March 19, 2025 • 16 mins
Ne-Yo and Keke talk life with four girlfriends, working with Beyonce, play KeKe Karaoke, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Keith Key from one O three five Kiss FM,
The Fred Show, and I got a special guest in
the building.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Honey, ne Yo is here.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Yeah, yeah, what's going on with friend? How you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
How are you fantastic? Living life and loving it?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Dammit?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I mean you look amazing.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Thank you as do you?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Thank you? You sound amazing.
Speaker 5 (00:17):
And the tour you are issuing man, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
we hear tonight myself, Mario and of course the legendary
Mary J.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Blige.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
It is the for my Fans tour and we are
in your city to night. Shotdown, pull up, pull up,
pull up.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Now when you say for my fans, what can Neo
fans expect from tonight's show.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You know what.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
We're gonna walk down memory lane. We're gonna see what's
going on in the present, and we're gonna move on
into the future.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
If you've ever been a Neo fan, if you've ever
loved the Neo song, you will not be disappointed. This
is one of them tours where you literally gonna sing
every song, be it Mario, be it me being married.
You're gonna hear something you know and you're gonna remember
where you was at and it's gonna be a nostalgic
and beautiful moment. This is a music lover's tour. You're
gonna leave with less voice then you walked in with.
I guarantee.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I mean, that's normal for any neo show.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I appreciate what you perform, and you definitely put on
a show, But the music is so timeless.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I think people forget all of the hits that you
have and that you've written for others, like well, Mario
up that performing them.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
You wrote them songs, some of them, Yeah, some of them. Indeed. Well,
if to anybody that's forgot, we're gonna remind you tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Damnit.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Pull up, pull up?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
What's your favorite song that you've written?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
You favorite song that I've written? Every time I get
to ask this question, Beyonce, they place will always jump
to the forefront of my brain.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
I originally wrote that song with the intention of singing
it myself. Yeah, and in that song I learned a
very valuable lesson. The message is important, but the messenger
is just as important. You know what I'm saying That
same song, same situation, and all coming from a man
comes across a little mean, a little misogynistic.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I can have another U in a minute. Matter of fact,
should be here in a minute. That's mean that.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
You know, even if you know the chick was cheating
on you and you found out in the whole nine,
it still it's still don't come across the way it
comes across when a woman says that, it comes across
in power and like she's taking her power back from
a woman. So I learned some life lessons through through
the writing of that record. Shout out to Beyonce, by the.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Way, it absolutely shout out to the Queen. Do you
ever look back and think like you wrote a record
for somebody and you're like, damn, I should have.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Kept that one.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Definitely have done that once or twice. Normally, when I
write a song for somebody and it goes, especially if
it becomes a hit, you know what I'm saying, I
feel like that's where that song was meant to go.
But it's been once once or twice while I wrote
a song for somebody didn't exactly go.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
The way it should have went.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Yeah, you know what I mean. I mean, But when
that happens. You just you got to keep pushing, you
know what I'm saying. Everything can be used for something,
So you know, if it didn't work for this one,
you know, you take it back and you try it
on your own, or you give it to somebody else.
You know, it's all it all can be done within
the realm of.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
The music industry.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Absolutely, Are you still having fun with it? Of course
you've been at it for a while now. You do
it so well.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
We celebrated nineteen years in my first album last I
think it was last week, week before last, Yeah, two
weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, years since. In my own world, it's all good.
We prefer the word seasoned.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
We seasoned over here, we experienced over here. So yeah,
but no, I'm still loving every minute of it.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Man.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
I didn't even get into music for the money and
the fame of it, you know, the fame y'all had that.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I don't even that.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I got into music because somebody told me I could
do what I love and what I was gonna do
anyway and make a profit and feed my family, you
know what I'm saying. So when you get to do
what you love as your profession, you never work a
day in your life.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I mean when I look at people like you even now,
like money long where.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Your pin money?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, pen game has been so crazy before the world
got to know you, and that was kind of your
story too.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What could you get?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What advice could you give to up and coming songwriters
who want to step out into the spotlight.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
If you are a songwriter, diversity and being versatile is
your superpower that you know, you want to be able
to walk into multiple rooms and get money in all
those rooms. They need a country record, they can call you.
They need an R and B record, they can call you.
