The Breakfast Club - Best Of 2024 Full Interview: Tank Talks 'R&B MONEY THE VAULT,' Upcoming Tour, Old Vs New R&B, TGT, Flavor Flav, Jamie Foxx + More

Episode Date: December 24, 2024

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It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Naga. We are The Breakfast Club. We got, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy, we are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes indeed. The brother Tank. What's up Tank? You want a win. You know I'm in here man.

Looking younger and younger every time we see you man. Yeah yeah, I use a good exfoliant. Oh yeah, okay. You know what I'm saying? What's your routine in the morning? You got a face routine in the morning? No. Well I use my wife's beauty tools and stuff, you know what I'm saying? What's your routine in the morning? You got a phased routine in the morning? No. Well, I use my wife's beauty tools and stuff.

You know what I'm saying? Xena Foster Beauty. Get over there, gotta get you a free package. Yeah, yeah, I get you right. But that's about it, you know what I'm saying? Lil' Dove. There you go. You know what I'm saying?

I keep it clean. Tank always happy. Every time you see Tank, be happy. Yes, yo. Okay, wherever you see Tank, if it's a club, if it's out in the street, Tank is happy like it was in a good mood listen she's apparently been listening to my music so I feel good about that somebody been in this didn't get out

She said, ugh, this ain't funny. You know what I'm saying? This is serious. Congratulations to you though. Thank you so much. That's really awesome. I'm really happy for you. Do you make your music for those moments? Hell yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's, I mean, that was kind of the point in the beginning, you know, like everything we do is for the attention of a woman or women for that matter, depending on how you plan it, you know what I'm saying? So for me, musically, like, I wanna be connected to as many of those moments as humanly possible. I wanna be responsible for bringing life into the universe.

Have people come up to you and say, I never did it, my girl, cause of you, I shot the club. I've met the kids. Damn. He's here cause of you, damn. I'm not my girl because of you I shot the club. I've met the kids. He's here because of you Tay. Yeah, I was born because I've met the I'm that old now you know what I'm saying to where I've met the children. Yes. The offspring of my music so I'm really proud of that. Absolutely. I see it feels like R&B especially the 90s-2000s R&B has picked up a lot more.

Have you noticed that as well? Absolutely, the feeling. I wouldn't ask you that. The feeling of it is what's back. People want to, and what's crazy is that, of course I give credit to the women for keeping R&B in the mainstream conversation, right? They have been kicking ass and taking names, right?

But I gotta give some credit to hip hop to the sampling of all of this old R&B that they've been bringing back to the forefront and making people take a deep dive into what those samples are and rediscovering the original feelings and now desiring those things. Give me some examples. What's...

Shit. So much. I was just listening to Doja Cat. Doja Cat just did it. She just had a number one record. Her record. With the Troop record. I mean, it's originally Jackson 5. But all I do is think of it. Got you, got you. I was like, ugh.

You remember the first time you heard True? Shout out to little Steve and them, like, Chucky Booker and them, like, that type of reduction. They don't even do that no more, so you have to actually outsource it by going to the crates, you know what I'm saying? And bringing that feeling back, and they don't know why it's connecting.

We know, because we were there. But it's something about that frequency that just makes you feel good. I would go happy if I knew. Even when you, like your first, you did it with your own music. With my own music. Like you recreated I Deserve.

And was it, no it wasn't Please Don't Go. You recreated two. I did, well one of my own with I Deserve. I was like let me sample it for somebody else sample it Mm-hmm cuz they're gonna take all the money that is so good and then and then I know it was a brime Ignite one that you did you okay? So it was Brian me not originally Michelle and Diggle cello. Okay, you know Yeah So there there was that and I was like, you know what?

I might as well get in on this too cuz we rarely do that and I was like, let me just tap into some old And of course Brian good night, you know one some old, and of course, Brian and I, one of my inspirations growing up, and Michelle and Diggle Chella was just absolute one of my favorites. Amazing. So I just had to get some of that. I was gonna ask you, man,

that was one of my questions I have for you. Is R&B music a sound or a feeling? It's both. It's both. Because it's like the feeling is expressed through the sounds. You know what I mean?

Like you, like think about like Devante. Like how was he feeling when he made that? When they were making Jodeci music? Like what was he on? You know what I'm saying? When Casey says, take my money, Jesus Christ. My house and my car.

House and my car. For one hit of you. Okay, Shaw. Ain't no pussy that good. Let him work, let him work. You gotta mean that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In order for it to resonate.

Right. Like yes, you can take my money, my house, and my car for one hit of you, I mean that to this day. To this day, I mean that. But you don't hear that now. Out of that soul and that feeling. By the way, that's just a slick way of telling somebody I'll give you the world.

