August 7, 2025 • 9 mins
The legendary Craig David joined Rod and Gabi to celebrate the release of his ninth full-length album, “Commitment”.
The conversation was packed with nostalgia, listen to the full chat on the podcast Rod and Gabi VS The World
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I tell you our next guest. He's one of the
all time great. Fifteen million records worldwide, that's how many
you solid? Twenty five UK Top forty singles, nine Top
forty albums, five billion plus global streams, the one the
only Craig David get a mate.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Ah, good day, how are you? How are you? Both?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Were very well? Congratulations today's the day new album?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Did you know what today is? The actual day? Like
like you're the first, like in Australia, the first to
actually be able to hear hear the album by the album,
enjoy the album. It's it's always makes me like I
always feel those butterflies when you're when I release a
new album real, it's like a long mate. Continue. Yeah,
you always feel It's like it's not like an anxious thing.
It's just like you feel alive. It's like finally, like
(00:50):
it's out there. It's not just something I'm kind of
alluding to or hyping up or talking about. It's like, no,
here is They're the songs you can enjoy commitment now.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well, you have been hyping them up a little bit
and I've been loving the little clips on your Instagram.
There was one though, and it's early in the morning,
and I was in tears, and it was just so beautiful.
You were in your childhood bedroom and you were singing
for your mum, because that's how you used to get
your approval for your songs back in the day. And
even she was tearing up, and I was tearing up,
and it was just so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Gen know what, Thank you. It's always been like a
beautiful thing with me. And my mama was playing songs
to her like so much earlier than when it comes out.
And in this case, I'd actually had the opportunity to
go back to my childhood home, which i'd grown up
there my whole I wrote Born to Do It in
that bedroom that you've been seeing on social media, and
(01:42):
it was in aid of Shelter, the charity in shine
light on social housing and the importance of especially single
parent families, which is how I would grow up. And
how fortunate I was to have the opportunity to actually
have social house and to see my mom there in
my bedroom twenty five years later, and I'm there singing rain,
which is one of the songs on the album, and
(02:05):
to see her face, as you said, and the tear
like and I just was like, how are we even
here in this room? Again? This is crazy? And yeah,
it just felt like it could have been like forty
to fifteen again, like playing her songs from Born to
do It for the first time.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How cool is it? You know that we are lucky
enough to be in an era, whether or not it's
a video camera or now it's now it's a phone
that you're capturing these moments and some of the most
beautiful writing and one of the funnier shows in the
history of the world, The Office. One of the characters
is talking about I wish I knew that now was
(02:41):
the good old days. I wish I could a preach
because you look back at that moment and you go,
how are we here? You know that is that's one
of the that's one of my wives in life.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Absolutely, I couldn't agree with you more man Like, there's
so many things like that when you I mean, people
would say, like when you're at school, like this will
be some of the times the best years of your life,
and you're at school and you're like, great story, but
I just want to get out of the school uniform
and actually like be an adult and you look back
and you're like, when will you ever be around that
(03:12):
many people like that again and have that many friends,
And I just think that you're absolutely right there. I
hope that you catch yourself quick enough to realize that
this moment will be something you will look back and
be like, this was the one, you know what I mean,
This was a great period. Even if you were going
through some stuff, You'll still look back and be like,
it was a good period.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Your songs, because you've been doing this with such success
for so long, are part of those stories now. I
don't know how many people tell you those stories. And
it's funny. It wasn't until I was driving this morning.
I was listening to your music and I was thinking
about you, and iized I think about Craig more than
perhaps I realized until today. And one story in particular.
