Chris Brown

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You own your masters, Yeah, and you were one of
the youngest to ever do that at the age of
twenty nine. Would you ever, I mean a lot of
you see a lot of artists selling the catalog. Is
that something Chris Brown would look to do in the future.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I don't think I would because I feel like, uh,
as as a black artist, that's that's what we've been
wanting forever with to be able to get that get
our masters right. So so for me to be able
to do that, like and be one of the first
young cats to do it, like it's like, oh my
I beat the game. But I feel like I feel
like I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it at this point
because that's that's something my my children's children's children.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Can he do all my life?

Speaker 4 (00:38):
Grinding all my life, sacrifights, hustle, pa the price?

Speaker 5 (00:42):
Want to slice?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Got the Brons?

Speaker 5 (00:44):
Swap all my life?

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Be grinding all my life, all my life, grinding all
my life and uh, sacrifights, hustle, pay the price one
slice the Bros. Swap all my life.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I be grinding all my life.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Hello, welcome to another edition of Club Shay Shay. I
am your host, Shannon sharp. I'm also the proprietor of
Club Sha Sha and for today we have a very
special edition of Club Shay Shay, We're.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
On the Road.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
He's one of the most accomplished R and B performers
and hit makers of his era. He surpassed Elvis Presley
for the most gold certified singles and Billboard Hot one
hundred entries among all male vocals in history, the first
male singer to have twenty platinum singles, the first R
and B singer in history own one hundred Hot one
hundred hits. One of the highest grossing African American touring

(01:31):
artists of all times, one of the best selling digital
artists of all time, a Grammy Award winner, global superstar, songwriter, dancer, actor, producer, entrepreneur, author, father.
Some call him the King of R and B. When
they say R and B is dad, I see check
this man's resume, Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Brown, freezing Man

(01:52):
who was a long.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Time clubbing man man King R and B. Keepit you
let me got it? Got it?

Speaker 5 (02:01):
How you doing?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I'm great man.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
You know before I start every show, I always I
have my own contact. I brought you a gift for you,
about you, but I want you.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
To try it.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Come on, let's get it, let's do it. I was
about to do that. Okay, come on, you can op
it if you want.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
You I'm gonna say that for later, Okay, I don't
want to be too saucy.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
Hold hold on, we gotta get a toe, fir, we
gotta get told. F Bro continued success.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Thank you so much, grasp on everything You've done so
much more to accomplish. I appreciate you, Chris. It's smooth
move you like and you that's what you can.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah. I don't like when to be like.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
Yeah, you don't got that burning nice and smooth y'all.
You hurt the man, Bro, how you do it?

Speaker 3 (02:54):
I'm great, man, I'm great, great.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
Yeah, man, I really appreciate you taking time.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Jack Queeze started to say, Man, Chris Brown manager, trying
to get to get in touch with you.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
You might not gonna give me a number. It's like
you're no problem.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
And I'm like, cause you and I we had we
had talked a little bit before, and you're like, I'm
going overseas.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
When I get back, let's do it. I say this, man,
beiz I see he ain't gonna find time.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
And I got you to man, and it happened so
quick because this is like a week this was done.
I thought you was like, are we gonna do it
in July August? He said, nah, We're gonna do it
in a week.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I had to come through because I don't like to
skip out on my promises.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Man, I know we talked. I was like, I got you,
So you did?

Speaker 5 (03:31):
You say you had, but you got me.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
So let's let's talk about what you got going on
before we get to that basketball.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
I know you love basketball.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Ron Artees said he believed had you not chosen the
music path, you could have been an NBA player.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, with a lot more discipline. I think I definitely
think I could have pursued it.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
I really I really loved it. I still love the
game I play all the time.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Uh As far as like training and having a good
conditioned I think I could have did it. And I
don't think this profession kind of made me allow you to.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Do kind of schedule as opposed to some what else is.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Getting Yeah, so I gotta kind of even get acclimated
and being a team player, right, you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 (04:15):
So because when when I hear everybody uh snoop dogg,
I hear a lot of the NBA player there's like, okay,
what rapper could like really hoop? I'm talking about like
really really hoop. The first two names come up you
J Cole? Yeah, so one on one who win it?

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well right now, I mean J Cole.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
I got to give him his credit because he's improved
his basketball game.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Like him.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
I know you work with a couple of other guys
that I work with to as far as like basketball training,
but he's he's amazing. I'm still not gonna adubt me now,
you know. So give me like a week of practice
and then I think I got.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
Anough a couple of guys out Drake, he'd be hooping little.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Dirt down with him this.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
I think I'm gonna get j Cole though. We if
we can make that happen, I love I would love that.
I'm saying that humbly though, because Jay Cole is.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
Because I watched kind of watch both of you guys
in the celebrity games at the NBA All Star Game.
See you play a couple of times with some real players.
You you for real guy game.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, if I'm if I'm serious about it, I play
most of the time. I try to just have fun.
But nah, I'm not. I'm not taking the air. I
gotta i gotta do that.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
How much do we need to put up to make
sure you take it serious? If we put up one
hundred thive will to take off?

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Oh no, I'm in there, that's mine. I'm taking that.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
That's so so Cole got no chance.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
I mean nah nah.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
So if you were to say, if you're an NBA,
if your game, Chris Brown, your game reminds you me
of what NBA player you.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Know, It's funny, bro a long time ago. They but
I used to play a lot of my home theys
like you look like CJ.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Mccullor okay, And I was like why.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
And then I looked at some of his like high
school pick and then some of his games like he
was he's long Lenky played like me. So I was like,
I mean, I'll take that any NBA player I would
take you to. You know, you know that's a hard profession.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
To get into.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
Did you hoop in high school?

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yes, definitely hooped in high school. I actually played varsity
on the JV squad. But you know as the as
a bring on, right, But I was I was always
playing with older guys as a young age. When I
was like ten or eleven years old, my dad used
to take me to the gym and drop me off.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
It's like, look, I don't care get in the game.
I don't care how old it is. Get in the game. Wow,
And I'm playing with grown men, twenty seven thirty year olds,
you know.

Speaker 5 (06:36):
So what's your favorite NBA team?

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Favorite NBA team? Man, I'm in LA right now. I
wish I wish my Lakers could.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, you know that I really want Lebron and them
and to really do something man and make some history happen.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
But I'm such a fan.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Of the game and certain areas are certain different teams,
and I'm that it's hard for me to be like, hey,
I'm this team all the way, you know, because because
it's like dang, I like friends with this guy on
this team and him have a personal relationship, so I'm
rooting for him and then on this side.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
So whoever wins, the best player wins.

Speaker 5 (07:07):
But who's your favorite player?

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Favorite player? Kyrie, Kyrie Carie.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
He's one of my one of my closest friends, too,
But as far as like seeing him play, being around him,
play playing with him, like he's probably one of the
most phenomenal guys when it comes to the English.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
On that back, bro, So, what do you like so
much about Kyrie's game?

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Uh, it's tenacity. He's aggressive, but it's it's graceful.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Right, you know.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
And and he's he's going and he and I think
he makes other players better. I think he I think
he's getting into that to that uh that uh consciousness
of saying, hey, look, we got to do this together.
So I think he brings out a lot of a
lot of a lot of spunk and a lot of real,
real talent, a lot of a lot of players that
that probably already knew they had it, but he encourages that.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
I know you followed the game closely, so you see
some of the trades that transpired, and you see Bradley
Beal goes from the Wizard to go to the Enix Sons.
So now he pairs with Kevin Durant and Devin Booker.
You see Chris Paul gets traded, he gets moved again.
Now he goes to the Golden State Warriors to go
with Steph Draymondic potentially Draymond Draymond is unrestricted free agent.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
You see Jordan Poole goes to the Wizard, So.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
You think this is Kevin Durant's opportunity now to get
a ring away from Golden State.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
I thought it was this time. I thought it was
this time, But uh, I think it's I think it's
up in the area. I think Chris going.

