0:00

You own your masters, Yeah,

0:02

and you were one of the youngest to ever do that at

0:04

the age of twenty nine. Would

0:07

you ever, I mean a lot of you see a lot of artists

0:10

selling the catalog. Is that something Chris Brown would

0:12

look to do in the future.

0:13

I don't think I would because I feel like, uh,

0:17

as as a black artist, that's that's what we've

0:19

been wanting forever with to be able to get that

0:21

get our masters right. So so for

0:23

me to be able to do that, like and be one of the

0:25

first young cats to do it, like

0:28

it's like, oh my I beat the game. But I

0:30

feel like I feel like I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it at

0:32

this point because that's that's something my

0:35

my children's children's children.

0:36

Can he do all my life?

0:38

Grinding all my life, sacrifights,

0:40

hustle, pa the price?

0:42

Want to slice?

0:43

Got the Brons?

0:44

Swap all my life?

0:46

Be grinding all my life, all

0:48

my life, grinding all my life and uh,

0:50

sacrifights, hustle, pay the price

0:53

one slice the Bros. Swap

0:55

all my life.

0:56

I be grinding all my life.

1:00

Hello, welcome to another edition of Club Shay

1:02

Shay. I am your host, Shannon sharp. I'm also

1:04

the proprietor of Club Sha Sha and for today

1:07

we have a very special edition of Club

1:09

Shay Shay, We're.

1:10

On the Road.

1:11

He's one of the most accomplished R and B performers

1:13

and hit makers of his era. He surpassed

1:15

Elvis Presley for the most gold certified

1:17

singles and Billboard Hot one hundred entries

1:19

among all male vocals in history, the

1:22

first male singer to have twenty platinum

1:24

singles, the first R and B singer in history

1:26

own one hundred Hot one hundred hits.

1:29

One of the highest grossing African American touring

1:31

artists of all times, one of the best

1:33

selling digital artists of all time,

1:35

a Grammy Award winner, global superstar,

1:38

songwriter, dancer, actor, producer,

1:40

entrepreneur, author, father. Some

1:43

call him the King of R and B. When they say

1:45

R and B is dad, I see check this man's resume,

1:48

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Brown, freezing

1:51

Man who was a long.

1:53

Time clubbing man man King

1:55

R and B. Keepit

1:59

you let me got it? Got it?

2:01

How you doing?

2:02

I'm great man.

2:03

You know before I start every show, I always

2:05

I have my own contact. I brought you

2:07

a gift for you, about you,

2:09

but I want you.

2:10

To try it.

2:10

Come on, let's get it, let's do it. I

2:14

was about to do that. Okay, come on, you can op it if

2:16

you want.

2:16

You I'm gonna say that for later, Okay,

2:21

I don't want to be too saucy.

2:23

Hold hold on, we gotta get a toe, fir, we gotta

2:25

get told. F Bro

2:31

continued success.

2:32

Thank you so much, grasp on everything You've done so

2:34

much more to accomplish. I appreciate you, Chris.

2:41

It's smooth move you like

2:44

and you that's what you can.

2:45

Yeah. I don't like when to be like.

2:47

Yeah, you don't got that burning nice

2:49

and smooth y'all. You hurt

2:51

the man, Bro,

2:54

how you do it?

2:54

I'm great, man, I'm great, great.

2:56

Yeah, man, I really appreciate you taking time.

2:59

Jack Queeze started to say, Man, Chris

3:01

Brown manager, trying to get to get in touch

3:03

with you.

3:03

You might not gonna give me a number. It's like you're no problem.

3:06

And I'm like, cause you and I we had we had talked

3:09

a little bit before, and you're like, I'm going overseas.

3:11

When I get back, let's do it. I say this, man,

3:13

beiz I see he ain't gonna find time.

3:14

And I got you to man, and it happened

3:17

so quick because this is like a week this

3:19

was done. I thought you was like, are we gonna do it in July

3:22

August? He said, nah, We're gonna do it in a week.

3:24

Yeah. Yeah.

3:24

I had to come through because I don't like to

3:27

skip out on my promises.

3:28

Man, I know we talked. I was like, I got you, So you

3:30

did?

3:31

You say you had, but you got me.

3:32

So let's let's talk about

3:34

what you got going on before

3:37

we get to that basketball.

3:38

I know you love basketball.

3:41

Ron Artees said he believed had

3:43

you not chosen the music path, you

3:45

could have been an NBA player.

3:47

Yeah, with a lot more discipline. I think

3:51

I definitely think I could have pursued

3:54

it.

3:54

I really I really loved it. I still love the game I play

3:56

all the time.

3:57

Uh As far as like training

3:59

and having a good conditioned I think I could

4:02

have did it. And I don't think this profession

4:05

kind of made me allow you to.

4:06

Do kind of schedule as

4:08

opposed to some what else is.

4:09

Getting Yeah, so I gotta kind of even

4:12

get acclimated and being a team

4:14

player, right, you know what I'm saying?

4:15

So because when when I

4:17

hear everybody uh snoop dogg, I hear a

4:19

lot of the NBA player there's like, okay,

4:22

what rapper could like really hoop? I'm talking about

4:24

like really really hoop. The first two names come

4:26

up you J Cole? Yeah,

4:28

so one on one who win it?

4:31

Well right now, I mean J Cole.

4:32

I got to give him his credit because he's improved his basketball

4:34

game.

4:35

Like him.

4:36

I know you work with a couple of other guys that I work with

4:38

to as far as like basketball training, but he's

4:40

he's amazing. I'm still not gonna adubt

4:43

me now, you know. So give

4:45

me like a week of practice and then I

4:47

think I got.

4:48

Anough a couple of guys out Drake, he'd

4:50

be hooping little.

4:51

Dirt down with him this.

4:57

I think I'm gonna get j Cole though. We

5:00

if we can make that happen, I love I would

5:02

love that. I'm saying that humbly though,

5:04

because Jay Cole is.

5:05

Because I watched kind of watch both of you guys in the

5:07

celebrity games at the NBA All Star Game.

5:09

See you play a couple of times with some real players.

5:12

You you for real guy game.

5:14

Yeah, if I'm if I'm serious about it, I play most

5:16

of the time. I try to just have fun. But nah,

5:18

I'm not. I'm not taking the air. I gotta i gotta do

5:20

that.

5:20

How much do we need to put up to make sure

5:23

you take it serious? If

5:25

we put up one hundred thive will to take off?

5:27

Oh no, I'm in there, that's mine. I'm

5:29

taking that.

5:30

That's so

5:33

so Cole got no chance.

5:35

I mean nah nah.

5:39

So if you were to say, if you're an NBA,

5:42

if your game, Chris Brown, your game reminds

5:44

you me of what NBA

5:46

player you.

5:48

Know, It's funny, bro a long time

5:50

ago. They but I used to play a

5:52

lot of my home theys like you look like CJ.

5:55

Mccullor okay, And I was like why.

5:58

And then I looked at some of his like high school pick and

6:00

then some of his games like he was he's long

6:02

Lenky played like me. So I was like, I

6:05

mean, I'll take that any NBA player

6:07

I would take you to. You know, you know that's a

6:09

hard profession.

6:10

To get into.

6:11

Did you hoop in high school?

6:12

Yes, definitely hooped in high school. I actually

6:14

played varsity on

6:17

the JV squad. But you know as the as

6:20

a bring on, right, But I was I was always

6:22

playing with older guys as a young age. When I was like

6:24

ten or eleven years old, my dad used to take me to the

6:27

gym and drop me off.

6:28

It's like, look, I don't care get in the game. I

6:30

don't care how old it is. Get in the game. Wow,

6:32

And I'm playing with grown men, twenty seven

6:34

thirty year olds, you know.

6:36

So what's your favorite NBA team?

6:38

Favorite NBA team? Man, I'm in LA right

6:40

now. I wish I wish my Lakers could.

6:41

Yeah, you know that I really want Lebron and

6:44

them and to really do something man and

6:46

make some history happen.

6:48

But I'm such

6:50

a fan.

6:50

Of the game and certain areas

6:52

are certain different teams, and I'm that it's

6:54

hard for me to be like, hey, I'm this team all the

6:56

way, you know, because because it's like dang,

6:59

I like friends with this guy on this team and

7:01

him have a personal relationship, so I'm rooting for him

7:03

and then on this side.

7:05

So whoever wins, the best player wins.

7:07

But who's your favorite player?

7:09

Favorite player? Kyrie, Kyrie

7:12

Carie.

7:13

He's one of my one of my closest friends, too, But as

7:15

far as like seeing him play, being

7:17

around him, play playing with him, like

7:20

he's probably one of the most phenomenal guys

7:22

when it comes to the English.

7:24

On that back, bro, So, what do you like so much about

7:26

Kyrie's game?

7:27

Uh, it's tenacity. He's aggressive,

7:29

but it's it's graceful.

7:31

Right, you know.

7:32

And and he's he's going and he and I think

7:34

he makes other players better. I think he I

7:36

think he's getting into that to that uh that

7:38

uh consciousness of saying,

7:41

hey, look, we got to do this together.

7:43

So I think he brings out a lot of a lot of a

7:46

lot of spunk and a lot of real, real talent, a lot

7:48

of a lot of players that that probably already knew

7:50

they had it, but he encourages that.

7:53

I know you followed the game closely, so you see

7:55

some of the trades that transpired, and you see

7:57

Bradley Beal goes from the Wizard

7:59

to go to the Enix Sons. So now he pairs

8:01

with Kevin Durant and Devin Booker. You see

8:03

Chris Paul gets traded, he gets moved again. Now

8:06

he goes to the Golden State Warriors

8:08

to go with Steph Draymondic potentially

8:10

Draymond Draymond is unrestricted free agent.

8:12

You see Jordan Poole goes to the Wizard, So.

8:15

You think this is Kevin Durant's opportunity

8:17

now to get a ring away from Golden State.

8:20

I thought it was this time. I thought

8:22

it was this time, But uh, I

8:25

think it's I think it's up in the area. I think Chris going.

8:27

To Golden State.