That's what you're really saying. Yeah, but we moved into this, you know, we moved into this kind of, you know, simp and all of these things when it comes to taking care of women. Or expressing love. I just think that men are just, they've been programmed to not be vulnerable.

You know what I'm saying? They've been programmed to not cater. I don't know who started that. You know what I'm saying? It ain't pimping, it ain started that. You know what I'm saying? It ain't pimping, it ain't player. You know what I'm saying? Because all the pimps and the players, I grew up watching, taking care of they women.

But where did it end? Like what era did it end? Because even early Trey Songz was singing his ass off to the women and expressing his love. I think it was when the R&B singers started wanting to be rappers. And when a lot of these R&B singers probably started having sex with the rappers.

I think it is exactly what Tank said. These guys are, are. You hear what you said? Yeah, yo, but I'm trying to go over that, yo. What you say, yo, say it again. That's what I think what it was. Say it again. I think when the R&B singers started wanting to be rappers

and a lot of the R&B singers started wanting to be rappers and a lot of the R&B singers started sleeping with the rap. I don't even know what that means. Not saying that a man can't make songs about another man and it still be a love song. Just saying, I think that they started loving on each other so much that they really was on some F the women stuff. Yeah and I think-

I wish I could have seen Tank face. Tank was like, what the? No, but I also think that with the wanting to be, with hip hop's emergence, right, it became this really cool thing that was taking over everything, the airwaves, the radio, the clubs and all of that. And so as R&B artists getting left behind,

we're trying to figure out how to compete and stay relevant. And so you in the club and you, you know, you're a decently hot artist, but none of your songs are being played in here. And all the songs are about bottles and they're about cars and they're about money. And it's about, it's not about women, it's about bitches. And so it's like, well shit,

I gotta incorporate some of this into my music if I'm gonna survive in this new landscape. And so as we took that turn, or as R&B took that turn, it never found its balance. I think it's the DJ's fault. And I'll tell you why. Because there used to be a time when we was growing up in the clubs, there would be a moment

where the slow songs played. Yeah. Absolutely. Regardless, y'all don't turn down there, everybody be on too much drugs. Well, yeah, yeah, I mean, there was a time, and usually it was at the end of the party, but now it comes back. Now I have a set in the middle of my party

where I play R&B music in the set, and that's usually the biggest part of it, because people are singing, they feel that, how it felt to be during that time. So it does go back, I would say that, but I just feel like it doesn't make it cool anymore. Somebody talks about singing in the rain anymore or talking about the girl hurt their feelings.

I was listening to Boyz II Men record and he was telling his girl cheated and he was like, it's okay baby, I just want you back. I just didn't care. I just didn't care. But if somebody did that now, they'd be like, look at this simp ass. You know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen, I still do it. I don't care. You still what? Simp? If that's what they wanna call it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we supposed to, we married. We married it.

Like, if I wasn't married, that's still what I'ma be on. Showing that you can be vulnerable as a man, like you know, you open it up. And then, I'm telling you, I don't care, that's what, I guess I can only speak for me, but I can speak for a lot of women too. Like, that is attractive when a man is not only just thinking bottles, bitches,

yeah, this what I'ma do. No, you guys speak to my soul and music, and a lot of older R&B does that for me. I don't hear today. Yeah. I don't subscribe to any of that stuff. I don't care what they do or how the tables turn. I do the R&B that I love, that I fell in love with.

You know what I'm saying? I watch my older uncles and everybody, I still follow their motto. And my job, I'm responsible for maintaining the line to where we treasure and we cater and we take care of our women. And the other thing too, I think the art of lovemaking is gone.

Like if you listen to like the album that you and Jay Valentine did and that song Slow, you have had to have made love in order to truly appreciate that record. You, sitting on my face, that's my type of view. Come on, talk to him, talk to him, man. God damn it. He's serious.

It's a low skip. You have to be, listen, men, I wanna say this, I wanna put this out there, and I'ma say this this way, and then we'll fix it Up later. You have to fall back in love with pussy You have to fall back in love with the idea now, let's clean it up of making love to a woman And doing it at a high level.

That's right. That's right. That's right. Listen, you have to study a woman. That's right. You have to ask questions. You have to learn her body in order to do this thing the right way.

That's right. Every key does not start, one key doesn't start every car. That's right. Every key does not start, one key doesn't start every car. That's right. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I know where you're going. You gotta be curious about that thing.

That's right. Right? And outside of the curiosity, you have to have an affinity for it. That's right. You gotta have a love for it. You gotta enjoy it. Sit it on my face.

Yes! That's my point of view. My type of view. Oh my goodness. Yes! Huh? Can I swim in your ocean? Can I swim in your ocean? Come on now.

