ROTIMI: MILLION DOLLAZ WORTH OF GAME EPISODE 233

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00:00:00 You're now tuned into

00:00:01 (imitates guitar)

00:00:04 million dollars worth of game, man.

00:00:06 - Here you go.

00:00:07 - Today, we got the one and only.

00:00:09 - Actor, singer.

00:00:10 - Actor, singer.

00:00:11 He's Slash, Slash Gordon.

00:00:13 - A.K.A. he thinks he's the sexy butterscotch.

00:00:15 - Yeah.

00:00:16 - What is it?

00:00:17 - It's Mr. Sexy Nigerian Butterscotch.

00:00:19 - Oh my God.

00:00:20 (laughing)

00:00:21 - You have to say it right, brother.

00:00:22 You have to say it the right way, brother.

00:00:23 - He's not playing.

00:00:24 - What, what?

00:00:25 - Oh my God.

00:00:27 (laughing)

00:00:28 - So, so I'm going to be the,

00:00:31 the, the ugly Ethiopian butterscotch.

00:00:36 - Yeah.

00:00:37 (laughing)

00:00:39 - I'm the ugly Ethiopian butterscotch.

00:00:41 (laughing)

00:00:42 - It's crazy, man.

00:00:43 - What's up, brother?

00:00:46 - I'm good, my brother.

00:00:47 - Who we got in the building, man?

00:00:49 - Rotate!

00:00:50 We got him in the building, man.

00:00:51 He's doing his thing, man.

00:00:52 And like, you know.

00:00:53 - I did not know this nigga was from Jersey, man.

00:00:55 - Yeah, well, you live in Jersey from, you know.

00:00:58 - Oh, he's from Jersey.

00:00:59 - Yeah, born and raised.

00:00:59 - Born and raised in Jersey.

00:01:00 - Yes.

00:01:01 - Yes, sir.

00:01:02 - Yes, what part?

00:01:03 - Maplewood.

00:01:04 - Maplewood.

00:01:05 - Yeah, right next to Newark.

00:01:06 - Oh, right where you get shot at.

00:01:10 - Shoot you till your shirt come off.

00:01:12 - They say that nigga used to sing his way out of gang

00:01:14 banging, "There's a meeting at my house.

00:01:17 I'm getting home."

00:01:19 (laughing)

00:01:20 What's up, brother?

00:01:21 How you feeling, man?

00:01:22 - I'm good, bro.

00:01:23 I'm blessed, man.

00:01:24 - Man, you blessed by the best, man.

00:01:25 You got so much things going on.

00:01:26 I see you online.

00:01:27 I got, you know, I be tapped into you, man.

00:01:30 First of all, I just want to give it up to you on music.

00:01:33 - Thank you.

00:01:34 - Doing your thing.

00:01:35 - Thank you, brother.

00:01:36 - You a hell of a fucking actor, man.

00:01:37 - Hell of a bro.

00:01:39 Thank you.

00:01:39 - Did you ever take acting classes or anything?

00:01:42 - No, I never took acting classes, bro.

00:01:43 Never.

00:01:44 - So you never?

00:01:45 - Never, never, never took acting classes.

00:01:46 - So that shit was just natural, huh?

00:01:48 - It was natural.

00:01:49 It was, it wasn't, acting wasn't even my plan.

00:01:51 Like, it's always been music.

00:01:53 So for me, it was just like, just,

00:01:55 I was just struggling artist trying to get money, you know?

00:01:58 And so my manager at the time, he was like,

00:02:00 "I mean, you're really good in music videos.

00:02:02 So why don't you just see what you do?

00:02:04 Like, just go and get an agent."

00:02:06 No agency in Chicago at the time wanted to take me

00:02:09 'cause I had no resume.

00:02:11 So it was just like, all right.

00:02:12 So the only way I got my agent was because

00:02:15 this small boutique agency, her son went to my college.

00:02:20 So she was looking out for alumni.

00:02:22 - Yeah.

00:02:22 - That's the only way I got my shot.

00:02:24 - Yeah.

00:02:25 - What college was that?

00:02:26 - Northwestern University.

00:02:27 - Shout out to Northwestern, man.

00:02:28 - Thank you, bro.

00:02:29 So yeah, so I go in, no idea,

00:02:31 but I didn't know at the time I had a photographic memory.

00:02:34 So I saw the audition and I literally got the lines like

00:02:38 this and just did what I felt to get on the agency.

00:02:41 - Right.

00:02:42 - Yeah, and then two days later,

00:02:43 she sent me off to my first audition.

00:02:46 And it was with the show that I was on,

00:02:48 Kelsey Grammar Show Boss with T.I.

00:02:50 - With T.I., yeah.

00:02:51 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:02:52 - But this old twist before all that back in the day.

00:02:54 - Yeah.

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00:09:01 What's up with you and Jay, man?

00:09:02 Jay, you said you doing shows and shit, man.

00:09:04 - Yeah, it's crazy.

00:09:05 - Jay-Z, man.

00:09:06 - Jay-Z.

00:09:07 So when I was in high school,

00:09:08 so I went to high school with his nephews.

00:09:10 So Romel, Jarell, Ravel, all of them,

00:09:11 I went to high school with them.

00:09:12 - God damn, they whole name was a rap.

00:09:15 Romel, Jamell, Gabriel.

00:09:16 (laughing)

00:09:17 - And Dale.

00:09:18 (laughing)

00:09:19 - Yeah, man, so I went in, man,

00:09:21 and I was the only singing dude in school.

00:09:23 So I was always the singer.

00:09:24 So they were like, "We want to start a group.

00:09:26 "But if we start a group, we got to take you seriously."

00:09:28 And Hov wants us to take the train or drive every week

00:09:31 to go perform our records for him.

00:09:34 So we'll be in his living room at 16, 17,

00:09:37 performing all the songs we wrote during the week

00:09:39 and seeing if he like it.

00:09:40 So he was like, "Ah, that was whack.

00:09:41 "Oh, that's great, bring that back."

00:09:43 So we're honing our skills in high school.

00:09:46 So it was crazy, bro.

00:09:47 Yeah, that's the--

00:09:48 - So Jay-Z played a big part in you being

00:09:49 where you at right now, huh?

00:09:51 - Absolutely, yeah, yeah.

00:09:51 It was more of like a confidence booster.

00:09:53 You know what I mean?

00:09:54 - And a discipline.

00:09:55 - And discipline, like how bad you want it.

00:09:56 - How bad you want it.

00:09:57 - You know?

00:09:58 - Yeah, I mean, y'all niggas was all in the

00:09:59 motherfucking Jay-Z living room.

00:10:01 ♪ There's a meeting in my bed ♪

00:10:04 Jay like, "That's the one, nigga.

00:10:06 "That's the one right there."

00:10:08 That's what's up, though.

00:10:10 At the time, though, no, because how long ago was this?

00:10:14 - This is 2000, 2006.

00:10:17 - No, so Jay is already, he's huge at this time.

00:10:20 - He's him, he's him.

00:10:21 - So it's just an honor to just even be

00:10:22 in a nigga living room.

00:10:24 This ain't like Jay-Z when he was still on the come up.

00:10:26 No, this, he was the biggest nigga in the world.

00:10:28 - Yeah, yeah.

00:10:29 - And the fact that he took time,

00:10:31 and the fact that he was like,

00:10:32 "Yo, y'all got it, just work hard."

00:10:34 It was like, "Oh, if all I got to do is work hard

00:10:37 "and stick to what I'm doing, hell yeah."

00:10:39 - Right.

00:10:40 - That's major.

00:10:41 - So you from Nigeria?

00:10:43 - Yes, sir.

00:10:43 - You're Nigerian?

00:10:44 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:10:45 - Your parents are from Nigeria?

00:10:46 - My parents are from Nigeria, first generation.

00:10:48 - When did they come to the States?

00:10:50 - So my parents came to the States

00:10:52 when they were both like 25.

00:10:54 So they brought their whole family here.

00:10:58 So I'm the first generation of that.

00:10:59 So growing up in a Nigerian household, it was strict.

00:11:02 It was nothing but discipline.

00:11:04 I played ball in high school.

00:11:05 So I played ball and football my whole life.

00:11:07 So it was how bad do you want it?

00:11:09 And the Nigerian mindset is,

00:11:11 if you're going to do it, be excellent at it.

00:11:13 So being young and having that mentality,

00:11:16 it was like, "Yo, you got to go get it."

00:11:17 So that was my whole thing.

00:11:18 It was like, "If you want to do this, do it."

00:11:21 And my mom had me singing Nigerian wedding songs at four.

00:11:24 So I was a Nigerian wedding singer around the tribe state.

00:11:27 - Damn.

00:11:28 - Four years old, bro.

00:11:29 - So it was a lot of Nigerians in Wisconsin.

00:11:31 So you was doing a lot.

00:11:32 (laughing)

00:11:34 - His family some hustlers.

00:11:35 - Some motherfuckers.

00:11:36 (laughing)

00:11:37 - Hey, boy, boy, you can talk, boy.

00:11:40 He can talk, get him on stage.

00:11:41 (laughing)

00:11:42 - How many weddings was you doing a month?

00:11:44 - Shit, I was doing three a month.

00:11:46 - So they bring you with the little Nigerian shit on.

00:11:48 - Yep, yep, yep.

00:11:49 (laughing)

00:11:50 - He was getting that bag.

00:11:51 - This was before he was just Higgs, he Buddha, Scott.

00:11:54 - He was getting that bag.

00:11:55 - But the thing is, they was throwing the money

00:11:56 on the floor, so my parents were the ones picking that up.

00:11:59 Okay, yeah, good job.

00:12:00 I'm like, can I get something?

00:12:01 Like, nah, nah, nah, it's nothing, you don't worry about it.

00:12:02 It's all, it's wrote to me, don't worry, just go sing.

00:12:04 I got it right here for you.

00:12:05 - Oh, I like how he go into his accent though.

00:12:07 - Just go sing.

00:12:08 - That nigga was just talking like a nigga from Jersey.

00:12:09 What's he saying?

00:12:10 (laughing)

00:12:11 - Jersey drive, no, this is not for you, this is for us.

00:12:13 Stop it, get your ass up there and sing.

00:12:16 (laughing)

00:12:18 - But I wanna give your parents a shout out, man,

00:12:20 because it seemed like your parents taught you,

00:12:23 you know, but one thing I can say

00:12:24 about all of my African homies,

00:12:26 them niggas work hard, man.

