Will.i.am

Black Eyed Pea's Will.i.am joins us to talk new music, new LG XBoom speakers he designed and more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Real fun with Morial Little Pitt so Bro Morial Littpez
joining me right now for the Black Eyed Peace My man,
will I am?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
How are you sir? I'm Max and Bro Max and
Max Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Eight before we get into uh, your partnership with LG
man the latest the latest cut when you all were
in East La. That was that was I've been using
that on my my my I G posts and the stories.
That was great. Man. You must have fun doing that.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Bro, what I tell you like it just brought my
childhood memories. It re like connected me with people that
I grew up with. My still my schools in East
LA and Royal Heights, so like st it just like
oh man, it was just it was so like it's hard,

(00:47):
it's so it's passionate, it's my my past.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
I love it, man. I love that you're you're from
East La and you wear it with pride. And the
name of the song, by the way, is East La
for those who may not be familiar. Great song, great video,
and I love that you always represent brother. That's very
very cool. This is also cool you came you teamed
up with LG to create the new LG X Boom
Bluetooth speakers and you actually tune these things right and

(01:15):
gave them the perfect sound.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
And you know what's a trip.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
I needed one, So I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
This looks good.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
I can't wait to hear it.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Thank you so much, Bro, and my my my AI company,
f Yi dot Ai. There's a companion app that goes
with it that has simulated radio with agent hosts, meaning
that we have our simulated radio stations with AI personas
or hosting that are hosting radio stations human curated segments

(01:46):
wow I host that take you from segments like top
topics of interest from sports to politics, to fashion to
pop culture. You could have deep conversations about all the
segments and it goes from segment to to dialogue to music.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
And but we use the top.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Forty format uh per domain. So if you're in in sports,
you going to get top fortyban hip hop.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
If you're in politics you get to.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know, we curiated really awesome and it's live, it's
up to date current events.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
It's it's an amazing experience.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Check it out on x Boom powered by our our
Our Fyi Radio was powered by Fyi's technology, so partnering
up with LG was fantastic.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
I heard I could actually plug in a microphone and
rock some karaoke with it as well.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Huh, I mean you you you rock karaoke like that
karaoke Sometimes I get in the movie there in the backyard,
get a little drink in there.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
You know, I may have some recorded I may have
some recording.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Karaoke Kings right right, the Karaoke Kings and freaking movie
rock Koreatown. I love it, Hey, career time.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
It's funny that you say that, because I always say
K Town's my move because they have the private rooms,
because I ain't trying to do it in the big rooms.
Everybody can record your the private rooms. I used to
be my go to first date and I see if
they were down or not. I take them out there
and we have a little fun funny that you mentioned that.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
It's been a minute.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
It's dope. It's dope. Hey.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
I saw you were talking a lot about AI and
how it's changing things musically and stuff.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Some of the some of the.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Stuff I've seen though, has been pretty pretty impressive. What's
your take on it affecting the music industry.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
To be fair, the music industry is gonna be okay.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Whether it's AI music making awesome stuff or prints making
awesome stuff, it's didn't haunt or or taint your your
perspective as a musician to make human made music.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
It's competition just got more fearce.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
But true creativity is not going to go anywhere because
AI is not going to know how to like really
rent out its pain.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
It's a great mimic and it does a really good
job mimicking.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
But true innovation, true invention, and true like musical therapy,
like I got a heartbreak, I'm talking about it right,
and people I hope this is just me being optimistic.
I hope that people can feel the difference from true
pain rents out when you go see them live versus AI,

(04:44):
which can.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Never perform live. Yes, yes, this means.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Humanity and artists have to get their live improvisational you know,
performance skills up. You can't be you can't be singing
over you know your song, you can't be just doing
with exactly what you did yesterday today, like people are
gonna want because of AI music and it's awesome. People

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are gonna see something like, oh wow, did you see
what's at the theater?

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Oh my lord, like live events.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Like we all know drones are fast, but people don't
want to see Lowis Hamilton race a robot car.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
They want to see Lewis Hamilton.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Ain't nobody gonna want to see Lebron James dunk a robot.
They want to see Lebron James play humans. And so
the same is gonna be for AI music. A music's
gonna be amazing, but people are gonna want to see
human be human.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
I agree, Man, that is a great take, and I
think you beautifully sum that up.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Man.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Always great talking you and listen everyone head over to
lg dot com to pick up the new x boom
speaker created by Will I am I got mine, looking
forward to it. Will, thanks for checking in. Man.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Also also to get but to get the experience further,
go to the app store, whether it's Apple App Store
or Google Play and download f y I dot Ai
to take your exponent speaker to the next level.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
There we put all that on the website, well for
sure put it all on the website too. Thank you, Will,
I appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
On a liberal We'll see

Speaker 3 (06:21):
It with Mario Lopez