8:28

Man, it's that that's a that's

8:30

a good place for him.

8:32

I just want him to get a ring, right, I

8:34

like, Chris been doing this thing for a while,

8:36

but I really want him to get a ring.

8:38

But I think KD is like, you

8:40

know, they gonna be coming. They're

8:43

gonna be coming.

8:43

Would you like to see in Chris Paul on the on the Lakers.

8:47

He would have been a good asset. But I but I feel

8:49

like he would have. He would have.

8:52

You know, there's there's two types of players. There's the coaches

8:54

players and then there's the there's a okay, there's.

8:56

The militant or the follower.

8:58

So I feel like he would he would up in the system

9:00

and get it together, like you know, bringing

9:03

them all in, making sure from

9:05

even even from Anthony Davis to, Hey,

9:07

look, we gotta do this, y'all.

9:08

Make sure y'all stop this.

9:10

He's gonna he has that tenacity, right, So

9:12

I feel like him and him and Lebron a with

9:15

a I think they would have paired up.

9:16

I don't think that they would have clashed.

9:18

What about a Kyrie Lebron reunion? I

9:20

would love it. I would love it. I

9:22

think here in La.

9:24

Or you want Bron to go to Dallas, Nah,

9:29

it's got.

9:29

To happen to La.

9:30

Yeah, it gotta be in La. I would love

9:32

to see them paired up.

9:34

I think their chemistry is like Undereniavel And

9:36

I think with seeing those two guys in

9:38

motion is just gon spark another whole

9:41

nother uprise in those

9:43

guys.

9:43

So I feel like.

9:44

That's what I want to see. I mean, I don't know what Kyle I want

9:46

to do, man, but I would love to see that.

9:48

I wouldn't get you get your take on this. You've

9:52

been in the spotlight, man, basically

9:54

your whole life. I mean, since you're probably twelve thirteen.

9:56

Yeah, and you get Zion Williamson who's

9:59

been in the spotlights, he's probably fifteen sixteen,

10:01

And you see the issue he having with girl. What

10:03

advice would you give him? How would you tell him to

10:06

navigate this situation?

10:07

He's in it now? Yeah, there, you can't

10:09

turn them back.

10:10

He have a girl, he has one young lady

10:12

pregnant, is gonna have He's welcome with your child.

10:14

And then you have this other one over here just putting all

10:16

this business.

10:18

I mean, it's hard out here.

10:20

When I

10:23

would just pray for Zion man, I feel

10:26

like, hey, man, is.

10:26

That what you need? A prayer?

10:28

Just praying? You know, be

10:30

be the best man you could be at that point. You

10:32

know, I'm blessed to have three children,

10:35

three different baby moms. But at the same time,

10:37

the relationship that I've built with them and

10:39

the and the uh, the energy

10:41

that I that I kind of come with is

10:44

it's a little bit more I don't know, my R and B guys,

10:46

I'm.

10:47

A little bit more subtle with it.

10:48

Uh.

10:49

Is it hard?

10:49

It's very hard. You gotta but you gotta

10:52

also watch out. It's like, you know,

10:54

we all want to be in the same spots, in the same

10:56

places, the clubs we want to be to

10:58

this day, I still want to see some beautiful women.

11:00

But at the same time.

11:01

You just got to be mind full of the

11:04

certain company you will keep or

11:06

the trappers that will will decept.

11:08

Themselves as athletes.

11:09

I'm pretty sure that the guys on the team

11:11

probably give him real pep talk.

11:13

Look you can't do this, look, you know, but

11:16

uh, on the road, on our on our end.

11:18

It's a it's a little bit different, but I

11:21

understand what he's going through.

11:22

So he just gotta he just gotta hold his head together.

11:25

Man hold your head.

11:28

So hopefully he's learned from some

11:30

of the mistakes that he had made, because I'm sure

11:32

there this this social media is a different

11:34

animal.

11:35

Man animal animal.

11:36

I'll try to I'm engaged with the social

11:38

media stuff, but I'll try to stay away. Like my

11:40

fans always asking why you never like

11:43

posting selfies or you never

11:45

I'm like, sometimes I'll just be wanting to chill

11:47

because because it's a long want to get away from that. Yeah,

11:49

sometimes you need it, Sometimes you need that piece of mind.

11:52

So I feel like in this era, it's so

11:54

easy to contact someone you

11:56

know, so so if you so even if

11:58

they made it, except well, you get

12:00

scroll down your explore page and you're like,

12:02

oh, man, hold on and just say.

12:04

Hey, and they hit you back,

12:06

and it's like you can say that. Most

12:08

people can't say that. They gonna say bye.

12:13

You could say how this is like is this really you?

12:15

You say yes, yeah, you

12:17

gotta use that Vanish mud.

12:20

That they disagree have to come it.

12:22

Definitely definitely let me.

12:24

Ask you this honestly.

12:26

Uh, the job Morant He was suspended

12:28

for twenty the first twenty five games of the season. Yeah,

12:32

what if if you could see if job,

12:34

if John sitting right where I'm sitting, Yeah,

12:37

and you could talk to it, what would you say?

12:40

I mean, I don't know what I what I would saying because

12:42

because I also look at my life and I kind

12:44

of look at it as a mirror with certain things,

12:47

especially when it comes to like.

12:50

Being shunned in a certain negative

12:52

spotlight.

12:53

I feel like he's he's gonna I mean, everybody

12:55

learns man, he's he's young, but I feel

12:57

like he's you know, people make mistakes,

13:00

you know, sometimes we make it continuous, right,

13:03

But you know, I feel like I can't.

13:05

I can't tell him how to how to write his story

13:08

or or find his path. I

13:10

would just say, just just

13:13

do what you came in to do, right, I

13:15

was.

13:15

That's all I can say.

13:17

You try to surround yourself with as many

13:19

good people as you possibly can.

13:21

Yeah, and if you feel somebody is not

13:24

adding, you have to remove them.

13:27

Have there been a situation where you felt someone

13:30

was not adding to Chris Brown, but they were taking

13:33

that you had to like, I'm sorry, but I've

13:35

got to stop the ride here, you have to get

13:37

off.

13:37

Yes, absolutely, absolutely.

13:39

Through the years, it's hard.

13:40

It's very hard.

13:40

Because you build relationships with people and you have

13:43

and you have like brotherhoods with

13:45

people. People people state

13:47

that like when you're on the road, you got people with

13:49

you every day or and you know some some people,

13:51

I'm I'm a family first type of guy.

13:54

Yes, but family doesn't necessarily mean have

13:56

to be biologically right.

13:57

It's not necessarily blood. You sometimes blood.

14:00

Yeah, you know.

14:01

So I feel like I have a I have a

14:03

nice entourage. Are a nice group of people

14:05

now that that are for me, that understand

14:08

the bigger goal, you know. So

14:10

I think now it was very it

14:12

was very hard for me because because I would hang

14:14

out with you know, we be with gang bangers,

14:16

we'd be with the wrong type of people you will

14:18

be with, you know, just just people that don't

14:21

go with the life path that you might want to choose.

14:23

Correct, So I feel like, but

14:25

but you kind of you kind of start

14:27

absorbing their energy.

14:29

So if it doesn't benefit you, I feel

14:31

like you really have to kind of like

14:33

separate yourself. And I was my children

14:35

were able to kind of like get me out

14:38

of that.

14:38

So it was the kid for you.

14:40

For me, per se Yes, definitely my kids

14:42

because it made me have a real responsibility,

14:45

Like I could be reckless without what.

14:47

There was no one to care for, but you know.

14:49

My children responsibility.

14:50

Yeah, it kind of made me start thinking.

14:53

And that sees what Chris is doing, what

14:55

sees what Daddy is doing.

14:57

Yeah, so you feel

14:59

that had you not had kids, you

15:01

might've been on a different path.

15:04

Possibly possibly I might have been

15:06

a lot more careless,

15:09

careless because I was.

15:10

I was reckless. I was definitely I've been reckless

15:12

when I was young a lot.

15:14

But I feel you know that, right, Yeah, but

15:16

I'm I'm talking about nineteen

15:18

twenty twenty one.

15:20

Yeah, I was. I was feeling

15:23

myself, you know.

15:24

So I think I think now I'm able

15:26

to be appreciative of Like, let's say,

15:28

if people like that song I have or people

15:31

listening to me.

15:32

You know what, I readly like that song.

15:33

I really feel it like real thank

15:35

you and it's a real thank you', not like all right

15:37

right, you know. So I think my kids

15:40

made me kind of like see other aspects that were

15:42

fun in life. But we'll still

15:44

I'm still able to have my

15:46

my career of the lifestyle that I live, but

15:48

maintain it in a a in a better balance.

15:51

Do your kids make you appreciate more a

15:53

life?

15:54

Yeah, they made me appreciate the stuff

15:56

that I used to do when I was a kid because

15:58

they do everything that I sued to do when I was a kid.

16:00

So and then being able to talk to them, like my

16:03

dad would tell me certain things, but there would be kind

16:05

of there would be limitations on it.

16:07

I feel like I'm just like, hey, let me tell you this.

16:09

Because because you're gonna because I know you're gonna

16:11

do this, so let me explain to you exactly.

16:14

So it's a little different.

16:15

Like my kids are definitely my friends

16:17

until I have to be their father old old

16:19

older, like older, and I'm like, look, okay, look,

16:21

you can't be doing it right now.

16:23

Right now, I'm in the fun stages.

16:25

Right So how difficult is

16:27

it for your kids considering

16:30

your parents didn't have what you

16:33

have, So how difficult is it going to be

16:35

for you to read your kids compared

16:37

to how your parents rid you.

16:38

The funniest thing for that is that I love

16:41

the people that I have around.

16:43

But I always tell tell my mom, I

16:45

tell their moms.

16:45

I'm like, look, I

16:48

didn't have none of this, but

16:51

I still had so much fun as a child.

16:53

My mom and my father they allow

16:55

me to be like kids.

16:59

You didn't I spoil them

17:00

there?