Speaker 5 (08:27):
To Golden State.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Man, it's that that's a that's a good place for him.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
I just want him to get a ring, right, I like,
Chris been doing this thing for a while, but I
really want him to get a ring.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
But I think KD is like, you know, they gonna
be coming. They're gonna be coming.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
Would you like to see in Chris Paul on the
on the Lakers.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
He would have been a good asset. But I but
I feel like he would have. He would have.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
You know, there's there's two types of players. There's the
coaches players and then there's the there's a okay, there's.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
The militant or the follower.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
So I feel like he would he would up in
the system and get it together, like you know, bringing
them all in, making sure from even even from Anthony
Davis to, Hey, look, we gotta do this, y'all.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Make sure y'all stop this.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
He's gonna he has that tenacity, right, So I feel
like him and him and Lebron a with a I
think they would have paired up.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
I don't think that they would have clashed.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
What about a Kyrie Lebron reunion? I would love it.
I would love it. I think here in La.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Or you want Bron to go to Dallas, Nah, it's got.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
To happen to La.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yeah, it gotta be in La. I would love to
see them paired up.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
I think their chemistry is like Undereniavel And I think
with seeing those two guys in motion is just gon
spark another whole nother uprise in those guys.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
So I feel like.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
That's what I want to see. I mean, I don't
know what Kyle I want to do, man, but I
would love to see that.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
I wouldn't get you get your take on this. You've
been in the spotlight, man, basically your whole life. I mean,
since you're probably twelve thirteen. Yeah, and you get Zion
Williamson who's been in the spotlights, he's probably fifteen sixteen,
And you see the issue he having with girl. What
advice would you give him? How would you tell him
to navigate this situation?

Speaker 5 (10:07):
He's in it now? Yeah, there, you can't turn them back.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
He have a girl, he has one young lady pregnant,
is gonna have He's welcome with your child. And then
you have this other one over here just putting all
this business.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
I mean, it's hard out here.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
When I would just pray for Zion man, I feel like, hey, man, is.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
That what you need? A prayer?

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Just praying? You know, be be the best man you
could be at that point. You know, I'm blessed to
have three children, three different baby moms. But at the
same time, the relationship that I've built with them and
the and the uh, the energy that I that I
kind of come with is it's a little bit more
I don't know, my R and B guys, I'm.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
A little bit more subtle with it.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
Is it hard?

Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's very hard. You gotta but you gotta also watch out.
It's like, you know, we all want to be in
the same spots, in the same places, the clubs we
want to be to this day, I still want to
see some beautiful women.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
But at the same time.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
You just got to be mind full of the certain
company you will keep or the trappers that will will decept.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Themselves as athletes.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
I'm pretty sure that the guys on the team probably
give him real pep talk.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Look you can't do this, look, you know, but uh,
on the road, on our on our end.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
It's a it's a little bit different, but I understand
what he's going through.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
So he just gotta he just gotta hold his head together.
Man hold your head.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
So hopefully he's learned from some of the mistakes that
he had made, because I'm sure there this this social
media is a different animal.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Man animal animal.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
I'll try to I'm engaged with the social media stuff,
but I'll try to stay away. Like my fans always
asking why you never like posting selfies or you never
I'm like, sometimes I'll just be wanting to chill because
because it's a long want to get away from that. Yeah,
sometimes you need it, Sometimes you need that piece of mind.
So I feel like in this era, it's so easy
to contact someone you know, so so if you so

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even if they made it, except well, you get scroll
down your explore page and you're like, oh, man, hold
on and just say.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Hey, and they hit you back, and it's like you
can say that. Most people can't say that. They gonna
say bye. You could say how this is like is
this really you?

Speaker 3 (12:15):
You say yes, yeah, you gotta use that Vanish mud.

Speaker 5 (12:20):
That they disagree have to come it.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Definitely definitely let me.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
Ask you this honestly.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Uh, the job Morant He was suspended for twenty the
first twenty five games of the season. Yeah, what if
if you could see if job, if John sitting right
where I'm sitting, Yeah, and you could talk to it,
what would you say?

Speaker 2 (12:40):
I mean, I don't know what I what I would
saying because because I also look at my life and
I kind of look at it as a mirror with
certain things, especially when it comes to like.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Being shunned in a certain negative spotlight.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
I feel like he's he's gonna I mean, everybody learns man,
he's he's young, but I feel like he's you know,
people make mistakes, you know, sometimes we make it continuous, right,
But you know, I feel like I can't. I can't
tell him how to how to write his story or
or find his path. I would just say, just just
do what you came in to do, right, I was.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's all I can say.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
You try to surround yourself with as many good people
as you possibly can. Yeah, and if you feel somebody
is not adding, you have to remove them. Have there
been a situation where you felt someone was not adding
to Chris Brown, but they were taking that you had
to like, I'm sorry, but I've got to stop the
ride here, you have to get off.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yes, absolutely, absolutely.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
Through the years, it's hard.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
It's very hard.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Because you build relationships with people and you have and
you have like brotherhoods with people. People people state that
like when you're on the road, you got people with
you every day or and you know some some people,
I'm I'm a family first type of guy. Yes, but
family doesn't necessarily mean have to be biologically right.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
It's not necessarily blood. You sometimes blood.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
So I feel like I have a I have a
nice entourage. Are a nice group of people now that
that are for me, that understand the bigger goal, you know.
So I think now it was very it was very
hard for me because because I would hang out with
you know, we be with gang bangers, we'd be with
the wrong type of people you will be with, you know,
just just people that don't go with the life path

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that you might want to choose.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
Correct, So I feel like, but but you kind of
you kind of start absorbing their energy.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
So if it doesn't benefit you, I feel like you
really have to kind of like separate yourself. And I
was my children were able to kind of like get
me out of that.

Speaker 5 (14:38):
So it was the kid for you.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
For me, per se Yes, definitely my kids because it
made me have a real responsibility, Like I could be
reckless without what.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
There was no one to care for, but you know.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
My children responsibility.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yeah, it kind of made me start thinking.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
And that sees what Chris is doing, what sees what
Daddy is doing.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, so you feel that had you not had kids,
you might've been on a different path.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Possibly possibly I might have been a lot more careless,
careless because I was.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
I was reckless. I was definitely I've been reckless when
I was young a lot.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
But I feel you know that, right, Yeah, but I'm
I'm talking about nineteen twenty twenty one.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah, I was. I was feeling myself, you know.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
So I think I think now I'm able to be
appreciative of Like, let's say, if people like that song
I have or people listening to me.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
You know what, I readly like that song.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
I really feel it like real thank you and it's
a real thank you', not like all right right, you know.
So I think my kids made me kind of like
see other aspects that were fun in life. But we'll
still I'm still able to have my my career of
the lifestyle that I live, but maintain it in a
a in a better balance.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
Do your kids make you appreciate more a life?

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, they made me appreciate the stuff that I used
to do when I was a kid because they do
everything that I sued to do when I was a kid.
So and then being able to talk to them, like
my dad would tell me certain things, but there would
be kind of there would be limitations on it.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
I feel like I'm just like, hey, let me tell
you this.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Because because you're gonna because I know you're gonna do this,
so let me explain to you exactly.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
So it's a little different.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Like my kids are definitely my friends until I have
to be their father old old older, like older, and
I'm like, look, okay, look, you can't be doing it
right now.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Right now, I'm in the fun stages.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Right So how difficult is it for your kids considering
your parents didn't have what you have, So how difficult
is it going to be for you to read your
kids compared to how your parents rid you.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
The funniest thing for that is that I love the
people that I have around.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
But I always tell tell my mom, I tell their moms.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
I'm like, look, I didn't have none of this, but
I still had so much fun as a child. My
mom and my father they allow me to be like kids.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
You didn't I spoil them there?

