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INTERVIEW: Nelly & Ashanti Talk 'We belong Together' S2, Parenthood, New Music, Hip-Hop Era's, Taylor Swift + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Hold up.
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  Speaker 2: Every day I wake up.
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  Speaker 1: Wake your ass up.
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  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club. Y'all finished or y'all done?
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  Speaker 1: Morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
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  Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club. Lorna Rose is here as well. We
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  Speaker 3: got some special guests in the building.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, indeed. We have Ashanti and Nelly back. How y'all feeling?
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  Speaker 1: I am.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 5: Feeling good.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all look good.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: You too. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Season two, We Belong Together, the reality show.
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  Speaker 3: Are you changing Pampers now, Nelly?
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  Speaker 2: Are you changing Pampers now?
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  Speaker 1: Man, I changed them when I said it. It just
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a consistent change.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? It's like, yo, if the
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  Speaker 2: nanny's within his shot, I'm paying for that. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 6: That's all.
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  Speaker 5: He actually changed his very first diaper.
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  Speaker 7: We slept in the hospital room when he was born.
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  Speaker 5: He popped up first to change the diapers.
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  Speaker 4: What's up?
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  Speaker 1: Get your one out of the way.
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  Speaker 4: That's before you could smell the poop.
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  Speaker 8: They don't smell like nothing.
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  Speaker 9: How does reality TV change things?
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  Speaker 1: Or does it at all?
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  Speaker 2: After doing a season, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'd like to call it more of a documented television. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because we're basically telling our life in real time. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like, you know, reality shows, you could be reality,
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  Speaker 1: but they try to throw shit in there and make it.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? A little bit of what
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  Speaker 1: is not. So ours is more documented in real time.
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  Speaker 1: So as you see it, that's what we're doing in
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  Speaker 1: that real moment. You know what I mean? So that's
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  Speaker 1: basically our logist. I wouldn't call it a reality show,
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  Speaker 1: but I guess it's definitely in that category.
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  Speaker 9: Does it change the dynamics of things? Like, you know,
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  Speaker 9: you're looking like, you know what? I could do that better.
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  Speaker 9: You know, I might react too crazy to certain things, right?
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  Speaker 5: Not for me.
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  Speaker 2: He looking at you crazy. He looking at you like,
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  Speaker 2: what'd you do? He like, what'd you do?
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  Speaker 6: She like, not for me?
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  Speaker 10: He like, yeah.
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  Speaker 11: I like, babe.
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  Speaker 6: He like, did he see you? I'm like, I'm good.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think that's it.
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  Speaker 6: Nah, I think you, you know, you.
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  Speaker 1: Probably do some things, but that's period. You probably say
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  Speaker 1: some shit up here and be like, damn, maybe I
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  Speaker 1: should have. Every day.
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  Speaker 2: All the time. All the time.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I should have said that like that.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I should have just kept that behind me.
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  Speaker 1: All the time.
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  Speaker 2: But, I mean, you know, it's out there.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, our main goal is just to show positivity,
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  Speaker 1: especially in what's going on. You know, shit is crazy
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  Speaker 1: all over. And you want to show, definitely in our culture,
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  Speaker 1: you want to show that, yo, you know, you could
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  Speaker 1: be married in this business. and spread some love, some joy,
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  Speaker 1: work hard, and be prosperous. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: And not always have to, so to speak, be woe
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  Speaker 1: is me. You know what I mean? Like, you want
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  Speaker 1: to show y'all we can thrive.
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  Speaker 2: Have y'all balanced out the... I'm sorry, go ahead.
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  Speaker 8: Did y'all settle on where y'all wanted to live? Did
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  Speaker 8: y'all decide? Because I know, Nelly, you wanted St. Louis,
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  Speaker 8: you wanted New York.
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  Speaker 1: So it'll never be settled. Y'all won the championship. She,
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  Speaker 1: she tried.
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  Speaker 6: To, I was.
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  Speaker 3: Going to ask how y'all figuring out the love life
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  Speaker 3: with the baby, right?
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  Speaker 2: Cause the baby takes a lot of time.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Then y'all both have careers.
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  Speaker 3: Have y'all been able to figure out y'all times between
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  Speaker 3: all of that?
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  Speaker 11: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: They gon' net me with that look.
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  Speaker 6: I don't care if you ain't here. You gon' figure
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  Speaker 6: it out.
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  Speaker 5: In the trailer, you talk about some she got batteries. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we figured out some time last night because KK
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  Speaker 7: stayed home, actually.
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  Speaker 5: He's coming this afternoon. He's coming to the hotel with us.
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  Speaker 5: That don't stop me. We had a little time last night.
