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

Episode Date: August 2, 2024

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Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. A legend, an icon, man. The OG. Keep sweating, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome.

Yes, sir. What up? How y'all doing, man? How you feeling, man? I'm amazing. I'm great. I'm great. I can't complain.

Man, congratulations on receiving the key to the city in Harlem. That's right. Getting that this weekend. About time, Harlem. Yeah, about time. About time I got something.

About time I got something, baby. How's it feel to be recognized? Oh, it's amazing, man. You know, growing up in Harlem, two blocks away from Nopalo, you know, for those that don't know, 430 West on 25th Street, more in town than Amsterdam. It's an amazing feeling,

you know, to be recognized and get the key to new york city uh i mean i didn't expect it but you know i take it growing up did you see anybody receive it and you was like damn i wouldn't mind that not really you know i've seen you know not really uh but like i just want to make an impact on uh what I was doing in my music career. I wanted to do something that I could look back and say, damn, I did that. Make it last forever. What, 36 years? Somebody said 37, 36.

I don't even know. It's been a long time. It's been a long time. I spoke it into existence. You know how they say you can speak things into existence? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I spoke it into existence, I guess. Is there anything that, what else has Harlem done?

Harlem, I'm sure you've received other accolades from Harlem before, right? Nope. Wow, for real? No, no, no, no, no. And that's why I say it's, you know, I never got a Grammy. Never got a BET award. Never got, you know, I mean, I guess I don't play politics. I don't play politics.

I don't play politics well. You know how that is, you gotta play politics to get certain things. So I think my flowers are coming because I'm still able to headline shows. Still able to see like five, six, seven, 8,000 people at the shows. Still able to go on tour with people like New Edition and like we did that New Edition tour.

So I'm still able to do things like that. To me those are my rewards because I'm still able to do what I've been doing since the 80s. That's how you know awards and accolades don't really mean much. Cause I ain't even think about it. Like in my mind, Keith Sweat is one of the most decorated artists of all time.

Do you know what I'm saying? But you know, you can't take that to the bank you know what I'm saying but you know like the people you know uh uh acknowledged me and the people recognized me as being one of the people that opened doors for a lot of people that came out you know after me so I don't I don't really recognize it and then I look at all my friends like Tank and Bad Joe and all the people that still rock with me and be there for me when I call them and Johnny. You know, those type of things mean a lot to me. Now 50 Cent wanted me to ask,

are you going to Shreveport in two weeks? He wanted me to ask. He said, ask Keef, is he coming to Shreveport August 10th? Ask 50 if he's showing up August 3rd. Is 50 going to be the key to the city on Saturday? Ask 50 and stop writing songs about it. He's going to put that nine on me. That's my man, though, you know.

Like, you know, 50, I talked to him after the show the other night, so he made me laugh 50 crazy, but that's my man I saw when you posted a video and you had how to rob playing And I didn't even think about it cuz you just only think about all the rappers he was talking about But when you first heard that record what you think cuz I don't know if people realize that now keep sweat is really a street Nigga, that's right. Don't get it. That's right So what did you think when you first heard that record back in the day? Who this dude talking about? He going to rob me.

I mean, back in the day, I laughed at it back in the day because it was, you know, funny to me. You know, at least he said he was going to rob me and not do something else to me. You know what I'm saying? I mean, so I laughed at it back in the day. So it was funny because when he asked me, you know, when he asked me to come to Streetport, I was like, was like, you know, I always want to support, you know. Because I did this other thing in Houston a year before that. Tycoon, yeah. That tycoon fest, and that was fly.

So, you know, when he asked me to come, I just said, man, I'm going to Zoom this to you. He said, this boy crazy. He said, what's wrong with these R&B niggas? They crazy. You know, the R&B dudes is the one that used to be fighting. They the one that fight. The rappers chill.

