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#526 - Davido · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Yo, what up my peoples, your boy David Oh, make
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  Speaker 1: sure you check me out on the Bootleg CAV podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Keep it luck one love by this hey.
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  Speaker 2: Before we start the episode, we're gonna remind everybody, man,
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  Speaker 2: That's right, let's get into the interview, all right, here
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  Speaker 2: we go Bootleg cav show. We got my guy here
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  Speaker 2: Man Global super Star. Just saw him at the iHeart
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  Speaker 2: Awards on Monday, Sir David on the building.
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  Speaker 1: Good to see how you're doing, Man, Good to see
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  Speaker 1: you bro.
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  Speaker 2: When I saw you, Man, it's so crazy because you know,
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  Speaker 2: I never saw you live, and I had to tell
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  Speaker 2: you last year I saw you at the BET Awards. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you had the BT experience, you had that thing turned up, bro,
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  Speaker 2: shout out.
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  Speaker 1: BT man, and the album is my last album just
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  Speaker 1: came out that time.
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  Speaker 2: But it was just so crazy to see like all
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  Speaker 2: of the live show, Like it was like a real
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  Speaker 2: come to like a tour stop, you know, because that's
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  Speaker 2: the thing. People go to the BT Experience and they're
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  Speaker 2: like they're going for like maybe someone's there for sexy read,
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  Speaker 2: maybe someone's there for you. So it was like a
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  Speaker 2: mixed crowd of people, but they were fucking with you though. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: that was amazing. Yeah it was dope, man. But how
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  Speaker 2: is everything?
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  Speaker 1: Man? Man is good?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 1: Just fresh off turning into the album, you know what
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  Speaker 1: it is, rolling? Rolling? It out comes out in about
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  Speaker 1: three weeks, you know, just just been the vibe, got
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  Speaker 1: married lest Dear congrat you know what I'm saying, So
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  Speaker 1: just happy to get back to work, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying about to be crazy, how do you know it's.
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  Speaker 2: Like finished the album? Like how do you like? What
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  Speaker 2: is like the final thing? We're like, all right, it's finished.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you never get to that and you just
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, like I think I edited
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  Speaker 1: a song to like last month or so, so you
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  Speaker 1: never really get to the point where it's.
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  Speaker 2: Like, so something got put in like right at the
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  Speaker 2: finish line.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. To me, it's more of because it's not a
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  Speaker 1: period where we go in the studio and like we recorded.
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  Speaker 1: It's like I'm always in the studio.
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  Speaker 2: Like this is your life.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, So when it's time for an album, all
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  Speaker 1: I have to do is pick songs that I have record,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Pick the vibe. And when
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  Speaker 1: we're thinking about the album name and the the theme
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, it was like, what time is
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  Speaker 1: that already? I was like, you know what, my boys like,
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  Speaker 1: it's name in five. I was like, you're right, it's
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  Speaker 1: the fifth album, right, you know. Five is the symbol
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  Speaker 1: of hope. You know what I'm saying, It's my favorite number,
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  Speaker 1: my lucky number. It signifies, it signifies a lot of
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  Speaker 1: other things, you know saying. So we're like, yo, it'll
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  Speaker 1: be dope, you know what I'm saying. We could do
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  Speaker 1: a nice rollout with it. So it was just about
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  Speaker 1: you know, picking songs. But with this album, I was
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  Speaker 1: you know, I used to be a producer. So with
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  Speaker 1: this album, I really you know, focused on production. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like that you were hands on. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: all the nos. Yeah, a lot like into the production,
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  Speaker 1: went into the production. But we excited, you know, about
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  Speaker 1: to get back on the road again, and yeah we're
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  Speaker 1: just out here in elation in the video. Yo.
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  Speaker 2: When like for you, like taking the approach to be
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  Speaker 2: more hands on on the production with your background for
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  Speaker 2: this album isn't like like you said, the fans will
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  Speaker 2: be able to tell the difference, but for you, is
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  Speaker 2: it like because I feel like so many of our
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  Speaker 2: favorite artists are so multi talented, like j Cole came
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  Speaker 2: in the game producing a lot of his own.
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  Speaker 1: Shit, you know what I'm saying, Like my first single.
