me like three years ago, like yo, man,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry for what you could have been right here?
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Yea how much.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: I'm just curious.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: I think he wanted like forty thousand, all that thousand.
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so short shoted my boys make that yeah first
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: week right now.
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: But that's God though, God letting you know who you didn't.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Need around you. That's right.
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: What happened between you and ty Savage? Man, I know
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: y'all were like really really close.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Like that's my sister's cool man, Like I said, you
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, even with the big three questions
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: you asked me. You know what I'm saying. I remember
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: when all of us, you know what I'm saying, coming
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: up together. You know what I'm saying to me, I
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: t I you should stay in the same house. It's
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: like my big sister, Like, you know what I'm saying.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: She saw me as a youngin you know what I'm saying.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: But the situation with T while I was you know,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: it's like kind of personal, you know what I'm saying.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: She's she's very very good friends with my the mom
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: of my daughter, my first daughter, which you know, we
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: were in court having custody and so I just felt like,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, you my you know what
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, help me, help me my daughter, that type
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: of So we just got a little argument. It was nothing,
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It was just like brothers
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: and sisters argument. I haven't seen her since then, to
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: be honest, but she did reach out, and you know
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, So probably if it happens, it happens,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: and I know bad, but I love her. You know,
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: I love her child and I saw him grow up.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. She's an amazing person. She
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: changed the game for females. You know what I'm saying.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: She always have that respect. You know, that's my sister,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: Like I would never let nothing happen. She knows, you
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. What about kid, that's not his system.
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: I'm I love everybody, man, I do want to ask
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: a questions about the Big Three though, Like if they
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: call they called Bernard or Rebel and they talk about
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: whiz Kid, he has the mystique, what is what's your lane.
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: In that in that Big Three?
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Man, I'm Joseph. I'm just me. I'm just me, Like
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: I'm just me, like a world.
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: Like I used to work.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought like people people people know me
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: as the outgoing guy.
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: They you know, free. You know what I'm saying. I
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: don't have that mistiq or that rebel. You know what
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. I can't act that way. I'm just me
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: and people some personal people be like, man, you're too free.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: You're too free. Thing you don't you know? Yah, superstar.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: I'm like, bro, I've been listened. I'm going Disney or
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: two years old, like this does not Yeah, Like I
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: like I always say, like if my dad walks in
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: the room, Like if you're walking on the road, you
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, my dad passes you by, you
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: probably would even know liked got better. I'm telling you.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: So that's how I grew up. My manager be getting
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: mad like got be in the house, I be slippers
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: like going away. I'm like, bro, I'm home, look good
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: every time, you know what I'm saying. But the people
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: that are born artists, that's just how they they're coming
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: out their room, like you know what I'm saying that people,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: some people are like that. You know what I'm saying,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: that's what works for them. And to be honest, it's
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: worked for them. You know what I'm saying. What's worked
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: for me, it's worked for me, and what's worked for them,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: you know, it's worked for them. Maybe if they like
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: free like me, you know, maybe they wouldn't get what
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: they have, you know what I'm saying. So, and maybe
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: the way I am is what has helped me. So
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: it's like everybody, I feel like every in every industry,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Like just like how you had the Big Three back
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: in the day with like jay Z. They were all
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: different kind of people. Drake and Ken they're different kind
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: of people. You know what I'm saying. Drake outside, you
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And Kendrick is like, you don't
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: even know what that move is. So it's like they're
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: different kind of people. And that's okay, you know what
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, That's okay.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well The album is out on April eighteen. But
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: you wanna play on the album, Chris Brownstone that when
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: they okay, yeah this, let.
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: Me tell you what we got so far? We got
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: hold on which ones we got?
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: We got?
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: We got be there still we got and we got funk.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Okay the album now yet, Okay, So let's do let's dokare,
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Let's do the Funds Okay, Yeah, because those are like,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: you know, apart from like the records you guys here.
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: It's a big dude. And I know that this guy
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: you got on this record is big.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: He's the biggest rapper man. Yeah. So a lot of
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: things you guys do, like, for example, you see how
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: when I came out here, we had the if money
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: fall on You. A lot of songs that pop here pop.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: You have bigger songs like the little ones like like
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: back Home, you know what I'm saying, like for example,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: and like for a song like Funds withd it's always
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: gonna be bigger than a vicar when they record back Home,
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But once you get in
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: the radio here, that's what you're gonna hear. You go
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: in the stores, H and M, that's what you care
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: about'm saying. What I'm trying to say is that there's
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: so much more music back home that is also being
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: digested that you guys don't really really get here. So
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: so every time, like I'm doing a project, I always
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: keep in mind, yes, we have to please the western world,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: and you know what I'm saying. We got to make
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: money for the label, but we also have to please
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: our regional.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: That's that's right.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: Let's get into the joint right now. It's Dabby old
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: That is Dabby.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: Davy though, what is it wrong?
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: He's not a different way, he says David. If you
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: go to if you go to South Africa, they're like Davy.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: If you go to Davy and you go to parties,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: do so. My name is David obviously, so the world
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: they say David, different ways. David. I'm like, yo, just
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: bring that check man.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: How we do is the breakfast club? Good morning?
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The breakfast club
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: m hm.