INTERVIEW: Keith Sweat On Receiving Key To The City, Relationship With 50 Cent, SWEATFEST + More

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Morning everybody, It's Steve, j Envy, Jesse, Larry as Chelam
and the guy.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
We are to Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
The building, a legend of icon.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Man.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
G keep sweat, ladies, gentlemen, what what how you're doing?
How you feeling, man, I'm amazing, I'm great, I'm great.
I can't complain.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
Man.

Speaker 5 (00:21):
Congratulations on receiving the key to the city in Harlem.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
That's right, getting that this weekend. About time, hallerm yeah,
about time, About time, I got something. I got some baby.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
How does it feel to be recognized?

Speaker 1 (00:36):
It's amazing, man, you know, growing up in Harlem two
blocks away from the Parlem, you know, for those that
don't know her, twenty Fish Street, four thirty West on
twenty fifth Street more than time Amsterdam is It's an
amazing feeling, you know, to be recognized and get the
key to New York City. I mean I didn't expect it,
but you know, I take.

Speaker 5 (00:54):
It growing up. Did you see anybody receive it and
you was like, damn, I wouldn't mind it.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Not really, you know, I've seen you know, not really,
but like I just wanted to make an impact on
what I was doing in my music career. I wanted,
you know, to you know, do something that I could
look back and say, Damn, I did that, you know,
make it last ever for thirty six years. Somebody said,
thirty seven thirty seven. I don't even know it has

(01:21):
been at all. It's been a long time. I spoke
it into existence. You know, they say you can speak
things into existence. I spoke it into existence.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
I guess is there anything that? What else is Hall
of them done?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
All of them?

Speaker 5 (01:31):
I'm sure you've received other accolades from Hall them before, right.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
No, wow, for real? No, no, no, no no. And
that's why I say it's you know, I never got
a Grammy, never got a BT Award, never got you know.
I mean, I guess I don't play the politics. I
don't play politics. Well yeah, you know you know how
that is. You got to play the politics to get
certain things. So, you know, I think my flowers are

(01:56):
coming cause I still, I mean, I'm still able to
head on shows. They'll able to see like five six, seven,
eight thousand people at the shows. Still able to go
on toward people like new Audition, and you know, like
we did that new addition to it too. I'm still
able to do things like that. That's to me though,
the those are my rewards because I'm still able to
do what I've been doing for the since the eighties.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
That's how you know, awards and accolades don't really.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
Mean much because I would have never I didn't even
think about it, Like in my mind keeps what is
one of the most decorated artists of all time?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
You know, But you know, I don't. You know, you
can't take that to the bank, you know what I'm saying.
But you know, like the people you know acknowledged me,
and the people recognized me as being one of the
people that open doors for a lot of people that
came out, you know, after me. So I don't, I
don't really recognize it. And then I look at all
my friends like Tank and Bat Joe and all the

(02:49):
people that rock still rock with me and to be
there for me when I call them and Johnny, you know,
those those type of things mean a lot to me.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Now, fifty wanted me to ask you go to street
Port in two weeks want me?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
That's as ask keep it.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
He is he come in the shreems Port or August tenth.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
As showing up August third to keep to the city
on side.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
And stop batting stars. Somebody's gonna put that nine that.
That's my man, though, you know, like you know, I
talked to him after the show the other night, so
he made me laugh fifty crazy, But that's my man.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
I saw when you posted the video and you had
how to Rob playing, and I didn't even think about
it because you just only think about all the rappers
he was talking, right, But when you first heard that record,
what you think, because I don't know if people realize
that Keep Sweat is really a street niggas.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
That's right, don't get it, that's right. So what did
you think when you first heard that record back in then?

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Say?

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Who this dude is talking about? Hell? I mean back
in the day that I was laughed at it back
in the day because it was, you know, funny to me.
You know, at least he said he was gonna rob
me and not do something else to me. I mean,
so I laughed at it back in the day. So
it was funny because when he asked me, you know,
when he asked me to come to Street Port, I

(04:07):
was like, you know, you know, I always want to support,
you know, because I did this other thing in Houston,
uh year before that got tayccoon Fest, and that was fly.
So you know, so when he had me to come,
I just said, Man, I'm ana zoom this to you.
He said, this boy and this boy crazy, he said,

(04:27):
he said, what's wrong with these a niggas?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
The you know, the all b dudes is the way
that fight?

