THE BIG PODCAST - Clipse Break Down "Let God Sort Em Out," Recording In Paris, Kendrick Lamar's Guest Verse, Origins With Pharrell
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Big Boys Neighborhood on demand. Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Alrighty man, let God swort them mouth clips are in
the neighborhood. And before anything, I gotta say congratulations on
such a great project.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Thank you. And that took time?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Yeah yeah, yeah, two years? Man, two with two years?
How do you know that it's done? You know, two
years has a lot to do with just the schedules
of everybody. You know, where we're recording. We're recording in Paris.
(00:38):
You know, you gotta you gotta, you know, work around
for real schedule. How long were y'all in Paris recording
off and on?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
A year and a half. Hey, man, that sounds exciting
to me, doesn't.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You know?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
It sounds exciting because at.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Some point it really becomes working work.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Man, Yeah, no, quickly probably. You know what y'all really
recorded that at the Louis Vuitton, like the headquarters. Yeah,
when we say Louis Vuitton headquarters, it's it's people there,
like it's the headquarters. Oh, it's people there, sewing, it's
people there bringing up fabrics. There's people there sketching, it's
trying on stuff, trying on things.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Y'all seeing this.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Hey, man, because I thought for sure, And this isn't
the reason why I took the interview, because I knew,
you know a certain thing. I knew that y'all recorded
that Louis, And it's not the reason why. But I
thought for sure y'all gonna bring something in today.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
You could have killed it because looking like, I know
what you're saying. I thought for sure today was like gifting.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, any greater later, man want.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
To do don't get fat.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We didn't want to do that, right, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
We're wrong for that.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
But you would think, man, like, what does that do
with the creativity, Because there's times when you think about
somebody recording something it's like, man, you know and days
are different. It's not like I'm in a studio now
and it's dark and you know what I'm saying, I'm
in studio B. But recording that an actual place of
business where people are walking by. What does that do
with you creatively?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I think it made the scrutiny of the album a
lot harder because everywhere you turn in that place is
nothing but opinions.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh so people could hear certain things.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Man, this is open, like it's open like this we
record like on MIC's like this, there's no booth we're
recording and on my people bringing stuff to pharreal like yeah,
interrupting the session.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah that's crazy phil fabrics.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Of that, All of that is active.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yes, it's super active.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But do you know, and I'm pretty sure because I
hear the product, you gotta be able to just kind
of be able to tone that out or does does
that add to what you're doing?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Well?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I think.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I think it's It can be uncomfortable at first, but
everybody in there is a creative man. Everybody. Everybody is
a creative. Like sometimes the shoeman coming in and you
be like, man, that's shoe whack. I ain't feeling that,
you know, like it gets that colorway, ain't it? Like
you know, everybody is.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Is are you doing that too?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Like he for real? Not that one, bro. Yeah, you'd
be like, yo, what you're thinking this? I'm like, fellas,
we got a whole lot more to cover.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You're not going anywhere. Y'll stick around, y'all, radios. We
got more with clips in the Neighborhood, Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
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Speaker 2 (03:49):
Big Boys Neighborhood. Alrighty man, let God sort them out.
Clips are in the neighborhood. There's an artistic value to
what you guys do as well, and where I'm going
at with that too, man, is even just the label change.
So when you go to do a label change, it's
(04:10):
not scary for you guys because did y'all stand on
so much of the music and the values that you were, Like, Bro,
you can't play with what.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Was no sleep, no time, nothing, I don't care what
happened nothing like we knew it.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It didn't matter.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Like first of all we walked in, we knew wherever
we walked into we was bearing gifts. He was like,
what let me help you?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Done? Like the whole album? Right? But did he?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Man?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
So it so?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Is it just and not as simple? But it's gonna
sound simple when I ask, But was it when when
the Kendrick verse did the label trip and wanted to
make an artistic change, Yes, one thousand percent definitely wanted
to make an artistic change, wanted a lyric change in
his verse.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
You know, just it ended up just being like, hey,
we'll just you know, we won't put we won't put
out the song.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
We won't put it out. And so with changing whips
with Kendrick, he's.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Been dealing with a lot of this stuff over time
for a long time. Yeah, so I have to sit
back and let them air it out, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
So when you when you hear this, there's no part
of you that say, man, we got.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
A great album, We got a great album without without
this kid.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Just came off fifteen years, what's another fifteen right?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Hey man?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
But it's crazy because it's one of the things where
they're like, hey, you know you got to change you know,
take either Kendricks off or change the verse, you know,
mute this, and y'all like no. So it almost becomes
like to the label, it could be all right, are
we playing tennis here? And when they that over there,
y'all just let the ball drop, like where's you're back to?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
You? And y'all got up and left. Yeah, well no,
you got to pay. Yeah, but you got to pay.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, and you had y'all had to pay. Yeah, yeah,
you got to pay.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's but you know what's crazy about that is how
much y'all believed in you because you know day one, Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
What y'all had did this fifteen years ago?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
We got the product. Man, we've had the product. That's
the only thing that we had faith in. Knowing what
we do right and believing in that. That's where you
get your strength from. Is that like a gift in
this guy gift?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And also even now when you look at what was
going down with you know, change, is that a gift
that you say, you know what?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I'm so glad that they showed that so.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
We can Yeah, because the energy would have been different
with this entire project, because it's crazy when you do
something and you hand somebody your blood, sweat and tears
and it's like, Okay, we did what we had to do,
right now, you go and you do it.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah. I don't, I don't, I don't. I don't know,
if you.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Know, everything would have played out the way it would
have if we stayed at the at the at death cham.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Fellas, we got a whole lot more to cover. You're
not going anywhere, y'all, stick around, y'all radios. We got
more with clips in the neighborhood, Big.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Boys, Neighborhood This is Big Boy on Demand.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Big Boys Neighborhood. Alrighty, now let God sort them out?