00:12:30 I'm talking about, like, even shout out to one

00:12:33 of my partners, Tom Baha Ali, you know, all time,

00:12:36 second all time on the SACs list for Kansas City Chiefs.

00:12:40 You know, he's from Liberia.

00:12:42 And one thing about the nigga, man,

00:12:44 that's one of the hardest working motherfuckers.

00:12:46 I don't, like, he brought, I think one time

00:12:48 he brought some players down to train with him.

00:12:51 Them niggas lasted about two and a half days, man.

00:12:54 They said, "What the fuck type of African training

00:12:56 "is you doing, man?

00:12:57 "This ain't NFL shit.

00:12:59 "This ain't no regular shit."

00:13:00 - It's different, bro.

00:13:01 The mentality is all about hard work and, like,

00:13:05 because nothing was given, you know what I'm saying?

00:13:07 Like, I got no excuse,

00:13:08 'cause my parents came here homeless.

00:13:09 - Right.

00:13:10 - So I have no excuse. - Damn, they was homeless?

00:13:11 - Both of them homeless, bro.

00:13:13 So, like, I had no excuse not to do well, you know?

00:13:15 And, like, it was making sure that I lived up to what,

00:13:19 you know, the hard work they put in,

00:13:21 you know what I'm saying?

00:13:22 And, like, most Africans, they, like,

00:13:24 you supposed to be a doctor.

00:13:26 So, like, I wrote to me,

00:13:27 "You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, a dentist.

00:13:30 "Don't, what is this music thing?"

00:13:32 So I had to go hard for anything that was entertainment.

00:13:36 - When did they believe?

00:13:37 - Ooh.

00:13:39 - He's like, "They still don't believe me,

00:13:40 "guys, don't be a fucking dentist."

00:13:42 (laughing)

00:13:44 - Nah, bro, it was, my mom, see, my dad was like,

00:13:50 "Ah, I don't really care for this."

00:13:51 But my mom was like, "Nah, my son can sing.

00:13:54 "My son is good."

00:13:55 So she was like, "Let me be your manager."

00:13:57 So she had me in the hood writing songs.

00:13:59 - That was his manager, go ahead.

00:14:01 Fuck outta here, you lying ass nigga.

00:14:03 - So she had me in the hood recording at 11.

00:14:08 You know, she had me performing at the YMCA.

00:14:10 So everything was like, my mom was like my rock at that time.

00:14:14 - At that time, was it mostly African music?

00:14:17 - Nah, it was church, it was gospel.

00:14:19 - Okay.

00:14:20 - But then it was like a little R&B,

00:14:22 it was Kenny Latimore.

00:14:24 - Oh, you was singing Regulus shit, right?

00:14:26 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:14:27 ♪ For you, I can use ♪

00:14:28 - Yes, sir.

00:14:29 ♪ Anything, you're telling me ♪

00:14:33 - That was a hell of a song, Kenny Latimore.

00:14:33 - That's what you won the Prison Talent Show with.

00:14:36 He fucked that joint up in the prison talent show.

00:14:38 - What's crazy about it is that--

00:14:39 - He's singing all the weddings in prison.

00:14:42 - Is that you do--

00:14:43 (laughing)

00:14:44 - You think I'm joking.

00:14:45 - You do R&B and Afro beats.

00:14:48 And you're an actor.

00:14:49 So you just a slash guy,

00:14:50 like you on some Jamie Foxx shit out here.

00:14:52 - Yeah, man.

00:14:53 - You know what I mean?

00:14:54 - He's a Swiss Army knife.

00:14:55 - And then he didn't even go to acting school.

00:14:57 Like he ain't go to Juilliard, he ain't do shit.

00:15:00 No coaching, he just said, I'm gonna do acting.

00:15:02 - Well, 'cause he been acting his whole life.

00:15:05 He be somewhere with his homies, he talking Regulus.

00:15:07 Soon as he get in trouble, he go right back to African.

00:15:09 (speaking in foreign language)

00:15:13 He been acting his whole life.

00:15:18 - For real, was it hard when you first,

00:15:21 when y'all, so you was born here then?

00:15:23 - Yeah, I was born here.

00:15:24 - Okay, so when you came, you didn't,

00:15:26 so how did you pick up the African accent

00:15:29 just from your mom and household?

00:15:30 - Yeah, just living, like hearing it every day.

00:15:32 My dad still got a heavy accent.

00:15:34 So like, I just emulated that.

00:15:36 My aunt, my uncle, everybody talk like that.

00:15:38 For me, it was just like, okay,

00:15:40 oh, that's how my uncle talk, let me just use that.

00:15:42 - Yeah, 'cause the majority of the people you was around

00:15:48 didn't talk like that.

00:15:49 - Nah, nah, nah.

00:15:50 - Because that was just in the household.

00:15:50 Then you leave out the house,

00:15:51 they're like, what's up, nigga?

00:15:52 (laughing)

00:15:55 Son, listen, son, we're the mother's son,

00:15:57 you can sing a little bit, son.

00:15:59 Yeah, you need to go ahead and take that, son,

00:16:01 and make something happen out of that, son.

00:16:03 So you had to, and it's crazy 'cause my homie Tamba,

00:16:06 he could switch it on and off, too.

00:16:08 - Yeah, bro.

00:16:09 - He can talk, and you wouldn't in a million years

00:16:11 if you heard his voice know he was from Africa.

00:16:14 But then he could talk to his folks,

00:16:16 and that nigga go full-blown Liberian.

00:16:19 - Yes, sir, yeah, it's who we are.

00:16:21 - Absolutely.

00:16:22 - You ever did your 23 and me and all that,

00:16:23 to see what you are?

00:16:24 - Nah.

00:16:25 - You ain't do it?

00:16:26 - I already know I'm from Ethiopia, man.

00:16:27 (laughing)

00:16:28 I already know I'm an Ethiopian broodah.

00:16:30 Shout out to my Ethiopian brothers.

00:16:33 I am one of you, I know.

00:16:35 Where you be from?

00:16:37 - Probably be Morocco.

00:16:39 Yeah, Morocco.

00:16:42 - Why the fuck you gave him Morocco?

00:16:44 - I thought he was gonna say Dominican Republic.

00:16:46 I usually get that one.

00:16:48 Baseball, I had my change on.

00:16:49 - He like a bootleg ass Dominican coach

00:16:51 of a baseball team.

00:16:52 They don't need a little league baseball team.

00:16:54 (laughing)

00:16:57 - Ain't send nobody to the pros,

00:16:59 he just still out there coaching for no fucking reason.

00:17:02 Everybody from the Dominican Republic,

00:17:03 them niggas can play baseball like a motherfucker.

00:17:05 You been coaching 40 years,

00:17:06 they ain't send nobody to the pros.

00:17:08 He ain't had one pro come through his camp.

00:17:09 Look at him.

00:17:11 - I'm just coaching, man.

00:17:12 (laughing)

00:17:13 - So, touring, how has that been for you?

00:17:16 - Touring been good, bro.

00:17:18 Did my first headlining tour last year.

00:17:21 Did an international, so we did all of Europe,

00:17:23 we did some of Africa, we did all the states.

00:17:26 So, it's been good, man.

00:17:27 When you have, again, most artists today

00:17:30 don't take advantage of touring money

00:17:32 and actually performing anymore.

00:17:34 So I made sure that my team,

00:17:36 my fans were able to get a real, real good show

00:17:41 with a live band, every state, every country,

00:17:44 and it was just amazing.

00:17:45 So we about to hit the road again at the end of the summer.

00:17:47 - So when you perform, man, and them ladies all over,

00:17:50 the sexy, but it's got the king,

00:17:52 what your fiance be saying?

00:17:55 - Well, she smooth, 'cause I don't give her a reason

00:17:57 to feel anything, you know what I mean?

00:17:59 So, it's more of like, she was an artist herself.

00:18:02 - So she understand the artistry.

00:18:03 - She understand the artistry, she understand the show,

00:18:05 she understand everything.

00:18:06 So it's been real good just having somebody

00:18:09 who loves you and loves what you do,

00:18:11 and is like, oh yeah, my man good, he good, we good.

00:18:14 So that's the energy that we all have.

00:18:16 - They got to understand, a woman has to understand

00:18:18 as an R&B artist, my job is to go out here

00:18:23 and make every woman in this crowd say,

00:18:26 I want to go home with that nigga tonight.

00:18:29 They ain't going home with me.

00:18:32 But my job is to make sure every woman in this crowd

00:18:36 is like, I love this nigga.

00:18:38 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:18:40 - Because they going to be your fans forever.

00:18:42 - They grow with you.

00:18:43 - They grow with you.

00:18:44 You know what I mean?

00:18:45 It's different from rap shit.

00:18:46 Your mother fucker come to a rap concert,

00:18:47 they sing your shit, they don't want nothing to do with you.

00:18:49 (growls)

00:18:50 I just like the nigga music, R&B, they fall in love.

00:18:52 (growls)

00:18:53 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:18:54 - They go crazy, crazy.

00:18:55 - Nigga take your shirt off, they fall the fuck out.

00:18:57 (laughs)

00:19:00 For real.

00:19:01 - That's why it's important to make timeless music, man.

00:19:04 You know what I'm saying?

00:19:05 'Cause it's hard, it's hard.

00:19:07 But once you get your fan base and they grow with you,

00:19:08 you make good music, they with you forever.

00:19:10 - I want to shout out your old lady though,

00:19:13 because you know how many women don't understand that?

00:19:16 You know how many of these niggas perform,

00:19:19 ain't do nothing wrong, but turn a bunch of women on

00:19:21 and then get home and got to argue?

00:19:23 Fuck, you grab that woman hand like that for a week,

00:19:25 you talk about the lady who buy my shit,

00:19:27 who reached up and just wanted me to touch her?

00:19:30 You been re-arguing about that shit?

00:19:32 When I just left with you,

00:19:35 I'm coming home to blaze you,

00:19:37 blow bubbles in your fucking butt,

00:19:39 and we talking about some fucking lady?

00:19:41 So a lot of women don't understand, man.

00:19:44 And it'd be crazy because a lot of women too

00:19:46 get dropped off during a nigga's journey.

00:19:48 A lot of women, they were supposed to be right here

00:19:52 with the nigga, but somewhere along the line,

00:19:54 they had to fall off the journey

00:19:55 because insecurities they was facing.

00:19:58 So you know, shout out to you, I got a woman,

00:20:00 I got a old lady that's like that,

00:20:01 that's like, no nigga, go be great.

00:20:04 Bring that ass home, you going home,

00:20:06 can you bring that ass home on time too,

00:20:08 nigga, by the time that show was over.

