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INTERVIEW: B2K Talks New Album ‘Eclipse’, Growing Up In The Industry, Fatherhood + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Hold up.
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  Speaker 2: Every day I wake up.
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  Speaker 3: Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club. You all finished
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  Speaker 3: or you all done?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 4: DJ Envy, Jessa Larry, Charlamagne Tha God, Envy and Jessa
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  Speaker 4: are out, but Lauren LaRosa is here. And we got
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  Speaker 4: some special guests in the building, the icons, the.
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  Speaker 3: Legends, B2K. What's happening?
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  Speaker 2: And we're back. What's up, DJ?
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  Speaker 3: And we're back. Black and Holly favorite, man. New album, Eclipse.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 3: It's been 20 years since your last album. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy. Why did it take so long?
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking the same thing. No, I was thinking
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  Speaker 2: the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Fellas?
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  Speaker 5: Fellas?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, timing definitely played a role. You know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying? Um, I don't know. I don't know. We, we,
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  Speaker 2: we've said a lot of things about, you know, why we,
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  Speaker 2: we are back together and doing music. Cause obviously touring
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  Speaker 2: was super successful for us, but to take it to
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  Speaker 2: the music, to take it to that next level, um,
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  Speaker 2: is definitely about the fans and y'all speak on that.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's the fans.
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  Speaker 6: It's, uh, Everything that I think you guys were able
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  Speaker 6: to see us go through publicly, you know, that played
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  Speaker 6: a big part in us growing. While people thought that,
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  Speaker 6: you know, it was kind of like ruining us, I
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  Speaker 6: think it was building us as men.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 6: To be able to be here in this moment and
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  Speaker 6: reconcile and then do what we needed to do to
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  Speaker 6: show our appreciation for all of our fans who supported us,
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  Speaker 6: you know, not only as B2K, but Omarion solo-wise as well.
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  Speaker 7: What's different for y'all this time, this time around with
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  Speaker 7: the album, all these years later?
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  Speaker 8: I would say Indivision and collectively, we are aware. We
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  Speaker 8: A & R' d this project. We all brought some amazing
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  Speaker 8: relationships to the table.
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  Speaker 1: I see y'all in the writing credits.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we've been dropping heat.
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  Speaker 2: Business intact. I would also say we had fun. That's
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  Speaker 2: a good word. We had fun. We were able now
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  Speaker 2: to speak from a different level of experience. So the
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  Speaker 2: song I would co-relate to just a great dish that's
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  Speaker 2: flavorful and is marinated and well-seasoned. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: So that's what the music feels like. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a wide array of assortments, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: of feels and vibes. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: Here we go again. I told you.
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  Speaker 2: We always talking.
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  Speaker 5: About food and chicken.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on.
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  Speaker 5: You got to season it.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on.
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  Speaker 5: Hold on. And then it's just like, yeah, it's Tremikulousness-less.
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  Speaker 5: Particular French is serendipitous.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, when did y'all graduate from the TI University?
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  Speaker 5: Expeditionally. I'm like, okay, I got to go look that up.
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  Speaker 5: What did you say?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you said what that word mean?
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  Speaker 4: Was there ever a point where y'all felt genuinely like
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  Speaker 4: y'all would never record another album?
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  Speaker 3: Like y'all probably had closed that book like it's first
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  Speaker 3: case and never happened.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe a.
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  Speaker 3: For me, for sure.
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  Speaker 8: He probably closed it. I think he closed it as well.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely closed it as well.
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  Speaker 3: I closed it too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I closed it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we was in the studio. Because me and him are,
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  Speaker 5: he's a Scorpio, I'm a Leo, so it's like, we
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  Speaker 5: don't really look back.
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  Speaker 3: That's facts.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I'm not messing with you no more, brother.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying? So I was like, nah,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: I'm optimistic.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So you and Raz was- Raz said he was- I
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  Speaker 3: seen it.
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  Speaker 2: I was already here. I mean, I told them in 2021,
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  Speaker 2: I said, we're going to be on the road again.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be working again as a group. I
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  Speaker 2: see it already. Like, I have a very in tune,
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  Speaker 2: what do you call it? Discernment, intuition.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Charlamagne's like that.
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  Speaker 3: Why did you feel like that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I forced a hand. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: I found the money. You know what I'm saying? We
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  Speaker 2: made sure the trademark was good as a collective. But no, seriously,
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  Speaker 2: it was a lot of.
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  Speaker 8: You know about the work we had to put into
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  Speaker 8: it to get to it. But being able to understand
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  Speaker 8: that there was a bigger purpose why I was put
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  Speaker 8: in this group.
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  Speaker 2: I grew up in a church. I grew up in
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  Speaker 2: foster homes. I grew up in group homes.
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  Speaker 8: And I had to understand that I was given the
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  Speaker 8: opportunity to do something great. So when it got taken
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  Speaker 8: from me, there was things that I needed to learn.
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  Speaker 8: I needed to humble myself.
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  Speaker 2: I needed to grow. I needed to take accountability.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I can sit here and say, okay, B2K, boy, the kings.
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  Speaker 2: Here we are.
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  Speaker 8: We got our thoughts under the captivity of Christ. Let's
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  Speaker 8: go to work. How can we inspire our kids? How
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  Speaker 8: can we inspire the generation? So like the fellas were saying,
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  Speaker 8: the evolution was the album.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? And this album speaks volumes.
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  Speaker 2: And we call it Eclipse, a.k.a. No Skips. Please listen
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  Speaker 2: to me. No skippity. No skips.
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  Speaker 3: So what's the intention? None of y'all seem like y'all
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  Speaker 3: do things without intention. So what's the intention?
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  Speaker 2: Closing out the legacy properly. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: Fulfilling what....
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  Speaker 8: The void that was missed with all the fans. No,
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  Speaker 8: I'm just saying. The group broke up, you know, just like, damn,
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  Speaker 8: like that next album probably would have been our biggest
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  Speaker 8: album and our biggest project coming off of You Got Served,
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  Speaker 8: you know what I mean? So it was just like,
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  Speaker 8: we broke up, maybe God preserved us and he needed
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  Speaker 8: us to learn so we understand what we gotta really do,
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  Speaker 8: especially for a black culture. Right, I think all of
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  Speaker 8: us have our own intention that makes this amazing.