They need a hip hop they can call you. You need
to be that guy or that girl if you're going
to be a songwriter. Now, as an artist, you have
(04:06):
to have a specific thing that makes you you, what
makes you stand out, what makes people go, I want
to listen to that person's song, and it can you
can you can lose that, you know what I'm saying.
As a songwriter, you have to be so diverse and
have so many arms. You got to be octopust. You
gotta have so many arms. But within doing that, it's
very easy to lose who you are. What's your sound
(04:27):
you're mess trying to give your sound to somebody else
and something like that. Ain't your sound no more. That's
that person's sound now, and now you're mad. If you
don't give you don't gave it.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
You dont gave you power away.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
So block into who you are and make sure that
you don't give that to nobody in the realm, in
the realm of while you're trying to get your music
out there and make your money. All right, that's cool,
finding good, but do not give away your thing. Make
sure that you have your thing locked in and mind you,
it might take you a limited to find your thing.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I always tell people whoever you are when ain't nobody looking,
that's the real You lock into who that person is,
like into how that person sounds.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It's a gym. Yes, neo dropping gyms on the show.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Now, when we talk about music, you do it so
well and you mentioned diverse. But who are your top
three artists, like of all time all time? And I
actually I want to say top three male and top
three female.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Oh okay, good twist on that question.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I like that three is hard. So I've always had five.
As far as male, I've thought five artists that you know,
if I could meld these men together to become one person,
that person is who Neil has always aspired to be.
So Prince, Michael Jackson, Samit Davis Junior, Marvin Gaye. Those
(05:40):
are those are the top four. And who's the last one?
Who's the last one?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Damn it?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Somebody just asked me this question and they only gave
me four, and those are the four to come to mind.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
All right, Well we'll stop with those four. As far
as female, that's hard.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Dang, that's that's really really hard because see, I grew
up with uh, you know, I grew with my mama
listening to Shirley Murdock.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I need a Baker, Okay, to come up just a
touch more current Brandy, you know, uh, touch more current
than that Beyonce. Of course, you know there's there's there's
no denying what what Beyonce is.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, yes, well yeah, we'll do that.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It's a strong line up, a strong line up.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I'll go to that concert.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, who's on your playlist?
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Like?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Who are you listening to?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Now?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Shouts at that boy Leon Thomas. Love what he's doing
with it? Love what he's doing with the genre man.
Definitely definitely love what he's doing. Shout to Sizzle. Love
what she's doing right now, your summer Walker's you mentioned
money Long. I'm I'm very, very very proud of what's
going on in her career right now.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
It's really really dope to see that. Who else Dochi?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I like what she does, really really like what she does.
The boy Lucky Day love what he does.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
That Mario new joint is is in heavy rotation in
my playlist right now. I don't know if it's because
we on now. You know, it ain't got nothing to
do with the tour. That's just a dope record. Shouts
of the boy Mario. If you ain't heard that record,
you sleep, wake up, wake up?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Damn it.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That joint that.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Being with Mario's new project.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You guys are sharing the stage tonight and on this tour.
You were viral a couple of days ago just off
of your outfits. Who's styling you? I said, new yall
come through. I was on your Instagram.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm like, okay, the sous is fire and you had
to sparkly join on.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Who shotsam of man? No I g Jeremy.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
He has been styling me for the for this whole tour,
aman Tyle. Who's who's assisting him making sure that I'm
fresh on stage every night?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, the styles, the outfits are hitting now. When you
see yourself when you wake up in the morning, you like,
I'm on the blocks again.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Does it get on your nerves? Nope, you don't. You don't,
you don't bother.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I don't give it. Damn, I really and truly don't.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
There was a point in time where I used to
let you know, things that people said online get to me, yeah,
bother me personally. But what I realized is that half
of it is just entertainment because the same people talking
crazy will see.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Me in person. Shouldn't be my biggest fan.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
That's one, and if for two, I am the gatekeeper
of my own happiness and my own sanity. So if
whatever it is that you're trying to say about me
or trying to get to me with, if I don't
open them gates, you can't get in there.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
So I just don't open the gate.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Like you can say whatever the hell you want to say,
you can feel havy the hell you want to feel.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Opinions are not special.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Everybody has one, So why would I focus on the
negative ones as.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Opposed to the positive ones. It just don't make no sense.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Now, you came in here with gifts. Yes, yes, okay,
let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
What is it's you?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Thank you very much?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Rawberry flavor?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Uh huh, don't be trying to add a plus sass
girl to you.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
What is this? So? So, it's called Tasty Sounds.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
It's a very interesting technology that I was approached with
and I had to jump on board. So it is
a lollipop. It is a sugar free lollipop, but it's candy.