00:20:10 - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

00:20:10 - All right.

00:20:11 - But you got to shout us out too, man,

00:20:12 because we make them feel like it's cool.

00:20:15 - Absolutely.

00:20:16 - You know what I mean, you got to make a woman feel like--

00:20:17 - Absolutely.

00:20:18 - There's security and good.

00:20:19 - Right, my fault, I'm giving them the credit and shit.

00:20:21 That's on us, nigga,

00:20:22 we put that comfortability on y'all.

00:20:25 - You had some love coming into the game,

00:20:27 you know Jamie Foxx?

00:20:28 - Yeah.

00:20:29 - He showed you some love early in the game,

00:20:30 what was that about?

00:20:31 - You know what, it's funny, man,

00:20:32 that's the first celebrity I ever met when I came to LA,

00:20:36 and it was, I was at a party,

00:20:39 and he was filming Django at the time,

00:20:40 so he had the crazy mustache and the beard,

00:20:43 so I didn't know who he was,

00:20:44 so somebody kept tapping my shoulder like,

00:20:46 yo, I turn around, okay, turn around again.

00:20:49 I'm like, what man?

00:20:51 He's like, yo, I'm a fan.

00:20:52 I'm like, oh, appreciate you, man, thank you,

00:20:53 thank you for the respect.

00:20:54 - Damn, he's so impressed. - Still have no idea

00:20:56 that this is Jamie, so he's like, yo, bro, look at me bro,

00:20:58 look at me bro.

00:20:58 I said, oh shit, yo, I'm so sorry bro, bro, bro, bro,

00:21:02 my bad, my bad.

00:21:03 So at that point, he was like, yo, I'm a fan of your work,

00:21:06 I love watching the show, me and Leonardo DiCaprio,

00:21:09 we stop everything and watch your show,

00:21:11 and I was like, wow, this is a show I was on called Boss.

00:21:14 So watch, he's like, yo, come to the house tomorrow, man,

00:21:16 come watch the game, it was a playoff,

00:21:17 come watch the game, go to his crib,

00:21:20 and literally he's like, yo, so what else do you do?

00:21:22 Tell me about you, and I was like, I do music.

00:21:24 He's like, you do music for real?

00:21:25 I said, yeah.

00:21:25 I went to his, he's like, yo, come to the studio.

00:21:28 I played him all my records, and he was like, yo,

00:21:30 you're my little brother, man, you're my little,

00:21:32 I got you, like, you really doing it too?

00:21:34 I got you.

00:21:35 So ever since then, I'll be at his crib,

00:21:37 even if he's not there, he gave me the keys just to chill,

00:21:39 just record when I wanted to,

00:21:41 and it was just a big brother, like, since 2013,

00:21:44 that it being him and me doing the same thing,

00:21:48 and just learning from him,

00:21:49 it was just one of the most amazing experiences,

00:21:51 and still, he's still my brother today, so.

00:21:53 - Damn, man. - Shout out to Jamie Foxx.

00:21:54 - I wanna, shit, I wanna give a big shout out

00:21:56 to Jamie Foxx, because you don't see niggas

00:21:58 embrace niggas like that. - Never.

00:22:00 - Nope. - For no reason.

00:22:01 - Never, bro, never.

00:22:03 - Shout out to Ving Rhames, man,

00:22:04 because he embraced me like that.

00:22:06 It was a situation with me and Cassidy,

00:22:09 I went to Cassidy Block, Ving Rhames seen the shit

00:22:14 on YouTube and called me out of nowhere and said,

00:22:16 that was some gangster shit, brother.

00:22:18 I was like, what?

00:22:19 I wanna put you on some movies, I'm like.

00:22:22 - That's crazy. - This Ving Rhames.

00:22:25 - That's crazy. - All right, nigga, whatever.

00:22:27 (laughing)

00:22:28 Whatever.

00:22:30 All right, you want me to fly out to LA, nigga, all right.

00:22:33 Nigga wanna hear you talk about this Ving Rhames and shit.

00:22:36 It was really fucking Ving.

00:22:37 So, you know, I try to do that for youngins,

00:22:42 you know what I'm saying?

00:22:43 I try to embrace youngins because somebody embraced me

00:22:47 when I didn't even have no reason to be embraced.

00:22:51 I had no ambitions on acting, I had,

00:22:54 and he just embraced me and put me in some movies.

00:22:58 So, it helped feed my family.

00:23:00 So, for Jamie Foxx to just be like open arms,

00:23:05 somebody that's already up here, that's amazing, man.

00:23:09 - Bro, it was so real, like, I had a birthday party,

00:23:12 it was like maybe six people, he pulled up with him

00:23:15 and his lady friend at the time, kicked it, chill,

00:23:18 at a hosting, he came to the hosting, got on stage,

00:23:21 put his arm like, yo, and within the next three to five years

00:23:24 this man, you're all gonna know his name.

00:23:27 And the fact that somebody, like you said,

00:23:28 like him to do that, it's like, oh man,

00:23:31 it's a confidence booster, it's big, man.

00:23:33 - That shit'll really make you go hard.

00:23:34 - Yeah, absolutely.

00:23:35 - Because you like, okay, not only do I see it,

00:23:37 somebody that's successful see it.

00:23:39 - Yes, yes, bro.

00:23:41 - And nothing in this fucking world

00:23:45 can make you feel better as a creator,

00:23:49 as a musician, as an artist.

00:23:52 Whatever you do out here in this creative space

00:23:54 when somebody that's already made it,

00:23:57 somebody that already has proof of concept

00:23:59 of I know how to do this shit and win,

00:24:03 and they say, you got it, you got what it take.

00:24:07 Before you got some money, you like, oh shit,

00:24:10 okay, I'm going in the right direction.

00:24:13 - Absolutely.

00:24:14 - I might have been thinking about giving up,

00:24:16 I might have been thinking about going to get a job,

00:24:18 I might have been thinking about doing some other shit,

00:24:20 but you just saved my life, man.

00:24:23 Because what you told, them simple-ass words, man.

00:24:27 Simple, just to embrace somebody, man.

00:24:31 People don't understand how much that shit mean to somebody.

00:24:35 - Absolutely.

00:24:36 - That shit could change your life.

00:24:38 He came home from jail, I embraced him.

00:24:39 He didn't know how much that meant to little cuz.

00:24:44 You know what I mean?

00:24:45 He the only person he ever got embraced from was his celly.

00:24:48 He was a little spoon, plenty of nights.

00:24:52 You know what I mean?

00:24:53 It's hard being a little spoon, laying up on your nigga.

00:24:57 But I embraced him.

00:24:58 (laughing)

00:24:59 - Fuck is you talking about?

00:25:00 - He laughing hard too, he believe that shit.

00:25:02 He laughing so hard you know he believe it.

00:25:04 - Nigga lying on me.

00:25:06 - But shout out to Jamie, man,

00:25:07 because it really show you that there's motherfuckers

00:25:10 out here that's on a certain level

00:25:11 that still do great things, man.

00:25:14 And people would never even know that story

00:25:17 if you wasn't here to tell it.

00:25:19 - You know, for me, man, the fact that 10 years later

00:25:22 I still remember that moment.

00:25:23 So much has happened in my life

00:25:25 that I still remember those words, bro.

00:25:27 It's still like, so for me now as I'm getting older

00:25:29 and I'm getting seasoned, I'm learning to do that now

00:25:33 for somebody who's 18, 19 and say,

00:25:35 "Yo, you lit, you got it, da-da."

00:25:37 You know, I know to pass that down.

00:25:39 - How did the power situation come about?

00:25:41 - Wow, dang, man.

00:25:43 So power, so let me paint the scenario.

00:25:46 So the first show that I was on, Boss, had just got canceled.

00:25:50 So I'm trying to figure it out.

00:25:51 - Wow, that was a good show.

00:25:52 - It was a great show, but a lot of the politics in Chicago

00:25:56 was telling a lot of the truth

00:25:57 that was happening in Chicago.

00:26:00 - And they ain't like that shit.

00:26:01 - They ain't like it, so they started--

00:26:02 - Get y'all asses out of here.

00:26:04 - So that happened.

00:26:05 So the illest thing my dad did for me, though,

00:26:08 was the money that I made from that show,

00:26:11 he put it all up.

00:26:12 He said, "You're not touching this.

00:26:14 "I'm gonna let you keep about 20,000

00:26:15 "and figure out what's the next step."

00:26:19 So at the time, I'm like,

00:26:20 "How you gonna keep my money from me?"

00:26:22 He was like, "Nah, but let me just protect you

00:26:24 "from yourself.

00:26:24 "You 21, 22 years old,

00:26:26 "you don't know what you're gonna do with this."

00:26:27 So I had to make 30,000, 20,000 work.

00:26:31 And at that time, studio time,

00:26:33 gotta find an apartment, da-da-da-da.

00:26:35 So I'm losing this money.

00:26:37 Then my agent at the time calls me.

00:26:39 He's like, "Bro, there's a show called Power.

00:26:41 "Just audition for it."

00:26:43 I was like, "All right, cool."

00:26:44 I put my tape in, but then if they like you,

00:26:46 you gotta fly yourself to LA

00:26:49 and meet everybody on stars.

00:26:51 So I get past that first level.

00:26:53 They say you gotta come fly out,

00:26:54 but we don't know how long you have to be out here.

00:26:56 So I'm thinking, damn,

00:26:57 how am I gonna keep this money?

00:26:59 I mean--

00:27:00 - How am I gonna house myself?

00:27:01 - How am I gonna house myself?

00:27:02 So I had to find a motel in East Hollywood

00:27:06 that would allow me to stay there for--

00:27:07 - This nigga was staying at the Mexicana Inn, man.

00:27:09 God damn, man.

00:27:11 - How much was the motel?

00:27:12 - $50 a night, but old boy was like,

00:27:15 "Man, you struggling,

00:27:16 "I'll give it to you for just 25, man."

00:27:18 $25.

00:27:19 - It was Roach's Ranch.

00:27:20 - Nigga, the nigga had to tell him that in Spanish.

00:27:22 - He said it was everything.

00:27:23 He said it was--

00:27:24 - A man ain't got no money.

00:27:25 He got lots of quintos.

00:27:27 - He said it was Roach's Ranch.

00:27:29 There you go.

00:27:29 - Everything, though.

00:27:30 It was horrible.

00:27:31 It was horrible.

00:27:32 So--

00:27:33 - How long was you there?

00:27:34 - Ended up being there for a month and a half.

00:27:35 - Damn.