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Okay, But I always joke with my oldest daughter and
I'm like, look, I'm finna take you to the hood.
You're finna go and learn all that and stay over
there with your cousins for a couple of weekends.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Right, just so you, just so you nothing is handed
to you.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
I want you to understand, like I want you to
be just as sweet how my mother is and how
my mother instilled in me.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
You know what I'm saying. But at the same time,
find yourself, love life, and don't you don't have to.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Following daddy is for seventh, Like that, if they want
to sing, great, if they want to perform entertained business,
perfect but I'm just as happy if they want to
do anything.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Else with when you were growing up. Let's just say,
for the sake of ar you're seven eight seventy ten
years old. What did Chris Brown want to be?

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Seven eight? Man? I'm not gonna lie. At that time,
I love so much.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
I love music so much, but it was kind of
like my own personal like.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Okay, nobody really knows I love this music like this,
I really wanted to, like play sports. I wanted to I.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
Wanted to do in the NBA. Did you play football?

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yes, definitely played football. Uh, ninth grade.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
I'm gonna be real, like my ninth grade year, I
had broke my wrists in both and both bones. That
snapped it boom catching that catching the wide receivers.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
But I caught a pass. Boom.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
I'm right at the like the teen yard line. My
my cousin that plays on the other team kissed me.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Breaks my mom. He broke your wrists, broke my wrist.
It was done like this, man. I was like, what
you doing was.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
He was apologizing and everything, and we went undefeated.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
That y'all was so mad. But but what.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Happened was it kind of almost prohibited me from playing basketball.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
So I was like, you know what, I might I
might need to if I really want to do the basketball.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, I'm gonna give it a football up, you know,
but I love football though, still love football.

Speaker 5 (18:48):
Yeah, you have a team, you have a player, favorite player.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
You know.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
I'm from Virginia, so it's it's a whole bunch of
either the Redskins or you, or you the Cowboys, you know,
because we don't really you know, Virginia, we don't really
have a But in my household, it was the Redskins.
It was the Cowboys. And they used to argue, Yeah, so.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
You like the cowboy? How how do you like that?

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Allong?

Speaker 1 (19:10):
If you from if you from that area, if you're
from the DC, the Maryland to Virginia, you hate the cowboys.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
In our household, they love they love the cowboys.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
They love the cowboys, y'all, y'all to be undercovered cowboy.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
You put big coachs on big coats. No, don't worry
to Jersey to the game.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
So seven A, You're like, okay, I think it really,
So when did you start to take music serious and say,
you know what, this basketball thing you gotta take a
back seat.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
I was actually doing music secretively, like I was doing
like the like nobody in my school knew that I
that I kind of like did music. Then I could
sing in things like that, but I would be in
basketball practice. I'm saying the seventh eighth grade, ninth grade
basketball practice six thirty, didn't drive our way go to
the studio and be there till maybe that.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Say, three in the morning. They got to get back
and go back to school.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
And you know, so I was doing that a while,
but I met I have met these producers, a couple
of guys that are from the area, and I was like, no,
I'm serious about it. So you know, I was a
little nervous because I never really recorded and stuff like that.
So my first time actually doing it, I was I
was kind of like just behind the ears, like, hey man,
what are we going to do?

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Like how do I do this? Like and I do
I even sound good?

Speaker 2 (20:23):
But I knew I had it enemy to do it,
so I just was like, this is this is kind
of calling me faster than I think the other thing
is right.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
So, but how was it?

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Like given so much you a child superstar and the
expectations that come along with that.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Man, I was. I was kind of still in bliss.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Like when I was like fifteen fourteen, my first song
came out, I was, I was kind of like shocked,
so everything was new. So I kind of I kind
of had tough skin because I was, you know, I
wanted to I was ready for it.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
So whether they had to be doing.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Hours and hours of van rids from from the east
of the West Coast or you know, going through the
Bible Belt, doing every interview every radio station, I did.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
It was something I wanted to do.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
I felt like I felt like it was my calling, Like,
and I'm from a small town, so I was like,
how did I even get here?

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Every step of the way. So I was appreciative, you know,
I was. I was ready for.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
I think I did one actual talent show. It was
a it was at summer camp. Oh okay, it was
at like a summer camp.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
I did you better have one one?

Speaker 5 (21:30):
Okay, I'm gonna say because somebody got.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Bragging, right, Yeah, I know. I definitely won and I did.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
It's funny. I did throng song Cisco Bro. I had
to like my little homegirl dancers, like I had to
be like Bro. I had to have been seven like
seven or eight.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Oh, I hope that was at the end of the
week camp and not the beginning of the weeknd.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
They'll probably go to see you home.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Oh the camp leaders they laughed, but everybody kind of
went crazy in there, and I was like, I think
I might can do this right, you know, but that
was my first actual talent show. I didn't really like.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
I used to go to the mall and see I
used to go to the mall, like my homeboys.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Would go come with me like the weekend, will go
drive up to the mall and be like and they
would see a group of girls and you know.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
When like the food courses certain all yeah.

Speaker 5 (22:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
So I was like, you know what, they'd be like, yo, bro,
just sing and I'll sing Mario, I'll sing somebody's song
that's hot on the radio, usher song like so. And
then they would be like, hey, what's your name? And
I'd be like, Okay, We're good, Okay, I got we
can do this. We can do this every weekend, Let's
do it.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
So you were saying in the mall to get the girl. Yeah, absolutely,
it worked. Every time.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
It worked.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, it worked every time unless they was a two
grown They're like y'all some little boys.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
If we can't mess with y'all.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
So what so, what have you learned from if? What
would the thirty three I think you're thirty three about.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
To be thirty thirty four?

Speaker 5 (22:54):
What would the thirty four year old till the fifteen
to twenty twenty three year old Chris.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Brown fifteen to twenty three year old?

Speaker 5 (23:03):
What would the thirty four year old telling.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
I would say, I damn, I never thought about that.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
That's crazy. I think I would tell him, be humble.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
The road ahead isn't isn't the end, It's just the beginning.
So but but be humbling and everything you do.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
So it said you discovered that your dad's gas station.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
Yeah yeah kind of yeah.

Speaker 5 (23:31):
So how did that go? Okay?

Speaker 1 (23:32):
You your dand sing you out to put so did
you pump gas or you just at the gas station
with your.

Speaker 5 (23:37):
Dad and you know, you just singing and people like, man.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
Yeah, I used to help my dad. I used to eat.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
I used to go there after school and then, uh,
you know how certain people come in and he was like, Hey,
I'm does.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Anybody in this town like do music twn or anything?

Speaker 2 (23:50):
And then and I was just listening to the guy
and my dad was like, my son sings, and so
he basically gave us like his contact information, and through him,
I met the producers and the people who actually got
me to you know, getting to New York and meeting
the record labels. So a lot of a lot of that,
a lot of that time that was kind of like
a four year process, but that kind of started.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
That's how I was discovering.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
So, I mean, Teddy Riley's from your area, Timberland, Google.

Speaker 5 (24:17):
You, Yeah, you ain't bumping another bill mate.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
No, because because Virginia's Virginia's so big.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
I'm sure like Virginia's big, and it's different places where
I'm from. It's maybe like I want to say, an
hour and a half away from where they are, you know,
and then we don't have like musical centers or performing
our stuff that that we can showcase our talent. It's
Virginia's really like a sports you know, a state. So
I feel like, uh, we were kind of like the

(24:45):
roads in the concrete. I feel like everybody, I think
everybody was kind of like, oh you made it, man,
it's amazing. But but you know, yeah, Teddy Rally and
all them, they kind of started it off because Virginia
Beach kind of was was. I remember my my moms
and aunts and pumped the back. Man they going, they said,
were going down there for the weekend. We'll never be
able to go up. Man, they was going out there

(25:06):
probably while Mama, hope you won't.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
But see what you.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
So when you tell your parents you're dropping out of
high school? Yeah, did they say, boy, you crazy? Did
this what kind of made it sound nice?