Is the new album we got Malice in the Neighborhood,
Push Your Tea in the Neighborhood, Clips in the Neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
How do you write a song like birds Don't Sing?
You know?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And the reason why I asked that is because I've
been through it, you know, with my mom. My dad
is deceased, but i'd be like my mom, she raised me,
and there's just a different pain that you feel. And
y'all got pretty much you couldn't even exhale before you
had to inhale again. Yeah, and when and that's Mom's
(07:51):
and pops, y'all say, with him four months so and
there's no time you never can say, Man, you're still
grieving over that, but actually in helle and then think
that you can exhale, and then four months later it
comes again.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
You know what I'm saying? How did you guys?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Were both of you on the same page, We're saying, man,
we have to put this in a song.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Man, I don't.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I don't even know if it was so much intentional,
like we didn't be like, hey, we're gonna do this joint.
It came about it, you know, it came about and
you know, a lot of a lot of times it
was uh again conversations because it was just you know,
(08:37):
hard hitting, back to back.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I remember I remember one night Pharrell calling.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Me after after my mom had had passed, our mom
had passed, and he was like, man, you know, we
just you know, you got to write about it.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
He was like, man, this I got this idea.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
It's called the Birds Don't Sing and they screen Champagne
and he was just like it sounds crazy, but it
came from a conversation we were having just about her
and everything she was going through with dialysis and just
you know, her her ailments and you know her just
sticking around and toughing it out and just things that
(09:18):
you think about after the fact. And I feel like
the whole the verses were just my mine in particular,
was after the fact and being able to see it
clearly like zooming zooming out and being like, oh man,
wait a minute, lady.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Did you know, Like was you yeah, right, you can
hear it?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Were you playing with me here like you know, and yeah,
and you can hear it. You can hear it. Independmanship
as well. Yeah, you know, when especially if you really
check on what what the lyrics are? You know what
I'm saying, And is that a song that's hard to
not just write, but is it?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Is it a song that's hard to recite? Damn?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
But you were saying this time every time, every time,
every time.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Felas, we got a whole lot more to cover. You're
not going anywhere, y'all. Stick around, y'all radios. We got
more with Clips in the neighborhood, Big Boys neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
This is big Boy on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Big Boys Neighborhood. Alrighty, now, let God sort them out?
Is the new album? We got Malice in the Neighborhood,
Push your tea in the neighborhood, Clips in the Neighborhood.
So when you're recording, birds don't sing when you're recording it.
I'm pretty sure that's an emotional roller coaster too. You
know how some people say, man, we did it in
one take.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Oh man, I ain't got no more today.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I ain't got no more today. We got three bars.
That's it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Do y'all record together? And then do you know how
you're writing? And do you know how you're writing? Do
y'all collaborate with like, man, I'm righting moms, I'm writing Dad.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Well, we came up with that and I actually did
mine first and just to him, and I didn't know
how I was going to be able to finish because
just listening I understood everything that he was saying. I
was there to witness everything. It like punched me in
the face so hard. And then you know, not only
(11:17):
was I grieving, you know, the loss of my mom,
but looking at my younger brother and how he was
processing that was like its own grief for me personally.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
And and and you know, my dad and I, like
we talked all the time, and you know, we just
had a really tight relationship. So you know, I spoke
about the last conversation that we had together.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And was it important to share that with us, share
it with the world.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
I think, I think so.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I think so. Uh.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
And I say that because it's nothing you can hide from,
like life takes place. And not only that, but after
it happened, and you know, my brother, he would do
interviews and you know, people would know and it would
get out and social media would give condolences and stuff
like that. I would get on my treadmill, and I would,
(12:17):
you know, do my lives from my treadmill.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
We just have conversations or whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
But I thought it was important for people to see
that life continues and it's not to shut yourself down
or go in a whole. We have a real live hope.
My mom, my dad, and myself we all shared the
same faith. And I knew what my dad thought of death.
(12:43):
I knew what my mom thought of death, and my
dad was nowhere in the world. He would want me
just you know, grieving to the point of being out
of commission.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
You know, we have families, we have children, and we have.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
To share the eternal hope that we have in Jesus Christ,
because outside of that there is no hope.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
You are just dead. Yeah, you're just dead.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
But if you want to talk about the resurrection, you know,
of Jesus, that's what our hope is in. So that's
why I can, you know, sit here today and talk
and I could think about my parents and smile.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
You when you guys do NPR tiny desk and you
go into birds Don't Sing, does it feel like it's
always going to be that emotional to you?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Because even when I saw y'all do it live. I'm like,
there's no time.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Just like, oh yeah, we're about to hit this, and
you know what I'm saying, and you go, and it's
it's always this emotion.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
It's solemn.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Every time you perform that, it's it's definitely like it's solemn.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
And people remind you that this solemn because they be crying.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah, Malice, Push your Tea, y'all gotta hang out with
us a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Y'all continue to hang with us in the neighborhood. We
got more with Clips in the Neighborhood, Big Boy's Neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
This is Big Boy on Demand, Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Alrighty, now let God sort them out.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Is the new album we got Malice in the Neighborhood,
Push your Tea in the Neighborhood, Clips in the Neighborhood.
