Willie D sits down with radio personality and reality TV star KG Smooth and discuss his humble beginnings, his transition from Dayton to Atlanta to Houston and making his mark in radio, his tenure on the reality tv show Ready To Love and much more. Tune in and join the conversation in the socials below.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Yep, yep, you know, Boys is back and reloaded all
in your mind.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yeah, now deep throating.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
This is for the streets, the real the reilroading, the
Distan franchise, the truth escapegoating, and they ain't know where
we speak the truth, so they ain't quoted because we
wrote it. The North South East Coaches, the g be
mocked for keeping your head bobbing. It ain't no stopping
and once to be drop said by and then the
system is so corrupt they threw the.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Rock out their heads and then blame it on us.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Don't get it twisted on colding.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
We danced to put no butterment biscuits. It's Willie d
y'all ghetto boys in the house reloaded with another episode
of information and instructions to help you navigate through this wild, crazy,
beautiful world. In the studio Chris Green aka you all
know as my man KG smoke, Yes, sir, I really
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should have done that different. That's really ship has made
it smooth like you be talking like I should have
just been like in the studio KG smooth. Anybody ever
hit you one of those?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
All the time? Yeah, all the time.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
See that's why I'm so unique. Though I didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Listen when when Tyler Perry did it to me, I
was like, oh, man, like I must have really made it.
I got Tyler Perry impersonating me over here. Man.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You got the voice like Whitney had the voice in music,
you know, and with the singing. You got the voice
for radio. You got the voice. You are the voice.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Thank you? You know.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Okay, let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You were born and raised in day Ohio, yes, sir,
the birthplace of funk.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You got your starting ready in two thousand and Cincinnati
at w w IZF one point nine whiz from that
and that's what that was, basically your training grounds. Then
you moved over to Cleveland where you got the midday position,
and then from there you went to Columbus where you
served as a midday host.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Now, how did Houston end up on your radar which
you subsequently becoming the voice for Magic one O two's
the Quiet Storm.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So when I was doing radio in Columbus, Georgia, I
had reached the glass ceiling like I had did everything
I had. I had great numbers, I had a top show.
I even hosted a TV show on their like Government Channel,
kind of like the community show that comes on Sunday
mornings on the Box of Magic and Praise, but it
was that version but on the TV. And so I
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thought I was gonna be a great programmer. But everybody
there had been there for years. They ain't going nowhere.
It's just like, you know this, this is not any
room for me to program program director. Yeah, so like
you know, programming the music and all of that. But
you know, folks weren't giving up their positions. And so
one day when I got off the air, just sitting
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in silence. Now that I look back on it, I
guess it was a form of meditation. I was just like,
you know what, it's time to go, Like, you know,
I know my talent, I know my work ethic, I've
done everything. Here ain't nothing moving. So I took a
faith walk and just moved to Atlanta. Me and my
ex girlfriend, we had moved moved to atlant I didn't
have nothing set up, so just moved up there with
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faith walk. I was kissed one oh four. They were there,
was toying with me. You know, I went through the
whole rigamreau. The interviews didn't on air shift like all
of that, and then they just left me hanging. So
one morning I was going to get my teeth clean.
I just sent out a basic tweet like going to
get my teeth clean. As I'm getting dressed, my phone
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rings and I see the numbers. It's seven one three number.
I'm like, who's calling me from Houston? Because I'm like,
if it's seven forty five here, it's six forty five there.
So I answered the phone and it's Terry Thomas. She's like, hey, kay,
you know I saw that you are not in radio,
like what's going on? And so, you know, I told her,
you know, what was going on at David's broadcasting how
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I left, and she was like, you know what, I
don't have anything full time on air. I got some
part time positions, and I can make this digital position
for you. Since and social media was just you know,
coming up in terms of Instagram and all of that,
she was like, you know, so look at your calendar,
see when you can come for a market visit. So
I chose like the third weekend in October. It just
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so happened to be the very first Magic under the Stars.
It was with Charlie Wilson and Jill Scott. So my
real introduction to Houston was coming here, coming to the station,
going to that concert, staying in the Gallery of area,
just seeing everything. And I remember waking up that.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Saturday night, I was like, yep, this is home and yeah,
just came on through.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So yeah, Houston came calling. Houston came calling.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
In in in this business of radio, I like to
compare it to being an athlete off in times you
have to be ready to go to another city at
any moment. How does that impact your attachment with human
beings and even things.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's wow, that's a great question. I just get up
and move. I mean, I'm a people person. So living
in these different markets throughout my career and really seeing
how you know us as black folk, we're the same,
but we're different and we're different regionally. Like I'm from Dayton, Ohio,
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which is like Southwest Ohio, Dayton Cincinnati area. Like the
culture there was totally different than the culture up in
Northeast Ohio, which is Cleveland, and they were more you know,
East Coast, you know, through Rags and Thames, you know.
And then living in living in two parts of the South,
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living in Georgia and seeing how you know Southern is
get down and talk, and then coming here to Texas
living in the Southwest, you know, it's it's different. It's
the same, but it's different. But in terms of that attachment,
I mean it's you know, when you grow a bond
with a certain community. You know, of course, you know
you hate to leave, but the other part is like, oh, well,
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I'm moving on a bigger, better, bigger and better things
and you know, meeting you know, more folks. So I
guess it ain't that hard of a transition. I guess
I just knew that I would make more and better
connections in the next city. But it was definitely like culturally,
it got me to understand us more. And I also
want everybody to know out there all cities, people in
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the city say the same thing, like like oh, people
ain't buying tickets, like this is a walk up market,
or artists saying I don't get love from you know,
my own hometown. I had to leave and go away
and then you know, come back and let me listen.
It's the same story everywhere every city out and been
there and people say the same thing. So it ain't
the city, it's people.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, why are people like that though, Man,
why is it? But but here's the thing, though, why
is it that oftentimes you have to leave home to
make it? Like why is it that you know, like
I think Getto Boys wanted the exceptions to the rules
because Houston embraced ust immediately.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And I don't know if.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
It was because it was so many of us that
was attached, like Ghetto Boys, was not just the members
in the group, Like we had a real like movement. Yeah,
we had a whole movement going, you know, so it
was I guess it was a little different there. But
you know, I do hear a lot of that, man,
where people get offended about, you know, the hometown not
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embracing them. And that's why a lot of times when
they make it, they leave because a lot of people jaded.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, and they feel like I know artists right now
who I had conversations with, like, man, I just got
to go like Houston ain't doing it, Like We'll go in.
If you feel like you need to move to LA
to make it, move, do what you gotta do, New York,
do what you gotta do. I think I think the
hometown probably doesn't appreciate the artist and the art at
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the time, maybe because they've been in dated and I
remember when I got here ten years ago, just hearing
the stories about Destiny's Child, like, oh, them girls were
everywhere like performing here and there, like we got sick
of them. I'm a boom And then you know, when
they blew up, it was just like all of that,
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all of that, all of that, and so I think
for the city, they probably don't appreciate the artists as much.
And then once that artist or that group goes outside
and has that success, and then the town is like,
oh man, like we got something. Yeah, let's embrace him,
do it. I'm even guilty of that. I did that
with my home city of Dayton, Ohio. Like I really
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wasn't claiming Daton at first, like I would say I'm
from there, but you know, people would associate my tides
more to Cincinnati until I saw the Unsung episode of
the Ohio Players and when they went through all of
the great funk bands and acts that came out of
date in Ohio, I was like, yo, like I'm from there,
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like from day and like we got you know, we
got we had some fire come out of there. So yeah,
it's a weird thing. But I think once people really,
once they go away and they realize what they got,
then they want to claim it.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I think familiarity breeds content and that's what it is. Uh,
people like, who is He's just just the guy that
I grew up with. I mean I never looked at
him as easy special. Okay, all right, and now you
missed a hot shot. You still ain't nobody special to
me still, but he is really special. You just don't
want to, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Like, really, I.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Think sometimes two people think that like once you make it,
they feel like you left them behind. You know, It's
like it's like but I but I also believe that
if you can't make it in your hometown, you can't
make it. No.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, like this is what I mean.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I know that some places that are very very small
places that have like one hundred people there or whatever,
but you still got to imprint those hundred people first. Right,
in my opinion, I think you got to print those
hundred people first. They got to see something in you
before you take off and go to LA or New
York or wherever you want to go to pursue your dreams.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And I think a lot of these new artists. They
got to get their attitude and check man, because I
come across a lot of new artists and they just
have this air about them. Yeah, and all of this,
and I'm just like, brud, like you got half a hit.
It may not even be had. You probably got a
quarter of a hit. And you acting like this like
I have met the biggest stars in the world, the
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most down, most humblest people you will ever ever meet,
and here you are walking around with this entitrement like
sitchoss down somewhere. Man, get a hit first.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Huh, you get a hit? Get a hit first. Man.
You are not a allowed person. You are not a
low frequency person. So a question that has been bugging
me is how in the hell does somebody like you,
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who is so laid back, cool, calm and collective ends
up on a reality show called Ready to Love. I mean,
you got the love part right, right, but all of
the extra stuff that come with reality shows that is
anti KG smooth.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
You are absolutely right, Willie D. And I got to
big it up to my listeners. My listeners are the
ones who encouraged me to do that show. So here's
how the story went. Late twenty nineteen, like November December
twenty nineteen, getting these folks dming me. They were casting
folks trying to cast me for the show. The first
person hit me up, I ignored it. Second person hit
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me up. I ignored it. Third person hit me up.
I ignored it. So at night, when I'm doing a
quad stum one O two, I get on a magic
Facebook live and I talked to the people and so
I'm telling them, I'm like, yeah, like these folks from
some show ready to love on on like once me
to audition, like and I didn't know what the format was.
I'm like, you know, I'm too private, Like they're not
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about to be following me up here at the station,
like at the house, Like I'm not doing that. But
my listeners was like, no, like do the show, like
if you find love great, but do it to raise
the KG smooth profile, raise the KG Smooth brand. And
I was like, are y'all for real? They was like yeah,
like do it. And so that next day, whoever the
last person was to hit me up, I hit them
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back like Okay, I'll give it a shot. Within the
hour they called me with the first interview and then yeah,
I go on to do Ready to Love last resort
got eliminated halfway through. Unbeknownst to me, I was a
fan favorite. People were in their feelings of how and
why I got eliminated. And then that next season they
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brought me back as a surprise, and you know, and
and I found my love now Amber. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's just crazy.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Yeah yeah yeah, are.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
No, No, how long did it last?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
About? Uh? About nine months? Now?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I heard when when when you first did the first
episode that you did, you got eliminated because of your
reluctance to play the game. He was really looking for love, Like.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I mean, yeah, I really really really was. Yeah. Because
I didn't know, I didn't know what the format was.
I didn't watch any of the other other other episodes.
I had only watched two episodes before we started filming.
I had watched like the very first episode of season
one and then like the the reunion of season two,
just to just to get an idea of what I
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was getting myself into. Because I always thought, like, Okay,
if I were to do reality TV, I turn it
up a notch for entertainment purpose, but not with the
show like Ready to Love, like you you have to
be authentically you and that's the thing. And to everybody
else out there that wants to do reality TV, you
got to know who you are as an individual before
you go and do something like that, because if you don't,
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you end up exposing yourself. You're going to expose yourself
to yourself, and you're gonna expose yourself to the rest
of the world. And I think if you ask some
of my castmates, they would like to erase that part
of their lives out because some folks was moving with
ill intentions and it came back to bite them in
the ass and it got displayed on television. So if
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you don't know who you are as an individual, it's
gonna be a rap. You're gonna expose yourself to everybody
and even yourself, and you ain't gonna like what you see.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
What was it about Amber that made you choose her?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
You know she was she protected me and she she
was guiding me along the way. So I had just
had my spiritual awakening or my you know, reaching that
higher level of consciousness if you will. The veil was lifted.
So December twenty first, twenty twenty, when you know black
(15:08):
when black Twitter was saying that we were going to
get our superpowers on that day. That was the day
of the Great Conjunction. That was when Jupiter and Saturn
were as close as they were in like what eight
hundred years. This was Monday, December twenty first, twenty twenty, okay, yeah,
and social media was talking about how we get how
melanated folks, black black folks get our superpowers on that day.
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And so I'm hearing about that, I'm hearing about the
Great Conjunction, and the girl that I do yoga with
I call her up. I'm like, yo, is there something
that I should be doing or you know, because I
want to receive what the universe is given and you know,
give it back. And she was like, no, just the
fact that you are aware is enough. So that day,
you know, they were talking about on the news how
you could see the Christmas Star an hour after the
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sun goes down. So I decided to go to the
park ground and just look at the stars. The the
sky was so beautifully clear with start. I had never
seen so many stars in my life, Willie. And then
I see one moving, and to make a long story short,
things started happening. My body's tingling, first, head hard, and
gut basically, the Kundalini energy had risen and all of
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my everything was open, and the aha moment came and
the veil was lifted, and then the magic started happening.
And so what made me choose Amber was because she
was she was there with me along on that journey,
because it was fresh. I'm filming this show. Production thinks
that I'm nuts. My listeners are thinking that I'm crazy
because I'm talking about things because I have this new enlightenment.
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And then you know, the vaccine comes out and I'm
trying to warn people about the vaccine and I get
dragged hell and back. It was a lot that had
went on. But Amber, she protected me and she was
there for me, helping me with dealing with all of that.
And that's where the real bond came in. Y'all didn't
really get to see that on the show, but yeah,
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that was it. Did you think you were gonna marry her?
I didn't know. You know, I was going with the flow.