The R&B dudes be fighting. But I left before they started fighting at Tycoon Fest. I went and did what I had to do and left. And then I'm seeing Pleasure and all of them getting in the back. I said, what's wrong with them? So when I did that, he said, what's wrong with these R&B niggas? Y'all used to getting them little dust-ups back in the day too, said, what's wrong with him? You know, so when I did that, he said, what's wrong with these? Y'all used to getting them little dust-ups back in the day too, though, Keith. Little kerfuffles. Yeah, but you know,

you know, sometimes you know, I'm one of them people that you know, everybody know what it is. So, you know, I don't really have to say too much. I'll be like, alright, it is what it is. You know, sometimes I just let it rub off me. I'm gonna let it rub off me and then we'll talk about it when I see is what it is you know sometimes I just let it just rub off me I'm gonna let it rub off me and then we'll talk about it when I see you but half the time I just

let stuff rub up because if you take everything and run with it you know I'm saying you'd be fighting with everybody you know I'm saying so sometimes you just have to let be because you know what it is so I'm not gonna fight with everybody you know like man come on pick and choose your battles yeah I pick and choose and when you come from a certain environment it don't be you sometimes it be the people around you right and sometimes people just want, you know, like man, come on. Pick and choose your battles. Yeah, I pick and choose. And when you come from a certain environment, it don't be you, sometimes it be the people around you. And sometimes people just wanna, you know, do stuff because you are at a certain point and they want you to bring them up to that point.

So messing with you, you allowing that, you're there being brought up to that point because you allowing yourself to get caught up in that ball, you know what I mean? Like I'm not, if I'm here and you there, we not, there's no conversation. Why am I even gonna address what you saying to me? It's not worth it.

You remember the first time you met 50? Yeah, going through an airport. Going through an airport. But we was cool going through an airport, you know? I mean, that's my man, we ain't got no problems, you know? I mean, period, that's my man. No issues, nothing. No, we all good, it's my man. We ain't got no problems, you know? I mean, period. That's my man. No issues. Nothing. No, we all good.

It's all good. Everything all good. I'm all good with everybody now. All right. And you got a new single, Lay You Down. And that hit number one on the Billboard Adult R&B Airplay Chart. How did that feel? Oh, that felt good, you know?

I feel like when I want to come out and get a number one record, I can just come out and do it, you know? Everybody don't do that. Keep sweat begging stuff. But it's already missing begging because, you know, back in the day, you know, people be begging for that woman. Come back, baby, baby, please, baby, baby, baby, please. A lot of people would stay with begging, you know, because, you know, I'm still doing what I do. Like I said, I'm still touring crazy. So the begging works for all those that said, you know,

I'm tired of hearing that begging, but, you know, they know who to put on when they want some. You know, I was thinking, we got a lady in the room, so I got to phrase this the right way. Maybe the poom-poom was just better in the 80s and 90s. Maybe it was worth begging. Yeah, I guess. Yeah, I guess.

Yeah, I guess. Don't act like you ain't ran through generations it's a different kind of poom poom nowadays now lay you down as a love making record too we had Tank up here and Tank said he feel like singing about making love is a dying art like people don't do it no more

nah they don't you know everything is just I just want to bang and that's it. Bang and we out. Bang and we out. Bang and we out. So, you know, that's why, you know, that's why I like, I'ma sing it. I'ma do the foreplay thing and then I'ma go ahead and see how far it get me. Maybe that's why the Pum Pum is a little different nowadays. Cause everybody just want to bang.

Maybe it's, yeah, no, you got, that's a good point, you gotta like, yeah, curate it, right? Like you gotta marinate it. Yeah, curate it, like marinate, put it in the refrigerator. And let it get to where it need to be, you know what I'm saying? It's like bacon instead of microwaving.

You gotta bake it and let it get ripe before you microwave it. Man, maybe y'all need to start pulling some of these young boys to the side and not just have conversations about what they singing about, but the life that you need to lead to even create these kind of records. You know what I mean?

Teach them some game. I don't know if they got no game. Man, you know, that's on them. I ain't got no game. I ain't teaching them. I ain't teaching them. I ain't losing what I got teaching somebody else. Do you think you could live in this era growing up with all the phones,

with all the social media? Because I'm sure you could imagine some of the things you did that nobody else know but you. Hell no. This is too much. As soon as you do something, people know about it. I mean, I'm glad I lived in that era where you could get away with certain things. You know, everything don't need to be seen and heard so i'm glad that uh i was able to experience that now experiencing this and

like i tell my sons i feel sorry for y'all you know because it's a different day and different times i really feel sorry for i mean this day and age you know like we had fun back in the day like and like crazy fun like it's like no fun really. But not only that like even when you see artists performing before you had to listen you were into the concert you were into the show.