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  Speaker 1: Show me. Turn your head, all right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, turn your head, son. I'm about to do
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  Speaker 2: something deplorable. Oh, my God. You know what you do?
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  Speaker 2: You put the pillow. If you put the pillow next
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  Speaker 2: to him, that way he can't see.
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  Speaker 6: I'm married. I'm married. I'm in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in. I ain't got to be ashamed.
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  Speaker 10: What about both of y'all being out on the road
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  Speaker 10: and maneuvering so much, like outside of the baby too,
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  Speaker 10: because that's one of the elements in the season two.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I try to take him with me as
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  Speaker 5: much as I can.
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  Speaker 7: I try to avoid too much back and forth on
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  Speaker 7: the plane. Like if I'm in and out, I don't
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  Speaker 7: take him, but if I'm going for like two, three days,
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  Speaker 7: I try to take them with me, you know, because
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  Speaker 7: I don't like being separated from my sister.
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  Speaker 1: Man, she can't do 36 hours of that.
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  Speaker 5: Season one when you were going to go do the
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  Speaker 5: Christmas performance.
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  Speaker 6: Girl.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, oh my God.
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  Speaker 7: I think I was asking Jessica, is it really like
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  Speaker 7: that when you separate from your daddy?
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  Speaker 5: I was trying everything to get out of that performance.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, no, I don't think we need to
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  Speaker 5: do it.
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  Speaker 11: Damn.
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  Speaker 5: I was trying everything to get out of that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that was hard. Has it gotten better?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's gotten better. Obviously, he's older now. I trust
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  Speaker 7: my nanny, which is my cousin.
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  Speaker 5: And we have a village.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I got aunties and cousins and everybody that
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  Speaker 7: kind of chips in.
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  Speaker 5: So it's better now. And he can FaceTime. You know
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  Speaker 5: what I mean? So we're in a better space.
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  Speaker 4: You always booked. You always on somebody's stage.
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  Speaker 1: Baby.
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  Speaker 4: All the time.
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  Speaker 5: Got to. You know, it's a blessing. I'm very blessed.
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  Speaker 9: Now that y'all got a family together, what does success
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  Speaker 9: look like? Has your definition of success changed?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about changed. I think. you want to
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  Speaker 1: spread success. I think the goal is to spread success because,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you can be successful, but that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter if you're not helping other people that you love
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  Speaker 1: and that you care about be successful. Now, that don't
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  Speaker 1: mean that they will be, but at least if you're trying,
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  Speaker 1: because you know how motherfuckers can be.
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  Speaker 2: You try.
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  Speaker 6: It's about trying, man. It's effort.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that, and you know, we do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things within our Our own community. You're talking
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  Speaker 1: about somebody who's on the board of the Boys and
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  Speaker 1: Girls Club, the things we continuously do in St. Louis
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  Speaker 1: with scholarships and feeding families and helping with children, toy
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  Speaker 1: drives and all kind of shit. But I think that's
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  Speaker 1: the definition of success. I think the more that you
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  Speaker 1: can do to actually change something. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Like change something.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you get a lot of people, I'm using
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  Speaker 2: my voice.
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  Speaker 1: We got enough damn voices.
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  Speaker 2: We need some doers.
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  Speaker 6: We need some doers.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Has your idea of success changed?
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  Speaker 7: No, I agree with everything he's saying, but I feel
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  Speaker 7: like as a family and as a brand, we.
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  Speaker 5: Want to expand.
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  Speaker 7: We want to continue to build the brand and the
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  Speaker 7: empire and do way more things.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we love music. but we also want to
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  Speaker 5: venture out, you know, film, television, just more projects.
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  Speaker 7: And I think we're both on board with that, obviously,
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  Speaker 7: with the baby and just growing all of that in
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  Speaker 7: that aspect.
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  Speaker 10: So, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We're waiting on you to age, Ashanti.
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  Speaker 6: I know, damn. I like it. I like it.
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  Speaker 5: I like it. I like it.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 6: I like it. Let mom take his time.
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  Speaker 5: Let mom take his time.
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  Speaker 6: Did you re-record your album?
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  Speaker 2: I thought you were going to re-record your album. Re-record
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  Speaker 2: all your music. You did?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So all the music that we hear now is all re-recorded.
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  Speaker 2: How difficult was it?
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  Speaker 5: No, we don't hear it yet.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I'm in the process. Is it done? Meat
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  Speaker 5: and potatoes done?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: But obviously... Uh-oh, is that my son? I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 5: But obviously... you know, little bells and whistles, I'm coming back, like, okay,
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  Speaker 5: let me do that better. Turn the harmonies up here.