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Ll all be dudes fighting. But I left. I left
before they started fighting that Taccoon Fest. I went and
there what I had to do and left, you know,
and then I'm seeing pleasure and all of them getting
in the back. I was wrong with them, you know.
So you know, so when I did that, he said,
what's wrong with these y'all?

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Used to getting them little dust ups back in the
day too. Don't keep fuffles.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, but you know, you know, sometimes you know, I'm
one of them people that you you know, everybody know
what it is, so you know, I don't really have
to say too much. You know, I'll be like, all right,
it is what it is. You know. Sometimes I just
let it just rub off me. I'm gonna let it
rub off me and then we'll talk about it. When
I'll see you. But half the time I just let
stuff rother because if you take everything and run with it,

(05:17):
you know what I'm saying, you be fighting with everybody.
You know what I'm saying. So some things you just
have to let be because you know what it is.
So I'm not gonna fight with everybody, you know, Like, man,
come on, you can choose your battles. Yeah, I pick
and choose.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
And when you come from a certain environment, it don't
be used sometimes to be the people around you.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
And sometimes people just want to, you know, do stuff
because you are at a certain point and they want
you to bring them up to that point. So messing
with you, you allowing that you're they're being brought up to
that point because you allowing yourself to get caught up
in that ball, you know what I mean. Like, I'm
not if I'm here and you there, we're not there's
no conversation. Why am I even gonna address what you're

(05:53):
saying to me? It's not worth it.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
When you remember the first time you met fifty Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Going through airport, going through airport. So but we was
cool going through airport, and you know, I mean, that's
my man. We ain't got no problem, you know, I
mean period, that's my man. No issue nothing, no we
all good, it's all good everything. I'm all go with
everybody now, all right?

Speaker 5 (06:14):
And you got a new single or Lay You Down,
and that hit number one on the billboard at R
and B airplay.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Charge man, how did that feel? Well? That felt good?
You know. I feel like when I want to come
out and get a number one record, I could just
come out and do it. You know, everybody don't do
that key sweat begging.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Stuff missing begging because you know, back in the day,
you know people be you be begging for that woman
come back, baby baby please, baby baby baby please.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
A lot of people will. They was begging, you know,
because you know I'm still doing what I do. Like
I said, I'm still touring crazy. So the begging works.
All those that that said, you know, I'm tired of
hearing that begging. But you know they know who to
put on what they want. Some you know, I was thinking,
we got a lady in the room, so I got
his praises right away. Maybe the poor Poom was just
better than the eighties and it was worth begging.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yeah, I guess, yeah, I guess you ain't ran through generations.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
It's a different kind of poom poom now.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
Let you down as the love making record too. And
we had Tank up here in Tanks that he feel
like singing about making love with a dying art like
people don't do it no more.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
No they don't. You know, everything is just I just
want to bang, and that's it. Bang and we out banging,
we out banging, we out you know. That's why. You know,
that's why I like, I'm a singing, i'ma I'm gonna
do the full play thing and then I'm gonna go
ahead and see how far I get me. That's maybe
that's why the poom poom is a little different nowadays,
because everybody just want to bang. Maybe, you know, you

(07:48):
gotta just a good point, you gotta you gotta like
curate it right, like man, they put it in the frigerator,
they get to where it needs to be. You know
what I'm saying. It's like begging instead of Michael, when
you got and let it get back before you microwave.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Man.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
Maybe y'all need to start pulling some of these young
boys to the side and not just have conversations about
what they're singing. About, but the life that you need
to lead to even create these kind of records, you
know what I mean, Teach them some game.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
I don't know if they got no game.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
I man, you know that's all them. I ain't losing
what I got teaching something.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
You do you think you could live in this eraror
growing up with all the phones, with all of the
social media, because I'm sure you can imagine some of
the things you did that nobody else know about you.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Hell no, this is too much. As soon as you
do something, people know about it. I mean, I'm glad
I was. I lived in that era where you could
get away with certain things. You know, everything don't need
to be seen and heard. So I'm glad that I
was able to experience that. Now experiencing this and I
can tell my sons, I feel sorry for y'all, you know,

(08:57):
because it's a different day in different times. I really
feel sorry for I mean this day and age. You know,
like we had fun back in the day, like like
crazy fun. Like it's like no fun.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Really not only that, like even when when you see
all this performing before you had to listen, you were
into the concert, you were into the show. Now I
mean when you perform out does it feel when you
see thousand camera phones?