00:27:36 - Month and a half, bro.

00:27:37 - That shit changed your life, though.

00:27:38 - But again, it was betting on myself.

00:27:40 So then I went out.

00:27:41 So I ain't see nobody.

00:27:43 I didn't see stars or anybody until two weeks in.

00:27:46 So they got it.

00:27:48 They set the meeting up, met with Kourtney,

00:27:50 the creator of the power, killed that,

00:27:52 then met with stars.

00:27:53 So this is over a month.

00:27:54 So I'm now like, damn, I got like $1,000,

00:27:57 $1,500 left in my account,

00:27:59 and I finally get the call to go to LA.

00:28:01 I got the job and go to New York.

00:28:04 It was like, I didn't know what I was gonna do after that.

00:28:08 You know what I mean?

00:28:08 My dad was like, "Nah, man, you're not gonna be able

00:28:10 "to touch this money for another two, three years.

00:28:12 "So just figure it out.

00:28:13 "If you are who you think you are,

00:28:14 "make it happen with what I gave you."

00:28:16 And that's the power--

00:28:17 - You know that nigga dad ain't to be fucked with.

00:28:19 - No.

00:28:20 - Me and my dad would have a shootout about that.

00:28:21 She's fucking me again with my money.

00:28:23 (laughing)

00:28:25 That nigga dad don't play no games.

00:28:26 You don't touch this.

00:28:27 Go find it, go figure out.

00:28:30 Shit, the nigga like.

00:28:31 (laughing)

00:28:33 All right, O.G., 'cause you look crazy.

00:28:36 You was homeless before.

00:28:37 I ain't never seen that shit.

00:28:39 I ain't never been at that point.

00:28:40 I'm gonna leave you alone, O.G.

00:28:41 Just don't fuck my money up.

00:28:42 I'm gonna make it happen.

00:28:44 So okay, so now you get the show.

00:28:45 - I get the show.

00:28:46 - I get the show.

00:28:48 Season one, they're like, "Look, man, you got,"

00:28:50 I mean, season two, I'm the new character.

00:28:52 They said, "You got this season,

00:28:55 "but your character's gonna die in season three."

00:28:58 That was my deal initially.

00:29:00 So I'm like, "All right, let me kill it.

00:29:01 "Let me do my thing."

00:29:02 But the funny thing is, man,

00:29:04 I went in knowing that if I stay past season three

00:29:09 and I stay like multiple seasons,

00:29:11 I made a vow to myself

00:29:12 that I wouldn't touch any of my power money.

00:29:14 So I never spent any of my power money

00:29:17 while I was on the show for six seasons, bro.

00:29:19 - This nigga's African for real, man.

00:29:21 I don't give a fuck if he was born in Africa or not.

00:29:23 You might be half African, half Mexican, man.

00:29:25 You cheaper than a motherfucker, man.

00:29:27 He don't spend no money for nothing.

00:29:29 What, I just got to 500,000?

00:29:32 Give me 15,000 for the next seven months.

00:29:37 Wait, dog, how you gonna live off of that?

00:29:39 You figure it out.

00:29:40 So you don't touch no power money.

00:29:42 - I ain't touch no power money until after it was done.

00:29:44 So what I did was I lived off the music money.

00:29:47 I was filming every day,

00:29:49 and then the weekends I fly out, do my shows,

00:29:52 get my endorsement situation.

00:29:53 So I do my hostings and my performances.

00:29:55 So for six years, that's what I lived off of.

00:29:58 So the first thing I bought after the show

00:30:00 was my crib in Atlanta.

00:30:01 So just turned all of that into real estate.

00:30:04 - How did that feel?

00:30:05 - To buy it cash, bro.

00:30:07 Amazing, and build it from, you know what I mean?

00:30:09 And it was right before.

00:30:09 - Don't talk heavy, nigga.

00:30:10 Don't skimp over the talking heavy.

00:30:12 You try, you try, you try.

00:30:13 And build it from,

00:30:14 he about to say, "Build it from the ground up, nigga."

00:30:16 Like, then he caught himself.

00:30:18 He caught himself.

00:30:19 No, don't be humble, nigga.

00:30:20 You built it from the ground up?

00:30:23 - From the ground up, bro.

00:30:24 Straight cash, nothing.

00:30:25 No mortgage, nothing, bro.

00:30:26 And it was just like, wow, I did this, man.

00:30:29 And I turned that into, I bought that,

00:30:31 then I bought another one.

00:30:32 So I turned all the money into real estate early.

00:30:35 And the funny thing was,

00:30:36 the best thing I did was do that right before COVID hit.

00:30:41 So when everything shut down,

00:30:43 I ain't got no mortgage,

00:30:43 nothing to worry about, just the basics.

00:30:45 You know what I mean?

00:30:46 So that was one of the illest things.

00:30:47 - That's what's up.

00:30:48 - Yeah.

00:30:49 - Like, you know, one time, you know, Jay-Z,

00:30:53 you know, what happened at that brunch?

00:30:56 - Oh, shoot, that was crazy.

00:30:57 So--

00:30:58 - Roc Nation brunch, you heard?

00:30:58 - Roc Nation brunch.

00:30:59 So fast forward about seven, eight years,

00:31:03 now Power's going crazy, my new record's going crazy.

00:31:08 So I see Hov and he's like, "Man, bro,

00:31:10 "I'm so proud of you, dog.

00:31:12 "I'm so proud of what you're doing.

00:31:13 "Just keep doing what you're doing, man.

00:31:15 "Like, whatever you need."

00:31:16 So his nephews were there.

00:31:18 He was like, "Nephews," he was like,

00:31:19 "Yo, how y'all let this nigga go, man?

00:31:20 "What's wrong with y'all, man?

00:31:22 "How y'all let this nigga go, man?

00:31:23 "What's wrong with y'all?"

00:31:24 So that was the whole talk,

00:31:26 the entire brunch with me and him, man.

00:31:27 But it was dope just to see Hov again,

00:31:29 remember what I, and to know he's watching.

00:31:32 You know, and he know he's watching what I was doing.

00:31:33 - I know some niggas that know some niggas

00:31:35 that know some niggas that know Hov.

00:31:36 They said that nigga see everything.

00:31:39 I was like, "Wait, everything?"

00:31:40 They said, "That nigga see everything."

00:31:42 - Everything, bro, yeah.

00:31:43 - I was like, "Damn, even with a B and another B?

00:31:46 "He's still watching shit?"

00:31:47 (laughing)

00:31:48 Then yeah, I said, "Well, I guess he probably

00:31:50 "ain't got too much to do.

00:31:51 "He got all them fucking billions.

00:31:52 "He's sitting somewhere on the island.

00:31:54 "Fuck it, let me see what's going on today."

00:31:56 But that's what's up, man.

00:31:57 Jay remembered you.

00:31:59 And just to come from, it seemed like, though,

00:32:03 it almost seemed like you was destined to be something.

00:32:07 Because you was doing fucking,

00:32:12 you was the wedding singer at four,

00:32:14 way before the movie came out.

00:32:16 You was rapping in Jay-Z's living room at 15, 16,

00:32:22 singing and shit.

00:32:23 So it's like, how many people could say that?

00:32:28 Oh, I used to be, back in the day,

00:32:30 I used to be singing in Jay-Z's living room for him.

00:32:32 I used to go every weekend, we'd be singing,

00:32:34 and it was like, what?

00:32:36 So it was almost like all the things you went through

00:32:39 in life was just getting you to the point

00:32:42 that you at now, man.

00:32:43 - Yeah, man, and again, you just gotta trust the process.

00:32:47 I realized trusting my intuition, staying prayed up,

00:32:51 keeping good people around me, making fire product.

00:32:55 You can't sacrifice the product, man.

00:32:57 A lot of people want everything else.

00:32:59 And we were just talking about,

00:33:00 everybody want everything else but not the work.

00:33:03 You know what I mean?

00:33:04 So for me, knowing that I had to prove

00:33:06 like I really do make great music,

00:33:08 I had to work harder than most artists.

00:33:11 I had to go from, I'm bringing scripts to studio sessions.

00:33:16 I'm on the way, on the plane studying while writing.

00:33:20 So it's like I always had to figure out a way

00:33:23 to make time when artists got three, four months

00:33:25 to just make music.

00:33:26 I'm filming those three, four months,

00:33:28 and I might get a session or two to make my EP.

00:33:31 So I had to be so efficient that like,

00:33:34 and I'm happy I had it that way,

00:33:35 but I had to be so efficient.

00:33:37 Because I ain't had the same time that most artists did,

00:33:38 and I finally have it now.

00:33:41 - What was up with like 50 Cent,

00:33:43 now knowing you sing and all that stuff,

00:33:44 just thinking you a hector.

00:33:45 - It's crazy.

00:33:46 So 50, so if you know 50, so somebody,

00:33:50 so on season two, if you remember,

00:33:52 it was a lot of Dre and Kanye.

00:33:54 They spent a lot of time together, right?

00:33:56 So playing that, it was seeing like him every day.

00:33:59 So I saw how he was with people always in the street

00:34:02 asking him, "Yo, can you listen to my mixtape?

00:34:04 "Can you listen to this?"

00:34:05 So he was like, "Nah, man, I'm good."

00:34:06 And throw that shit away.

00:34:07 So I'm like, "All right, okay, I'm never gonna let,

00:34:09 "I'm not gonna ask him for nothing."

00:34:11 So I built a friendship, and then one day,

00:34:14 this is how, again, destiny, bro.

00:34:16 So I go to the studio one day working with these white boys

00:34:20 I never met, these producers.

00:34:21 I go in, and when I go in, they're like,

00:34:24 "Yo, this is when Snapchat just came out."

00:34:26 So we were like, "Yo, we just won a beat battle on Snapchat,

00:34:29 "and this executive from a label's coming

00:34:33 "to get the beats for his artists on his label."

00:34:36 So he comes in, don't know who he is,

00:34:39 but I'm playing my song that I'm working on in the studio,

00:34:41 and he's like, "Yo, that's you?"

00:34:42 I'm like, "Yeah."

00:34:43 He was like, "I got music for 50, Eminem,

00:34:48 "and all these people."

00:34:49 I'm like, "Who do you work with?"

00:34:50 He was like, "Yo, I'm the A&R of G-Unit.

00:34:52 "I'm the head of A&R of G-Unit."

00:34:54 So that nigga is the one that comes in randomly

00:34:57 to my session, and still 50 doesn't even know

00:35:01 that I do music.

00:35:02 So he's like, "Yo, come to this session,

00:35:03 "yo, come to this office tomorrow."