When Dave Chappelle walked away from that Comedy Central deal,
people like, oh, fifty million, fifty million, Like there's just
something that that doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
You know what I'm saying. That didn't move me. It
didn't make me happy.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
If you're real, so yeah, but when we're looking at you,
people would think from the outside.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Like man clips on fire Man. You know what I'm saying,
but it didn't matter to you.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
It didn't. Damn it didn't.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
But when you trust in the Lord, That's why I'm
sitting here right now. I got to sit down. I
got to read and understand the word of God, internalize it.
I have the Word written on my heart. Every problem
that I have ever had in my fifty two years
(14:56):
of living in this life, the Bible has the answer
to it. I mean not only the answer, but the cure.
And I paid attention to that, and today I'm sitting
here with the greatest album out right. Now.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I'm back with my brother, and I like.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
To think that our music is healing in many ways
because I'm looking at the comments and I'm looking at
what people are singing.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
So I attribute all of that, you know to God.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
What did you learn in the years being away? How
in tune were you at what was going on musically?
Or did you have a complete shut off or you
shut off for a while.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I did shut off for a while because I wasn't interested,
and not just music.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
I couldn't watch TV.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
I sit and try to watch TV, but I felt
like I was wasting my time I could come up
with any ending to a televisionvision movie or a conclusion
in my own head, this could go this way or
that way. Big deal, you know, so it's hard for
me just to I just felt like it was just
idle time.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
What about the outside chatter, You know how everybody wants
you to do something that possibly at the moment you're like,
I don't you know, like, man, come on.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Man, well let me tell you this. Let me tell
you this. Without listening to what the outside chatter was.
What I did realize people would start coming to me
with the issues that I was once having. So, oh,
you're going through it too. You're looking for answers too.
You know, you're not totally fulfilled, situated, or satisfied.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
So I knew like I wasn't by myself.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
It might have took a little time, but you know
when you see people start coming to you for answers
and questions and you know people are curious, then I
knew I had done the right thing and push.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I know, man to man, you explained it very well, malice,
But at any time, do you feel abandoned?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Nah? Nah? You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
For me, it was just important that he was he
was happy, like doing something that he really wanted to do.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
And that's what I got from him every time.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yea, yeah, yeah, fellas, we got a whole lot more
to cover. You're not going anywhere, y'all. Stick around, y'all, radios.
We got more with Clips in the Neighborhood, Big Boys.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
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Speaker 2 (17:22):
Alrighty man, let God sort them out. Clips are in
the neighborhood. Take take me back to that whole introduction
of when we got clips. You know what I'm saying,
because now when you think about the accolades and and
and everything that we know from you brothers, you know
what was that like that early Pharrell? Because when you
(17:43):
look at Pharrell now and you say, oh, man, Louis
Vauton and Pharrell, the Neptunes and Pharrell, that's this and
it was so outlandish.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
You know, it was like he was always a real dreamer,
Like he would talk to us and we would just.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Swear he was crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Yeah, right back then, you know how young mallets are
we talking?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Uh twenties.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
That's me, so right, So I'm fifteen yeah damn yeah yeah,
but maybe younger than twenty so so oh yeah yeah.
So I'm thinking about like starting, you know, in music
and all of that.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
So you guys are just buddies, yeah, and y'all having
like real conversations, like if me and my homeboy Frank
just talking under the stars over there, We're like, man,
this is it?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
This is it?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Not knowing that you can fast forward and this is
what's happened.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Well, yeah, and I think that I think that was
the biggest thing that came with phar Real was his
He took the ceiling off of everything, like he was like, nah,
we can, we can go up there, all the way
up there to the top up there. You know, that
was his whole thing. He always looked at looked at
music like that. And then when certain situations happened, you
(19:00):
know locally, like Teddy Riley moved to the area. You know, uh,
he actually built a studio right next to Pharrell School.
They had a talent show, you know, within that all
the creatives used to go down to Virginia Beach. That's
where my brother was heard amongst all of them. Guys
(19:20):
with Tim and you know, Tim, Timberlin and my brother
was together like everybody. Nobody really realizes the proximity of
how close everyone was.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
We're talking about within a two and a half three
mile radius.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
One mile, yeah, yeah, about two miles. So all of
this is, you know, now missing. She's another city, but
she up the street. It ain't get you, Yeah, it
ain't ain't nothing. Hey, man, did you guys know early on?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Because it's one thing when you have like this dream,
this you want to inspire, aspired to be something, but
did you see that it was gonna be not what
it is, but it could be big? Because you got
to think, man, you guys created something. And when you
go back to timblance because sounds came from certain places,
like you looked and you looked at the East coast,
(20:17):
then you looked at the West coast, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
What I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And at one point, you know, even with the South
got something to say, you know, But it was like
this movement that you guys also created that y'all can't
really say, Oh, a lot of this was already here,
you know what I'm saying, right, Like a lot of
that came from you guys and probably gave other people
the hopes and the dreams like, oh, we could do
(20:40):
that too.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
So but it wasn't a lot of too.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
So we discovered early that we had to get up
out of Virginia and go to New York, right, you know,
we piled up in a chat station wagon. And when
we would go there and talk to the so called
A and rs you know.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Right right yeah, in the building.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah, we that just like put a battery you know,
in our back, knowing that we had the product, and
just to be able to go and let people hear it.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
It kind of let us know that it was tangible
and it could happen.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Had y'all always been of course, brother, but had y'all
always been together, you know what I'm saying, like like
as a group?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
No, right, no, No. Malice was definitely rhymen. First. First,
his first stint with music, well, he was always writing.