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  Speaker 5: I think, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 7: So I'm kind of still in that state, but the
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  Speaker 7: majority of it is done.
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  Speaker 2: How difficult was it?
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  Speaker 3: Because I know when you first did it, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure y'all made mistakes, there was errors, and you
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  Speaker 3: can't replicate those mistakes and errors.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, so mentally, it was a little challenging because it's like, damn,
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  Speaker 7: I remember where I was and how I felt when
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  Speaker 7: I was first recording this record, you know? So when
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  Speaker 7: I went into Redo Foolish, When I went in to
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  Speaker 7: redo Baby, it was like, damn, this is, you know,
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  Speaker 7: it was good, but it was just like, wow.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it was more emotional back then because it
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  Speaker 2: meant more.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Yes.
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  Speaker 7: But just being in that mind state and then understand
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  Speaker 7: everything that happened to this day from that day to
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  Speaker 7: now and why I'm in here recording this or re-recording
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  Speaker 7: this is.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 5: It's a lot to think about.
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  Speaker 7: And it's crazy because you don't want to mess up,
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  Speaker 7: you know, what I consider my classic, my baby. I
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  Speaker 7: don't want to mess it up. So it's like you
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  Speaker 7: have to do something that makes it a little different,
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  Speaker 7: but you can't stray too far.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I mean? Because you're like, people hear
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  Speaker 5: it and be like, that don't sound like what I,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I mean? So you got to, it's
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  Speaker 5: real precise.
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  Speaker 3: Do y'all look at your peers and say, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you both created classic bodies of work, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all can tour as long as you want because y'all
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  Speaker 2: have those bodies.
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  Speaker 3: And then some of your pairs don't have the same
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  Speaker 3: music or the same catalog.
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  Speaker 2: Do y'all look at it and just be grateful and
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  Speaker 2: see how y'all got this?
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  Speaker 1: I say it all the time.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: I say it all the time because, you know, I'm
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: pushing up on 30 years, thankfully, of being in that. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you don't get that a lot.
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  Speaker 9: You've been 30?
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  Speaker 2: It don't seem like it. It's about 27.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: 27 going on 28.
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  Speaker 1: 28 next year.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know, you just.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly that, man. You look at back and we
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: just got on tour. We going on tour together next year.
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  Speaker 1: So that's, that's, that's very, you know, very much a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: Who closes that show?
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. Now listen, man, I will open.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm just saying, whatever, get the job done.
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  Speaker 1: But no, it's more of a collaboration of a collaboration
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  Speaker 1: tour and all of that. So, um, Whatever helps me sleep, man.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's going on.
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  Speaker 7: We get to the bus after the concert.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: It's like, oh, you want to close?
• 9:39
  Speaker 5: Alternate nights.
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  Speaker 2: Keep them clothes on.
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  Speaker 8: I don't want to do any music together.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all can close together.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe, maybe don't.
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  Speaker 5: We have records together.
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  Speaker 7: Obviously a lot of them have not been released, but
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  Speaker 7: we got a couple of things.
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  Speaker 2: But that's tough though.
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  Speaker 9: Me and Erykah Badu was having that conversation about how
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  Speaker 9: her music is like Tupperware.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Because it's just so.
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  Speaker 9: It's classic, adorable, and I think she was talking about
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  Speaker 9: how they don't really make any new Tupperware.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of like, y'all got classic, classic records.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to do new stuff.
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: Well, the quicker you make records, the quicker they are to...
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  Speaker 1: Disappear almost. You see what I'm saying? It's not to knock,
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  Speaker 1: but you got people going, they hammer it out, but
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  Speaker 1: it don't withstand time like that sometimes because the music.
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  Speaker 1: It's just music. It's not the music. Nobody's standing in line.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking about that the other day. We're very,
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  Speaker 1: very fortunate. We had people stand in line for two
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  Speaker 1: or three hours to get our record.
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  Speaker 7: To physically buy the CDs, posters, stuff.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: Put a poster. That's commitment to investing in the artists. Now,
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: you don't have to do that.
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  Speaker 5: It's a button.
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  Speaker 1: Boop.
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  Speaker 5: Put that in my playlist.
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  Speaker 1: It's jamming. It's jamming for the summer, but then you
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  Speaker 1: might be done with it.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I was just going to say.
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  Speaker 2: We've been very, very blessed.
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  Speaker 1: To have music that fans continue to support.
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  Speaker 2: Do y'all want to do new music? Is that something
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  Speaker 2: that y'all want to do? Yeah, she's got new music.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I got new music. I've done new music. I'm
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: constantly doing new music. We're working on new Lunatic projects
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: and things like that.
• 11:13
  Speaker 4: We need another country bop from you.
