October 14, 2024 • 9 mins
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
On its range of tasty biscuits and crackers, helping Ozzies
create more delicious moments every day.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is Craig David's.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
His next guest is a superstar.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
We played his music over the last almost thirty years
seven days.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
He's hot.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I mean, come on, such a brilliant song and this
man has been in the R and B pop world
for a very long time. He's got a brand new
album coming, which is I'm very excited for Craig David
joining me live from the UK.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hello, buddy, great to have you back.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
You know, I had you on this show when I
first started, when I was like twenty one and I
had a night show and I can't tell you, man,
how excited I was, how excited my family was, my sisters,
my friends. When I said I've got Craig David on
the show, like it was such a big moment for me,
and you were so gracious and this is I mean,
we'll get to your music soon, but for.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Me, I just want to thank you for coming back.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I've had you on a bunch of times, but yes,
I still remember that moment where you came on and
you were such a big name and I was blown away.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Do you know, I appreciate you man, thanks for sharing
it because that for me, I guess that's when when
I look back at the whole career, it's it's moments
like that, those moments that you remember viscerally that makes
this whole thing makes sense, you know. So and the
fact that you brought the whole family into the mix
and it was just like and twenty one, like I mean,
(01:33):
just set in the tone for things now. Men look
well you've got the crazy like graphics behind you. Now
you've got the pink shades of the sunset going on.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Now chan jaw line, you know, my man booms out
as becaus they were back in the day.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
So much has changed for me, Craig.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
You know, and let them know, let them know, own
them with pray, you know what.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I bring it up because it's really tied into in
your hands the new stuff from Craig, which were going
to play. But I love this music video which you've
got to watch, and there's nods to seven and you know,
which I think is so smart, so cute, which we
know and love you from seven days. But for me,
this moment interviewing you is I remember thinking back to
when I interviewed you first, so big for my career,
but for you, do you have moments like that that
(02:12):
you think, Wow, I was doing this at that age,
or this was I met this person when I was
this young, and oh my, just to think back to
that period in your life.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Absolutely, my man, there's been some like I think right
at the top end I was I'd gone to America
for the first time to do three nights at a
place called House of Blues right on sunset, How well
were you?
Speaker 6 (02:35):
And Wow? I must have been nineteen at the time,
so I was just.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Like, Wow, we're in LA and it's like we're performing
and trying Condensica's quite a long story, but every night
there was some someone that I was just like, Wow,
how is this possible that you're here to come and
see me perform. So the first night there was Missy
Elliott and Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Came to see me perform.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Now, let's not forget yet.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
A few years back, I'm still living at my mum's
flat in Southampton.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
There's the on the six Jennifer Lopez poster on the wall.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
There's Missy Elliot rain following night. I mean, this is
probably I thought this was like the pinnacle of everything.
The Queen Bee herself. Beyonce comes to the show and
I'm looking up and this is like wow, so film
and it had only been released, so The Destiny's Child
was still very much active at that point. And I'm
looking up and Beyonce has come to the show and
I was just like third night looking the crowd singing
(03:31):
walking Away, and I see people making a bit of
fuss over one in particular person in the crowd.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
The house lights come up. I look in the crowd.
Who is it? The Big Man?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Stevie Wonder is in the crowd singing the words to
walking Away, And I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
It sounds like one of the man.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
It sounds like one of those whimsical stories that someone
just let me drop every day in the book. But
you remember, nineteen years old, I'm in the crowd. This
can't be happening. He comes backstage and who was with
him was Quincy Jones, Jesus Man and Quincy and it's
just it's one of them stories. I decided to just
drop it and be like, everyone's like, is he gass?
And he dropped the one, the final one of the
(04:09):
you know, like if you're playing Mortal Combat, be like
finishing yet. So the final one was yeah, my man,
my man. MJ's got like ten of your albums and
he gave it out to his friends because he was
just vibing and he loves the album. And I said,
he said, it's so blase, I said, and who Yeah, yeah,
Michael Jackson's got he brought ten of your albums and
he brought them and gave him to his friends. I
(04:30):
was like, man, if this whole thing was some, I
went on some whimsical magical Carpet Rider and Aladdin and
the whole thing just slams me back to Southampton.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Then we're good. Here, we're good. I'll go back.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
How do you go back home to Southampton in cold UK?
Sit in your I'm assuming you lived with your parents
at the time, and you thought you go, How do
you go back and go? How do I tell that
story without sounding like the biggest liar in the world
in south.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
No, it's it's wild.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
It's so wild, and it's those kind of things that
were going on like only door. So yeah, it's been
it's been like a rollercoaster ride of those kind of moments.