He was always a writer. And then again he was
with Timbaland in junior high school. So you know it
was a time in which to go to Timbland's house,
(21:43):
I'd have to follow him on a bike.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Like my mom would be like, you gotta take your
brother to.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
We go to Timberland's house and then timberland Dad would
kick us out after he got home from work because
he won't trying to hear all that. But it was,
you know, everybody was. Everybody was into the music. Feelas
we got a whole lot more to cover. You're not
going anywhere, y'all, stick around, y'all radios. We got more
with clips in the neighborhood, Big Boys neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
This is big Boy on demand, Big Boys neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Alrighty man, let God sort them out. Clips are in
the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Why do you feel and this is for you, Malice,
why do you feel like this was the moment and
the time to be back with us?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
And as Malice?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Yeah, yeah, I would just say there there were a
few telltale signs, like you said, fifteen years, I feel
like no Malice has done everything that he was supposed
to do. I really believe that. And you know, we
(22:54):
did a punch bowl with We did punch bowl, I
pray for you, you know, and push his album and
I remember I had Jesus King. Yeah, we get Jesus
Is King. Yeah, that was a tell tale for me.
That was right up my alley. And uh, you know.
(23:15):
I remember speaking with my dad after doing those bodies
of work. I asked him, I said, what do you
think about me rapping again? And he told me, he says, son,
I think you've been too hard on yourself. And I
thought that, I don't know. That was just powerful to
me because my dad is a deacon, you know what
I'm saying, So for him to say that, he was like,
he said, you know what to do now, you know,
(23:36):
And it just meant a lot to me.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
But even outside of that, that's not the reason.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I believe that I have a space to occupy and
I don't want to squander it, you know. And you
know I set out, I really did. I set out
the time I believe I was supposed to set out.
And now you know, and then you know, with him
having this platform, that I could just step back and yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Know you'd been charging for it.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Nah, Man, I would have been like, man, I would
have oh, now.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Your show went. Everything would have changed.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I know that I wouldn't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I would have been like, but he not pity like me,
you know what I'm saying. There's a whole different thing.
But but when you when you.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Come back and you know that it's the time.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Timing is everything, and you guys came, you came back,
and what I'm feeling right now is the perfect time.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
You know what I'm saying, things you can't plan for now, bro.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
And what I've been seeing you guys do even with
with the rollout, you know y'all, Man, I mean, hell,
y'all been everywhere.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
We've been everywhere, but we've been with the real too.
Go ahead now say like we've been with the real
I think. I think that's what a lot of a
lot of people keep talking about the rollout and how
good the rollout is and so on and so forth.
But you got to realize the rollout is just us
talking to real journalists, us talking to real people who
who who care about the music and who you know,
(25:14):
have a line of questioning and and and their opinions
are respected.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
And you know that's now.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
The timing of that and how that hits, that's what
makes the rollout feel what it is. But it's real,
and we were I think we were trying to trying
to chase man.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
You said the five mics.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Earlier, like you know, we I remember asking like, hey, man,
I want to get some reviews on the album, like
I want to send it out and and he was like, man,
you know, it's only about three publications to do.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
That these days. Man, get it out there.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
He was like, you ain't gonna see but so many
stars like you know, no.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Come back, all three of them on here right exactly.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
And I was like, man, I said, well, you know,
you gotta I was talking to Gabe. I was like, Gaye, Man,
you gotta really turn it up. And really, you know,
let the press and the publicity side of this, you know,
get the work.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Because he did.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
He did.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And it's real though, And when you said, yeah, you guys,
it is kind of like quality over quantity.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah yeah, and I can see that too.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Once again, thank you, clips I appreciate your malice, Appreciate you,
push your tea, Appreciate you. You can find the entire interview
with Clipses right there at big Boy TV, our YouTube channel.
As you're watching hit that subspride button, y'all continue to
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Speaker 6 (26:38):
There's another in case you missed it, moment with us.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Mister X two, the Z Exhibit in the Neighborhood.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
I think it's going to shock people, and I think
this album is because I'm speaking from a position of power.
I'm speaking from a different place of maturity. There's different
lessons in each one of these records that I've learned personally,
and I'm putting it in the most entertaining way possible.
But it's not just pointless raps. It's not just it's
(27:09):
things specific to me, but it's relatable to the audience.
And I think, you know, being vulnerable, being able to
express myself so clearly, and being able to be happy
in my skin and be confident in my skin. I
don't think I've had that in my other records. I've
(27:30):
had bright spots of that, you know, But now this
is kind of like I feel from top to bottom,
from the first note to the last note.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
It's exactly the way.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I want to thank you for listening it Big Boy's Neighborhood.