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  Speaker 6: You know, first of all, I know y'all got a
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  Speaker 6: black girl, you know, Joy. We got a black boy, Joy,
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  Speaker 6: you know. And us all having children, let alone all
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  Speaker 6: of us having sons, I think it was very important
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  Speaker 6: to inspire something that's not happening. Us as black men
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  Speaker 6: coming together and working together, you know, and they want
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  Speaker 6: to keep us against each other. So us showing our
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  Speaker 6: sons that, you know, no matter what you're going through,
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  Speaker 6: you can always... reconcile. You can have that conversation. Be
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  Speaker 6: a man about yours. You know what I'm saying? Be accountable.
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  Speaker 6: And I think we wanted to inspire that into our
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  Speaker 6: community more.
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  Speaker 5: I know that's for me. You know, that was big
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  Speaker 5: for sure.
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  Speaker 7: I thought I was a huge B2K fan and I
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  Speaker 7: was just sitting here realizing I never knew B2K was
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  Speaker 7: boys to kings.
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  Speaker 2: It's not. It's not. No, he made that up.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, because I'm like, I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I was in tune with all the things
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  Speaker 1: y'all was doing, but when did that start?
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: I'm thinking about my own spiritual journey, my road.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get on my Googles.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, hold on.
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  Speaker 5: At the age you're at.
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  Speaker 3: Now, the moment you're at now, that's how you see it.
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  Speaker 1: It does make sense.
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  Speaker 2: You don't get it from me, but.
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  Speaker 8: Usher spoke on that at the BET Awards, you know,
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  Speaker 8: fathers being present, you know, and I want to salute
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  Speaker 8: all these three gentlemen right here. They're amazing fathers. They
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  Speaker 8: inspired me to be a great father as well.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, that's what it's about, man. That's what
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  Speaker 2: it's about. We got kids and we don't want our
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  Speaker 2: kids to walk through our, you know, our mistakes.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all talk about things marinating.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, talk about the sauce now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so boyfriend on the project, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is that like any old back to girlfriend? It is.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 2: You're the first one that caught, actually, like, straight up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Realized that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Times is a little different now, though, because when y'all
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  Speaker 7: was singing Girlfriend, it was like, I want a girlfriend.
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  Speaker 1: I want a relationship. Now it's like, I'll be here
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  Speaker 1: with you for the night. What we doing?
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  Speaker 3: For the night.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For the night. And see, that's why boyfriend in context
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  Speaker 2: makes sense, because the first lyric is, I know what
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  Speaker 2: you like. I could be your boyfriend for the night,
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  Speaker 2: if you like. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Not you, Boogs. Or us.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, we the only single ones. I never stopped dating
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  Speaker 2: my wife.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: We going out tonight.
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  Speaker 2: She got the.
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  Speaker 5: Heels on everything. Exactly. Y'all can do the 49th day marriage.
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  Speaker 1: You got no idea.
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  Speaker 5: You like that.
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  Speaker 2: Facts.
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  Speaker 3: Why you ain't think of that one, Boog?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no. Be quiet. We're sitting up here right
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  Speaker 2: now like, this nigga's taking all our bars from other interviews.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 5: That was my bar.
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  Speaker 2: I was talking about how fathers, all the fathers I
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  Speaker 2: know is present and active.
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  Speaker 5: Boog was like, I never stopped dating my wife.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking, I'm like, I never stopped dating my wife.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: We love you, Ryan.
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  Speaker 1: But the new project.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I was inspired.
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  Speaker 1: But Eclipse is really grown and sexy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It really is.
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  Speaker 7: And so writing about the love now is a little
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  Speaker 7: bit different than when y'all, all those years ago, right?
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  Speaker 7: Like the first song, I Love You. It's like, I
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  Speaker 7: love you, but y'all talking about all the things y'all
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  Speaker 7: buying her. And like, I'm like, okay. So love is,
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  Speaker 7: y'all understand the love on the material side. That's how
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  Speaker 7: y'all kicking it off.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I'll say, because you know what? What you
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  Speaker 5: was going to say?
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  Speaker 2: No, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: You had your clip loaded.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: No, you go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: No, because I'm going to back you up. I got you.
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  Speaker 2: Man, so that record is like an answer to the
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  Speaker 2: spin that. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I hear y'all say spin that in there.
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  Speaker 6: If you listen to the record, he go, you know,
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  Speaker 6: Bayou Gucci, Bayou Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, but it also
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  Speaker 6: says hair, nails, got your credit back on track.
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  Speaker 3: That's a fact.
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  Speaker 5: We building this woman. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 6: We don't want her to be, you know, like, we
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  Speaker 6: want her to actually be powerful, a real partner, so
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  Speaker 6: the bags don't just do it.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and also, I think that in hindsight, because I'm
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  Speaker 2: a very serious music person, people forget that you still
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  Speaker 2: supposed to have fun when you listen to music, and
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  Speaker 2: everything is not supposed to be so by the letter.
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  Speaker 2: And the way that I'm saying, I love you. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's very playful. You know what I'm saying? So on
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  Speaker 2: top of what the guy's saying, you know, we still
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  Speaker 2: want to give our generation music that they can just
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  Speaker 2: have fun to and act silly and talk shit. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, because we not in the club with the Draco.
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  Speaker 2: And on the block. I would hope not.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just saying, we not. So we can't fake that.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? And also, we work hard
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  Speaker 2: for our money. So, you know, we not going to
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  Speaker 2: be supporting anybody that's not, you know, giving us something
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  Speaker 2: in return. So, yeah, we'll buy all of those things. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know. You're going to have to support me too.
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  Speaker 4: That's a fly way to say everything's transactional.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: But there is.
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  Speaker 7: A bit of transaction in a partnership.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 7: But not transactional in a way of like you have to,
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  Speaker 7: you have to. But my next question was going to be,
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  Speaker 7: what have you guys learned from? pandemonium days to now
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  Speaker 7: about the transaction and partnership of relationships?