Pinched me moments that you would never expect, and I've
just been really just really grateful. Man, that music was
the thing that did that.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You know, did you ever meet MJ Did you ever
get to meet Michael?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Do you know what? I never got to meet him.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
In the end, it was the one person that got
to meet It was like, so that was my closest,
you know, Quincy Jones, being closest to the man.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Behind all those big songs.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Yeah, but yeah, unbelievable, unbelievable, a huge influence on the
music that I made back in the day.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Anyway, So who had.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You grounded at nineteen?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Because you had, you know, walking away seven days these
songs were, they're huge, and culturally they still are. They
still have so much power in the industry and they
still are referenced and sampled today.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So who was grounding for you? Is it family? Was
it a partner? Was it a manager?
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Do you know what My upbringing was was so rooted
in being grounded, Like I grew up with my grandma
and my mom in particular, my mom and dad split
when I was eight years old, but my dad was
always very present in my life. But I grew up
like my Grandma would picked me up from school when
my mom was like working, and she have sandwiches in
the car ready to go. But then also as soon
(06:10):
as I got to a house, there'd be like a
whole spread going on, like you're watching.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
The kids movie, the kids TV shows. When I got back,
you know, the vibes.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
So it was just that nurturing that that female energy
in my life was so so important because it got
me in touch with being able to speak my truth
and to feel that there was power and vulnerability and
crying and being able to show emotions is acceptable rather than.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
The whole old school style. You got a man up
probably strong, and we know where that's got the men
now in the world.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah, So I just felt like it was that groundedness
that just when it hit. Probably was one of the
things I talk about in the book I released called
Watch Your Vibe, about people pleasing because I didn't know
how to adjust quickly.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
One man, I'm sanamptin High Street just going like Virgil Megastore,
buy some CDs. Next thing, I'm in Vergi men stare
doing a signing for my own album crazy like literally
the same thing. And I've got people who walked up
that street High Street so many times who lived on
the same as council estate, and they've been running up.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Can I get a picture? Can I get a thing?
I'm like, Bro, you live next door to me.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I waited and if something shifted so dramatically, so fast
that you can adopt some of the these these belief
systems that then you have to really unravel later on
in your life. So their ground and has helped me.
But also it was so grounded that when the music
industry hit and you having number one singles and sixteen
seventy million albums sold, something hits and you've got to
(07:37):
try and you're grounded. But you're like, but mate, you're
trying to keep it like you're yeah, like Jenny from
the block, but maybe you're not in the block anymore.
You're doing the arenas back to back. And that was
hard to adjust to you, man, because it was an
interesting movie.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
But here you are, Bro, all these years later. I mean,
I love in your hands. Talk to me about it.
The music video is gorgeous, Like, if you've got to
watch it, do you perform me next to her? I
mean a kid who I'm assuming is it the younger
version of you, and there's many references to seven Days
and I think it's a beautiful song. Also, the vibe,
man is different, like dare I say a little country?
Like it's not country, but it's got like an earthiness
(08:12):
that I don't associate with you. I'm like, oh, I
can really hear your vocal tone in this. You know
it's different, Man, You do.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
On me a spot on with it.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I mean Ethan the young boy plays the younger version
of me. That felt like a full like going back
to my inner.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Child and what would you do? And how was that journey?
That the sound of.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
The record, like having that four to the floor beat
but also allowing the vocals to just sit over those
that simple guitar riff, which is why it lends itself
to country music. And it was talking about Beyonce and
Destiny's Child. I probably wrote the song maybe a year
and a bit ago. So it was so wholesome to
(08:51):
me when I saw the country music, which is massive
and huge and always has been, having a moment of
like being represented on more commercial radio and people like WHOA,
we're playing like country arts who have been huge for
how many years? And Beyonce being the one who really
headed that and open the pluggates for people to kind
of touch that sound because the lyrics and country, as you.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Know, man, are always so so deep.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Like I've always found that the storytelling is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, I'm with you this, Yes, got a chance to do.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
With fantastic Well, let's play it. It was a pleasure
to have you on. Let's end with the song. I
adore you. I think this is your fourth time on
the show. But listen, keep pumping it out, keep being you,
keep wearing pink or post a photo of the Night
Show socials, but Craig David in the top, I mean
this is everyone's The social likes will get on viral
with Craig.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
David, guy, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Thank you for coming back on the show.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Welcome you to thank you, lots of love. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Let's do it in your hands now I do. From
Craig David on the Night joke Youth