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  Speaker 2: Producer, it's got to feel a lot more personal to
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  Speaker 2: you to put a body of workout that you have
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  Speaker 2: your fingerprints all the way in for real, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, especially when you like, like I'm around a good
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  Speaker 1: space now musically, Like I've met some real dope producers,
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  Speaker 1: co producers as well writers, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So I feel like with this album, it was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of you know unity, right, you know that that
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  Speaker 1: came into the process of making this album. Another thing
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  Speaker 1: I like about it is that, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't rush. The album was actually meant to come
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  Speaker 1: out last year. You know what I'm saying, We've been
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  Speaker 1: done since last year. But my team and I were
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  Speaker 1: just like, you know what, let's take our time. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. That's not rush, that's playing well.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. The music has always been there,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So with this one, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we took our time and I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we selected the perfect set of songs. It's about to
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  Speaker 1: hear that.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to me about getting married, because I got married
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  Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen. It's a big step in life. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: especially for somebody like yourself, who's you know you got,
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  Speaker 2: you got so much going on, and I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: especially for somebody who's got some sort of public notoriety
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  Speaker 2: and a level of success. I'm sure it's a lot
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  Speaker 2: more harder to like find that person through all the
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  Speaker 2: shit that comes your way. What made you kind of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, say this is my soulmate this time.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm one of the lucky ones because like
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  Speaker 1: me and my partner, like, we've been together for a
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  Speaker 1: long time prior to so she's been rocking with you
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  Speaker 1: for a month to get married, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So we've been living together since we were like basically,
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  Speaker 1: so she saw the glow up. Yes, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. I was a little bit you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, And I met but I was young. I
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  Speaker 1: was very young, you know what I'm saying. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: well my third year in college or so. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what we met. Went to the same school. So
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  Speaker 1: I think I was it was lucky enough, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for us to move in together early, very early, like
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about like eight years before you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Even getting married, for sure, the transition from
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  Speaker 1: it's still different. You know, getting married is still no joke,
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  Speaker 1: like you said. But and you know we have you've
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  Speaker 1: had three kids. So it's like the transition from you know,
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  Speaker 1: living together, first of all, being good friends. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like that's best, the number one thing that's very important,
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  Speaker 1: and then transitioning to living together, which is a huge step. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: living together. And throughout all the time we was living together,
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  Speaker 1: I was touring on the Yeah, I was really on
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  Speaker 1: the road like every like real, real busy. So I
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  Speaker 1: feel like she's always she always understood, like, Yo, this
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  Speaker 1: is what I gotta do to work, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. And she also knows that that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the most happiest moments of my life is when I'm working.
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  Speaker 1: She knows I love you know, music, just like when
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  Speaker 1: she's in the kitchen. She's a chef, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. I know she loves cooking.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you got a chef, you're land. I bet you
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  Speaker 2: your cribs cracking. I'm surprised you ain't fatter.
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  Speaker 1: I've tried to watch you with my wife. Man.
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  Speaker 2: When I first moved in with her, she's a hell
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  Speaker 2: of a cook, and all I was eating was Mexican
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  Speaker 2: food because she she's Mexican. I like, I put like
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  Speaker 2: fifty pounds on in two years. Man, just fucking up
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  Speaker 2: my wife's food. I had to slow down.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy. Yeah, so that transition wasn't too crazy for me.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll say this, you know what I'm saying, just
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  Speaker 1: having to be you know, being such a you know,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of popular people are real vulnerable,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So just having to be
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  Speaker 1: careful doing that. You know what I'm saying. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: is bind the union for sure. What I'm saying. We
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  Speaker 1: had a whole wedding. We've invited everybody from all across
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  Speaker 1: the world to celebrate. Where was the wedding at and
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  Speaker 1: Nigeria fire. It was on some crazies wounded ship like
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  Speaker 1: some mad crazy like it was like a holiday, yeah ja,
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  Speaker 1: like that was one of the best days in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody flowing from all over the world. So just even
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  Speaker 1: looking at my kids, you know, my daughters again older,
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  Speaker 1: they got to go to school. My daughters, both of
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  Speaker 1: them have iPhones. You know what I'm saying on TikTok,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So as we get older,
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  Speaker 1: obviously having to be mindful of you know, things we
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  Speaker 1: kind of do in the public eye.