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  Speaker 2: It has to be an agreement. Yeah. It can't just
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  Speaker 2: be snatched out of the sky and you assuming because
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  Speaker 2: of who I am that, you know, you getting with
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  Speaker 2: my program and then like, you know, you not going
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  Speaker 2: to have some directives. You know what I'm saying? I
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  Speaker 2: think that for me, experiences definitely show me the importance
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  Speaker 2: of having those conversations so we feel fulfilled in our
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  Speaker 2: relationship um and no stones go uncovered and i'm confident
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  Speaker 2: when i'm moving forward and if i do feel inspired
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  Speaker 2: to want to get you something i'm not thinking like
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  Speaker 2: oh well when she gonna give me something but i
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  Speaker 2: am counting.
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  Speaker 7: How many times she got before she you like yo
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  Speaker 7: you ain't bought me nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's the context of the gift because
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  Speaker 2: if I see that it's thoughtful, I probably won't think
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  Speaker 2: about it again because I'm not someone that's like super
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  Speaker 2: difficult to please. I don't need a bunch of material things.
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  Speaker 2: If you get my favorite thing I've seen on TV
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  Speaker 2: that I like with my anime, I'm going to be like, damn,
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  Speaker 2: my baby, she really considers me. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 5: She's paying attention.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Facts. Mario and I here doing prepaid purchases.
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  Speaker 5: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Buy now.
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  Speaker 2: Buy now. I'm saying it.
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  Speaker 5: When he get home, he's going to have that anime.
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  Speaker 5: She's like, I heard you. You came up with the title, right, Mario?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Eclipse.
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  Speaker 4: Eclipse is when one celestial body blocks the light from another.
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  Speaker 3: What does that represent for B2K?
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  Speaker 2: The light and the dark, and also us coming back
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  Speaker 2: into the game. where maybe some things aren't highlighted as much,
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  Speaker 2: the core of R & B, the evolution of a group.
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  Speaker 2: We don't see a lot of transitions in successful artists
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  Speaker 2: to the past. It's like a lot of the time
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  Speaker 2: the game tries to tell you after you reach a
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  Speaker 2: certain peak that it's over for you or that you're old.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like that's really not true. You know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying? You can begin anew. You can end something.
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  Speaker 2: You can go in the darkness, you know, and you
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  Speaker 2: can have just that small glimmer of light of what
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  Speaker 2: Eclipse is, a rare, you know. Sighting. Yeah, sighting and cycle, cyclic,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying? So I'm happy that we,
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  Speaker 2: like Raz said, was preserved in a way, and we
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  Speaker 2: coming back to Eclipse today.
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  Speaker 6: It's a rare occurrence, you know, and a lot of
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  Speaker 6: our fans didn't think they were going to see it,
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  Speaker 6: you know, so don't miss it.
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  Speaker 3: I never thought I was.
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  Speaker 4: Is there something about the old B2K that needed to
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  Speaker 4: disappear for this new version to exist?
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  Speaker 2: For sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the experience is what changed that. You know?
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  Speaker 2: The 25 years of experience. And we were able to
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  Speaker 2: put all of that into this music. Yeah. Like you said,
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  Speaker 2: this year, not this year, this time around, we were
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  Speaker 2: able to fully indulge in creating this project and let
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  Speaker 2: it come from a space of where we've been and
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  Speaker 2: what we experienced.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: We had a lot of help creating it. Sean Garrett,
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  Speaker 2: Troy Taylor.
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  Speaker 5: Lil Ronnie.
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  Speaker 2: Ronnie, KP, Brownie Brown. Underdogs. Eric Bellinger. Did I miss anybody?
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  Speaker 2: Ant Clemens. Ant Clemens, yeah. Ethos.
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  Speaker 4: How do you convince your OG fans to embrace what
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  Speaker 4: y'all doing today?
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  Speaker 3: Because a lot of them, they just want nostalgia, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yes and no. I feel like they missed out. So, like,
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  Speaker 2: Knowledge is the perfect record. It's top 15. You know,
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  Speaker 2: God willing, it's going to get a Grammy. You know?
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 2: What you call it yesterday? Nostalgia. Yeah, nostalgia. That's what
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: it feels like. That's what it feels like. Nostalgia. So,
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: they're not missing out. And also, we making the mark
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: for them to understand, like, yo, y'all, we still riding.
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: I think the conversation with, like, our OG fans is like,
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: all right, y'all, Keep on coming. You know what I mean?
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: Because we still got music. We still have performances. We
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: still got tours. There's still a life here.
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, go in that closet and get the freaking dress
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: back out.
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 14:04
  Speaker 5: If you need to, go get to the membership. You
• 14:06
  Speaker 5: know what I mean? Don't let yourself get old.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: Go stretch. I'm just saying.
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: You know, hey, you got to break it down a
• 14:10
  Speaker 5: couple more times. I'm just saying, because I love you.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: Make your knees.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: Touch your elbows. I don't even know how y'all could
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: make music for the audience that grew up.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: Have you listened to that album yet? I haven't. What
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: track stands out to you?
• 14:21
  Speaker 5: I mean.
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: The mileage, of course. What was the Boyfriend record? What
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: was the one you was playing right before the Black Tuxedo?
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: It's nothing.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: I'm outside. The one that's hard to know. Cosign.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: Cosign.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Y'all, y'all real grown. Okay, no sign it's a little crazy.
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: But y'all never made kid music either, though.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 14:40
  Speaker 7: It wasn't kid music, but it was our age at
• 14:42
  Speaker 7: the time. But now when you listen to.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: It, you can tell your age.
• 14:46
  Speaker 7: But you can tell your age then because we're older.
• 14:48
  Speaker 7: I think y'all are doing what we've known y'all to do.
• 14:50
  Speaker 7: It's just we've grown now.
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: Now you understand it.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you understand it.
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: And you're living it.
• 14:54
  Speaker 7: Y'all are like, this is like a soundtrack of talking
• 14:56
  Speaker 7: through it, but then also you got a couple upbeat
• 14:59
  Speaker 7: records on here where you can kind of get ready
• 15:01
  Speaker 7: for whatever you're about to go do as.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Well, too.
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because back then, I don't know if y'all would
• 15:03
  Speaker 6: have understood if you got to change the sheets, that's
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: a cosign.
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: No, we wouldn't have understood. I don't know if they
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: knew about putting the towel down.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Right, right, right.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: That's something you learn. That's actually the next single.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that thing is, I like that. Yeah, shout out
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: to the underdogs. Shout out to the underdogs.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: Mileage is about accepting somebody's whole face.