You know, I knew that I was intentional and and
I wanted something real, and we you know, we got
along great. I mean, you know, just things, just other
things happen, Yeah, you know, but I mean marriage crossed
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my mind, you know, but I was like, we got
we got to get through the rough first, like let's
see if we if we can, we can make it
to two years, then you know it's all you still
be leaving love? I do? I do. I mean, I'm
not in a romantic space right now, you know, still
healing from that situation if you will. But you know,
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when I'm ready, I'll be ready. But the ladies is
they be on it though I got something. I want
to devote them ways and devote they way in my life.
I'm like, yoh hoh on shorty, like you know, not yet,
you'll know when it's time.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Deboring a woman being very aggressive in a relationship. Is
that attractive to.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You because it's like it's like, you know, I'm you
ask me something, I tell you. You you hear me,
but you're not listening. But yet you still want to
behave and push yourself, you know on me when I
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just explained to you like this ain't where I'm at now.
If you you know, if you want to hang out
and have fun like yeah, but I'm not trying to
get super duper serious right now, Like I'm not even
trying to share my sexual energy with you right now.
You know what I'm saying, because I know the attachments
that come along with that. And you know, and once
you realize that and no, about soul tize, you are
very selective with who you who you stick your penis in.
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You know what I'm saying now, did you?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Well you always this way about sexual intercourse with women
as far as like the waiting.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Period, No, it wasn't until I had When did that come?
Once the enlightenment came and just realizing how powerful that
energy is. Just sharing that energy and getting familiar with
soul tides and having that really exposed to me, and
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I was like man like. And then it started thinking
the back of other past relationships or situationships you know
that I had, like, oh, this is why I couldn't
move forward because I'm still holding on to whatever they
had going on in they life that attached on to me.
And it was just you know, it was that rabbit hole.
You know. Some people that they're not ready for all
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that talk. They think it might be you know, crazy,
but no, it's definitely I know, you know, it's real.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I feel you, brother, I feel you because like you,
I was like that at one point and and I
had an epiphany. I was like, it's a it's a
it's a different type of calm that it's very difficult
to explain the people who have never experienced it. And
this is why even today some dudes, when I say
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certain things about what I won't do with a woman,
or how will I stain at times or whatever, they
can't imagine are you lying?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
He ain't he lying? He lied like dog.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
All I can say is that I'm not you, you know,
like I'm I believe in growth and I think when
you get there, you understand it like it's something. It's
something very powerful about it. And the trip part about
it is that when women know that you ain't humping
around or just going up in anybody, that they want
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you even more.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yep. Yeah. I had one say to me like, if
I was gonna have a babob with KG smoans, I
know he's got that good sparing because his energy is
always good and he respects himself and other people to around.
I was like, wow, like yeah, yeah, this this would
be the good stuff. But let me tell you about
when I had mentioned seeming retention on the show and
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it made its way to like e Knightley, Pop News
and all of this, and it was a thing and
I was getting dragged for it. But I'm trying to
explain to the fellas like no, like if you tried
like holding your seed at least for thirty days, like
you will feel like Super Mario with the Star. But
they're not hearing it, like oh, like I got a
bus and this, that and the third and I'm just like, Okay,
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that's on you. But then Kevin Gates comes out and
he's talking about it and the benefits of it, and
then that finally got you know, some fellas are thinking differently,
and even young Nli Chopper talked about you know, seeming
retention and the power that it has. And all I
can say to my fellas that you know, want to
clown us for doing it or whatever, like you won't
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know what it's like until you do it. Once you
get that feeling, because I feel so much more powerful,
like I can heal the world and conquer everything. Until
you know what it feels like to hold your seed
in for third thirty forty five, sixty ninety days, you
ain't gonna know what we're talking about. So something you
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can't explain to something that you have to experience in
order to get but there's so much power in it, manifestation, instantaneous.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
In order to do it, you have to have a
lofty goal in mind. Mine at the time was boxing.
You know, you have to be able to control your
sexual urges as a fighter, because if you can't, you're
going to get laid out. I mean, it really takes
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a lot of energy out of you, and so you
have to practice that. You have to practice seeming retention.
I think sometimes I've went as long as six months.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Oh wow, Yeah, that's a goal.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah, you know, like because you have to think to yourself,
I wonder what my opponent is doing. Just like when
I don't feel like getting up at five thirty in
the morning to go run because I'm sore from the
night before, I get up anyway, because I'm thinking, what
if my opponent is out there out there already, or
what if he's still in the bed. Let me get
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an edge. I like to get the edge. I want
the edge. I won't always want to edge, so I
get up if I think he might be sleeping. I'll
go longer in the gym, I fight longer instead of
spawning for six rounds.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I'm a spa for.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Eight rounds, because I think he might just be stopping
at six, or maybe he's not spawning at all, you know,
So you have to have a goal that's loftier, a
very lofty goal in order to do something like that
as a man, because sex is such a huge part
of our identity.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
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Speaker 3 (24:01):
I want to ask you this name. Can a woman
be a boss chick, be independent, be anti patriarchal and
still want a man to pay for everything?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
No? And why not? No, she's got to pick a side.
And that had been my argument when that first that
first season is Ready to Love, Ready to Love, Last Resort.
When I got eliminated, it was due to the financial conversation.
And of course, you know, I led with a man
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whos supposed to provide and protect, you know, the biblical term,
but for entertainment purposes, you know, they chopped it up
and you know, use the fifty to fifty, you know,
because in that instance, I was saying, how I was
giving all these examples like, oh well, you know, maybe
I'll take the mortgage and you take the car. No,
or we split the mortgage, or maybe I'll do the
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mortgage in the car note and you do all the
small bills, like just all of these different examples. That's
where I messed up. I just should have you know,
kept it general, but it caused a whole lot of things.
But that's what I was saying to the women with that, like,
you know, you are the highly educated, the most educated
now making more money than your grandmama and your grand
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your mom and your grandparents ever would have thought in life.
And you're just leading everywhere number one in entrepreneurship, you know,
starting new businesses like y'all are it. So you can't
say that I want to tear down the patriarchical structure
and be the boss chick. And yet still you want
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to have the man paid for everything, like you got
to pick you got to pick one, you know, you
got to pick one. And so when that conversation will
come about, I'm just like, that's just something that women
have to ask themselves with side you know they want
to be on, but you can't. I don't think that
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you can have it both. But if we get a
little deeper, you know, us men, we were put on
this earth to protect the woman. I mean, we come
from her. Look at us, we ain't nothing but the retarded,
clone meat version of a woman anyway. That's why we
got breasts and nipples that can't do milk. You know that?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Boy?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
You know what I mean? Like that? Hey, truth hurty,
Sometimes the truth is offensive. But but yeah, so, no,
women can't. They can't. They can't have both. I don't
think so.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I don't think that you can have both. And I
also don't think that you can have it all and
be happy. I don't think that you can have it
all in all of it be good. Something has to suffer, yeah,
you you even men, men can't have it all. Something
has to suffer, you know, work has to suffer you,
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personal relationship has to suffer. It's very difficult to strike
that balance. And if you look back at people like
a lot of successful people, highly successful people, like some
people that we may refer to as geniuses, a lot
of them were horrible in their relationships. A lot of
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them have horrible relationships with their kids, they have horrible
they've had multiple significant others, just horrible relationships personal romantic relationships.
But on the business side or career side, you know, flourishing. Yeah, yeah,
(27:44):
you're right. I think that you have to. That is
a sweet spot, I think, but you're gonna lack in
some area. I think for me, I lack career wise
because I threw it all into my family and uh
but looking back, I wouldn't have thrown as much into
my family and here's what not not not.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I wouldn't take back any.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Of the love and the time and whatever attention or whatever,
but I would have instead of like not going on
some like tours and stuff like that, I probably would
have just said, Okay, let's get this tour bus.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
But I wasn't thinking on that type of level. I
was like, Yo, if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna
do it like this, right. And so because I think, hey, man,
when when those kids are small, it's good to be
there and stuff, but man, they ain't gonna remember that
stuff no ways, like when they're really really small, they're
not gonna remember all that stuff. It's more important than me,
I think for you to be there when they remember
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everything like that way, don't give them anything that they
can use against you. Because if they they could be
four years old, if they remember, if they remember the
father daughter dance and they had to dance with their granddaddy.
They egg gonna still be holding it against you. So
I say, you know, whatever memories that you want to create,
(29:08):
that you want them to have, you create them. You know,
to make sure that when they look back at your record,
you know they can't hold anything.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
They can't hold anything against you. And that's important what
you just said there, like, look at what you want
and create that period in your life. I think people
need to they really need to get that thought process
through because it's just weird to me, Willie d. People
believe in everything else except themselves. It's weird. Y'all believe
(29:46):
in everything everything that's coming your way, from your precious
Jesus all the way down to your favorite show. You
believe in everything but yourself. It's weird.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
But how do you how do you explain the people
who on the surface seem to act like they're confident
in themselves, but deep down inside they really don't, you know,
believe in themselves. I think a lot of times people
will use that fake confidence as a mask.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yeah they do. Well, First, you got to get out
the victimhood, like you you create this life, your thoughts
really do create your reality. So if and wherever you
focus your attention is where you focus your energy. So
and I always say this to women, like, Okay, he
hurts you, he cheated on you with said woman. Instead
(30:42):
of you thinking about how you're going to get him
back and how you're gonna get her back, won't you
focus all of that attention and energy on yourself, on
you getting better and you manifesting a better man that's
going to add to what you already got, instead of
focusing your attention, which is where you focus your energy
on him and her, Like we got it, we got
(31:03):
it backwards, Like we have been programmed to think and
do the opposite of what they've been telling us, which
is looking in within ourselves. Everything starts and ends with you.
It ain't the white man, It ain't your mama, It
ain't your baby mama, It ain't your baby daddy. Is you?
(31:24):
That was another thing some people ask me, like, what's
the biggest thing that you learned about we're doing ready
to love? I was like that human beings don't want
to be accountable for their own shit. Everybody wants to
point the finger at everybody. Oh I did this because
you said this, or oh, you made me feel this
kind of way because I did this. No, bitch, you
did it because you wanted to. The devil didn't make
you do it. Everybody got this convenient devil they want
(31:46):
to place in as for their actions. No, you did that.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Well. I think everybody has a right to complain if
they think that they've been done wrong. But after you complain,
you have to do something about it. That's the problem
that I have when somebody don't want to do something
about it. You know, yeah, you did me wrong, but
now you know, this is what I'm gonna do. Yeah,
you did me wrong, but you know what, I shouldn't
(32:12):
even been fucking with you're in the first place. So
you put it back on yourself, and now you have
to be held accountable. Now you have to make some changes.
A lot of times people don't put it on themselves
because they don't want to be held accountable. They don't
want to change anything. If you acknowledge that it's you,
if you acknowledge that you are the one who owns,
(32:35):
you have stewardship over your lot in life, then you
have to make a change because you can lie to
everybody else, but you can't. Yeah, man, let's talk about
this Moscatto. You got man, La Moscatto. You are the
business man. You're not just a singer, a dancer, a
(32:56):
radio host, an entertainer, a writer, a scholar. You know,
you got the mescatto. How did that become?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
So? Shout out to Hope Foster, the owner of Signature Ships.
I hadn't known Hope for going on ten years now,
so I had hosted some events that she had, and
back even back then in like twenty what fifteen sixteen,
she was like, Hey, you want to start your own brand.
I'm like, no, now it is in a good time.
I'm still trying to find my way. He said, Hope,
(33:24):
Hope Foster sign you know if you see her, yeah,
good know her. And so at the time I was
just like, I still haven't. I'm not solidified in Houston
yet enough. So I wasn't ready. But after the two
seasons of doing Ready to Love, I'm in My youngest brother, Keenan,
he was like, hey, bro, like you a fan favorite,
(33:45):
people love you. You need to come out with something like
now like strike while the iron is hot, they could
be pencils, like they'll mess with it because it's you.
I'm like, dang you right, And so Hope had called
me to host her signature event and she was like,
and so I wanted to circle back and see, you know,
are you ready to launch your own brand? And I
(34:05):
was like, you know what, Hope, Yeah, I'm ready. Now
is now is the time? And so she crafted this
wine here Island Vibes. It's got quiet storm Island Vibes moscato.
It's a tropical blend, all natural flavors, vegan, gluten.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Free, vegan and gluten free. Yes sir, Now, now how
does one make a wine that's.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
That is vegan? See great question. Everybody was like already, man,
So I just.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Got the thing on the side, yes sir, he be
the jud it is and it's cool.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
So so it's all about how it's processed. I think
the little tab is in there on the side. So
it's all about how the wine is processed. Because sometimes
when it's processed, like they'll use man that from animals,
(35:05):
try to look at it on the on the tip,
like right up in.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Here, I'm looking. I think we gotta do it on that.
We're gonna let me go from the top, you see,
if I can get it.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
So Yeah, So it's all about the process and how
it's processed because sometimes they'll use, you know, an animal
to sift through, uh, certain things during the processing.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah, it's about the process, and they'll use an animal
to sift through.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
So like you know how they you know, like uh,
like when they make greens and you know, they put
the ham hop you know, in the greens to like
and to induce the flavor. Like they'll do the same
thing when processing, uh, when doing wine escatto. Yeah, so
this is the moscatos. I wanted to start with a
(35:57):
moscato because one, ladies love moscato, and then also wanted
something that the women would love and the fellas wouldn't
feel weird about drinking. Now, it does taste a little different.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
It doesn't have as much it's not as bubbly as
a lot of the moscatos that I that you do
that intentionally.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, I hope does that intentionally. She does her thing.
You take any any particular flavors you taste.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
It's kind of sweet. But man, I could drink this. Man,
I'm trying to figure out exactly what is it?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Man, It's like.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I love it, say, bro, I ain't gonna lie. It's good.
