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Usher Reveals Plans For Super Bowl Halftime Show, Talks Reputation, Preserving Legacy + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's the j n V. Charlamagne the God. We are
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  Speaker 2: the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 3: We got Laura La Rosa hanging out with us this morning,
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  Speaker 3: our special guest co host, and we.
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  Speaker 2: Got the Icon on the line right now, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: Ussha, Hey, are you feeling brother man, I'm feeling up
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  Speaker 4: right now, feeling blessed, Feeling blessed.
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  Speaker 5: Congratulations super Bowl halftime show. I feel like the culture
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  Speaker 5: collectively was calling for this.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. I feel like we've been saying this for months.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, man, affirmations do come true, right, Thank you
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  Speaker 4: guys for wanting it for me. Thanks for each and
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  Speaker 4: every person that prayed. You know what I'm saying, and
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  Speaker 4: so too, you know, just talked about it. Maybe it
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  Speaker 4: was just putting it in the air that you know,
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  Speaker 4: the Super Bowl would decide to come to Vegas because
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  Speaker 4: I was there.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 4: For real, man, I have you know, have heard, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the conversations and the idea that you know I would
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  Speaker 4: be able to play the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 6: So now it's the reality.
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  Speaker 4: Crazy jay Z calls me at what six o'clock in
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  Speaker 4: the morning, I'm barely just waking up, just the first
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  Speaker 4: news I get of the day. He's like, Yo, this
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  Speaker 4: is your Michael moment, this is your magic moment.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, are you serious? He's like yeah. So I
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  Speaker 6: look over at Jim. I'm like, yo, it's Jay's telling
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  Speaker 6: me I got it no way. And in the background
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  Speaker 6: you hear way it was. It was so gangster. You
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  Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, How.
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  Speaker 5: Long have you known this is going to happen? Because
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  Speaker 5: you said so? Ja just called you or you knew
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  Speaker 5: this is in the air.
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  Speaker 6: J call. When I first got the news, I was
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  Speaker 6: in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 4: Yo, the craziest part man, trying to oldest you know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, and not tell my kids.
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  Speaker 6: Who were also too on me, like Dad, you should
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  Speaker 6: play the super Bowl. I'm telling you who I need
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  Speaker 6: to call? You know what I mean? They online asking
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  Speaker 6: or talking to you. I'm like, hey, man, just maybe
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  Speaker 6: pray about it.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like if you put it,
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  Speaker 4: put it in the eighth you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 4: Maybe to come back. I'm knowing, but I can't tell them,
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  Speaker 4: you know. So it was about a week and I
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  Speaker 4: have of just holding that secret. It felt like I
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  Speaker 4: felt like, you know, like I was having a conversation
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  Speaker 4: in the war room and you can't tell the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the world what's.
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  Speaker 2: Going on now. That was on your bucket list, you said.
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  Speaker 6: It has always been on my bucket list.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, since Michael, I bet you, since you saw Michael
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  Speaker 5: Jackson do it back in the day.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, He's the one who, Yo, by the way, Michael
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  Speaker 4: wa has you know, paved the way for all of us,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: To be able to see what he did with this moment.
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  Speaker 4: Starts it and then to understand what Prince did with
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  Speaker 4: this moment ignites it.
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  Speaker 6: To notice. So many legendary artists.
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  Speaker 4: Have been in that position, from you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 4: you Two, Coldplay, you know, Beyonce Brunoma. So many incredible
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  Speaker 4: artists have been able to service that moment, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And I really do feel like I'm built for this.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like the music catalog that I've been able
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  Speaker 4: to build obviously speaks to it. But the entertainer that
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  Speaker 4: I am for that moment, and the fact that I'm
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  Speaker 4: in my new home, you know what I'm saying, like
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  Speaker 4: not my Vegas residency, but also two Lovers and Friends festival,
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  Speaker 4: and it's like, why not having a crescendo?
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  Speaker 6: I think it was. It was perfectly time. I'm a
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  Speaker 6: praying man, you know, I mean, and I actually I
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  Speaker 6: put this up in the air.
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  Speaker 4: I prayed about it, and if it was intended to happen,
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  Speaker 4: then it would.
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  Speaker 6: Find its way to me. And it did.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not going to disappoint I'll.
