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INTERVIEW: Usher On His Most Unhinged Moments, Evolving From His Toxic Ways, Uplifting Our Icons, Tour + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: There he is usha that wild man over there. What's
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  Speaker 2: going on?
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  Speaker 3: I know that domestic terrorists ain't calling nobody a wild man.
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Hilarious is here to usher.
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  Speaker 3: You know, she's the new official third co host of
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  Speaker 3: the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 4: What's up, jest?
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  Speaker 2: With all the mess? How you doing that?
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  Speaker 5: I just got this job and you ain't even come
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  Speaker 5: in here. You ain't been here since twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: I know, man, I need to come up there to
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  Speaker 2: here to be more endures.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on everything.
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  Speaker 3: No, my brother, an amazing super Bowl performance, a new
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  Speaker 3: album is out right now, and you are a domestic terrorist.
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  Speaker 3: You did it again. You're a minister society. Why were
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  Speaker 3: you so handsy? Why are you so handy with miss
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  Speaker 3: Alicia Keys?
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  Speaker 4: Sir, No, listen, it's not anyway in any shape, form
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  Speaker 4: or fashion that Unfortunately you gave me the handle. But nah, man,
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  Speaker 4: it's a celebration, man, and we you know we we
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  Speaker 4: we had an amazing time at the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Most watched super Bowl all time, all the time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, of all time, with more people watch that than
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  Speaker 4: the Apollo eleven landon man.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm like I'm like blown away.
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  Speaker 4: Since nineteen ninety, nineteen sixty nine, you know, there's not
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  Speaker 4: been a greater viewing than what happened on Super Bowl Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm really happy about that.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: And You've been a superstar for a long long time.
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  Speaker 3: So what does something like the Super Bowl do for
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  Speaker 3: you when you perform in front of that many people
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  Speaker 3: on that stage?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, is there another level? I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: It's pretty hard to beat that one, and it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be pretty hard to beat that number. So man,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just I'm just really happy, blessed. You know, I
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  Speaker 4: worked really hard in Las Vegas to tell a story
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  Speaker 4: about my culture where I come from, and being able
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  Speaker 4: to share that with the rest of the world, you know,
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  Speaker 4: was was really a monumental moment in my career and
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  Speaker 4: my life. You know, I've said, manyon times. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I turned Vegas to Atlanta, where I was able to
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  Speaker 4: introduce the entire world to what Atlanta is, to turn
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  Speaker 4: the world.
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  Speaker 2: To Atlanta for that moment, for those fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm just I'm just really happy that everything happened
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  Speaker 4: the way that it did. I'm happy that jay Z
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  Speaker 4: and Dez reached out to me to do it. I'm
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  Speaker 4: happy that Hamish shot it the way that he did.
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  Speaker 4: Happy to Alkaman Jones and Hamish work together, and bass.
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  Speaker 2: People who put all of it together to look like
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  Speaker 2: it was.
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy to out my choreographers and dancers and you know,
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  Speaker 4: contortionists and tumblers, little John Ludacris, Alicia Keys Her where
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  Speaker 4: I am. Everybody came through and was able to be
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  Speaker 4: a part of it, you know, because it's a thirty
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  Speaker 4: it's a thirty year plus you know, celebration for me,
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  Speaker 4: and it.
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  Speaker 2: Was hard as hell to put all.
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  Speaker 4: Of those thirty years into fifteen minutes, but I did it,
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  Speaker 4: and I was able to introduce people to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the culture of the past. You think about everything that
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  Speaker 4: Vegas has offered, you know, over the last two years to.
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  Speaker 2: Me, but everything that it represented in the past.
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  Speaker 4: If you've noticed the wardrobe and the fact that I
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  Speaker 4: kind of took people through what I would consider a past,
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  Speaker 4: present and future, you know experience just in time for
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  Speaker 4: me to you know, launch my tour. But it was
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  Speaker 4: real deliberate, like the wardrobe was selected to make you
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  Speaker 4: remember our glamourus we were in those times and how
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  Speaker 4: you know, going into you know, segregated casinos and being
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  Speaker 4: able to not you know, frightenize with normal people in
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  Speaker 4: those times. It was like a thing of our pride
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  Speaker 4: being taken in that time. So that was part of
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  Speaker 4: my storytelling. Like yo, I really wanted to honor all
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  Speaker 4: of the people who had had anything to do with
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  Speaker 4: us being in Las Vegas from the beginning of what
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  Speaker 4: Las Vegas experience was, for our black experience.