17:03

Okay, But I always joke

17:05

with my oldest daughter and I'm like, look, I'm

17:07

finna take you to the hood. You're finna go and learn

17:10

all that and stay over there with your cousins for a couple of weekends.

17:12

Right, just so you, just so you

17:14

nothing is handed to you.

17:16

I want you to understand, like I want you to be

17:18

just as sweet how my mother is and

17:20

how my mother instilled in me.

17:22

You know what I'm saying. But at the same time, find yourself,

17:24

love life, and don't you don't have to.

17:26

Following daddy is for seventh, Like that, if they

17:28

want to sing, great, if they want to perform entertained

17:30

business, perfect but I'm

17:33

just as happy if they want to do anything.

17:35

Else with

17:37

when you were growing up. Let's just say,

17:40

for the sake of ar you're seven eight seventy ten

17:42

years old. What did Chris Brown want to be?

17:45

Seven eight? Man? I'm

17:48

not gonna lie. At that time, I

17:51

love so much.

17:52

I love music so much, but it was

17:54

kind of like my own personal

17:56

like.

17:57

Okay, nobody really knows I love this music like

17:59

this, I really wanted to, like play

18:01

sports. I wanted to I.

18:03

Wanted to do in the NBA. Did you play football?

18:05

Yes, definitely played football. Uh,

18:08

ninth grade.

18:08

I'm gonna be real, like my ninth

18:11

grade year, I had broke my wrists in

18:13

both and both bones. That snapped

18:15

it boom catching that catching the wide

18:17

receivers.

18:18

But I caught a pass. Boom.

18:19

I'm right at the like the teen yard line.

18:22

My my cousin that plays on the other team

18:25

kissed me.

18:25

Breaks my mom. He broke your wrists, broke my wrist.

18:28

It was done like this, man.

18:30

I was like, what you doing was.

18:31

He was apologizing and everything, and

18:33

we went undefeated.

18:34

That y'all was so mad. But but what.

18:36

Happened was it kind of almost prohibited me

18:38

from playing basketball.

18:39

So I was like, you know what, I might I might need

18:41

to if I really want to do the basketball.

18:44

Yeah, I'm gonna give it a football up, you know, but I

18:46

love football though, still love football.

18:48

Yeah, you have a team, you have a player,

18:51

favorite player.

18:51

You know.

18:52

I'm from Virginia, so it's

18:54

it's a whole bunch of either

18:56

the Redskins or you, or you the

18:58

Cowboys, you know, because we don't really

19:00

you know, Virginia, we don't really have a But

19:03

in my household, it was the Redskins. It was the

19:05

Cowboys. And they used to argue, Yeah,

19:08

so.

19:08

You like the cowboy? How how do you like that?

19:10

Allong?

19:10

If you from if you from that area, if you're from

19:13

the DC, the Maryland to Virginia,

19:15

you hate the cowboys.

19:18

In our household, they love they love

19:20

the cowboys.

19:21

They love the cowboys, y'all, y'all to

19:23

be undercovered cowboy.

19:24

Yeah.

19:25

You put big coachs on big coats.

19:27

No, don't worry to Jersey to the game.

19:29

So seven A, You're like, okay, I think it really, So

19:31

when did you start to take music serious

19:34

and say, you know what, this basketball thing

19:36

you gotta take a back seat.

19:38

I was actually doing music secretively,

19:40

like I was doing like the like nobody in my

19:43

school knew that I that I kind of like did

19:45

music. Then I could sing in things like that, but I would

19:47

be in basketball practice. I'm

19:49

saying the seventh eighth grade, ninth

19:51

grade basketball practice six thirty,

19:54

didn't drive our way go to the studio and

19:56

be there till maybe that.

19:57

Say, three in the morning. They got

19:59

to get back and go back to school.

20:00

And you know, so I was doing that a while, but

20:03

I met I have met these producers,

20:05

a couple of guys that are from the area, and I

20:07

was like, no, I'm serious about it. So

20:10

you know, I was a little nervous because I never really recorded

20:12

and stuff like that. So my first time actually

20:14

doing it, I was I was kind of like just

20:18

behind the ears, like, hey man, what are we going to do?

20:20

Like how do I do this? Like and I do I

20:22

even sound good?

20:23

But I knew I had it enemy to

20:25

do it, so I just was like, this is this

20:27

is kind of calling me faster than I think

20:29

the other thing is right.

20:31

So, but how was it?

20:32

Like given so much

20:35

you a child superstar and

20:38

the expectations that come along with that.

20:41

Man, I was. I was kind of

20:43

still in bliss.

20:44

Like when I was like fifteen fourteen,

20:47

my first song came out, I was, I was kind of like

20:49

shocked, so everything was new. So

20:51

I kind of I kind of had tough

20:53

skin because I was, you know, I wanted to I

20:56

was ready for it.

20:57

So whether they had to be doing.

21:00

Hours and hours of van rids from

21:02

from the east of the West Coast or you know, going

21:05

through the Bible Belt, doing every interview

21:07

every radio station, I did.

21:09

It was something I wanted to do.

21:10

I felt like I felt like it was my calling, Like,

21:12

and I'm from a small town, so I was like, how did

21:14

I even get here?

21:15

Every step of the way. So I was appreciative,

21:18

you know, I was. I was ready for.

21:21

I think I did one actual

21:23

talent show. It was a it was at summer camp.

21:25

Oh okay, it was at like a summer camp.

21:27

I did you better have one one?

21:30

Okay, I'm gonna say because somebody got.

21:31

Bragging, right, Yeah, I know. I definitely won and

21:34

I did.

21:35

It's funny. I did throng

21:37

song Cisco Bro.

21:41

I had to like my little homegirl

21:44

dancers, like I had to be like Bro.

21:47

I had to have been seven like seven or

21:49

eight.

21:49

Oh,

21:51

I hope that was at the end of the week camp and not the

21:53

beginning of the weeknd.

21:54

They'll probably go to see you home.

21:55

Oh the camp leaders

21:58

they laughed, but everybody kind

22:00

of went crazy in there, and I was like, I

22:02

think I might can do this right, you know,

22:05

but that was my first actual talent show. I didn't

22:07

really like.

22:07

I used to go to the mall and see I used

22:09

to go to the mall, like my homeboys.

22:10

Would go come with me like the weekend, will go

22:12

drive up to the mall and be like and they would see a group

22:15

of girls and you know.

22:15

When like the food courses certain all yeah.

22:18

Yeah.

22:18

So I was like, you know what, they'd be like, yo, bro, just

22:20

sing and I'll sing Mario, I'll

22:23

sing somebody's song that's hot on the radio, usher song

22:25

like so. And then they would be like, hey, what's

22:28

your name? And I'd be like, Okay, We're good, Okay,

22:30

I got we can do this. We can do this every weekend,

22:32

Let's do it.

22:33

So you were saying in the mall to get the girl. Yeah, absolutely,

22:38

it worked. Every time.

22:39

It worked.

22:40

Yeah, it worked every time unless they was a two grown

22:42

They're like y'all some little boys.

22:43

If we can't mess with y'all.

22:46

So what so, what have you learned from if?

22:49

What would the thirty three I think

22:51

you're thirty three about.

22:51

To be thirty thirty four?

22:54

What would the thirty four year old till

22:57

the fifteen to twenty twenty

22:59

three year old Chris.

23:00

Brown fifteen to twenty three year old?

23:03

What would the thirty four year old telling.

23:07

I would say, I damn, I never thought

23:10

about that.

23:11

That's crazy. I think I would tell him,

23:14

be humble.

23:17

The road ahead isn't isn't the end,

23:20

It's just the beginning. So but

23:22

but be humbling and everything you do.

23:25

So it said you discovered

23:27

that your dad's gas station.

23:29

Yeah yeah kind of yeah.

23:31

So how did that go? Okay?

23:32

You your dand sing you out to put so did

23:34

you pump gas or you just at the gas station with

23:37

your.

23:37

Dad and you know, you just singing and people

23:39

like, man.

23:40

Yeah, I used to help my dad. I used to eat.

23:41

I used to go there after school and then, uh,

23:44

you know how certain people come in and he was like, Hey, I'm does.

23:46

Anybody in this town like do music

23:49

twn or anything?

23:50

And then and I was just listening to the

23:52

guy and my dad was like, my son sings, and

23:54

so he basically gave us like his

23:56

contact information, and through him, I

23:59

met the producers and the people

24:01

who actually got me to you

24:03

know, getting to New York and meeting the record labels.

24:05

So a lot of a lot of that, a lot of that time

24:07

that was kind of like a four year process, but that

24:10

kind of started.

24:11

That's how I was discovering.

24:12

So, I mean, Teddy Riley's from your area,

24:15

Timberland, Google.

24:17

You, Yeah, you ain't bumping another

24:19

bill mate.

24:20

No, because because Virginia's Virginia's

24:22

so big.

24:22

I'm sure like Virginia's big, and

24:25

it's different places where I'm from. It's maybe

24:27

like I want to say, an hour and a half

24:29

away from where they are, you know, and then

24:31

we don't have like musical centers or

24:34

performing our stuff that that we can showcase

24:37

our talent. It's Virginia's really like a sports

24:40

you know, a state. So I feel

24:42

like, uh, we were kind

24:44

of like the roads in the concrete.

24:46

I feel like everybody, I think everybody

24:48

was kind of like, oh you made it, man,

24:51

it's amazing. But but you know,

24:53

yeah, Teddy Rally and all them, they kind of started it off

24:55

because Virginia Beach kind of was

24:57

was. I remember my my moms and aunts

24:59

and pumped the back. Man they going, they said, were

25:01

going down there for the weekend. We'll never be able

25:04

to go up. Man, they was going out

25:06

there probably while Mama, hope you won't.

25:09

But see what you.

25:12

So when you tell your parents you're dropping out

25:14

of high school? Yeah, did

25:17

they say, boy, you crazy? Did this

25:19

what kind of made it sound nice?

25:21

Again? I said, Mama, I got this. I

25:24

got this opportunity. I remember being

25:26

in the phone. I was.

25:27

I was in New York, but I was in

25:29

the record label's office.