Right. Now I mean when you perform how does it feel when you see 8,000 camera phones and you know what I mean you seen Busta Yella

at somebody in the crowd the other day but like put them camera phones down just enjoy the moment. Right, right. But you know

I mean that's the damn time we in baby. It is what it is. You just can't. It is what it is. You know, life goes on. Things go. It's going to be what they are. I see you about to go back out on tour, too, right?

Yeah, I got to get that money. The Sweat Hotel tour? Right, right. How many days you going to do? I mean, like, I get dates all the time. So it's like, as many as come in, it's fortunate, like I can do three, four shows a week, so it doesn't bother me.

Where a lot of people can't do that, I can still do that type of thing, my voice still holds up. So, I mean, if they give me, it doesn't matter. I mean, for whoever wanna see me, I'm coming. You feel like going out on the road? At the tender age of 63? Man, I love going out on the road, man.

I love showing people like, yo, I love showing people up. I mean, I love doing what I do. So, you know, I definitely wanna go out. I definitely love doing what I do. When people see me, they don't expect that my show has as much energy. I got 12 dancers, full band, you know,

do my change on nobody, you know what I'm saying? Like Sherri Shepherd said, when I go down and do that drop down and come back up, I do all that. I can still do that. Ain't nothing changed on the Sweat Hotel, baby. What about a residency? You ever thought about doing a residency?

I did a residency before. I did the Flamingo before. And I did that five years ago. I was at the Flamingo. And, I mean, I was going to do it. Did you like it? It's cool. It's like, you know, I think, you know, it just got sort of boring to me

because I was in one place one time, and all I did was gamble, go to club, gamble, go to club, do the residency. So it kind of got like, man, I'm tired tired of gambling I'm tired of being in one spot so after a while I just wanted to go around the country again so but I'm thinking about it depends on where they put me I mean uh last year I did there in Vegas was at the Palms so the casino it has to be the right casino for me to go into a residency what's your favorite has to be the right casino for me to go into a residency. What's your favorite place to be now?

As far as in Vegas? Just living. Oh. I don't know. I mean, I've been in Atlanta so long. And where I'm at in Atlanta, I'm in Alpharetta, Atlanta. I built everything in my house that I want. So my favorite place to be is Atlanta at home. Real talk. Real talk. everything in my house that you know I want so my favorite place to be is Atlanta at home real talk

real talk I mean I don't really like I'm an introvert I don't really like going the way you know I'm saying I like being home you know I'm saying and I got my room everything is in my one room my black room you know my fridge right make everybody know how I am it's like yo and if once I close that door, that means leave me alone. I won't be bothered by nobody. That's it. Right. You make a lot of love songs, right?

Like, How Deep Is Your Love, I'll Give All My Love to You. Has Keith Sweat ever truly been in love? Oh, yeah. You know, a few times, you know. But it is what it is. You got your heart broken. That's the question. Yeah.

Hell, yeah. Everybody get their heart broken. I just don't want heart broken, that's the question. Yeah, hell yeah. Everybody gets their heart broken. I just don't want to talk about it all the time. What the hell? What the hell do I want to see a heartbreak with y'all for? You just put it in music? Yeah, put it in music. That's all they need to hear, their music.

No way else. Leave me alone about my heartbreak. Are you taking care of yourself, man? You look good. Yeah, I take care of myself. You making your doctor's appointments taking care of yourself, man? You look good. Yeah, I take care of myself. You making your doctor's appointments? All the time, baby. All the time.

Get my IVs in and take my IVs. I do that weekly. Get my checkup. Everybody need to do that. Go to the doctor. Make sure you're good because you never know. You know what I'm saying? You might feel good, but there might be something going on.

I just did my thing with my heart, you know, brand. Cardiovascular test? Yeah, I did all that, yeah. So I'm good, baby. Yeah, man, I look at brothers like you, and you know, just for inspiration, because it's like, I want to be here. Yep.