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: That's one way to look at it.
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: Knowing that everybody got a past, you know what I'm saying? But,
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: you know, life experience, it brings value. A lot of
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: people don't look at it like that.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one of the metaphors. I mean, mileage and life, you.
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: Know what I'm saying?
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Experience.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: How much has your own mileage changed the way y'all
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: approach love and relationships?
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: You know we got a lot of miles over here.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: All these miles and no answers?
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: I'll wait for one of them to.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Get in there. I would say my experience has given
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: me the appreciation and gratitude towards experience. You know what
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: I'm saying? And also the understanding of, like, you know,
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: when you mature, like, do you really want to be
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: a teacher your whole life? I think you have to
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: really be called to. usher people in and stuff like that.
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: And when you mature, you want to have some things
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: that are inherent in people that you interface with all
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: the time. Just like honesty and trust and shit. Like people,
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: when you younger, you play with that. You know what
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: I'm saying? You a little lie here, a little lie there.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: I think that experience has shown me how important it
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: is to just like, you know, appreciate something that has
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: appreciated over time.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: With the Today song on the project, it's a lot
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: more slower.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: You guys are super, super, super singing.
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: Why that choice of song on the record? And what
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: does it mean for you guys as men to be like, yo,
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: I'm done, and really have all that emotion on that song?
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: I feel like they were talking to each other in
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: a way.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know what y'all were.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: That was actually the first record we played in the
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: studio when we came back to do the album. It
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: just felt like... a moment of history where we could
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: actually move on, reconcile, and heal.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, forgive and let go.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Forgive, forgive, and get some fucking hits done. That record
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: is crazy.
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: On top of that point, we was just talking about
• 17:24
  Speaker 8: that record outside, like just the emotions behind it.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: It's a trip that we recorded first and other things.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, what it means to me is just like I've
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: moved on from the pain. I've moved on from the
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: things that I was holding against these guys or in
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: life in general. I've learned how to forgive. We never forget,
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: but that's also to the mileage point. What I've learned,
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: if I don't apply and move the right way based
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: off of what I know, then I'm going to repeat
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: the same things over and over again. That's insanity if
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: you think something's going to come out different from that.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: For me today was me moving on and releasing the
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: baggage that I was carrying around because it was tormenting me.
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: Once I was able to forgive, then I can love
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: and have a good time with my guys because I'm
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: not sitting here with no premeditated agenda. I'm literally here
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: in all pure ingenuity, genuineness, you know what I'm saying,
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: to just love on my guys, you know what.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: I mean, and have a good time.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: And that was the first record that y'all recorded?
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: It's heavy.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: It is. Y'all couldn't have recorded nothing else if y'all
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: didn't record today first. I don't think so.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that song was like definitely speaking without speaking.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: Were there any new feelings or conversations that came up
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: from you guys putting that song together?
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of our conversations amongst each other
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: is silence. It's not always like this big conversation. You
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? But I think it's like it's
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: what's understood.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Is that healthy though?
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I think certain things need to be discussed. But when
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: you know someone so well, like, yo, like we. 12
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: years old. No, first of all, nobody had our experience.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: The only other person that had our experience with us
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: was Bow Wow.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Nobody else had our experience. So unless you was there,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: you won't really understand that. understanding you know i'm saying
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: that's not always it's a look you know i'm saying
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: it's a feeling it's not always an explanation you know
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: i'm saying action behind that yeah.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: We talked about that as five at about i was
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: like 13 we was like 15 we really took on
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: this industry you know like as kids.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah in the environment you know and it.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Was five of us and we was rolling it's crazy b2k.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Remember we was having that discussion yesterday about that shit
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Bow Wow said?
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Well, no, it wasn't Bow Wow. It was Jadakiss's son, J-Won.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: He has a podcast with CJ, Biggie's son.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: And he said that Bow Wow was our generation's Michael
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: Jackson of hip hop. From like the kid star to
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: like remaining the celebrity in the fame of who he
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: is now.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I'll get the exact quote. But he was screaming at
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: me about that.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: No, because I was saying Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, but
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: now I'm thinking about it, B2K.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: B2K is in that mix too.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: No. I would personally say, and outside of, you know,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Bal just being, you know, a great friend of ours,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: I would say he is the MJ. You know what
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: I'm saying? Because- You know, he set it off after
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Criss Cross. It was a few other groups, but he
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: set it off for the kids. And also, he was
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: in the studio hanging with the dogs at the age
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: that's kind of like, you know what I mean? So
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I feel like an artist that survives in this game,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: it has to be purposeful. It has to mean something.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: The connective tissues and the people, you know, and Bow's
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: journey is like that.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: Let's be real.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: When Bow came out, a lot of these guys that
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: are out right now, they was Bow outfits.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: That's facts. Right, yeah.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: If they would be honest, they were Bow outfits.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: No, and a lot of them, that's what I want
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: to add to that too.
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: When I see Drake and I see a lot of
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: the OGs, you know, look out for Bow, show him
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: love and embrace him.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's incredible. That's how you, he's the next generation.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: He made them want to do it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: Even if they didn't want to rap like him, he
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: made them believe that at that young age, they could
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: be a star rapper.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: But he was hard. He was the dog.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: He was hard.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: It was the look.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: It was the clothes.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: It was the movies.
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: But he said Bow Wow came in as a child,
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: had grown women on his body, movies still selling out.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: Bow Wow hasn't dropped an album of music in mad long.
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: And then he says, he announces things and they sell
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: out worldwide. Like no matter the trials or tribulations, Bow
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: Wow is Bow Wow. Just like Michael Jackson had trials
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: and tribulations.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: When you say the Michael thing, like there is no,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Michael is different.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Let's stop this shit now.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Everybody.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Okay. You're right about that. No one should be comparing
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: themselves to Michael.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: We don't have nobody. I think, not we. As a
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: point of reference. How do you describe what he's trying
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: to say?