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  Speaker 6: Tell you that much.
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  Speaker 7: Did you go to Vegas starting with Lovers and Friends
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  Speaker 7: and then going into the residency saying like, Okay, if
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  Speaker 7: we do all this now that it's here, the super
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  Speaker 7: Bowl is going to be next? Like was that like
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  Speaker 7: a like you kind of you put that out there
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  Speaker 7: knowing that this would come concept type of thing. Not
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  Speaker 7: that you needed it, but you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, no affirmations like literally deciding that.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to move in a certain way to
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  Speaker 4: take like some sense of ownership of a space. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like in the past being able to do
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  Speaker 4: that in Atlanta, Like, yeah, I'm originally from Chattan, New
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  Speaker 4: lu Tennessee, but I was raised in Atlanta. Atlanta raised
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  Speaker 4: the artist that I am Atlanta raised, the man that
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  Speaker 4: I am Atlanta raised, the person and the creative that
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  Speaker 4: I am, and.
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  Speaker 6: I was able to do that in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 4: So I started with a residency, opening a show when
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  Speaker 4: we were just coming out of the pandemic, the first
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  Speaker 4: show to open in the world, not just the United
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  Speaker 4: States of America, but Yo, we were coming out of
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  Speaker 4: a pandemic and people were afraid.
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  Speaker 6: YO.
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  Speaker 4: Bringing that energy back in that started it, and then
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  Speaker 4: staying in Las Vegas a long long enough for them
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  Speaker 4: to decide, Okay, We're going to have the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 4: in Las Vegas. So I'm like, I'm staying here.
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  Speaker 6: I brought my festival, you know, Lovers and Ferns to Vegas.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I'm staying here. I'm gonna put my
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  Speaker 4: flag down here. This is my new space, this is
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  Speaker 4: my home. I feel like I get to do all
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  Speaker 4: of the things that I've always wanted to do and
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  Speaker 4: progress and just be creative. And since then, there's just
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  Speaker 4: been more and more things that have just really work
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  Speaker 4: to my benefit.
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  Speaker 6: But again, I'm a praying man, and.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate the fact that God has allowed this to happen.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate each and every person that I know said
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  Speaker 4: a prayer for me. I can tell you my grandmother
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  Speaker 4: before she passed, she said a prayer. And this is
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  Speaker 4: a very strong praying woman. So I know that my grandmother,
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  Speaker 4: she's in heaven.
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  Speaker 6: She gonna have the best seat in the house, being
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  Speaker 6: able to look down and see this happen.
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  Speaker 4: My nanny gonna they're gonna be up there, My Grandpapa's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be up there looking at this and join it.
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  Speaker 6: They got the best seats in the house.
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  Speaker 3: Now you got the difficult task. Now, because now this's
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  Speaker 3: the difficult task. You got two things. Now, you got
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  Speaker 3: to bring Atlanta to the super Bowl. So do you
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  Speaker 3: bring roller skates? Do you bring strip club? Do you
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  Speaker 3: bring cars? And then you got so many records into
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  Speaker 3: thirteen minutes?
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  Speaker 7: Are you bringing the stripper from the Vegas the one
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  Speaker 7: that comes down in like claps and I don't know
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  Speaker 7: her name the show?
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  Speaker 1: Are you bringing her a s I might walk for.
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  Speaker 4: Let me tell you something. You know what I do
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  Speaker 4: in Vegas, So listen. It ain't nothing with the lights, baby,
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  Speaker 4: And that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna bring the lights.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna bring the lights out. I can't give you
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  Speaker 4: too much. I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 6: The ideas that are swarming.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you obviously know all the people that I
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  Speaker 4: work with in my life and my career musically, you
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  Speaker 4: know the people that I respect and have collaborated with.
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  Speaker 6: I'm thinking of all of that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm thinking of making certain that the world understands the
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  Speaker 4: legacy that is my career, not just the moment, but
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  Speaker 4: the legacy, the connection, the ideas, and the nuance.
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  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. If it is a little
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  Speaker 6: bit of what Atlanta is.
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  Speaker 4: If it's a lot of bit of what my life
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  Speaker 4: has been in terms of my experience, but I'm playing
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  Speaker 4: the hits and I'm gonna definitely bring something that's gonna
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  Speaker 4: leave you.