You know, so when I look at somebody in their 60s, still getting it, still looking good, still doing what it is that they love to do, salute. Man, I don't smoke, I don't do none of that. You know what I'm saying? I drink once in a while, even though people be saying, yo, he drunk on stage. I'm like, where y'all get that bullshit from?

People be thinking you be drunk as hell. Like there's a little skit, there's a skit I do. Yeah. And you know, around the third song, you know it's basically you take the, I get my Hennessy and I sing a song, this ain't no tea, this is Hennessy. You know what I'm saying?

So it's a skit, so when I do it, people be like, nigga, I said, what the hell y'all doing? Like, if you got one person that say something, then everybody gonna say it. Like, I say, man, come on, give me a break. Like, the way I look, the way I take care of myself, somebody that's drinking all the time, don't run, you know, I run twice a day,

they don't do what I do. Come on now, give me a break with all that. So I just let it be. So now I got T-shirts that say, this ain't no tea ain't no tea this is fantasy buy my t-shirts in the front now you're still dating girls half your age yeah you know what i'm saying come on baby keep you man what did you man don't start that man here y'all go here y'all go here y'all go

I'm getting ready to get up and leave now I keep on one time Keith said to me Keith said he said y'all

man what I look like dating a woman in my head I said that shit ladies I ain't say that shit listen to the East side and shit

everybody was ladies I ain't say that don't believe this man don't believe don't come on y'all know I wouldn't talk about. Don't believe this, man. Don't believe it. Come on. Y'all know I want to talk

about y'all like that. Come on. Y'all look good too. Come on now. Now, you started some of your shows when I seen you and you sampled Drake,

the light skin, keep sweat. Right. Have you and Drake chopped it up at all? No. Never? I mean,

I saw him once and that was it. You know, that was it. Don't slob that either. I'm not going to say that. I was it. You know, that was it. Don't slob that either. Yeah. I know it.

See, you're getting ready to go somewhere with that, too. I know y'all. I'm going to cut y'all up at the path. I don't think a lot of people know about all the business ventures you got going on, too, man. You want to talk about that either? Yeah, we can talk about that. Okay. You got the luxury bags. Man. Platinum status bags. You got to talk about that either? Yeah, we can talk about that. Okay. You got the luxury bags. Right.

Platinum status bags. You got candles by Keith. Right. And you got the Twisted Pie Pizza restaurant in Atlanta. Right, right. What made you want to diversify your portfolio? Well, you know, when I first got to Atlanta, I opened a restaurant called Industry, you know, back in the day that people, you know, so I started there.

But, you know, I was the sole owner. And, you know, being the sole owner and me trying to travel. Hey, guys, I'm Kate Max. You might know me from my popular online series, The Running Interview Show, where I run with celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs, and more. After those runs, the conversations keep going. That's what my podcast, Post Run High, is all about. It's a chance to sit down with my guests and dive even deeper into their stories,

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It's lighthearted, pretty crazy, and very fun. Listen to Post Run High on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, I promise you, man. You know, and you know who can do it better than me? Nobody, baby. Nobody, baby. So no, I got that. You know, I executive produce movies as well. I saw that, what's it called, Trouble Man coming up. Trouble Man coming up. I'm one of the executive producers,

not the executive producer, but I'm working with Darren Henson on something, you know, and I'm executive producing that with him. What else I got? You know, I've done, you know, a few things. Stepmother, one, two, with Chris Stokes, not alone with Michael Jive that I executive produce. So I've been doing quite a few executive producing things on the movie side. When you look back on your whole career, is there a key to longevity?

Like if somebody younger than you said, what's the key to longevity? Is is there a key to longevity like if somebody was somebody younger than you say most the key to longevity is there really a key to longevity yeah you know you know well I just don't concentrate on one thing I got a various things I do you know just in case one thing doesn't work you know you can fall into another thing like yeah I know that yeah I know about that you just can't put everything into one situation because if you do, if that don't turn out, you kinda messed up. So I do real estate, all that. I do everything.

Anything that I feel like I can be successful at, and I do it. If you wanted to, you didn't have to though. You don't have to though if you don't want to. No, I mean because I play the stock market every morning. So I didn't play it this morning, but I'm up at 4 o'clock. When they open overseas, I'm watching the pre-market open. So I do that.

