The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Ray J Talks Ratchet Reality TV, Princess Love Divorce, Fatherhood, Selling RayCon + More

Episode Date: March 20, 2024

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Starting point is 00:01:41 Ladies and gentlemen, Ray J is in the building. Ray J. Hey. I'm love. hey man i'm so happy to see y'all i'm just holding it in and i'm so happy to see you thank you i'm happy to see you too you know what i like i like the after the after when you do it's after after i love here but did you do one that's oh yeah the uncut oh my god that's what the mess i'm super lit yeah what's happening willie what's up man we gotta do network i see first of all i mean what happened with uh with raycon nothing it's just you know we we we've reached like a certain height right and i think that
Starting point is 00:02:16 they can definitely continue to move mountains with the company going into like you know home products and stuff like that and i always just like to have fun like if it's not fun and it's a little too critical or a little too exhausting which it wasn't but just to be in an arena like starting our own network you know 20 years in that space our expertise and knowledge and the way we shoot stuff and our story arts everything is probably is to me better than everything that's out there now so so you still have equity in raycon no no no shout out to raycon but you built that though like that that brand is that brand because of you but he built it
Starting point is 00:02:56 and sold it so you sold it yeah well i sold i sold it back to raycon got you yeah i sold it back to raycon i i you know it wasn't't for sale for another investor to come in. I got to get you some lotion. I know. That's what I was saying. I needed the lotion and the brush. You don't need the brush. And I was in my bag.
Starting point is 00:03:14 Now I'm just like, you know what? I'm good. I'm humble. You rich. You good. You trying to stay humble? No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:03:20 I just, when I go to the bathroom, I wash my hands. Oh, got you. Got you, got you, got you, got you, got you, got you. Got you. Got you. Got you. Got you. Got you.
Starting point is 00:03:25 Got you. Got you. So what's the name of this network? The network is called the Tronics Network. How'd you come up with that name? You're supposed to do it up. Do it up, Ray. Put your skin down.
Starting point is 00:03:38 You got to do it up when you put lotion on. Yeah. Why are they called the Tronics network the tronics network because it's we look at the tron as like a matrix you know i'm saying like a manifestation tool um that's the only reason why we're still here is just because of prayer and manifestation and making adjustments when you make mistakes for for growth um so tronics you know i had the ray Tronics, you know, I had the Raytronics company before we sold Scooty Bike and we just felt like the Tron was speaking
Starting point is 00:04:09 to us from the Elohim. And so, you know, Tronics Network is that digital ratchet reality network that's at the cutting edge of the change. You'd be competing with Zeus. Well, if I'm competing with Zeus, I I'm competing with Zeus I'll be competing with myself
Starting point is 00:04:26 talk more about that I'm just saying I mean remember Bow Wow and I we pulled up and I was talking about Zeus I was talking about working with Zeus and then Bow Wow was going big I'm like that's my people we're partnering that was the beginning
Starting point is 00:04:43 that was the beginning of their kind of got it people started to recognize zeus when we did the conversation we started with the conversation yeah we gave zeus their first fight which sounds a little but um we gave zeus their first fight which was roly and mangina mangina's on our new network and then their other biggest fight these are the things that kind of ignited them to kind of drive the narrative that way hazel e and masika right so those two things you saw this big flux go up and then and then it all it all you know like you own a part of zeus no oh no nope and you know we had shows on the zoo stuff yeah we had the best shows like even baddies like yeah i mean a lot of a lot of people get amnesia right so you said competing with yourself
Starting point is 00:05:29 makes it seem like yeah it is well not competing against myself as ownership but we did this network not solely to to compete against zeus um but to just give you a balance of what it looks like right so you got all of this but if we give you that same kind of intensity with a with a story arc that leads you somewhere whether it's emotional or crying or or happy or whatever it is educational something has to be there to create the story so people can follow something if not then for me i don't i just don't i don't i don't do that kind of show and i want to show people like what a ratchet show and a balanced show looks like at the same time. What does that look like?
Starting point is 00:06:11 That's actually R&B if you think about it. R&B? Ratchet and balanced. Wow. We're brainstorming. We have one show. I haven't called you guys to tell you about it but you guys start
Starting point is 00:06:29 the show off it's the breakfast club kicks it's like you guys are in it's like how do we start it if you didn't tell us about it we don't know anything about this right so it's a really good show right so it's called the fight club I'm gonna show you guys it's a really good show and then you'll see what it is Fight Club. I'm going to show you guys. It's a really good show. And then you'll see what it is.