Speaker 3 (09:20):
And you know, I mean you seen.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Busted yell at somebody the crowd the other day, But
like put the cameraphones down, just enjoy the moment.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
But you know, I mean that's the day and time
we are. Baby, you just skin it is what it is.
You know, life goes on, things go, It's gonna be
what they are.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
I see you about to go back out on tour tour.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, I gotta get that money the sweat Hotel tour
right right?

Speaker 3 (09:41):
I mean did you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (09:43):
I mean, like I get dates all the time, so
it's like it's many that it's coming. I can. It's
fortunately like I can do three four shows a week,
so it doesn't bother me. Well, a lot of people
can't do that. I can still do that type of thing.
My voice still holds up, so I mean, if they
give me, it doesn't matter. I mean, for whoever want
to see me, I'm coming.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
You feel like going out on the road at the
attended age of sixty three.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Man, I love going on on the road. Man. I
love showing people like yo, I love showing people, showing
people up. I mean, I love doing what I do,
so you know, I definitely want to go out. I
definitely love doing what I do. People when people see me,
they don't expect that my show is has as much energy.
I got twelve dancers, full band. You know, do my

(10:32):
change on nobody. You know what I'm saying, Like Sherry
Shepard said, when I go down and do that, drop
down and come back up and I do all that,
I could just still do that. Left ain't nothing changed
on the Sweat Hotel.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Baby, what about a residency? You ever thought about doing
a residency.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
I did a residency before. I did the Flamingo before,
and I did that five years ago. I was at
the Flamingo, and I mean, I was gonna like it.
It's cool. It's like, you know, I think, you know,
it just got sort of boring to me because I
was in one place one time and all that there
was gamble, go to club, gambled, go to club through

(11:07):
the residency, so that it kind of got like, Man,
I'm tired of gambling. I'm tired of being in one spot.
So after a while, I just wanted to go around
the country again. So, but I'm thinking about it depends
on whether they put me. I mean, last year I
did this in Begels was at the Palms. So the
casino it has to be the right casino for me
to go into a residency.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
What's your favorite place to be now.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
As far as Oh, I don't know. I mean I've
been in Atlanta so long, you know, so I mean,
and where I'm at in Atlanta, I mean Alfano in Atlanta.
You know, I built everything in my house that you
know I want. So my favorite place to be is
at alant at home, real talk, real talk. I mean,
I don't really like I'm an introvert. I don't really

(11:54):
like going nowhere. You know what I'm saying. I like
being home. You know what I'm saying. And I got
my room. Everything is in my one room, my black room,
you know, refrigerator and make away. Everybody know how I am.
It's like yo, And once I close that door, that
means leave me alone. I won't be bothered by nobody.
That's it.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
You make a lot of love love songs, right like how.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Deep is your love?

Speaker 3 (12:15):
I'll give all my love to you?

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Has keep sweever truly been in love? Oh yeah, you
know a few times, you know, but it is what
it is. You got your heartbroken, that's the question. Yeah,
hell yeah, everybody get their heartbroken. I just don't want
I don't want to talk about it all the time.
I want to share a heartbreak with y'all.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
You just put it in music.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, put it in music. That's all they need to
hear their music. Let me alone about my heartbreak.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Are you taking care of yourself? Man? You look good?

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
I take care of making your doctor's appointment all the time,
all the time. Get my ivs and take my ibs.
Put that vibe. I do that weekly, you know, give
my check. Everybody need to do that, you know, go
to the doctor. Make sure you're good, because you never know,
you know what I'm saying. You might feel good, but
it might be something going on. I just did my
my you know thing with my heart.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
You know, the bascular tesch Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
I did all that. Yeah, so I'm good, baby. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
I man, I look at brothers like you, and you know,
just dispensed piragy because.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
It's like you. I want to be here.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
You know, when I look at somebody in these sixties,
still getting it, still looking good, still doing what it
is that they love to do.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Salute man. I don't smoke. I don't do none of that.
You know what I'm saying. I think once in a while,
even though people be saying, yo, he drunk on stings,
I'm like, but y'all get that bullshit?