00:35:04 So I go to the office tomorrow,

00:35:06 and you know when you play records,

00:35:07 you in there for like 30, 40 minutes, right?

00:35:09 But I was an hour late, so 50 came in a little later.

00:35:14 So when 50 came in, he was like,

00:35:16 "Yo, what are you doing here, bro?

00:35:18 "What you doing here?"

00:35:18 I'm like, "Oh, Tony asked me to come play some records."

00:35:22 He was like, "Let me hear what you got."

00:35:24 I played a song called "Lotto,"

00:35:26 and he made me play that song nine times

00:35:28 back to back to back.

00:35:29 And he was like, "I'm gonna do my verse tonight,

00:35:32 "and I'm gonna give you a G-Unit deal."

00:35:34 I said, "Wow."

00:35:35 So just by God and timing,

00:35:38 this old boy coming in at the same time,

00:35:41 50 just happening to be in the office.

00:35:42 - You been getting a lot of breaks.

00:35:43 - Bro, it's like, again, going back to the Destiny, bro.

00:35:46 - That's a human fucking kick kick bar, man.

00:35:49 - Break me off of you.

00:35:51 This motherfucker get breaks every year.

00:35:53 - Crazy, crazy.

00:35:54 - Like, shit.

00:35:55 - Yeah, and God, man.

00:35:57 You know what I'm saying?

00:35:58 God put me in that position where it's like,

00:36:01 "Wow, so just 50 hearing that,

00:36:03 "and then two weeks later, deal's done,

00:36:06 "video being shot, I got a record deal."

00:36:09 And this is all while filming season two.

00:36:11 The show didn't even come out yet.

00:36:13 So everything was just happening at the right time.

00:36:15 - Boo Boo a good nigga, man.

00:36:16 - Yeah, he cool people, man.

00:36:17 - Boo Boo a good nigga, man.

00:36:19 - How was it, like, with the success of Power,

00:36:22 working with the deal, how was it like working,

00:36:24 like doing the show and like filming,

00:36:26 and then seeing, you know, you see all the work you put in,

00:36:28 then when you're not working,

00:36:29 the response of the people when you out there,

00:36:31 how was that transitioning?

00:36:33 - Oh, man, it's a blessing, bro.

00:36:35 Like, when you work so hard for something,

00:36:36 and people don't understand, man,

00:36:37 we filmed eight months to make that show for people.

00:36:40 - Eight months?

00:36:41 - Eight months out of every year.

00:36:42 - So you mean to tell me your straight,

00:36:44 is it eight months straight, or?

00:36:46 - Eight months straight, bro.

00:36:47 It'll go eight months straight,

00:36:48 and then the show will drop,

00:36:50 and then we'll get like a two, three,

00:36:52 we'll get four months off, eight months again.

00:36:54 So I did that for six years.

00:36:56 So when you put that much time in,

00:36:58 and now you in people's living rooms every weekend,

00:37:02 it's like the best feeling to be acknowledged

00:37:04 for what you do, you know what I mean?

00:37:05 So for me, it was dope to be known as Dre,

00:37:08 and then it was also dope to be known for my music,

00:37:10 and then Mr. Sexy Nigerian bought the scotch as well.

00:37:14 You know what I mean?

00:37:14 So it's a beautiful thing, but again, man,

00:37:18 it makes you want to work harder, and do more.

00:37:21 You know what I mean?

00:37:22 - Yeah, you had a great fucking role too.

00:37:24 You was a vicious nigga on there.

00:37:26 I ain't gonna lie, you was playing that shit too,

00:37:29 'cause I'm gonna keep it all the way real.

00:37:32 I thought you was a motherfucking gangster, man.

00:37:34 (laughing)

00:37:36 I thought you was a bad nigga from Newark, man.

00:37:39 That nigga done shot a couple niggas in his life,

00:37:42 but they had you playing some fucking roles on there.

00:37:44 - No, a shout out to 50, man, and the writers of that shit.

00:37:49 - Crazy, bro.

00:37:51 - Because at that time, when that shit came out,

00:37:53 man, motherfuckers was fiending for something to look at.

00:37:57 Motherfuckers was fiending for a series to grab onto, man.

00:38:00 And for a nigga like 50 who come in as a rapper,

00:38:04 sell a bunch of records, and then transition.

00:38:07 It's about transition, and a lot of rappers,

00:38:10 that's what I do want to shout Boo Boo out for,

00:38:12 because a lot of rappers is just rappers, man.

00:38:14 That's all they ever gonna be.

00:38:18 They was good rappers in high school,

00:38:21 they was good rappers in their early 20s,

00:38:23 rapping in their 30s, rapping in some niggas,

00:38:25 that's just what they do.

00:38:26 The transition game, they don't even

00:38:29 think about transitioning.

00:38:31 So the fact that 50 is able to transition

00:38:34 in so many fucking ways is inspiring to a nigga like me.

00:38:38 I'm just keeping it real.

00:38:40 It's certain individuals in the game that I look up to.

00:38:45 50 Cent is a nigga that I look up to,

00:38:47 even though he my peer.

00:38:48 I might be a year older than 50,

00:38:49 he might be a year older than me,

00:38:51 but I look up to him, I admire the nigga.

00:38:53 I admire niggas like Snoop,

00:38:55 a nigga that had a fucking murder charge,

00:38:57 and now he out here representing for Corona,

00:38:59 because that show you that your past

00:39:02 ain't who you are today.

00:39:03 You feel what I'm saying?

00:39:05 Who I was back then is not who I am now.

00:39:08 And I am able to grow.

00:39:09 I'm able to grow as a person,

00:39:11 and I shouldn't be held accountable

00:39:12 for some shit that was from back in the day.

00:39:15 - Absolutely.

00:39:15 - You feel what I'm saying?

00:39:16 So for me, I look up to certain niggas,

00:39:19 and I be like, damn man, I'm trying to do that.

00:39:22 - He's a mastermind, bro.

00:39:23 He's a marketing genius, too, bro.

00:39:26 It's one on one, 50's one on one

00:39:27 when it comes to marketing and selling products.

00:39:29 - I think I got the marketing aspect down.

00:39:32 - Oh, hey.

00:39:33 - I gotta get the other aspects.

00:39:35 50, I need a conversation for you, nigga.

00:39:37 I need you to embrace me like Jamie embraced him, nigga.

00:39:39 Pull up on me and Wallow.

00:39:41 Yeah, you niggas got it.

00:39:43 Y'all could be producing TV shows.

00:39:45 Show us the way.

00:39:46 And we got some money, too, nigga.

00:39:48 We don't need no money from nobody.

00:39:50 - That's major.

00:39:50 - But we love using OPM.

00:39:53 - Yeah, that's major.

00:39:53 But you know, it's just like,

00:39:54 you're acting, you got the music.

00:39:56 How do you balance all that stuff?

00:39:58 And then, you got a lovely fiance, baby.

00:40:01 How do you balance all that?

00:40:04 - Bro, you know, again, man, the way I grew up,

00:40:06 they had me doing so much at one time.

00:40:08 So I was always, I'm used to compartmentalizing.

00:40:11 So I was playing sports, and I'm singing,

00:40:13 and I'm traveling, and I'm doing school,

00:40:15 then this, I was always doing multiple, multiple things.

00:40:18 So it prepared me as a man for this,

00:40:21 'cause again, music and acting

00:40:23 doesn't really feel like work to me.

00:40:26 Like, creating don't feel like work.

00:40:28 Being on set don't feel like work.

00:40:30 So it's just knowing that I'm enjoying

00:40:33 what I do to create, it feels light.

00:40:35 I think the family aspect of it, it gets tough,

00:40:38 you know what I mean?

00:40:39 Because traveling and everything.

00:40:39 But again, you got a good partner

00:40:42 that is super, super just like,

00:40:43 yo, just go kill it, bring this bread back,

00:40:46 enjoy yourself, make sure you be disciplined out there,

00:40:51 and do what you do.

00:40:53 But that's the important thing.

00:40:55 If she was a headache, all of this would be--

00:40:57 - Do you think she's able to operate in the space

00:41:00 and be the support system because

00:41:03 she's a superstar back in Africa?

00:41:04 - Yeah, bro, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:41:06 She was an artist, you know, so she was like--

00:41:09 - She's like, at home, I'm bigger than you,

00:41:10 motherfucker.

00:41:11 - Absolutely.

00:41:12 (laughing)

00:41:13 Absolutely, absolutely.

00:41:15 Absolutely, but she's from Tanzania,

00:41:18 so she's like the East African Rihanna.

00:41:20 Like, that's what she was.

00:41:21 - Damn.

00:41:22 - Yeah, so she was big, big, big.

00:41:24 So she's seen it all, she's experienced it.

00:41:26 So for me, it's like having that cheat code, basically,

00:41:29 to know, okay, even performance ideas, or this idea.

00:41:33 So it's been dope, man.

00:41:35 - 'Cause she could give you a lot of game.

00:41:36 - Absolutely.

00:41:37 - 'Cause she was seasoned before you.

00:41:39 - Absolutely, yeah.

00:41:40 - So that's a beautiful thing, man.

00:41:41 - How was it responding to Africa?

00:41:43 - To me?

00:41:44 - You.

00:41:45 - Oh, yes.

00:41:46 It's like, they call us like the royal family,

00:41:48 you know what I mean?

00:41:49 Because everything that we're doing is inspiring to people.

00:41:52 You don't really see two artists successfully

00:41:55 make something work like that.

00:41:56 So it's been, you know, they love it.

00:41:58 But then also me as an artist and as an actor, man,

00:42:01 it's been love.

00:42:02 I actually want to go back home and start doing

00:42:04 film productions there as well.

00:42:07 Like just open it up to make, you know,

00:42:09 Nollywood even bigger than it is and be a part of that.

00:42:12 'Cause there's a lot of money in that.

00:42:13 And plus, you know, there's a lot of talent, too.

00:42:15 - Now you independent, right?

00:42:17 - Yeah.

00:42:18 - How did it feel to be independent?

00:42:20 You got two gold singles.

00:42:22 - Yeah.

00:42:23 - Another one ready to go platinum.

00:42:24 How did that feel, man?

00:42:26 And you know, if you independent, you over the empire,

00:42:28 you getting all your money.

00:42:29 - We getting all the money.

00:42:30 Yeah, it's all the money.

00:42:31 So it feels better knowing that you control

00:42:34 a lot of the decisions, you control the singles you pick,

00:42:37 you control how you move, you control the narrative

00:42:40 you want to create.