Starting point is 00:06:45 It's light. I mean, it's like... It's people fighting? Yeah. Yeah, it's people fighting. But that show is catered for that. So there's a lot of other shows. Like, we have Inside the Network.
Starting point is 00:06:53 We have Going on a Safari. We have The Girls Club. The Cook-Off. Like, we have shows like that. But then, just like the conversation, I felt like people were, like, teasing you. And then they started to get to this deep conversation. When we did it, it was just let's go right into it. What's the balance in Fight Club, though?
Starting point is 00:07:10 The balance in Fight Club is the comedic edit with the fighter, right? You started to say there is no balance. I was. I'm not sure when you first story only to end at the fight. Right. It's straight about what it is, but it's it's comedic. It's refreshing. The jokes are going. So when you're watching it, you're not like disgusted if you were just to watch it and hit play, which we do have all the bonus footages on. We have the bonus footage on all the shows. You get like five or six clips and you can just watch it and hit play which we do have all the bonus footages on uh we have the bonus footage on all the shows you get like five or six clips and you can just watch it unedited how much is
Starting point is 00:07:49 subscription 4.99 4.99 yeah but it's premium this is the premium stuff i can't yeah premium shit any scripted drama any like any you know comedy shows like any because you you do a lot of things right yeah well we we're we're creating as we go um i have like eight shows so the eight shows that come out are dating it's inside the network it's um it's a big transgender show the girls club we also have the girls club oh and then there's another do they want to be called that have you have you ran that by them absolutely i mean i run it by everybody and one thing that i don't do is my mission isn't to make the reality star look bad yeah because i'm in the same position and what what i'm here to do is to ignite the numbers so our points could be on the board like basketball players
Starting point is 00:08:40 so what's the girls club break that down it's 13 transgenders transgender women they're super cool they're super lit and they're in there to tell their story and to survive you know this big moment and you know make a name for themselves and it's it's a it's one of the loudest shows we have sydney star is the star of it She helped put that together with me. And it started off with her trying to do an audition show, a love show in Atlanta. And, dude, attempted murder. Like, 17 shots, like, popped off. And it was like, yeah, it was crazy. It's in there.
Starting point is 00:09:18 Y'all caught that on camera? Yeah. Shout out to The Rod from The Gaygency. Shout out to The Gaygency as well. What the hell is The Gaygency? The Gaygency. Shout out to The Gaygency as well. What the hell is The Gaygency? The Gaygency. Yeah. Oh.
Starting point is 00:09:27 Yeah. So listen, with this show, is there like a survival show or is it like a theme? Like what is it? It's similar to like we did Bad Girls Club with Oxygen. We did Bad Girls All-Star Battle, but it's similar to the Bad Girls Club. That was my shit, All-Star Battle. You know? Bad Girls Club.
Starting point is 00:09:43 So that proves to you that Natalie and I worked together a long time ago so I was able to hit her. Tell her love and hip hop Hollywood wasn't really coming back. I think you should work
Starting point is 00:09:52 with Zeus. This is a good play for you. You'll have power, control, EP, all of that and boom. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:09:59 So now you're about to steal all Lee's thunder. You're about to take all of those people you would have said, hey, go over there to Lee. You're taking for yourself now exactly yes you call him exactly that's his name right oh Lemmy damn I can't remember his name
Starting point is 00:10:13 yeah because my other co-founder from Raycon is Ray Lee so I was like so now recently on some on some other, I was looking at TMZ. They robbed your cars? They stole your cars? Two Maybachs missing. Like what? Out of nowhere? From where?
Starting point is 00:10:35 Right on our moment. They're in Reno right now. The cars? Yeah. And we landed. When did we land? We landed sometime in the middle of the night somewhere. But the cars were supposed to pull up, pick we landed. When did we land? We landed sometime in the middle of the night somewhere. But the cars were supposed to pull up, pick us up. You know, we had the suits, and we was going to go corporate.
Starting point is 00:10:52 And then it just kind of like, you know what I'm saying, somebody transported them, and then they stopped answering the phone. Then we tracked the cars, and they was in Reno. I like this. Casino and Chop Shop. They were yours? They were mine. So I bought one, and Truth, who is my business partner, he's the one that helped me close the deal with Raycon.