You know, I was a young guy. This is New
(03:55):
Year's Eve two thousand and one, and I'd been seeing
a girl and she she was a Melbourne socialite, and
I don't know, I'm not from those circles, you know
what I mean. Something I found myself in this relationship
and she goes, hey, let's let's go to the beach
house for New Year's Eve. And so we're down there,
(04:16):
we're having a great time. We're sitting on the deck
looking over the ocean, and she goes, listen, so tonight
we're gonna go out and I go fantastic, and she goes,
you know, just so you know, I'm probably gonna kiss
a few guys. And I go what she goes, I
(04:36):
just want to be honest with you, you know, like it's
just when I party, that's what I do.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Are you cool with that? And I go.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
No, By the way, this is just a different stage
of emotional maturity for the two of us. Obviously, she
was honest, and she was just at that stage in
her life. And just so you know this is going
to happen because I know what I'm like, and I go, oh, look,
it's just not for me, right, So I go and
I get in my I get in my e right,
you and I and I'm I'm driving away. And I
(05:04):
didn't even realize until I was beginning the long, long
drive back down the Grade Ocean Road, and I realized
that the iPod was playing, and all of a sudden,
that drive down the Grade.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Ocean Road became tiary.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
You know what you were there for me?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Man, and when you say, when you started saying, I'm
walking away from this trouble in my life, I was like, well,
this is this is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Thank you, Craig.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I feel you in this moment.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Do you know what? Can I just say, like I
visually was so with you from this from the first
moment she said to you, I'm going to be kissing
a few guys, which in the moment sounds like you
said was could sound a bit hectic, But you're like, well,
I appreciate the honesty now as a grown man that
you were just telling me before you just did that.
You know what I mean, you were saying, I'm just
(05:56):
giving their heads up. If you can't handle that, then
maybe this isn't the way. But it's just the fact.
It's things like that. There's core memories that for us
to have having not having not like met in that
in that way and not being able to say, Okay,
we were friends back in the day and we kind
of grew up together, but yet having such a profound
(06:16):
core memory together. Yes, I feel that's that sums up
what music result is all about. And I think that's
the thing that I've now seen all these years later
that I get that's a number one record. To me,
you're telling me that story is a number one album,
number one song, because the feeling is like you can't
make it up, like it lives with you forever. That
(06:38):
and I think, well, what one honor to be part
of your story in that way. I mean, I'm sorry
I didn't work out with the girl. We live and
we learned, but what a story, my guy.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Speaking of your music, I did a little Google this
morning and AI came back at me with a really
funny response, because your music has stood the test of
time because it is in the R and B world,
it's a bit different in that it is actually very
respectful to women and it is very beautiful in that
equality kind of message. And I just wanted to make
(07:13):
sure I was right on that and I hadn't missed anything.
So I just googled Craig David disrespectful lyrics just to
make sure right, and AI came back at me with
there are no widely recognized instances of Craig David using
disrespectful lyrics in his music. Some of his some of
his songs might explore themes of relationships with a hint
of immaturity, but they are lighthearted and playful, not disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
And I was like, hey, a, you're right, you know
what I mean, that's a pretty accurate appraise or place.
There was this little bit of immaturity in there, but
he meant no harm. I mean even when I think
about funny enough, when I think about seven days and
I think back to being seventeen right now, Yeah, even
(08:00):
then I was still conscious. And this goes back to
the whole thing of living in the in the flat
with my mom. And I was like, there's a lot
of things and ways I could say what we were
doing on a Wednesday, but Making Love was seventeen year
old going there. I was like, Mom, you have raised me.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Well, we love you here made We can't wait to
see you back in Australia. This ninth studio album. This
is unbelievable commitment. Congratulations. We're so excited for you and
for us just a little bit as well. And we
know I know what I'll be driving away from work
listening to Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
My sister is so jealous that we're on a chat
right now. She you were like her crush, like absolute crush.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Oh well you send them. Firstly, we send them a love.
That's the first thing. And just as a song, like
probably one of my favorites two songs from the album,
like just there's a load, but there's two of them.
I think you'll appreciate, especially with that story you told me.