Speaker 5 (13:33):
We thinking you be drunk as hell. Like there's a
little skit. Look, there's a skit I do.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
And you know around the third song, you know, it's
basically you take the I get my hennessy and I
sing a song. This ain't no T this is hennessy.
You know what I'm saying. So it's a skit. So
when I do it, people be like, I said, what
the hell y'all do? Like if you got one person
that says something, then everybody gonna say it. Like it's
I say, man, come on, give me a break, like
the way I look, the way I take care of myself.

(14:00):
Somebody that's drinking all the time, don't run. You know
I run twice this day. They don't do what I do.
Come on, now, give me a break with all that.
So I just let it be. So now I got
T shirts that they just ain't no T that's Defindicedly
buy my T shirts in the front.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Now it's still dating girls half your age.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
I keep you, come on, baby, keep you man what
man stuff? Don't start that ship here, y'all go here,
y'all go. I'm getting ready to get up and leave.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
Now keep one time. I keep telling me, keep saying,
said what I look like dating a woman?

Speaker 1 (14:35):
In my head?

Speaker 6 (14:37):
I said that ship, Yeah, ladies, I ain't say that ship.
Listen to start ship. Everybody was ladies, I.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Ain't say that. Don't believe it's man. Believe y'all know
I wouldn't talk about y'all like that. Come on, y'all
look good to Come on now now you start. You
start to some of your shoulders. When I seen you
and you sample Drake the light skin keep sweat. Have
you and Drake chopped it up at all? No?

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Never?

Speaker 1 (15:03):
I mean, well, that's all once and that was it.
You know, you know that was it. Don't slap that either.
So you're getting ready to go somewhere. But I know, y'all,
I'm gonna cut your at the time.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
I don't think a lot of people know about all
the business ventures you got going on too.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Man, you don't talk about that either.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, we could talk about.

Speaker 5 (15:28):
You got the luxury bags, platinum status bags, you got
Kansas by Keith, and you got the Twisted Pie pizza
restaurant in Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Man, what made you want to diversify your portfolios?

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Well, you know, when I first got to Atlanta, I
opened a restaurant called the Industry, you know, back in
the day that people you know, So I started there,
but you know, uh, I was the sole owner, and
you know, being the sole owner and me trying to
travel and and be on the roads too, it's like
too much. So you know, now I got partners with
you know, Twisted Pots, Vegan Pizza, a Douglas Field. You

(16:02):
go there and get this food. You ain't gonna want
no other food, I promise you. You know, and you
know who can do it better than me? Nobody? Baggy
So no, I got that, you know. Uh, you know,
executive produce movies as well.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
I saw that though, what's it called a trouble man
coming up?

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Trouble man coming up? Uh. I'm one of the execular producers,
not the execular producer. But I'm working with Darren Hinson
on something you know, and I'm executive producing that with him. Uh.
What else I got. You know, I've done you know,
a few things Stepmother one two with Chris Dookes, not
alone with Michael job that I executive produce. So I

(16:38):
did it. I've been doing quite a few executive producer
things on the movie side.

Speaker 5 (16:42):
When you look back on your whole career, is there
a key to longevity? Like if somebody was nobody younger
than you said it's the key to longevity. Is there
really a key to longevity?

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah? You know, you know, well, I just don't concentrate
on one thing. I got various things I do, you know,
just in case one thing work, you know, you can
fall into another thing, like y'all know that. Y'all know
about that.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yo.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
You just can't put everything in the one situation because
if you do, you know, if that don't turn out,
you kind of messed up. So so, you know I
do with real estate, you know all that. I do
everything anything that I feel like I can be successful with.
You know, I do it so because.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
You really don't if you wanted to, you you didn't
have to do.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
You don't have to do if you don't want to know,
I mean, because you know I play the stock market
every morning. You know. So you know, I didn't play
it this morning, but I'm up at four o'clock when
they open open over overseas, I'm watching the pre pre
market open, so like I do that. So I do
quite a few things that to keep me at a