So I do quite a few things that keep me at a certain point in my life at this point. But everything I do now, I just do for my kids now. I mean, I just do for my kids now. I mean, I'm good right there. So what I do is to make sure that they're able to keep the sweat name, you know, growing and flowing. You know, I'm not, I don't care about, you know, it ain't about Key Sweat right now.

It's about Key Sweat Offspring at this point. So everything I do from going on tour to everything else is about making sure they good. What do you think about, you know, back in the day growing up, artists never really spoke about politics, right? But now it seems like everybody's looking for an artist to say something about politics, right? So what's your thoughts on that?

I mean, you know, I'm not one that speak on politics, you know, because everybody have an opinion as to what they should do. And if you say the wrong thing, there's people looking at you like you crazy, you know what I'm saying? So when I do my thing, whether I vote or who I vote for, I do it for, you know, I keep it to myself who I'm doing it in front,

because I just don't, I'm not trying to hear what people opinion about me. You know, I'm at a point, I'm too old for that, I'm not trying to hear all that, you know what I'm saying? It's like, if you feel a certain way, then, you know, that's you. If I feel a certain way, that's me. But, you know, people do need to vote. You know, I say that, you know what I'm saying? Because in order to have change, you have to be one to create change.

So don't sit around talking about what somebody else is doing or what somebody else is not doing if you're not voting. Point blank. You don't strike me as a person that even cares about other people's opinions. When was the last time you even cared what somebody thought? Never. I mean,

because, see, let me say this to you, right? I've learned this, right? You can get 85% people that'll say

something amazing about you and then 15, that won't, that 15% will bother you. And it's crazy because that 15%

will stick out more than that 85 because that's how we are built you know I'm saying so now I get to the point where man I don't even let it I don't even look at it I don't let it bother me I just run away but but sometimes it's it in some ways it has motivated me to even be better because sometimes them naysayers will make you feel like okay let me prove a point you know i'm saying sometimes that'll give you more more strength and more energy than all that other positivity that you're getting from other places so that's how i feel i i let that be my drive you know sometimes i let that negativity be my drive so that's why i guess i'm still in the

game because you know you had so many people when I came out that was hating. Well, you know, he can't sing better than me, or he can't do this, he can't do that. It's like, yo, come on, calm down, calm down. What I do is what I do. What you do is what you do. You know what I'm saying? If I win, I win.

If you win, you win. I don't care. You think they were just intimidated because you was the new hot cat? Most of the time, that's what it be. You know, most of the time when people come out, I just, I don't care about what somebody else do. You know, but most of the time people are intimidated. You know, why he doing this and why I'm not doing it or why is he in that position and why I'm not in that position.

You know, and I've done the same thing or I look better, I dress better. You know, that's how, you know, that's how people are. That's how they think. So, you know, you just allow them to do what they do and you do what you do and you gonna win at the end of the day, cause, you know, you can't get caught up in what somebody else is saying.

You be, man, you'll be a messed up person. You know, that shit'll drive you crazy if you worry about what this person is saying, what this lady, woman is saying, this person is saying over here. It should drive you crazy, you crazy man later for all that shit that's why i like what you said about the 85 and the 15 because nowadays with social media everything so that 15 will be so magnified and and sometimes niggas will just get on on there

to talk just to fuck with your day yeah you know i'm saying it's like they'll see all the positivity you're getting in your head that one oh i'm just gonna say something to mess up his day that's right you know that's what it be you, because they got a fucked up life. That's what, nine times out of ten, that's what it is. Somebody who ain't, who ain't moving the right way

or who life is messed up some kind of way, shape, or form, you know, they want to bring you into that, they were. You know what I'm saying?

So, so if you allow them to do that, it's going to happen. How many times you got to turn down somebody asking you to perform at their wedding? Yeah, I mean, so if you allow them to do that, it's going to happen. How many times do you got to turn down somebody asking you to perform at their wedding? I mean, you must get that all the time, a zillion and one, like have to. I don't, I mean, I've done it, but I really don't do weddings. I've done it for a few people, but I get it all the time.