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  Speaker 2: Of course they could see it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, as well as also you know, juggling the other
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  Speaker 1: side of it being a superstar, right, and this is
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  Speaker 1: what you actually love and this is what it's been
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  Speaker 1: in the bucks and right as well. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, because when I get on stage, it's like
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  Speaker 1: I'm married, but it's like, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: But you're an entertainer, yes, but she's always been around that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good. That's important. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm one of the lucky ones.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you are, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Man. Some people meet females and then down the line
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  Speaker 1: is like she's you know, females like yo, she didn't
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  Speaker 1: know it was crazy like this. And for some people just.
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  Speaker 2: Right, what's your what's her like?
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  Speaker 1: Good?
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  Speaker 2: What's your favorite dish she cooks for you?
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  Speaker 1: So I love like just white rice. She makes this
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  Speaker 1: killer stew, some stew. I love some nice pepper stew,
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  Speaker 1: fish chicken fire. And then I also like she makes
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  Speaker 1: a killer all craw seafood, all coral. Okay. With this
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  Speaker 1: thing we called eba, it's like it's like flour. It's
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: kind of like mashed potato, bud. It's different, it's different. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we use our hands to eat it, dip it.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, she's like any food you could eat, your
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  Speaker 2: hands to eat.
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  Speaker 1: It's always fire.
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  Speaker 2: Love Indian food chucks to Indians.
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  Speaker 1: They got figured out over there. I went to India
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  Speaker 1: this year actually my first time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they got good food. Man that curry, man curry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that curry be hidden yo, something that's dope. Your
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  Speaker 2: dad he open the power plan that gave three million
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  Speaker 2: people power in Africa?
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  Speaker 1: Was it through? I don't know exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I saw something like it. If the capabilities are up
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  Speaker 2: to get like essentially helpteen percent helping three million people
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  Speaker 2: have access to power.
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  Speaker 1: Fifteen percent of the electricy that we build them one
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  Speaker 1: more and when that is completed, I think we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be supplying about if not more, I think the
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  Speaker 1: number is like fifty percent.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, of like I think to West Africa, all Ninegeria.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure about the number, but like, how cool
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  Speaker 2: is that? Because like for people who don't know, I
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  Speaker 2: mean a lot of your fans know about your pops.
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  Speaker 2: Your pops is very successful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah guy, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's important to be able to highlight
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  Speaker 2: like not only are you who you are, but your
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  Speaker 2: family is also like helping a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy, and I've seen them build that from just
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  Speaker 1: being young. I remember him just having the idea. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people discouraged them from the idea because he
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  Speaker 1: was a banker, right and that was going so well
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  Speaker 1: for him already, so like they said, if it ain't broke.
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  Speaker 2: Them right, right right.
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  Speaker 1: And then he just always believes in just a power generation,
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  Speaker 1: which is electricity of course, et cetera. So yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: more working on this project. I remember him going to
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  Speaker 1: China on trips to get like investors and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: and then I remember the first one coming, the second one,
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  Speaker 1: and then we just getting lit.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, you know what I'm saying, Like quite literally
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people are getting so.
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  Speaker 1: And eventually they became something the country dependent on. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Oh, let me just move. They
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  Speaker 1: became you know, the power plans became something the country
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  Speaker 1: eventually dependent on. You know what I'm saying. It's just
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  Speaker 1: like right now, before all their electric cars all around America,
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  Speaker 1: somebody had had had the idea to have a charging station,
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  Speaker 1: but like nine.
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  Speaker 2: Years ago, it wasn't it was it wasn't a thing.
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  Speaker 2: Now but now it's no thing, you know, supplying their
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  Speaker 2: minds amazing.
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  Speaker 1: So I saw him just blossom into that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: an electricity tycoon that he is, and it's just amazing.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny too, because you told the story last time
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  Speaker 2: you were here about how you were kind of like
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  Speaker 2: on the run, kind of from your parents when you
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  Speaker 2: dipped out from school. Yeah, do you remember, because you're
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  Speaker 2: because with your dad being who he is, like, at
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  Speaker 2: what point in time did he fully say, Okay, son,
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  Speaker 2: you're onto something with this shit.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I wasn't there like the exact time, but
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  Speaker 1: everybody just had that feeling. I feel like it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even a feeling about him feeling that way. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think everybody felt that way. Yeah, like it's undeniable. It
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  Speaker 1: was like it was like a mutual feeling, not only
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  Speaker 1: in the country and my family, to my peers, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, yo, you know when you have something,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody like they don't have to tell you, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So it did get to that
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  Speaker 1: point where he was like like I couldn't even really
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  Speaker 1: be in school.