It was probably the perfect love. Might hit you in
the same way asking a wait and dominoes. It's a
little bit different, kind of like the context of the stories,
(09:03):
but I think you'll you'll appreciate the sentiment and it
might take you back there and saying you know what,
it was probably a good shout that I actually told
her I wasn't really going to go and do that,
that whole new thing. I'm worried that we were not
about that life anymore, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
David, I love you, brother, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Congratulates you guys to thank you for today. I appreciate you,
Thank you, God bless you. Going to come out there soon, definitely,
I tell you our next guest. He's one of the
all time great. Fifteen million records worldwide, that's how many
you solid? Twenty five UK Top forty singles, nine Top
forty albums, five billion plus global streams, the one the
only Craig David get a mate.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Ah, good day, how are you? How are you? Both?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Were very well? Congratulations today's the day new album?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Did you know what today is? The actual day? Like
like you're the first, like in Australia, the first to
actually be able to hear hear the album by the album,
enjoy the album. It's it's always makes me like I
always feel those butterflies when you're when I release a
new album real, it's like a long mate. Continue. Yeah,
you always feel It's like it's not like an anxious thing.
It's just like you feel alive. It's like finally, like
(00:50):
it's out there. It's not just something I'm kind of
alluding to or hyping up or talking about. It's like, no,
here is They're the songs you can enjoy commitment now.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well, you have been hyping them up a little bit
and I've been loving the little clips on your Instagram.
There was one though, and it's early in the morning,
and I was in tears, and it was just so beautiful.
You were in your childhood bedroom and you were singing
for your mum, because that's how you used to get
your approval for your songs back in the day. And
even she was tearing up, and I was tearing up,
and it was just so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Gen know what, Thank you. It's always been like a
beautiful thing with me. And my mama was playing songs
to her like so much earlier than when it comes out.
And in this case, I'd actually had the opportunity to
go back to my childhood home, which i'd grown up
there my whole I wrote Born to Do It in
that bedroom that you've been seeing on social media, and
(01:42):
it was in aid of Shelter, the charity in shine
light on social housing and the importance of especially single
parent families, which is how I would grow up. And
how fortunate I was to have the opportunity to actually
have social house and to see my mom there in
my bedroom twenty five years later, and I'm there singing rain,
which is one of the songs on the album, and
(02:05):
to see her face, as you said, and the tear
like and I just was like, how are we even
here in this room? Again? This is crazy? And yeah,
it just felt like it could have been like forty
to fifteen again, like playing her songs from Born to
do It for the first time.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How cool is it? You know that we are lucky
enough to be in an era, whether or not it's
a video camera or now it's now it's a phone
that you're capturing these moments and some of the most
beautiful writing and one of the funnier shows in the
history of the world, The Office. One of the characters
is talking about I wish I knew that now was
(02:41):
the good old days. I wish I could a preach
because you look back at that moment and you go,
how are we here? You know that is that's one
of the that's one of my wives in life.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Absolutely, I couldn't agree with you more man Like, there's
so many things like that when you I mean, people
would say, like when you're at school, like this will
be some of the times the best years of your life,
and you're at school and you're like, great story, but
I just want to get out of the school uniform
and actually like be an adult and you look back
and you're like, when will you ever be around that
(03:12):
many people like that again and have that many friends,
And I just think that you're absolutely right there. I
hope that you catch yourself quick enough to realize that
this moment will be something you will look back and
be like, this was the one, you know what I mean,
This was a great period. Even if you were going
through some stuff, You'll still look back and be like,
it was a good period.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Your songs, because you've been doing this with such success
for so long, are part of those stories now. I
don't know how many people tell you those stories. And
it's funny. It wasn't until I was driving this morning.
I was listening to your music and I was thinking
about you, and iized I think about Craig more than
perhaps I realized until today. And one story in particular.