25:30

But I went to the bathroom. I said, Mom, I really

25:32

young. I got a record deal.

25:33

I said, But I'm not gonna get out of school. They'll

25:35

give me a tutor, you know. You know, So I

25:37

actually finished school. So I but it took me

25:40

instead of me finishing I supposed

25:42

to. Yeah, I left it. It took me like two years

25:44

because I was doing I was on the road. I was working my

25:47

ninth and tenth grade. I left my tenth grade year

25:49

and that's when my single came out. But so

25:51

I was supposed to be class of seven, but I ended up

25:53

becoming Class of O nine because I had to.

25:55

I had to wait, why would you

25:58

what made you better on yourself?

25:59

Why would you so sure that this

26:01

was the opportunity that was too good

26:04

to pass to pass up? And I'm willing to, like,

26:06

you know what, for gold my final in two years.

26:08

I feel like the dream I never

26:11

lost that when they be like

26:13

what you want to be when you when you grew up and you

26:15

still have those those grandiose ambitions.

26:18

I felt like the light bulb was clinking, like,

26:20

Hey, this is that you've been

26:22

actioning for this.

26:23

This was your action for a goal. And look,

26:25

look, look where we are in this situation. Like

26:27

my my family didn't didn't have money

26:30

at all. So it's like I wanted, I

26:32

wanted to do better than

26:34

my whole like before me,

26:36

in before for them, you know what I'm

26:38

saying.

26:39

I wanted to be able to say, you.

26:40

Know what, I did this out of out of everybody

26:42

in my family, right, everybody in my town.

26:44

Everything you know, I saw.

26:45

I saw the opportunity to make it a better

26:47

opportunity for them, and definitely

26:49

make a better opportunity for my mom.

26:51

You leave, you moved to New York, New

26:54

York is really really different than Virginia. Yeah,

26:57

they didn't man to get lonely. Did

26:59

you get home sick that you said? Damn, I don't know

27:01

if I may did the right the right thing here.

27:03

You know what? It was fun because because

27:06

of the freedom, like my mom.

27:08

My mom didn't know at first, because a lot

27:10

of a lot of the times I would

27:12

go on a Greyhound from Virginia

27:14

and go all the way to Harlem and I

27:16

would be I would be by yourself. No, I would

27:18

be with the guys who were in the production

27:20

team and they had and they had a son and

27:23

he's my brother to this day, but we were the

27:25

same age. So he kind of showed me the ropes and

27:27

he and he grew right up in Middle Halem.

27:29

So I'm like, I was kind of it was a calture

27:31

shod. It was like, man, I felt so green,

27:34

like I felt so out of it.

27:36

And I would speak to people. I would go and see people be

27:38

like, hey, how y'all doing with

27:41

the hair on?

27:43

You got it from the South.

27:45

Yeah, So I had to I had to really kind

27:47

of like get acclimated. But over over

27:49

about a three month period, I

27:51

kind of started started finding my way, and I think that kind

27:53

of made me be adaptable in every

27:56

situation and being an artist going, whether

27:58

it be Belgium, whether it be London,

28:01

Australia, Like I'm able to be

28:04

presentable in a room amongst different cultures

28:07

and ethnicities.

28:08

Were it ever nice that you think this wasn't gonna

28:10

happen?

28:11

Yeah, all the time, all the time.

28:13

I felt like a lot of like a lot of people don't

28:15

see those that everybody gets like

28:17

like they just see the success, right and they don't

28:20

think that it takes hard work.

28:21

They just got discovered. You went to

28:24

this place. Boom, it blew up.

28:25

Yeah, like it would sound like that if it was written

28:28

in a you know, fairy tale story, but not

28:30

a lot a lot of hard works, a lot of late nights sleep

28:32

it's nice, stressful nights crying in the studio,

28:35

not thinking I'm good enough, like as a as a

28:37

younger artist. But yeah, a lot

28:39

of that, But I think like I

28:41

could, I didn't let that doubt overshadow

28:44

the dream.

28:45

I feel like my heart.

28:46

Was was was was in it, so I was

28:48

I was, I was ready for anything, just even

28:50

to this day, like my heart and my passion

28:53

is in what I do still that. Yeah, So

28:55

so I feel like that's what I guess keeps

28:57

me consistent, or keeps people interested

28:59

or or you know, engaged in my music.

29:03

Death Jam.

29:04

You get a contract offer from death Jam.

29:06

They offer you a contract on the spot,

29:08

and you turned it down. Why did you turn

29:10

it down? What is the numbers? What

29:13

made Chris Brown? Because this is your opportunity.

29:15

This is death Jam. This ain't no no,

29:17

this ain't no no glass of music.

29:20

This is death Jam. They offer you a contract,

29:22

Chris, and you said, nah, I'm good.

29:24

I'm thinking I'm country.

29:27

The man wouldn't talk to my mama, huh.

29:30

So basically he wanted me to basically

29:32

like with the production guys. I'm not going to

29:34

say the executive name because I love him to this day.

29:36

I'm never gonna I'm never going to expose

29:39

them. But I wanted

29:41

to get him on the phone with my mom and be like,

29:43

okay, cool, So could you explain

29:45

this to my mom?

29:46

What's going on?

29:47

You know, I'm I think I'm fourteen at

29:49

the time, So yeah, fourteen, just

29:51

turned fourteen, and my production crew

29:54

was there, but you know, they're my handlers

29:56

at that time. But you know, at the same time. We're all

29:58

in the same excitement. But I just wanted to makes

30:00

sense, my mom is her words,

30:04

tell her, boy, so you got

30:06

to tell to my mama. So as soon

30:08

as that happened, he was like, oh

30:10

no, no, no, no, I don't need that. We were good and

30:12

I and I kind of didn't like. I didn't

30:14

like what that. I felt like they wanted to get over

30:17

like I was. You know, I wasn't I wasn't green, I

30:19

was.

30:19

Very street wart. So I just was like, well,

30:21

why wouldn't you just you

30:24

know, I'm not saying, hey, say how to my mama exactly.

30:28

So so that kind of made me kind of have

30:31

reservations. But then Tina Davis,

30:33

who was my manager at the time, she was working at Death

30:36

Gym.

30:37

I think she they had a merger.

30:38

So she she was she went, she went her

30:40

separate ways, but I had I

30:42

had learned so much from her, even

30:45

from going into the different meetings, how to prep how

30:47

to be ready to perform. So I was like, you

30:49

know what, I need someone like that that

30:51

can show me that because I don't. I'm just I'm

30:53

just going off the raw music at this point. So

30:56

she was able to like, Tina, would you

30:58

mind managing me? And so she was like cool,

31:00

let's do it. And from there she actually

31:02

got me uh all the other other

31:05

deals or other other sittings

31:07

with the labels that I was sitting with.

31:08

So yeah, did he turn you down? Yeah?

31:12

Yeah?

31:12

So how did that beating go? So?

31:14

So what so how did the meeting go? And then what did he

31:17

say? Why did he turn you down?

31:18

And this was this is probably maybe two or three years

31:20

prior, so I was like eleven or twelve

31:23

at this time.

31:24

The same kid that I said that that showed me the ropes

31:27

in New York. Yeah, he he Me

31:29

and him had songs. It was like a group.

31:31

So me and him had different like uh

31:34

songs that we would do together, and I would do solo songs.

31:37

So we both got the audition. He's

31:39

like, all right, cool, let's go, let's go and meet

31:41

him and let's go sing. So we went

31:43

in and we went in there together. He was like cool,

31:45

we did the song that we have together

31:47

and I'm singing on the course and so he

31:50

was just like cool, cool,

31:54

Yeah, I talk to you, you know, he yeah,

31:57

can he go outside for a second, We're gonna just

31:59

talk.

32:00

Was like, nah, we don't want we don't want him.

32:02

They didn't want you want me.

32:05

So I was like, as a twelve thirteen

32:07

year old, I was in that elevator, probably crying

32:10

like.

32:10

Them up so but you knew who Diddy

32:12

was, right of.

32:13

Course, of course, And at

32:15

the pinda, I'm like, man, First of

32:17

all, I was just excited just to meet them.

32:19

Yeah.

32:19

Like, so being in the room kind

32:21

of made me, uh, made me like

32:24

shaky, So I probably was nervous

32:26

and singing crazy.

32:27

But at the same time, He's.

32:28

Like, ah, I'm gonna pass on that, right, So

32:30

I was kind of I was like, you know what, I'm

32:33

gonna show him like, so that was my

32:35

that was my motivation to keep

32:37

going to It's.

32:39

So because knowing

32:41

who Diddy was, for Dinny

32:43

to say, nah, you need to go on outside, it

32:46

probably would be like a basketball

32:48

player said Phil Jackson said, nah,

32:50

go away. You know one of these prominent coach

32:52

You said, nah, bro, you not. I don't think you

32:54

good enough, So you go. So you're on the

32:56

elevator, what are you thinking.

32:58

Like, am I not good enough?

32:59

Because he did he just told me like nah.

33:02

Of course, of course, of course, I'm definitely

33:05

I was in the elevator like a man,

33:07

this might be it for me, you know, because as

33:09

a.

33:09

D when you're a kid, you think anything that's.

33:14

H But I think I think I just took I took that

33:16

motivation. Me and my me and my my homeboy.

33:18

We just was like, you know what, let's just keep

33:20

going back in the studio. Let's just let's just make

33:23

more songs. Let's get get better. We just started,

33:25

so I think, But I think I

33:27

think puff for that man, They

33:29

didn't mean I appreciate it though, Like because that made me,

33:32

that made me get on my gun.

33:33

You say, you hire teena David, says your business manager.

33:36

What did you learn from her?

33:38

I learned everything

33:41

from media training, to to how

33:43

to how to how to be presentable in the room,

33:45

how to how to speak to people, how to how

33:48

to listen to people.

33:49

You know. I was I was like so country

33:51

and like, hey, what's up, y'all? I'm

33:54

just loud.

33:54

So I felt like I feel like she

33:56

guided me through a lot of the music

33:59

industry, the business of how it works, meeting

34:02

pds program directors and going

34:05

to different radio stations, teaching.