It's candy. It's lightweight, good for you. But anyway, there's
a button on the base of the lollipop, right, you
push the button, you put the lollipop in your mouth
and you bite down on it and you can hear
my song playing in your head.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
You are freaking man. You are freaking man. Neo, I
knew it? What okay?
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Yea?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And listen to you at the same time.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yes, so you want the women to think about you
when they sucking on the line.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I mean, hey, listen, you know what I mean. You
said it. I might have thought it, but you said it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You know, where can people get these?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Because this is a cute gift, especially for like bachelorette
parties and stuff.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Indeed, indeed, the lincol is in the bio right now,
but we're working it out to where you can pretty
much get it wherever candy is, wherever you can get
candy yet, but as of right now, link is in
the bio.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh that is that is iconic and never seen anything like.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Yeah, man know some different We're expanding on the portfolio.
I don't, I don'et did that. I gotta. I got
a brand new clothing line that I just started. I
just recently fell in love with the game of golf. Golf, however,
is one of those games where you have to play
for like multiple years before you get good and just
gonna be out there looking nuts for the first first
little while that you're playing. I am currently in that state.
(09:58):
But I said, if I'm gonna be out here looking
nuts and look good while I'm looking nuts, So Francis
olago O l O g O that's the name of
the line. It's everything from hats to clothes, shoes, bags,
we're getting in the clubs, you know, all of that
type of stuff and yeah, you can also find that
on the Lincolns in my bio for that also olagosport
dot com o l ogosport dot com. We're about to
(10:20):
do our first annual celebrity golf tournament April twenty eighth
in Atlanta, Georgia at the Eagles Landing Country Club and
a portion of the proceeds go to the Oasis Academy,
which is for gifted orphans. It's a good time for
it's a good cause and a good time and all
levels of.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Play are are are welcome. You know, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
If you're an expert, if top golf is the most
golf experience you got, you can still pull up have
a good time.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
You are working man on the clothing line, product line,
new music for girl friends.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Where do you find the time? And you got seven.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Kids and seven children? Yeah, yeah, we don't sleep around here.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Oh my god. I feel like you're in your honest era.
You know what I'm saying. I saw interviews where you
were talking about like I'm just I'm honest, like I
don't care. And I love that for us because you know,
the girlfriends are obviously the top of the headlines.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Of course, you know a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Grand Daddy's head fold girlfriends they just never knew, right,
So you're being honest, very much so, very much so.
But Neo, I was thinking, because I'm a little toxic,
how can the girlfriends have boyfriends? No?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Oh, so they can only have you me, But you
can add to the lineup if you.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Want to, if I want to.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
But on the other side of that, I'm making sure
I don't make a decision by myself. I am the
head of household, but I'm not a dictator, okay, meaning
I'm not gonna bring somebody in that they just don't like.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna bring somebody in and
not talk to them before I try to bring somebody
else in. You know, it is it is a group
conversation that happens before anybody else is added to the situation,
(11:55):
because adding somebody else to the situation affects everyone, not
just me. Or it ain't gonna be just my decision. However,
I do have final say so. And then as far
as them having boyfriends, now, mind you, I'm not a
person that demands exclusivity, but if you offer it, and
I accept. Okay, Well, now there's rules that you have
to follow. Okay, you know what I mean. Nothing is
(12:16):
above a conversation with me because I'm not an owner.
I'm a partner. I don't do ownership. I do partnership.
So we can talk about whatever. But understand, if I
say no, it's no. If I say yeah, all right,
we're rocking. But if I say no, there's no, that's.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
That all right, it's a toxic not nia.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
It's not toxic because it's honest. It's truth.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
You know what it is true?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It is true truth.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
But okay, So then I want to ask you. You
talked about like you were done lying like this is
the reason you was telling us your business or telling
sharing this with us is because you were like, I'm
done lying about stuff. And you've been married before. Yes,
So what was one of the most creative lies you
think you've ever told?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Like?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Wow, like what you had sobody in the closet under
the bed and the man.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I know it?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Get wow.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
I ain't gonna completely incriminate myself, you know, let's just
say let's let's just say that.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
That I am a songwriter.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
You got creative, I'm a very creative person, very very creative. Yeah,
I'm not proud. I'm not proud of the lies that
I told in the past. I'm not proud of you know,
people got hurt and it was bad. But yeah, yeah,
if I told myself, if I was gonna lie, it
was gonna be good lies because I couldn't get I.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Could not get caught.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
However, the reality is, if you're lying, understand at some
point you gonna get caught. It's just what it is.