You better. All right, I'm scuba diving. Let's go. I love this shit! Yes. Yes. Don't do it to fitness. Do it because you love it!

Listen. Listen, my wife will tell you, you just eat it and beat it. I didn't even. I didn't even. I didn't even. I didn't even. At a high level. That's right.

That's right. I treat her like she knew. Every time. Talk about it. All right. Pause. Talk about it. That ain't no pause.

You talking about your wife, ain't no pause. We was facing each other. I was just looking at you. I'm going to fuck back at you. I'm going to fuck you in the club. I don't care when I'm you in the club. I don't care what no other niggas is doing. That's right. That's right.

Listen, when we used to be in the club with Jamie Foxx, and Foxx would look around in his sex face, too many dudes in here! Y'all gotta move! That's where I'm from. Yeah. Where the women at? That's right, that's right.

That's my focus. All right, all right. And that's not a diss, that's just the truth. Yeah, it is. That's why I got all this nice shit on, man. Your R&B singers, I would assume their muse is women at all times. That's the point.

Yeah, yeah. That is the point to have some type of spiritual or physical connection with a woman. So that's what we're getting in the vault. That's what we're getting, we're getting more of that. More of that. More of that feeling, shout out to Fab. Fabulous is, when I say stand up brother, absolutely man.

I mean pulled up for me, not just on the song. And you know sometimes, when you're dealing with an artist of the magnitude of Fab, it can take you a good four to six months to get that feature. He's moving, he's an obby dauby, he's moving around. This man said, I got you, as soon as I get back, I'll be back in a week and a half, two weeks, I got you. Not only he knocked that out, said, when's the video,

when we shoot? Cool, I'm on the way. Then said, man, where the assets so I can promote? Fab is coming from a different generation. But he's still fab, you know what I'm saying? And so your access to him, regardless of how cool you are, is still limited. Right, cause he's doing what he does. Absolutely.

And so for him to make himself available to me and for this record, man, which is really, really big. Before we get started. Before we get started. And it's racist, in terms of climbing the charts, it's my fastest record. Oh wow.

Why do you think that is? Tempo. Okay. People have been waiting for tempo from me. I got the slow and the mid. I got that. But now they done let me get some tempo. Now you done fucked up.

So you did this on purpose. You wanted a tempo, right? Oh absolutely. Yeah, this is calculated. This is on purpose. I needed the right one. My guy Dirk sent me this record. I said, you do not know what you have just done.

You gave tank tempo? Crazy. It's crazy that you still trying to make new records at this point. I mean, not saying that you can't, but you have such a catalog. You really don't even have to if you don't want to. I do.

Because I don't remember that last hit record. I don't remember it. I don't live in it. I don't live in that last outfit that I wore. You know what I'm saying? Every day is, okay, what's next? How can I beat that? That was cool because I'm watching around me. You know what I'm saying?

If need be, I'll drive up to CB's house, you know what I'm saying, and let him play me a thousand songs. I'm like, shit, I got more work to do. You know what I'm saying? I'll look play me a thousand songs, I'm like, shit, I got more work to do. You know what I'm saying? I'll look at the charts and see who's on there. I'm not. Okay, I got work to do.

That's what drives me. It's so many new things happening every day that I'm like, ooh, I gotta compete with that. I gotta fight with that. You know what I'm saying? And it gets me up for game. Now you're healthy in how you are as far as not drinking and all the things that you do.

Is that from what place? Is that from a place of you seeing people your age doing it and you're like, damn, they don't look as good? Or is it from a, I just wanna be healthy type of place? It's really healthy. I mean, it's really like, I'm an athlete first. So for me, it's very important, you know, what goes into my body,

because what goes in is what comes out. You know what I'm saying? I've often been in the gym, and my motto to myself is what will Floyd do? What will Mayweather do? You know what I'm saying? Because I've watched him buy 30 bottles. You know what I'm saying? I've've watched him buy 30 bottles, you know what I'm saying?

I've watched the people around him rolling up smoke and I've watched the people around him just indulge. I watched him do none of it and then grab his stuff out the back of the truck when we leave the club and run home. I said, that's what a billion dollars looks like. I want that. So when me and my guy, Gaines, get in there,

it's not a game. This part of what I do, as it correlates to who I am as an artist, it's not why I do it. I would be doing this anyway. You know what I'm saying? I wanna be 150. You know what I'm saying?

Still pulling up to the Breakfast Club. 150? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shoot, ain't no one gonna be here. We ain't gonna be here. Listen, I pray y'all are still here, but if y't we both gonna be here then? We ain't gonna be here. Listen, I pray y'all are still here, but if y'all not, I'm still. I think I'll be here, I got 101.