On its range of tasty biscuits and crackers, helping Ozzies
create more delicious moments every day.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is Craig David's.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
His next guest is a superstar.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
We played his music over the last almost thirty years
seven days.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
He's hot.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I mean, come on, such a brilliant song and this
man has been in the R and B pop world
for a very long time. He's got a brand new
album coming, which is I'm very excited for Craig David
joining me live from the UK.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hello, buddy, great to have you back.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
You know, I had you on this show when I
first started, when I was like twenty one and I
had a night show and I can't tell you, man,
how excited I was, how excited my family was, my sisters,
my friends. When I said I've got Craig David on
the show, like it was such a big moment for me,
and you were so gracious and this is I mean,
we'll get to your music soon, but for.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Me, I just want to thank you for coming back.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I've had you on a bunch of times, but yes,
I still remember that moment where you came on and
you were such a big name and I was blown away.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Do you know, I appreciate you man, thanks for sharing
it because that for me, I guess that's when when
I look back at the whole career, it's it's moments
like that, those moments that you remember viscerally that makes
this whole thing makes sense, you know. So and the
fact that you brought the whole family into the mix
and it was just like and twenty one, like I mean,
(01:33):
just set in the tone for things now. Men look
well you've got the crazy like graphics behind you. Now
you've got the pink shades of the sunset going on.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Now chan jaw line, you know, my man booms out
as becaus they were back in the day.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
So much has changed for me, Craig.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
You know, and let them know, let them know, own
them with pray, you know what.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I bring it up because it's really tied into in
your hands the new stuff from Craig, which were going
to play. But I love this music video which you've
got to watch, and there's nods to seven and you know,
which I think is so smart, so cute, which we
know and love you from seven days. But for me,
this moment interviewing you is I remember thinking back to
when I interviewed you first, so big for my career,
but for you, do you have moments like that that
(02:12):
you think, Wow, I was doing this at that age,
or this was I met this person when I was
this young, and oh my, just to think back to
that period in your life.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Absolutely, my man, there's been some like I think right
at the top end I was I'd gone to America
for the first time to do three nights at a
place called House of Blues right on sunset, How well
were you?
Speaker 6 (02:35):
And Wow? I must have been nineteen at the time,
so I was just.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Like, Wow, we're in LA and it's like we're performing
and trying Condensica's quite a long story, but every night
there was some someone that I was just like, Wow,
how is this possible that you're here to come and
see me perform. So the first night there was Missy
Elliott and Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Came to see me perform.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Now, let's not forget yet.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
A few years back, I'm still living at my mum's
flat in Southampton.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
There's the on the six Jennifer Lopez poster on the wall.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
There's Missy Elliot rain following night. I mean, this is
probably I thought this was like the pinnacle of everything.
The Queen Bee herself. Beyonce comes to the show and
I'm looking up and this is like wow, so film
and it had only been released, so The Destiny's Child
was still very much active at that point. And I'm
looking up and Beyonce has come to the show and
I was just like third night looking the crowd singing
(03:31):
walking Away, and I see people making a bit of
fuss over one in particular person in the crowd.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
The house lights come up. I look in the crowd.
Who is it? The Big Man?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Stevie Wonder is in the crowd singing the words to
walking Away, And I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
It sounds like one of the man.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
It sounds like one of those whimsical stories that someone
just let me drop every day in the book. But
you remember, nineteen years old, I'm in the crowd. This
can't be happening. He comes backstage and who was with
him was Quincy Jones, Jesus Man and Quincy and it's
just it's one of them stories. I decided to just
drop it and be like, everyone's like, is he gass?
And he dropped the one, the final one of the
(04:09):
you know, like if you're playing Mortal Combat, be like
finishing yet. So the final one was yeah, my man,
my man. MJ's got like ten of your albums and
he gave it out to his friends because he was
just vibing and he loves the album. And I said,
he said, it's so blase, I said, and who Yeah, yeah,
Michael Jackson's got he brought ten of your albums and
he brought them and gave him to his friends. I
(04:30):
was like, man, if this whole thing was some, I
went on some whimsical magical Carpet Rider and Aladdin and
the whole thing just slams me back to Southampton.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Then we're good. Here, we're good. I'll go back.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
How do you go back home to Southampton in cold UK?
Sit in your I'm assuming you lived with your parents
at the time, and you thought you go, How do
you go back and go? How do I tell that
story without sounding like the biggest liar in the world
in south.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
No, it's it's wild.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
It's so wild, and it's those kind of things that
were going on like only door. So yeah, it's been
it's been like a rollercoaster ride of those kind of moments.