That's just that's just how that's just how the universe works.
Everything done in the dark will eventually.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Come to the light.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yep, there it is.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Well.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I love that you're being honest with us, and we're
gonna keep following your business.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
But it's all good.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I'm going to play a quick little game with you.
I got you.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Let's do.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
It's called Key Key karaoke.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Now me to the test on my morning show, The
Fred Show, and see if I know lyrics because I'm
always talking about you know, I love this song and
I don't know nobody words, but you, I mean, you
should know these songs. So I'm gonna put you to
the test.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Okay, okay, all right, So.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I'm gonna play a little clip and we're gonna see
if you know the rest all.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Right to the left, justify about it.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Then please don't touch and keep talking that mess. That's
fine because you walk and talk at the same time. Man,
it's my name to so on that jack, So remove
your bags.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Let me call you a cab. Come on, man, you
know I'm gonna know that one. No, I'm gonna know
that one.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Man. You had me at like twelve, singing my heart
out like I had a man to put out.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Okay, yes, but that one. Now, this is another song
that you wrote, so hopefully you know it. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I just don't get it.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Do you enjoy being hurt? I know you smell the perfume,
the makeup on his shirt. Hey, you don't believe it's stories?
You know they're they're all lies. Bad as you want
you stick around and I just don't know why.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Come on, come on, come on, give you something hard.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That Okay, this one is gonna be super super hard.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I need you to really really get your think tank
on this one.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Okay, Ready, it's right on the tip of my tongue.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Damn it, damn it. I guess you stump me. You
know that you know.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That one, but y'all, Neo is here. I thank you
so much for stopping through the show. Absolutely always rooting
for you. Keep doing what you're doing, and we wish
you nothing but success.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Thank you, Love Shout Town, I love y'all man.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
It's Kei, Ky and Neo tonight in Chicago.
It's Keith Key from one O three five Kiss FM,
The Fred Show, and I got a special guest in
the building.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Honey, ne Yo is here.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Yeah, yeah, what's going on with friend? How you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
How are you fantastic? Living life and loving it?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Dammit?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I mean you look amazing.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Thank you as do you?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Thank you? You sound amazing.
Speaker 5 (00:17):
And the tour you are issuing man, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
we hear tonight myself, Mario and of course the legendary
Mary J.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Blige.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
It is the for my Fans tour and we are
in your city to night. Shotdown, pull up, pull up,
pull up.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Now when you say for my fans, what can Neo
fans expect from tonight's show.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You know what.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
We're gonna walk down memory lane. We're gonna see what's
going on in the present, and we're gonna move on
into the future.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
If you've ever been a Neo fan, if you've ever
loved the Neo song, you will not be disappointed. This
is one of them tours where you literally gonna sing
every song, be it Mario, be it me being married.
You're gonna hear something you know and you're gonna remember
where you was at and it's gonna be a nostalgic
and beautiful moment. This is a music lover's tour. You're
gonna leave with less voice then you walked in with.
I guarantee.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I mean, that's normal for any neo show.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I appreciate what you perform, and you definitely put on
a show, But the music is so timeless.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I think people forget all of the hits that you
have and that you've written for others, like well, Mario
up that performing them.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
You wrote them songs, some of them, Yeah, some of them. Indeed. Well,
if to anybody that's forgot, we're gonna remind you tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Damnit.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Pull up, pull up?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
What's your favorite song that you've written?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
You favorite song that I've written? Every time I get
to ask this question, Beyonce, they place will always jump
to the forefront of my brain.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
I originally wrote that song with the intention of singing
it myself. Yeah, and in that song I learned a
very valuable lesson. The message is important, but the messenger
is just as important. You know what I'm saying That
same song, same situation, and all coming from a man
comes across a little mean, a little misogynistic.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I can have another U in a minute. Matter of fact,
should be here in a minute. That's mean that.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
You know, even if you know the chick was cheating
on you and you found out in the whole nine,
it still it's still don't come across the way it
comes across when a woman says that, it comes across
in power and like she's taking her power back from
a woman. So I learned some life lessons through through
the writing of that record. Shout out to Beyonce, by the.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Way, it absolutely shout out to the Queen. Do you
ever look back and think like you wrote a record
for somebody and you're like, damn, I should have.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Kept that one.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Definitely have done that once or twice. Normally, when I
write a song for somebody and it goes, especially if
it becomes a hit, you know what I'm saying, I
feel like that's where that song was meant to go.