Let me tell you something. And I was hoping I
wouldn't have to lie. But this is good, bro, this
is good. But I wouldn't. I wouldn't have thought this
was moscato though. Really, yeah, I wouldn't have thought it
(37:06):
was moscato because you know, like I said, a lot
of the moscato has the super sleep. Yeah, but this
is something I could drink all day. I would, but
it's kind of it's got it got a kick to
it though, so you gotta watch out.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
You gotta watch out.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
But I see what you did. You made it smooth
and sexy.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Got to live kick to it. So we'll sneak up
on you. It will make your mind play tricks on you.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
You already know. Yeah. I wanted something that the ladies
would love and the men wouldn't feel weird drinking because
you know, I know how we are, you know when
it comes to things like that. And so here we
just launched the red Blend. This is called Quiet Storm
Shadow Red Blend. It's a again all natural flavors. It's
a red did a soft launch during the Houston Cigar
(37:54):
Week and to my surprise, they was buying this one up,
like I was, like man and like.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
The Millo red Man. So let's see. Yeah, let's see,
said the blind man. But I like this though, bro,
I gotta get some of this, Yes, sir, Now, now
what stores are you in? Are you in Specs?
Speaker 2 (38:12):
No, we got a meeting with Specs though. Is that
a meeting you want me to go?
Speaker 3 (38:17):
I know the people that specs. Uh, you see the deal?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
So right now at Bees Winebar most City. You see
Bees Wine Bar in most City. I'm at five Central.
But there in River Oaks, shout out to Tony and
Terry william h Yeah, Tresby Strowing Wine Bar in the Heights,
shout out to Sean Chantelle McWilliams, the owner there. And
(38:43):
and then of course at Signature SIPs, which is in
the Katie Mills Mall. And then I keep something on me. Uh,
we got the website Quiet Storm moscatto dot com.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Now no, it was supposed to be tasting tasting this
one too, but I had to pour.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
So get a swig of water so you can clear
your pallett. Yeah yeah, yeah, and then let me know
what you did this red It's brand speaking of ripped
me out the plastic. I'm in that of brand new
let's see. Yeah, that red that's my thing, that red.
(39:21):
Yeah yeah, and Hope crafts it. She's the wines are
out of California. And then she does what she does.
She won't let me in on her you know process,
how she does everything, which I respect, but she comes
she comes with a good product. Mm hmm is this
a blink? Oh?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, it's good. It's good Man, This
is good Man KG and Willie D. Moscato.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Man, I'm glad you like it.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
I do like it, bro, I do like it. The
trip part about it is that, like with moscatos and reds,
oftentimes you taste them and it's something that you've tasted before.
It's very very simple. This is not something I really
tasted before. Uh, but it's it's clearly red wine, good
(40:12):
red wine. But it has a distinct taste too.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
And all natural flavors. And it's vegan yep, becing gluten free.
That's what. Yeah, she she only deals with that, which
is which is right up my driveway. Man.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
I drank the hell out of both of these, bro.
I ain't I gotta put these because you know, I
gotta wine sell at the house. So I am definitely
gonna get these bro. People gonna see your name in
my house when they come to my house, they're gonna
see your name because I'm definitely gonna get me some
of this, y'all.
Speaker 5 (40:45):
Yeah, absolutely, really, di I got it. Yeah, yeah, So
I'm get a case of this. In the case of this,
it starts, starts, but start us.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
That's good stuff, man, that's good stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Thank you, good boys. Reloaded podcasts. We'll be right back
after the point. I don't know how to risk this interview.
Gonna go now.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
I normally don't drink when I'm interviewed, so and don't
telling what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Now, I love it. Let's go, man, man, I'm glad
you like it.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
I heard that, dude, I don't listen like it. I
love it. I really do love it. You got something
on your hand, man, Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Thank you. This is good. I like to see people.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
In the entertainment industry venture out into other spaces. I
think that people that do entertainment are some of the
most sharpest people out there, some of the most sharpest
business people. Even though we you know, we had a
history of people getting shot at in the entertainment industry.
But as of late, over the last couple of decades,
(42:02):
people in an attend industry industry have really shown a
great sense of business acumen, you know, like it's it's
been very, very exciting to see on my behalf because
I am a businessman and I like to see people
doing it on a different level, going into those different spaces.
(42:26):
When you decided to do this, did you own a
business before that?
Speaker 2 (42:32):
No, I did not, just being booked independently to do
voiceovers and you know, produce spots over the scam demock
during the thick of the scam demic.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Actually I never heard that phrase, but yeah, yeah, I'm
with that.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
D Mars had reached out to me his book. Yeah,
shout out to d Mars. He has his book Finding
Your Treasure Chest, and he wanted me to do the
audio book for it, and so I voiced the audio
book for that. So just doing you know, little things
like that, this is this was my first time. This
is the first time entrepreneur.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
I like that you don't jump on everything, and that's
consistent with who you are as a man. You don't
just buy into everything. You don't co sign everything. You
don't jump on every moving train. You wait for the
right opportunity. You wait for that train that you're supposed
to be on.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Yes, sir, I like that thank you, thank you's, and
I'm glad that you peeped at that's intentional. A young
lady had that I ran into on an event last week.
She's like, man, like, you know, I see you everywhere
And I was like, well, no, I don't try to
be everywhere. She was like, well, you be at the
right stuff. Right there we go. I'm at the right stuff.
(43:52):
I ain't everywhere. I'm at the right stuff. So I'm
glad that I'm making the right moves. And one thing
that I've just dawns on me, you know, for someone
like yourself to you know, acknowledge me and hit me
up and wanted to have me on this podcast, I
appreciate it love and gratitude. But what I've noticed is like,
you never know who's watching, right, You never know who's watching.
(44:16):
And I'm glad that I am true to me and
I've been moving the same way these whole ten years
that I've been in Houston. And people they see that
and they know that that that I move you know
the right way. Yeah, because I'm not all about the
other stuff. Like you know, my Community show, I use
that that is specifically for the people of Houston. It's
(44:37):
for the City of Houston. Ever since I took over
that show on twenty fourteen, I intentionally use that for
organizations or people that want to come on and talk
about an issue that's not being talked about. You know,
the cancer clusters in Fifth Ward, Like me and Larry
we were the first ones to put them folks, to
give them a platform to talk about that. Larry Jones, Yeah,
(44:59):
fucking Larry Jones, Yes, sir. Yeah, So things like that,
and then the situation with that that propane tank that's
happened down there in Sunnyside, Like yeah, I use that
platform the Public Affairs Podcast for the City of Houston,
which has really been like my my key to the
(45:21):
city in a sense, you know, just having a lot
of you know, dignitaries and city officials and you know,
nonprofit organizations and just folks that got something going on
that the big you know, mainstream media or the you
know the bigger you know, the ABC thirteens or the
k h o us won't pick up. So I'm I'm
glad of that, and that's intentional.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Yeah, where did the voice come from? Did your daddy
have a deep voice?
Speaker 2 (45:46):
No? My dad didn't, honestly, he No, he didn't. He
was a musician. Though.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
How old were you when you people started noticing that
you had a deep voice.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
It was definitely after puberty. So it used to bug
me forever, Like when I would answer the house phone
and my mama's friends would think I'm heard. Yeah, they
would answer the phone, Hello Cookie, No, like this is Chris,
Like what is it? Yeah, But after puberty and then
in high school in choir, I was the director of
(46:20):
the choir in high school in choir, and we had
a we had a Christmas concert that we were doing,
and so my music teacher picked me and another gentleman
by the name of Mike Freeman. He played the piano
to teach the class a couple of songs, and so
I chose two songs off of Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas
album that we sang. So the day that I was
(46:43):
to teach the class the parts and whatnot, and music
teacher set up the PA system, the big speakers, and
I get on the mic and I get the classes attention,
like all right, everybody were about to get started. As
soon as I spoke, everybody shut up and turned to me.
And then you know, this was like, oh, Chris, you
sound good on the mic. And so that was my
(47:03):
first little inkling of oh okay, so all right, so
I got something here, you know what I mean. And
then just you know, growing up in church and just
singing in the choir like I never never really knew.
I just sang loud, like you know, just trying to
carry the tenor section, you know, and then my grandmother
would be like, you know, I always know when you
(47:25):
in the choir because your voice carries. So it was
it was a girl in high school and then my
grandmother that that's when I first kind of knew. And
then I would also notice in college, like being in
class in a lecture hall, like when I spoke or
wanted to answer a question, how my voice carried in
the room or in the lecture hall, and how people
(47:45):
would just immediately turn their heads and look at me
while I was talking. But I never knew, you know,
the power that it has, like like I do now,
even with little things, you know, suggesting books for people
to read or a TV showing whatever, like ever be
people listen. People listen to me, and I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
You got that thing like comedians have. Some comedians have
that thing where they don't before they ever speak, people
are laughing because they got those Like Corey Holcom has
those expressions. Corey Holcomb can doing an expression and you're
just bust out laughing.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
Because you already know, yeah, he's one of the best.
Speaker 3 (48:28):
He has an advantage over everybody else, like you have
an advantage over everybody else with your voice because just
the voice alone, it captures people's attention. And then after that,
all you got to do is just not mess it up.
Like if you're in the club somewhere, can you approach
(48:50):
your chick? You could just talk to the chick and
be like, you know, like now, all you got to
do at that point it's just don't mess it up.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
And the old me didn't even realize that superpower. I
was like, dang, Like if I knew it was just
easy to get women, like just by you know, talking
or just saying I would have been I would have been.
Did that you know? Yeah, that's wyld.
Speaker 3 (49:14):
That's beautiful though, man, it's beautiful. You know, hey, you
got to use what you what you got to get, won't.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Yes, sir, yes, sir, But no, I never even in
my mind. I'm like, man, there's plenty other voices you
know better than mine, and I think that's probably what
keeps me kind of grounded. I mean I know that, Okay,
yeah I sound good or you know, you may have
this look or you're successful here, but in my mind,
(49:41):
there's always somebody better. So don't get well, I ain't
gonna never get you know, a big head or ego.
I mean, I'm been doing this for a long time.
If it ain't happened now, it ain't gonna happen. But
I guess what keeps me grounded, Well, I know what
keeps me grounded is knowing that there's somebody better.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
I follow you on Instagram and I see a lot
of times when you post, when you post a picture
that's you know, provocative, you know, for the women, you
get a whole bunch of likes, likes, and comments. But
when you post this multi million dollar wine, you know,
(50:20):
it's a few likes and stuff, it's a few comments,
but it it's just never as many as nowhere close
to as many as you get when you post your
pics of yourself, does that ever like offend you? It
doesn't know, assume a more invested in and you and
your your sexuality.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
They are with what you got going on.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
Yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
Is a perplexing thing because I'm just like man like
y'all just a bunch of horn dogs out here. I'll
just want to see skin because to your point, if
I post something provocative or showing some skin likes and comments,
they running up post something positive me at a you know,
community event or like you said, my wine is it's crickets.
And I don't know really what that is about. I guess,
(51:10):
you know, women are just horny. I guess like I
don't know what it is. It is the weirdest thing
and another weird thing being an entrepreneur now. And this
is like everybody in the past that you have shown
up and supported for how they don't when it's your time.
(51:31):
That's another that's another realization, like dang, like I would
think that you would show up to this or maybe
support or buy a model, but it's been crickets. Like,
oh okay, I peep, you know, I mean, I ain't
gonna say nothing. Like you, you showing me who you are.
But what it has taught me is like, dang, Chris,
(51:52):
you can't expect you out of other people.
Speaker 3 (51:54):
It's true. I never how long have you been doing this?
Because I never even knew you you was doing a
the Moscatto Hotel? Look at my research, because I know
I talked to you, I met you.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
I probably met you five six years ago.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
Yeah we met yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
But I just knew that you. You had a good
energy about yourself, you had a good vibe about yourself.
But I never knew.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
I never.
Speaker 3 (52:18):
I didn't even know you was doing Ready to Love.
I never knew you did that. I didn't know you
did the Moscato, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
So we launched a Moscato September of twenty one. So yeah,
so September twenty twenty one, and then we just launched
and it was a soft launch of the Red a
few weeks ago for Houston Cigar Week.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
But yeah, yeah, you're a celebrity in your own right,
so you really don't need an ambassador. But you know,
but then again, I don't know, you know, Michael Jordan
and celebrity.
Speaker 2 (52:50):
You know you might, man, I mean, let's let's let's
get it going, let's talk. I mean, I ain't got
a lot of money, but say.
Speaker 3 (52:57):
Man, I'm just saying, Man, this stuff, if it's good, Man,
I just mixed. I just poured it in.
Speaker 2 (53:05):
Man like, Man, thank you. I appreciate that this is
it's good and to know and people was like, I
need to do more with it. And I do got
to get better with with promoting that because the women
have been getting on me like they're saying, you've got
a great product. We can see if it was trash like,
but you've got good product.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
You got it, Bro, I'm telling you, you gotta you
know what you should do. Talk to bun b bun B.
It's the master of promoting a product or service. I'm
I'm telling you, bro. And when I say promoting without
(53:47):
having to spend a whole bunch of money, I mean,
obviously he can get through certain doors other people can't
because he's bun b. But bun energy is unmatched. I'm
telling you, Bro, I work a lot of people. I'm
gonna go ahead and conceive that I cannot out work
bun Bee. Bun b Bee every damn where, bro, I
(54:08):
don't even know how you do it. Like I went
over the Trio Burgers. You've been over there, you got well,
I saw, I went. I went to the I went
to the uh the private the private event that he
had well where they you know, uh invite certain people
(54:32):
in litch free and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (54:35):
That was good.
Speaker 3 (54:35):
You know, man, why is it rich people like free stuff?
Like you know what I'm saying. But yeah, you know
it was. It was cool. So uh, it was really
really dope. And when I pulled up, he has the
entire his parking lot. It's damned in like a club
parking lot. You know, it's big, right, And it's in
(54:57):
this building. Man, it's it's a really nice building. And
but when I pulled up to it, I felt like
I had some ownership in it, you know what I'm saying.