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Again? I said, Mama, I got this. I got this opportunity.
I remember being in the phone. I was.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
I was in New York, but I was in the
record label's office.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
But I went to the bathroom. I said, Mom, I
really young. I got a record deal.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
I said, But I'm not gonna get out of school.
They'll give me a tutor, you know. You know, So
I actually finished school. So I but it took me
instead of me finishing I supposed to. Yeah, I left it.
It took me like two years because I was doing
I was on the road. I was working my ninth
and tenth grade. I left my tenth grade year and
that's when my single came out. But so I was
supposed to be class of seven, but I ended up

(25:53):
becoming Class of O nine because I had to.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
I had to wait, why would you what made you
better on yourself?

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Why would you so sure that this was the opportunity
that was too good to pass to pass up? And
I'm willing to, like, you know what, for gold my
final in two years.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
I feel like the dream I never lost that when
they be like what you want to be when you
when you grew up and you still have those those
grandiose ambitions.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
I felt like the light bulb was clinking, like, Hey,
this is that you've been actioning for this.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
This was your action for a goal. And look, look,
look where we are in this situation. Like my my
family didn't didn't have money at all. So it's like
I wanted, I wanted to do better than my whole
like before me, in before for them, you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
I wanted to be able to say, you.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Know what, I did this out of out of everybody
in my family, right, everybody in my town.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Everything you know, I saw.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
I saw the opportunity to make it a better opportunity
for them, and definitely make a better opportunity for my mom.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
You leave, you moved to New York, New York is
really really different than Virginia. Yeah, they didn't man to
get lonely. Did you get home sick that you said? Damn,
I don't know if I may did the right the
right thing here.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
You know what? It was fun because because of the freedom,
like my mom.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
My mom didn't know at first, because a lot of
a lot of the times I would go on a
Greyhound from Virginia and go all the way to Harlem
and I would be I would be by yourself. No,
I would be with the guys who were in the
production team and they had and they had a son
and he's my brother to this day, but we were
the same age. So he kind of showed me the
ropes and he and he grew right up in Middle Halem.

(27:29):
So I'm like, I was kind of it was a
calture shod. It was like, man, I felt so green,
like I felt so out of it.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
And I would speak to people. I would go and
see people be like, hey, how y'all doing with the
hair on?

Speaker 5 (27:43):
You got it from the South.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, So I had to I had to really kind
of like get acclimated. But over over about a three
month period, I kind of started started finding my way,
and I think that kind of made me be adaptable
in every situation and being an artist going, whether it
be Belgium, whether it be London, Australia, Like I'm able
to be presentable in a room amongst different cultures and ethnicities.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
Were it ever nice that you think this wasn't gonna happen?

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah, all the time, all the time.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
I felt like a lot of like a lot of
people don't see those that everybody gets like like they
just see the success, right and they don't think that
it takes hard work.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
They just got discovered. You went to this place. Boom,
it blew up.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, like it would sound like that if it was
written in a you know, fairy tale story, but not
a lot a lot of hard works, a lot of
late nights sleep it's nice, stressful nights crying in the studio,
not thinking I'm good enough, like as a as a
younger artist. But yeah, a lot of that, But I
think like I could, I didn't let that doubt overshadow
the dream.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
I feel like my heart.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Was was was was in it, so I was I was,
I was ready for anything, just even to this day,
like my heart and my passion is in what I
do still that. Yeah, So so I feel like that's
what I guess keeps me consistent, or keeps people interested
or or you know, engaged in my music.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
Death Jam.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
You get a contract offer from death Jam. They offer
you a contract on the spot, and you turned it down.
Why did you turn it down? What is the numbers?
What made Chris Brown? Because this is your opportunity.

Speaker 5 (29:15):
This is death Jam. This ain't no no, this ain't
no no glass of music. This is death Jam. They
offer you a contract, Chris, and you said, nah, I'm good.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
I'm thinking I'm country.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
The man wouldn't talk to my mama, huh. So basically
he wanted me to basically like with the production guys.
I'm not going to say the executive name because I
love him to this day. I'm never gonna I'm never
going to expose them. But I wanted to get him
on the phone with my mom and be like, okay, cool,
So could you explain this to my mom?

Speaker 3 (29:46):
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (29:47):
You know, I'm I think I'm fourteen at the time,
So yeah, fourteen, just turned fourteen, and my production crew
was there, but you know, they're my handlers at that time.
But you know, at the same time. We're all in
the same excitement. But I just wanted to makes sense,
my mom is her words, tell her, boy, so you
got to tell to my mama. So as soon as

(30:08):
that happened, he was like, oh no, no, no, no, I
don't need that. We were good and I and I
kind of didn't like. I didn't like what that. I
felt like they wanted to get over like I was.
You know, I wasn't I wasn't green, I was.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Very street wart. So I just was like, well, why
wouldn't you just you know, I'm not saying, hey, say
how to my mama exactly.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
So so that kind of made me kind of have reservations.
But then Tina Davis, who was my manager at the time,
she was working at Death Gym.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
I think she they had a merger.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
So she she was she went, she went her separate ways,
but I had I had learned so much from her,
even from going into the different meetings, how to prep
how to be ready to perform. So I was like,
you know what, I need someone like that that can
show me that because I don't. I'm just I'm just
going off the raw music at this point. So she
was able to like, Tina, would you mind managing me?

(30:59):
And so she was like cool, let's do it. And
from there she actually got me uh all the other
other deals or other other sittings with the labels that
I was sitting with.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
So yeah, did he turn you down? Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (31:12):
So how did that beating go? So?

Speaker 1 (31:14):
So what so how did the meeting go? And then
what did he say? Why did he turn you down?

Speaker 2 (31:18):
And this was this is probably maybe two or three
years prior, so I was like eleven or twelve at
this time.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
The same kid that I said that that showed me
the ropes in New York. Yeah, he he Me and
him had songs. It was like a group.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
So me and him had different like uh songs that
we would do together, and I would do solo songs.
So we both got the audition. He's like, all right, cool,
let's go, let's go and meet him and let's go sing.
So we went in and we went in there together.
He was like cool, we did the song that we
have together and I'm singing on the course and so
he was just like cool, cool, Yeah, I talk to you,

(31:55):
you know, he yeah, can he go outside for a second,
We're gonna just talk.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Was like, nah, we don't want we don't want him.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
They didn't want you want me.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
So I was like, as a twelve thirteen year old,
I was in that elevator, probably crying like.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Them up so but you knew who Diddy was, right of.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Course, of course, And at the pinda, I'm like, man,
First of all, I was just excited just to meet them.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Like, so being in the room kind of made me, uh,
made me like shaky, So I probably was nervous and
singing crazy.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
But at the same time, He's.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Like, ah, I'm gonna pass on that, right, So I
was kind of I was like, you know what, I'm
gonna show him like, so that was my that was
my motivation to keep going to It's.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
So because knowing who Diddy was, for Dinny to say, nah,
you need to go on outside, it probably would be
like a basketball player said Phil Jackson said, nah, go away.
You know one of these prominent coach You said, nah, bro,
you not. I don't think you good enough, So you go.
So you're on the elevator, what are you thinking.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
Like, am I not good enough?

Speaker 5 (32:59):
Because he did he just told me like nah.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Of course, of course, of course, I'm definitely I was
in the elevator like a man, this might be it
for me, you know, because as a.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
D when you're a kid, you think anything that's.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
H But I think I think I just took I
took that motivation. Me and my me and my my homeboy.
We just was like, you know what, let's just keep
going back in the studio. Let's just let's just make
more songs. Let's get get better. We just started, so
I think, But I think I think puff for that man,
They didn't mean I appreciate it though, Like because that
made me, that made me get on my gun.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
You say, you hire teena David, says your business manager.
What did you learn from her?

Speaker 2 (33:38):
I learned everything from media training, to to how to
how to how to be presentable in the room, how
to how to speak to people, how to how to
listen to people.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
You know. I was I was like so country and like, hey,
what's up, y'all? I'm just loud.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
So I felt like I feel like she guided me
through a lot of the music industry, the business of
how it works, meeting pds program directors and going to
different radio stations, teaching.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Me how to have showmanship. Like she was, she would
be like nah.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
She used to tell me because because Neo's a good
friend of mine as well, and she worked with Neil before,
so she was like, She's like, nah, huh, you don't
got showman ship like Neo.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
And I was like, huh, what what am I not doing?
So I would have.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Just rehearsals, not even dance, just rehearsals of me just
figuring out how to be me on stage or what
what was me when I get on stage?