34:07

Me how to have showmanship. Like

34:09

she was, she would be like nah.

34:10

She used to tell me because because Neo's

34:13

a good friend of mine as well, and she worked with Neil

34:15

before, so she was like, She's like, nah, huh,

34:17

you don't got showman ship like Neo.

34:20

And I was like, huh, what

34:22

what am I not doing? So I

34:25

would have.

34:25

Just rehearsals, not even dance, just

34:28

rehearsals of me just figuring out

34:30

how to be me on stage or what

34:32

what was me when I get on stage?

34:34

You know?

34:35

So when you hear that first song you

34:37

hear come on the radio, what's

34:40

going through your mind?

34:42

Man, I'm cussing first, and I'm

34:44

in the basement, so my mama don't hear me, but I'm cussing.

34:47

I remember I had a spot

34:49

in Jersey because right when I signed my deal,

34:51

I wasn't out of school yet, but they

34:53

had they had to push put me in a place to.

34:55

Where I could be closer to the label to start

34:58

working.

34:58

So I was still doing in school in Virginia

35:01

and I had just left them, and I was like, yeah,

35:03

I'm about to I'm about to be in the radio.

35:04

Everybody radio, what are you talking

35:06

about?

35:07

So then when they say I remember

35:09

the song came on. My cousins was calling

35:11

me, like, Bro, they playing

35:13

you on the radio, bro, And I'm like you

35:16

lying, And I remember I turned it on. I

35:18

think I sat in the corner. It was

35:20

like and yaled for like five

35:23

minutes straight, like I.

35:24

Felt it was the best feeling. Like I still

35:26

feel like that when I when I hear my songs on the radio.

35:28

Now it's not the same excitement, but

35:31

it's still the same.

35:32

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's definitely definitely run.

35:34

It made you the first artist is ninety

35:36

five to have a debut single to talk the charts

35:39

man, did

35:41

you know that song? I

35:43

mean, obviously it was the first song that was released,

35:45

but did you know that song would forever

35:47

change your life?

35:49

No? No, I'm gonna be real.

35:51

When I did that song, we were in Miami

35:54

and Hit Factory Scott Storch, Sean

35:57

Garrett like, and I was

35:59

just and I was a student because this is

36:01

my first ever album, so any producer would

36:03

me and I'm just soaking it all in,

36:06

you know. So I'm scared. I'm thinking, like,

36:08

I don't sound good. I don't know if they

36:11

do I sound good. I hate I don't know if I

36:13

like the song because I was too

36:15

nervous in my head. But then they

36:17

was like, nah, this is the one. But I knew I wanted

36:19

to dance in it. The music was

36:21

bumping, so I was like, look, I want to dance.

36:23

I just want to showcase this. But I didn't

36:26

know. I think I never had an expectation

36:28

that it would have the success that

36:30

it put me at.

36:31

You know, So, what's your

36:34

your favorite song of all the songs you've done,

36:37

what's your favorite song?

36:38

And give me your top three?

36:39

My top three.

36:41

Man, it's

36:44

so hard with me because I have this, just

36:47

to be honest, I have about fifteen thousand

36:49

unreleased songs, right what, Yeah,

36:52

I got like in my phone alone,

36:54

like my in certain apps I have I

36:57

want to say, maybe eighteen hundred.

37:00

It's eighteen hundred to like. Yeah.

37:01

So obviously we're in your studio, so

37:03

you come down here like you know, it's

37:07

like and just crank out songs.

37:09

Yeah. Yeah, it was a point.

37:11

It was a point where I used to stay in the studio,

37:14

Like when I was doing a lot of my earlier albums.

37:17

I had to learn.

37:18

But but around I want to say, around the Fame

37:20

album and certain stuff like that, I was kind of like in

37:22

my in my zone, I knew how, I knew

37:24

what I wanted. Yeah, So

37:27

even for me now, I put the studio in my

37:29

house because like I

37:31

can draw inspiration faster, Like if I think

37:33

of something, if I think of an idea, like oh I got

37:35

an idea for this song, I don't have to like wait or

37:37

set up the studio and like, okay, I gotta go to studio

37:39

now.

37:40

So if you in your bed at night and you think of something,

37:42

you just come down here and just Yeah.

37:44

It depends because I'll make sure my engineers. Await,

37:47

if it's like five six in the morning, I'm like, man, I'll just

37:49

do it in the morning, right, But like if it's

37:51

maybe if it's me and that, I'm like, hey, man up, let's

37:53

let's let's do it.

37:54

Wow.

37:55

So eighteen thousand unreleased

37:58

songs? What

38:03

I mean, how do you how do you get to eight? How

38:05

do you get to like a hundred? Okay, if somebody

38:07

said, you know, I got like twenty, I got fifty unreleased

38:09

songs, but you saying, like in some of your

38:11

apps, you have eighteen hundreds. So you

38:13

just like like go days, months, years,

38:16

Well you just record?

38:17

Yeah, I literally recorded like

38:19

four songs yesterday, but I did,

38:22

like I do it in spurts, So sometimes

38:24

some days I'll just relax.

38:25

I might do one song, but then some.

38:27

Days it's just like we just because I feel like it's

38:30

like sharpening your sword man, like

38:32

being better at your craft, like.

38:34

Shooting jump getting your jump shot.

38:35

So like, I feel like I don't

38:37

want to be complacent and thinking

38:39

I'm I got it all figured out.

38:42

I never want to think that, Oh, I'm Chris Brown.

38:44

So whatever I'll put out it's gonna be great. I want

38:46

to make sure it is.

38:47

You know, are there any songs that you wrote

38:49

for an artist that if people actually

38:51

knew you wrote it, they would be surprised?

38:56

I think back in the day they did. I wrote a

38:59

I wrote a a couple of pop records.

39:01

I wrote a couple of Jonas Brothers songs.

39:04

I wrote a couple uh well, I

39:06

wrote a couple of Rihanna songs.

39:09

Uh damn. I do

39:11

a couple of country country records.

39:14

I used to write a lot for for a lot

39:16

of different artists, but it was more it was more

39:18

so me experimenting with with what

39:21

music was like. I wasn't just doing

39:23

R and b so I would just write.

39:24

But I but I've.

39:25

LaToya lucky I've written for. There's

39:28

been it's been a lot of people I've written for. But

39:31

I feel like a lot of people didn't

39:33

know I really write because as an artist, you

39:35

know, you get a lot of a lot of uh you

39:38

know, a lot of artists that music artists

39:40

that don't do them.

39:41

Yeah, but and I

39:44

I can't.

39:44

I can't shun them because I work with a lot of producers,

39:46

a lot of writers, and we do different things. But I've

39:48

also had time to sit down and

39:51

just really have my own songs that people are love

39:53

and I'm.

39:53

Like, I'm glad they love that I wrote that song. You

39:55

know.

39:56

So yeah, what

39:58

what's your favorite music genre?

40:00

Is the pop?

40:00

Is R and b uh dance,

40:02

euro rap?

40:03

I'm eclectic.

40:04

I'm eclectic, So I like I like certain

40:07

songs, Like I think, when the song comes out

40:10

and it just m it moves me, I I

40:12

just like it. It cul It could be a country song, it could

40:14

be our piano song, it could be

40:16

uh a heavy metal song, Like

40:18

you know, I think, I just think whatever whatever

40:21

frequency that that tunes me to it

40:23

is is is what I what I kind of gravitate to. In

40:25

my lane of my music, I love doing. I

40:28

just love doing feel good music, fun music.

40:30

Music.

40:30

People can dance too, But at the same time, give

40:32

'em, give them certain s s things

40:35

that get them through their life.

40:36

Cause I cause I'll see a lot of my fans or I talk to.

40:38

'em, whether it's meet and grease, whether it's discord

40:41

or whatever it is, and we talking and it's like they

40:43

they explain to me how certain songs got them

40:45

through life situations, and and I'm like, wow,

40:48

that really it kind of sinks in with me. It

40:50

makes me makes me kind of like dang, I I'm

40:52

I'm really doing the music.

40:53

For it actual purpose.

40:54

So when I do certain songs speak

40:56

from my experience, but also try to speak

40:59

to uplift somebody, make them have fun or

41:01

make them be like, man, this makes you makes me feel

41:03

good inside.

41:04

Are there any features that you turned

41:06

down? You was like, damn, I should have hopped on

41:08

that one.

41:11

Any features that I turned down? A lot? No,

41:15

I ain't gonna lie. I'm on a lot of features.

41:18

I feel like, I feel like it's certain songs that

41:20

I wish that I was on.

41:23

When I would hear certain songs.

41:24

But then I would be like, that's just that's just

41:26

my artist ego wanted to be a part of it. Yeah,

41:29

but but I feel like I feel like evens

41:33

there's certain records out now that I'll.

41:34

Hear and I'm like, man, that's amazing.

41:37

But but I think that's that's good for me because

41:40

I'm not I don't think I get convoluted

41:42

in what I sound like. I'm

41:44

able to appreciate other people music,

41:46

and I'd be like, oh, it's just only about me.

41:48

Have you ever been removed from a song after it's been recorded?

41:52

I don't think so.

41:55

Have you removed somebody from a song after it's been

41:58

recorded?

41:58

Yes?

42:02

So, so how do you how do you go about?

42:04

How do you go about telling them or

42:06

telling him or her that

42:09

their verse is gonna

42:12

make it?

42:13

Man? Uh?

42:15

Do you tell them? When you have somebody else call and tell him.

42:17

I think it'd be better coming from you.

42:18

Though, Yeah, I would tell him. I would tell him

42:21

I've done I've done songs.

42:23

Uh, Like, even even

42:25

with my I ain't gonna say their names.

42:27

Certain artists that that that are that are like real

42:29

friends with me, and we've done songs. But

42:32

I may have I may have had like two

42:34

songs already with them. I'm like, look, I ain't you

42:36

I ain't gonna'm gonna take you off this one because we already

42:39

got this other song, you know, So I've done that.

42:41

But then that's the way, that's what you tell them.