Because I've been knowing bug for so long, and I've
been rooting for him for so long. I've been rooting
for you GK for so long. I felt like, you know,
I got some ownership in this, right and I and
(55:19):
so I'm invested in it, like I want to see
him succeed, right, Uh. And it's the same thing, even
though you're from Dayton, Ohio, a place that I actually
love and I got some history of. And I'll tell you,
you know off camera, you know you you being uh
you know from Dayton, Ohio, but coming to Houston and
(55:42):
being such a staple in the community. Uh, I want
to see you win, bro, you know, like, and I
wish I had known soon because I would have I
would have came out to your events, you know, if
you would have reached out to me, you know, but
but you didn't have a number on me, but you still.
Speaker 2 (55:54):
Could have reached out. You could have found me this summer.
Speaker 3 (55:58):
But I definitely, I definitely would would would have what
came after that, because you know, I am a wye
uh conno. So you'll see I'm gonna write you to
the crib one day. Man, You'll see I got it.
Speaker 2 (56:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (56:12):
But I like to see that, man, I really do
like to see that. And and uh man, we we
we so much appreciate you being that dude in h town.
You are in a lane on your own, Like, ain't
nobody really fucking with you? You know what I'm saying? Like,
and I you know you talked about earlier about going
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to these different cities and and and seeing how these
different cultures and black people, you know, how we how
we how we relate to different experiences and all that
kind of stuff. I experienced that when I first started
going on the road, after we broke out with the
Ghetto Boys and all that stuff. I started going on
the road and I seeing these How you go to
(56:54):
Memphis is a little different, you know, you go to
New York is different. You know, it's it's black people
in black people in Wisconsin, right and then in Dallas
and you know, uh, you see even Dallas right up
the street from Houston's four hours from Houston, but in
New Orleans for five hours. But it's different people. It's
(57:15):
a little different, you know, even though we're all interconnected,
it's a little different.
Speaker 2 (57:20):
Up in Detroit. Detroit is different.
Speaker 3 (57:23):
Yeah, it's different, is that?
Speaker 2 (57:25):
And even from Chicago, like like yeah, it's like we
we're the same, but we are.
Speaker 3 (57:30):
We are the same, but we are different. We are
the same, but we are different. You spoke about Jen
Master j Yeah, helping you to I guess refine your
interviewing skills.
Speaker 2 (57:47):
Speak to that. Yeah, he was. He was a great coach.
You know, I was. I was filling in doing afternoons
in Cincinnati at the time because our old program director
corporate had moved him up to Cleveland. And so Terry Thomas,
who was my program director then in Cincinnati, in Cincinnati, yeah,
(58:08):
so mean in Cincinnati. That's how she used to do
mid days. Yeah, she used to do mid days Cincinnata.
She was an MD, and then she got to Peter Kay. Yep,
so filling in doing that. This was in October of
two thousand and two because they were looking for as
they were looking for an afternoon guy because Terry thought
I was, you know, still a little too young, like
(58:30):
and wasn't ready yet or whatever. I get it. So
I'm doing this Afternoon Drive. Promotions sticks their head in
the studio last minute, like, hey, jam Master J about
to call to you about this event that's happening Tonight's
he gonna call him about ten twenty minutes. I'm like what.
So they just give me the flyer and I'm looking
and I was like, okay, so I'm waiting for him
to call. He calls, I'm nervous. I mean, he's the.
Speaker 3 (58:51):
First, he's the first celebrity that you.
Speaker 2 (58:53):
He's my very first interview period radio, first interview ever
because I was just I was part time, so I
did you know, nights and weekends and so ain't nobody
calling me nothing like that. So as I'm doing afternoon drive. Yeah,
jam Aster J my very first interview in radio. So
I'm excited and I'm nervous, the legendary jam Master J
from Run Down. See, I start the interview and I'm
(59:16):
just fumbling. Like it was tragic, Willie. It was. It
was a mess, like and so much so that he
stopped the interview like hold on. It's like hold on, smooth,
like hold on, let me let me get you together here, like.
Speaker 3 (59:27):
I know you know that needs you to be smooth.
Speaker 2 (59:29):
Yeah, right right, It's like, I know you nervous and everything,
like just you know, just relax, Jesse. You got the flyer, Yep.
It's like, now just just talk to me like you're
talking to one of your homeboys, like, you know, just
explain to them, you know what's going down, you know tonight,
you know, we'll have a little have a little small talk,
get to the meet, a little small talk, and be out. Yeah.
(59:49):
I was like, okay, start the interview over, did just that.
It went great. He was like, man, great job, Like
you you know you're gonna you're gonna be good in
this game. You know you're coming out tonight. And I'm
just like a, you know, maybe maybe or whatever, and so,
you know, nice meeting you, nice talking to you or whatnot.
Get off the phone. Man. Two weeks later, that's when
he was murdered. It was devastating to me. And he
(01:00:16):
is responsible for my interview and style. Like that's why
I'm a conversationalist. So like when people come in and
they you know, they they're nervous about doing this interview
on the community show, I just tell them, like listen,
I'm not a Q and a type of interviewer. I'm
a conversationalist. We're just gonna sit and have the conversation.
And I think people can feel that when they're with me,
(01:00:38):
artists and you know, regular folks alike, Like they can
feel my genuineness that I ain't gonna be on no
fuck shit, you know, asking them about you know, their
personal lives, which when I stay away from that when
it comes to artists, that makes them open up and
then they start talking about said situation that's going on,
and I don't even you know, I'm not doing this purposely.
(01:01:00):
He's just you know, the energy that I give. And
so yeah, man, that was He's responsible for that, and
it was It was great. And I've been meaning to
tell fifty cent that story too. Next time I see
fifty I don't have to tell him that because I
know that was his guy too. Yeah. Okay, yeah, so
that was. That was one. Another one one that stands
(01:01:23):
out is Al Green me interviewing Al Green. I'm twenty
five years old and I'm doing I was doing middays
in Cleveland, Ohio, and Al Green calls and we're doing
the interview and he was like Chris Green. I say,
I hear they call you KG smooth and like, yes, sir,
It's like, how old are you. I'm like, I'm twenty five.
(01:01:44):
It's like twenty five. I got records older than you.
I got records older than you. So that was well yeah, yeah.
And Gerald LeVert, God bless him. So Gerald Lavert was
a fan of mine. Imagine that I met him. You know,
I was doing you know, afternoons in Cleveland and he
(01:02:06):
lived there, and my program director he he just popped
up one day and I go in the studio I
didn't even know that he was in there, and I'm like, oh, snap,
like this is Jerie LeVert. And then my program director
Kim John's She's like, oh, hey, Jerald, like this is
Chris Chris Jerlivert. He was like, ah, so you the
man in the afternoons. He was like, I listened to
you every afternoon. You know, I love the one bit
(01:02:27):
that you do. Man, You're you're going to be great.
And I was like wow, like thank you Gerald Lavert. Yeah,
that that sent me. That sent me through the moon.
And he wanted to do some things, but I didn't
stay there long enough, and then a couple of years
later he you know, went on to glory. But yeah,
(01:02:48):
I got some stories. I want to write a book.
I don't know if if I wanted to be around
everything that I you know, haven't told or havn't said,
because I don't talk to my friends or family about
what I do or who I'm talking to, because I
learned early on as pure as it is, and my
intention is I'm just sharing what my life is my
(01:03:14):
friends that are not in the same game. Like, no
matter no matter how sincere I am, it's always gonna
come off as bragging. And so I remember doing radio
in Cleveland and a colleague of mind named Metallas Knight,
and he's actually the PD in Miami at Power. He
said to me, he was like, yeah, man, he was like,
(01:03:34):
no matter what you say to your friends, like it'll
always come across as bragging, you know, you name dropping
celebrities or your experience with you know, being at this
party in this city or whatever, It'll always come across
as bragging. And so and I was like, you're right,
and I felt that, And so I've never I never
talked about my experiences with artists, people that I've interviewed.
(01:03:56):
Even my own brother, my youngest brother, who is my
best friend. We FaceTime every day, Like I would have
just gotten off of FaceTime with him and then interviewing,
you know, somebody like Jamie Fox, and then he'll see
the picture on my story like bruh, Like you was
just with Jamie Fox, Like we literally just got off
the phone. You didn't say anything, and so it's just
(01:04:16):
it's just that thing. Yeah and yeah. So but I'm
gonna write a book. I just don't know which angle
I'm gonna want it to go, because I got some
stories I've been in radio for twenty two years now.
I got some stories. I just ain't never told them.
Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
You should tell them, You should tell them. Who is
that one person that you interviewed and you reviewed the
most that let you down?
Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
Hmm, that is a good one. I don't honestly, I
don't think anyone. Everyone has been so gracious to me.
Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
It had to be somebody, because there's always that true
celebrity that you'd be like, YO.
Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Got it first time. Second time was cool. First time
not so much. Tyrese Man just mean, just for no
reason at all, had an attitude, did not want to
do this interview, did not want to take the picture.
(01:05:32):
I don't know if he was mad because you know
he was performing for our anniversary party that you know
it was something through the label. Maybe he wouldn't getting paid.
Like I'll be trying to give people the benefit of
the doubt. But so set it up.
Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
Tyres comes into the radio station.
Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Yeah, so so we're actually we're at the hotel where
the anniversary party is. We got this whole lot broadcast
set up just like kind of like what we're in
right now. I'm sitting there. I just got finished doing
Shante more and then and you know, tyresee he's sitting
there just he's next He's coming over. I'm like, yo,
(01:06:06):
what's up man? You know just right? Yeah, hey, uh
just very just very ashholeish, like did not want to
do it, short answers, like it was. It wasn't good.
It wasn't good. His energy was off. I don't know,
I don't know what it was. And then I noticed
how he was like that with all of the men,
(01:06:27):
with all the women. Of course you know he was
being that, but he was. He was being a total
dick that day. And it was very disappointing because you know,
I admired him, liked him as an artist and actor.
People in high school used to call me a Coca
Cola boy because we was dark skinned and could sing
and had, you know, a pretty smile or whatever. So
I'm thinking I'm a bond with buddy, and he was
(01:06:48):
just not it was not it. I was like, yo,
like that was it was tragic.
Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
But the second time, second time was cool.
Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
Second time Tyree was cool. This was here and Hughes
Sin he was with Tank and Genuine when it was
in that group T G T. And so myself and Iana,
Max shout to Iana Mac we were interviewing the Fellas
and uh, and he was he was cool and so
I reminded him of that. I told him at that
time and he was He's like, yeah, probably sounds about right,
(01:07:21):
you know, and apologize to me. But yeah, another one
who well that wasn't disappointed. But we got into a
Twitter beef. But we're cool now, me and Vivica Fox
me And this was over This was during the NBA Finals.
This was during many women relationships. No, this was actually
(01:07:43):
over the NBA Finals when the Calves and the Warriors
were playing.
Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
Yeah basketball, This got to be unpresidented. How in the
hell does anybody get into a Twitter beef with Viviica
Fox about the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Yeah, so she was talking about how how it wasn't
you know, it wasn't it wasn't fair that I forgot
what exactly happened. But when Cleveland had won that year,
and she was she was saying about some game or
some call that they didn't do. That's why you know
Cleveland won? Who did they be? The Warriors? And then
(01:08:19):
and so when Lebron went back to Cleveland had yah, Yeah,
this was yeah. When when Lebron went back to Cleveland
and so and so she was tweeting about something and
then I was like, oh, like how the year before
something such such happened and some something something And then
I was like f o h. And then you know
she sees that, and she's like, who is this quiet storm?
(01:08:41):
You know, one of being something something like I forgot
everything that.
Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
She called me play with difficult right.
Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
Right and so smoked. I said something back, and she
said something back, and then she blocked me. Right fast
forward till about a year and a half, she's in
town because she's doing that play. I think it was
with Snoop The Redemption of a Dog if I'm not mistaken,
or one of them stage plays that she was a
part of. They come to the station to do the interview.
(01:09:13):
The salesperson is like, hey, you know this is a
Candy Eastman. You know, this is our night guy, KG Smooth.
He does quiet Storm. And so she's walking by and
she was like quiet Storm, quiet Storm, and then she
looks and I was like, yeah, we got into a
twitter b for about a year ago. She was like yeah,
and you were mean to me And I was like, no,
(01:09:34):
I was not mean to you like, this is what
it was. And then so you know, we talking out,
hash it out. It was great. And she, you know,
she gets on her Instagram store. Like you know, when
you have a preconceived notion to someone and then you
meet them in person, it's the total opposite of what
you thought. It was, like, that's this guy right here,
like he's such a great guy, Like my apologies, you know,
I'm unblock him and everything, and so yeah, so that
(01:09:57):
that was cool. Shout out the villa. Yeah that was funny.
KG Smooth man. I appreciate you coming home. Oh man,
thank you for inviting me. But like you know, bro,
when I saw that d I'm like, you hit me.
I was like, yo, like what's good? And then when
you said you would want me on here, man, it
was this is an honor, Like I don't even know
(01:10:18):
what to say. By far, one of the greatest highlights
of my career and being in Houston, being here with you.
Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
Beauful, beauty, beautiful. I thank you for that, man, No,
thank you, thank you for coming on. Ladies and gentlemen,
KG Smooth, Ladies and gentlemen. I said, I can't even
get deep. I have to wake up to get your voice, man,
I have to wake up and a drink to waken
me up. After not a drinking, I'm totally exhausted and
(01:10:48):
catch me like like three hours in to sleep. Ladies
and gentlemen, KG smooth, but no more talks.
Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
This episode was produced by A King and brought to
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yeah, now deep throating.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
This is for the streets, the real the reilroading, the
Distan franchise, the truth escapegoating, and they ain't know where
we speak the truth, so they ain't quoted because we
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mocked for keeping your head bobbing. It ain't no stopping
and once to be drop said by and then the
system is so corrupt they threw the.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Rock out their heads and then blame it on us.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Don't get it twisted on colding.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
We danced to put no butterment biscuits. It's Willie d
y'all ghetto boys in the house reloaded with another episode
of information and instructions to help you navigate through this wild, crazy,
beautiful world. In the studio Chris Green aka you all
know as my man KG smoke, Yes, sir, I really
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should have done that different. That's really ship has made
it smooth like you be talking like I should have
just been like in the studio KG smooth. Anybody ever
hit you one of those?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
All the time? Yeah, all the time.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
See that's why I'm so unique. Though I didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Listen when when Tyler Perry did it to me, I
was like, oh, man, like I must have really made it.
I got Tyler Perry impersonating me over here. Man.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You got the voice like Whitney had the voice in music,
you know, and with the singing. You got the voice
for radio. You got the voice. You are the voice.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Thank you? You know.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Okay, let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You were born and raised in day Ohio, yes, sir,
the birthplace of funk.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You got your starting ready in two thousand and Cincinnati
at w w IZF one point nine whiz from that
and that's what that was, basically your training grounds. Then
you moved over to Cleveland where you got the midday position,
and then from there you went to Columbus where you
served as a midday host.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Now, how did Houston end up on your radar which
you subsequently becoming the voice for Magic one O two's
the Quiet Storm.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So when I was doing radio in Columbus, Georgia, I
had reached the glass ceiling like I had did everything
I had. I had great numbers, I had a top show.
I even hosted a TV show on their like Government Channel,
kind of like the community show that comes on Sunday
mornings on the Box of Magic and Praise, but it
was that version but on the TV. And so I
(02:30):
thought I was gonna be a great programmer. But everybody
there had been there for years. They ain't going nowhere.
It's just like, you know this, this is not any
room for me to program program director. Yeah, so like
you know, programming the music and all of that. But
you know, folks weren't giving up their positions. And so
one day when I got off the air, just sitting
(02:51):
in silence. Now that I look back on it, I
guess it was a form of meditation. I was just like,
you know what, it's time to go, Like, you know,
I know my talent, I know my work ethic, I've
done everything. Here ain't nothing moving. So I took a
faith walk and just moved to Atlanta. Me and my
ex girlfriend, we had moved moved to atlant I didn't
have nothing set up, so just moved up there with
(03:14):
faith walk. I was kissed one oh four. They were there,
was toying with me. You know, I went through the
whole rigamreau. The interviews didn't on air shift like all
of that, and then they just left me hanging. So
one morning I was going to get my teeth clean.
I just sent out a basic tweet like going to
get my teeth clean. As I'm getting dressed, my phone
(03:36):
rings and I see the numbers. It's seven one three number.
I'm like, who's calling me from Houston? Because I'm like,
if it's seven forty five here, it's six forty five there.
So I answered the phone and it's Terry Thomas. She's like, hey, kay,
you know I saw that you are not in radio,
like what's going on? And so, you know, I told her,
you know, what was going on at David's broadcasting how
(03:58):
I left, and she was like, you know what, I
don't have anything full time on air. I got some
part time positions, and I can make this digital position
for you. Since and social media was just you know,
coming up in terms of Instagram and all of that,
she was like, you know, so look at your calendar,
see when you can come for a market visit. So
I chose like the third weekend in October. It just
(04:21):
so happened to be the very first Magic under the Stars.
It was with Charlie Wilson and Jill Scott. So my
real introduction to Houston was coming here, coming to the station,
going to that concert, staying in the Gallery of area,
just seeing everything. And I remember waking up that.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Saturday night, I was like, yep, this is home and yeah,
just came on through.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
So yeah, Houston came calling. Houston came calling.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
In in in this business of radio, I like to
compare it to being an athlete off in times you
have to be ready to go to another city at
any moment. How does that impact your attachment with human
beings and even things.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's wow, that's a great question. I just get up
and move. I mean, I'm a people person. So living
in these different markets throughout my career and really seeing
how you know us as black folk, we're the same,
but we're different and we're different regionally. Like I'm from Dayton, Ohio,
(05:36):
which is like Southwest Ohio, Dayton Cincinnati area. Like the
culture there was totally different than the culture up in
Northeast Ohio, which is Cleveland, and they were more you know,
East Coast, you know, through Rags and Thames, you know.
And then living in living in two parts of the South,
(05:56):
living in Georgia and seeing how you know Southern is
get down and talk, and then coming here to Texas
living in the Southwest, you know, it's it's different. It's
the same, but it's different. But in terms of that attachment,
I mean it's you know, when you grow a bond
with a certain community. You know, of course, you know
you hate to leave, but the other part is like, oh, well,
(06:17):
I'm moving on a bigger, better, bigger and better things
and you know, meeting you know, more folks. So I
guess it ain't that hard of a transition. I guess
I just knew that I would make more and better
connections in the next city. But it was definitely like culturally,
it got me to understand us more. And I also
want everybody to know out there all cities, people in
(06:40):
the city say the same thing, like like oh, people
ain't buying tickets, like this is a walk up market,
or artists saying I don't get love from you know,
my own hometown. I had to leave and go away
and then you know, come back and let me listen.
It's the same story everywhere every city out and been
there and people say the same thing. So it ain't
the city, it's people.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, why are people like that though, Man,
why is it? But but here's the thing, though, why
is it that oftentimes you have to leave home to
make it? Like why is it that you know, like
I think Getto Boys wanted the exceptions to the rules
because Houston embraced ust immediately.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And I don't know if.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
It was because it was so many of us that
was attached, like Ghetto Boys, was not just the members
in the group, Like we had a real like movement. Yeah,
we had a whole movement going, you know, so it
was I guess it was a little different there. But
you know, I do hear a lot of that, man,
where people get offended about, you know, the hometown not
(07:45):
embracing them. And that's why a lot of times when
they make it, they leave because a lot of people jaded.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, and they feel like I know artists right now
who I had conversations with, like, man, I just got
to go like Houston ain't doing it, Like We'll go in.
If you feel like you need to move to LA
to make it, move, do what you gotta do, New York,
do what you gotta do. I think I think the
hometown probably doesn't appreciate the artist and the art at
(08:12):
the time, maybe because they've been in dated and I
remember when I got here ten years ago, just hearing
the stories about Destiny's Child, like, oh, them girls were
everywhere like performing here and there, like we got sick
of them. I'm a boom And then you know, when
they blew up, it was just like all of that,
(08:32):
all of that, all of that, and so I think
for the city, they probably don't appreciate the artists as much.
And then once that artist or that group goes outside
and has that success, and then the town is like,
oh man, like we got something. Yeah, let's embrace him,
do it. I'm even guilty of that. I did that
with my home city of Dayton, Ohio. Like I really
(08:52):
wasn't claiming Daton at first, like I would say I'm
from there, but you know, people would associate my tides
more to Cincinnati until I saw the Unsung episode of
the Ohio Players and when they went through all of
the great funk bands and acts that came out of
date in Ohio, I was like, yo, like I'm from there,
(09:14):
like from day and like we got you know, we
got we had some fire come out of there. So yeah,
it's a weird thing. But I think once people really,
once they go away and they realize what they got,
then they want to claim it.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I think familiarity breeds content and that's what it is. Uh,
people like, who is He's just just the guy that
I grew up with. I mean I never looked at
him as easy special. Okay, all right, and now you
missed a hot shot. You still ain't nobody special to
me still, but he is really special. You just don't
want to, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Like, really, I.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Think sometimes two people think that like once you make it,
they feel like you left them behind. You know, It's
like it's like but I but I also believe that
if you can't make it in your hometown, you can't
make it. No.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, like this is what I mean.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I know that some places that are very very small
places that have like one hundred people there or whatever,
but you still got to imprint those hundred people first. Right,
in my opinion, I think you got to print those
hundred people first. They got to see something in you
before you take off and go to LA or New
York or wherever you want to go to pursue your dreams.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And I think a lot of these new artists. They
got to get their attitude and check man, because I
come across a lot of new artists and they just
have this air about them. Yeah, and all of this,
and I'm just like, brud, like you got half a hit.
It may not even be had. You probably got a
quarter of a hit. And you acting like this like
I have met the biggest stars in the world, the
(10:41):
most down, most humblest people you will ever ever meet,
and here you are walking around with this entitrement like
sitchoss down somewhere. Man, get a hit first.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Huh, you get a hit? Get a hit first. Man.
You are not a allowed person. You are not a
low frequency person. So a question that has been bugging
me is how in the hell does somebody like you,
(11:14):
who is so laid back, cool, calm and collective ends
up on a reality show called Ready to Love. I mean,
you got the love part right, right, but all of
the extra stuff that come with reality shows that is
anti KG smooth.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
You are absolutely right, Willie D. And I got to
big it up to my listeners. My listeners are the
ones who encouraged me to do that show. So here's
how the story went. Late twenty nineteen, like November December
twenty nineteen, getting these folks dming me. They were casting
folks trying to cast me for the show. The first
person hit me up, I ignored it. Second person hit
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me up. I ignored it. Third person hit me up.
I ignored it. So at night, when I'm doing a
quad stum one O two, I get on a magic
Facebook live and I talked to the people and so
I'm telling them, I'm like, yeah, like these folks from
some show ready to love on on like once me
to audition, like and I didn't know what the format was.
I'm like, you know, I'm too private, Like they're not
(12:14):
about to be following me up here at the station,
like at the house, Like I'm not doing that. But
my listeners was like, no, like do the show, like
if you find love great, but do it to raise
the KG smooth profile, raise the KG Smooth brand. And
I was like, are y'all for real? They was like yeah,
like do it. And so that next day, whoever the
last person was to hit me up, I hit them
(12:36):
back like Okay, I'll give it a shot. Within the
hour they called me with the first interview and then yeah,
I go on to do Ready to Love last resort
got eliminated halfway through. Unbeknownst to me, I was a
fan favorite. People were in their feelings of how and
why I got eliminated. And then that next season they
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brought me back as a surprise, and you know, and
and I found my love now Amber. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's just crazy.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Yeah yeah yeah, are.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
No, No, how long did it last?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
About? Uh? About nine months? Now?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I heard when when when you first did the first
episode that you did, you got eliminated because of your
reluctance to play the game. He was really looking for love, Like.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I mean, yeah, I really really really was. Yeah. Because
I didn't know, I didn't know what the format was.
I didn't watch any of the other other other episodes.
I had only watched two episodes before we started filming.
I had watched like the very first episode of season
one and then like the the reunion of season two,
just to just to get an idea of what I
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was getting myself into. Because I always thought, like, Okay,
if I were to do reality TV, I turn it
up a notch for entertainment purpose, but not with the
show like Ready to Love, like you you have to
be authentically you and that's the thing. And to everybody
else out there that wants to do reality TV, you
got to know who you are as an individual before
you go and do something like that, because if you don't,
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you end up exposing yourself. You're going to expose yourself
to yourself, and you're gonna expose yourself to the rest
of the world. And I think if you ask some
of my castmates, they would like to erase that part
of their lives out because some folks was moving with
ill intentions and it came back to bite them in
the ass and it got displayed on television. So if
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you don't know who you are as an individual, it's
gonna be a rap. You're gonna expose yourself to everybody
and even yourself, and you ain't gonna like what you see.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
What was it about Amber that made you choose her?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
You know she was she protected me and she she
was guiding me along the way. So I had just
had my spiritual awakening or my you know, reaching that
higher level of consciousness if you will. The veil was lifted.
So December twenty first, twenty twenty, when you know black
(15:08):
when black Twitter was saying that we were going to
get our superpowers on that day. That was the day
of the Great Conjunction. That was when Jupiter and Saturn
were as close as they were in like what eight
hundred years. This was Monday, December twenty first, twenty twenty, okay, yeah,
and social media was talking about how we get how
melanated folks, black black folks get our superpowers on that day.
(15:31):
And so I'm hearing about that, I'm hearing about the
Great Conjunction, and the girl that I do yoga with
I call her up. I'm like, yo, is there something
that I should be doing or you know, because I
want to receive what the universe is given and you know,
give it back. And she was like, no, just the
fact that you are aware is enough. So that day,
you know, they were talking about on the news how
you could see the Christmas Star an hour after the
(15:52):
sun goes down. So I decided to go to the
park ground and just look at the stars. The the
sky was so beautifully clear with start. I had never
seen so many stars in my life, Willie. And then
I see one moving, and to make a long story short,
things started happening. My body's tingling, first, head hard, and
gut basically, the Kundalini energy had risen and all of
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my everything was open, and the aha moment came and
the veil was lifted, and then the magic started happening.
And so what made me choose Amber was because she
was she was there with me along on that journey,
because it was fresh. I'm filming this show. Production thinks
that I'm nuts. My listeners are thinking that I'm crazy
because I'm talking about things because I have this new enlightenment.
(16:41):
And then you know, the vaccine comes out and I'm
trying to warn people about the vaccine and I get
dragged hell and back. It was a lot that had
went on. But Amber, she protected me and she was
there for me, helping me with dealing with all of that.
And that's where the real bond came in. Y'all didn't
really get to see that on the show, but yeah,
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that was it. Did you think you were gonna marry her?
I didn't know. You know, I was going with the flow.
You know, I knew that I was intentional and and
I wanted something real, and we you know, we got
along great. I mean, you know, just things, just other
things happen, Yeah, you know, but I mean marriage crossed
(17:24):
my mind, you know, but I was like, we got
we got to get through the rough first, like let's
see if we if we can, we can make it
to two years, then you know it's all you still
be leaving love? I do? I do. I mean, I'm
not in a romantic space right now, you know, still
healing from that situation if you will. But you know,
(17:44):
when I'm ready, I'll be ready. But the ladies is
they be on it though I got something. I want
to devote them ways and devote they way in my life.