00:42:41 So to see it be almost platinum and all that, man,

00:42:44 it feels like mission accomplished.

00:42:47 - Why is this nigga punch smile like that?

00:42:49 So he asked you about that money.

00:42:50 - He love it.

00:42:53 - We asked him how it feel,

00:42:55 nigga, this nigga make this stuff up.

00:42:58 - He get the trip.

00:42:59 - He grabbing his pocket.

00:43:01 Shout out to Punch, man.

00:43:04 - Shout out to Punch, bro.

00:43:06 - Real talk, man.

00:43:07 The one thing I can say about Punch, man,

00:43:08 if he with you, he always with you, man.

00:43:10 That's the one thing I can say.

00:43:11 That nigga called me, start breaking you down,

00:43:13 like I ain't know who the fuck you was.

00:43:15 - Call me too.

00:43:16 - I'm talking about nigga Dre.

00:43:18 Fuck you talking about?

00:43:20 You talking about Dre, the crazy Dre from power?

00:43:23 Man, I want to commend you, man.

00:43:26 You doing your thing out here, brother.

00:43:28 You doing your fucking thing, man.

00:43:30 And that's just how you do it, man.

00:43:33 When God got something for you, it's for you.

00:43:35 - It's going to happen.

00:43:36 - That man didn't take no acting classes,

00:43:37 but that man act better than a lot of you niggas

00:43:40 that want Juilliard.

00:43:41 You ain't got to say it, I'm going to say it.

00:43:45 Because you believable.

00:43:47 And when you could play a role, like, okay, cool.

00:43:51 I'll go play a role where I'm doing some gangster shit.

00:43:54 That's not acting, that's easy.

00:43:56 Fuck out of here, nigga.

00:43:58 You keep, bitch, I'll shoot you till you catch on fire.

00:44:00 That's not acting.

00:44:02 You playing a role that's not even you.

00:44:04 - Yeah, yeah, thanks.

00:44:05 - And it's believable.

00:44:07 - Thank you, bro.

00:44:08 - It's like, oh shit.

00:44:09 - And you know what the crazy thing is too, bro?

00:44:11 Like, again, to any actors out there,

00:44:13 like, one, maximize every opportunity you got

00:44:18 when that camera's on.

00:44:19 Because for season two, my first season,

00:44:22 I didn't say a lot of things,

00:44:23 but I made sure when the camera was on me,

00:44:25 everything I did was with my eyes.

00:44:27 So you'll see little things that just stare,

00:44:30 or what, or this, or this, or that.

00:44:31 Like, different things that you'll do

00:44:33 to make people be like,

00:44:34 yo, he's about to do something crazy, I don't know.

00:44:36 'Cause that's what it was always about for me.

00:44:38 What's he up to?

00:44:39 Is he going to do something?

00:44:40 Or he's sneaking off to do something.

00:44:41 So I made sure I took care of those moments.

00:44:44 You know what I'm saying?

00:44:45 And so that was really, really powerful for me.

00:44:48 - What did you learn out of that?

00:44:49 - Actually watching a lot of Robert De Niro movies, bro.

00:44:52 - Nigga was in the house, and I was watching.

00:44:54 - Keith.

00:44:55 - Keith was one of my favorite.

00:44:56 - He's one of the greatest.

00:44:57 He did everything with his eyes, you know what I mean?

00:45:00 So him, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn,

00:45:05 and I grew up with a lot of Dre's.

00:45:07 You know what I mean?

00:45:08 So I know a lot of the mannerisms, you know, that guy.

00:45:11 So it was dope.

00:45:13 - Even with your parents, see?

00:45:14 That's what he just told on himself.

00:45:16 Even with his parents being slick, he was still running

00:45:18 around with some raggedy niggas.

00:45:21 He still snuck over here and had some raggedy ass friends.

00:45:23 - He was still around here.

00:45:25 - Parents don't know to this day.

00:45:27 He like, "I hang with a bunch of Dre's, man.

00:45:28 "Who do you think I am?"

00:45:30 (laughing)

00:45:32 But damn, man, I just want to shout you out, man.

00:45:37 I would have never in a million years

00:45:39 knew your road to success came like this, man.

00:45:44 You know what I mean?

00:45:46 Jamie Foxx could stand in motels for 30-something days.

00:45:51 - That's major.

00:45:52 - You know what I mean?

00:45:53 - Rap motels.

00:45:53 - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

00:45:54 - These was rats, roaches, all the big bugs.

00:45:56 - He probably wrote some of his best shit in there, too.

00:45:58 - Yeah, from, you know, you writing from the survival mode.

00:46:02 You writing your best stuff.

00:46:02 - How you know?

00:46:03 You ain't write no hot raps in prison, nigga.

00:46:05 Shut up.

00:46:05 - Fuck you talking about?

00:46:06 - They done had big bugs in prison.

00:46:08 - Y'all had mice.

00:46:09 - You know we can't leave without talking

00:46:11 about this Ness and Philly shit.

00:46:12 - Oh, we ain't leaving.

00:46:13 We ain't leaving.

00:46:14 - We ain't gonna talk about that.

00:46:14 - What we gonna talk about?

00:46:16 - I'm just saying.

00:46:17 Don't sleep on that.

00:46:18 - Hold on, you represent Africa, right?

00:46:21 - Yes, I do.

00:46:22 - You know the Sixers have big motherfucker, right?

00:46:26 Joe Ellen B, big motherfucker.

00:46:29 Yeah, you dig it.

00:46:31 Who on the Nets can go around big motherfucker?

00:46:34 - Yeah, you right.

00:46:36 - Yeah, okay.

00:46:37 I keep forgetting you forgot KD and them niggas got traded.

00:46:42 - I know, bro.

00:46:42 But we play hard, though.

00:46:44 We play like a good team, though.

00:46:45 - And y'all play together.

00:46:46 - Yeah.

00:46:47 - You know, I can honestly say that y'all picked up

00:46:49 some great fucking players from Miles Bridges

00:46:52 to Spencer Dinwiddie.

00:46:55 - Tough, tough.

00:46:56 - Y'all got some.

00:46:57 - That was my squad when Kyrie and KD was up there.

00:46:59 I left them since.

00:47:00 - Shut the fuck up, man.

00:47:01 Everybody's your team that's winning.

00:47:03 - Yeah.

00:47:05 Had a good squad.

00:47:05 I don't think they got a shot now.

00:47:07 - No, I don't think they got a shot to win the championship.

00:47:10 In the league?

00:47:11 - In the league right now.

00:47:12 - Joel and Bede.

00:47:14 - Number one.

00:47:14 - Yes.

00:47:16 I mean, he averaged 34 fucking points a game.

00:47:18 - Yeah, he's going crazy.

00:47:19 He's going crazy, bro.

00:47:20 - Every game?

00:47:22 - 34 points a game.

00:47:23 That's what that mean, every fucking game, Goofy.

00:47:25 He didn't get that.

00:47:26 I said he averaged 34 points a game.

00:47:27 He said, "Every game?"

00:47:29 (laughing)

00:47:31 - What about John Moran and all them boys?

00:47:32 - Dumb is, this is a dumb motherfucker right here.

00:47:36 - What's my man's name from Milwaukee?

00:47:37 - Hold on.

00:47:38 No order, though, but I do think right now

00:47:41 Joel and Bede is the best player in the league.

00:47:43 You gotta have Giannis.

00:47:45 - Okay, tough.

00:47:47 - I can't give it to LeBron this year

00:47:49 because LeBron been hurt too much.

00:47:51 - Fair enough.

00:47:52 - I can't.

00:47:53 - So you can't give it to KD either?

00:47:54 - I can't give it to KD.

00:47:55 KD, are they still top, top?

00:47:57 Yeah, they are, but they been hurt.

00:47:59 - He love Luka.

00:48:01 - Luka Doncic.

00:48:02 Yes, there's three.

00:48:04 Even though their team isn't that good,

00:48:11 Shea Gildas, Alexander been going the fuck off, man.

00:48:17 - I just put a punch on it, bro.

00:48:18 Dude is hard, though.

00:48:19 - He been going the fuck off.

00:48:22 - You can't guard him, bro.

00:48:24 - And he has nobody, you know, he has good players,

00:48:27 but he's no superstars on his team.

00:48:29 It's no, and he really carrying a whole team by himself.

00:48:33 He goes the fuck off.

00:48:34 - They gonna be nice, though.

00:48:35 - And I'm just talking about this year.

00:48:36 I'm not talking about--

00:48:38 - I'm with you.

00:48:39 - You cannot, that kid is--

00:48:41 - He's special, bro.

00:48:42 - That kid is fucking special, man.

00:48:43 - He's special, bro.

00:48:44 Yeah, he definitely top.

00:48:45 That's my favorite point, though, in the league right now.

00:48:48 - I think my fifth probably would be--

00:48:51 - Oh, he played for the Clippers.

00:48:54 - Yeah, he did, he did, he got traded.

00:48:56 - I don't know what my fifth would be, man.

00:49:00 There's so many.

00:49:00 - Tatum, you wanna take Tatum?

00:49:01 - Tatum, Jason Tatum, goddamn, goddamn.

00:49:04 - That's the most quietest.

00:49:05 - I was supposed to say him first.

00:49:07 The second after NB, Jason Tatum.

00:49:10 So that would be my top five players in the league right now.

00:49:12 It would be Joel Embiid, Giannis, Jason Tatum,

00:49:17 Shay, and Donchus.

00:49:22 Who would your five be?

00:49:23 - No order.

00:49:25 - No order.

00:49:26 - Give me Shay, Embiid.

00:49:28 Ooh, yeah, no KD, no.

00:49:32 I like Devin Booker, man.

00:49:34 - Devin Booker's tough.

00:49:35 - Devin Booker's a bucket.

00:49:36 I like Devin Booker.

00:49:37 - He's a fucking bucket.

00:49:38 - Um, Giannis for sure, obviously.

00:49:40 And then, yeah, give me Tatum.

00:49:44 Give me Tatum.

00:49:45 - Okay.

00:49:46 - Yeah, yeah.

00:49:46 - So we just disagree on Donchus, Luka.

00:49:49 And Luka just numbers his unbelievable, though, man.

00:49:53 - He play at his own pace, man.

00:49:55 He's tough, yeah.

00:49:55 He's tough.

00:49:57 - Absolutely, man.

00:49:58 You gotta understand, back in the day,

00:50:01 you had the hardest jobs, man.

00:50:03 You was an all-pro running back

00:50:04 and a wedding singer at the same time.