You can catch more of us right here on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Big Boy has left the building,
This is Big Boys Neighborhood on demand. Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Alrighty man, let God swort them mouth clips are in
the neighborhood. And before anything, I gotta say congratulations on
such a great project.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Thank you. And that took time?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Yeah yeah, yeah, two years? Man, two with two years?
How do you know that it's done? You know, two
years has a lot to do with just the schedules
of everybody. You know, where we're recording. We're recording in Paris.
(00:38):
You know, you gotta you gotta, you know, work around
for real schedule. How long were y'all in Paris recording
off and on?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
A year and a half. Hey, man, that sounds exciting
to me, doesn't.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You know?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
It sounds exciting because at.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Some point it really becomes working work.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Man, Yeah, no, quickly probably. You know what y'all really
recorded that at the Louis Vuitton, like the headquarters. Yeah,
when we say Louis Vuitton headquarters, it's it's people there,
like it's the headquarters. Oh, it's people there, sewing, it's
people there bringing up fabrics. There's people there sketching, it's
trying on stuff, trying on things.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Y'all seeing this.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Hey, man, because I thought for sure, And this isn't
the reason why I took the interview, because I knew,
you know a certain thing. I knew that y'all recorded
that Louis, And it's not the reason why. But I
thought for sure y'all gonna bring something in today.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
You could have killed it because looking like, I know
what you're saying. I thought for sure today was like gifting.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, any greater later, man want.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
To do don't get fat.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We didn't want to do that, right, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
We're wrong for that.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
But you would think, man, like, what does that do
with the creativity, Because there's times when you think about
somebody recording something it's like, man, you know and days
are different. It's not like I'm in a studio now
and it's dark and you know what I'm saying, I'm
in studio B. But recording that an actual place of
business where people are walking by. What does that do
with you creatively?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I think it made the scrutiny of the album a
lot harder because everywhere you turn in that place is
nothing but opinions.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh so people could hear certain things.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Man, this is open, like it's open like this we
record like on MIC's like this, there's no booth we're
recording and on my people bringing stuff to pharreal like yeah,
interrupting the session.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah that's crazy phil fabrics.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Of that, All of that is active.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Yes, it's super active.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
But do you know, and I'm pretty sure because I
hear the product, you gotta be able to just kind
of be able to tone that out or does does
that add to what you're doing?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Well?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I think.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I think it's It can be uncomfortable at first, but
everybody in there is a creative man. Everybody. Everybody is
a creative. Like sometimes the shoeman coming in and you
be like, man, that's shoe whack. I ain't feeling that,
you know, like it gets that colorway, ain't it? Like
you know, everybody is.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Is are you doing that too?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Like he for real? Not that one, bro. Yeah, you'd
be like, yo, what you're thinking this? I'm like, fellas,
we got a whole lot more to cover.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You're not going anywhere. Y'll stick around, y'all, radios. We
got more with clips in the Neighborhood, Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Big Boys Neighborhood on Demand For more, subscribe to our
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Speaker 2 (03:49):
Big Boys Neighborhood. Alrighty man, let God sort them out.
Clips are in the neighborhood. There's an artistic value to
what you guys do as well, and where I'm going
at with that too, man, is even just the label change.
So when you go to do a label change, it's
(04:10):
not scary for you guys because did y'all stand on
so much of the music and the values that you were, Like, Bro,
you can't play with what.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Was no sleep, no time, nothing, I don't care what
happened nothing like we knew it.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It didn't matter.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Like first of all we walked in, we knew wherever
we walked into we was bearing gifts. He was like,
what let me help you?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Done? Like the whole album? Right? But did he?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Man?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
So it so?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Is it just and not as simple? But it's gonna
sound simple when I ask, But was it when when
the Kendrick verse did the label trip and wanted to
make an artistic change, Yes, one thousand percent definitely wanted
to make an artistic change, wanted a lyric change in
his verse.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
You know, just it ended up just being like, hey,
we'll just you know, we won't put we won't put
out the song.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
We won't put it out. And so with changing whips
with Kendrick, he's.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Been dealing with a lot of this stuff over time
for a long time. Yeah, so I have to sit
back and let them air it out, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
So when you when you hear this, there's no part
of you that say, man, we got.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
A great album, We got a great album without without
this kid.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Just came off fifteen years, what's another fifteen right?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Hey man?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
But it's crazy because it's one of the things where
they're like, hey, you know you got to change you know,
take either Kendricks off or change the verse, you know,
mute this, and y'all like no. So it almost becomes
like to the label, it could be all right, are
we playing tennis here? And when they that over there,
y'all just let the ball drop, like where's you're back to?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
You? And y'all got up and left. Yeah, well no,
you got to pay. Yeah, but you got to pay.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, and you had y'all had to pay. Yeah, yeah,
you got to pay.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's but you know what's crazy about that is how
much y'all believed in you because you know day one, Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
What y'all had did this fifteen years ago?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
We got the product. Man, we've had the product. That's
the only thing that we had faith in. Knowing what
we do right and believing in that. That's where you
get your strength from. Is that like a gift in
this guy gift?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And also even now when you look at what was
going down with you know, change, is that a gift
that you say, you know what?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I'm so glad that they showed that so.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
We can Yeah, because the energy would have been different
with this entire project, because it's crazy when you do
something and you hand somebody your blood, sweat and tears
and it's like, Okay, we did what we had to do,
right now, you go and you do it.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah. I don't, I don't, I don't. I don't know,
if you.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Know, everything would have played out the way it would
have if we stayed at the at the at death cham.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Fellas, we got a whole lot more to cover. You're
not going anywhere, y'all, stick around, y'all radios. We got
more with clips in the neighborhood, Big.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Boys, Neighborhood This is Big Boy on Demand.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Big Boys Neighborhood. Alrighty, now let God sort them out?