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  Speaker 6: It's gonna leave you shocked.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna remember this moment, remember for the positivity.
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  Speaker 6: You're gonna remember this moment for the idea and the history.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna remember this moment for all of the people
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  Speaker 4: that I feel like I stand on the shoulders off.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna remember this moment for the fact that it
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  Speaker 4: inspired me to see them have their moment and now
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have mine.
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  Speaker 5: Tell us, tell us the meaning of the commercial lecture
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  Speaker 5: and why it was important for you to tap into
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  Speaker 5: your younger self like that.
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  Speaker 6: Younger, Yeah, what what you're talking about? Man, I'm still here.
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  Speaker 5: You definitely not you definitely not agent. But that was
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  Speaker 5: that was that was the younger version of us.
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  Speaker 4: Now you'll have to so by the way, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we went around and around about how we would approach it.
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  Speaker 4: Another really great benefit is the twentieth anniversary and celebration
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  Speaker 4: of Confessions, So it would be a great opportunity to
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  Speaker 4: take a little bit of something that people would instantly
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  Speaker 4: identify with and play with it.
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  Speaker 6: And I felt like.
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  Speaker 4: The social engagement because it really, it really was fun
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  Speaker 4: after something that I saw my.
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  Speaker 6: Fans engage using, you know, using it for me, and.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, Yo, this is something that I think is
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  Speaker 4: going to activate the world, and also to it to
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  Speaker 4: continue to engage them because I want other people to
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  Speaker 4: do it as well, you know, I want other people
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  Speaker 4: to do their own versions of that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying why Dionne and Kim.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I think that you know, the dynamic of
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  Speaker 6: who I am and what I have offered is span wide.
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  Speaker 4: I think that you know Dione and what he represents
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  Speaker 4: as a story that has continuously continued to dig himself
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  Speaker 4: from where.
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  Speaker 6: He is being.
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  Speaker 4: Rather it was health, or rather it was life, or
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  Speaker 4: rather it was the pivot of being an amazing athlete.
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  Speaker 6: And then becoming a coach.
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  Speaker 4: I felt like there was a story there to be
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  Speaker 4: told and I wanted to support that, and I wanted
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  Speaker 4: him to do it. I had to ask if he
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  Speaker 4: would do it, and he volunteered and say, yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: would love to be a part of that.
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  Speaker 6: I felt like it was for the culture in that way.
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  Speaker 4: Kim Kim is a good friend, and I felt like
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  Speaker 4: it would definitely be fun. Marshawn Lynch was just once
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  Speaker 4: again another fun moment for the culture, you know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying. And O'dale Beckham, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: It was just a matter of just continuing to keep
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  Speaker 4: the right energy and all the right people. There were
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  Speaker 4: a ton of things that I've talked about and a
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  Speaker 4: ton of things that are gonna happen any given Sunday
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  Speaker 4: that leads up to the actual big Sunday performance.
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  Speaker 6: So it ain't done. You're gonna see more. I actually,
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  Speaker 6: you know, pre ordered and put on pre order my album.
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  Speaker 4: So there's a lot of a lot of levels to
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  Speaker 4: what I'm doing with this entire moment.
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  Speaker 6: Between now and February.
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  Speaker 7: Eleventh, right now, there were the dating rumors with you
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  Speaker 7: and Kim Kardashian because she came to the show so
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  Speaker 7: many times, and people were like, what the heck is
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  Speaker 7: going on? You weren't afraid to lean into that. You know,
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  Speaker 7: I got it, I mean because when I saw it,
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  Speaker 7: I said, oh, this is smart, Like I thought you
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  Speaker 7: were playing into that whole. Like people were like, how
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  Speaker 7: did this friendship even come about? Why does she keep
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  Speaker 7: going to the show.
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  Speaker 4: Well, if you listen to it, basically she told you
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  Speaker 4: I've seen the show two times and that's why she
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  Speaker 4: could give the news because she actually knows. But nah,
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  Speaker 4: it's a great show man. Vegas has brought out a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people, not just Kim. Shit were talking about
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  Speaker 4: Halle Barry, you know what I'm saying. We're talking about Zendia,
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  Speaker 4: We're talking about you know, Gabrielle Union, who was in
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  Speaker 4: the house last night here in Paris.