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  Speaker 2: Bringing eight Spiece to us into the conversation.
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  Speaker 4: Cappus came out step with me, skatecoad all of those things.
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  Speaker 4: It was a past present future conversation.
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  Speaker 6: Now and then you in your night getting married.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, congratulations, Oh my god, Well I see you keep
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  Speaker 5: That's what made me think you keep you purposely keep
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  Speaker 5: throwing it in the camera.
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  Speaker 2: Matter of fact, I'm just you know, I'm just rubbing
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  Speaker 2: my beard sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I get real honest, you know when I
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  Speaker 4: get when I'm going through it.
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  Speaker 6: I like that. What made you do it that night?
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  Speaker 6: What made you get married that night?
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  Speaker 4: You know, just to put you know, an incredible ending
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  Speaker 4: on this chapter of Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about it.
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  Speaker 4: We am I proposed to her, uh last year and
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  Speaker 4: she been wearing that ring, and I ain't want to
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  Speaker 4: be that guy who just, you know, just continue to
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  Speaker 4: hold on forever to the ring. But you know, we
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  Speaker 4: talked about the best time to do it. Obviously, around
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  Speaker 4: the time we started getting ready for Super Bowl. I
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  Speaker 4: was going back to Las Vegas. It's like, damn, I
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  Speaker 4: gotta play Las Vegas, do these shows, then go get
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  Speaker 4: ready for Super Bowl and let's do a wedding. I
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  Speaker 4: was like, that's just too much pressure. What if we
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  Speaker 4: you know, we do with drive through just for our
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  Speaker 4: kids and our immediate family, you know, old Baker style.
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  Speaker 4: You know how Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley did it.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: So it's like, yo, let's go get officiated by Elvis
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  Speaker 4: and Elvis impersonator and.
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  Speaker 2: Make it fun.
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  Speaker 4: You know, all the pressures that come with getting married.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta you know, get your gown together and make
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  Speaker 4: sure everybody's accommodated, to get the food, make sure you're
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  Speaker 4: spending hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars on on on
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  Speaker 4: this this moment that really is about the union of
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  Speaker 4: two people and the love of your family. So I
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  Speaker 4: was happy to have her family there, my family there,
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  Speaker 4: my kids there, and.
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  Speaker 2: We did it.
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  Speaker 4: We did it without any pressure, and finishing the Super
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  Speaker 4: Bowl was the hardest part, and then getting dressed to
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  Speaker 4: get there, but then in time to make it to
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  Speaker 4: the after party and we went and you know, kicked
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  Speaker 4: it with Snoop and uh and Doctor Drake and my
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  Speaker 4: flippers party.
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  Speaker 2: But it was it was cool, man, it was. It
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  Speaker 2: was wonderful, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know us in regardless of your reputation, as you know, mister,
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  Speaker 3: don't leave your girl around me. You you you're a
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  Speaker 3: family man, like you like being married.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm, I'm plural.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you're saying, terrorists, You see what I'm saying. Minutes?
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  Speaker 2: What was the important people think? I guess I'm just plural.
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  Speaker 3: What was the importance of paying tribute to Michael Jackson
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  Speaker 3: and your performance?
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  Speaker 1: Because I don't know if people A.
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  Speaker 4: Lot of people but you don't realize is that there's
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  Speaker 4: so many gyms that you have yet to unlocks.
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  Speaker 2: You only called one you called Michael. Did you catch Marvin?
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  Speaker 2: Did you catch.
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  Speaker 4: The the the back leg pop for James Brown?
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  Speaker 2: Did you catch that one?
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  Speaker 1: I think I called Marvin when you were shirtless?
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  Speaker 2: No that that was Teddy P. See you got it?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, that that was Bobby Brown and Teddy P.
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  Speaker 4: I gave a little bit of Luther Van Dress in there.
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  Speaker 4: The piano moment was a ROBERTA. Flack and uh and
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  Speaker 4: uh Donny Hathaway you missing them.
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  Speaker 1: You got to give us some of these Easter eggs? Now,
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  Speaker 1: what what was.
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  Speaker 2: The delivering in all things that I do?
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  Speaker 4: When I bring the culture of what I am and
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  Speaker 4: what has made me who I am everywhere I go,
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  Speaker 4: even right now, you don't even realize it's happening right now.