But it's been once once or twice while I wrote
a song for somebody didn't exactly go.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
The way it should have went.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Yeah, you know what I mean. I mean, But when
that happens. You just you got to keep pushing, you
know what I'm saying. Everything can be used for something,
So you know, if it didn't work for this one,
you know, you take it back and you try it
on your own, or you give it to somebody else.
You know, it's all it all can be done within
the realm of.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
The music industry.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Absolutely, Are you still having fun with it? Of course
you've been at it for a while now. You do
it so well.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
We celebrated nineteen years in my first album last I
think it was last week, week before last, Yeah, two
weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, years since. In my own world, it's all good.
We prefer the word seasoned.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
We seasoned over here, we experienced over here. So yeah,
but no, I'm still loving every minute of it.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Man.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
I didn't even get into music for the money and
the fame of it, you know, the fame y'all had that.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I don't even that.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I got into music because somebody told me I could
do what I love and what I was gonna do
anyway and make a profit and feed my family, you
know what I'm saying. So when you get to do
what you love as your profession, you never work a
day in your life.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I mean when I look at people like you even now,
like money long where.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Your pin money?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Yeah, pen game has been so crazy before the world
got to know you, and that was kind of your
story too.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What could you get?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What advice could you give to up and coming songwriters
who want to step out into the spotlight.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
If you are a songwriter, diversity and being versatile is
your superpower that you know, you want to be able
to walk into multiple rooms and get money in all
those rooms. They need a country record, they can call you.
They need an R and B record, they can call you.
They need a hip hop they can call you. You need
to be that guy or that girl if you're going
to be a songwriter. Now, as an artist, you have
(04:06):
to have a specific thing that makes you you, what
makes you stand out, what makes people go, I want
to listen to that person's song, and it can you
can you can lose that, you know what I'm saying.
As a songwriter, you have to be so diverse and
have so many arms. You got to be octopust. You
gotta have so many arms. But within doing that, it's
very easy to lose who you are. What's your sound
(04:27):
you're mess trying to give your sound to somebody else
and something like that. Ain't your sound no more. That's
that person's sound now, and now you're mad. If you
don't give you don't gave it.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
You dont gave you power away.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
So block into who you are and make sure that
you don't give that to nobody in the realm, in
the realm of while you're trying to get your music
out there and make your money. All right, that's cool,
finding good, but do not give away your thing. Make
sure that you have your thing locked in and mind you,
it might take you a limited to find your thing.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I always tell people whoever you are when ain't nobody looking,
that's the real You lock into who that person is,
like into how that person sounds.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It's a gym. Yes, neo dropping gyms on the show.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Now, when we talk about music, you do it so
well and you mentioned diverse. But who are your top
three artists, like of all time all time? And I
actually I want to say top three male and top
three female.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Oh okay, good twist on that question.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I like that three is hard. So I've always had five.
As far as male, I've thought five artists that you know,
if I could meld these men together to become one person,
that person is who Neil has always aspired to be.
So Prince, Michael Jackson, Samit Davis Junior, Marvin Gaye. Those
(05:40):
are those are the top four. And who's the last one?
Who's the last one?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Damn it?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Somebody just asked me this question and they only gave
me four, and those are the four to come to mind.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
All right, Well we'll stop with those four. As far
as female, that's hard.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Dang, that's that's really really hard because see, I grew
up with uh, you know, I grew with my mama
listening to Shirley Murdock.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I need a Baker, Okay, to come up just a
touch more current Brandy, you know, uh, touch more current
than that Beyonce. Of course, you know there's there's there's
no denying what what Beyonce is.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, yes, well yeah, we'll do that.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It's a strong line up, a strong line up.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I'll go to that concert.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, who's on your playlist?
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Like?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Who are you listening to?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Now?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Shouts at that boy Leon Thomas. Love what he's doing
with it? Love what he's doing with the genre man.