00:50:06 (laughing)

00:50:08 Nigga rush for 30 times for 219 yards

00:50:11 and then gotta go sing at a wedding.

00:50:13 ♪ There will never come a day ♪

00:50:17 ♪ You'll ever hear me say ♪

00:50:19 - Body, eating like a motherfucker.

00:50:21 ♪ Man, I want ♪

00:50:22 - Get that money, motherfucker.

00:50:24 We told you not to play football.

00:50:26 Your main job is wedding singing.

00:50:29 - You know what's crazy, though, Curse?

00:50:30 - What's that?

00:50:31 - I know he might look at you in a certain way

00:50:34 because he won the celebrity game at the Knicks,

00:50:38 the Net Summit celebrity game,

00:50:40 so he might think he get it.

00:50:41 - Ty cooked the shit out of my barbecue bacon.

00:50:44 My Barbie, my jumper be singing on that nigga.

00:50:46 ♪ Meet me ♪

00:50:47 What was it?

00:50:47 ♪ In my bed ♪

00:50:49 (laughing)

00:50:51 That motherfucker.

00:50:52 - You won't even be able to get it off.

00:50:53 - Man, what?

00:50:54 - I'm right here, though.

00:50:55 - Oh, no, no, no, no.

00:50:56 I got a handle.

00:50:57 Wop, wop, you over there.

00:50:59 (laughing)

00:51:01 That shit's so smooth.

00:51:02 - I'll do it, I'll do it.

00:51:04 - That's the same thing that Elite Chopper said.

00:51:05 You ain't gonna be able to get it off.

00:51:07 You old, yeah.

00:51:09 Big three on TV.

00:51:11 - Yeah, I went crazy, you went crazy.

00:51:13 - MVP.

00:51:13 - You went crazy.

00:51:14 - I was the oldest nigga on the court by far.

00:51:18 Like, Elite Chopper's like 21, I'm like 46.

00:51:22 I mean, I'm probably older than your mother, nigga,

00:51:24 and I cooked you.

00:51:26 So, like, I mean, we had Gronkowski on our team.

00:51:30 He didn't win MVP.

00:51:33 The little nigga did.

00:51:34 The little nigga with the jumper.

00:51:36 - Not very good, though.

00:51:37 - But whenever you ready, 'cause I come up to Mabelwood,

00:51:40 and then scorch the shit out you.

00:51:42 I just want you to know, whenever we play,

00:51:45 it's going on camera.

00:51:47 - Easy, yeah.

00:51:48 - Every bucket, I'll be singing one of your songs.

00:51:50 The ball gonna be in there, I'll be,

00:51:53 "Step up, sexy mother scotch!"

00:51:55 (laughing)

00:51:57 "Step up, sexy mother scotch!"

00:51:59 Wop!

00:52:00 I'm just telling you how this gonna go down

00:52:02 before it go down.

00:52:03 Then you be like, "Damn, Gil talked so much shit.

00:52:05 "Why he ain't playing with Gil, too, dude?

00:52:07 "He was gonna cook you and talk shit at the same time."

00:52:09 You sure you want that?

00:52:10 'Cause if you don't, we could be on the same team now.

00:52:12 - No, no, no, no.

00:52:13 - We could cook together.

00:52:13 - I'm gonna guard you, bro.

00:52:15 - Damn.

00:52:16 - I'm gonna guard you.

00:52:16 - That's a desperate--

00:52:17 - You still gotta guard me.

00:52:18 - Look at my cameraman.

00:52:19 My cameraman didn't like this.

00:52:20 He said, "Because you know how many young niggas

00:52:23 "since he's been down with me, he's heard, it's over.

00:52:27 "I'm guarding you."

00:52:28 - Barbecue.

00:52:31 - Kill it, kill it.

00:52:32 (beatboxing)

00:52:34 - Then they gotta hear me talk this shit.

00:52:39 It's like, "He don't even believe you.

00:52:42 "And he knew you were an athlete."

00:52:44 He like, "I feel sorry for sexy butterscotch.

00:52:48 "It ain't gonna go how you think.

00:52:50 "This nigga jumper is silky."

00:52:53 - It's crazy.

00:52:53 I saw Chris Brown shit, it's crazy.

00:52:56 - Yeah, I got Chris out of there.

00:52:59 Just Chris, Russ, who else?

00:53:04 NLE Choppa, who else?

00:53:06 - So many, too many to name.

00:53:09 - Rob 49.

00:53:10 - Rob 49.

00:53:11 - Rob 49.

00:53:12 - What's the young boys--

00:53:13 - Cooked him.

00:53:14 - What's the young boys--

00:53:15 - The Jimenez man.

00:53:16 - The young boys that went to the NFL draft.

00:53:18 - Oh, you talking about Bryce Young, CJ Stroud.

00:53:22 Yeah, I played with them.

00:53:23 We cooked Famous Lose.

00:53:24 Shout out to Famous Lose.

00:53:25 You know Famous Lose.

00:53:26 Barbecue baked ya.

00:53:28 Four games or two, Lose.

00:53:30 Get you out of here.

00:53:31 Go ahead and do your Sports Center shit now.

00:53:33 Talk about the players.

00:53:34 When you talk about the players,

00:53:35 they had me in there, nigga.

00:53:36 Talk about my game, how I cooked you.

00:53:37 You never do that, Lose.

00:53:39 I went to Lose's house, too.

00:53:40 He had me paint his little ass garage

00:53:41 where you only take two dribbles.

00:53:44 Like, what the fuck?

00:53:45 We had to go to LA Fitness.

00:53:46 That's when I got him.

00:53:47 - Cooked him.

00:53:48 - Who else barbecue baked?

00:53:49 Anybody else?

00:53:50 - It was a lot.

00:53:51 - It was a lot, it's been a lot.

00:53:52 So we just gonna add you on the list.

00:53:53 You know how fucked with you, bro.

00:53:54 (laughing)

00:53:55 - I throw him right in the grill.

00:53:57 - You know how big, just to add you on the list.

00:53:59 It ain't about nothing.

00:54:00 I know you can play, though.

00:54:01 - Nah, I'm nice, bro.

00:54:03 - I know you can play.

00:54:03 - I'm nice, I'm nice, I'm nice.

00:54:05 You're not gonna be able to do it.

00:54:05 I mean, what you're saying is nice, but I got you.

00:54:08 - Oh, shit.

00:54:09 - I got you.

00:54:10 - That's that Nigerian confidence.

00:54:12 Newsflash them niggas is not known for playing basketball.

00:54:16 It's like one Nigerian nigga in the league.

00:54:19 - And he's the best.

00:54:21 - Who is he?

00:54:22 - Giannis.

00:54:23 - He's from Nigeria?

00:54:23 - Of course.

00:54:24 - You didn't know that?

00:54:25 That was my favorite player in '81.

00:54:26 - No, he's not.

00:54:27 Giannis is from Greece, man.

00:54:29 - He's Nigerian, bro.

00:54:30 How like I'm American, but Nigerian, he's Nigerian.

00:54:33 He's 100% Nigerian.

00:54:34 He's just born in Greece.

00:54:35 - Oh, he was born in Greece,

00:54:36 but that nigga's from Greece.

00:54:38 - Yeah, he's Nigerian.

00:54:40 - I gotta check on that, that nigga's from Greece.

00:54:42 You claiming Giannis.

00:54:43 - Nah, he's Nigerian.

00:54:44 He's Nigerian.

00:54:45 - He is?

00:54:46 - Yeah.

00:54:47 - I believe him 'cause his voice went high.

00:54:48 He's Nigerian.

00:54:49 (laughing)

00:54:50 Yes, he is.

00:54:51 (laughing)

00:54:52 - I never heard you dig at it.

00:54:53 (laughing)

00:54:55 - He's that.

00:54:56 - Yeah, like he was hitting a mother fucker.

00:54:57 See, notice.

00:54:58 (laughing)

00:54:59 - Yeah.

00:55:00 - Damn, I didn't know Giannis was from Nigeria.

00:55:03 - You know that, man?

00:55:04 - So Cameroon's right next to Nigeria.

00:55:06 So it's like Jersey, New York.

00:55:08 - How you know all this shit?

00:55:09 You was born in Jersey, nigga, Maverwood.

00:55:12 - Yeah, he know the country.

00:55:13 - He talking like he was right there.

00:55:14 All that shit a couple miles away.

00:55:16 I used to travel over the bridge, right, nigga?

00:55:19 (laughing)

00:55:21 How many times you been to Africa?

00:55:23 - Shit, maybe 15 times, man.

00:55:25 - Oh yeah, goddamn.

00:55:26 You went back home for real?

00:55:28 - Yeah, I had to, bro, I had to.

00:55:29 I went back home.

00:55:30 - Do your parents go back home?

00:55:31 - Yeah, my dad go back like every two months.

00:55:33 - That's why he never lost that accent.

00:55:34 (laughing)

00:55:36 He ain't losing that motherfucker.

00:55:38 He go back home every two months.

00:55:39 - Every two months, bro.

00:55:40 There's a lot, people don't understand,

00:55:41 there's a lot of money in Africa, bro.

00:55:43 A lot of money in Nigeria.

00:55:44 A lot of money in Africa, period.

00:55:46 - They try to act like Africa fucked up, though.

00:55:48 - What?

00:55:49 Bro, they got more money than most of us.

00:55:50 95% of us, bro.

00:55:52 They live way better than 95% of us.

00:55:55 - But why they always wanna show us the villages and shit?

00:55:57 - I mean, 'cause it's America, America, bro.

00:55:59 America just always wants to look like

00:56:02 it's bigger than everything.

00:56:03 - 'Cause them commercials back in the day,

00:56:05 I'm just saying, I never believe them commercials.

00:56:08 They got motherfucking little kids here

00:56:09 flying on his fucking face.

00:56:11 You can feed little little tits for 65 cents.

00:56:16 Who the fuck eats 65 cents?

00:56:19 Where they shopping at?

00:56:20 - That's a lot of rice.

00:56:21 - What the fuck are you talking about, 65 cents?

00:56:24 How they gonna eat off of that?

00:56:26 Like, them commercials, I never,

00:56:27 I always used to think that was a scam, bro.

00:56:30 - Most of them are, though.

00:56:31 - Really?

00:56:32 - Yeah, most of them are.

00:56:34 - Let me find out Africa where the fucking money at, man.

00:56:36 - It's where the money is, bro, for real.

00:56:38 - A lot of gold over there, huh?

00:56:39 - A lot of gold, oil, just new development,

00:56:42 real estate, businesses, everything, bro.