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  Speaker 5: Look behind look behind himture.
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  Speaker 1: So so you saw the Michael what was the Teddy.
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  Speaker 2: And Park ladies and gentlemen, just so.
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  Speaker 1: You know, coolers man, we not what was that?
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  Speaker 2: That, says Gordon Park spector.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what was the Teddy P. Bobby Brown tribute?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean coming out of my shirt was obviously
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  Speaker 4: Bobby Brown moment. Teddy P was the was the the
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  Speaker 4: taktop and just you know, just crooning and being able
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  Speaker 4: to have that that moment.
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  Speaker 2: All of it is who I am.
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  Speaker 4: But in what I've done and who I am, I
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  Speaker 4: recognize all of the people that have really paved the
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  Speaker 4: way far too often, Man, do we just forget about
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  Speaker 4: the people that really made it happen.
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  Speaker 2: That was a little bit. It was it was it
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  Speaker 2: was some Ronley in there.
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  Speaker 4: It was it was Gap Band in there. It was
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  Speaker 4: you didn't catch the Gap Band and earth Wind and Fire.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't get that part? No, man, it's all of them,
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  Speaker 4: was there?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 4: And then Jackson five was there and you heard that
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  Speaker 4: one can?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I would.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't catch the zap one.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go back and watch, and if you go back.
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  Speaker 4: It's a it's an entire education that's happening right in
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  Speaker 4: front of your eyes.
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  Speaker 5: I just think it's all blown away from everything. It
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  Speaker 5: was like a party and it was like it was.
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  Speaker 5: It was amazing.
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  Speaker 6: It was so much.
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  Speaker 4: It was what we do, baby, Yeah, we get out
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  Speaker 4: when we get out.
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  Speaker 1: We debated about it.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people said I was being a prisoner
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  Speaker 3: at the moment, but I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Just talking about our first watch.
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  Speaker 3: My My initial reaction was that's the best half super
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  Speaker 3: Bowl halftime performance I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: And so then the next day I went.
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  Speaker 3: Through them and even with it, I'm like, I don't
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  Speaker 3: see how you you can't say this isn't the best
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  Speaker 3: for me. The top five is you, Michael Jackson, Beyonce,
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  Speaker 3: the first, well, I think it was the first Beyonce
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  Speaker 3: when she brought Deathtney's child out. Yeah, and doctor Drean Snow.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate that game, I really do, you know. I
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  Speaker 4: I approached it with all of those things in mind.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Michael is the reason why all of us
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  Speaker 4: even want to do it. Just so you're clear, and Prince,
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  Speaker 4: this moment was amazing because of God's involvement.
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  Speaker 2: And you saw, you know, the rain come down and
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  Speaker 2: was like, yo, God is a prince. Many and many
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  Speaker 2: people have had amazing moments there.
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  Speaker 4: It is a celebration of their entire career. But for me,
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  Speaker 4: I wanted it to be something that, you know, not
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  Speaker 4: only spoke about what I did in my belief of
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  Speaker 4: Las Vegas, but what my career has represented, the resilience
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  Speaker 4: that I've had to have, and the fact that you know,
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  Speaker 4: even giving that one message to my mother, it was
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  Speaker 4: a gospel moment. My mother sang on him when we
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  Speaker 4: were kids. When I was a kid, she was young too.
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  Speaker 4: But uh, they said I wouldn't make it to said
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be here today. They said I'd never amount
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  Speaker 4: to anything, but but but.
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  Speaker 2: I made it. That was her church, that was the
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  Speaker 2: song that actually inspired me to sing.
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  Speaker 4: So I said it to her in front of the world, like, yo,
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  Speaker 4: you know, for all the people who've had anything negative
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  Speaker 4: to say or or tried to be you know, the
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  Speaker 4: negatives that would have stopped this moment from happening. I
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  Speaker 4: made it. We made it, but it was it was.
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy that you give me that.
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  Speaker 4: I thank you, brother, you know, I thank you for
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  Speaker 4: always being of support even when the Shenanigans start just
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  Speaker 4: the mess. I know you keep your ass and so
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  Speaker 4: shit always, but I love you even for it because
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  Speaker 4: it keeps all of us motivated to continue to keep
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  Speaker 4: to keep pushing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you know what, yeah, j just no, I hit
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  Speaker 2: just like, Yo, what you doing? Man?