Speaker 3 (34:34):
You know?

Speaker 1 (34:35):
So when you hear that first song you hear come
on the radio, what's going through your mind?

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Man, I'm cussing first, and I'm in the basement, so
my mama don't hear me, but I'm cussing. I remember
I had a spot in Jersey because right when I
signed my deal, I wasn't out of school yet, but
they had they had to push put me in a
place to.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
Where I could be closer to the label to start working.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
So I was still doing in school in Virginia and
I had just left them, and I was like, yeah,
I'm about to I'm about to be in the radio.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Everybody radio, what are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (35:07):
So then when they say I remember the song came on.
My cousins was calling me, like, Bro, they playing you
on the radio, bro, And I'm like you lying, And
I remember I turned it on. I think I sat
in the corner. It was like and yaled for like
five minutes straight, like I.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
Felt it was the best feeling. Like I still feel
like that when I when I hear my songs on
the radio.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Now it's not the same excitement, but it's still the same.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's definitely definitely run.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
It made you the first artist is ninety five to
have a debut single to talk the charts man, did
you know that song? I mean, obviously it was the
first song that was released, but did you know that
song would forever change your life?

Speaker 3 (35:49):
No? No, I'm gonna be real.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
When I did that song, we were in Miami and
Hit Factory Scott Storch, Sean Garrett like, and I was
just and I was a student because this is my
first ever album, so any producer would me and I'm
just soaking it all in, you know. So I'm scared.
I'm thinking, like, I don't sound good. I don't know
if they do I sound good. I hate I don't

(36:12):
know if I like the song because I was too
nervous in my head. But then they was like, nah,
this is the one. But I knew I wanted to
dance in it. The music was bumping, so I was like, look,
I want to dance. I just want to showcase this.
But I didn't know. I think I never had an
expectation that it would have the success that it put
me at.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
You know, So, what's your your favorite song of all
the songs you've done, what's your favorite song?

Speaker 5 (36:38):
And give me your top three?

Speaker 3 (36:39):
My top three.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Man, it's so hard with me because I have this,
just to be honest, I have about fifteen thousand unreleased songs,
right what, Yeah, I got like in my phone alone,
like my in certain apps I have I want to say,
maybe eighteen hundred.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
It's eighteen hundred to like. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
So obviously we're in your studio, so you come down
here like you know, it's like and just crank out songs.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Yeah. Yeah, it was a point.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
It was a point where I used to stay in
the studio, Like when I was doing a lot of
my earlier albums.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
I had to learn.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
But but around I want to say, around the Fame
album and certain stuff like that, I was kind of
like in my in my zone, I knew how, I
knew what I wanted. Yeah, So even for me now,
I put the studio in my house because like I
can draw inspiration faster, Like if I think of something,
if I think of an idea, like oh I got
an idea for this song, I don't have to like
wait or set up the studio and like, okay, I

(37:39):
gotta go to studio now.

Speaker 5 (37:40):
So if you in your bed at night and you
think of something, you just come down here and just Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
It depends because I'll make sure my engineers. Await, if
it's like five six in the morning, I'm like, man,
I'll just do it in the morning, right, But like
if it's maybe if it's me and that, I'm like, hey,
man up, let's let's let's do it.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
So eighteen thousand unreleased songs? What I mean, how do
you how do you get to eight? How do you
get to like a hundred? Okay, if somebody said, you know,
I got like twenty, I got fifty unreleased songs, but
you saying, like in some of your apps, you have
eighteen hundreds. So you just like like go days, months, years,

(38:16):
Well you just record?

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yeah, I literally recorded like four songs yesterday, but I did,
like I do it in spurts, So sometimes some days
I'll just relax.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
I might do one song, but then some.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Days it's just like we just because I feel like
it's like sharpening your sword man, like being better at
your craft, like.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
Shooting jump getting your jump shot.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
So like, I feel like I don't want to be
complacent and thinking I'm I got it all figured out.
I never want to think that, Oh, I'm Chris Brown.
So whatever I'll put out it's gonna be great. I
want to make sure it is.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
You know, are there any songs that you wrote for
an artist that if people actually knew you wrote it,
they would be surprised?

Speaker 2 (38:56):
I think back in the day they did. I wrote
a I wrote a a couple of pop records. I
wrote a couple of Jonas Brothers songs.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
I wrote a couple uh well, I wrote a couple
of Rihanna songs. Uh damn. I do a couple of
country country records.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
I used to write a lot for for a lot
of different artists, but it was more it was more
so me experimenting with with what music was like. I
wasn't just doing R and b so I would just write.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
But I but I've.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
LaToya lucky I've written for. There's been it's been a
lot of people I've written for. But I feel like
a lot of people didn't know I really write because
as an artist, you know, you get a lot of
a lot of uh you know, a lot of artists
that music artists that don't do them.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Yeah, but and I I can't.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
I can't shun them because I work with a lot
of producers, a lot of writers, and we do different things.
But I've also had time to sit down and just
really have my own songs that people are love and I'm.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Like, I'm glad they love that I wrote that song.
You know.

Speaker 5 (39:56):
So yeah, what what's your favorite music genre?

Speaker 3 (40:00):
Is the pop?

Speaker 5 (40:00):
Is R and b uh dance, euro rap?

Speaker 3 (40:03):
I'm eclectic.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
I'm eclectic, So I like I like certain songs, Like
I think, when the song comes out and it just
m it moves me, I I just like it. It
cul It could be a country song, it could be
our piano song, it could be uh a heavy metal song,
Like you know, I think, I just think whatever whatever
frequency that that tunes me to it is is is
what I what I kind of gravitate to. In my

(40:25):
lane of my music, I love doing. I just love
doing feel good music, fun music.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
Music.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
People can dance too, But at the same time, give 'em,
give them certain s s things that get them through
their life.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Cause I cause I'll see a lot of my fans
or I talk to.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
'em, whether it's meet and grease, whether it's discord or
whatever it is, and we talking and it's like they
they explain to me how certain songs got them through
life situations, and and I'm like, wow, that really it
kind of sinks in with me. It makes me makes
me kind of like dang, I I'm I'm really doing
the music.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
For it actual purpose.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
So when I do certain songs speak from my experience,
but also try to speak to uplift somebody, make them
have fun or make them be like, man, this makes
you makes me feel good inside.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
Are there any features that you turned down? You was like, damn,
I should have hopped on that one.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
Any features that I turned down? A lot? No, I
ain't gonna lie. I'm on a lot of features.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
I feel like, I feel like it's certain songs that
I wish that I was on.

Speaker 3 (41:23):
When I would hear certain songs.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
But then I would be like, that's just that's just
my artist ego wanted to be a part of it. Yeah,
but but I feel like I feel like evens there's
certain records out now that I'll.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
Hear and I'm like, man, that's amazing.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
But but I think that's that's good for me because
I'm not I don't think I get convoluted in what
I sound like. I'm able to appreciate other people music,
and I'd be like, oh, it's just only about me.

Speaker 5 (41:48):
Have you ever been removed from a song after it's
been recorded?

Speaker 3 (41:52):
I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (41:55):
Have you removed somebody from a song after it's been recorded?

Speaker 3 (41:58):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (42:02):
So, so how do you how do you go about?

Speaker 1 (42:04):
How do you go about telling them or telling him
or her that their verse is gonna make it?

Speaker 3 (42:13):
Man? Uh?