Is the new album we got Malice in the Neighborhood,
Push Your Tea in the Neighborhood, Clips in the Neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
How do you write a song like birds Don't Sing?
You know?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And the reason why I asked that is because I've
been through it, you know, with my mom. My dad
is deceased, but i'd be like my mom, she raised me,
and there's just a different pain that you feel. And
y'all got pretty much you couldn't even exhale before you
had to inhale again. Yeah, and when and that's Mom's
(07:51):
and pops, y'all say, with him four months so and
there's no time you never can say, Man, you're still
grieving over that, but actually in helle and then think
that you can exhale, and then four months later it
comes again.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
You know what I'm saying? How did you guys?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Were both of you on the same page, We're saying, man,
we have to put this in a song.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Man, I don't.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
I don't even know if it was so much intentional,
like we didn't be like, hey, we're gonna do this joint.
It came about it, you know, it came about and
you know, a lot of a lot of times it
was uh again conversations because it was just you know,
(08:37):
hard hitting, back to back.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I remember I remember one night Pharrell calling.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Me after after my mom had had passed, our mom
had passed, and he was like, man, you know, we
just you know, you got to write about it.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
He was like, man, this I got this idea.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
It's called the Birds Don't Sing and they screen Champagne
and he was just like it sounds crazy, but it
came from a conversation we were having just about her
and everything she was going through with dialysis and just
you know, her her ailments and you know her just
sticking around and toughing it out and just things that
(09:18):
you think about after the fact. And I feel like
the whole the verses were just my mine in particular,
was after the fact and being able to see it
clearly like zooming zooming out and being like, oh man,
wait a minute, lady.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Did you know, Like was you yeah, right, you can
hear it?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Were you playing with me here like you know, and yeah,
and you can hear it. You can hear it. Independmanship
as well. Yeah, you know, when especially if you really
check on what what the lyrics are? You know what
I'm saying, And is that a song that's hard to
not just write, but is it?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Is it a song that's hard to recite? Damn?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
But you were saying this time every time, every time,
every time.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Felas, we got a whole lot more to cover. You're
not going anywhere, y'all. Stick around, y'all radios. We got
more with Clips in the neighborhood, Big Boys neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
This is big Boy on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Big Boys Neighborhood. Alrighty, now, let God sort them out?
Is the new album? We got Malice in the Neighborhood,
Push your tea in the neighborhood, Clips in the Neighborhood.
So when you're recording, birds don't sing when you're recording it.
I'm pretty sure that's an emotional roller coaster too. You
know how some people say, man, we did it in
one take.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Oh man, I ain't got no more today.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I ain't got no more today. We got three bars.
That's it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Do y'all record together? And then do you know how
you're writing? And do you know how you're writing? Do
y'all collaborate with like, man, I'm righting moms, I'm writing Dad.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Well, we came up with that and I actually did
mine first and just to him, and I didn't know
how I was going to be able to finish because
just listening I understood everything that he was saying. I
was there to witness everything. It like punched me in
the face so hard. And then you know, not only
(11:17):
was I grieving, you know, the loss of my mom,
but looking at my younger brother and how he was
processing that was like its own grief for me personally.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
And and and you know, my dad and I, like
we talked all the time, and you know, we just
had a really tight relationship. So you know, I spoke
about the last conversation that we had together.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And was it important to share that with us, share
it with the world.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
I think, I think so.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I think so. Uh.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
And I say that because it's nothing you can hide from,
like life takes place. And not only that, but after
it happened, and you know, my brother, he would do
interviews and you know, people would know and it would
get out and social media would give condolences and stuff
like that. I would get on my treadmill, and I would,
(12:17):
you know, do my lives from my treadmill.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
We just have conversations or whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
But I thought it was important for people to see
that life continues and it's not to shut yourself down
or go in a whole. We have a real live hope.
My mom, my dad, and myself we all shared the
same faith. And I knew what my dad thought of death.
(12:43):
I knew what my mom thought of death, and my
dad was nowhere in the world. He would want me
just you know, grieving to the point of being out
of commission.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
You know, we have families, we have children, and we have.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
To share the eternal hope that we have in Jesus Christ,
because outside of that there is no hope.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
You are just dead. Yeah, you're just dead.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
But if you want to talk about the resurrection, you know,
of Jesus, that's what our hope is in. So that's
why I can, you know, sit here today and talk
and I could think about my parents and smile.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
You when you guys do NPR tiny desk and you
go into birds Don't Sing, does it feel like it's
always going to be that emotional to you?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Because even when I saw y'all do it live. I'm like,
there's no time.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Just like, oh yeah, we're about to hit this, and
you know what I'm saying, and you go, and it's
it's always this emotion.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
It's solemn.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Every time you perform that, it's it's definitely like it's solemn.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
And people remind you that this solemn because they be crying.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah, Malice, Push your Tea, y'all gotta hang out with
us a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Y'all continue to hang with us in the neighborhood. We
got more with Clips in the Neighborhood, Big Boy's Neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
This is Big Boy on Demand, Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Alrighty, now let God sort them out.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Is the new album we got Malice in the Neighborhood,
Push your Tea in the Neighborhood, Clips in the Neighborhood.