You got 101? Listen, I, why can't we? Yeah. 150? Why not? About 100, 150? Why not? I'm not gonna say we can't,

I'm not gonna put a limitation on it, you know what I mean? It's all in what you're putting in. Did what happen with Jamie scare you too? Yeah, absolutely. And you know, you just, it just goes back to the idea of you just never know. You just never know. And it's not something you can predict,

not something you can, for his situation, prevent. You know what I mean? Sometimes your body will just, you know, the alert is detrimental, right? Your body telling you something is wrong is sometimes, you know, the alarm is damn near fatal. You know what I mean? And that's just life. And so yeah, it's scary.

I mean, just not, just cause he's one of my best friends, but just like, it could have easily been either one of us. You know what I find interesting about that situation too, cause you talk about giving people their flowers while they're here. When it seemed like Jamie, I don't wanna say this, but may not have made it, like people didn't know. Everybody was giving him his flowers.

As soon as he made it, all of that kinda just stopped. It went away. It's like when he was, we were a priest, Jamie's the greatest of all, he's one of the most talented human beings, and as soon as you realize he's okay, it's like all of that stopped. We, I wanna say our culture, we have a thing about that.

You know what I'm saying? Somebody passes and then we run the music up the charts. You know what I mean, I wanna say our culture, we have a thing about that, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, somebody passes and then we run the music up the charts. You know what I mean? We have a thing about our legendary artists that we just don't preserve until it's too late. You know what I mean? I was having this conversation yesterday

about Boys To Men, right? Boys To Men is the highest selling group of all times. Not the highest selling black group, the highest selling group of all times. Not the highest selling black group, the highest selling group. Wow. Really? And I actually remember, I actually remember a time where I was sending my sister to go see a Boys To Men concert

at a venue that only held 400 people. How is that even possible? That we let boys to men get to that, now they back now, they six, seven fingers do good now, right? But how is it that we let that happen? Whereas in the Rolling Stones can pop out every summer. So it outstayed.

That was gonna say that, we think they're not that good and they should be that good. If they the number one teller, they should be on some Rolling Stones will do the guardin' three times, four times, four times, five times in a row every year. You too. We can run down the list of those legendary artists

from those other cultures that still get to run it up. And we just throw our legends away so casually, like they didn't build this. We can't do that. Exactly. What highest selling group in what category? R&B. I mean.

R&B maybe? I don't know. Boys To Men? I don't know, I'm looking at it. I'm asking, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Google that. Yeah, Mr. Dexter's laboratory. Exactly.

Dexter? Always. Look it up. Yeah, Boys To Men, yeah. But you're right, but even think about it. High selling R&B group of all time. But even think about it like this, no disrespect to Michael Bivens,

Michael Bivens should be a hundred millionaire if that's the case because he founded them and them records are still moving. Well, I mean, that's business, right? And so, you know, I was in the boy, I was in the new edition story, you know what I'm saying? So how all that business came about and what went on behind those,

that's something, that's a different conversation. But ultimately, yes. You know what I'm saying? The conversation should be, Michael Bivens pioneered X, Y, and Z. Let's make sure that he has a job or a high level position curating the next generation of, you know what I'm saying?

When people come on my podcast, like I yell at all these people. I yell at Sean Garrett, I yell at, you know, all these pioneers who come on our podcast. I'm like, what are you doing? Mike Citi, what are you doing? You know so much about this game. You've curated so many moments, so much music,

have blessed so many artists. What are you doing? You know this. What are we doing to preserve our genre of music? And so, you know, I've challenged everybody and we're taking the challenge on too. R&B Money is taking on the challenge. R&B everything.

R&B Fest. The R&B Money podcast with Tank and J Balvin on the Black Effect iHeart Radio podcast network. What is the meaning of the R&B Money? Like Tank and J Balvin on the Black Effect iHeartRadio podcast network. What is the meaning of the R&B Money? Like why is it to podcast? Why is it the albums? What does that mean? What does that brand mean?

R&B Money. People love money. People love the idea that something makes money. That is successful and that is just attractive to people. The word money, right? You can't get past it. and that is just attractive to people. The word money, right? You can't get past it. Like as soon as you heard young money,

it's like oh them some young niggas getting money. As soon as you heard cash money, oh they money isn't all cash. Like you just love money. And so for me it's like associating R&B with success, we could be deep and put some other nuances to it, you know what I'm saying? A glamorous R&B, you know what I'm saying?

Or top shelf R&B. No, for simple people, R&B money. R&B money. This is how we live, and all this you see came from R&B. That makes sense. When I listen to a song like Wanna Love, is love when it comes to R&B, the sound or the feeling, is it simply sexual? No.