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Do you tell them? When you have somebody else call
and tell him. I think it'd be better coming from you.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
Though, Yeah, I would tell him. I would tell him
I've done I've done songs.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Uh, Like, even even with my I ain't gonna say
their names.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Certain artists that that that are that are like real
friends with me, and we've done songs. But I may
have I may have had like two songs already with them.
I'm like, look, I ain't you I ain't gonna'm gonna
take you off this one because we already got this
other song, you know, So I've done that.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
But then that's the way, that's what you tell them.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
No, No, that's been the reason. But the other ones
that got taken off just to get taken off.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
It just didn't fit.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
It didn't fit the record, and I felt like the
time in with it, and we just I'll explain it
to him and I'll be like, look, it just doesn't
fit the time in for for what we're doing and
how we want to shoot the record. But I haven't
let down too many people. That down too many people.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
You're a fit guy. You in the train, you like
to work out.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
So what do you do? So, so what do you
do you on tour? How does Chris Brown manage to
stay in shape? Because you gotta get you you're a performer.
You're not just a singer. You're a performer. You're an entertainer.
Let me take that back. You're an entertainer. So singing
and dancing, that's a part of the act. Yeah, So
how do you maintain that level night after night after night,

(43:28):
week after week after month after month.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
Man, I just think I got more, uh more.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
But at the same time, my team, man, I think
everybody keeps a tight schedule when it comes to what
we're doing on the road.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Right, our chef make sure we eat the right stuff.
I don't.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
I don't try to eat stuff that's gonna see heavy.
I want to see anything that builds my protein up,
just builds my addurance. That's what I'm on you. I'm
really and I'm really uh, I'm finicky about it, like
because we also have after parties after shows on tourists.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
It's a long road.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
But at the same time, I make sure I at
least get my eight hours of sleep, right, So the
rest is that me and my dancers that workout is
like no, man, So.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
You know we got our workout regimen.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
We do our like fifteen to thirty minute a flash
set before we go, before we get on stage, and
then and then repeat it over and over, right, So
I've been able to have this fast metabolism.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
Hopefully it never slows up.

Speaker 5 (44:29):
I'm just trying to figure out, how do you protect
your voice with me?

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Well, I wouldn't I wouldn't advise this to everybody else
because I do.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
I do smoke every now and then a lot. But
for me, I have that I use these there's there's
these pills the call mullet Mulon pills.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
They're good for your for your lungs.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
So and I make sure that I'm not just smoking
smoking smoking before I go on stage. So a lot
of the times i'm whenever I am smoking, I'm doing
something that counteracted. I'm making sure i'm t and vocal
rest is the best. Like like I'm yelling on stage
two and a half hours, right.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
You know, so after that, chill out, after that, right,
say what's up? Bro? Cool?

Speaker 1 (45:12):
You know?

Speaker 2 (45:12):
I try to I try to refrain from doing anything
that's gonna put too much of a strain on my book.

Speaker 5 (45:18):
What I have to applaud, bro, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
I mean I have to go back to like James Brown,
to see somebody to sing.

Speaker 5 (45:25):
And perform like you think. I mean, it's continuous, it's NonStop.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
I mean I first, when the first time I ever
heard of Chris Brown, I heard you say something like,
oh I can I dance?

Speaker 5 (45:35):
USh?

Speaker 1 (45:36):
I said, man, this man, this damn About thirteen he
already liked who talked this man a lot like this
at thirteen?

Speaker 5 (45:43):
And then I watched it. I like, and then you like,
I might get my Michael. I was like, I don't know,
he might.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
I mean to see the way he moved, man, and
the way he can adore his body.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
I don't know, he might be on the something. How
when did you learn to do that?

Speaker 3 (46:02):
I watched that. That's being a kid at the cookout. Man.
Your uncle's like, come man, come out here, man, do that?
Do that dance you'd be doing.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
So I feel like, uh, my childhood gave me that
freedom to really, like you know, be from mc Hammer.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
Watching mc ham Michael Jackson.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
I always was moving and I had a fascination in
love with with rhythms. So I feel like, you know,
even even in sports, you gotta have the rhythm, right,
So so that just was like natural to me. It
came natural. I feel like it's from the soul.

Speaker 5 (46:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
So I feel like.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Even even dancing now, like I can learn technical stuff.
I can learn stuff, but I like to just I
like when people to see it to be like that
feel good he having fun doing it.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Yeah, but you do realize that a lot of the
stuff you do they can't do right, Like you know
what I mean, you like the only one that can
do that do it? Yeah, I mean I like to
see a dance like you. Okay, you move, walk, okay, breakdown.
I mean you do a little breakdancing, but a lot
of the stuff that you be doing rib like, man,
people gonna break their neck.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
Yeah, I wouldn't invite people to try some of the
stuff I do. That's why it's good to just see
it at the show. Kids, y'all can have fun. Y'all
a little bit more flexible. But at the same time,
like I just I'm thankful to be able to still
have these needs to be Yeah, and I don't get.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
Up like, oh man, I'm tired. I gotta go dance.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
I love it right, So, so as long as I'm
able and God blesses me to be able to dance
and showcase this talent and hopefully inspired the world, I'm
gonna keep doing it.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Why don't you think other artists have adopted your approach
to become performance? I mean, sometimes you see performers or
you see like singers. I mean, there's nothing wrong. I mean,
but I look at you as an entertainer. I look
at Beyonces, but their singers. Dan was a singer. Yeah,
you got a mermaid dress on. She on that Mic

(47:51):
I saw. I saw the observatory unbelievable. But I saw
Beyonce and I'm like, how should you do that? For
two hours?

Speaker 5 (47:58):
I watch you? I'm like, he do that for two hours?

Speaker 2 (48:01):
I think, I think because you know, different, I think
it's different stars. Man, it's different stars in the sky.
So I kind of I kind of my take on
it is everybody has their thing, right, you know.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
I feel like in our in our genre, it's it's
a it's like an old art.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
But you know, because you got to really do your researcher,
you got to really, you know, want it.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
And I think Beyonce, I gott always give her a credit.
She wants it. She has always wanted it, you know
what I'm saying. So and she is it. You know.
I feel like with me, I've always I've always wanted it.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
I always wanted to leave a legacy of of of being.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
One of the baddest. You know, I don't got to
be the baddest, but I'm gonna be one of them.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
You know, what does it make you feel like when
other artists come up to you and say, Braud, that
was unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Form, I'm still in shot, like I have an imposter syndrome.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
I wake up to this day and be like, am
I how did I get here?

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Like so when people even ignore, I'm more receptive and appreciative.
I'm kind of like, for real, Okay, cool, they like
my stuff. I'm still fans of other artists. It's like,
so it's still me being like, Okay, they really love
what I'm doing, right, I'm gonna keep doing it right
all right.

Speaker 5 (49:16):
When you first started out, you used to open up
for Beyonce.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
Yeah, you like you know that. I would try to
swipe some of her fan. I walks over her fan
because I know what she's gonna do after me. Man,
I need to make sure I do something before so
them people talk about.

Speaker 5 (49:30):
Yeah Beyonce, it was great, but you should have saw
Chris Brown. Chris Brown was unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
Yeah. Yeah, I was a student being on there. I
was with Destiny Shot. I think I was like sixteen
or seventeen. I opened up for.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
Them in Australia and for that that was just a
blessing because to be able to go from me having
a little TV and me watching these people performing and
being able to see them and they're like, hi.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
They know my name.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
I'm like, oh my god, they said hi to me
watching them perform from stage, presence, lighting.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
Production, dancers, timing.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
I learned so much from all of those experiences, and
I soaked it up and I said, well, I don't
want to copy anybody, but okay, well if I could
do that, I'll do it like this. So I was
able to digest and and and and learn from from
all those experiences. So it was it was actually a blessing.
It was a blessing.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
I had Drew Skale on my show and he said
he would on tour with you. He said, it's unbelievable
the amount of distractions that's going on, like girls just
running everywhere.