You know, I was a young guy. This is New
(03:55):
Year's Eve two thousand and one, and I'd been seeing
a girl and she she was a Melbourne socialite, and
I don't know, I'm not from those circles, you know
what I mean. Something I found myself in this relationship
and she goes, hey, let's let's go to the beach
house for New Year's Eve. And so we're down there,
(04:16):
we're having a great time. We're sitting on the deck
looking over the ocean, and she goes, listen, so tonight
we're gonna go out and I go fantastic, and she goes,
you know, just so you know, I'm probably gonna kiss
a few guys. And I go what she goes, I
(04:36):
just want to be honest with you, you know, like it's
just when I party, that's what I do.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Are you cool with that? And I go.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
No, By the way, this is just a different stage
of emotional maturity for the two of us. Obviously, she
was honest, and she was just at that stage in
her life. And just so you know this is going
to happen because I know what I'm like, and I go, oh, look,
it's just not for me, right, So I go and
I get in my I get in my e right,
you and I and I'm I'm driving away. And I
(05:04):
didn't even realize until I was beginning the long, long
drive back down the Grade Ocean Road, and I realized
that the iPod was playing, and all of a sudden,
that drive down the Grade.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Ocean Road became tiary.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
You know what you were there for me?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Man, and when you say, when you started saying, I'm
walking away from this trouble in my life, I was like, well,
this is this is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Thank you, Craig.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I feel you in this moment.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Do you know what? Can I just say, like I
visually was so with you from this from the first
moment she said to you, I'm going to be kissing
a few guys, which in the moment sounds like you
said was could sound a bit hectic, But you're like, well,
I appreciate the honesty now as a grown man that
you were just telling me before you just did that.
You know what I mean, you were saying, I'm just
(05:56):
giving their heads up. If you can't handle that, then
maybe this isn't the way. But it's just the fact.
It's things like that. There's core memories that for us
to have having not having not like met in that
in that way and not being able to say, Okay,
we were friends back in the day and we kind
of grew up together, but yet having such a profound
(06:16):
core memory together. Yes, I feel that's that sums up
what music result is all about. And I think that's
the thing that I've now seen all these years later
that I get that's a number one record. To me,
you're telling me that story is a number one album,
number one song, because the feeling is like you can't
make it up, like it lives with you forever. That
(06:38):
and I think, well, what one honor to be part
of your story in that way. I mean, I'm sorry
I didn't work out with the girl. We live and
we learned, but what a story, my guy.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Speaking of your music, I did a little Google this
morning and AI came back at me with a really
funny response, because your music has stood the test of
time because it is in the R and B world,
it's a bit different in that it is actually very
respectful to women and it is very beautiful in that
equality kind of message. And I just wanted to make
(07:13):
sure I was right on that and I hadn't missed anything.
So I just googled Craig David disrespectful lyrics just to
make sure right, and AI came back at me with
there are no widely recognized instances of Craig David using
disrespectful lyrics in his music. Some of his some of
his songs might explore themes of relationships with a hint
of immaturity, but they are lighthearted and playful, not disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
And I was like, hey, a, you're right, you know
what I mean, that's a pretty accurate appraise or place.
There was this little bit of immaturity in there, but
he meant no harm. I mean even when I think
about funny enough, when I think about seven days and
I think back to being seventeen right now, Yeah, even
(08:00):
then I was still conscious. And this goes back to
the whole thing of living in the in the flat
with my mom. And I was like, there's a lot
of things and ways I could say what we were
doing on a Wednesday, but Making Love was seventeen year
old going there. I was like, Mom, you have raised me.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Well, we love you here made We can't wait to
see you back in Australia. This ninth studio album. This
is unbelievable commitment. Congratulations. We're so excited for you and
for us just a little bit as well. And we
know I know what I'll be driving away from work
listening to Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
My sister is so jealous that we're on a chat
right now. She you were like her crush, like absolute crush.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Oh well you send them. Firstly, we send them a love.
That's the first thing. And just as a song, like
probably one of my favorites two songs from the album,
like just there's a load, but there's two of them.
I think you'll appreciate, especially with that story you told me.
It was probably the perfect love. Might hit you in
the same way asking a wait and dominoes. It's a
little bit different, kind of like the context of the stories,
(09:03):
but I think you'll you'll appreciate the sentiment and it
might take you back there and saying you know what,
it was probably a good shout that I actually told
her I wasn't really going to go and do that,
that whole new thing. I'm worried that we were not
about that life anymore, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
David, I love you, brother, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Congratulates you guys to thank you for today. I appreciate you,
Thank you, God bless you. Going to come out there soon, definitely,
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