No, no, no, it can't be. Because love is not those things. We say wanna make love, it sounds good. You know what I'm saying? That's just the physical aspect of it. But love is the choice you make about somebody every day. It's not an actual feeling. Love is a choice that you have to make every day.

So I'm rocking with you, right? Good or bad or ugly. Like when we just talking about, when he said, I know you were seeing that other fella. That's part of it. I didn't marry into perfection. I married under the idea that, hey man, whatever it is, we just gonna rock through it.

I chose you to walk through life with. And that means. What's up y'all? So on a recent episode of Quest Love Supreme, my co-hosts, I'm P. Bill and Sugar Steve and I sat down with the King at rock of the Beastie Boys. We talked about the early days of the Beasties, thinking for records around the globe,

and now he makes music these days in a cabin in the mountains. Oh, and this jewel. I was trying to start a band in the 90s called the Nasal Tums. Me and Q-Tip and MC Milk and Be Real. Listen to Quest Love Supreme on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, y'all, I'm Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, host of Therapy for Black Girls. And I'm thrilled to invite you to our January Jumpstart series for the third year running. All January, I'll be joined by inspiring guests who will help you kickstart your personal growth with actionable ideas and real conversations. We're talking about topics like building community and creating an inner and outer glow. I always tell people that when you buy a handbag, it doesn't

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Listen to Therapy for Black Girls starting on January 1st on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Sup y'all, this is Questlove and I'm here to tell you about a new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. new podcast I've been working on with the Story Pirates and John Glickman called Historical Records. It's a family-friendly podcast. Yeah, you heard that right. A podcast for all ages. One you can listen to and enjoy with your kids starting on September 27th. I'm going to toss it over to the host of Historical Records, Nimini, to tell you all about it.

Make sure you check it out. Hey, y'all. Nimini here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Historical Records brings history to life through hip-hop. Flash slam, another one gone. Bash bam, another one gone. The cracker, the bat, and another one gone. The tip of the cap, cause another one gone.

Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history, like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl in Alabama who refused to give up her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. And if you get with me, did you know, did you know, I wouldn't give up my seat? Nine months before Rosa, it was Claudette Colvin. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records because

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host of the hit podcast, Family Secrets. How would you feel if when you met your biological father for the first time, he didn't even say hello? And how would you feel if your doctor advised you to keep your life altering medical procedure a secret from everyone? And what if your past itself was a secret and the time had suddenly come to share that past with your child? These are just a few of the powerful and profound questions we'll be asking on our eleventh season of Family Secrets. Some of you have been with us since

season one and others are just tuning in. Whatever the case and wherever you are, thank you for being part of our Family Secrets family, where every week we explore the secrets that are kept from us, the secrets we keep from others, and the secrets we keep from ourselves. Listen to Season 11 of Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Whatever comes with that. Love gotta be a feeling though, right? No, that's euphoria. Really?

Yeah. Break that down for me, take it. I ain't get there yet. Love is a choice. Okay. It's a choice, right? As we go back, let's say you're Christian, let's say you're a devout Christian, you're into the Bible.

The choice that was made was that Jesus said, I'm going to die for you. God so loved the world that he sent. Wasn't a feeling. He sent something in motion because that's how you show the love. I'm gonna send my son and then he's going to die. Another choice that he made, he didn't have to die,

he could've, he could've tore that whole thing down. But you only make that choice for things that you have feelings for, right? Like I don't wake up every day and choose to love something that I don't have any love for. It's a commitment. It's a commitment to your purpose, right? You get good feelings from it, you know what I'm saying?

Because that's just you being connected to the universe. Things feel good, you know what I'm saying? And when you're on a certain path that you're connected to, it feels even better because it's connected to your purpose or connected to, you know, like when you have deja vu and you're like, I feel like I've been here before, I feel like I'm supposed to be here.

You feel that, right? But that's just feelings. Love is a choice. I have to decide how I express that choice. And we just call it love. That's fine. So war is a choice too then? War is a choice too.

100%. Okay, you got a song? War is a choice too? 100%. Okay, you got a song on the new album called War. 100%. It made me say if you know your behavior is going to cause war, why choose it, Tink? Sometimes you can't help yourself. You cannot help yourself. We're not perfect people.

That is true. We're not. But you know you ain't supposed to spend that 10,000 in the. But you know you ain't supposed to spend that 10,000 in the club. You know you ain't supposed to come home late. Sometimes you can't help yourself. You're a married man, you're not supposed to do that. You ain't never been in a club

and the moment just got good to you, I just feel like we need three more bottles. We need three more bottles and we need five more thousand and ones. Not in the 40s. Not this age. No, I'm not saying right now. I'm just saying, when you started

really getting that money, what? Like when you're in the strip club and you're in a zone, You're talking to somebody that picks up singles off the floor though. That was back in the day. Relax. I was at war with myself. When you're in the strip club and you get in a zone, just bring me more wands.