I'm like, yoh hoh on shorty, like you know, not yet,
you'll know when it's time.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Deboring a woman being very aggressive in a relationship. Is
that attractive to.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You because it's like it's like, you know, I'm you
ask me something, I tell you. You you hear me,
but you're not listening. But yet you still want to
behave and push yourself, you know on me when I
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just explained to you like this ain't where I'm at now.
If you you know, if you want to hang out
and have fun like yeah, but I'm not trying to
get super duper serious right now, Like I'm not even
trying to share my sexual energy with you right now.
You know what I'm saying, because I know the attachments
that come along with that. And you know, and once
you realize that and no, about soul tize, you are
very selective with who you who you stick your penis in.
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You know what I'm saying now, did you?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Well you always this way about sexual intercourse with women
as far as like the waiting.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Period, No, it wasn't until I had When did that come?
Once the enlightenment came and just realizing how powerful that
energy is. Just sharing that energy and getting familiar with
soul tides and having that really exposed to me, and
(19:19):
I was like man like. And then it started thinking
the back of other past relationships or situationships you know
that I had, like, oh, this is why I couldn't
move forward because I'm still holding on to whatever they
had going on in they life that attached on to me.
And it was just you know, it was that rabbit hole.
You know. Some people that they're not ready for all
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that talk. They think it might be you know, crazy,
but no, it's definitely I know, you know, it's real.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I feel you, brother, I feel you because like you,
I was like that at one point and and I
had an epiphany. I was like, it's a it's a
it's a different type of calm that it's very difficult
to explain the people who have never experienced it. And
this is why even today some dudes, when I say
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certain things about what I won't do with a woman,
or how will I stain at times or whatever, they
can't imagine are you lying?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
He ain't he lying? He lied like dog.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
All I can say is that I'm not you, you know,
like I'm I believe in growth and I think when
you get there, you understand it like it's something. It's
something very powerful about it. And the trip part about
it is that when women know that you ain't humping
around or just going up in anybody, that they want
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you even more.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yep. Yeah. I had one say to me like, if
I was gonna have a babob with KG smoans, I
know he's got that good sparing because his energy is
always good and he respects himself and other people to around.
I was like, wow, like yeah, yeah, this this would
be the good stuff. But let me tell you about
when I had mentioned seeming retention on the show and
(21:01):
it made its way to like e Knightley, Pop News
and all of this, and it was a thing and
I was getting dragged for it. But I'm trying to
explain to the fellas like no, like if you tried
like holding your seed at least for thirty days, like
you will feel like Super Mario with the Star. But
they're not hearing it, like oh, like I got a
bus and this, that and the third and I'm just like, Okay,
(21:22):
that's on you. But then Kevin Gates comes out and
he's talking about it and the benefits of it, and
then that finally got you know, some fellas are thinking differently,
and even young Nli Chopper talked about you know, seeming
retention and the power that it has. And all I
can say to my fellas that you know, want to
clown us for doing it or whatever, like you won't
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know what it's like until you do it. Once you
get that feeling, because I feel so much more powerful,
like I can heal the world and conquer everything. Until
you know what it feels like to hold your seed
in for third thirty forty five, sixty ninety days, you
ain't gonna know what we're talking about. So something you
(22:06):
can't explain to something that you have to experience in
order to get but there's so much power in it, manifestation, instantaneous.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
In order to do it, you have to have a
lofty goal in mind. Mine at the time was boxing.
You know, you have to be able to control your
sexual urges as a fighter, because if you can't, you're
going to get laid out. I mean, it really takes
(22:36):
a lot of energy out of you, and so you
have to practice that. You have to practice seeming retention.
I think sometimes I've went as long as six months.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Oh wow, Yeah, that's a goal.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah, you know, like because you have to think to yourself,
I wonder what my opponent is doing. Just like when
I don't feel like getting up at five thirty in
the morning to go run because I'm sore from the
night before, I get up anyway, because I'm thinking, what
if my opponent is out there out there already, or
what if he's still in the bed. Let me get
(23:11):
an edge. I like to get the edge. I want
the edge. I won't always want to edge, so I
get up if I think he might be sleeping. I'll
go longer in the gym, I fight longer instead of
spawning for six rounds.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I'm a spa for.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Eight rounds, because I think he might just be stopping
at six, or maybe he's not spawning at all, you know,
So you have to have a goal that's loftier, a
very lofty goal in order to do something like that
as a man, because sex is such a huge part
of our identity.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Get a Boys reloaded. Podcasts will be right back after Squint.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I want to ask you this name. Can a woman
be a boss chick, be independent, be anti patriarchal and
still want a man to pay for everything?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
No? And why not? No, she's got to pick a side.
And that had been my argument when that first that
first season is Ready to Love, Ready to Love, Last Resort.
When I got eliminated, it was due to the financial conversation.
And of course, you know, I led with a man
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whos supposed to provide and protect, you know, the biblical term,
but for entertainment purposes, you know, they chopped it up
and you know, use the fifty to fifty, you know,
because in that instance, I was saying, how I was
giving all these examples like, oh well, you know, maybe
I'll take the mortgage and you take the car. No,
or we split the mortgage, or maybe I'll do the
(25:02):
mortgage in the car note and you do all the
small bills, like just all of these different examples. That's
where I messed up. I just should have you know,
kept it general, but it caused a whole lot of things.
But that's what I was saying to the women with that, like,
you know, you are the highly educated, the most educated
now making more money than your grandmama and your grand
(25:24):
your mom and your grandparents ever would have thought in life.
And you're just leading everywhere number one in entrepreneurship, you know,
starting new businesses like y'all are it. So you can't
say that I want to tear down the patriarchical structure
and be the boss chick. And yet still you want
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to have the man paid for everything, like you got
to pick you got to pick one, you know, you
got to pick one. And so when that conversation will
come about, I'm just like, that's just something that women
have to ask themselves with side you know they want
to be on, but you can't. I don't think that
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you can have it both. But if we get a
little deeper, you know, us men, we were put on
this earth to protect the woman. I mean, we come
from her. Look at us, we ain't nothing but the retarded,
clone meat version of a woman anyway. That's why we
got breasts and nipples that can't do milk. You know that?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Boy?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
You know what I mean? Like that? Hey, truth hurty,
Sometimes the truth is offensive. But but yeah, so, no,
women can't. They can't. They can't have both. I don't
think so.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I don't think that you can have both. And I
also don't think that you can have it all and
be happy. I don't think that you can have it
all in all of it be good. Something has to suffer, yeah,
you you even men, men can't have it all. Something
has to suffer, you know, work has to suffer you,
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personal relationship has to suffer. It's very difficult to strike
that balance. And if you look back at people like
a lot of successful people, highly successful people, like some
people that we may refer to as geniuses, a lot
of them were horrible in their relationships. A lot of
(27:22):
them have horrible relationships with their kids, they have horrible
they've had multiple significant others, just horrible relationships personal romantic relationships.
But on the business side or career side, you know, flourishing. Yeah, yeah,
(27:44):
you're right. I think that you have to. That is
a sweet spot, I think, but you're gonna lack in
some area. I think for me, I lack career wise
because I threw it all into my family and uh
but looking back, I wouldn't have thrown as much into
my family and here's what not not not.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I wouldn't take back any.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Of the love and the time and whatever attention or whatever,
but I would have instead of like not going on
some like tours and stuff like that, I probably would
have just said, Okay, let's get this tour bus.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
But I wasn't thinking on that type of level. I
was like, Yo, if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna
do it like this, right. And so because I think, hey, man,
when when those kids are small, it's good to be
there and stuff, but man, they ain't gonna remember that
stuff no ways, like when they're really really small, they're
not gonna remember all that stuff. It's more important than me,
I think for you to be there when they remember
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everything like that way, don't give them anything that they
can use against you. Because if they they could be
four years old, if they remember, if they remember the
father daughter dance and they had to dance with their granddaddy.
They egg gonna still be holding it against you. So
I say, you know, whatever memories that you want to create,
(29:08):
that you want them to have, you create them. You know,
to make sure that when they look back at your record,
you know they can't hold anything.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
They can't hold anything against you. And that's important what
you just said there, like, look at what you want
and create that period in your life. I think people
need to they really need to get that thought process
through because it's just weird to me, Willie d. People
believe in everything else except themselves. It's weird. Y'all believe
(29:46):
in everything everything that's coming your way, from your precious
Jesus all the way down to your favorite show. You
believe in everything but yourself. It's weird.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
But how do you how do you explain the people
who on the surface seem to act like they're confident
in themselves, but deep down inside they really don't, you know,
believe in themselves. I think a lot of times people
will use that fake confidence as a mask.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yeah they do. Well, First, you got to get out
the victimhood, like you you create this life, your thoughts
really do create your reality. So if and wherever you
focus your attention is where you focus your energy. So
and I always say this to women, like, Okay, he
hurts you, he cheated on you with said woman. Instead
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of you thinking about how you're going to get him
back and how you're gonna get her back, won't you
focus all of that attention and energy on yourself, on
you getting better and you manifesting a better man that's
going to add to what you already got, instead of
focusing your attention, which is where you focus your energy
on him and her, Like we got it, we got
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it backwards, Like we have been programmed to think and
do the opposite of what they've been telling us, which
is looking in within ourselves. Everything starts and ends with you.
It ain't the white man, It ain't your mama, It
ain't your baby mama, It ain't your baby daddy. Is you?
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That was another thing some people ask me, like, what's
the biggest thing that you learned about we're doing ready
to love? I was like that human beings don't want
to be accountable for their own shit. Everybody wants to
point the finger at everybody. Oh I did this because
you said this, or oh, you made me feel this
kind of way because I did this. No, bitch, you
did it because you wanted to. The devil didn't make
you do it. Everybody got this convenient devil they want
(31:46):
to place in as for their actions. No, you did that.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Well. I think everybody has a right to complain if
they think that they've been done wrong. But after you complain,
you have to do something about it. That's the problem
that I have when somebody don't want to do something
about it. You know, yeah, you did me wrong, but
now you know, this is what I'm gonna do. Yeah,
you did me wrong, but you know what, I shouldn't
(32:12):
even been fucking with you're in the first place. So
you put it back on yourself, and now you have
to be held accountable. Now you have to make some changes.
A lot of times people don't put it on themselves
because they don't want to be held accountable. They don't
want to change anything. If you acknowledge that it's you,
if you acknowledge that you are the one who owns,
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you have stewardship over your lot in life, then you
have to make a change because you can lie to
everybody else, but you can't. Yeah, man, let's talk about
this Moscatto. You got man, La Moscatto. You are the
business man. You're not just a singer, a dancer, a
(32:56):
radio host, an entertainer, a writer, a scholar. You know,
you got the mescatto. How did that become?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
So? Shout out to Hope Foster, the owner of Signature Ships.
I hadn't known Hope for going on ten years now,
so I had hosted some events that she had, and
back even back then in like twenty what fifteen sixteen,
she was like, Hey, you want to start your own brand.
I'm like, no, now it is in a good time.
I'm still trying to find my way. He said, Hope,
(33:24):
Hope Foster sign you know if you see her, yeah,
good know her. And so at the time I was
just like, I still haven't. I'm not solidified in Houston
yet enough. So I wasn't ready. But after the two
seasons of doing Ready to Love, I'm in My youngest brother, Keenan,
he was like, hey, bro, like you a fan favorite,
(33:45):
people love you. You need to come out with something like
now like strike while the iron is hot, they could
be pencils, like they'll mess with it because it's you.
I'm like, dang you right, And so Hope had called
me to host her signature event and she was like,
and so I wanted to circle back and see, you know,
are you ready to launch your own brand? And I
(34:05):
was like, you know what, Hope, Yeah, I'm ready. Now
is now is the time? And so she crafted this
wine here Island Vibes. It's got quiet storm Island Vibes moscato.
It's a tropical blend, all natural flavors, vegan, gluten.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Free, vegan and gluten free. Yes sir, Now, now how
does one make a wine that's.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
That is vegan? See great question. Everybody was like already, man,
So I just.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Got the thing on the side, yes sir, he be
the jud it is and it's cool.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
So so it's all about how it's processed. I think
the little tab is in there on the side. So
it's all about how the wine is processed. Because sometimes
when it's processed, like they'll use man that from animals,
(35:05):
try to look at it on the on the tip,
like right up in.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Here, I'm looking. I think we gotta do it on that.
We're gonna let me go from the top, you see,
if I can get it.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
So Yeah, So it's all about the process and how
it's processed because sometimes they'll use, you know, an animal
to sift through, uh, certain things during the processing.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah, it's about the process, and they'll use an animal
to sift through.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
So like you know how they you know, like uh,
like when they make greens and you know, they put
the ham hop you know, in the greens to like
and to induce the flavor. Like they'll do the same
thing when processing, uh, when doing wine escatto. Yeah, so
this is the moscatos. I wanted to start with a
(35:57):
moscato because one, ladies love moscato, and then also wanted
something that the women would love and the fellas wouldn't
feel weird about drinking. Now, it does taste a little different.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
It doesn't have as much it's not as bubbly as
a lot of the moscatos that I that you do
that intentionally.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, I hope does that intentionally. She does her thing.
You take any any particular flavors you taste.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
It's kind of sweet. But man, I could drink this. Man,
I'm trying to figure out exactly what is it?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Man, It's like.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I love it, say, bro, I ain't gonna lie. It's good.