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  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. This thing is about good energy.
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  Speaker 6: This thing is about.
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  Speaker 4: Making certain that people celebrate that legacy every night. And
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy, you know that our friendship allowed her to
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  Speaker 4: be a part of it and that.
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  Speaker 6: We do something fun and social. You know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you heard, but you know, Charlemagne
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  Speaker 3: and I actually going out to Vegas to see your
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  Speaker 3: show now coming in October, not to Cather, but we're
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  Speaker 3: going to see it. And we joked on the air
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  Speaker 3: that says, if you sing to our women, we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: grab the other hand.
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  Speaker 2: We all singing together, all of.
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  Speaker 4: Us, all we would come to five heart beats, the
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  Speaker 4: three heart beats, that's what we're going for.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go on three one. So I got nothing, but.
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  Speaker 5: You know, brings up a good pointments to steal your girl.
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  Speaker 5: You're not gonna be able to steal anybody's girl from
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  Speaker 5: the super Bowl stage.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know that because you won't be that close
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  Speaker 1: to the crowd.
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  Speaker 5: So how do you plan to terrorize people's relationship to
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  Speaker 5: the Super Bowl's.
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  Speaker 6: I think you gave me the phrase the domestic terrorists.
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  Speaker 6: I think you did.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so who coined the phrase? Oh my god, you
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  Speaker 4: you're crazy man.
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  Speaker 6: It's gonna be a night.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, my Vegas residency is specifically what it is,
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  Speaker 4: and my performance at the super Bowl was specific.
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  Speaker 2: Be what it is.
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  Speaker 6: But I will tell you I'm not missus still your girl.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. That's Trae songs. I'm the
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  Speaker 4: guy who tells you don't leave.
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  Speaker 1: You don't leave your girl around me.
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  Speaker 6: You should come with your girl. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: There's no guilt.
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  Speaker 5: You don't.
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  Speaker 1: You don't.
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  Speaker 7: You don't feel bad at all when you see like
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  Speaker 7: the Keky Palmer situations unfold. Like, there's no guilt whatsoever.
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  Speaker 6: What would the guilty that I actually had a great show.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun, but like it just casts so well.
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  Speaker 6: You haven't seen my show yet, Okay, No, actually I
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  Speaker 6: did first.
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  Speaker 2: I was there.
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  Speaker 7: I think it was the second show you did. Shout
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  Speaker 7: out to your team.
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  Speaker 6: I said it was a different experience.
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  Speaker 7: I said it was an amazing experience. I tell everybody
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  Speaker 7: that your show is amazing. I know it's all fun,
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  Speaker 7: but I'm just saying there's so much that stemmed from that.
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  Speaker 7: Once it happened with Kiki, I'm like, dang, Like does
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  Speaker 7: she get like, hey you good call? After like what happens?
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean not only did we get a good
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  Speaker 4: good call, we shot a video too in that idea
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  Speaker 4: with good attention.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was to bring good attention to it, good intention
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  Speaker 4: and attention. I think that we live in a sensational time.
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  Speaker 4: We live very two D. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: Life is one D, two D, three D, and I
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  Speaker 6: think we live in a two D space. So the
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  Speaker 6: idea of what.
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  Speaker 4: This is man was just about fun and just enjoying
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  Speaker 4: you know, that moment and not missing it because you.
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  Speaker 5: Gotta stop, you gotta stop. They did a whole Boondocks
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  Speaker 5: episode about you. Okay, don't you know.
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  Speaker 6: They did that way before I was in Vegas, Just so.
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  Speaker 1: Clear a reputation you've been doing this.
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  Speaker 4: It's a it's a good thing. Though it's good, it's good.
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  Speaker 4: You don't want to keep huge relationships live.
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  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. You gotta do your part.
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  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, do your parts?
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  Speaker 3: Fro think that's why we grabbing your hand when you
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  Speaker 3: start singing. When we get out there, I'm too.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for telling me. I now know exactly who
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  Speaker 6: I'm singing to.
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  Speaker 7: Now they're gonna come with just then too.