42:42

No, No, that's been the reason. But

42:45

the other ones that got taken off just to get taken

42:47

off.

42:47

It just didn't fit.

42:48

It didn't fit the record, and I felt

42:51

like the time in with it, and we just I'll

42:53

explain it to him and I'll be like, look, it just doesn't

42:55

fit the time in for for what we're doing and how we want

42:57

to shoot the record. But I haven't let

42:59

down too many people. That

43:01

down too many people.

43:04

You're a fit guy. You in the train,

43:06

you like to work out.

43:06

So what do you do? So, so what do you do you on tour?

43:09

How does Chris Brown manage to stay in shape?

43:11

Because you gotta get you you're a performer.

43:14

You're not just a singer. You're a performer. You're

43:16

an entertainer. Let me take that back. You're an entertainer.

43:19

So singing and dancing, that's

43:21

a part of the act. Yeah, So how do you

43:23

maintain that level night

43:26

after night after night, week

43:28

after week after month after month.

43:31

Man, I just think I got more,

43:33

uh more.

43:37

But at the same time, my team,

43:39

man, I think everybody keeps a

43:41

tight schedule when it comes to what we're doing

43:43

on the road.

43:44

Right, our chef make sure we eat the right

43:46

stuff. I don't.

43:47

I don't try to eat stuff that's gonna see heavy. I

43:49

want to see anything that builds my

43:51

protein up, just builds my addurance. That's

43:53

what I'm on you. I'm really and I'm

43:55

really uh, I'm finicky

43:58

about it, like because we also have after parties

44:00

after shows on tourists.

44:02

It's a long road.

44:02

But at the same time, I make sure I at least get my

44:04

eight hours of sleep, right, So the rest

44:07

is that me and my dancers that

44:09

workout is like no, man, So.

44:11

You know we got our workout regimen.

44:13

We do our like fifteen to thirty minute

44:16

a flash set before we go, before we

44:18

get on stage, and then and then repeat

44:20

it over and over, right, So I've

44:22

been able to have this fast

44:24

metabolism.

44:25

Hopefully it never slows up.

44:29

I'm just trying to figure out, how do you protect your voice

44:32

with me?

44:32

Well, I wouldn't I wouldn't advise this

44:34

to everybody else because I do.

44:36

I do smoke every now and then a lot.

44:40

But for me, I have that

44:43

I use these there's there's these pills

44:45

the call mullet Mulon pills.

44:47

They're good for your for your lungs.

44:48

So and I make sure that I'm not just

44:51

smoking smoking smoking before I go on stage.

44:53

So a lot of the times i'm

44:56

whenever I am smoking, I'm doing something that counteracted.

44:58

I'm making sure i'm t and

45:01

vocal rest is the best. Like like

45:03

I'm yelling on stage two and a

45:05

half hours, right.

45:06

You know, so after that, chill

45:09

out, after that, right, say what's up? Bro? Cool?

45:12

You know?

45:12

I try to I try to refrain from doing

45:15

anything that's gonna put too much of a strain on my book.

45:18

What I have to applaud, bro, I don't know.

45:20

I mean I have to go back to like James Brown,

45:22

to see somebody to

45:25

sing.

45:25

And perform like you think.

45:27

I mean, it's continuous, it's NonStop.

45:30

I mean I first, when the first time I ever

45:32

heard of Chris Brown, I heard you say something like,

45:34

oh I can I dance?

45:35

USh?

45:36

I said, man, this man, this damn About thirteen

45:39

he already liked who talked this man a lot

45:41

like this at thirteen?

45:43

And then I watched it. I like, and

45:46

then you like, I might get my Michael. I

45:48

was like, I don't know, he might.

45:50

I mean to see the way he moved, man, and the

45:52

way he can adore his body.

45:54

I don't know, he might be on the something.

45:58

How when did you learn

46:00

to do that?

46:02

I watched that. That's being a

46:04

kid at the cookout. Man. Your

46:07

uncle's like, come man, come out here, man, do that? Do that

46:09

dance you'd be doing.

46:10

So I feel like, uh,

46:12

my childhood gave me that freedom to really,

46:15

like you know, be from

46:17

mc Hammer.

46:18

Watching mc ham Michael

46:20

Jackson.

46:21

I always was moving and I had a fascination

46:23

in love with with rhythms. So I feel

46:25

like, you know, even even in sports,

46:28

you gotta have the rhythm, right, So so that

46:30

just was like natural to me. It came natural. I feel

46:32

like it's from the soul.

46:33

Yeah.

46:33

So I feel like.

46:35

Even even dancing now, like I can learn

46:37

technical stuff. I can learn stuff, but I like

46:39

to just I like when people to see it to be

46:41

like that feel good he having

46:44

fun doing it.

46:44

Yeah, but you do realize that a lot of the stuff you

46:46

do they can't do right, Like you know what I mean, you like the only

46:49

one that can do that do it? Yeah,

46:52

I mean I like to see a dance like you. Okay, you move,

46:54

walk, okay, breakdown. I mean you do a little breakdancing,

46:57

but a lot of the stuff that you be doing rib

46:59

like, man, people gonna break their neck.

47:01

Yeah.

47:01

Yeah, I wouldn't invite people to try some of the

47:04

stuff I do. That's why it's good to just see it at the show.

47:06

Kids, y'all can have fun. Y'all a little bit more flexible.

47:09

But at the same time, like I just I'm

47:11

thankful to be able to still have these needs

47:13

to be Yeah, and

47:15

I don't get.

47:16

Up like, oh man, I'm tired. I gotta go

47:18

dance.

47:19

I love it right, So, so as long as I'm

47:21

able and God blesses me to be able to dance

47:23

and showcase this talent and hopefully inspired

47:26

the world, I'm gonna keep doing it.

47:28

Why don't you think other artists have adopted

47:31

your approach to become performance?

47:33

I mean, sometimes you see performers or you

47:35

see like singers. I mean, there's nothing wrong.

47:38

I mean, but I look at you as

47:40

an entertainer. I look at Beyonces,

47:43

but their singers. Dan was a

47:45

singer. Yeah, you

47:48

got a mermaid dress on. She

47:50

on that Mic I saw. I saw the observatory unbelievable.

47:54

But I saw Beyonce and I'm like, how

47:57

should you do that? For two hours?

47:58

I watch you? I'm like, he do that for two hours?

48:01

I think, I think because you know, different, I

48:03

think it's different stars. Man, it's different stars

48:05

in the sky. So I kind of I kind of my take

48:08

on it is everybody has their

48:10

thing, right, you know.

48:11

I feel like in our in

48:14

our genre, it's it's

48:16

a it's like an old art.

48:18

But you know, because you got to really do

48:21

your researcher, you got to really, you know, want it.

48:23

And I think Beyonce, I gott always give her a

48:25

credit. She wants it. She has

48:27

always wanted it, you know what I'm saying. So and

48:29

she is it. You know. I feel like with

48:31

me, I've always I've always

48:33

wanted it.

48:34

I always wanted to leave a legacy of of

48:36

of being.

48:37

One of the baddest. You know, I don't got

48:39

to be the baddest, but I'm gonna be one of them.

48:41

You know, what does it make you feel

48:44

like when other artists come up to you and say,

48:46

Braud, that was unbelievable.

48:48

Form, I'm still in shot, like

48:51

I have an imposter syndrome.

48:53

I wake up to this day and be like, am

48:56

I how did I get here?

48:58

Like so when people even ignore,

49:01

I'm more receptive and appreciative.

49:03

I'm kind of like, for real, Okay, cool, they

49:05

like my stuff. I'm still fans of other artists.

49:08

It's like, so it's still me being

49:10

like, Okay, they really love what I'm doing, right,

49:13

I'm gonna keep doing it right all right.

49:16

When you first started out, you used to

49:18

open up for Beyonce.

49:19

Yeah, you like you know that. I

49:22

would try to swipe some of her fan. I walks

49:24

over her fan because I know what she's gonna do after

49:27

me. Man, I need to make sure I do something

49:29

before so them people talk about.

49:30

Yeah Beyonce, it was great, but you should have saw Chris

49:33

Brown. Chris Brown was unbelievable.

49:34

Yeah. Yeah, I was a

49:37

student being on there. I

49:39

was with Destiny Shot. I think I was like sixteen

49:41

or seventeen. I opened up for.

49:42

Them in Australia and for that

49:45

that was just a blessing because

49:47

to be able to go from me having

49:49

a little TV and me watching these people

49:51

performing and being able to see them and they're like, hi.

49:54

They know my name.

49:54

I'm like, oh my god, they said hi to

49:56

me watching them perform from

49:59

stage, presence, lighting.

50:00

Production, dancers, timing.

50:03

I learned so much from all of those experiences,

50:06

and I soaked it up and I said, well, I

50:08

don't want to copy anybody, but okay,

50:10

well if I could do that, I'll do it like this. So

50:13

I was able to digest and and and and

50:15

learn from from all those experiences. So it

50:17

was it was actually a

50:20

blessing. It was a blessing.

50:22

I had Drew Skale on my show and he said he would

50:25

on tour with you. He

50:27

said, it's unbelievable

50:29

the amount of distractions that's going on,

50:31

like girls just running everywhere.

50:33

With your laser focus on what you need

50:35

to do.

50:36

Yeah, because because because I look

50:38

at it, like these people spending money

50:40

to come see me, like even to this day, like

50:43

you spend a ticket or whatever

50:45

for your family coming through with your it's kids,

50:47

there's grown people there, it's all ages.

50:49

But the one thing.

50:50

I need them to do is leave happy. I

50:52

need them to leave, not not for my pockets.

50:55

You know, they need to leave happy for my soul.

50:57

Like this this ability that I'm made

51:00

able to have, or this this talent that I'm

51:02

going with, I want to express it

51:04

with love the frequency I want to give out his love.

51:06

So like that's what gets me going. And when

51:08

they when they get coming here, I'm excited.

51:10

I'm more nervous than they is.

51:12

So but but I'm gonna make sure that they gonna

51:15

leave and be like, you know what I got my money's worth?