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  Speaker 1: With who?
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: With the Lunatics.
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  Speaker 6: With the Lunatics.
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  Speaker 9: Me, Murph.
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  Speaker 6: They figured it out.
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  Speaker 1: Me, Murph, Kiwan.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And City, my little girl City.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so not the whole world.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I consider that the whole world. 75%
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  Speaker 2: of them.
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  Speaker 1: You know what it is.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to get another country bop, yo. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 4: got me in the country.
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  Speaker 1: So sweet. I appreciate that.
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: No, definitely.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: Shout out to my brothers at GL. I love to
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: dabble in different genres because it keeps you out here, man.
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  Speaker 4: And it worked for you, too.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: So the Lunatics, y'all got stuff done already?
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: Well, we got some stuff we've been working on. But
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: even with Metro, Metro was helping us with this one
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  Speaker 1: as well, too. So, you know, he's from the Lou.
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  Speaker 1: So we feel real honored with that. as well and
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: he'll probably say the same thing about Versa because he
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  Speaker 1: was a little one but now he's the big you
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  Speaker 1: know so yeah man you know we don't have many
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  Speaker 1: in St. Louis so to be able to put something
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  Speaker 1: together like that would be dope.
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  Speaker 9: Is touring really taking a physical toll on you?
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  Speaker 1: No, I love it, man. That's my exercise.
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm Mick Jagger, man. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 6: You got to drag me off that thing.
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  Speaker 2: Frankie Beverly, close down S's Fest.
• 12:29
  Speaker 6: Close down.
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  Speaker 2: So I love it, man.
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  Speaker 1: I love it when people appreciate what it is that
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: you do. I don't know. That's a hell of a drug,
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: I guess, to be up there and to have people
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: continuously pay money to support you, to want to see you,
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: knowing that you impacted people's lives so much like that.
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: That's unbelievable.
• 12:53
  Speaker 9: Was there ever a period, Nelly, where you felt like
• 12:55
  Speaker 9: you was dominating hip-hop because you was selling the most records? Because,
• 12:59
  Speaker 9: you know, it's been this conversation the last couple of
• 13:00
  Speaker 9: weeks about, you know, who dominated what eras and what moments,
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  Speaker 9: and your name has popped up because you was selling
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  Speaker 9: the most records at the time, but did you ever
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  Speaker 9: feel like you was the top.
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  Speaker 2: Guy in hip-hop? Um.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like at a point I had definitely arrived.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: It's not up to me to decide. You know what
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: I'm saying? If you ask Michael Jordan, we all say
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. He ain't going to say it.
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: He'll bring up Bill Russell. He'll bring up Kareem and
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: all of that because that's just the love that he
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: had for the game. Now, I know what I did.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: I know what I was fortunate enough to achieve because
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: even when you mentioned the country, When I wanted to
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: do country music, I did it in 03, 04. And
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: I did it right after they had cut me a
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: nice check after Nellyville. And my label was like, you
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: want to do what? They thought I was talking about
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: another country grandma. I was like, nah, nah, nah.
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: I'm talking Tim McGraw.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: They was like, wow, this kid is about to blow it.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: But fortunately enough, it didn't do that. So I understand
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: the way that the game works. I wouldn't say that I...
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: I ran anything.
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: Well, I would, damn it.
• 14:14
  Speaker 6: Well, I would, damn it.
• 14:16
  Speaker 7: There ain't a lot of them that go diamond, damn it.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: Thank you, babe. Thank you, sweetheart.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: Bullshit. That's why you got her.
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: Hey, man.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: You know. That's what I did.
• 14:26
  Speaker 11: You sure you ain't trying to age my baby?
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: I tell everybody all the time. The first tour I
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: was on was a Nelly tour. It was like a
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: 40-city Nelly tour. and it was Nelly selling out these arenas.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: And I remember having, he had a fake Air Force
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: One sneaker going through the crowd. And it was just
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: stuff that people didn't have back then. And I was
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: DJing for Fab.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: It was me, it was A.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: Marie, Fabulous, and Baby. It wasn't even Lil Wayne. It
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: was Berman, because Berman was the big artist at the time.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: And Nelly sold out every single city.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: But do sales alone make you the biggest.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: People coming with band-aids on their freaking eyes.
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: I'm talking about everybody, even me.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 15:08
  Speaker 10: There's a synonymous culture with Nelly in his movement.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Well, that would be the only thing that I would,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: if I were a voice, it would be like, yo, don't,
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: I hate it, I don't like it when you don't
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: get your flowers for influence. It don't have to be
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: the music, but to say that, yo, like, when they
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: talk about who influenced and who did what and all
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: of that, we know we influenced. We know, like, If
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: you're not a costume, like, we just talked about that. Like,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: are you fucking kidding me?