Let me tell you something. And I was hoping I
wouldn't have to lie. But this is good, bro, this
is good. But I wouldn't. I wouldn't have thought this
was moscato though. Really, yeah, I wouldn't have thought it
(37:06):
was moscato because you know, like I said, a lot
of the moscato has the super sleep. Yeah, but this
is something I could drink all day. I would, but
it's kind of it's got it got a kick to
it though, so you gotta watch out.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
You gotta watch out.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
But I see what you did. You made it smooth
and sexy.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Got to live kick to it. So we'll sneak up
on you. It will make your mind play tricks on you.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
You already know. Yeah. I wanted something that the ladies
would love and the men wouldn't feel weird drinking because
you know, I know how we are, you know when
it comes to things like that. And so here we
just launched the red Blend. This is called Quiet Storm
Shadow Red Blend. It's a again all natural flavors. It's
a red did a soft launch during the Houston Cigar
(37:54):
Week and to my surprise, they was buying this one up,
like I was, like man and like.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
The Millo red Man. So let's see. Yeah, let's see,
said the blind man. But I like this though, bro,
I gotta get some of this, Yes, sir, Now, now
what stores are you in? Are you in Specs?
Speaker 2 (38:12):
No, we got a meeting with Specs though. Is that
a meeting you want me to go?
Speaker 3 (38:17):
I know the people that specs. Uh, you see the deal?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
So right now at Bees Winebar most City. You see
Bees Wine Bar in most City. I'm at five Central.
But there in River Oaks, shout out to Tony and
Terry william h Yeah, Tresby Strowing Wine Bar in the Heights,
shout out to Sean Chantelle McWilliams, the owner there. And
(38:43):
and then of course at Signature SIPs, which is in
the Katie Mills Mall. And then I keep something on me. Uh,
we got the website Quiet Storm moscatto dot com.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Now no, it was supposed to be tasting tasting this
one too, but I had to pour.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
So get a swig of water so you can clear
your pallett. Yeah yeah, yeah, and then let me know
what you did this red It's brand speaking of ripped
me out the plastic. I'm in that of brand new
let's see. Yeah, that red that's my thing, that red.
(39:21):
Yeah yeah, and Hope crafts it. She's the wines are
out of California. And then she does what she does.
She won't let me in on her you know process,
how she does everything, which I respect, but she comes
she comes with a good product. Mm hmm is this
a blink? Oh?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, it's good. It's good Man, This
is good Man KG and Willie D. Moscato.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Man, I'm glad you like it.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
I do like it, bro, I do like it. The
trip part about it is that, like with moscatos and reds,
oftentimes you taste them and it's something that you've tasted before.
It's very very simple. This is not something I really
tasted before. Uh, but it's it's clearly red wine, good
(40:12):
red wine. But it has a distinct taste too.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
And all natural flavors. And it's vegan yep, becing gluten free.
That's what. Yeah, she she only deals with that, which
is which is right up my driveway. Man.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
I drank the hell out of both of these, bro.
I ain't I gotta put these because you know, I
gotta wine sell at the house. So I am definitely
gonna get these bro. People gonna see your name in
my house when they come to my house, they're gonna
see your name because I'm definitely gonna get me some
of this, y'all.
Speaker 5 (40:45):
Yeah, absolutely, really, di I got it. Yeah, yeah, So
I'm get a case of this. In the case of this,
it starts, starts, but start us.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
That's good stuff, man, that's good stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Thank you, good boys. Reloaded podcasts. We'll be right back
after the point. I don't know how to risk this interview.
Gonna go now.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
I normally don't drink when I'm interviewed, so and don't
telling what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Now, I love it. Let's go, man, man, I'm glad
you like it.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
I heard that, dude, I don't listen like it. I
love it. I really do love it. You got something
on your hand, man, Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Thank you. This is good. I like to see people.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
In the entertainment industry venture out into other spaces. I
think that people that do entertainment are some of the
most sharpest people out there, some of the most sharpest
business people. Even though we you know, we had a
history of people getting shot at in the entertainment industry.
But as of late, over the last couple of decades,
(42:02):
people in an attend industry industry have really shown a
great sense of business acumen, you know, like it's it's
been very, very exciting to see on my behalf because
I am a businessman and I like to see people
doing it on a different level, going into those different spaces.
(42:26):
When you decided to do this, did you own a
business before that?
Speaker 2 (42:32):
No, I did not, just being booked independently to do
voiceovers and you know, produce spots over the scam demock
during the thick of the scam demic.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Actually I never heard that phrase, but yeah, yeah, I'm
with that.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
D Mars had reached out to me his book. Yeah,
shout out to d Mars. He has his book Finding
Your Treasure Chest, and he wanted me to do the
audio book for it, and so I voiced the audio
book for that. So just doing you know, little things
like that, this is this was my first time. This
is the first time entrepreneur.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
I like that you don't jump on everything, and that's
consistent with who you are as a man. You don't
just buy into everything. You don't co sign everything. You
don't jump on every moving train. You wait for the
right opportunity. You wait for that train that you're supposed
to be on.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Yes, sir, I like that thank you, thank you's, and
I'm glad that you peeped at that's intentional. A young
lady had that I ran into on an event last week.
She's like, man, like, you know, I see you everywhere
And I was like, well, no, I don't try to
be everywhere. She was like, well, you be at the
right stuff. Right there we go. I'm at the right stuff.
(43:52):
I ain't everywhere. I'm at the right stuff. So I'm
glad that I'm making the right moves. And one thing
that I've just dawns on me, you know, for someone
like yourself to you know, acknowledge me and hit me
up and wanted to have me on this podcast, I
appreciate it love and gratitude. But what I've noticed is like,
you never know who's watching, right, You never know who's watching.
(44:16):
And I'm glad that I am true to me and
I've been moving the same way these whole ten years
that I've been in Houston. And people they see that
and they know that that that I move you know
the right way. Yeah, because I'm not all about the
other stuff. Like you know, my Community show, I use
that that is specifically for the people of Houston. It's
(44:37):
for the City of Houston. Ever since I took over
that show on twenty fourteen, I intentionally use that for
organizations or people that want to come on and talk
about an issue that's not being talked about. You know,
the cancer clusters in Fifth Ward, Like me and Larry
we were the first ones to put them folks, to
give them a platform to talk about that. Larry Jones, Yeah,
(44:59):
fucking Larry Jones, Yes, sir. Yeah, So things like that,
and then the situation with that that propane tank that's
happened down there in Sunnyside, Like yeah, I use that
platform the Public Affairs Podcast for the City of Houston,
which has really been like my my key to the
(45:21):
city in a sense, you know, just having a lot
of you know, dignitaries and city officials and you know,
nonprofit organizations and just folks that got something going on
that the big you know, mainstream media or the you
know the bigger you know, the ABC thirteens or the
k h o us won't pick up. So I'm I'm
glad of that, and that's intentional.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Yeah, where did the voice come from? Did your daddy
have a deep voice?
Speaker 2 (45:46):
No? My dad didn't, honestly, he No, he didn't. He
was a musician. Though.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
How old were you when you people started noticing that
you had a deep voice.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
It was definitely after puberty. So it used to bug
me forever, Like when I would answer the house phone
and my mama's friends would think I'm heard. Yeah, they
would answer the phone, Hello Cookie, No, like this is Chris,
Like what is it? Yeah, But after puberty and then
in high school in choir, I was the director of
(46:20):
the choir in high school in choir, and we had
a we had a Christmas concert that we were doing,
and so my music teacher picked me and another gentleman
by the name of Mike Freeman. He played the piano
to teach the class a couple of songs, and so
I chose two songs off of Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas
album that we sang. So the day that I was
(46:43):
to teach the class the parts and whatnot, and music
teacher set up the PA system, the big speakers, and
I get on the mic and I get the classes attention,
like all right, everybody were about to get started. As
soon as I spoke, everybody shut up and turned to me.
And then you know, this was like, oh, Chris, you
sound good on the mic. And so that was my
(47:03):
first little inkling of oh okay, so all right, so
I got something here, you know what I mean. And
then just you know, growing up in church and just
singing in the choir like I never never really knew.
I just sang loud, like you know, just trying to
carry the tenor section, you know, and then my grandmother
would be like, you know, I always know when you
(47:25):
in the choir because your voice carries. So it was
it was a girl in high school and then my
grandmother that that's when I first kind of knew. And
then I would also notice in college, like being in
class in a lecture hall, like when I spoke or
wanted to answer a question, how my voice carried in
the room or in the lecture hall, and how people
(47:45):
would just immediately turn their heads and look at me
while I was talking. But I never knew, you know,
the power that it has, like like I do now,
even with little things, you know, suggesting books for people
to read or a TV showing whatever, like ever be
people listen. People listen to me, and I'm grateful for that.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
You got that thing like comedians have. Some comedians have
that thing where they don't before they ever speak, people
are laughing because they got those Like Corey Holcom has
those expressions. Corey Holcomb can doing an expression and you're
just bust out laughing.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
Because you already know, yeah, he's one of the best.
Speaker 3 (48:28):
He has an advantage over everybody else, like you have
an advantage over everybody else with your voice because just
the voice alone, it captures people's attention. And then after that,
all you got to do is just not mess it up.
Like if you're in the club somewhere, can you approach
(48:50):
your chick? You could just talk to the chick and
be like, you know, like now, all you got to
do at that point it's just don't mess it up.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
And the old me didn't even realize that superpower. I
was like, dang, Like if I knew it was just
easy to get women, like just by you know, talking
or just saying I would have been I would have been.
Did that you know? Yeah, that's wyld.
Speaker 3 (49:14):
That's beautiful though, man, it's beautiful. You know, hey, you
got to use what you what you got to get, won't.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Yes, sir, yes, sir, But no, I never even in
my mind. I'm like, man, there's plenty other voices you
know better than mine, and I think that's probably what
keeps me kind of grounded. I mean I know that, Okay,
yeah I sound good or you know, you may have
this look or you're successful here, but in my mind,
(49:41):
there's always somebody better. So don't get well, I ain't
gonna never get you know, a big head or ego.
I mean, I'm been doing this for a long time.
If it ain't happened now, it ain't gonna happen. But
I guess what keeps me grounded, Well, I know what
keeps me grounded is knowing that there's somebody better.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
I follow you on Instagram and I see a lot
of times when you post, when you post a picture
that's you know, provocative, you know, for the women, you
get a whole bunch of likes, likes, and comments. But
when you post this multi million dollar wine, you know,
(50:20):
it's a few likes and stuff, it's a few comments,
but it it's just never as many as nowhere close
to as many as you get when you post your
pics of yourself, does that ever like offend you? It
doesn't know, assume a more invested in and you and
your your sexuality.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
They are with what you got going on.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
Yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
Is a perplexing thing because I'm just like man like
y'all just a bunch of horn dogs out here. I'll
just want to see skin because to your point, if
I post something provocative or showing some skin likes and comments,
they running up post something positive me at a you know,
community event or like you said, my wine is it's crickets.
And I don't know really what that is about. I guess,
(51:10):
you know, women are just horny. I guess like I
don't know what it is. It is the weirdest thing
and another weird thing being an entrepreneur now. And this
is like everybody in the past that you have shown
up and supported for how they don't when it's your time.
(51:31):
That's another that's another realization, like dang, like I would
think that you would show up to this or maybe
support or buy a model, but it's been crickets. Like,
oh okay, I peep, you know, I mean, I ain't
gonna say nothing. Like you, you showing me who you are.
But what it has taught me is like, dang, Chris,
(51:52):
you can't expect you out of other people.
Speaker 3 (51:54):
It's true. I never how long have you been doing this?
Because I never even knew you you was doing a
the Moscatto Hotel? Look at my research, because I know
I talked to you, I met you.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
I probably met you five six years ago.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
Yeah we met yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
But I just knew that you. You had a good
energy about yourself, you had a good vibe about yourself.
But I never knew.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
I never.
Speaker 3 (52:18):
I didn't even know you was doing Ready to Love.
I never knew you did that. I didn't know you
did the Moscato, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
So we launched a Moscato September of twenty one. So yeah,
so September twenty twenty one, and then we just launched
and it was a soft launch of the Red a
few weeks ago for Houston Cigar Week.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
But yeah, yeah, you're a celebrity in your own right,
so you really don't need an ambassador. But you know,
but then again, I don't know, you know, Michael Jordan
and celebrity.
Speaker 2 (52:50):
You know you might, man, I mean, let's let's let's
get it going, let's talk. I mean, I ain't got
a lot of money, but say.
Speaker 3 (52:57):
Man, I'm just saying, Man, this stuff, if it's good, Man,
I just mixed. I just poured it in.
Speaker 2 (53:05):
Man like, Man, thank you. I appreciate that this is
it's good and to know and people was like, I
need to do more with it. And I do got
to get better with with promoting that because the women
have been getting on me like they're saying, you've got
a great product. We can see if it was trash like,
but you've got good product.
Speaker 3 (53:25):
You got it, Bro, I'm telling you, you gotta you
know what you should do. Talk to bun b bun B.
It's the master of promoting a product or service. I'm
I'm telling you, bro. And when I say promoting without
(53:47):
having to spend a whole bunch of money, I mean,
obviously he can get through certain doors other people can't
because he's bun b. But bun energy is unmatched. I'm
telling you, Bro, I work a lot of people. I'm
gonna go ahead and conceive that I cannot out work
bun Bee. Bun b Bee every damn where, bro, I
(54:08):
don't even know how you do it. Like I went
over the Trio Burgers. You've been over there, you got well,
I saw, I went. I went to the I went
to the uh the private the private event that he
had well where they you know, uh invite certain people
(54:32):
in litch free and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (54:35):
That was good.
Speaker 3 (54:35):
You know, man, why is it rich people like free stuff?