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: It's iconic. You know what I mean? I say that.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Let everybody live in their own space of greatness.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: It's so hard to do that.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Comparison is the thief of joy.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: When we have to talk about it like that, then
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: you have to make a choice.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: When we just talk about how amazing his career was
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: and what he did for music and what he did
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: for us as child stars, opening up that, bringing a
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: whole audience of children that want to watch music and
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: be excited and go crazy.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Man, just give him his flowers.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Don't compare him to Michael because nobody's going to be
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: able to.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: It reminds me of the.
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: I just want to say this. I want to be
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: on record saying this. I think everybody should stop comparing
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: everybody to Michael. Michael went so far ahead of everybody
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: to prepare plays.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Just stop.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: He's on a Mount Rushmore by himself.
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: When people make a reference to him, I get what they're.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Trying to say. Prince could be with him later.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: But everything that everyone is doing... was inspired by Michael
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: Jackson and when my children five years old and six
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: years old see Michael Jackson and think that they want
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: to be Michael Jackson you're never going to be able
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: to get that That feeling is just something different.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: My 11-year-old, 8-year-old, and 5-year-old moonwalking around the house.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Especially after the Michael movie, this new generation.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: That's what happened to me.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: I took them to see the Michael movie, and they
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: were Michael Jackson fans.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: The Halloween costumes went so young this year with Michael Jackson.
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: All of the people going out to go see the movie, too.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my son was definitely Michael, Billy Jean Michael. He
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: got me hype. I was excited. I got excited about Michael.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: I want to go back to today real quick, right?
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Which was harder, forgiving somebody else in the group or
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: accepting responsibility for your own mistakes?
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Because all of y'all made mistakes.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: I would say for me, in observing everybody's situation and perspective,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I feel like I was able to sit back and
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: not only accept my position, but also our dispositions. You
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? As young men, not really having
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: a lot of guidance or having people that were good influences.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Really taking pride in that.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Really taking pride in being like, no, I'm a fight
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: for y'all. You know what I'm saying? Or a real mentor. Yeah.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Real mentors.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: So in hindsight for me, it was a little easier
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: for me once I got it. And I'm like, oh,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: wait a minute.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Hold up.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: This was his disadvantage. This was my disadvantage. This was
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: all of our disadvantage. Like, could I really be mad
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: at that? You know what I'm saying? Like, could I
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: really hold, you know, my bro to the fire like
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: that when now, you know, repeat offenders, that's different. You
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying? But what we went through together, yeah,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I had to sit back. And once I understood that
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: it wasn't a lot of things weren't our fault, it
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: was easy for me to be like, all right, this
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: makes sense for me.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: For me, I would say it was the self-evaluation because
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: I feel like as humans, we always feel that we're right.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: Our opinions are what we lead with.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Mike said it, man in the mirror.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: I had to look at myself and say, even if
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: I want to forgive him, why won't he forgive me?
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: It's because I'm.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: Not accepting and changing based off of what I was
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: and what I'm trying to be. and more so to
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: just shorten it up, is I had to tell myself, bro,
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: you was.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Whack for that.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: You was an asshole for that. Do you know how
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: you made him feel about what you did? You know
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: what I'm saying? You might have thought it was light,
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: but it was heavy to him. And that's where the
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: change happened with me, to where I was like, let
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: me start paying more attention to my friends if I'm
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: a real friend, opposed to being a bully or saying
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: that my way is the only way.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: My thought is the right thought. How does that make
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: him feel? How does that make him feel?
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: And at that point, now I can appreciate who they
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: really are, opposed to being self-centered and thinking that it's
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: all about me. And so that conversation was hard. After that,
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: I was able to forgive because I forgave myself because
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: I was so fucking embarrassed at how I had behaved
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: because I never really looked at myself like that.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Wow. What about you, Fit?
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Probably, I would say the public apology for me. During
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: that time, I just received so much negative feedback and
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: just people coming at me, just every angle, you know?
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, I know I'm wrong. And
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: when it was time to have that moment, Raz was
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: with me. I was scared. I was so scared, but
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I was like, this is my time to forgive myself.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: in front of everybody, you know? And then also try to,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: try to like give people a better understanding of where
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I was at, you know? And with doing that public apology,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I felt like everybody was able to just see he's
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: not really a bad guy, you know? And also being
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: that example for my son, um, Like, bro, when you wrong,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: you wrong. You know? It's all right to admit it.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: And being that I'm a public figure, it was right
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: to just do it in front of everybody. So for me,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: that was the hardest part.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: What about you, Ray?
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: What was the question again?
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: What's harder, forgiving somebody else in the group or accepting
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: responsibility for your own mistakes?
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: For me, it was both. Because the cards that I
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: would deal, right?
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: And I felt like I'd navigated the best way I
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: could and also try to survive, you know? but then
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: you have to walk around with what type of person
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: do you want to be?
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: And are you really doing the work?
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: Cause at a time in my life, I wasn't doing
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: the work and I wasn't getting the results that I
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: want or the respect that I wanted to get. And
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: I felt like my voice was being more muted versus
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: being amplified.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Right. Um, so, you know, realizing that I had.
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: To take the accountability, um, I felt like allow for
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: forgiveness to come my way and more grace because every
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: day I'm a work in progress, you know? So, But,
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: you know, I got my brothers and I got my family,
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: so they come together for me.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Yes, you do.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Yes, indeed. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: my brothers because they really be there for me. You
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: know what I mean?
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: And I love that because that's something I feel like,
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: that's something like, no, real talk, there was a time
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: I didn't have that because I had to carry my
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: cross for a time, you know.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Before that.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: When I hear, I don't know if it was Mario,
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it was Mario on the book,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: when I hear you say that y'all didn't have no mentors, right?
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: That's like, damn, as young as y'all were, it felt
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: like all y'all had was each other?
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: We were in like... I know for me, I didn't
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: meet my pops until I was 13. I knew all
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: of them before I met my dad.
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: And my dad lives in a whole nother state from
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: where I was raised and where I grew up. So
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: I didn't really have that. I had older cousins and
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: stuff who were around and, you know, would tell me things.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: But when I got around them, this is what it was.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: It was just us.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: So.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Everybody that was, per se, chaperoning us, they was just
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: there for the bread. They weren't there to like, are
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: you okay? What's wrong? Where are you right now? Nobody
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: did that for us.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's hard enough trying to become a man,
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: I mean, become a man just naturally, but y'all had
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: to do that shit in the industry with no mentorship
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: yeah right no father figures that's great.