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Like, we're still a costume.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: People throw Nelly parties.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: You throw throwbacks to that era.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: First thing a motherfucker want to do is put a
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Band-Aid on their face and turn their jersey backwards and.
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: Put a do-rag on it. You know what I mean?
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Like, not like we invented throwbacks or anything like that
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: because that came along with the era we was in.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: But I think that part.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Because I wouldn't say that Thriller is Michael Jackson's best record.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Off the Wall, musically. Off the Wall musically is unmatched, period.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: But he created Thriller because he was pissed off. Because
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: they would not acknowledge him in other categories with Off
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: the Wall. So he set out to make the biggest
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: selling record of all time. So that's why commercially it's unmatched.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: So I don't feel like commercial... does that, but I
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: feel like when you influence the way people dress, listen, dance, talk,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: and all of that, then you, yeah, you.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Did some shit. You know what I mean?
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: But if it's just about music, because how many people,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I just headlined damn.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Near 50 cities last year.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: 20-something years later, who came out when I came out
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: that did that?
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: Who?
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: Tell them.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: No, I'm just saying, who came out when I came
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: out that's headlining? I'm talking 10 to 15,000. I ain't
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: talking about Tabernacle.
• 17:01
  Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying?
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: I ain't talking about the Fox. I ain't talking about
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: the Fox.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about who came out when I came out
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: that's headlining 10, 15,000 a night. Like, we did that
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: and still doing it. So, yeah, man, I feel like
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: that's the only thing. Like, It's not just sales, but
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: it's everything.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: Damn. Pass your shit.
• 17:22
  Speaker 9: With all that said, we got to say Jay-Z is
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: the most dominant rapper of all time.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: What you mean? If you factor in the influence and
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: all of that type of stuff.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: That's where your name came up in the conversation.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not knocking that. I'm not knocking that.
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: He's got the right to speak. Yeah.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: It's the same things, like I said, about Jordan. He's
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: the only other artist during that era that can still
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: sell out shows. He was before Nelly.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, but even from that time, because Jay
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: was still hot at that time. He's still hot, but
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: he's the only one from back then that still sells
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: out immediately.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Jay was before Nelly. Don't date Nelly that much. I'm
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: not saying that, but I'm saying when Nelly was out,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Jay was through hot dogs.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, man. I don't know what's going on.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: It's just like, yeah, man.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: I love y'all.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: What are y'all of the Swifty? Oh, I'm a Swifty?
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: Hell yeah.
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: Y'all were that Taylor and Travis wedding they was.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Doing, right?
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't get to call her Tay-Tay. She calls
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: her Tay-Tay.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Tay-Tay.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Tay-Tay.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: How'd that relationship come up?
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, I've been knowing her for a long time. Her,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: her pops, her management, Robert Earl, and things like that. So,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: you know, she's popped out at some of my shows
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: and Dead Dilemma.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you like this. What really threw me, right?
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: She called. Listen, man.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Dead Woman called me one night, just out the blue,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: and said, yo, Nelly, listen. Me and my friends, we
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: made a routine to hot in here.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Last night, right?
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: She said, we made a routine to hide in here
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: last night. I want to ask you a really big flavor. Now,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I'm in St. Louis. She's in Houston. She said, I
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: got two shows in Houston tomorrow and the next day.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Can you come down to Houston and just perform it?
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I don't want to disrespect you. I don't really have
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: a budget like that. Now, listen to her. She said
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: she don't really have a budget.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Taylor doesn't have a budget.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: She said, but what I will do, I will send
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: my plane. I will get your room and all of that.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: And we only have like, 50,000, you know, just, I said,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: can you put that in a McDonald's bag?
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: I said, but I would have did it for free.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying?
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: So I was like, yeah, we're good.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Sent the G5, not four, five. Sent the five, picked
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: up me and the.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Kids, flew us down to Houston because she was doing
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: like three to four nights at the baseball stadium. 56,000 people.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: They got them rammed in there.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: No budget.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: We did it. She was like, yo, three minutes. Three minutes.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Her father, Robert Earl.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Comes out, tosses me a McDonald bag, 50,000 cash.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: Hey, how you doing? I was like, oh, no shit.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, cool.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Now, the money ain't really the issue, but she was
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: just like, yo, the jet is there whenever you're ready.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and she got us the presidential suite right there i
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: think that's the four seasons that's right there by the
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: stadium had the top we never saw the room we
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: went we stayed at the show and went um back
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: to the airport or whatever the case may be so
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, for somebody just to call you up and,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: you know, me and my friends, we made a routine
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: to you. Yeah. To hide in here. We really want
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: you to come out. Do you think?