Like you know what I'm saying. But yeah, you know
it was. It was cool. So uh, it was really
really dope. And when I pulled up, he has the
entire his parking lot. It's damned in like a club
parking lot. You know, it's big, right, And it's in
(54:57):
this building. Man, it's it's a really nice building. And
but when I pulled up to it, I felt like
I had some ownership in it, you know what I'm saying.
Because I've been knowing bug for so long, and I've
been rooting for him for so long. I've been rooting
for you GK for so long. I felt like, you know,
I got some ownership in this, right and I and
(55:19):
so I'm invested in it, like I want to see
him succeed, right, Uh. And it's the same thing, even
though you're from Dayton, Ohio, a place that I actually
love and I got some history of. And I'll tell you,
you know off camera, you know you you being uh
you know from Dayton, Ohio, but coming to Houston and
(55:42):
being such a staple in the community. Uh, I want
to see you win, bro, you know, like, and I
wish I had known soon because I would have I
would have came out to your events, you know, if
you would have reached out to me, you know, but
but you didn't have a number on me, but you still.
Speaker 2 (55:54):
Could have reached out. You could have found me this summer.
Speaker 3 (55:58):
But I definitely, I definitely would would would have what
came after that, because you know, I am a wye
uh conno. So you'll see I'm gonna write you to
the crib one day. Man, You'll see I got it.
Speaker 2 (56:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (56:12):
But I like to see that, man, I really do
like to see that. And and uh man, we we
we so much appreciate you being that dude in h town.
You are in a lane on your own, Like, ain't
nobody really fucking with you? You know what I'm saying? Like,
and I you know you talked about earlier about going
(56:32):
to these different cities and and and seeing how these
different cultures and black people, you know, how we how
we how we relate to different experiences and all that
kind of stuff. I experienced that when I first started
going on the road, after we broke out with the
Ghetto Boys and all that stuff. I started going on
the road and I seeing these How you go to
(56:54):
Memphis is a little different, you know, you go to
New York is different. You know, it's it's black people
in black people in Wisconsin, right and then in Dallas
and you know, uh, you see even Dallas right up
the street from Houston's four hours from Houston, but in
New Orleans for five hours. But it's different people. It's
(57:15):
a little different, you know, even though we're all interconnected,
it's a little different.
Speaker 2 (57:20):
Up in Detroit. Detroit is different.
Speaker 3 (57:23):
Yeah, it's different, is that?
Speaker 2 (57:25):
And even from Chicago, like like yeah, it's like we
we're the same, but we are.
Speaker 3 (57:30):
We are the same, but we are different. We are
the same, but we are different. You spoke about Jen
Master j Yeah, helping you to I guess refine your
interviewing skills.
Speaker 2 (57:47):
Speak to that. Yeah, he was. He was a great coach.
You know, I was. I was filling in doing afternoons
in Cincinnati at the time because our old program director
corporate had moved him up to Cleveland. And so Terry Thomas,
who was my program director then in Cincinnati, in Cincinnati, yeah,
(58:08):
so mean in Cincinnati. That's how she used to do
mid days. Yeah, she used to do mid days Cincinnata.
She was an MD, and then she got to Peter Kay. Yep,
so filling in doing that. This was in October of
two thousand and two because they were looking for as
they were looking for an afternoon guy because Terry thought
I was, you know, still a little too young, like
(58:30):
and wasn't ready yet or whatever. I get it. So
I'm doing this Afternoon Drive. Promotions sticks their head in
the studio last minute, like, hey, jam Master J about
to call to you about this event that's happening Tonight's
he gonna call him about ten twenty minutes. I'm like what.
So they just give me the flyer and I'm looking
and I was like, okay, so I'm waiting for him
to call. He calls, I'm nervous. I mean, he's the.
Speaker 3 (58:51):
First, he's the first celebrity that you.
Speaker 2 (58:53):
He's my very first interview period radio, first interview ever
because I was just I was part time, so I
did you know, nights and weekends and so ain't nobody
calling me nothing like that. So as I'm doing afternoon drive. Yeah,
jam Aster J my very first interview in radio. So
I'm excited and I'm nervous, the legendary jam Master J
from Run Down. See, I start the interview and I'm
(59:16):
just fumbling. Like it was tragic, Willie. It was. It
was a mess, like and so much so that he
stopped the interview like hold on. It's like hold on, smooth,
like hold on, let me let me get you together here, like.
Speaker 3 (59:27):
I know you know that needs you to be smooth.
Speaker 2 (59:29):
Yeah, right right, It's like, I know you nervous and everything,
like just you know, just relax, Jesse. You got the flyer, Yep.
It's like, now just just talk to me like you're
talking to one of your homeboys, like, you know, just
explain to them, you know what's going down, you know tonight,
you know, we'll have a little have a little small talk,
get to the meet, a little small talk, and be out. Yeah.
(59:49):
I was like, okay, start the interview over, did just that.
It went great. He was like, man, great job, Like
you you know you're gonna you're gonna be good in
this game. You know you're coming out tonight. And I'm
just like a, you know, maybe maybe or whatever, and so,
you know, nice meeting you, nice talking to you or whatnot.
Get off the phone. Man. Two weeks later, that's when
he was murdered. It was devastating to me. And he
(01:00:16):
is responsible for my interview and style. Like that's why
I'm a conversationalist. So like when people come in and
they you know, they they're nervous about doing this interview
on the community show, I just tell them, like listen,
I'm not a Q and a type of interviewer. I'm
a conversationalist. We're just gonna sit and have the conversation.
And I think people can feel that when they're with me,
(01:00:38):
artists and you know, regular folks alike, Like they can
feel my genuineness that I ain't gonna be on no
fuck shit, you know, asking them about you know, their
personal lives, which when I stay away from that when
it comes to artists, that makes them open up and
then they start talking about said situation that's going on,
and I don't even you know, I'm not doing this purposely.
(01:01:00):
He's just you know, the energy that I give. And
so yeah, man, that was He's responsible for that, and
it was It was great. And I've been meaning to
tell fifty cent that story too. Next time I see
fifty I don't have to tell him that because I
know that was his guy too. Yeah. Okay, yeah, so
that was. That was one. Another one one that stands
(01:01:23):
out is Al Green me interviewing Al Green. I'm twenty
five years old and I'm doing I was doing middays
in Cleveland, Ohio, and Al Green calls and we're doing
the interview and he was like Chris Green. I say,
I hear they call you KG smooth and like, yes, sir,
It's like, how old are you. I'm like, I'm twenty five.
(01:01:44):
It's like twenty five. I got records older than you.
I got records older than you. So that was well yeah, yeah.
And Gerald LeVert, God bless him. So Gerald Lavert was
a fan of mine. Imagine that I met him. You know,
I was doing you know, afternoons in Cleveland and he
(01:02:06):
lived there, and my program director he he just popped
up one day and I go in the studio I
didn't even know that he was in there, and I'm like, oh, snap,
like this is Jerie LeVert. And then my program director
Kim John's She's like, oh, hey, Jerald, like this is
Chris Chris Jerlivert. He was like, ah, so you the
man in the afternoons. He was like, I listened to
you every afternoon. You know, I love the one bit
(01:02:27):
that you do. Man, You're you're going to be great.
And I was like wow, like thank you Gerald Lavert. Yeah,
that that sent me. That sent me through the moon.
And he wanted to do some things, but I didn't
stay there long enough, and then a couple of years
later he you know, went on to glory. But yeah,
(01:02:48):
I got some stories. I want to write a book.
I don't know if if I wanted to be around
everything that I you know, haven't told or havn't said,
because I don't talk to my friends or family about
what I do or who I'm talking to, because I
learned early on as pure as it is, and my
intention is I'm just sharing what my life is my
(01:03:14):
friends that are not in the same game. Like, no
matter no matter how sincere I am, it's always gonna
come off as bragging. And so I remember doing radio
in Cleveland and a colleague of mind named Metallas Knight,
and he's actually the PD in Miami at Power. He
said to me, he was like, yeah, man, he was like,
(01:03:34):
no matter what you say to your friends, like it'll
always come across as bragging, you know, you name dropping
celebrities or your experience with you know, being at this
party in this city or whatever, It'll always come across
as bragging. And so and I was like, you're right,
and I felt that, And so I've never I never
talked about my experiences with artists, people that I've interviewed.
(01:03:56):
Even my own brother, my youngest brother, who is my
best friend. We FaceTime every day, Like I would have
just gotten off of FaceTime with him and then interviewing,
you know, somebody like Jamie Fox, and then he'll see
the picture on my story like bruh, Like you was
just with Jamie Fox, Like we literally just got off
the phone. You didn't say anything, and so it's just
(01:04:16):
it's just that thing. Yeah and yeah. So but I'm
gonna write a book. I just don't know which angle
I'm gonna want it to go, because I got some
stories I've been in radio for twenty two years now.
I got some stories. I just ain't never told them.
Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
You should tell them, You should tell them. Who is
that one person that you interviewed and you reviewed the
most that let you down?
Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
Hmm, that is a good one. I don't honestly, I
don't think anyone. Everyone has been so gracious to me.
Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
It had to be somebody, because there's always that true
celebrity that you'd be like, YO.
Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Got it first time. Second time was cool. First time
not so much. Tyrese Man just mean, just for no
reason at all, had an attitude, did not want to
do this interview, did not want to take the picture.
(01:05:32):
I don't know if he was mad because you know
he was performing for our anniversary party that you know
it was something through the label. Maybe he wouldn't getting paid.
Like I'll be trying to give people the benefit of
the doubt. But so set it up.
Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
Tyres comes into the radio station.
Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Yeah, so so we're actually we're at the hotel where
the anniversary party is. We got this whole lot broadcast
set up just like kind of like what we're in
right now. I'm sitting there. I just got finished doing
Shante more and then and you know, tyresee he's sitting
there just he's next He's coming over. I'm like, yo,
(01:06:06):
what's up man? You know just right? Yeah, hey, uh
just very just very ashholeish, like did not want to
do it, short answers, like it was. It wasn't good.
It wasn't good. His energy was off. I don't know,
I don't know what it was. And then I noticed
how he was like that with all of the men,
(01:06:27):
with all the women. Of course you know he was
being that, but he was. He was being a total
dick that day. And it was very disappointing because you know,
I admired him, liked him as an artist and actor.
People in high school used to call me a Coca
Cola boy because we was dark skinned and could sing
and had, you know, a pretty smile or whatever. So
I'm thinking I'm a bond with buddy, and he was
(01:06:48):
just not it was not it. I was like, yo,
like that was it was tragic.
Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
But the second time, second time was cool.
Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
Second time Tyree was cool. This was here and Hughes
Sin he was with Tank and Genuine when it was
in that group T G T. And so myself and Iana,
Max shout to Iana Mac we were interviewing the Fellas
and uh, and he was he was cool and so
I reminded him of that. I told him at that
time and he was He's like, yeah, probably sounds about right,
(01:07:21):
you know, and apologize to me. But yeah, another one
who well that wasn't disappointed. But we got into a
Twitter beef. But we're cool now, me and Vivica Fox
me And this was over This was during the NBA Finals.
This was during many women relationships. No, this was actually
(01:07:43):
over the NBA Finals when the Calves and the Warriors
were playing.
Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
Yeah basketball, This got to be unpresidented. How in the
hell does anybody get into a Twitter beef with Viviica
Fox about the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Yeah, so she was talking about how how it wasn't
you know, it wasn't it wasn't fair that I forgot
what exactly happened. But when Cleveland had won that year,
and she was she was saying about some game or
some call that they didn't do. That's why you know
Cleveland won? Who did they be? The Warriors? And then
(01:08:19):
and so when Lebron went back to Cleveland had yah, Yeah,
this was yeah. When when Lebron went back to Cleveland
and so and so she was tweeting about something and
then I was like, oh, like how the year before
something such such happened and some something something And then
I was like f o h. And then you know
she sees that, and she's like, who is this quiet storm?
(01:08:41):
You know, one of being something something like I forgot
everything that.
Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
She called me play with difficult right.
Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
Right and so smoked. I said something back, and she
said something back, and then she blocked me. Right fast
forward till about a year and a half, she's in
town because she's doing that play. I think it was
with Snoop The Redemption of a Dog if I'm not mistaken,
or one of them stage plays that she was a
part of. They come to the station to do the interview.
(01:09:13):
The salesperson is like, hey, you know this is a
Candy Eastman. You know, this is our night guy, KG Smooth.
He does quiet Storm. And so she's walking by and
she was like quiet Storm, quiet Storm, and then she
looks and I was like, yeah, we got into a
twitter b for about a year ago. She was like yeah,
and you were mean to me And I was like, no,
(01:09:34):
I was not mean to you like, this is what
it was. And then so you know, we talking out,
hash it out. It was great. And she, you know,
she gets on her Instagram store. Like you know, when
you have a preconceived notion to someone and then you
meet them in person, it's the total opposite of what
you thought. It was, like, that's this guy right here,
like he's such a great guy, Like my apologies, you know,
I'm unblock him and everything, and so yeah, so that
(01:09:57):
that was cool. Shout out the villa. Yeah that was funny.
KG Smooth man. I appreciate you coming home. Oh man,
thank you for inviting me. But like you know, bro,
when I saw that d I'm like, you hit me.
I was like, yo, like what's good? And then when
you said you would want me on here, man, it
was this is an honor, Like I don't even know
(01:10:18):
what to say. By far, one of the greatest highlights
of my career and being in Houston, being here with you.
Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
Beauful, beauty, beautiful. I thank you for that, man, No,
thank you, thank you for coming on. Ladies and gentlemen,
KG Smooth, Ladies and gentlemen. I said, I can't even
get deep. I have to wake up to get your voice, man,
I have to wake up and a drink to waken
me up. After not a drinking, I'm totally exhausted and
(01:10:48):
catch me like like three hours in to sleep. Ladies
and gentlemen, KG smooth, but no more talks.
Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
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