Speaker 5 (50:33):
With your laser focus on what you need to do.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Yeah, because because because I look at it, like these
people spending money to come see me, like even to
this day, like you spend a ticket or whatever for
your family coming through with your it's kids, there's grown
people there, it's all ages.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
But the one thing.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
I need them to do is leave happy. I need
them to leave, not not for my pockets. You know,
they need to leave happy for my soul. Like this
this ability that I'm made able to have, or this
this talent that I'm going with, I want to express
it with love the frequency I want to give out
his love. So like that's what gets me going. And
when they when they get coming here, I'm excited.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
I'm more nervous than they is.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
So but but I'm gonna make sure that they gonna
leave and be like, you know what I got my
money's worth?

Speaker 3 (51:17):
Man.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
I read that you this guy broke up with his girl.
You call this girl up on stage and gave the lady,
gave the young lady a lap bad and he broke
up with a prie.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
You do that man. See it wasn't intentional, but happen.
See I didn't know she had a had a had
a guy.

Speaker 5 (51:35):
That's her fault. Because she knows she had a guy.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
She should have said it.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
She definitely should have said my My dancers pull up
a girl on stage during our set, and we usually
we just we usually like to give the fans an opportunity.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
But sometimes it's very very very.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Attractive women come and say so I'm like, okay, cool.
So me grinding on him. They don't really have a
problem with it. It's just I guess she had a
man there, right, So but I didn't know. I didn't
find out that. Afterwards. I was like, man, we should
have just do we send him flowers or sending her flowers?

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Should said no, see, I mean not that, no, no, no, no,
the lady. See, if I'm out with a young lady,
it's not my job to check the guy.

Speaker 5 (52:19):
It's her job.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
She should have been like, no, you know, there you go,
and I can't come up.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
I'm with someone, right, And if a lady check on me,
if you're not gonna be forget it there you be
like okay, great, right, and you'd have been okay, but.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
He gonna he the one man. But I'm surprised. First
of all, I commend him for going.

Speaker 5 (52:36):
Yeah, I mean not a whole lot of guys are
going with the girls that they might.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Go, but.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
They might be a little bit further back, like, nah,
you ain't getting from right, he's not finna look at.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
You at let's talk about I'm looking at the Grammys. Yeah,
and you have one. But reading you and researching this,
you feel you should have.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
Yes, I feel like a lot of artists feel like
they should have one.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
Uh, But you know, I feel like I don't want
to discredited Grammys or discimins or feel like the angry
artist when it comes to that.

Speaker 5 (53:10):
I feel like he will be the first, he will
be the last.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
Yeah, I feel like it's just I feel like music
out of state right now is it's not based on
what people love. I feel like I feel like, well
with the Grammys, no disrespect to y'all, but I just
feel like it's a lot of old ears over there,
a lot of old ears. There's a lot of people
that's that's not really too th into what's going on.
So and and you know, it's just it's a broad

(53:34):
range of artists that I that I can think of
now that that deserve more Grammys and more recognition. But
you know, I feel like at this point in my
in my career, in my life, I'm like, you know what.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
I have one? Right, that's good enough? You know for me,
I feel like.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
He lonely, though he could be lonely, but but he
could be lonely. I'd rather mind what what I get,
what I get my joy from is feeling them stands
like I could care less about getting on the stage
where I would love to get on the stage at
a Grammys or any awards.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
I don't have a problem with it.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
But it doesn't feel my heart more than it does
to see twice as many people in a a in
an arena, or I'll go over and I sell out
six nights like that.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
That's priceless to me.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Right, So I feel like I've just started loving what
I love the most about what I do, just.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
The music and the passion, and just focused on that.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
You caught some flat because you wrote Robert Glasper you say,
who is this cat?

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (54:32):
And I mean he did the single the song with
Michelle and Diegoceello, who's my favorite all time artist and
her great song, and you you know, you say no disrespect.

Speaker 5 (54:43):
You took it back. Tell me what your mindset was. Okay,
you're sitting at home, impulse. So that's where hold up?
Who the homeboy?

Speaker 1 (54:54):
He give me that because you about to do something,
You about to do something, Give me that and put
it in.

Speaker 5 (54:57):
His back pocket.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
They probably was maybe fifteen seconds to letter by that time,
I think.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
But at the time, because me, I was missing for him.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
So even even when I had to I had to
do my research and like, you know what this these guys,
you know, and I reached out to him. I said, look,
I said, look, I don't want you to think that
I have ill ill will towards.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
You or anything. Be sure work.

Speaker 5 (55:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
Yeah, So so he reached back out to me. So, yeah,
we're gonna, were gonna get in the studio work. But
that was me. That's you know, being a sorro push.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
You know, are you disappointed that the award shows, given
your background, given what you've done, given how you packed
the arenas, given how the numbers speak more than Elvis
and a.

Speaker 5 (55:40):
Billion this and that, Yeah, that they haven't allowed you.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
To perform at times you want her to perform in
front of your peers. I want to showcase what I
what I'm really capable of at all times. But I've
taken I've taken my position to say I'm not stopping right.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
You know, So it'll happen. It'll happen, you know, it'll happen.

Speaker 5 (56:04):
Do you remember the last award show you performed at?

Speaker 2 (56:07):
My last awards show might have been BT last show
might have been BT Awards.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Yeah, yeah, Kelly rolled supported you.

Speaker 5 (56:17):
Yeah, she got some criticism.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
Yeah, I love you, Kelly. I mean, what's I mean, Lizzo? Yeah,
say your favorite criticism and cheering. Some others have come
to your like the man is unbelievable and they call criticism.
What is it with this cancel culture?

Speaker 2 (56:35):
I think it's I don't think it's even the cancel culture.
I think because my my fans and the people who
who do love me, like they.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
Kind of overshadow and I'm still here, you know. But
I feel like I just feel like people are sensitive
as hell today.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Man, Like we don't get we don't get to really
shoot the ship, or we don't get to say what
we really want to say. A lot of times, a
lot of things. It's contrive to conform. You don't get
to be yourself because you can't have it. And open
expression and freedom freedom to say anything if you don't
have to discredit anybody or or cut anybody out, or
say anything rude about anybody. But I feel like everybody's

(57:10):
too dairmb sensitive at this point, right.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
But you've mentioned some of the people that that's in
this business, Yeah, that have had some transgressions, Yeah, that
have been forgiven and gone onto. And it hasn't stopped
you from making money. But those people were able to
go back, be on stage, get in movies, and do
all these other things.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
It's my smile, and I think I think it's I
think it's because I think people think I have a
careless outlook on it.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
It's not that I have a careless outlet.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
I don't care to make you believe that I'm a
I'm a great person or a good person.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
I'm just gonna be one. So I feel like with that, you.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Know, I mean, and I don't take no nonsense. I'm like,
I'm I'm a humble guy. I'll be cool, but I
really don't. I really don't take nonsense. I try to
stay in my lane, get out the way, don't bother nobody.
But I'm not gonna take no nonsense.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
If you were to get back, if if they called,
and says Chris this year's grammysh we want you to perform.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
Yeah you there, of course I do it.

Speaker 5 (58:13):
No, ill Will.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
It wouldn't be ill Will because because it would be
about the performance. I would want, I would want to
get that to my fans. It wouldn't be it wouldn't
be necessarily about the Grammys. It would be about putting
on the best.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Chris and just and just and just going out there
and doing that.

Speaker 5 (58:29):
You'll kill it.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
This This might be the greatest book, This might be
the greatest stage performance.

Speaker 5 (58:37):
Anybody's ever seen.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
Well, I'm gonna try to make it that every time,
every time, anytime that opportunity gives, like gives itself that opportunity, even.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
On my on my when you come to my shows,
I want.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
To make it like you're you're watching it on an
award show. I want it needs to be theater. It
needs to be needs to be fun.

Speaker 5 (58:55):
When you try to leave, you try to the fan.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
You want the fan to leave, said, I've never seen
anybody do that before.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
Yeah, yeah, every absolutely. I want to do that every time.
And and just like I said, give them that joy
and give them that uh that it factor.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
I'm trying to I'm trying to be the greatest to
do it while I still can do it.

Speaker 5 (59:16):
When they say R and B is dead, Chris Brown says, what.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
It's not, it's not just hip hop is is more prevalent.
I would just say hip hop is has has been influential.