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Did you like the routine?
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, I never saw it. I was facing it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I was just like.
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: You know what I'm saying?
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: Everybody was at that wedding. I was like, how do
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: all these people know her? I thought a lot of
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: it was just celebrities going to a celebrity wedding. But
• 20:37
  Speaker 10: it was like mad people there.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I didn't think that. I thought it was very specific.
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: I thought that because it was, I'm like, it's Madison
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: Square Garden. But then I'm like, she's Taylor.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: He's Trapp.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: They know mad people. But it was so many different
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: type of people.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I think people forget how long she's actually been.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: In this business.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: She's been in this business for a long time and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: at the top of it. And when you're like that,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: you make a lot of friends.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying?
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: And introduce. And then, you know, her husband is... He
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: might go down as the greatest tight end of all
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: time by the time this is done. So he knows
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of people.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: And nobody had their phone.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: Her first album came out in 06.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I think people forget that.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: That's 20 years. That's a long time. 20 years.
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: She also does not age, too, when you think about it.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: She still look the same.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: She still shaking it off. What?
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Charlamagne.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: She's stupid. So if you need her to perform Dilemma
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: at one of your.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Shows, do you send the G5 for her and give
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: her $ 50, 000?
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, probably not.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: Probably not.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Probably not. But it's all good, bro.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Again, it wasn't about the money.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: She was like, well, I don't want to, you know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: disrespect you. We don't have a budget. But I was like,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Shit, that's a walkthrough.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: And in a real McDonald's bag.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Hilarious.
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: I wish people understood longevity and consistency more.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Seriously, man.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: I don't think that's celebrated enough.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Relationships. People dupe relationships all the time, man. You know
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: what I mean? And I get more out of people
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: because they like me than for what I can pay
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: them or what you can do for them. And that's
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the thing in this business that I think carries you
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: a long way because if motherfuckers like you, they'll holler.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: You know what it is. You know what I'm saying?
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: We talk all the time.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: Let's shoot the shit.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: And you don't get that a lot.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: But what makes the hustle still there, right?
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I was hustling before.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: But still, y'all good now. Like the other day, not
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: the other day, but a couple months ago.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Whatever my baby want, she going to.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: I know that's why.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: But Ashanti got the same hustle.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: The other day, she did something for Elton John. Then
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: she's changing her dress in the car. Then she's performing
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: on the stage for the Mayor of Newark. Then she's bouncing.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I'm like, you rich.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: How the hell you know she changed her dress in
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: the car?
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Huh?
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: How you know she changed her dress in the car?
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: She told me because I was like, oh, I have
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: to be there for her. She's like, I'm almost finished dressing.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: I'll be there in a second.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: She's like, don't leave yet.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: You got to DJ for me. Don't leave.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: You got to DJ for me.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: But I was like, when does the hustle stop?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: Or slow down at least.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Or slow down.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: It's just you got that drive.
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: You know, when you're doing something that you love and
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: then you get money for it, it's like.
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: You take advantage of that. You know, we are very grateful.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: And you still getting money for it.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: What you said.
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: About Frankie Beverly is true. I just don't understand why
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: they don't want hip-hop artists to do that. I mean,
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: Ashanti's on our beat.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: She's hip-hop. To me, you're hip-hop.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Frankie Beverly didn't need no money. How many white outfits
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: can you get?
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: That man didn't need no more money.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: He didn't need no more money. It wasn't about that.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: It was about your.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's exactly what you said. People
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: don't understand hip hop artists are artists too. We invested
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: our lives.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Into this craft.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: And why, if you still have people that want to
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: pay to see you, it's about adjusting. I will hustle
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: so she don't have to. Now, if she's choosing to
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: go do it, that's on her. But if she say, yo,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I'm done, so be it, ma.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: I got it.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Like, it's not no ifs, ands, or buts, but, and
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: when she get ready, she, no, I ain't stopping. Nah,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: can't stop, won't stop.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Ooh.
• 24:14
  Speaker 10: And the trailer though, you said, you was talking about something,
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: I thought you was talking about going on tour, you said,
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: she on you, so you don't know how long you
• 24:18
  Speaker 10: may have.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Well, with her, with her, with her being on stage.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Because she'll, you know, all I ask is, what I.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Say, ma, I say, yo, we get, just give me like,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Two years of going hard. Let it go hard.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Let it boom.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: You can kick your feet up.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: Have many babies.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: We can bow, bow, bow. And, you know, you got
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: it from that.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: So, whenever she get ready.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Y'all want more babies?