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: That's the statement of us five us and bow wow
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: we had to navigate this industry as kids in this
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: grown environment you know what i'm saying like wow wow.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Crazy yeah and i feel like that's why you know,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: our position in this industry and in this business is
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: so powerful because it goes, it stretches beyond, you know,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: the accolades and, you know, game of the music business.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Like, it's so much deeper.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Like, the first time we met,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: you know, we got to do a biopic so we
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: can tell our story and y'all can really see that,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: you know, we all came from different experiences and, you know,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Together we created something that even though we went through
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: all that we went through, we still honor to today.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: And it pays us back.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Do y'all remember the first time y'all decided to stop
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: just being group members and become brothers?
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: No, we fought. We had to fight. I feel like
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: we had to fight through that. It's like proving of
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: the brotherhood. It wasn't just like, okay, because of the
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: way that we were separated when the group broke up. Like,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: you know, the space didn't allow us to support each other.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? And that was something that
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: we spoke about, you know what I mean, when it
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: came to this project. You know what I'm saying? I
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: never felt supported by them. I don't know if they
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: ever even knew that I cared about that. You know
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying? So this time around, I got two
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: projects out. I got B2K and I got my solo
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: project out. And they support me. You know what I'm saying?
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: That was something that, you know, maybe... Ten years ago,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: that wasn't even on my mind, you know, in a
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: full circle type of way that we're healing ourselves through
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: the art, through the act of performing, through the remembering
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: of choreography, that time. We spent, like how kids spend
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: their time in school, we spent our time in dance rehearsal.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: In development, yeah. In development. And, you know, recording records
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: and trying to get a deal. You know what I'm saying?
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: That was our life, so... Drell said it best, and
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: he can elaborate on that feat. He said Jarrell.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: No.
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: That's how you know he's about to get real.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: That's my brother.
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: A lot of people don't know this, but, you know,
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: we was in the process of getting our deal. I
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: didn't know I was kind of, like, homeless, but I
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: actually was living with Jarrell and his mama for about
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: a good six months, you know what I'm saying?
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Recently?
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: No, when I was a kid.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, all right.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Recently?
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: Recently?
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: No, when I was a kid, but, like, Jarrell said it,
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: I mean, the book says it best when there was
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: a time where there's memories that we share during our
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: adolescent years, you know what I mean? That only we can,
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: you know, talk about or learn from, you know what
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: I mean? Because they were so important moments, you know?
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: Because I always wanted that support from my guys as well.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: So I understood, I empathized with the old one. He
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: said he felt like he never had a support.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: What does that look like, though? I think that's a
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: great conversation for men to have. What does support look like.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: From Being there, showing up. What you got going today, bro?
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: I'm there. Yeah, emotional support. You good?
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: You need anything?
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Simple as a, hey, my boy just dropped a single.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Let me repost that.
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it goes even deeper, too, as well.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: I want to see them shine. I want to see
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: them do the best, be the greatest, that they could
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: possibly be. So I'm not going to watch him have
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: a hair out of place on his whole head.
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: You get what I'm saying? I'm not going to watch
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: him have a stain.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: A crumb.
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: I'm not letting that slide.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: I want my guys to be perfect or as close
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: as possible to it because I love seeing them shine.
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: So I want to highlight their greatest assets. And when
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: they walk in those moments, I'm so proud.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: I'm so happy. You know what I mean?
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: Because I really enjoy seeing them happy. I really enjoy
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: seeing them do what they love to do at the
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: highest level that they could do it at.
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: So I feel like that's support as well.
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: Well, I guess I can ask Razby about the NSYNC,
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: Destiny's Child, B2K. You said that people was asking for that.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Is that happening?
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I believe Destiny's Child is going to go on tour.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: I was just.
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: Speaking, it may be wishful thinking, but I truly believe
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: like a mega tour from like, you know, those particular
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: eras would just be crazy. You know what I mean?
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: Of course, I was putting B2K' s bit in it too
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: up in there.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Come on, man.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: B2K did try. We did. B, if you listening, you
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying?
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: Justin, if you listening and all the group members, I
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: hope y'all can figure something out.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Maybe it could be something just... Something just crazy. Maybe
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: y'all do it for the Super Bowl. Y'all even need them?
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: No, it's not about needing them.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: It's just like the energy in that same chair.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: I just think it would be crazy.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I was just thinking of like a super... I told
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: him the other day that we.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: He's so pro-black.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: I told him.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: The other day, was it Backstreet Boys or NSYNC?
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: It was one of them.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know why you were talking about this.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, so that's a tour.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: It was Drake's birthday party.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's right.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Backstreet Boys.
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: And I was like, Backstreet Boys was one of the
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: groups that we loved too. He was like, didn't nobody
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: care about Backstreet Boys. Maybe.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: I didn't say that. We love all the groups. I
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: didn't say it like that. Okay, let's keep it pro-black.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: That would be dope.
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: If it being God's will, it would be dope to
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: see Destiny Child go back on tour and B2K would
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: love to support that tour.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, fun fact. The first time we went to the
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: UK as a group, Destiny Child took us on tour.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: So, yeah.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: What did y'all learn from them? Because I'm really hung
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: up on the fact y'all ain't had no mentorship. Hard work.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, when money's involved, things get gross.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Like people around, but the business is the business.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Things get gross when the money flow. Wolves.
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: They was protecting that bag, you know what I'm saying?
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: So it kept us in a bubble and kept us blind.
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: But as we got older and wiser, we had to grow.
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: Y'all said the business is different on this project. So
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: this time around, it's like y'all are fully writing. I
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: heard you say A & Ring. Ownership.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: You said what? Ownership.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I was about to say, is this an independent situation?
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: Own that IP.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Own that IP. Hey, hey.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: Y'all didn't have no control over your image, creative direction,
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: nothing back then, right?
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: We had some input, a little bit, right?
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Literally. I would never take away the simple fact that
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: we were being developed. You know what I'm saying? So
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: there is a type of, you know, you know, support
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: and guidance that you have to trust in your team with.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: But we were growing.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: As a product, though. They're treating you more like a product. Yes. Yes.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: But now you own the product.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying.