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  Speaker 5: I know, I know, but you know what I love.
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  Speaker 5: I love the fact that you're starting that tour in
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  Speaker 5: the d N ving Baltimore.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, what made you want to do that?
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  Speaker 2: I told you. I want you're doing what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: I want to I want to hear the Jews in
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  Speaker 2: the years I need, I need to hear that.
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  Speaker 1: What made you do that?
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  Speaker 6: Like, what made you come to Baltimore and DC.
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  Speaker 2: First Baltimore and d C.
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  Speaker 4: It was just, actually, it does not start to be
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  Speaker 4: more starts in Atlanta, it started to be more, but
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  Speaker 4: we put what I didn't put all of the dates
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  Speaker 4: up as it was the first string, and then you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna play four nights in Atlanta by the end
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  Speaker 4: of this hopefully I put up three so far sold
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  Speaker 4: out to working on one.
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  Speaker 2: Uh would love to get four total.
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  Speaker 4: And the idea behind that was just the fact that
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  Speaker 4: I'm able to play residency better with my kids. I
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  Speaker 4: really got accustomed to working on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday,
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  Speaker 4: and I can go home and be with my family
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. And it makes it that
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  Speaker 4: I don't miss any day. But you know, I'm just
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  Speaker 4: just just keeping the flow. I don't want to make
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  Speaker 4: everybody that didn't get a chance to come to Las
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  Speaker 4: Vegas and experience what that was. Rather it was a serenade,
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  Speaker 4: or rather it was us having an amazing time and
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  Speaker 4: enjoying this music, this musical legacy of thirty years plus.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna bring it to you now, bringing it live
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  Speaker 4: directly to your front set.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, front, Why didn't things work out with Justin ber.
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  Speaker 4: You know what they did work out with Justin You know,
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  Speaker 4: I honored and and and and recognized that my brother,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he you know, I think that it might
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  Speaker 4: have been the fact that he was just you know,
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  Speaker 4: wanting to tell a different story right now, and I
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  Speaker 4: understand that. But we did have a brief conversation, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're going to do something else in the future.
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  Speaker 2: But there's no love lost or anything like that. I
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  Speaker 2: think that it's a lot of pressure.
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  Speaker 4: For the super Bowl, obviously for me to put together
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  Speaker 4: the show, so I reached out to everybody. Justin wasn't
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  Speaker 4: the only person that I actually spoke to about doing
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  Speaker 4: the super Bowl, but the moment was maybe for later.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to play the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 4: I'll go ahead and give you that in the future.
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  Speaker 4: I profess that over his life and over his time,
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  Speaker 4: because he has a career that deserves it. But it
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  Speaker 4: just didn't happen. But that doesn't mean it's not going
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  Speaker 4: to What.
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  Speaker 1: Was Chris Brown?
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  Speaker 2: Ever?
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  Speaker 1: For consideration, that was another rumor about that.
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  Speaker 2: No, I didn't I did not reach out to Chris Brown.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, is there anybody else? Is anybody else you know,
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  Speaker 3: I want that. There was always there was a rumor
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  Speaker 3: that you and Chris had a little kerfuffle.
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  Speaker 4: Now it's all good, man, you know, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 4: actually a you know, always going to be something that
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna hear, you know, issues between me and that man.
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  Speaker 2: We're good, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Is anyone else you wanted on stage with you but
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  Speaker 1: things didn't work out.
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  Speaker 2: I can't give you all of that. I wish.
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  Speaker 4: I wish I could, but I can't give you that exclusive.
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  Speaker 4: If you hear it, by the way, I will confirm it,
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  Speaker 4: but I will not. Okay, I'm not gonna tell you
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  Speaker 4: everybody I reached out to. I reached out to some
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  Speaker 4: some hitters. I was listening, I was curating, I was
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  Speaker 4: curating what would be one of the greatest Super Bowls
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  Speaker 4: of all time, and it actually turned into that because
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  Speaker 4: of who I reached out to.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like her.
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  Speaker 4: She is an amazing artist, but even more amazing guitarist,
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  Speaker 4: and I wanted the world to see her as the
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  Speaker 4: rock star or rock rock and soul star she is.