00:56:45 Everything out there.

00:56:46 - All right, so is you gonna take your company,

00:56:47 your skincare company to Africa?

00:56:49 - Absolutely.

00:56:50 So I got a new skincare line called Favr,

00:56:53 it's F-A-V-R, Favr Skin.

00:56:56 And what I did during the pandemic,

00:56:58 I went to Israel and I partnered with these guys in Israel

00:57:03 to get products and minerals from the Dead Sea.

00:57:05 So it's all natural, organic,

00:57:07 because the Dead Sea is a healing component.

00:57:10 Like the minerals there is all healing.

00:57:11 So anything it does to your skin, it heals it.

00:57:15 So packaged it up and now it's available everywhere.

00:57:18 So favrskin.com, you can get it.

00:57:20 And we're about to do,

00:57:21 it's about to go live on Amazon as well.

00:57:23 So, and we're about to do something with HSN as well too.

00:57:26 So yeah, man, it's moving.

00:57:28 - It's doing really good.

00:57:29 - It's done to get everywhere like broken glass, man.

00:57:30 - Come on, man, so get that favrskin.

00:57:31 - How you be, get that.

00:57:33 You know what I mean?

00:57:34 ASAP, where they can get it at, online?

00:57:36 - Yes. - Any stores?

00:57:37 - Yes, sir, favrskin.com, F-A-V-R skin.com.

00:57:41 - Go get that.

00:57:42 I probably need to get my shit, right?

00:57:44 I don't put nothing on my skin,

00:57:45 but fucking silver water.

00:57:47 - That's right, F-A-V-R.

00:57:50 - He put favrskin, he can.

00:57:52 - F-A-V-R. - Tell this nigga dumb dumb.

00:57:53 - Yeah, S-K-I-N.

00:57:54 - You had to tell the nigga how to spell skin,

00:57:56 this shit's crazy, man.

00:57:58 (laughing)

00:58:00 - Get it.

00:58:01 - I see the website right here.

00:58:03 - Yeah. - You got it, yeah.

00:58:04 - Oh, look at that nigga, he come right up, look at him.

00:58:08 He come right, (laughing)

00:58:10 60 Bulldozer car. (laughing)

00:58:13 - Well, he's not playing the packaging.

00:58:15 - Yeah, the packaging, what's the packaging?

00:58:17 - Yeah, the packaging.

00:58:18 - Oh, yeah, the packaging look good, too.

00:58:20 You got a nigga out on a peach suit,

00:58:22 he ain't playing, that nigga's not playing.

00:58:25 He not playing.

00:58:26 - He got the website, website.

00:58:27 - Got the kids on there, he got the skin,

00:58:29 kids getting they skin right.

00:58:30 - See, all forms of pain.

00:58:32 - Yeah, boys and girls, men and women,

00:58:33 all can wear it, all can use it.

00:58:35 - So make sure y'all go check my man.

00:58:37 Skin line out, skin care line out, you know.

00:58:40 - F-A-V-R. - Moisturize your face,

00:58:41 it come from the dead sea.

00:58:43 A lot of y'all got dead faces

00:58:44 that need to be woke the fuck back up.

00:58:46 Shit all dead.

00:58:47 Wake your fucking face back up.

00:58:50 How you say it?

00:58:50 - Like yours dead.

00:58:51 - Favorite, favorite skin.

00:58:52 - Favorite skin.

00:58:53 - You're joint dead.

00:58:55 - You got a butt face, this shit like a baby butt face.

00:58:59 Look at it, just.

00:59:00 They call him BBF, not BMF, that's BBF, baby butt face.

00:59:07 Look at it, you ain't use none of that,

00:59:10 you need to use it, though.

00:59:12 You need to use some F-A-V-R on your shit, man.

00:59:14 That's why your shit be itching like that.

00:59:15 - Send us a package, man.

00:59:16 - Got you.

00:59:17 - Yeah, take care of it.

00:59:18 - Good studio, man.

00:59:19 - My shit start glowing and shit.

00:59:21 - I got you.

00:59:21 - Because I smoke so much weed,

00:59:22 I be having a little tint to my shit.

00:59:24 - Yeah, Reggie tint.

00:59:25 - I got a, yeah, all right, nigga.

00:59:26 I don't smoke no fucking Reggie.

00:59:28 Fuck you, Zombo.

00:59:29 I bring my shit back to life, favorite skin care.

00:59:32 - Reggie tint.

00:59:32 - Get that.

00:59:33 - So I could be a sexy Carmel Bethe Traps.

00:59:38 (laughing)

00:59:41 - I don't think I, I don't got no potential to be sexy.

00:59:45 Like, I figured I was an ugly nigga way long ago.

00:59:48 I was like, get that shit up, stop.

00:59:51 I stopped giving a fuck about my regimens and all that.

00:59:54 I'm like, none of this shit is not going up.

00:59:56 I ain't gonna ever be cute.

00:59:58 That's one thing we understand.

01:00:00 But see, I'm able to face reality.

01:00:02 You was one of them ugly niggas

01:00:03 thought you had a chance and shit.

01:00:04 You was still getting dressed and shit,

01:00:06 brushing your hair for hours and all that shit,

01:00:09 three little funky ass waves and all that dumb ass shit.

01:00:12 Give it up, bro.

01:00:13 - Had the stocking cap on.

01:00:15 - When the bitches look at you,

01:00:16 they say, "Hey, there's Franklin."

01:00:18 (laughing)

01:00:21 He tried to hold it in.

01:00:22 He ain't shit.

01:00:24 You know what some nigga do.

01:00:25 He really know you look like Franklin.

01:00:27 He is like.

01:00:28 (laughing)

01:00:31 Nigga try to put his head down.

01:00:32 When a nigga do that, that's when you know

01:00:35 they laughing at you.

01:00:36 They not laughing with you.

01:00:37 You look like Franklin, remember the show?

01:00:39 Hey, say it one time.

01:00:41 Say it.

01:00:42 - He forgot it.

01:00:43 He's trying to get him to sing it.

01:00:43 - He forgot, right?

01:00:45 He can't do a verse like that.

01:00:46 I thought about it.

01:00:47 (laughing)

01:00:49 - That's crazy, he's thought about it.

01:00:50 He ain't shit.

01:00:51 - He ain't shit.

01:00:52 He said, "I thought about it, though."

01:00:54 - He's crazy like that, man.

01:00:56 - You do got one of the biggest wedding songs ever.

01:00:59 - Biggest.

01:01:00 - You perform, you get paid to do all the weddings?

01:01:02 - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:01:03 So I'm back doing my wedding singing thing,

01:01:06 but now it's actually my song.

01:01:07 The song's called "I Do."

01:01:09 It's beautifully written, man,

01:01:12 'cause when I created it, I was like,

01:01:13 man, there's no wedding song for this generation.

01:01:17 We don't have our own.

01:01:18 We got everybody else's, you use the same thing,

01:01:22 but we don't have one for this generation.

01:01:24 So I wanted to make one that people could just feel good.

01:01:27 So we've been just doing dope, dope wedding,

01:01:30 while they're walking down the aisle, everything, man.

01:01:32 So it's been really--

01:01:33 - You be singing acapella?

01:01:34 - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:01:35 Dope, man.

01:01:36 (whistling)

01:01:39 Oh, yeah, let's do that.

01:01:40 Let's do that.

01:01:41 - You need a backup singer, I got you.

01:01:43 - Are you gonna start?

01:01:44 You wanna start?

01:01:45 You gonna start?

01:01:46 - Uh, yeah, me start.

01:01:49 (laughing)

01:01:51 He don't even know where to start with that nasty voice.

01:01:54 ♪ Shoo-bee-doo-bee ♪

01:01:57 ♪ Boo-doo-ba-ba ♪

01:01:59 ♪ Boo-ba-ba ♪

01:02:01 ♪ Doo-ah ♪

01:02:02 ♪ Doo-ah ♪

01:02:03 - That sound like some deep, dark, dumb shit, man.

01:02:06 Somebody sitting in the woods, Indian style,

01:02:08 listening to that dumb shit.

01:02:10 - I got you.

01:02:11 ♪ I know it's hard to see ♪

01:02:15 ♪ Just how simple it is ♪

01:02:18 ♪ Until you love somebody ♪

01:02:22 ♪ Like one, two, three ♪

01:02:25 ♪ Trust me, you haven't lived yet ♪

01:02:28 ♪ Until you love somebody ♪

01:02:31 ♪ How simple it could be ♪

01:02:34 ♪ It's simple, truly ♪

01:02:36 ♪ Keep going ♪

01:02:37 ♪ Until you love somebody ♪

01:02:41 ♪ How simple it could be ♪

01:02:43 ♪ It's simple, truly ♪

01:02:46 ♪ Keep going ♪

01:02:47 ♪ Until you love somebody ♪

01:02:51 ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

01:02:57 - Shit, nigga, you about to get remarried, nigga.

01:03:02 Just come sing at my shit.

01:03:04 You see, you know when a nigga can sing,

01:03:06 when he ain't got no problem singing acapella.

01:03:08 You know what I mean?

01:03:09 You know that auto-tune shit, man.

01:03:11 You ask a motherfucker, another motherfucker gonna say,

01:03:13 "I ain't got no hoes, man."

01:03:15 - My throat, I need some tea.

01:03:16 - I need hoes and a hot tea.

01:03:18 - My throat.

01:03:19 - I was in the studio at five in the morning last night

01:03:22 and all that shit.

01:03:23 He come right on.

01:03:23 ♪ Until you need somebody ♪

01:03:27 Yeah, I heard the little riffing there.

01:03:30 - Oh, it's time to go, son.

01:03:32 - Absolutely, man.

01:03:33 But we appreciate you, man, for pulling up on us, man.

01:03:37 Giving us some of your time.

01:03:38 Giving us this great energy.

01:03:40 And just teaching the youth about your journey, man.

01:03:43 And how you got on.

01:03:45 How you became who you are today, man.

01:03:47 It's an amazing journey.

01:03:48 - Thank you, brother.

01:03:49 - From Jamie Foxx to 50 Cent to,

01:03:54 you found a way to get in them fucking rooms, though.

01:03:56 - Man, man, the rooms find me, bro.

01:03:58 It's God.

01:03:59 - That was deep.

01:04:02 The rooms find me.

01:04:04 - I was a major.

01:04:05 - To all the youngins out there,

01:04:06 when you put the work in, guess what?

01:04:09 The rooms gonna find you.

01:04:10 And it's just like that.

01:04:13 Right?

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