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  Speaker 3: In a circle, Diddy and JD is supposed to do
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  Speaker 3: this versus right now.
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  Speaker 2: You work with Diddy, You work with JD. How do
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  Speaker 2: you stand on that? And are we ever gonna get
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  Speaker 2: an usher versus?
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  Speaker 6: It is not?
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  Speaker 5: You know what, I've said this a million times. There's
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  Speaker 5: only like two maybe three people's catalogs you can't do
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  Speaker 5: nothing with, and Usher is one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Russia got nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 5: You brushed by it earlier when you were just like,
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  Speaker 5: oh my musical catalog. Nah, bro, your catalog is different.
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  Speaker 5: You got nuclear weapons, can't. There's only one person I
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  Speaker 5: think could even stand there with you.
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  Speaker 1: Mary J.
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  Speaker 2: Blinde.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. That's it, that's it, that's.
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  Speaker 6: It, shopman. I appreciate your votive confidence. Bro, I do Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I got words. Let me just say and Diddy my brothers,
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  Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that entire the whole process is about
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  Speaker 4: the celebration of legacy. We got two of men together
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  Speaker 4: who have contributed something incredible to my life as an artist.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm celebrating both of them. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have a dog in the fight. I just
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  Speaker 4: know you got two dogs getting ready to fight.
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  Speaker 6: That's what I know.
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  Speaker 1: You know you said you said something.
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  Speaker 5: We introduced you at the iHeart Living Black Thing, yep,
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  Speaker 5: And we introduced you, and you was like, yo, man,
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: I kind of want y'all to do that over because
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: y'all introduced me and said I worked with a lot
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: of icons, and you was like, but I am an icon,
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: And I said.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: To myself, Yo, he's right, Yeah, absolutely.
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: And I remember having a conversation with Dream and me
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: and Dream were just talking about how we got to
• 14:29
  Speaker 5: preserve certain people's legacies.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: How as an.
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: Icon, because you are you're a musical icon, undisputed, how
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: do we preserve legacies like yourself while y'all are still active.
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: I don't want to wait until you pass and then
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: everybody's celebrating you, Like, how do we do that while
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: you're still here?
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: This might come off biasedly, you know what I'm saying,
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: But I'm gonna try to do it without thinking of myself.
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: I think that we have to celebrate. I think there's
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: something about you know, R and B artists. It's just
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: rock artists versus even hip hop artists that is easily disregarded.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: When you think about Chuck Berry, you think about you know,
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: Little Richard, you think of our Domino Fast, think about
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: Paul Robison. You don't even know these names. Some people
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: may not even but they pay bay for every bit
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: of what we're clebrating in these new means saying rather
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: entertainment based, because it was James Brown or Bobby Brown
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: or Michael Jackson. These are the legacy artists that the
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: architects of what we are lebrating, and you can't forget.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: You have to find very crafty ways to keep them
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: in the conversation because we so easily disregard it's just
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: specifically R and B artist. I don't know if you
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: noticed that, but country artists don't go that member Hank
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: Aaron or.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: I got it all wrong. But William Hank Williams, we
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: remember Patsy Klein. We remember these significant artists for what
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: they contributed.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: But how easily you could just disregard or Winn and
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Fire or either an amazing b artists who really paved
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: the way, by the way for all genres of music,
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: because before was popping.
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: R and B was really the leader.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Rhythm and blues was absolutely the dictator for how all
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: of those arres are set up that might be real sophisticated.
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: So the short of it is, YO, don't forget.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: People who put the weights and don't want to compare
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: oh to new, because the new is only inspired by
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: has done before did it? Who did was R and
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: B artists who did it? So you preserved it concern
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: that you don't create comparisons by getting the R and
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: B artists that paved the way. Then make certain that
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: people listen your music is not linear.
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: It's there's so many different levels.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: I ain't gonna ever woke up this morning so le
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: breaking the Angelo bro I wrome up this morning celebrating phillies.