When Dave Chappelle walked away from that Comedy Central deal,
people like, oh, fifty million, fifty million, Like there's just
something that that doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
You know what I'm saying. That didn't move me. It
didn't make me happy.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
If you're real, so yeah, but when we're looking at you,
people would think from the outside.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Like man clips on fire Man. You know what I'm saying,
but it didn't matter to you.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
It didn't. Damn it didn't.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
But when you trust in the Lord, That's why I'm
sitting here right now. I got to sit down. I
got to read and understand the word of God, internalize it.
I have the Word written on my heart. Every problem
that I have ever had in my fifty two years
(14:56):
of living in this life, the Bible has the answer
to it. I mean not only the answer, but the cure.
And I paid attention to that, and today I'm sitting
here with the greatest album out right. Now.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I'm back with my brother, and I like.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
To think that our music is healing in many ways
because I'm looking at the comments and I'm looking at
what people are singing.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
So I attribute all of that, you know to God.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
What did you learn in the years being away? How
in tune were you at what was going on musically?
Or did you have a complete shut off or you
shut off for a while.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I did shut off for a while because I wasn't interested,
and not just music.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
I couldn't watch TV.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
I sit and try to watch TV, but I felt
like I was wasting my time I could come up
with any ending to a televisionvision movie or a conclusion
in my own head, this could go this way or
that way. Big deal, you know, so it's hard for
me just to I just felt like it was just
idle time.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
What about the outside chatter, You know how everybody wants
you to do something that possibly at the moment you're like,
I don't you know, like, man, come on.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Man, well let me tell you this. Let me tell
you this. Without listening to what the outside chatter was.
What I did realize people would start coming to me
with the issues that I was once having. So, oh,
you're going through it too. You're looking for answers too.
You know, you're not totally fulfilled, situated, or satisfied.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
So I knew like I wasn't by myself.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
It might have took a little time, but you know
when you see people start coming to you for answers
and questions and you know people are curious, then I
knew I had done the right thing and push.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I know, man to man, you explained it very well, malice,
But at any time, do you feel abandoned?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Nah? Nah? You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
For me, it was just important that he was he
was happy, like doing something that he really wanted to do.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
And that's what I got from him every time.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yea, yeah, yeah, fellas, we got a whole lot more
to cover. You're not going anywhere, y'all. Stick around, y'all, radios.
We got more with Clips in the Neighborhood, Big Boys.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Neighborhood, Big Boys Neighborhood on demand. For more, subscribe to
our YouTube channel, big Boy TV and check out Radio
Bigboy dot com, Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Alrighty man, let God sort them out. Clips are in
the neighborhood. Take take me back to that whole introduction
of when we got clips. You know what I'm saying,
because now when you think about the accolades and and
and everything that we know from you brothers, you know
what was that like that early Pharrell? Because when you
(17:43):
look at Pharrell now and you say, oh, man, Louis
Vauton and Pharrell, the Neptunes and Pharrell, that's this and
it was so outlandish.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
You know, it was like he was always a real dreamer,
Like he would talk to us and we would just.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Swear he was crazy.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Yeah, right back then, you know how young mallets are
we talking?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Uh twenties.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
That's me, so right, So I'm fifteen yeah damn yeah yeah,
but maybe younger than twenty so so oh yeah yeah.
So I'm thinking about like starting, you know, in music
and all of that.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
So you guys are just buddies, yeah, and y'all having
like real conversations, like if me and my homeboy Frank
just talking under the stars over there, We're like, man,
this is it?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
This is it?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Not knowing that you can fast forward and this is
what's happened.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Well, yeah, and I think that I think that was
the biggest thing that came with phar Real was his
He took the ceiling off of everything, like he was like, nah,
we can, we can go up there, all the way
up there to the top up there. You know, that
was his whole thing. He always looked at looked at
music like that. And then when certain situations happened, you
(19:00):
know locally, like Teddy Riley moved to the area. You know, uh,
he actually built a studio right next to Pharrell School.
They had a talent show, you know, within that all
the creatives used to go down to Virginia Beach. That's
where my brother was heard amongst all of them. Guys
(19:20):
with Tim and you know, Tim, Timberlin and my brother
was together like everybody. Nobody really realizes the proximity of
how close everyone was.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
We're talking about within a two and a half three
mile radius.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
One mile, yeah, yeah, about two miles. So all of
this is, you know, now missing. She's another city, but
she up the street. It ain't get you, Yeah, it
ain't ain't nothing. Hey, man, did you guys know early on?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Because it's one thing when you have like this dream,
this you want to inspire, aspired to be something, but
did you see that it was gonna be not what
it is, but it could be big? Because you got
to think, man, you guys created something. And when you
go back to timblance because sounds came from certain places,
like you looked and you looked at the East coast,
(20:17):
then you looked at the West coast, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
What I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And at one point, you know, even with the South
got something to say, you know, But it was like
this movement that you guys also created that y'all can't
really say, Oh, a lot of this was already here,
you know what I'm saying, right, Like a lot of
that came from you guys and probably gave other people
the hopes and the dreams like, oh, we could do
(20:40):
that too.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
So but it wasn't a lot of too.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
So we discovered early that we had to get up
out of Virginia and go to New York, right, you know,
we piled up in a chat station wagon. And when
we would go there and talk to the so called
A and rs you know.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Right right yeah, in the building.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah, we that just like put a battery you know,
in our back, knowing that we had the product, and
just to be able to go and let people hear it.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
It kind of let us know that it was tangible
and it could happen.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Had y'all always been of course, brother, but had y'all
always been together, you know what I'm saying, like like
as a group?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
No, right, no, No. Malice was definitely rhymen. First. First,
his first stint with music, well, he was always writing.