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  Speaker 2: I was distracted because you could have worked for him
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  Speaker 2: and kicked it easy, you know.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm saying. But this is what I love, like,
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  Speaker 1: this is what gave me them, this is what gave
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  Speaker 1: me energy. You know what I'm saying. You know, this
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  Speaker 1: is what I was about music. So it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of too late by the time, you know, he wanted
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  Speaker 1: me to, you know, do something else. But I always
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  Speaker 1: say that he was never really against me being an entertainer.
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  Speaker 1: He was just big on principally, big big on education, principled.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's my family. You go to school, you finish
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  Speaker 1: up on time, and there's an office waiting for you.
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  Speaker 1: It's just this is how it goes. I'm the last
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  Speaker 1: kid of five, you know what I'm saying. So for me,
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  Speaker 1: it much happening. You have five kids.
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  Speaker 2: The first kid they're they're following, they're following suits, and
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  Speaker 2: the last kids like, Nope, I'm gonna go sing the
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  Speaker 2: last one.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know, I'm like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go sing.
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  Speaker 2: And then it worked out.
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  Speaker 1: Though it worked out, you know what I'm saying. He's very,
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  Speaker 1: very active involved in my career at the moment, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So that's been blessed to have
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  Speaker 1: him in my life over the years.
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  Speaker 2: Did he get the album first?
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  Speaker 1: Of course, he's heard everything. What I do when I
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  Speaker 1: get the link, Like when I finally decide, like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is these other songs, Like the album is seventeen songs.
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  Speaker 1: So I put a link of like forty songs and
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  Speaker 1: I send it to my family.
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  Speaker 2: Members, the crew, all the homies, Hey check it out.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna check it out there, you know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they'll tell me, y'all tell me your favorites. And I
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  Speaker 1: use that kind of channel. What's a pick? And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I don't agree with it, but sometimes public opinion matters.
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  Speaker 2: You'd be like, damn, like maybe I'll ck. Maybe I
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  Speaker 2: didn't think that this was gonna make the album, but
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  Speaker 2: maybe now it will make the album.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, stuff like that. Yo.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: You and Chris Brown have like a pretty insane chemistry. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you guys, you know, nominated for awards together. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Sensation was a huge record for Chris c bat ohb uh,
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  Speaker 2: what what would you say? Is like the most cool
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  Speaker 2: part about being in a studio with Chris Brown because
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  Speaker 2: he is a workaholic. These are Michael Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: You feel like every time I'm there, I just thank God. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just happy to have the opportunity to just witness this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and not only to witness this as a co artist,
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  Speaker 2: but also to witnesses as his friend, as family.
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  Speaker 1: Chris amazing person. You know what I'm saying. It's like
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  Speaker 1: you be talking to him one minute, this second minute
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  Speaker 1: he's doing a badmint on stage. She's like, Yo, this
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  Speaker 1: guy's crazy. You know what I'm saying.