Pinched me moments that you would never expect, and I've
just been really just really grateful. Man, that music was
the thing that did that.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You know, did you ever meet MJ Did you ever
get to meet Michael?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Do you know what? I never got to meet him.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
In the end, it was the one person that got
to meet It was like, so that was my closest,
you know, Quincy Jones, being closest to the man.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Behind all those big songs.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Yeah, but yeah, unbelievable, unbelievable, a huge influence on the
music that I made back in the day.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Anyway, So who had.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You grounded at nineteen?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Because you had, you know, walking away seven days these
songs were, they're huge, and culturally they still are. They
still have so much power in the industry and they
still are referenced and sampled today.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So who was grounding for you? Is it family? Was
it a partner? Was it a manager?
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Do you know what My upbringing was was so rooted
in being grounded, Like I grew up with my grandma
and my mom in particular, my mom and dad split
when I was eight years old, but my dad was
always very present in my life. But I grew up
like my Grandma would picked me up from school when
my mom was like working, and she have sandwiches in
the car ready to go. But then also as soon
(06:10):
as I got to a house, there'd be like a
whole spread going on, like you're watching.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
The kids movie, the kids TV shows. When I got back,
you know, the vibes.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
So it was just that nurturing that that female energy
in my life was so so important because it got
me in touch with being able to speak my truth
and to feel that there was power and vulnerability and
crying and being able to show emotions is acceptable rather than.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
The whole old school style. You got a man up
probably strong, and we know where that's got the men
now in the world.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah, So I just felt like it was that groundedness
that just when it hit. Probably was one of the
things I talk about in the book I released called
Watch Your Vibe, about people pleasing because I didn't know
how to adjust quickly.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
One man, I'm sanamptin High Street just going like Virgil Megastore,
buy some CDs. Next thing, I'm in Vergi men stare
doing a signing for my own album crazy like literally
the same thing. And I've got people who walked up
that street High Street so many times who lived on
the same as council estate, and they've been running up.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Can I get a picture? Can I get a thing?
I'm like, Bro, you live next door to me.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I waited and if something shifted so dramatically, so fast
that you can adopt some of the these these belief
systems that then you have to really unravel later on
in your life. So their ground and has helped me.
But also it was so grounded that when the music
industry hit and you having number one singles and sixteen
seventy million albums sold, something hits and you've got to
(07:37):
try and you're grounded. But you're like, but mate, you're
trying to keep it like you're yeah, like Jenny from
the block, but maybe you're not in the block anymore.
You're doing the arenas back to back. And that was
hard to adjust to you, man, because it was an
interesting movie.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
But here you are, Bro, all these years later. I mean,
I love in your hands. Talk to me about it.
The music video is gorgeous, Like, if you've got to
watch it, do you perform me next to her? I
mean a kid who I'm assuming is it the younger
version of you, and there's many references to seven Days
and I think it's a beautiful song. Also, the vibe,
man is different, like dare I say a little country?
Like it's not country, but it's got like an earthiness
(08:12):
that I don't associate with you. I'm like, oh, I
can really hear your vocal tone in this. You know
it's different, Man, You do.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
On me a spot on with it.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I mean Ethan the young boy plays the younger version
of me. That felt like a full like going back
to my inner.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Child and what would you do? And how was that journey?
That the sound of.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
The record, like having that four to the floor beat
but also allowing the vocals to just sit over those
that simple guitar riff, which is why it lends itself
to country music. And it was talking about Beyonce and
Destiny's Child. I probably wrote the song maybe a year
and a bit ago. So it was so wholesome to
(08:51):
me when I saw the country music, which is massive
and huge and always has been, having a moment of
like being represented on more commercial radio and people like WHOA,
we're playing like country arts who have been huge for
how many years? And Beyonce being the one who really
headed that and open the pluggates for people to kind
of touch that sound because the lyrics and country, as you.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Know, man, are always so so deep.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Like I've always found that the storytelling is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, I'm with you this, Yes, got a chance to do.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
With fantastic Well, let's play it. It was a pleasure
to have you on. Let's end with the song. I
adore you. I think this is your fourth time on
the show. But listen, keep pumping it out, keep being you,
keep wearing pink or post a photo of the Night
Show socials, but Craig David in the top, I mean
this is everyone's The social likes will get on viral
with Craig.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
David, guy, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Thank you for coming back on the show.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Welcome you to thank you, lots of love. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Let's do it in your hands now I do. From
Craig David on the Night joke Youth
Popular Podcasts
Good Game with Sarah Spain
Good Game is your one-stop shop for the biggest stories in women’s sports. Every day, host Sarah Spain gives you the stories, stakes, stars and stats to keep up with your favorite women’s teams, leagues and athletes. Through thoughtful insight, witty banter, and an all around good time, Sarah and friends break down the latest news, talk about the games you can’t miss, and debate the issues of the day. Don’t miss interviews with the people of the moment, whether they be athletes, coaches, reporters, or celebrity fans.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations.
Crime Junkie
If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people.