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  Speaker 4: And Alicia obviously reached out to because we had, you know,
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  Speaker 4: my boo, and I wanted the world to see her
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  Speaker 4: as as a glamorous start as she was. I dream,
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  Speaker 4: I dreamt her vision and I always start this flowing,
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: huge dress that would go over the entire stadium. I
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: was like, I just got this this very I'm just
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: real specific about handling handling our icons the way that
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  Speaker 4: they need to be handled, and we need to do
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  Speaker 4: that more often. We can get into the messes and
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  Speaker 4: we can absolutely get into the mess to God, you
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, But Yo, we gotta handle our
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: icons the right way.
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  Speaker 2: We got to make their we lift them up on God.
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  Speaker 2: You understand what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: I have a very impassionate conversation with the Dream one time.
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  Speaker 3: Who you got a song with on your new album.
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  Speaker 3: This was recently. This is at the j jay Z Museum.
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  Speaker 2: But the way that Jay reached out, hold state. This
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  Speaker 2: is the way that Jay reached out because.
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  Speaker 4: He understood, Yo, this is a moment for the culture.
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  Speaker 4: We have to preserve our icons in the same way.
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  Speaker 4: Don't let the mess bring our icons down because we
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: don't get them back, and we don't get a chance.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: Like we all human and we all go through things
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: and we're all going to experience things. But we gotta
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: handle icons the right way. You know, the rock stars
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: they handled each other the right way.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Agree, you know they do. We don't. We don't get
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: caught up in the bullshit, and we shouldn't. Let's stop that.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Let's let's let's lift our icons up. Let's make certain
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: that we keep them preserved.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: High at the highest place, in the best wardrobe, on
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: the biggest stage, in the biggest moment being seen, because
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: they'll surely forget about us, and if you help them,
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: and if you help them forget about us, they'll do
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: it quickly.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: Let's you know, you know, So I just wanted to say,
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: I apologize, but you said.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: What I said.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: I apologize for helping out the mess because he's talking
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: to him.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: He's very intentional.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: He's very intentional about the stuff that he's saying, and
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: he keeps sayings and just and I understand.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: So I apologize. Said, but did you know Jermaine dupri
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: was going wear at.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Yea, y'all didn't keep Jermaine Duprix in the highest of Absolutely,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: we did know.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Jermaine knew exactly what he was wearing it and you
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: know what he should because that's that's his story.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: And that's what's dope.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Like. The reality is, the first time we saw Michael
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: in literary socks, we laughed. The first time we saw
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Prince with his cheeks out, we all laughed and we
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: thought that shit was funny until it became his moment.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: That's his moment.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: We're just looking at its true, but it's cool, y'all
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: look at however you want. I see something that's going
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: to continue to grow. It's all about how you look
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: at life, man, It's how you look at it. No,
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: I'll just know that you definitely had the influence to
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: determine how people choose to look at things. So frame
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: in the right direction. Because our icons matter.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: And that's why Imond is an icon who should always
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: be treated as such. I'm telling me and the dream
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: had this convo, and I don't know why. It just
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: stuck with me that night when the dream said, I'm like, yo,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: the dream is right. We have to celebrate the legends.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: That we have.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: I really think it's because y'all still here. It's that it.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Sure as sure as technology becomes obsolete, you know, you
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: could assume that music and the spirituality that's inside of
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: it will too.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: But it won't.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: It'll always be there. But why not celebrate the people,
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: not just what they made. Let's celebrate them and let's
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: make them feel loved because they gave something. They dedicated,
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: they made you feel something, They made you fall in love,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: they made you happy, they made you smile, they gave
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: you energy, they gave you something that you needed into
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: that moment.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: So why not continue to lift them up.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: That's why at every show you see me bringing the
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: artists that I know have been influential to my stage.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: They hiding them. I'm not trying to make them look bad.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: I'm like, no, let's make them look great. Let's continue
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: to lift our own people up. Let's lift each other up.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Let's continue to push each other up. Just you know,
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: I stay on you leyo, do it better? Come on,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: do it better?
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, lift me up there, I got you. I'm gonna
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: keep pushing you. I'm gonna make you great. I want
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: you to be great. That's it, that's all I want.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I won't greatness for our people. I won't. I won't.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I want our people to make certain that we know
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: we are great. Absolutely.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: You know, have you seen some of your old moments
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: like when you was on stage with Nicki Minaj and
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: you was head button or ass. Why would you saw
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: on Why would you sawing hinge in that moment?