I'll figure it out after this. Remember you could manipulate the, where you gonna get the money from? The machine? Remember you could manipulate the ATM on the weekends? A lot of people too young for that. You remember, you could go to different ATMs and grab money out based on the balance that you have.

On Friday. On Friday. And they would catch it until Monday. You'd be overdrawn like 1,500. Jesus. But I had to get to the strip club. They needed to see me. They needed to see me.

They needed to see me. And I couldn't come in empty handed. Yo, this man is crazy. How much have you spent at the strip club, Teddy? How much you think you spent at the strip club? I don't know. Oh, I'd say 10,000. No, I mean, the most in one night, man,

not something like, maybe like a little 40, 50, nothing crazy. 40, 50,000? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What you mean a little 40, 50? What's wrong with that? That's a lot of money, 50,000 dollars in a script club? In relation. To what?

To what you make. No. Someone who only, he said no. No. Can't say I'm acting my age, I don't know about y'all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 40,000. Sometimes you Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sometimes you save up for that moment. I've seen real money being spent in the club. You know what I'm saying? I've been with BMF with real money. That 50,000, I'm talking about it, nothing. They were storing all hundreds when I walked in with them. And like in Charlamagne fashion, I had my shirt out. I need to catch some of this.

I'm not gonna dance. But all this can't hit the floor. Like I've seen it. What do the script clubs do for R&B singers? We know why rappers go to the script club. Like, you know, they wanna get their music played, yada yada, what's the? Because at a time our music was being played in there.

So you forget my music is being played in the strip clubs. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, no, I host strip clubs. They call me and they play, they play when we, they play fucking with me, they play, yeah I got shit. Yeah, no you do, listen, home, when you dance, you got a song called When You Dance. When You Dance, I got shit, you know what I'm saying?

And so when they dance to my music, I have to reward them for that. That makes sense. You know what I'm saying? I have to take care of them for that. So you go to the strip club for free. The money that you make at the strip club, you give back. Just give it back.

He like, no, don't be dumb. It's the give back program. I remember when I hosted, I was the first artist to host King of Diamonds. And I remember when I hosted King of Diamonds, I think I might have got like 15 to 20 thousand for it. And I foolishly got all that in once. But I had a time.

I went back, played basketball, had some food. I looked up one time my guy Aaron Corsall, he was eating steak. Played basketball where? King of diamonds. Oh they do got a basketball court in Miami. They got a barbershop, basketball court. Barbershop.

Everything, everything that. They make it so y'all don't even need to leave. It's like nope. They had to soap, they had to sudge, you could get in the pool. I left one time seven o'clock in the morning. Wow. I was walking out, strippers was dressed.

You had a residency. We walked out together. You had a residency. A residency in the morning. Wow. I was walking out, strippers was dressed. You had a residency. We walked out together. You had a residency. A residency in a apartment. That was before you was married though. No? Yeah, well, war is just a depiction of that. You know what I'm saying?

This means war, look how late I'm walking in. I'm in some random club drinking with my friends. What does your wife say when she hears these stories? She's indifferent. You know what I'm saying? Because she don't like strip clubs at all. So she doesn't go with you? No, and I'd be like, babe, you should go with me. You know what I'm saying?

We had this rule where I wouldn't go and then I just started breaking the rules and was like, look, I'm going. Grown ass man, you can kill me. To where I can't go. But, you know, it was because I would go in there and I would kind of be irresponsible. You know what I'm saying?

If you're spending 50,000, is he probably like, tank? It's that, and so there's, okay, if you're gonna go, you're gonna have a good time, like, don't forget, you know, you got a family. Let's just, you know, so. Damn, how good of a time are you having when you forget you have a family, tank? You know how much of a time you must be having

in the script club, but at least you got a family? If she looking at the AMEX, you know what I'm saying, and then there's a tab for $12,000, it's like, what are we doing? What are we doing? Come on now. That's what you need a white boat. You need an accountability system.

I absolutely need that. So that's just kind of our thing. But in this song I just wanted to make sure to tell that story. Every man goes through this. You know what I'm saying? Where they just wanna do what they wanna do. They wanna do their thing.

I see you calling me, but you, I'm rocking right now. And so it's like you said, it's starting a war. You know you're starting a war. But you're like, you know, it's like you said, it's starting a war. You know you're starting a war. But you're like, you know what, I'll fight that battle when I get home. Fuck it, it is what it is. It almost got a country feel to it a little bit.