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we got to see.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: It ain't like we ain't trying.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: So stupid.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: I think one more. I mean, I wanted a lot
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: of kids. Obviously, a long time ago. I said I
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: wanted six. Long time ago. That's not happening now.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: But I definitely want at least one more. I think
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: KK needs a sibling, you know, so he can kick it.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: But you're going to have to chill out?
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: See, that's the problem. It's trying to figure out.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: See, you know, Jessica, our kids are around the same age, right?
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: So it's like trying to fit that in. It's like, okay,
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: got the tour coming up. Okay, so if I get
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: pregnant by this time, I got nine months, and I
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: can hide.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: It for this long, and then I got, you know
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying?
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: She be trying to plan that shit out.
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: I just be in there going to work.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the clock is on.
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: She doing it the responsible way. Yeah, I'm trying to
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: figure out, like, no, you can't do that.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: She said they married. Mama knows.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: I had a couple kids myself.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: I know. Mama said, hurry up.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I want another grand.
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: I want to ask y'all, do you think that today's
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: artists even have the same opportunity to create the kind
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: of lasting connection y'all have with y'all fans?
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Is that even possible now?
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: You said to create the connection with the fans?
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, to create that lasting connection with people. Like how
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: you said, people had to stand on.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: The line to go get y'all.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: It's hard because everything is through a screen. You know
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: what I mean? Comments and Instagram, everything else. It's like,
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: it's so.
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: It's not like you can't feel standing on the line
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: when you're texting somebody.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean? So I don't know. You know,
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: this is a whole new.
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: You know, obviously we did all of this without social media,
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: so it's completely different. So that bond, you know, our fans,
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: that's why they love us, because they did get a
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: chance to touch it.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: Some of these fans of maybe newer artists, they may
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: not get a chance to touch and feel. They may
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: only see through Instagram. So that connection and that bond
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: might be very different.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: What do you think, Nelly?
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, everything is instant. Instant gratification, instant, you know, it's... Listen,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: keep it funky.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, please.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: When you talk about relationships, it's going to be a
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: little different, right? Because a lot of women, there's not
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of great men out here. Yeah.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: There's not a lot of great men.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: There's a man, there's great men. Yeah.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: They've all been raised by women. Men have been raised.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: To almost not be with a woman, but almost to
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: try to.
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: Like they're.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Kind of gay.
• 27:42
  Speaker 11: But listen, when you have so many generations in our
• 27:46
  Speaker 11: community that have been unfortunately raised, and I say unfortunately
• 27:52
  Speaker 11: because that's a.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: That's a lot to be putting on our mothers' backs. Yeah.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: And a lot of load that mothers had to carry
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: through generations.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Because, you know, a lot of our black men, we
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: have let our mothers down and they had to carry
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: a load. But in actuality, that has reflected and you
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: got generations of men that... or being like women instead
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: of learning how to be with women. You know what
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I mean?
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: Or blaming women for everything. You know what I mean?
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: I hear that too.
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: But they are.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like what you just said. They too sensitive.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: I get what Nelly's saying.
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: I get what Nelly's saying because a lot of you
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: was sex symbol, pause. Women wanted to be with you
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: and you wanted to be with women.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: But you want to understand.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: That this is my wife.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Correct. I want to open the door. I want to
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: put my coat over when you're in.
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 28:52
  Speaker 11: I don't want like, yo, you better hurry up and
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: get in the car.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: I get what he's saying.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: I get what he's saying.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: I get what he's saying.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I get what you're saying. But I'm just saying, but why?
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: So I just think that, yo, there's nothing wrong with
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: being respectful. There's nothing wrong with opening doors. There's nothing
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: wrong with putting coats down. She will reign. Yo, let
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: me help you outside. Let me drive you home. Let
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: me make sure you're secure. There's nothing wrong. with that.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: That's not how young men are thinking.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with fighting for your girl. There's nothing
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: wrong with saying I'm sorry. There's nothing wrong with knocking
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: on the door right now. I want you back.
• 29:50
  Speaker 9: And respectfully to all the women in the room, this
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: is what Tank said. I was repeating what he said.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Tank said, I want men to love pussies.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: It's the truth.
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: He said it.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Yes. I have always been yes, sir, no, sir, yes, ma'am, no, ma'am.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: And I say it to men and women that's younger
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: than me. So it doesn't like.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: You know, you get somebody, no, you don't have to
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: do that to me.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: I have to.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I have no choice.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Because it's just a respect factor. And the respect is lost.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: There's no respect because there's no respect for yourself. So
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: how can you show respect for somebody else?
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: And like your mother-in-law just said, you're a gentleman. It
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: is different. Like you said, there's no, that was the
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: perfect way to say it. There's no gentleman out here.