(17:43):
certain point in my life at this point. But everything
I do now I just do for my kids now.
I mean, I'm good right there. So what I do
is to make sure that they able to keep the
Sweat name, you know, growing and flowing. You know, I'm
not I don't care about you know, it ain't about
Keith Sweat right now. It's about Keith Sweat offspring at
this point. So everything I do, from going on to

(18:05):
it everything else is about making sure they good.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
What do you think about you know, back in the
day growing up, artists never really spoke about politics, right,
But now it seems like everybody's looking for an artist
to say something about politics, right, So what's your thoughts
on that?

Speaker 1 (18:17):
I mean, you know, I'm not one that speaks on politics,
you know, because everybody have an opinion as to what
they should do, and if you say the wrong thing,
they people looking at you like you crazy. You know,
what I'm saying so when I do my thing, whether
I vote or who I vote for, I do it for.
You know, I keep it to myself who I'm doing it,
because I just don't. I'm not trying to hear what
people opinion about me. With that, you know, I'm at

(18:40):
a point I'm too old for that. I'm not trying
to hear all that. You know what I'm saying. It's like,
if you feel a certain way, then you know, that's you.
If I feel a certain way, that's me. But you know,
people do need to vote, you know I say that.
You know what I'm saying because if in order to
have change, you have to be one one to create change.
So you don't sit around talking about what somebody else

(19:01):
is doing or what somebody else is not doing. If
you're not voting or blank, you don't.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
Strike me as a person that even cares about other
people's opinions when the last thing you even cared what
somebody thought.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Never I mean, because see, let me say this to you, right,
I've learned this. Right, you can get eighty five percent
people that'll say something amazing about you, and then fifteen
that won't. That fifteen percent will bother you and it's
crazy because that fifteen percent will stick out more than
that eighty five, because that's how we are built, you

(19:30):
know what I'm saying. So now I get to the
point where, man, I don't even let it. I don't
even look at it, and I don't let it bother me.
I just run away for But sometime its it. In
some ways it has motivated me to even be better
because sometimes them they say it is to make you
feel like, Okay, let me prove a point. You know
what I'm saying. Sometimes that'll give you more, more strength

(19:52):
and more energy than all that other positivity that you're
getting from other places. So that's how I feel. I
let that be my drive. You know, sometime I let
that negativity be my drive. So that's why I guess
I'm still in the game because you know, you have
so many people when I came out that it was hating. Well,
you know, he can't say better than me, or he
can't do this, he can't do that. It's like, yo,
come on, calm down, calm down. What I do is

(20:15):
what I do. What you do is what you doing.
You know what I'm saying. If I win, I win,
If you win, you win. I don't care.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
You think they were just intimidated because you were the
new hot cat.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Most of the time, that's what it be. You know,
most of the time when people come out, I just
I just I don't care about what somebody else do,
you know, But most of the time people are intimidated.
You know, why he doing this and why I'm not
doing it? Or why is he in that position? And
why I'm not in a position? You know, and I've
done the same thing, or I look better, I dress better.
You know, That's how I mean. You know, that's how

(20:46):
people are, that's how they think. So you know, you
just allow them to do what they do, and you
do what you do, and you're gonna win at the
end of the day because you know, you can't get
caught up in what somebody else is saying. You be man,
you'll be a messed up person crazy. You know that
drive you crazy if you worry about what this person
is saying, Well, this lady woman is saying, this person's
saying over the drive you crazy man. Later for all

(21:08):
that shit.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
That's why, like what you said about the eighty five
percent and fifteen percent nowadays with social media everything, so
that fifteen percent will be so magnified.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
And sometimes niggas will just get on on there to
talk just to fuck with your day, you know what
I'm saying. It's like they'll see all the positivity you're
getting and you'll have that one I'm just gonna say
something to mess up his day, That's right, you know,
that's what it be, you know, because they got a
fucked up life. That's what Nine times out of ten,
that's what it is. Somebody who ain't who ain't moving
the right way, or who life is messed up some