I get it all the time, I get it all the time. Not to say that I don't like to do it. I just don't do it because I don't. I'll do it for certain people, and certain people I'll just say, okay, I'm done. I don't want to do that. When you look at all the streaming services and social media, do you think it's easier or a harder for like talented people to break through like as opposed to when you was when you started it's

easier but the longevity it's like they're not as like back in the day when you broke you people knew that you had the talent people you had the work to build what you had. Or if they saw you and you wasn't what they thought you were, you was over. It was a wrap. Nowadays, you can make it, and it doesn't take as much. No disrespect to the people that's winning on one or two records nowadays, but the work is not as hard as it was back in the day

to make it, you know, because if I, listen, if I came out back in the day with all the social media, I would be selling 50 million albums. You know what I'm saying? So nowadays it's like you can come out and win, but I don't know if the longevity is as long. You can sustain as long as, you know, 20 years and that type of stuff when people come out the way they come out now. Somebody said that you got an unreleased music with Babyface and Teddy Riley.

Like y'all got records in the stash that y'all never put out. I got records in the stash that I never put out. From that era? From the New Jack Swing era? Mm-hmm. Wow. Why not? Because, you know, I just never put them out. I mean, back in the day, I was writing so much. You know, it's ridiculous how much I was writing. I got songs that I was writing. You know, people don't know before I was writing,

before I even had a hit record. Mm-hmm. You know, I used to write for Sutra Records, with Adam Levy and Morris Levy. It was the Fat Boys. Back in the day, I used to write songs. In 85, with Adam Levy and Morris Levy. It was the Fat Boys. Back in the day, I used to write songs. In 85, I got songs online. I went online and saw that I wrote and produced

before I even had Don't Stop Your Love by I Want Her. Wow. Because back in the day, I used to work with GQ. And that was Morris Levy and Sutra Records. I used to do songs for Sutra Records and them back in the day. So I got tons of records in the stacks that I be listening to and be laughing. Oh, shit, I wrote this? You get your publishing royalties for none of that stuff or no?

For Back in the Day? Yeah. And the only song I don't get no, nothing. Yeah, so I get Back in the day, I got to check. No, I don't think I get it for back in the day, you know. I don't think I get those for back in the day, but I get it now for all the songs I've done since. You know, I was on Ben Detainment. I get all my stuff from back then.

I know I do that for a fact, but songs that I did for Sutra, I don't think I get those, no. So why wouldn't you put out the music that you sitting on? Like all them, like the Babyface, is it Babyface and Teddy Riley? Nah, nah, no, no, I ain't got no song with Babyface and Teddy Riley.

Oh, okay, okay. No, no, I ain't, I got- He said those ought to put out. No, those ought to put out already. I ain't got no song from Babyface. The only song I got with Teddy Riley that was put out was Just Got Paid, but I ain't got, my name ain't on that one. So, you know, that's the one Gene Griffin got me for.

But, you know, I mean, but me and Teddy wrote it. Me and Teddy the only one that wrote that. Nobody else wrote that Just Got Paid song, but it is what it is. All right. With all the accolades and awards, know uh well that you that you haven't won does getting this key to the city make you want to say you know what let me keep going so hopefully these people start honoring me well you know i'm gonna tell you something what normally happens it only takes one to open doors for everything else that's right and

new york is you know the biggest or one of the biggest cities between New York and L.A., right? So when people see that, then they be like, all those that don't know about Keith Sweat now, they say, who's this Keith Sweat guy? You know how that works. Damn. You don't know Keith Sweat, something wrong.

Hey, but, you know, hey. I mean, but you might know me, but you know what the problem is? I manage myself. I've been managing myself for the last 25 30 years so that that that's a strike against me in terms of some people mm-hmm I'm not signed to no agency that's another strike cuz I got my own agency but you Richard and Mozart is no but but what I'm saying is, you know, it's not what you know, it's who you know. It's who you know.

So therefore, you know, the agencies who's connected to certain people, like, this is mine. I got this roster. I'm not on nobody's roster. You know what I'm saying? I'm not giving, I'm not, I don't need, I'm not trying to have a middle man. You know what I'm saying?

It's like, send me the contract. Let me read the contract. Let me and my lawyer go with the contract. And then boom, I'm not giving you 10 or 15% of my money. You know, when I can do it myself. Most artists and most people don't want to do their own work. And now they end up getting, so when you lose money, their money get taken.