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, beyond.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Worried, like listening to a levels of music and making
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: certain that our young most what I'm saying girls, they understand.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: So this is where it came from. Like doing this
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: you know on how it's flipped. It actually explains to
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: where the song came from. And the TikTok the other
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: day due to the.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: Carl girl and she lived to what is the song and.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: He getting ready for you know the original that right
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: here is the reality of where we live. And if
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: we don't have that dialogue with the kids to help
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: them understand, like, yo, ain't no comparison, the people who
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: pay pay is that is what it is. You're walking
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: in the shadows and the steps of the people who
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: paved the way. So don't don't get to that place
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: where you can easily disart this art because they might
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: not necessarily be as relevant.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: By the way, we don't sell records no more bread,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Like check yours. You know
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Look at what they were who sold
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: records like Michael.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Jackson, nobody, nobody stream shit.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: That's cool, But who stole records? You know what I'm saying.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: And and being able to sell physical copies like that,
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: especially in this genre, it don't happen.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Who's a record like Confessions?
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: Hey, that's a diamond album.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Who's saw a record black professionals?
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: Now? But I'm not here to pop my call. I'm
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: just talking about for real, legacy needs to be preserved.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Everybody, by the way, in R and B is always
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: trying to, you know, really figure out who's the king.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: But I focused my my focus is really on a kingdom,
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, and making certain that we
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: remember R and B artists the same way that hip
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: hop is remembered and hip hop is preserved, not just
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: because of the songs that were created but also to
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: the fashion.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: Look at what a Mary is doing. Just you know
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: what I'm saying.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: With with hip hop, you see most death and taylib quality.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: You're like, yo, who that if you were a kid, Yo,
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: they're giving you culture.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: They speaking through the clothes, Kanye and them, Sean Puffy
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Khan creating you know that culture fat form, which is
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: you know Russell Simmons. It became something more than just
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: the music. It became a culture. Fuck being a king,
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: I want a kingdom, you know what I'm saying. It's
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: time for us to be able to lift.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: That R and B movement up just as much.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: That's why you come to Vegas and that sophistication is
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: out there, That skate is there, that entertainment is there
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: because that's R and B, and you don't get that
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: every day. That ain't gonna be something that everybody gets,
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: but it creates a conversation that I think is odd.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying When I hear that comparison,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: it's funny, especially for people who.
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: Have done things that nobody else has done.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: But it's also to misinform me because the new kids,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: they actually think, oh yeah, if I.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: Have this amount of streams or this amount.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Of like looks and likes love that that was a
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: part of building that legacy.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: Don't matter. Them likes and that love. It don't equate,
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: So that's why I don't like it. And it's no
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: disrespect that these guys are great. You can't compare a
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: Weekend to a Michael Jackson, you know what I'm saying.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: You can't compare Chris Brown to an Usher.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: They're great. Don't get me wrong. Those guys are great.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: They do what they do with y'all just came up
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: in a whole different era. People had to actually go
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: to the record store, but they buy albums.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: The craftsman shit. Like when I came to your show
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: in Vegas and I've seen you before this, but I
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: remember when I left the show, I was just thinking,
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: like I don't know if I've ever been to a
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: show of any artists in my time right now that
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: I left feeling the way that I did, like the
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: detail that you take with like the performance, the song,
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: the serenading the crowd, like even before that went viral,
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: Like I was just like, I don't know if people,
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: if artists do like my artists that I know are
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: our R and B artists take that time like it
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: made you feel good. That's a different type of feeling
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: and that matters.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Well, thank god that me and La Red just decided
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: to start a label. Mega is gonna make some new ones.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: You look at what he and Baby Face did with
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: the Face Records, and obviously what you know he and
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: I even did with artists like Justin Justin Bieber. So
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: it's like, all right, we coming together and that artist development.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: It does matter to be able to understand and make
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: certain that people remember that entertainment matters.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: It's always been the most important part of who I am.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: But I think that, you know, there is a way
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: to bridge the gap because I ain't gonna discredit the
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: artists who are you killing it?
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, because they have a following.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: But we just do things in a different time and
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: it doesn't it's not fair to discredit those amazing artists
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Philip Bailey, those amazing singers, you know, amazing jazz and
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: all of these different levels of music. It might seem
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: odd to slow down and listen to these songs, but
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: it's really up to y'all as the curators to get
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: them to pay attention to it.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: Maybe you come up with the factor of the day.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Maybe y'all start saying, yo, call in callers and tell
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: me what this sample is. And then before you know it,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: people are being informed. You create new connection to preserve
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: our legacies, not mine, but the legacy of the things
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: that have assisted us.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Babies were born to these songs, me story moments that
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: we've had, to these records. You know how many amazing
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: things that track our lives in these songs.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: How easily we can just throw them away and move
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: to the next chapter.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Na, man, you gotta you gotta keep it in, keep
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: it inform your audience.