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: It's just just to have that full package. He can
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: he can draw, he can he can paint, he can act,
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: he can pay, he can do it all right, you
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. Just to have that kind of
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: person around you. If that's not inspiration, I don't know
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: what is. I always say it's either Chris Brown or
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Jamie Fox that are just like the most talented human
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: beings alive. Crazy because Jamie Fox is like an elite
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: stand up comedian, elite actor, e leite singer, and Chris
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: Brown is just elited everything, you.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying. So just having the opportunity to
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: just see it firsthand, and then and he goes on
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: tour and were performed together, just to see him do
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: his thing and how he just transforms into another person
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: once he just gets in that you know, gets in
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: that mode. Is just amazing to see.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: Man, for sure, I saw you got the new record
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: with y G. Marley out.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out to y G. Yeah, yesterday he was
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: he was.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: He was out here too. We saw him.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: He was out there. Yeah, he was there.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. How cool was it being able to tap in
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: and uh, you know, do the thing with with Lauren
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: and and and pop out on stage.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: Man, it was a moment. Yeah.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Shout out to y G. Marley. Man, Shout out to
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: the whole Marley family. Shout out to miss Lauren Hill,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: a legend, the Queen. I met YG.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: About a year or two ago. I can't remember where.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was on touring in Australia. So me
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: and his mom were headlining festival together. Crazy, you know
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. So I think I got to the
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: hotel and I think me and my boy went to
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: get something by the ball to eat, and then I
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: think I see her band members. I think YG was
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: with him and he introduced, you know, introduced himself. Oh
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: mama here, He's like, yeah, she performed tonight, stuff like that,
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: and then we ended up, you know, shange your contacts.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: And then I think I had the after party after
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: the festival, he pulled up and funny enough, I didn't
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: even know he was an artist at the time. He
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: was just on tour with his mom. And then months
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: go by and I'm on the radio.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: You start hearing his record, And at first I didn't
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: put too on too.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: I knew his name was YG, but I.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Don't know there's another YG too. There's a G in
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: l A.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I didn't put you in
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: too that it was actually him until I think I
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: saw him a performance. I was like, bro, Bro, and
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: then I reached out to him. I was like, Yo,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: congress on your record. I'm happy for you, you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: just like you know a normal person would do. And
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, we gotta lock in. You know
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: what I like is the bringing together different cultures. I
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: felt like there's been a drift in between Africa and
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: the Caribbean, you know what I'm saying, And that's real.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: I feel like back then, I think, because like you mentioned,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: like like how how big is what you guys are
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: doing in like Jamaica huge? Because I was in Jamaica
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: and we were at a club and I was here
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: in Afro be huge. I just can't hear Santo. It's
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: all kind of the same bpm.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: So it's I just came from Trinidad Tobago. You know,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: the music that's like Soca is different. But they playing
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: afrobeats out there. And then I've done trips. I have
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: big songs of popcorn, you know what I'm saying. So
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I always loved that side of town. I love the Caribbean,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I love the people. Me and my wife take vacation
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: every year. I love that Red Snapper. You know what
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Me and my wife take vacation that every
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: New Year's you know, at the same kiss, we'd.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Be like island hopping.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: You know, last day we did Bahamas. The year before that,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: same kids birthday we did on Tigo bag and I
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: collaborate with a lot of Jamaican artists.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I got two Jamaican artists on my album. You know
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Sancia four p. Fifty shout out to Shensia.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: You know, he's one of my favorite.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Like I was saying, I'm just happy that the connection
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: between the Caribbean and Africa is kind of piping up
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: back together. Yeah.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: I went to uh Montego Bay for the first time
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: with my wife like two months ago.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Amazing.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: We jumped in, We jumped in a boat with some
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: rostas and they took us to an island and they
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: cut lobsters on a rock for us that they just
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: caught and it was good. I was smacking.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: The food is so good, so good, amazing.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: That jerk chickens it's so spicy. But that should be
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: fucking you up. Man, you had a jerk ticket, that
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: jerk chicken, you'd be like, you'll be sweating. You've been
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: so good, so flavorful, man, especially the ones like on
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: the side of the road. That's the only way to go,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: is the ones, not the ones at the resort side
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: of the road.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Killer, And if you ain't waiting thirty minutes for your food,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: it's not the spots killer. You mentioned. Chancia is on
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: the album, obviously, why Mary's on the album? Is there
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: anybody else on this project that you could talk about
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: three weeks away?