You didn't want to do your own work. You didn't want to read. You gave it to somebody else to do it. So, you know, now when your money money, they, they money get taken. You didn't want to do your own work. You didn't want to read. You gave it to somebody else to do it. So, you know, now when your money come up short, you crying and complaining, but because you didn't want to put that extra work in to see where everything was going or who was doing what.

That's what happens. But you know, you don't know if somebody taking 15, 20 or 25% of your money because you're not on top of your game like that. So you really don't know if somebody's taking 15, 20, or 25% of your money because you're not on top of your game like that. So you really don't know. So if my lawyer can't tell me what this piece of paper say, and I can't say, okay, I don't want that, take that out. Red line through that, through this, through that.

And then, you know, now the deal is done. All right, now make sure they cut that check for that amount of money. How much I got to pay you for your time? That's it. Boom. is done. Now make sure they cut that check for that amount of money. How much I got to pay you for your time? That's it. Boom. We done. That's how it go. That's how life is.

That's how it is for me, or that's how it's been for me. I'm still rocking like that. And those are the reasons why I probably haven't gotten certain things because I don't want, you know. but I'm good with getting the check. That's all. What is Sweat Fest? That's going to be your festival? Yeah, I did it.

I've done it in Montego Bay. Okay. I've done it in DR last year. Now it's in Cancun this year. It's my festival. Five days, four nights. Yeah, in Cancun, baby. So, you know, get them tickets October the 10th to the 14th.

It's going down. I'm performing. Joe is performing. I got a few other people that's on, comedians and everything. It's going down. So we doing it big. I'm trying to get y'all to come on out in the fun and the sun. Dance.

You know, you coming out, right? Oh, hey, you don't sound like you coming out. I don't know. In me, in me, in me. I don't know. In me, in me. But I was going to tell you. This is where you should go to Shreveport

and then you call Fifth and be like, Fifth, I done did Shreveport. You come to Sweatfest. That's a good idea. You want to represent me on that? Nah, I ain't doing that. I ain't getting involved

in y'all grown man business. What's the website for Sweatfest? Excuse me, what is it? What is it? SweatfestCancun.com See how

they work for me. So I got to reach back. That's the little one right there. He annoying sometimes. Annoying as shit. SweatfestCancun.com. That's right.

All right, keep sweat, man. When you get that key to the city this weekend, what if it's- You coming down? To where? Sweat Fest or the- Key to the city. No, I'm going to be out of town.

I'm going to be out of town. What kind of shit is this? What the shit is this? I'm going to be out of town. See, that's that bullshit. I'm on the road like you. That's that bullshit right there. You do this shit to me all the time. You going to perform at my wedding? Oh, shit. You already got married, boy. I know. I was going to see able to tell. See, that's that bullshit. I'm on the road like you. That's that bullshit right there. You do this shit to me all the time.

You going to perform at my wedding? Oh, shit. You already got married. I know I was going to see what you were saying. That's why you, I know you already got married. I see you on social media. 50 said they giving you Diddy old keys. So they give you the key and it say Diddy on it.

What you going to do, Keith? If they got Diddy names crashed out in the city you sweat on it what you gonna do man they ain't gonna do no shit like that I ain't gonna talk about no shit like that

man why y'all always talking this shit man I'm drinking my goddamn coffee right now ain't no Hennessy in this shit that's Hennessy ain't no Hennessy

in this shit man you in the king chair he over there in this chair he said his back hurt when he been in that chair back hurt on that chair alright but and then but and then i should have been that never i'm just saying you should have had it thrown for me i told him he got a throne now i want to throw man you ain't coming

to my goddamn key to the city i'm out of town this week oh yeah boy boy oh boy i think a lot of time i am i'm on the road got my book to read man man y'all funny as hell man keep sweat getting the key to the city

August 30th Saturday they ain't gonna be here cause they both out of town listen you doing a keep sweat mini mix this morning right yes I am

okay alright yes I am so that's what I'm gonna get it's keep sweat so that's what the fuck I'm gonna, a mini mix for the key to the city. Deep sweat, y'all. It's the Breakfast Club, good boy. Wake that ass up in the morning.

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