Definitely definitely love what he's doing. Shout to Sizzle. Love
what she's doing right now, your summer Walker's you mentioned
money Long. I'm I'm very, very very proud of what's
going on in her career right now.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
It's really really dope to see that. Who else Dochi?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I like what she does, really really like what she does.
The boy Lucky Day love what he does.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
That Mario new joint is is in heavy rotation in
my playlist right now. I don't know if it's because
we on now. You know, it ain't got nothing to
do with the tour. That's just a dope record. Shouts
of the boy Mario. If you ain't heard that record,
you sleep, wake up, wake up?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Damn it.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
That joint that.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Being with Mario's new project.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You guys are sharing the stage tonight and on this tour.
You were viral a couple of days ago just off
of your outfits. Who's styling you? I said, new yall
come through. I was on your Instagram.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm like, okay, the sous is fire and you had
to sparkly join on.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Who shotsam of man? No I g Jeremy.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
He has been styling me for the for this whole tour,
aman Tyle. Who's who's assisting him making sure that I'm
fresh on stage every night?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, the styles, the outfits are hitting now. When you
see yourself when you wake up in the morning, you like,
I'm on the blocks again.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Does it get on your nerves? Nope, you don't. You don't,
you don't bother.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I don't give it. Damn, I really and truly don't.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
There was a point in time where I used to
let you know, things that people said online get to me, yeah,
bother me personally. But what I realized is that half
of it is just entertainment because the same people talking
crazy will see.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Me in person. Shouldn't be my biggest fan.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
That's one, and if for two, I am the gatekeeper
of my own happiness and my own sanity. So if
whatever it is that you're trying to say about me
or trying to get to me with, if I don't
open them gates, you can't get in there.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
So I just don't open the gate.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Like you can say whatever the hell you want to say,
you can feel havy the hell you want to feel.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Opinions are not special.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Everybody has one, So why would I focus on the
negative ones as.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Opposed to the positive ones. It just don't make no sense.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Now, you came in here with gifts. Yes, yes, okay,
let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
What is it's you?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Thank you very much?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Rawberry flavor?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Uh huh, don't be trying to add a plus sass
girl to you.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
What is this? So? So, it's called Tasty Sounds.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
It's a very interesting technology that I was approached with
and I had to jump on board. So it is
a lollipop. It is a sugar free lollipop, but it's candy.
It's candy. It's lightweight, good for you. But anyway, there's
a button on the base of the lollipop, right, you
push the button, you put the lollipop in your mouth
and you bite down on it and you can hear
my song playing in your head.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
You are freaking man. You are freaking man. Neo, I
knew it? What okay?
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Yea?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And listen to you at the same time.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yes, so you want the women to think about you
when they sucking on the line.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I mean, hey, listen, you know what I mean. You
said it. I might have thought it, but you said it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You know, where can people get these?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Because this is a cute gift, especially for like bachelorette
parties and stuff.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Indeed, indeed, the lincol is in the bio right now,
but we're working it out to where you can pretty
much get it wherever candy is, wherever you can get
candy yet, but as of right now, link is in
the bio.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh that is that is iconic and never seen anything like.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Yeah, man know some different We're expanding on the portfolio.
I don't, I don'et did that. I gotta. I got
a brand new clothing line that I just started. I
just recently fell in love with the game of golf. Golf, however,
is one of those games where you have to play
for like multiple years before you get good and just
gonna be out there looking nuts for the first first
little while that you're playing. I am currently in that state.
(09:58):
But I said, if I'm gonna be out here looking
nuts and look good while I'm looking nuts, So Francis
olago O l O g O that's the name of
the line. It's everything from hats to clothes, shoes, bags,
we're getting in the clubs, you know, all of that
type of stuff and yeah, you can also find that
on the Lincolns in my bio for that also olagosport
dot com o l ogosport dot com. We're about to
(10:20):
do our first annual celebrity golf tournament April twenty eighth
in Atlanta, Georgia at the Eagles Landing Country Club and
a portion of the proceeds go to the Oasis Academy,
which is for gifted orphans. It's a good time for
it's a good cause and a good time and all
levels of.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Play are are are welcome. You know, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
If you're an expert, if top golf is the most
golf experience you got, you can still pull up have
a good time.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
You are working man on the clothing line, product line,
new music for girl friends.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Where do you find the time? And you got seven.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Kids and seven children? Yeah, yeah, we don't sleep around here.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Oh my god. I feel like you're in your honest era.