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Yea. By the way, that was Jamaican culture. See you
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: gotta go to you gotta go to Jamaica.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: That was just the moment that was That was fun.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: And by the way, it was me playing my bass,
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: so I would have probably bumped my shoulder on my hand,
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. But I had my base
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: in my hand, so I was playing, so I just
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: kind of bopped off a body a little bit. And
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: you go back and look at the video, you'll understand
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: because I did it there the first time. That was
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: a little bit of Jamaican coaching.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: It was all being I was like, man.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I think I think I was reaching a bit when
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I slacked her.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Though I shouldn't slecked herm but I shouldn't DoD that.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: See you gotta lift up, man, No.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Mean, I was lifting.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: And I always wondered to what was what was your
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: reaction to the Boondocks episode about you?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that keeps coming up. That's been coming up all week. Two.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I hate Regia about that, and then you
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: know they they crazy, it's funny. But I guess there's
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: that's the truth of the other side of what happens.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: That's the usher effect. I guess. I don't know.
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: Most talked about, man, that is who you are.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I appreciate that, but hey, in no way anything
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: that was done there should have been viewed as bad
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: or or in any way.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Perverted or anything like that.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: No, it was literally about you know, having a having
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: fun because of a song that me and Alisha made
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: many years ago and we celebrated because of the legacy
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: of it. In no disrespect to anybody or anything like that.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Have you in Swiss and Alisha shared a laugh about.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: It, absolutely laughed about it. It's crazy how people pick
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: they handle. It's all about how you present things, man.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: But it's all love on my shout out. Shout out
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: to the Dean Collection. Y'all get out to Brooklyn and
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: check out the check out the Dean Collection this year, tell.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: Us about your Black Love and Atlanta TV show that you.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Got It's coming. There's many things on the horizon. I'm
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: by the way. As I developed these concepts and ideas,
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you more within the process, but I'll just
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: give you the inspiration of why what it becomes is
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: something that you will be unveiled in time. I think
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: that we as artists, there's a price that we all
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: have to pay in entering this industry. And most of
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: the time we either sell off our publishing or either
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: we don't we don't retain it because it's not an
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: option too, or either we don't value it.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Because it doesn't have value in theory.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: But what the value becomes is something that people have
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: already recognized. A story of songs. Storytelling is something that
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I've always done. So what I did is I've taken
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: the songs of the of the masters that I don't own,
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: and I've reframed them into now something that is a
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: narrative piece that you'll be able to see. So you
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: already know what the story is, and you know what
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: the crescendo of the story is.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: But here's just another way of you flipping. You know,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: a hustler, you know what I'm saying, if you want
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: to call it a hustle.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: But the reality is I own the idea, but I
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: don't necessarily own the ip So why not go after
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: some other portion of it to use it to storytell.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: How does it make sense?
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: It makes How does the field to have coming home? Speaking?
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: And how the field have coming home on your own label?
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: That's amazing, you know.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: I'm really hoping that it continues to pave the way
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: and show, you know, artists who have been in this
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: industry for you know, thirty plus years, that no matter
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: you know, how long you may be in it, you know,
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: keep going, keep going, keep striving, find great partnerships. Because
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: it's really a result of having an amazing partnership with
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: La and also to Larry Jackson that makes it what
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: it is. But you know, thirty years after signing my
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: first deal and having now comeback as an independent artist
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: and having the type of reaction to my music, I
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: don't take that lightly.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: I do appreciate love.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: I do appreciate the fact that people you know, that're
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: gravitating towards the music, that they're interested in it, that
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: it connects with their lives as it has connected to mine,
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: and this it's just the next chapter installation of my life.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Ruin is one of my favorite songs off the album
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Oh my God, you knew I was going to say
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: that because I'm the one to put you on with
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: the song I should anyway.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: I love Ruined what Feels? And I was going to
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: ask you it is my favor It's one of my
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: favorite songs. But it is the one that I do
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: my makeup to every morning.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: What was that about?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Give you a whole book of use. I love that,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I love your.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Eug Thank you who inspired that song?
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: What know.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I want to know? Ruined?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Life?