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Saying, sensationalize it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. We got to have a
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: little bit of thirst trap there.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: But I'm just saying, for real, you know what I'm saying,
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Let's let's let's let's let's be real here.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: I agree with everything you're saying. And that's why, you know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: we got to be intentional to about celebrating. I think
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: a lot of times, especially as men, you're like, oh man,
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: you dick riding. It's easy to make jokes, it's easy
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: to even critique something when you don't like it, but
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: it's it's for whatever reason.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: It's hard to be like, nah, that's that dude, right there?
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: An intimate intimate conversations are intended for intimate spaces where
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: you have a broadcasting space.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: What you say becomes the law.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Right, There's many conversations of debate of who's the illis
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: MC or the best rapper or the best dancer and
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: the barbershop or even in the private confines of your house,
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: but not everybody understands how to process that, and it
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: just then instigates conversation and things that are not really
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: about preserving real work and real artistry.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Man, now we're talking to us. He's over in Paris
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: doing his residency in Paris. I was gonna ask, so,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: this is your first album where it's almost you're not
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: on a major label, it's almost like you're part of it.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: This is like almost you're independent where you're putting everything
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: behind this one.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, Gamma, Larry Jackson's effort, you know, it far
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: exceeds just me. There's many other artists that are going
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: to come but me in La We started a label
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: under Gamma called Mega and it's the beginning of, you know,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: the continuation of our legacy, the beginning of the continuation
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: of our legacy.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: And it's called Coming Home the next album. Why coming Home?
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: Why the name coming Home?
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's ultimately been several things that make me
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: feel like I'm coming home, not even a place, but
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: just a feeling, me reconnecting with La me coming home
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: into a space of comfort. Rather it's Las Vegas, or
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: rather it's just the home that is Atlanta and the.
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: Home that I'm building there.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: The coming home of becoming a better man, a better
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: man to my woman, a better man to my family,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: a better man to you know, the world, and the
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: story that I choose to tell that don't make me perfect.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: And I'm not getting ready to you know, you know,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: just change the narrative. I'm going to be honest about
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: some of the things that I've gone through to create
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: these songs, which I always have kept it honest in
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: my music, rather you understood it or not. But coming home,
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: even to the culture of where I come from, you
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: know what I mean. I don't know if you saw me,
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: if you go to my ig. You'll see me, you know,
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: doing festival things over in Ghana.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: When I spent time in Ghana and I.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Went to the original spaces where slaves were brought.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: In off the ships.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Something about that made me reignite coming home to our
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: original home, the motherland, And all of those things started
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: to sneak their way into my music. Or rather it
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: was the algorithms of the song, or the rhythm and
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: beat of what was going on with you know, I'm
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: a piano and and afro beats. All of those things
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: begin to instigate my creativity. So I'm coming home in
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: all of those ways.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, ladies and gentlemen, Usher, we.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Look forward to see icon, the icon known as Usher.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: That's right, okay, who should always be celebrated.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: That's right, all right.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: And it's a beautiful thing to see you at your
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: Las Vegas residency.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: And it's gonna be a beautiful thing to see you
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: at the.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Super Bowl halftime show, reminding people why you are indeed,
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Usher ring.
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: I can't wait to see the skates at the super Bowl.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: That's gonna be dope. I just want to tell charloaee
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: one thing. The Cowboys are not gonna be in the
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: super Bowl. So I just want to just clear that
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: right now, Just clear that right now.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Well I don't know if they are now, but Usher
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: will be that.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: She will be. Ladies and gentlemen, I know Usher will
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: be there. That's right. We appreciate you for joining us.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you, my brother.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Absolutely, I'm so happy that I was able to give
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: y'all this news.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: First, I want you to know I selected y'all because
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: I fuck with y'all.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: Okay, just know that we appreciate your, ladies and gentlemen,
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: love back to you.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Sure it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Wake that ass
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: up in the morning.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: Mhm.