You know what I'm saying. I saw interviews where you
were talking about like I'm just I'm honest, like I
don't care. And I love that for us because you know,
the girlfriends are obviously the top of the headlines.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Of course, you know a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Grand Daddy's head fold girlfriends they just never knew, right,
So you're being honest, very much so, very much so.
But Neo, I was thinking, because I'm a little toxic,
how can the girlfriends have boyfriends? No?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Oh, so they can only have you me, But you
can add to the lineup if you.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Want to, if I want to.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
But on the other side of that, I'm making sure
I don't make a decision by myself. I am the
head of household, but I'm not a dictator, okay, meaning
I'm not gonna bring somebody in that they just don't like.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna bring somebody in and
not talk to them before I try to bring somebody
else in. You know, it is it is a group
conversation that happens before anybody else is added to the situation,
(11:55):
because adding somebody else to the situation affects everyone, not
just me. Or it ain't gonna be just my decision. However,
I do have final say so. And then as far
as them having boyfriends, now, mind you, I'm not a
person that demands exclusivity, but if you offer it, and
I accept. Okay, Well, now there's rules that you have
to follow. Okay, you know what I mean. Nothing is
(12:16):
above a conversation with me because I'm not an owner.
I'm a partner. I don't do ownership. I do partnership.
So we can talk about whatever. But understand, if I
say no, it's no. If I say yeah, all right,
we're rocking. But if I say no, there's no, that's.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
That all right, it's a toxic not nia.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
It's not toxic because it's honest. It's truth.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
You know what it is true?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It is true truth.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
But okay, So then I want to ask you. You
talked about like you were done lying like this is
the reason you was telling us your business or telling
sharing this with us is because you were like, I'm
done lying about stuff. And you've been married before. Yes,
So what was one of the most creative lies you
think you've ever told?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Like?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Wow, like what you had sobody in the closet under
the bed and the man.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I know it?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Get wow.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
I ain't gonna completely incriminate myself, you know, let's just
say let's let's just say that.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
That I am a songwriter.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
You got creative, I'm a very creative person, very very creative. Yeah,
I'm not proud. I'm not proud of the lies that
I told in the past. I'm not proud of you know,
people got hurt and it was bad. But yeah, yeah,
if I told myself, if I was gonna lie, it
was gonna be good lies because I couldn't get I.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Could not get caught.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
However, the reality is, if you're lying, understand at some
point you gonna get caught. It's just what it is.
That's just that's just how that's just how the universe works.
Everything done in the dark will eventually.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Come to the light.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yep, there it is.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Well.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I love that you're being honest with us, and we're
gonna keep following your business.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
But it's all good.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I'm going to play a quick little game with you.
I got you.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Let's do.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
It's called Key Key karaoke.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Now me to the test on my morning show, The
Fred Show, and see if I know lyrics because I'm
always talking about you know, I love this song and
I don't know nobody words, but you, I mean, you
should know these songs. So I'm gonna put you to
the test.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Okay, okay, all right, So.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I'm gonna play a little clip and we're gonna see
if you know the rest all.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Right to the left, justify about it.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Then please don't touch and keep talking that mess. That's
fine because you walk and talk at the same time. Man,
it's my name to so on that jack, So remove
your bags.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Let me call you a cab. Come on, man, you
know I'm gonna know that one. No, I'm gonna know
that one.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Man. You had me at like twelve, singing my heart
out like I had a man to put out.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Okay, yes, but that one. Now, this is another song
that you wrote, so hopefully you know it. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I just don't get it.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Do you enjoy being hurt? I know you smell the perfume,
the makeup on his shirt. Hey, you don't believe it's stories?
You know they're they're all lies. Bad as you want
you stick around and I just don't know why.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Come on, come on, come on, give you something hard.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That Okay, this one is gonna be super super hard.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I need you to really really get your think tank
on this one.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Okay, Ready, it's right on the tip of my tongue.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Damn it, damn it. I guess you stump me. You
know that you know.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That one, but y'all, Neo is here. I thank you
so much for stopping through the show. Absolutely always rooting
for you. Keep doing what you're doing, and we wish
you nothing but success.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Thank you, Love Shout Town, I love y'all man.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
It's Kei, Ky and Neo tonight in Chicago.
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