He was always a writer. And then again he was
with Timbaland in junior high school. So you know it
was a time in which to go to Timbland's house,
(21:43):
I'd have to follow him on a bike.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Like my mom would be like, you gotta take your
brother to.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
We go to Timberland's house and then timberland Dad would
kick us out after he got home from work because
he won't trying to hear all that. But it was,
you know, everybody was. Everybody was into the music. Feelas
we got a whole lot more to cover. You're not
going anywhere, y'all, stick around, y'all radios. We got more
with clips in the neighborhood, Big Boys neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
This is big Boy on demand, Big Boys neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Alrighty man, let God sort them out. Clips are in
the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Why do you feel and this is for you, Malice,
why do you feel like this was the moment and
the time to be back with us?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
And as Malice?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Yeah, yeah, I would just say there there were a
few telltale signs, like you said, fifteen years, I feel
like no Malice has done everything that he was supposed
to do. I really believe that. And you know, we
(22:54):
did a punch bowl with We did punch bowl, I
pray for you, you know, and push his album and
I remember I had Jesus King. Yeah, we get Jesus
Is King. Yeah, that was a tell tale for me.
That was right up my alley. And uh, you know.
(23:15):
I remember speaking with my dad after doing those bodies
of work. I asked him, I said, what do you
think about me rapping again? And he told me, he says, son,
I think you've been too hard on yourself. And I
thought that, I don't know. That was just powerful to
me because my dad is a deacon, you know what
I'm saying, So for him to say that, he was like,
he said, you know what to do now, you know,
(23:36):
And it just meant a lot to me.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
But even outside of that, that's not the reason.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
I believe that I have a space to occupy and
I don't want to squander it, you know. And you
know I set out, I really did. I set out
the time I believe I was supposed to set out.
And now you know, and then you know, with him
having this platform, that I could just step back and yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Know you'd been charging for it.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Nah, Man, I would have been like, man, I would
have oh, now.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Your show went. Everything would have changed.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I know that I wouldn't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I would have been like, but he not pity like me,
you know what I'm saying. There's a whole different thing.
But but when you when you.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Come back and you know that it's the time.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Timing is everything, and you guys came, you came back,
and what I'm feeling right now is the perfect time.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
You know what I'm saying, things you can't plan for now, bro.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
And what I've been seeing you guys do even with
with the rollout, you know y'all, Man, I mean, hell,
y'all been everywhere.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
We've been everywhere, but we've been with the real too.
Go ahead now say like we've been with the real
I think. I think that's what a lot of a
lot of people keep talking about the rollout and how
good the rollout is and so on and so forth.
But you got to realize the rollout is just us
talking to real journalists, us talking to real people who
who who care about the music and who you know,
(25:14):
have a line of questioning and and and their opinions
are respected.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
And you know that's now.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
The timing of that and how that hits, that's what
makes the rollout feel what it is. But it's real,
and we were I think we were trying to trying
to chase man.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
You said the five mics.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Earlier, like you know, we I remember asking like, hey, man,
I want to get some reviews on the album, like
I want to send it out and and he was like, man,
you know, it's only about three publications to do.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
That these days. Man, get it out there.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
He was like, you ain't gonna see but so many
stars like you know, no.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Come back, all three of them on here right exactly.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
And I was like, man, I said, well, you know,
you gotta I was talking to Gabe. I was like, Gaye, Man,
you gotta really turn it up. And really, you know,
let the press and the publicity side of this, you know,
get the work.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Because he did.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
He did.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
And it's real though, And when you said, yeah, you guys,
it is kind of like quality over quantity.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah yeah, and I can see that too.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Once again, thank you, clips I appreciate your malice, Appreciate you,
push your tea, Appreciate you. You can find the entire interview
with Clipses right there at big Boy TV, our YouTube channel.
As you're watching hit that subspride button, y'all continue to
hang out with us in the neighborhood, Big Boy's neighborhoodhoo adi,
you're finding a big boy from Big Boys Neighborhood on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
There's another in case you missed it, moment with us.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Mister X two, the Z Exhibit in the Neighborhood.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
I think it's going to shock people, and I think
this album is because I'm speaking from a position of power.
I'm speaking from a different place of maturity. There's different
lessons in each one of these records that I've learned personally,
and I'm putting it in the most entertaining way possible.
But it's not just pointless raps. It's not just it's
(27:09):
things specific to me, but it's relatable to the audience.
And I think, you know, being vulnerable, being able to
express myself so clearly, and being able to be happy
in my skin and be confident in my skin. I
don't think I've had that in my other records. I've
(27:30):
had bright spots of that, you know, But now this
is kind of like I feel from top to bottom,
from the first note to the last note.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
It's exactly the way.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I want to thank you for listening it Big Boy's Neighborhood.
You can catch more of us right here on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
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