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: You're your own commodity. Now you can exchange. The world,
• 36:43
  Speaker 8: there's nothing wrong with fair exchange, right? So it's now
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: that you can, I don't want to say pimp yourself out,
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: but you.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Can manage your own.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: You can manage your own.
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: You can manage your own IP.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I'm my own hoe.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: I'm my own hoe as well.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I was in L.A. for the Versus when y'all did it.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: L.A.? Yeah, I was there.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I thought y'all were going to just talk about the
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: fun y'all had.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: No, we did.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: It was so much fun.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: I was lit. It was a good time.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: I was lit.
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: It was nostalgia on both sides. Seeing Pretty Ricky together,
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: seeing you guys together. I know the people gave y'all
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: a hard time afterward, though.
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: That's why we agreed to be in the arena with them.
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: We know, Jerrold can tell you best, their music is
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: different than our music. But still be able to give
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: them their flowers as well. People always try to pair
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: them up. against us, but we're totally different groups, completely.
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: And I love what they do and people love what
• 37:39
  Speaker 8: we do, but if anybody's saying anything bad about Beach Gang.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: And I love the Versus platform and shout out to
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: them for giving us the opportunity to do that, but
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: I just don't like the fact that they make everybody
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: choose or they try to set it up for a
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: loser when you got.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: Two major bands are on stage through all their trials,
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: because Pretty Ricky got a story. You know what I'm saying?
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: All our trials, because B2K got a story.
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: You got them in one place, you know what I'm saying,
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: for the world to enjoy their catalogs, you know, the
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: history of their groups, and you want to make it
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: who won, or you want to make, oh, they did this,
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: or they up one to zero.
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: Like, you're losing the whole idea of why we did it,
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: and that was for us to go song for song
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: to bring you back to the moments that you enjoyed
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: and recreate those memories for you to live.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: In it again And at the same time say, damn,
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: they all still here. Damn, they all still look good. Damn,
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: this is amazing.
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: We never thought we was going to get that. So
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: we feel like it was a win, man. We love
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: Pretty Ricky. We talked to him just a couple days ago.
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: People might think it's a beef there, but it's not.
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: It's all love, you know what I mean? It's 20
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: years in the game for both of us.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I will say, you know, the internet is undefeated, so...
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: you know, if it look like you losing or winning,
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: that still might not be the truth. It might be
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: funny and it's serious.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying?
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like.
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because right now, Mal is just top 15.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: What did that experience teach you about how much people
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: still value your catalog, though?
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: I feel like it taught me that, you know... If
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: you look in the future or if you have an
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: idea what the future could look like, you never know
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: what type of platforms will create itself to give you
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: another opportunity. to have a type of peak growth in your,
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: you know, in your IP. Because again, you know what
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: I'm saying? We couldn't tell the future. We didn't know
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: we would be back together. We wouldn't know we were
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: putting out an album. That wasn't in the plans. But
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: guess what? It was in the plans. You know what
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: I'm saying? So I think for me, you know, I
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: take things in stride and I always just try to
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: put forth you know, a great performance. We always try
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: to put forth a great performance. And I feel like
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: with Versus, you have to constantly reintroduce yourself as artists.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: You know, you have to constantly evolve. And that's really
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: just what it was, another evolution peak. And sometimes, you know,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: for the audience of certain people, it's just a little rough.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? But guess what? We're going
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: to still transform and we're going to be here because
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: we're a legendary group. We're here. You know what I'm saying?
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting because all of y'all are fathers now, right?
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: When your children look at the history of B2K, including
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: all the conflicts, the controversies, what do you.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Want them to learn from it?
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Never give up. Fuck what they talking about. What's your goals?
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Why are you here? What's the purpose? Focus on that.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: That's what I would say.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: And as a man, it's okay to heal. You know,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: it's okay to cry.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Straight up.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: We in New York, so I would say I came,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: I saw, I conquered. Yeah.
• 40:49
  Speaker 8: What about you, Book?
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: If you hear no, that means next option.
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: You know, if I could make it make sense as
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: far as like a player aspect in sports, you know,
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: you an all-star, but you might just not be on
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: the right team just yet.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: So, like, how you say, Shea Gildress, you know, when
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: he was at the Clippers, he was one thing.
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: Now, he's a, champions over there. You know what I mean?
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: So just keep going. Keep at it. Don't give up.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: Just because one person may not see the vision for
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: you doesn't mean that the vision is not there to
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: be fulfilled.
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: Facts.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: Have any of your kids asked you something about the
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: group's past that was difficult to explain?
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: Heck yeah.
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: What they asking?
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: That's crazy. What they asking?
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, it wasn't difficult.
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: It was just, I got boys, and these fools is clowns, man. So,
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: you know, they go back to some old shows, and
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: then they go into the new shows, and they're like, Dad,
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: you out there.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: Dwerking, man. Like, what you doing, bro? Like, what? I'm like, bro,
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: this is what I do, you know? I'm the master gyrator,
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: you know? Oh, you be doing this?
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. They didn't understand that.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? You still doing it for
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: the fans.
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: Yo, dad, they at school frying you, bro. You know
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying? I'm like, it's all good, you know?
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: What about you, kid? Have your kids asked you anything? Nah, nah.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: My son, no.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: He ain't ask you about twerking yet or nothing?
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: Because he don't.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: He don't twerk. He be chilling.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: He hit a little one-two and.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: Then, you know.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: My son just is fully into sports. He barely watch.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: He just saw you got served like two years ago.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Finally got him to sit down and watch.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: He was like, oh, yeah, you, that was cool, Dad.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: What's up?
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: The Laker game on?
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: I be like.
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: He don't give a fuck about me.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: And Raz, condolences too, brother.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, brother.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, condolences. I should have said that from the beginning.
• 42:44
  Speaker 8: No, I don't walk around with a sympathy. I wanted
• 42:46
  Speaker 8: to honor my son's life. His name was Astro Monte Thornton. And,
• 42:50
  Speaker 8: you know, he was here to be a blessing and
• 42:52
  Speaker 8: keep me going, keep me inspired. But one quick little testimony.
• 42:55
  Speaker 8: It's pretty dope because I see they have their older kids.
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: My very firstborn actually called me today. We were celebrating Astro.