51:17

Man.

51:17

I read that you this guy broke up

51:19

with his girl. You call this girl up on

51:21

stage and gave the lady, gave

51:24

the young lady a lap bad and he

51:26

broke up with a prie.

51:27

You do that man. See it wasn't

51:29

intentional, but happen.

51:32

See I didn't know she had a had a had a

51:34

guy.

51:35

That's her fault. Because she knows she had a guy.

51:37

She should have said it.

51:39

She definitely should have said my My

51:41

dancers pull up a girl on stage

51:43

during our set, and we usually we just we

51:45

usually like to give the fans an opportunity.

51:47

But sometimes it's very very very.

51:50

Attractive women come and say so I'm

51:52

like, okay, cool.

51:54

So me grinding on him. They don't really

51:56

have a problem with it. It's just I

52:00

guess she had a man there, right, So but I

52:02

didn't know. I didn't find out that. Afterwards. I was like, man,

52:04

we should have just do we send

52:07

him flowers or sending her flowers?

52:08

Should said no, see,

52:12

I mean not that, no, no, no, no, the

52:15

lady. See, if I'm out with a

52:17

young lady, it's not my job to check the

52:19

guy.

52:19

It's her job.

52:20

She should have been like, no, you know, there you go, and I can't

52:22

come up.

52:23

I'm with someone, right, And if a lady check

52:25

on me, if you're not gonna be forget it there

52:27

you be like okay, great, right, and you'd

52:29

have been okay, but.

52:31

He gonna he the one man. But I'm

52:33

surprised. First of all, I commend

52:35

him for going.

52:36

Yeah, I mean not a whole lot of guys

52:38

are going with the girls that they

52:40

might.

52:41

Go, but.

52:44

They might be a little bit further back, like, nah, you ain't getting

52:46

from right, he's not finna look at.

52:48

You at let's talk

52:50

about I'm looking at the Grammys. Yeah, and

52:53

you have one. But

52:56

reading you and researching this, you

52:59

feel you should have.

53:01

Yes, I feel like a lot of artists feel like they should have

53:03

one.

53:04

Uh, But you know, I feel like I don't

53:06

want to discredited Grammys or discimins

53:08

or feel like the angry artist when it comes to

53:10

that.

53:10

I feel like he will be the first, he will be the last.

53:12

Yeah, I feel like it's just I feel like music

53:15

out of state right now is it's

53:18

not based on what people love. I

53:20

feel like I feel like, well with the

53:22

Grammys, no disrespect to y'all, but I

53:24

just feel like it's a lot of old ears over

53:26

there, a lot of old ears. There's a lot of people

53:29

that's that's not really too th into what's going

53:31

on. So and and you know, it's

53:33

just it's a broad range of artists that I that I

53:35

can think of now that that deserve more

53:38

Grammys and more recognition. But

53:40

you know, I feel like at this point in my in

53:43

my career, in my life, I'm like, you know what.

53:45

I have one? Right, that's

53:47

good enough? You know for me, I feel

53:49

like.

53:50

He lonely, though he could be lonely, but

53:53

but he could be lonely. I'd rather mind

53:55

what what I get, what I get my

53:57

joy from is feeling them stands

54:00

like I could care less about getting

54:02

on the stage where I would love to get on the stage at a Grammys

54:04

or any awards.

54:06

I don't have a problem with it.

54:07

But it doesn't feel my heart more than

54:09

it does to see twice

54:11

as many people in a a

54:14

in an arena, or I'll go over and

54:16

I sell out six nights like that.

54:18

That's priceless to me.

54:19

Right, So I feel like I've just started

54:22

loving what I love the most about

54:24

what I do, just.

54:25

The music and the passion, and just focused on

54:27

that.

54:27

You caught some flat because you wrote Robert

54:29

Glasper you say, who is this

54:32

cat?

54:32

Yeah?

54:32

And I mean he did the single

54:35

the song with Michelle and Diegoceello, who's

54:37

my favorite all time artist and her great

54:40

song, and you

54:42

you know, you say no disrespect.

54:43

You took it back. Tell me what

54:46

your mindset was. Okay, you're sitting at home, impulse.

54:51

So that's where hold up? Who the homeboy?

54:54

He give me that because you about to do something, You about

54:56

to do something, Give me that and put it in.

54:57

His back pocket.

54:58

Yeah.

54:58

They probably was maybe fifteen

55:01

seconds to letter by that time, I

55:03

think.

55:03

But at the time, because me, I

55:05

was missing for him.

55:06

So even even when I had to I had to do my research

55:09

and like, you know what this these guys,

55:12

you know, and I reached out to him. I said, look, I

55:14

said, look, I don't want you to think that I have ill

55:16

ill will towards.

55:17

You or anything. Be sure work.

55:19

Yeah.

55:21

Yeah, So so he reached back out to me. So, yeah, we're

55:23

gonna, were gonna get in the studio work. But that

55:25

was me. That's you know, being a sorro push.

55:28

You know, are you disappointed

55:31

that the award shows, given your background,

55:34

given what you've done, given how you packed the

55:36

arenas, given how the numbers speak

55:38

more than Elvis and a.

55:40

Billion this and that, Yeah, that

55:42

they haven't allowed you.

55:42

To perform

55:45

at times you want

55:48

her to perform in front of your peers. I

55:50

want to showcase what I what I'm really capable

55:52

of at all times. But

55:56

I've taken I've taken my position to say

55:58

I'm not stopping right.

56:00

You know, So it'll happen. It'll

56:02

happen, you know, it'll happen.

56:04

Do you remember the last award show you performed

56:07

at?

56:07

My last awards show might have been

56:09

BT last show

56:12

might have been BT Awards.

56:14

Yeah, yeah, Kelly

56:16

rolled supported you.

56:17

Yeah, she got some criticism.

56:20

Yeah, I love you, Kelly. I

56:22

mean, what's I mean, Lizzo?

56:25

Yeah, say your favorite criticism

56:28

and cheering. Some others have come

56:30

to your like the man is unbelievable and

56:32

they call criticism. What is it with this cancel

56:34

culture?

56:35

I think it's I don't think it's even

56:37

the cancel culture. I think because my my fans

56:40

and the people who who do love

56:42

me, like they.

56:43

Kind of overshadow and I'm still here, you know. But

56:46

I feel like I just feel like people

56:48

are sensitive as hell today.

56:49

Man, Like we don't get we don't get to really

56:51

shoot the ship, or we don't get to say what we really

56:54

want to say. A lot of times, a lot of things. It's

56:56

contrive to conform. You don't get to be yourself

56:58

because you can't have it. And open expression

57:01

and freedom freedom to say anything if

57:03

you don't have to discredit anybody or or cut

57:07

anybody out, or say anything rude about anybody.

57:09

But I feel like everybody's too dairmb

57:11

sensitive at this point, right.

57:13

But you've mentioned some of the people that that's

57:15

in this business, Yeah, that have had some

57:17

transgressions, Yeah, that have been forgiven

57:19

and gone onto. And it hasn't

57:21

stopped you from making money. But those

57:25

people were able to go back, be on

57:27

stage, get in movies, and do all

57:29

these other things.

57:30

It's my smile, and

57:33

I think I think it's I think it's because I think

57:35

people think I have a careless outlook

57:37

on it.

57:38

It's not that I have a careless outlet.

57:40

I don't care to make you believe

57:42

that I'm a I'm a great person or a good

57:44

person.

57:45

I'm just gonna be one. So I feel

57:47

like with that, you.

57:49

Know, I mean, and I don't take no

57:51

nonsense. I'm like, I'm I'm

57:53

a humble guy. I'll be cool, but I really

57:55

don't. I really don't take nonsense. I try to

57:57

stay in my lane, get out the way, don't bother

57:59

nobody. But I'm not gonna

58:01

take no nonsense.

58:03

If you were to get back, if if they called,

58:05

and says Chris this year's grammysh

58:08

we want you to perform.

58:09

Yeah you there, of course

58:12

I do it.

58:13

No, ill Will.

58:14

It wouldn't be ill Will because because it would

58:16

be about the performance. I would want, I would want

58:18

to get that to my fans. It wouldn't

58:20

be it wouldn't be necessarily about the Grammys.

58:22

It would be about putting on the best.

58:25

Chris and just and

58:27

just and just going out there and doing that.

58:29

You'll kill it.

58:31

This This might be the greatest book, This might

58:33

be the greatest stage performance.

58:37

Anybody's ever seen.

58:38

Well, I'm gonna try to make it that every time, every

58:40

time, anytime that opportunity gives, like

58:43

gives itself that opportunity, even.

58:45

On my on my when you come to my shows,

58:48

I want.

58:48

To make it like you're you're watching it

58:50

on an award show. I want it needs to

58:52

be theater. It needs to be needs to be

58:55

fun.

58:55

When you try to leave, you try to the fan.

58:58

You want the fan to leave, said,

59:01

I've never seen anybody do that before.

59:03

Yeah, yeah, every absolutely.

59:06

I want to do that every time. And and

59:09

just like I said, give them that joy and give them

59:11

that uh that it factor.

59:13

I'm trying to I'm trying to be the greatest

59:15

to do it while I still can do it.

59:16

When they say R and B is dead, Chris

59:19

Brown says, what.

59:21

It's not, it's not just hip hop is

59:23

is more prevalent. I would just say hip hop is

59:26

has has been influential.

59:29

Over the over the whole world. But I feel

59:31

like R and B.

59:33

R and B has has its place, and

59:35

there's a lot of there's a lot of R and B artists

59:38

out because I don't want to discredit it. It's a lot

59:40

of great R and B female wise and male

59:42

wise. I just feel like we just have

59:44

to have platforms. I feel like we need.

59:46

Bigger platforms to show music videos. I

59:48

think we need not just for R and B, just for

59:50

music period.

59:51

Like we used to have one on six in part, you know, we

59:53

used to have have outlets to where people

59:56

would be engaged and have to see you at a certain

59:58

time and have to be invested in your music

1:00:00

and certain things like that.

1:00:01

There's other avenues like that on the internet.