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Definitely Victoria Money. Yeah, we got a bigger I'm actually here.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: She in the video tomorrow with her. She's amazing, you
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. She's amazing. I'm mad at the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Grammy's last, not this last Grammys, the Grammys before and
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I actually did, uh. I did like a panel with
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a producer, d Miles, amazing producer.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Now she's incredible.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: And then we just linked after that, you know, DM
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: there like, yeah, I loved her record that was on
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the radio at the time. Yeah, no, that one and
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: thinks she had another one.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: She's got a lot. I mean, she's she's out of here.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: And she was. It was dope, and I just I
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: like challenging myself. I was like, I like when people
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: be like, yo, what would the Victoria Mo name DAVIDO
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: sound like? That's weird, Like you know what I'm saying.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Then it come out You're like, yo, this is all
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, yeah, we got an
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: amazing she got an amazing record on the album with me.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: You just pronounce your name DAVIDO. And I've always said that,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: But when I first met you, you said David Oh,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: So fucking I'm confused, David same thing. I know, I know,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: but I always say DAVIDO. But then when I first
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: talked to you, you said, David, Oh, my name is David.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: So I just want to make sure where I'm not.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: I'm just going based on what he told me last time.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Right, you're getting it right, all right? All right?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Who is your like? Uh? It just you're like if
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: you had to before before you decide to hang it
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: up man and kick back and relax. Who's that one
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: artist that's kind of escaped you in terms of collaborating with.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I mean I'm in contact with most of them that
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I really want to work with and to definitely want
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: to work with Rihanna.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I'm saying. You just got to
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: get we got to get her out of retirement. Man.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I think she's working on some news I sure, hope.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: So yeah, we've been hearing that for eight years. Yeah.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Crazy how she did an interview and they acting like, Yo,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: what's your favorite song? Or yeah she liked my song.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: She was like David on Available, that's amazing. So since
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: then I've been like, so now, I mean you got
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: the end now. So if she's a fan, I mean
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: that's half the battle.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: To you know, get in the studio. Rihanna definitely Drake,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: who else? Billy ailis for sure? Bill? Yeah, I feel
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: like we'll do something dope.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like, right now, Drake's skippable
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: you can. I'm just saying I feel like, right now,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Drake's Drake to me. No, I feel like he's also
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: always kind of been like extremely like uh like he's
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: pushed the genre like in the US, like a lot
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: of people heard a lot of afrobeats artists first because
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: of Drake.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah, and you gotta give it to Chris Brown too,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: right for sure, Chris Brown. You know what I'm saying.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: We just did the stadium in South Africa.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Crazy, No, for sure, I just you know, I'm much
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: just like definitely Chris Brown.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Drake definitely beyondest did the album with a whole bunch
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: of African artists as well. So yeah, American artist always
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: been shown love. Definitely.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I love it man for you because obviously this is
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: album number five. At what point because we see a
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: lot of artists, man, like I just saw the Rolling
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Stones are still toring and them dudes are like eighty
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: years old and they're still fucking ship up.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I heard it.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I heard Mick Jagger still getting it in. You do
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: you even think to yourself, like, man, I'm gonna do
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: this until because you got kids, you got a wife,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: you got a lot going on in life. Is there
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: like a are you just gonna as long as you're inspired?
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: You're gonna do this as long as you love it?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, Like every time, I remember when
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I used to be like, you know what, I'm thirty five,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: But now it's like it's like, like this is not
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: like energy, the vem is coming in, you know what
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. And then even for the culture afro beats
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: music as a whole, it's like on a whole other level.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: For sure. We've been doing this for thirteen years, you
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Sometimes it takes some people two years.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it takes some people, but it's gonna get there.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: But I don't think I foresee me ever, you know,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: saying like, yeah, I think I want to hang it up.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I always enjoy music, no matter if I'm the president
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: of a country, I'll probably be doing shows once a
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: month for the people.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Like, are you trying to tell me you're gonna run
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: from It's just an example. Eventually you probably could Why not?
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Why not? I mean it's not in my foreseable future.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Could be like thirty years down the road, Let's see
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: could you imagine you're perform at your own inauguration?
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Crazy, that'll be dope.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: That would be insane with like an.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Official presidential band, you know what I'm saying? Crazy dope.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it had to be wild. You never have to
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: pay for security again. You just got security dogs called
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: the army. Hey. I always wonder what is it like
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: because you you got to work with Nicki Minaj and
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Nikki's to me to go her and Lauren obviously, was
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: that somethinghere you guys worked together in the studio or
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: was that somethinghere like you guys were sending emails?