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: It's been like that from the beginning. I remember you
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: didn't used to let me carry the bags out the car. Like,
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: he was just coming to grab the bags.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: This is way back in the day.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I got him.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: But that's what you should do, but that's how you
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: were raised.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Were you like, yeah, go ahead. He was like, boy,
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: why you grabbing my bag?
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: No, but you know, we from New York, so we
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: used to carry, you know what I'm saying, doing our
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: own shit.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: And he would be like, what are you doing? Maybe
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: not the purse, but the shopping bags, you know what
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: I'm saying?
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: But you should, even when I pick up my daughter
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: from school, I take, the first thing I do is
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: I take the bag.
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: That's what you do.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: If you see him Doing like this with the trash,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: I'm going over, don't you take that trash. I got it.
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean? I don't know.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know. My son is like that. My son,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: he knows how to be respectful.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Because you were there to teach him those things as well. Exactly.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: My grandma used to tell me. That goes to my voice.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Your fathers, we're back at it.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I feel like the generations, the crack era really, really...
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: It hurt us in a gang of ways and it
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: set us back because we do not have translators. We're
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: missing the middle translators, right? We're just not getting back. Translators,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: what I mean, you have the people in the middle
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: that talk to the elders, say, hey, cut the young
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: blood some slack. You talk to the young blood, say, hey,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: show some respect, little nigga.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying?
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: You don't have those now. Right.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: So we're just now getting back to those, to being translators.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: We're translators now. We know how to... Yo, LeBron, that's
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: not good. You got to... Yo, OG, cut the little.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: You remember what it's like.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? They all ain't bad, and
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: it's not the end of the world.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Some of them just need a little support.
• 32:12
  Speaker 9: My grandmother used to say, manners will take you where
• 32:13
  Speaker 9: money won't. Always.
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Further.
• 32:17
  Speaker 9: Yep.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: Further.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: Jesus.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Further, because you don't give a damn.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? You might not let nobody
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: in the club. I pay $ 1, 000, but you rude. Yeah.
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: When did you realize Ashanti's mother loves you, man?
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: When did you realize that?
• 32:34
  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: That's my dog.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: That's my dog.
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying?
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: So she's the one you call when y'all beef? You
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: call mom?
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: Nope. Mom's a rider. Mom's a rider.
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: She love you, but not that much.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Mom's a rider.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: I know. She love me to death.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: And I know. And that's one of the things I
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: love about their family because they are a ride or die.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: They're going to stick. You know what I'm saying?
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: I probably call pops.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: I probably call pops, but I know mom ride with Sean.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: There was never a time when she didn't ask about Nelly. Like,
• 33:12
  Speaker 9: how Cornell doing?
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: Was there a time that she did not ask about him?
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: She always brought him up.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: Who, my mama? No, no, she didn't.
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: You forgot.
• 33:22
  Speaker 9: What?
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: That's why I had to clarify.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: You forgot. You forgot the story, okay?
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: When did she start bringing him in?
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: When did it change?
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: It was okay.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: When did the words around his name change?
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: All right, never mind.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: Never mind. Never mind. Oh, man. Yeah, it was a
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: tough time for a few years.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: You yearn for that type of love.
• 33:51
  Speaker 11: You know what I mean?
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Like, you don't get that. You don't see that a lot.
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: You got to love somebody to hate them. They got
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: to hurt you. You know, if you mean something to somebody,
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: it's going to hurt.
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: And that emotion, sometimes it comes out, you know, and
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: it came out for a little bit.
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: Right you know so good that's.
• 34:12
  Speaker 9: My good I see why y'all got a documentary TV.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: I know and you can watch it November 19th on
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Peacock we appreciate you guys for joining us.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: All the time thank y'all so much thank you for having.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Us so much the next time you come you have
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: another one Yo, I, man.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Might be in them.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: Don't start that again.
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: Next rumor, they're working on baby number two.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: I think she's pregnant.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, God.
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: You having some more?
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I am.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: I'm going to give my husband maybe one.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: She got her baby working already. Her baby daddy Mexican,
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: so she ain't got no choice.
• 34:54
  Speaker 11: You know what?
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Cut the interview now.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Shut up.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: He black and Mexican. He not just regular Mexican.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: You sent me a video of your baby sweeping already.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Yes, I was just trying to show you how good
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: she is with the.
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: She's got a tool belt. She's got a tool belt
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: for her first birthday.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: No, she did.
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: Not, yo.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: Anyway, yes, I do plan to have more children.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Well, thank y'all for joining us.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: It's Nelly. It's The Breakfast Club.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Good morning.