1:00:03

But Tyler Perry did by just just by BT,

1:00:05

so maybe he'll he'll bring one.

1:00:07

Yeah, yeah.

1:00:08

Let us let us start showcasing new

1:00:11

artists, new talent so people can and so

1:00:13

everybody just have to go find an artists, like,

1:00:15

like, let these talented artists be broadcasted,

1:00:18

like let them, let them, let them wrong.

1:00:19

I feel like it's it's needed.

1:00:21

I feel like I go to flip through my channels

1:00:24

unless I have to type in the name of the artists. It's

1:00:26

cool, but I would

1:00:28

like to be presented with artists like, oh man, that's

1:00:30

that's tight.

1:00:30

Who is that guy?

1:00:31

How do we get R and B? Will R and

1:00:34

B ever be what it once was?

1:00:35

Because I was talking Timberland, I thought I think it was Timberland,

1:00:37

and he says, I don't think it to be at

1:00:40

the height it once was.

1:00:41

The R It depends because

1:00:43

because everything shifts, there's always a shift

1:00:46

in music. Uh so, so it

1:00:48

just depends on the right artist, depends on the

1:00:50

right the right timing, the

1:00:52

season, what the world is, what the state

1:00:55

of the.

1:00:55

World is, what people are going through.

1:00:57

Like, you know, music, music, especially

1:00:59

R and B come from pain, a lot of pain.

1:01:01

There's a lot of pain on on the world.

1:01:02

But I think we're trying to I think right

1:01:05

there, everybody's trying to kind of like Negate

1:01:07

that trying to be like.

1:01:08

You know what, Hey, I just want to feel better.

1:01:11

I want to talk about substances and

1:01:13

records and whatever crazy stuff it is.

1:01:14

But I think I think I think it

1:01:17

has it's gonna be time for it.

1:01:19

What's your thought on AI you like

1:01:21

it?

1:01:22

It's yeah, I'm kind of, oh,

1:01:24

I'm kind of I'm kind of uh, I'm.

1:01:28

Fifty to fifty because the

1:01:30

capabilities of the scientific community.

1:01:33

I love it.

1:01:34

You know, they can make me sound like Chris Brown. That's

1:01:37

crazy, and then they won't need real Chris

1:01:39

Brown. See, I can play your half of that.

1:01:41

I said this, this, this, This is what I said

1:01:43

if I heard it when I hear when I hear the AI

1:01:45

version of Chris Brown, and it's just a

1:01:48

complete song, and it's a great song. I'm

1:01:50

gonna figure out if

1:01:52

we're gonna license our voices out

1:01:54

right, because I

1:01:56

know I'm not going to be the one to do it, but there's

1:01:58

gonna be an artist that's the I'm like, no, that's me, that's

1:02:01

me, right, and they just

1:02:03

and they're gonna they're gonna benefit from it.

1:02:05

But I'm fifty to fifty.

1:02:06

I feel like it takes away

1:02:09

a lot of the the mystery

1:02:11

or the artistry that makes you a beautiful artist.

1:02:13

Right, if you could just have

1:02:16

challenge beauty.

1:02:16

Yeah, yeah, it's crazy, but I feel

1:02:18

like I'm still I'm

1:02:21

in this technological world too, so I'm fascinated

1:02:23

with it as well.

1:02:24

You know, I'm gonna get you out here on these two right here.

1:02:27

You're a very good businessman, reported

1:02:29

that you own fourteen Burger Kings. How

1:02:32

are you able to become so business savage

1:02:34

at such a young age.

1:02:36

My team, my team, I've

1:02:38

been able to have a great team

1:02:40

that you know, I've been through my ups and downs, Like I

1:02:43

felt a lot financially in the beginning.

1:02:45

Just you know, uh, you make mistakes, yeah,

1:02:48

you know. But now it's about it's

1:02:50

about just trying to.

1:02:51

I want to.

1:02:51

I want to create stuff that's going to create

1:02:54

stuff, you know, right.

1:02:55

I want to be able.

1:02:56

To have stuff that's going to be here for everybody, for rajevity,

1:02:58

so and it doesn't necessari have to be titled

1:03:00

around uh my actual

1:03:03

name or brand. I just want to be able to have

1:03:06

a legacy for my for my family outside

1:03:08

of music, you know, I want to.

1:03:10

I want to be wealthy instead of rich.

1:03:12

You know. Okay, your catalogs,

1:03:15

that seems to be a big You own

1:03:17

your masters. Yeah, and you were one

1:03:19

of the youngest to ever do that at the age of

1:03:21

twenty nine.

1:03:24

Would you ever?

1:03:25

I mean a lot of you see a lot of artists selling

1:03:27

the catalog Is that's something Chris Brown would look

1:03:29

to do in the future.

1:03:32

I don't know, It depends it depends on I

1:03:34

would. I don't think I would sell them. I think

1:03:36

I might, I might do least

1:03:39

them out and stuff like that later, but I don't think. I

1:03:41

don't think I would because I feel like, as

1:03:45

a black artist, that's that's what we've been wanting

1:03:48

forever to be able to get that get our masters

1:03:50

right. So so for me to be able to do

1:03:52

that, like and be one of the first young cats

1:03:55

to do it, like it's like, oh my,

1:03:57

I beat the game. But I feel

1:03:59

like I feel like I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it at this point

1:04:01

because that's that's something my my children's

1:04:03

children's children can eat off, you know.

1:04:06

So I think I'm a temper.

1:04:08

The story by jockeys, jacque

1:04:11

said he came to a head. He lived in the

1:04:13

crib. Yeah so so

1:04:15

so Jock.

1:04:16

He's been around me since he was teenagers

1:04:18

bracest everything. Uh.

1:04:20

I've seen Jacqueze's videos through

1:04:23

through mutual friends.

1:04:24

That we knew, and I knew that he was a fan

1:04:26

of me, and I'm not. I'm not like if

1:04:28

I see talent and I see and I see the same

1:04:30

spunk that I had in my eye. But I was

1:04:33

like, you know, what this.

1:04:33

This kid is really really talented. So

1:04:36

he came to l A for like a week he was staying. He was

1:04:38

staying at a hotel. I was like, bro, why

1:04:41

you waste your money at the hotel? The

1:04:43

people we both know they had my crib.

1:04:45

We chill him. You good, bro, It ain't no

1:04:48

it's no no parents at the house gonna tell

1:04:50

you what to do. Come to the house. But so

1:04:52

I just showed him the ropes like he was.

1:04:53

He was around and he was able to He was able

1:04:55

to learn from me in the studio as well, Like like

1:04:58

so I would be in a studio with him and just teach stuff.

1:05:00

He was actually like, big bro, what's this? Is

1:05:03

this cool to do? This is not cool to do? And I would

1:05:05

just I would just telling him, hey, bro, don't don't do this.

1:05:07

Don't do what they doing. That's that's fine, you

1:05:10

know. So a lot of the things with John Cueze's

1:05:12

it's real family. So when I see him do his

1:05:14

thing and where he's at now, I'm proud

1:05:17

of him, man, because because I saw

1:05:19

the grind before before everybody else saw.

1:05:21

You know, I had Timberlon. I'm get

1:05:23

you out of him. This one he said he got some great

1:05:25

advice from you. He said, uh, you

1:05:29

called him and said, bro, don't do any more interviews. High

1:05:31

You remember that conversation.

1:05:32

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

1:05:35

because me, because you know Tims Timmys

1:05:38

is.

1:05:41

So I learned so much from him. But I remember,

1:05:43

you know, I love I love weed, so

1:05:46

so we used to smoke a lot of time. And then

1:05:48

I just remember seeing them on that's a don't do that

1:05:51

that well, don't do that. We can't

1:05:53

do it. It's not it's not a good it's not a good

1:05:55

look. It's not a good look.

1:05:56

You got a new sing single, the new singers out summer

1:05:59

to Yeah, eleven sol

1:06:01

album, leven solo album is on the way.

1:06:03

Yeah, what can your fans? What can we

1:06:06

expect from Chris Brown on this album? Less

1:06:08

songs, less songs?

1:06:10

Yes, only only saying that my fans good. I

1:06:12

mean because I'm used to putting.

1:06:13

I think my last album had like thirty

1:06:16

something songs. The one before

1:06:18

that had like fifty six.

1:06:20

Like, so it's a lot.

1:06:21

Can we get like twelve thirteen?

1:06:23

Yeah, it's the albums.

1:06:25

The album's gonna be called eleven eleven, right, it's

1:06:27

my eleventh album and it's only gonna have eleven songs.

1:06:30

Right, so but eleven eleven is

1:06:32

gonna be released in November.

1:06:34

No, we're trying to figure it out. Possibly,

1:06:37

but we're trying to figure it out now right. As

1:06:39

of now, I'm still in the studio. We

1:06:41

got a lot of good records that I've been cutting and

1:06:44

in the new song, I just put it. I just put that out basically

1:06:46

to just have something for the summer.

1:06:48

Have people haven't feeling good again, because I know it's

1:06:50

about to start getting hot hot out here,

1:06:53

so let's just have fun. I'm you

1:06:55

know the videos coming, were about to dance about

1:06:57

the dance, about the dance again on them.

1:07:00

Congratulations with all they success, y'all.

1:07:02

Thank you performing at DRE on the twenty nine.

1:07:04

Yeah. Fight, Yeah, you're gonna be in the fight.

1:07:06

I'm gonna be at the fight.

1:07:07

Oh yeah, i' gonna be that too. So yeah, we got a link up man.

1:07:10

Thank you, brother, Congratulations of all these success.

1:07:12

Thank you for having me, God blessed brother.

1:07:14

Thank you, brother, Chris Brown.

1:07:17

All my life, grinding all my life, sacrifice,

1:07:21

hustle, bad the price, want slice

1:07:23

got the brother all my life.

1:07:26

I've been grinding all my life, all

1:07:28

my life, grinding all.

1:07:29

My life, sacrifice, hustle,

1:07:32

bad to price, one slice, not

1:07:34

the brother, all my life.

1:07:36

I've been grinding all my life.