Speaker 3 (59:29):
Over the over the whole world. But I feel like
R and B.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
R and B has has its place, and there's a
lot of there's a lot of R and B artists
out because I don't want to discredit it. It's a
lot of great R and B female wise and male wise.
I just feel like we just have to have platforms.
I feel like we need.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
Bigger platforms to show music videos. I think we need
not just for R and B, just for music period.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
Like we used to have one on six in part,
you know, we used to have have outlets to where
people would be engaged and have to see you at
a certain time and have to be invested in your
music and certain things like that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
There's other avenues like that on the internet.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
But Tyler Perry did by just just by BT, so
maybe he'll he'll bring one.

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Let us let us start showcasing new artists, new talent
so people can and so everybody just have to go
find an artists, like, like, let these talented artists be broadcasted,
like let them, let them, let them wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
I feel like it's it's needed.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
I feel like I go to flip through my channels
unless I have to type in the name of the artists.
It's cool, but I would like to be presented with
artists like, oh man, that's that's tight.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Who is that guy?

Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
How do we get R and B? Will R and
B ever be what it once was?

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
Because I was talking Timberland, I thought I think it
was Timberland, and he says, I don't think it to
be at the height it once was.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
The R It depends because because everything shifts, there's always
a shift in music. Uh so, so it just depends
on the right artist, depends on the right the right timing,
the season, what the world is, what the state of the.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
World is, what people are going through.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
Like, you know, music, music, especially R and B come
from pain, a lot of pain.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
There's a lot of pain on on the world.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
But I think we're trying to I think right there,
everybody's trying to kind of like Negate that trying to
be like.

Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
You know what, Hey, I just want to feel better.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
I want to talk about substances and records and whatever
crazy stuff it is.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
But I think I think I think it has it's
gonna be time for it.

Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
What's your thought on AI you like it?

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
It's yeah, I'm kind of, oh, I'm kind of I'm
kind of uh, I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
Fifty to fifty because the capabilities of the scientific community.

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
You know, they can make me sound like Chris Brown.
That's crazy, and then they won't need real Chris Brown. See,
I can play your half of that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
I said this, this, this, This is what I said
if I heard it when I hear when I hear
the AI version of Chris Brown, and it's just a
complete song, and it's a great song. I'm gonna figure
out if we're gonna license our voices out right, because
I know I'm not going to be the one to
do it, but there's gonna be an artist that's the
I'm like, no, that's me, that's me, right, and they

(01:02:03):
just and they're gonna they're gonna benefit from it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
But I'm fifty to fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
I feel like it takes away a lot of the
the mystery or the artistry that makes you a beautiful artist.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
Right, if you could just have challenge beauty.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
Yeah, yeah, it's crazy, but I feel like I'm still
I'm in this technological world too, so I'm fascinated with
it as well.

Speaker 5 (01:02:24):
You know, I'm gonna get you out here on these
two right here.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
You're a very good businessman, reported that you own fourteen
Burger Kings. How are you able to become so business
savage at such a young age.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
My team, my team, I've been able to have a
great team that you know, I've been through my ups
and downs, Like I felt a lot financially in the beginning.
Just you know, uh, you make mistakes, yeah, you know.
But now it's about it's about just trying to.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
I want to.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
I want to create stuff that's going to create stuff,
you know, right.

Speaker 3 (01:02:55):
I want to be able.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
To have stuff that's going to be here for everybody,
for rajevity, so and it doesn't necessari have to be
titled around uh my actual name or brand. I just
want to be able to have a legacy for my
for my family outside of music, you know, I want to.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
I want to be wealthy instead of rich.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
You know. Okay, your catalogs, that seems to be a
big You own your masters. Yeah, and you were one
of the youngest to ever do that at the age
of twenty nine.

Speaker 5 (01:03:24):
Would you ever?

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
I mean a lot of you see a lot of
artists selling the catalog Is that's something Chris Brown would
look to do in the future.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
I don't know, It depends it depends on I would.
I don't think I would sell them. I think I might,
I might do least them out and stuff like that later,
but I don't think. I don't think I would because
I feel like, as a black artist, that's that's what
we've been wanting forever to be able to get that
get our masters right. So so for me to be
able to do that, like and be one of the

(01:03:53):
first young cats to do it, like it's like, oh my,
I beat the game. But I feel like I feel
like I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it at this point
because that's that's something my my children's children's children can
eat off, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
So I think I'm a temper.

Speaker 5 (01:04:08):
The story by jockeys, jacque said he came to a head.
He lived in the crib. Yeah so so so Jock.

Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
He's been around me since he was teenagers bracest everything. Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
I've seen Jacqueze's videos through through mutual friends.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
That we knew, and I knew that he was a
fan of me, and I'm not. I'm not like if
I see talent and I see and I see the
same spunk that I had in my eye. But I
was like, you know, what this.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
This kid is really really talented. So he came to
l A for like a week he was staying. He
was staying at a hotel. I was like, bro, why
you waste your money at the hotel? The people we
both know they had my crib.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
We chill him. You good, bro, It ain't no it's
no no parents at the house gonna tell you what
to do. Come to the house. But so I just
showed him the ropes like he was.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
He was around and he was able to He was
able to learn from me in the studio as well,
Like like so I would be in a studio with
him and just teach stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
He was actually like, big bro, what's this? Is this
cool to do? This is not cool to do? And
I would just I would just telling him, hey, bro,
don't don't do this.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Don't do what they doing. That's that's fine, you know.
So a lot of the things with John Cueze's it's
real family. So when I see him do his thing
and where he's at now, I'm proud of him, man,
because because I saw the grind before before everybody else saw.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
You know, I had Timberlon. I'm get you out of him.
This one he said he got some great advice from you.
He said, uh, you called him and said, bro, don't
do any more interviews. High You remember that conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah because me, because you know Tims
Timmys is.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
So I learned so much from him. But I remember,
you know, I love I love weed, so so we
used to smoke a lot of time. And then I
just remember seeing them on that's a don't do that
that well, don't do that. We can't do it. It's
not it's not a good it's not a good look.
It's not a good look.

Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
You got a new sing single, the new singers out
summer to Yeah, eleven sol album, leven solo album is
on the way. Yeah, what can your fans? What can
we expect from Chris Brown on this album? Less songs,
less songs?

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
Yes, only only saying that my fans good. I mean
because I'm used to putting.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
I think my last album had like thirty something songs.
The one before that had like fifty six.

Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
Like, so it's a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:06:21):
Can we get like twelve thirteen?

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
Yeah, it's the albums.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
The album's gonna be called eleven eleven, right, it's my
eleventh album and it's only gonna have eleven songs.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
Right, so but eleven eleven is gonna be released in November.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
No, we're trying to figure it out. Possibly, but we're
trying to figure it out now right. As of now,
I'm still in the studio. We got a lot of
good records that I've been cutting and in the new song,
I just put it. I just put that out basically
to just have something for the summer. Have people haven't
feeling good again, because I know it's about to start
getting hot hot out here, so let's just have fun.

(01:06:54):
I'm you know the videos coming, were about to dance
about the dance, about the dance again on them.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Congratulations with all they success, y'all. Thank you performing at
DRE on the twenty nine.

Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
Yeah. Fight, Yeah, you're gonna be in the fight.

Speaker 5 (01:07:06):
I'm gonna be at the fight.

Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
Oh yeah, i' gonna be that too. So yeah, we
got a link up man. Thank you, brother, Congratulations of
all these success.

Speaker 5 (01:07:12):
Thank you for having me, God blessed brother. Thank you, brother,
Chris Brown.

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
All my life, grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle, bad
the price, want slice got the brother all my life.

Speaker 5 (01:07:26):
I've been grinding all my life, all my life, grinding all.

Speaker 4 (01:07:29):
My life, sacrifice, hustle, bad to price, one slice, not
the brother, all my life.

Speaker 5 (01:07:36):
I've been grinding all my life.

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