(21:37):
kind of way, shape or form. You know, they want
to bring you into that they were, you know what
I'm saying. So so if you allow them to do that,
it's gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
How many times you got to turn down somebody asking
me to perform at their wedding? Yeah, I mean you
must get that all the time, A zillion like have to.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
I don't. I mean, I've done it, but I really
don't do weddings. So I've done it for a few people,
and you know, but I get it all the time.
I get it all the time. And you know, not
to say that I don't like to do it. I
just don't do it because I don't. I don't. I'll
do it for certain people and certain people I've just said, Okay,

(22:19):
I'm done it. I don't want to do that bad.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
When you look at all the screaming services and social media,
you think it's easier for a harder for like talented
people to break through, like as opposed to when you
was when you started.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
It's eiier, But the longeviary it's like they're not as
like back in the day when you broke through, people
knew that you had the talent, people you had to
work to build what you had, or if they saw
you and you wasn't what they thought you were, you
was over. It was a round. Nowadays you can make

(22:55):
it and it doesn't take as much not no, just
respect to the people that's winning on one or two
records nowadays. But the work is not as hard as
it was back in the day to make it. You know,
because if I listen, if I came out back in
the day with all the social media, I would be
selling fifty million albums, you know what I'm saying. So

(23:18):
nowadays it's like you can come out and win, But
I don't know if the longevity is as long you
can sustain as long as you know, twenty years and
that type of stuff coming when people come out the
way they come out now nowadays, somebody said that you
got an unreleased music with Babyface and Teddy Rowley, Like

(23:38):
y'all got records in the stash that y'all never put out.
I got recordsent the stash that I'll never put out
from that era, from the new Jacks Wing era. Wow,
why not? Because you know I just never put them out.
I mean, back in the day, I was writing so much.
You know, it's ridiculous how I was, how much I
was writing. I got songs that I was writing. You know,

(23:59):
people don't know before I was writing, before I even
had a hit record, and I used to write for
Suture Records, but Adam Leeve and mars Ley with the
Fat Boys. Back in the day, I used to write
songs in eighty five. You know, I got songs online
that I went online and saw that I was ready
wrote and produced for fiveing and had Don't Stop Your Love.
I don't want them because, you know, because back in

(24:21):
the day I used to work with GQ. You know,
you know that was mars Leave being Suture Records, I
did song, used to do songs for Suiture Records, and
then back in the day, so I got you know,
I got tons of records in the stasts. Now I'll
be listening to him be laughing. Oh shit, I wrote this.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
You get your publishing royalties for none of that of
but no.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
For back in the day and the only song I
don't get no nothing. Yeah, so I get back in
the day. I gotta check, I think. No, I don't
think I get it for back in the day. You know,
I don't think I get those for back But I
get it now for all the songs I've done, and

(25:01):
you know, since you know I was on entertainment, I
get all my stuff from back then. I know I
do that for a fact. But song that I just
still try, I don't think I got those.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
Why so why why wouldn't you put out the music
that you're sitting on like all them? Like the baby
Face is it baby faith in Teddy Rally? No, No, no,
I ain't got no song with baby faceing Teddy Rocky. No, No,
I ain't I got those how to put out?

Speaker 1 (25:23):
No those are to put out? Okay, you know I
ain't got no song from the only song I got
Teddy Rawley that was put out was just got paid,
But I ain't got my name ain't all that one.
So you know that's the one Jane Griffin got me for.
But you know, I mean, but me and Teddy wrote it.
Me and Teddy the only one that wrote that. Nobody
else wrote that, just got paid. So but it is
what it is.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
With all the accolades and awards, you know that you
that you haven't one, just getting this key to the
city make you want to say, you know what, let
me keep going. So hopefully these people start honoring me.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Well you know, I'm gonna tell you something, but normally
happens only takes one to open doors for everything else.
That's right, and New York is, you know, the biggest
or one of the biggest cities between New York and
LA Right, so when people see that, then they be
like all those that don't know about Keyswood, Now they say,
who's this Keysweag guy? You know what I'm saying, You

(26:17):
know how that works?

Speaker 3 (26:19):
You don't know keeps what's something wrong?