It's very country. Is that on purpose? Because of the time that's going, everything? No, I did this record three years ago. Wow. And I was like, oh, y'all finally caught up. Cool, I'll drop it. My guys, Javon, Co-Captains, they produced it. And when they sent it to me, I was like, oh, y'all finally caught up. Cool, I'll drop it. My guys, Javon, co-captains, they produced it.

And when they sent it to me, I was like, bro, this is so different. And when I wrote it, I was like, okay, let me tell this story. Because country is still a good place where you can tell those stories. The best. The best.

To me. And so that's where that came from. But I've been there. Everybody just now, you know, trying to be country. I've been there. A lot of these songs are a lot of these songs, songs that you have been done. I mean, is that why it's called The Vault? Because you think of a vault and you like, this is what I had been had. That one is the only one that I had already. What's the other one? Come Inside.

Damn. You know all about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was like, dang. I didn't hear that one yet. How you doing? Hey, that met her at a special place.

She just relived that shit. All right, all right. Yeah, she said, dang. That was the Kevin Hart damn. Okay, dang. And that record, and I had that record, but I did that record at the Love Camp for Puff, for Diddy, in his album.

And when he was going through records, this song didn't make the cut. And I called him, I was like, bro, because he was holding all the records. Because everything was done at the camp, He's mine. I paid for it You know saying I paid for the camp and and rightfully so he can do that You know I'm saying wherever will pay for that studio time and all that they so how did the camp work? He paid y'all to write records and he just kept well

I mean he created he created the atmosphere so bought the spot the studio set up the tents like he just did a whole Thing chef's bar This was in LA studio, set up the tents, like he just did a whole thing. Chefs, bar, like you know how to do it. This was in LA. I like it. Fantastic album that album was too, buddy. Great album. That album was fantastic. Great album.

You know, so I wasn't mad. I was like, man, there's some great music on there. I'm not mad. Josie did her thing on there. It was like a crazy album. But you know, a lot of times when artists have these records that, you know, they hold them until they need them. They'll use them for the next project or whatever.

And I hit them, I was like, Diddy, I need that record, man. Can you please, please let me get that record? Playboy, I got you, King, you good, man, run with it. And that was love on his part, man, because most artists, they don't do that. Exactly, for sure. How many did you write on the album?

I didn't write any on the album. None on the album? Yeah, I mean, I submitted a lot. I did a lot of work, but for me, like, it was, I don't really go to camps. You know what I'm saying? I don't go to the whole, you know what I'm saying, thousand producers, thousand writers,

but you know, when he hit me, he was like, bro, you're the best at it, and I just need you, I need you in the building. I need people to see that you're here, because that's gonna make people, oh oh thank you, I gotta go hard. I gotta go crazy. And so that was, I was there for the energy, but also to participate, work with Cardiac,

who's super dope, Eric Bellinger, all those guys up there, you know what I'm saying? Like the room, I mean when I say it was crazy, it was crazy. Like the people that came that showed up for Diddy for that camp, it was crazy. It was crazy. So I was just happy they let me walk with that record.

We're about to go on tour with another OG, Karl Thomas. Karl Thomas! One of the greatest R&B albums of all time. Oh my God. Not even close. And people, I've seen people ask me, people ask me why, why you choose Carl Thomas, why you choose Kerry Hilsson.

I'm like, you don't hear it. Emotional is literally one of the greatest R&B albums. You don't hear it. Top to bottom, love making music. You know what I'm saying, when we down at them do-ops with Mike Garner down in Miami and them Carl Thomas records come on, it's a thing. Absolutely.

Shit really happens. Play some of them Kari Hilsen records, like things happen. I was like, first of all, I wanna go on tour with my friends. I wanna go on tour with people I like. But then two, I wanna be out there, as this is an R&B money tour, I want the catalog to be expensive. Those are some expensive catalogs.

Kari got Hot 100s. Carl Thomas has timeless R&B. Timeless. I'm talking about, I'm in parties today, right now, with Summer Rain, they play that at the top, in the middle of the party, at the end, like they bring, what? And I grabbed the mic, I don't care where I'm at,

no karaoke even playing, I'm like, I sing the whole. Give me some, let me, give me a little. Oh my gosh, come on, Tank. You gotta pay, I sing the whole. Give me some, let me, give me a little. Oh my gosh, come on Tank. I, you gotta pay for that. Charlamagne has given us, you know, he's blessed us with his. Storming. Come on.

Outside when she keeps me home. That's my song, that's all you got. Yeah! That was, that was. That's the baby singing. That's what I'm talking about. That was my wife in college, but we got that done rocking with Carl Thomas. Carl Thomas is emotional and Joe, my name is Joe.