• 43:03
  Speaker 8: Shout out to the boys for pulling up to the,
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: to the celebration as well. They flew out to Atlanta
• 43:06
  Speaker 8: and support me or whatnot.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: So that was big.
• 43:09
  Speaker 8: So now I got a 20 year old that I'm
• 43:10
  Speaker 8: building a relationship with, which is a blessing.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, amazing.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Have this experience taught you anything about grief that you
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: didn't understand before?
• 43:18
  Speaker 8: Um, still going through the process, but it's just, yeah, I'm,
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: I'm learning. There's, there's six different, you know, phases. And, um,
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: but when you lean into your family and my wife
• 43:29
  Speaker 8: and my brothers and I'm staying active and busy and yeah,
• 43:32
  Speaker 8: I'm learning a lot. We all got to transition one day, right?
• 43:35
  Speaker 8: So being able to reflect and be intentional about my
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: movements and my decisions, you know, will definitely affect my legacy.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: And, you know, now that I got.
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: A 20-year-old and I still got a 2-year-old and I
• 43:47
  Speaker 8: got a 13-year-old, I get to, you know, learn how
• 43:51
  Speaker 8: to continue to be a great father.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: It's rough though at days.
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: I salute you, brother, because, I mean, you showed me
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: another level of strength, you know what I mean?
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: And being a real stand-up man Because when.
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: It all happened, you know, we all were up for
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: you taking whatever time you needed, you know. But you
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: looked at it from a different perspective and used it
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: as fuel, you know. And just to see you be
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: able to get through this, you know, we here, you know.
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: But I want to say this publicly, bro, we love you.
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean? And we ain't going nowhere.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: You feel me? For real.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Appreciate y'all. Late too.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: That's beautiful, man. Listen, B2K.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, indeed.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: The new album, Eclipse, is out November 6th. Yeah.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: What does success look like for y'all when it comes
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: to this album?
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: More shows. More hoes. No, I'm joking. No, I'm joking.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: You want more mileage.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Listen.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: I'm joking.
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: I love everybody.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: No, but definitely some tours.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: What?
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Probably another movie. You know, biopic. We got to do
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: a biopic.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: Stadium, a Grammy.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: It's a deep story.
• 45:11
  Speaker 8: A Grammy, finish up the movie. But I do want
• 45:14
  Speaker 8: to say this respectfully. The album is already successful. We've
• 45:17
  Speaker 8: already sold over 100,000 pre-orders on our previous tour at
• 45:23
  Speaker 8: a top dollar. So we are building this business model
• 45:28
  Speaker 8: that we have within touring.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: And y'all in it, right?
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 45:34
  Speaker 7: The video y'all put out, too, is crazy. It's only
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: been out a couple months. I think it's Mileage video, right?
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was looking at that earlier.
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: I'm like, whoa.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: It's a good record. Like we said, the clips, a.k.a.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: no skips. But it's been a pleasure. Thanks for having us, bro.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: I do have one question. I want all of y'all
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: to answer this, right?
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: If B2K had never broken up, do you believe you
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: would have become a bigger group? Or did the separation
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: ultimately make you better men?
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: That's a great one. Want me to start that? For sure.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: Definitely.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: You want to go with it, boo?
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: I know what I'm going to say.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Well, I was just going to say definitely. You know,
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: nothing happens on accident. And, you know, I look at
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: life from the perspective that every obstacle I face and
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: overcome is for my highest good, for a deeper understanding,
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: and also to anchor myself in my purpose and not
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: just be doing things aimlessly. You know, so it ultimately
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: made us the masters of our destiny, because it was
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: no reason for us to come back together. If you
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: looked at, you know, all of the things that we've
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: been through, you know what I mean? But when you
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: actually look at it, you know, you really know what
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: we've been through and what we've experienced. It made so
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: much sense that it would, you know, recoil in the
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: universe and come back. and create an eclipse.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: See what I did there?
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: I like that.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: See what I did there?
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Now you got to do that every time.
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: Shoot, bam. I'll say it had to happen, bro.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: The reason why it had to happen, in my opinion,
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: if you were there when it was like getting close
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: to when it happened, we were getting more money, we
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: were gaining more fame, but we were getting out of control.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: And sometimes too much is dangerous for you, you know?
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: And I don't even know, like, literally, if all of
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: us would still be above ground.
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: That's fact. You know what I mean?
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: With all of that that was coming in. We just
• 47:39
  Speaker 6: told y'all, we was out there by ourselves.
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: We was sitting there, 17, 18, four, five cars, bank crazy.
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying? Like, we were getting wild.
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: We were kind of losing... The whole formula.
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: In a sense, of wanting to be in rehearsal as
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: much as we were when we first started.
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: Wanting to be at the studio. Some people ain't showing up.
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 48:02
  Speaker 6: Some folks is going rogue. Like, it was getting bad,
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: in a sense. And the world couldn't see that. And
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: I think that if it would have went to a
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: three million, to a diamond type album, and now you got... 30,
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: 40 million in the bank.
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying? Like, could it destroy you?
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: As opposed to help you. You know what I mean?
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: So I feel like it did need to happen because
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: it was kind of getting scary.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'd say the same thing. It definitely needed to happen.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: I feel like if we'd have put that third album
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: out back then, it would have been successful. But one
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: thing we all wanted when we were younger was longevity
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: in this. So I feel like it would have been successful,
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: but short-lived. So that gap in between disbanding and coming
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: back together, we all got a chance to grow as men, mature,
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: experience life, and then come back into a better space
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: and understand the brotherhood.
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: And let's go out there and win. We should appreciate this.
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: We were definitely taking it for granted after a while.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Raz?
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have to agree. It definitely made me
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: a better man.
• 49:09
  Speaker 8: I count all my trials and tribulations a blessing because
• 49:13
  Speaker 8: You know, it depends on what type of life you want.
• 49:16
  Speaker 8: I know what type of life that I want for
• 49:17
  Speaker 8: myself and what type of man I want to be.
• 49:19
  Speaker 8: So I'm going to keep working towards that.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: So definitely.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: Word. It's B2K. Go pre-order that album, man. Eclipse right now.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: It comes out November 6th. Thank y'all for coming, bro.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: It was a great conversation.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club. Oh, my God.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Hold up.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Every day I wake up.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Y'all finished or y'all done?