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Life inspired ruined? You know the idea that you know
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: we can be in relationships that you know can can
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: change your perspective. You know you can open yourself up,
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: you know, especially for men. You know what I'm saying.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: It's like, you know how hard it is to get
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: my heart to open, and then when it does. You know,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: this one it killed me. It pushed me back. It
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: made me look at every woman differently until I met
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: my daughter. And then she ruined me in a different
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: way because she she's like spoiled and all the things
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: that she should be at her three year old as
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: a three major. She she ruined me. But you know
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: before that, the song ideally is about, you.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Know, when you're in a relationship.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: With somebody who you know you try to try to
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: get it right and then you just can't and it's
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: like you just you don't look at it. You don't
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: look at any relationship the same because of that one,
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: until you meet the one who replaces that love in
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: your heart.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: That's why I shot the video the way that I did.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Yes, and that is I bet you can see the video.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: It's a really really nice visual.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: I really love it.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: The completion of that is is the joy, the joy
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: that my wife gave me and giving me my first daughter.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: And you know, I love my boys. Don't get me wrong, But.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Every man who has a daughter, he understands what I'm
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: saying when I say that daughter's changed.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: You, I got full.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: They replace, They replace a love that you can't explain.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: When you talk about relationships, Usha and you talk I
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: saw when you talk about being in toxic relationships throughout
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: your life, Can you admit to yourself that you might
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: have been toxic once at some point?
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Absolutely? Okay, absolutely, you know uh, and obviously in the
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: music to say so. But I think that we all
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: are a product of what experiences we had as kids,
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: and what our idea of love is and what we
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: you know, we perceived to actually be healthy love that
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: might not necessarily be access is something that all you
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: know people do have. But you know, is it better
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: to have a ton when you really, you know, should
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: really love yourself first? You know, all all of those
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's I was taught to be a player.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Hey player from the him Malayas.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying was I was killing them,
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: What I'm saying. But you know.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: This man is a minus man.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I'm saying and probably turn down
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: more than I could ever choose to say. But I'm saying,
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: like to be real toxic is something that I think
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: we all got to individually work through and I did.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: I did it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: You know, in a matter of about five to six
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: year of my life. Things change because I changed because
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: my forty my forty year changed my perspective and it
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: made me want something more. It made me want to
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: love myself more. It made me want to be a
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: better person, hopefully for my children, so that they didn't
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: have to be toxic in their lives.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: But I think that all of it is you know
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: kind of you know, living and learning.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: That's in dressing.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: You say that because I feel like when you made
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: that change, and we didn't even know you made that change,
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: that's when it seemed like you started to get your
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: flowers in a real way. That's when things started to shift,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: like the residency and everything started around that time. So
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: that says a lot. You did the work on yourself
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: and it came back to you in life.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we all can't. We all should, and part of
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: it is is wanting to uh that belief and unwavering
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: commitment to what you believe in your mind no matter
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: what life is presenting you or what people may say
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: about you. That doesn't matter.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: What you feel about you matters. What I say I
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: am is what matters. I am a ruler in my
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: own mind.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: I'm a king and I am building a kingdom in
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: my own mind, and that is all that matters, no
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: matter what may be said, no matter what anyone could
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: choose to say, what I say matters. What I say
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: goes in my life, and I am the architect of
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: my own destiny.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. And that's just something you
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: gotta you gotta remember.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: You gotta you gotta remind yourself of that every day,
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: young man. Remind yourself of that every day, young lady,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: that you are as great as you say you are,
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: and if.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: You believe it, it will.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Be perfect way to end.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Man Usha, make sure y'all go get the Coming Home album.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Make sure you go check out Russia when he hits
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: the road this year.
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: Yes, because I'm definitely going.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just I'll see you out there.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: You're coming to be more. You comeing to Atlanta. We're
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: playing for in Brooklyn, just so y'all know. So y'all
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: get over there.
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: Well, I gotta come to Baltimore, like I really coming in.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I got it.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: You're gonna bring me DC Baltimore, Atlanta.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: I mean Houston, but I got in Miami.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: But I'm from Baltimore.
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: I gotta go.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: I gotta go to the You're gonna bring me on
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: Stafy so I can say I love you.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Or I got you.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: All right, it's Usher Raymond. Y'all. Thank you for checking
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: in my brother.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Thank you bringing your husband with you.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: I sure, am, I am. I'll be righted by then. Yes,
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna bring it with me.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: He want to make sure you bring your husband so
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: he can have something extra special spicy done to you.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: That's what that's what you want.
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: No, he's gonna lift me up, he said. He's gonna
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: keep pushing me, lifting me.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: It's Usher Raymond. It's the Breakfast Club. Wake that ass
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: up in the morning.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club.