I gotta do a tour with Joe too. Yeah man. A tour and a song. I love that. People have been wanting that for quite some time. You know what I'm saying? I get you. You know, Joe likes to hide until it's time. You know what I'm saying? Like, well, you know, I'll be out Playboy. You know what I'm saying? You know, Joe likes to hide until it's time,

you know what I'm saying? Like, well, you know, I'll be out playboy, you know what I'm saying? I'ma pop out, I'ma see this guy. You mentioned it in everybody but TGT. I ain't hear nobody no Tyrese and Genuine, what's up with that? Yeah.

But you was in the studio with Reese, I saw you in the studio working on My Beautiful Pain. I was over there. Yeah. I think, you know, I think we're at a great place, man. We're at a great place where I think now we all, everybody collectively sees the value in what we are, in what we created.

And it's again, it's this resurgence of just that feeling of R&B. So you got two guys from the 90s who got classic catalogs. You got me coming in from the 2000s who came up under these guys. And people are hungry and thirsty for that. And so you're gonna see some TGT, you know, fortunately. Thank God you're gonna see some TGT, you know, fortunately.

Thank God, you're gonna see some. You got an album or? Nah, I don't know if we have an album, but we do have a couple moments that we're lining up that are gonna be very special. So that's all I can really, really say about that. And I saw you the other night, man. I forgot, I don't know where y'all was at, but Flavor Flav was singing. He was. What was, I don't know where y'all was at, but Flavor Flav was singing.

He was. What was, I forgot what he was singing. What was it? We were honoring, they were honoring, I don't wanna get this wrong, the BP. I don't remember. You see there, I can't, I don't wanna mess up the name of the organization.

Ashana hit me and was like, we're honoring Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and we need you to do what you do. And I was like, cool, I'm in. You say Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and we need you to do what you do. And I was like, cool, I'm in. You say Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, I'm in. I don't care what it is. And so we're honoring them and Babyface is there. And I don't wanna pressure Babyface to sing,

but he's there. And I'm like, Babyface, if you wanna sing, you can, you don't have to. And they started playing one of his songs and we were singing and Face'm like, Babyface, if you wanna sing, you can, you don't have to. And they started playing one of his songs and we were singing and Face was like, nah, nah, let me handle that, young fella. And he started singing, just Flavor Flav just came out of nowhere and just started singing.

You looked surprised that he could hold a note. No, that wasn't a surprise. It was just like, think about it. It's like, why'd you take the mic from Babyface to give it to Flaviflav? There we go. There we go. My thing is Babyface is singing.

Gotcha. All right? Yeah. And Flaviflav has the gall and audacity to take the mic from Babyface. To run up and start singing against Babyface. Yeah. Yeah.

Why didn't you stop it? That's why the game need referees, Hank. You're supposed to stop that right there. You big enough to stop him, Pulse. At that moment, right, it only goes one way. It only looks like disrespect in front of that many people. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? Like to, now it's, now it's Flavor Flay, he is Flavor Flay. Let's not discredit him, he is who he is. And then I run up on him and say, hey nigga, Babyface singing, hold on right now, nigga, hold on, hold on. But didn't he disrespect Babyface in a way? Babyface has to fight that battle.

Right? Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Listen, and don't think that if Babyface felt the way, he wouldn't have handled it. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie.

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I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. if he felt the way, he would've, and I was kinda following his lead.

The babyface would've looked like he wasn't feeling it, then we would've handled that way, but it was all in good fun. It was all in good fun. Well, R&B money, The Vault is out right now. The Vault, say it again! The Vault is out right now, and we appreciate you for joining us.

We'll be out on the 26th. That's right. Yeah, it's out right now, right? Yeah, it's out right now. It's out right now? Okay. Are you gonna, what are you gonna do with this music? You out right now. It's out right now. Oh, okay. What are you gonna do with this music? You already know what I'm doing.

I got a way, I ain't too much I can do right now, because I can't get pregnant twice. In one, you know. How far along are you? Five months, I'm about to be six. Five months? Yep. That's a good time.

Yeah, I'm still, look, I'm still on army money. You can still move a groove in five months. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm still moving a groove in. Trust and believe, I can't get ready to get. Let me tell you something. My wife is pregnant. It's some of the best. It's the best time ever.

Some of the best. Best time ever. Crazy. Crazy. Oh, the secretions. Oh, my God. Some of the best. It's some extra in there.

It is. Can I swim in your ocean? Oh! Can I drown in it too? These time of all time. I just. No, that's right. I know that your ocean? Oh! Can I drown in it too? I know that's right. I know that's right. You know how many people I put on the R&B money? It's a no skip.

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