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Hey? But you know, hey, I mean, but you know
you might know me, but you know, you you know
what the problem is I manage myself. I've been managing
myself for the last twenty five thirty years, so that
that that's a strike against me in terms of some people.
I'm not signed to no agency. That's another strike because

(26:43):
I got my own agency.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
But you're rich in most artists. No.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
But but what I'm saying is, you know, it's not
what you know, it's who you know. You know, so
therefore you know the agencies, who's connected to certain people,
Like this is mine, I got this froster. I don't
know nobody. You know what I'm saying, I'm not giving
I'm not I don't need I'm not trying to have
a middle man. You know what I'm saying. It's like,

(27:07):
send me the contract, let me read the contract, let
me and my lord go to the contract, and then boom,
I'm not giving you ten or fifteen percent my money.
You know, when I could do it myself. Most artists
and most people don't want to do their own work,
and now they end up getting so when you lose money,
of their money get taken. You didn't want to do
your own work, you didn't want to read, you gave

(27:28):
it to somebody else to do it. So you know, now,
when your money come up short, you crying and complain,
But because you didn't want to put that extra work
in to see where everything was going or who was
doing what, that's what happens. But you know, you don't
know if somebody taking fifteen, twenty or twenty five percent
of their money because you're not on top of your

(27:49):
game like that, so you really don't know. So if
my lord can't tell me what this piece of paper say,
and I can't say, okay, I don't want that, to
take that out redlyining through that that, do this, do that,
and then you know, then give me now the deal
is done, all right, Now make sure they cut that
check for that amount of money. How much I gotta

(28:10):
pay you for your time? That's it, boom, were done.
That's how I go. That's how life is. That's how
it is for me. Oh that's how it's been for me.
So that's why how I'm still rocking like that. So
I'm not and that and those are the reasons why
I probably haven't gotten certain things because I don't want,
you know, but I'm good with getting the check, that's all.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
With the sweatfest, that's what you're gonna be your festival.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, I did it. I've done it in Montego Bay.
I've done it in uh uh d r last year.
Now sin can Coon this year. It's my uh it's
my festival. So uh five days, four nights. Yeah, and
and and can Coon baby, So you know, let's get
them tickets. October the tenth to the fourteen. We're gonna

(28:54):
it's going down. I'm performing, Joe's performing, I got a
few other people that's on. The comedians and everything. It's
going down. So we're doing the big I'm trying to
I'm trying to get y'all to come on out in
the front of the sun dance. You know you're coming out. Hey,
you don't sound like you're coming down.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
This is where you should go to Shreveport and then
you call fifth and be like fifth out of this
Shreveport you come to sweat Fest.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
That's good Outdea. You want to represent me on what
the website for sweats what is it? I gotta see
how got they work for me? So I got back.
That's the little one right there. He annoying sometime and
knowing this ship.

Speaker 5 (29:49):
Sweat Best cant Coon dot Com alright, keep sweat man,
when you get that key to the city this uh,
this weekend.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
What if you coming down to sweat fest? The key
the sitting.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Me out of town. I'm gonna be out of town.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
What kind of ship is this? What ship? I want
be out of town? You know see that's that bullshit
like you, that's that bullshit right there. You do this
ship to me all the time.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
You can perform my my wedding. You already got married.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
I was gonna see that's why you I know you
already got mad. I see you on social.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
Media said they're giving you diddy old key. They say,
did on what you're gonna do? What they got Diddy
name scrapped out and this on it?

Speaker 3 (30:29):
What?

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Man, they ain't gonna do no ship like that. I
ain't gonna talk about.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
I was not man.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
I'm drinking I god damn coffee right now. I ain't no.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Hen ain't no this hip man.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
You and the king chair. You're over there, this chair,
he said, the back hurt been in that chair, back
hurting that. But and then I should have been that.
You should have his thrown from I want to throw man.
You ain't coming to my goddamn Keithon City.

Speaker 5 (30:57):
I'm out of time this week.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
What I know about the.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Time aut of town Saturday, I'm.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
On the road.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
I'm gonna pay.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
You're funny, hell.

Speaker 6 (31:10):
Man, these weends getting the key in the city and
they ain't gonna be here because they bold by.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Listen, you're doing to keep what mini mix this morning site?

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Okay, all right, that's so that's what I'm gonna get.
Then I'm gonna get a mini minutes for the key
in the city break wake that ass up in the morning.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
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