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Crazy thing. I never met her, You never met Nickki
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: crazy feak on the phone and all that. Definitely. The
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: first time we link was through DM. I think, what
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: a lot did happen? I think I just damned that.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I think I noticed that, oh she was following me
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: or something like that. I think I just DMed her
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and she actually replied, like I woke up to the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: next day. I'm like, yo, she actually hit back because
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I was just I think I was like, yo, I
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: got a hit for us or something like that.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and she did it.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I text her and I'm like, well, this is crazy.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: This like, is this in two thousand and nineteen? I
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: think yeah, no, no, no, like twenty twenty, right, and
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: then yeah, I text her the record and like two
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: days later she sent me the first back, no hassle
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: or nothing, you know what I'm saying.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: And then two days turnaround, Its not bad for her.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Crazy and man, this is COVID, bro, and this is
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: when everybody's stuck at home for sure. So I'm in Nigeria,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, she's She's like when you have an
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: artist that's giving you, Like it's like Nicki Minaj is
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: replying you, like back to back. It's like she wants
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: to do this record. We gotta take that opportunity to him. Like, man,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I'm all the way in n jeried like I'm meant
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: to be Yeah, Like damn, we're not able to shoot
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: this video. I'm thinking, like, so then we get the jet.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah bro, nobody's flying bro.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: During COVID. So it was it was quiet. Airports were closed.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: We get to fly from Legos, get to LA and
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: then we minut shoot the video. Everything was planned and
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: then you know she was about the inho, was having
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: her baby and stuff. She just didn't work out to
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: a point, it didn't work out, but you know what
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, We've always been you know, love and she
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: hit me again. We did a record last year, Yeah,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: for her pink Print I think anniversary album. You know
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: she's always like tapping in the amazing. Yeah.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Yo, ni Ki, you got to close out the World
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Cup a few years ago, which is like one of
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: the biggest honors there is. Uh was that the most Like?
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Is that the most nervous you've been for performance? Just
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: kind of knowing that, yo?
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I wasn't. I don't want to say disbelief, Like even
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: when my management got the told me about it. I'm
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: like the World Cup, like the.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Main walk the World Cup, World Cup, you know what
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: I'm saying.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Yo, let me a lot to you. Probably like two
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: weeks a week before is when it set in. I'm like, Yo,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I'm actually doing the main show.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like not something like you know, you know how
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: they haven't even hell events all week.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'm like, you know what I'm saying. Then,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: like two weeks a week before, when we get into
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: emails and they're showing us the stage, I'm like creating
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the production all that, Yo, we want them to come
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: out here. We need them to come a week before
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: for rehearsals, and then seeing the other artists that was
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: performing me, all global superstars that have attained amazing things
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: in their careers.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Right, you know, I mean just to be you know,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: in elected for Africa just like amazing. I grew up
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: watching the World Cup, of course, you know what I'm saying.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: So that was an amazing experience. We got to Qatar
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: and just even doing the rehearsals, I'm like, Yo, this
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: is really happening. What is your favorite place outside of
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Nigeria to perform? Is there a place that you just loved? Like, man,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I know, I know they love me there. It's lit
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: every time.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: It's lit everywhere, man. But London, London, London is crazy. Toronto, Toronto, Yeah,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Toronto's crazy. Paris Toronto such like.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: A multicultural sale too. Toronto I've never been. I heard
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: that like Toronto will give anything. Now I heard her
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: give any city run for the money in terms of
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: like the beautiful women that are there. I heard it's
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: like Miami, then there's Toronto and then obviously you.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Know, I mean every raining a lot, you know it'll
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: be cold, but Toronto's lit. Bro, It's like New York,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: you know, a little New York.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I might go out there for the Kendricks.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: And it's really multi culture culture. I love that about it.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: My shows a bit Jamaicans, you know what I'm saying, Asian, right, Indians,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: everything like, apart from Africans.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: So when is the actual album coming out? What is
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: the exact dame April eighteenth? Aprils out?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, eighteenth. We're doing we better roll outs, like kind
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: of I can talk about the five stops we about
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: to do five like up close and personal shows with
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the fans. Five stops. I think Atlanta, New York, Paris, La,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: what else, London? So you know what I'm saying.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: So five shows for for the album five, yes, tapping
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: in with the with the fans.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Yes, and then probably after that we're gonna announce a tour.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I love you what I'm sayings tour on the way. Yeah,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: we got a little summer run festivals. I do the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: London Stadium in June July. I do the London Stated
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: in July. Blood Damn, that sounds crazy. Fifty and married, Yes, sir, what.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds like a stadium show right there.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Well, look, congrats on the new album April eighteenth, go
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: support it, looking forward to hearing it and uh yeah, man,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: keep doing, keep doing your things.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Got to get you. I think I said this last time.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: We got to get you. You ain't been in Toronto.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: You gotta come to Africa.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: How do you come to Africa? Yeah, all due respect
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: to Toronto, I'm trying to come come out there and
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: fuck with you.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Man. If you like him on Tegovill, you definitely like
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Legos Man, I'm in there. We don't claim that. We
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: gotta we gotta arrange that.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Let's do it.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: My guy got arrange that though. Thank you very much, sir,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: God bless you, sir