Starting point is 00:11:09 He bought him one, and we were just like, you know what I'm saying, just feeling good to come to New York. You know what I'm saying? How much did your contract cost, man? Come on, Ray, because I'm looking at it. Like, I've known you for a while. I can tell when things get a little bit different. You know what I'm saying? Look how you got a new hairline.
Starting point is 00:11:24 Look how you've been doing Ozempic. You an Ozempic gold medalist now. You don't give Ozempic, though. You're not giving Ozempic. Don't try to do that. Ozempic. He's bad-nice. That's not
Starting point is 00:11:39 what he's going on. I won't do Ozempic. I'm cool. I don't do Ozempic, but I know some people that do. How you lost the last weight Ray Cause remember last time You said you took off your shirt Yeah I seen it dude That's what made
Starting point is 00:11:51 That's what motivated you Yeah cause Side boops You saw I was trying You see me trying to hide them And they were just like Still there
Starting point is 00:11:59 Cut to that clip Wow Look at me Oh my god Cut to that clip. Wow. Look at me. Oh, my God. I love this place. But the check was nice, though. You know, it was in another, like, world because I feel like we did so much. Like, it was so hard to just break the code and understand, you know, technology and hardware.
Starting point is 00:12:35 You know, the 3PO services you need or the warehouses, customer service. The CMO has to be right. The CFO has to be right. The CFO has to be right. Right. So even with this new company, like I'm starting it out a hundred percent bootstrap full control with my team, but eventually as it grows, I'm going to have to do the right hires. So the company can start being on autopilot.
Starting point is 00:12:56 You know, I just, I just want to this time when we get to a certain point, let us continue to, you know, let us continue to steer the ship. Oh, I see what happened so
Starting point is 00:13:05 you got to a certain point and raycon kind of put a cap on things no no i love raycon um it just we we we've just grown into another space and i i know so much from strategic marketing and what we've done there to conversion marketing to and all these other like shortcuts that we have. So it's only right to implement that into the reality shows. Cause I never lost in reality. And I would say that I'm the, um, I'm the reality show King.
Starting point is 00:13:40 I do that. I was going to base it like, you know, tiger woods of it. But, um, but, uh, I didn't tiger. No tiger no tiger wasn't tiger wasn't the first no that's the reality show connoisseur just says no there's nobody there's nobody bigger than me
Starting point is 00:13:55 um i'm uh well at first at first i ain't gonna lie at first first. Where's Ray going? At first, it was Stevie J for a long time. In that era. It was Stevie J. Ray's after that era, though. No, no, no. Ray is there. This is after Ray. This is after.
Starting point is 00:14:20 Love and hip-hop is after for the love of Ray J. And Randy and Ray J and ray j and family business that's what i'm saying so in reality that's where i dominate so why wouldn't i i never thought about but he's also reality i feel like also in front of camera but you got a lot to do with behind the camera too exactly so I would call you the king of behind the camera too because he produces he you know it's all
Starting point is 00:14:50 types of stuff I'm trying to let you know I'm giving you your props in another way I was cutting you off oh damn I didn't know you produced One More Chance and all that stuff like that yeah like he has a lot of Lemmy and I we't know you produced One More Chance and all that stuff like that. Yeah, like he has a lot of.
Starting point is 00:15:05 Like, Lemmy and I, we produced. Like, you know, when Baby came here and said put some respect on it, that's our campaign show. That's Music Moguls. We did. We created that. You know what I'm saying? So I've been doing a bunch of stuff.
Starting point is 00:15:16 It's just the product and the people loving the show has always been, for me, the most important. The prop of it and the attention. Like, I think now when you watch this new network, you'll see that everybody on TV has our sauce. The only thing is that the shit I put on it now, they can't do. It's impossible. Even the editors. Like, we're editing everything hands-on.
Starting point is 00:15:44 My team is outside, and they're ready to edit right now. You know what I'm saying? And they're ready to edit at the highest quality and really caring about, okay, it's the most turnt up shit you've ever seen. But that's not all, right? My intention isn't to make the money for that. It's to create every reality star to have their own network. Because it's really not that hard if you find a way to build the content because i'm seeing just so much stuff out there and everybody's just giving this shit up for free and free and free and they're waiting
Starting point is 00:16:14 for these advertising dollars that come in just randomly that you can't scale because you don't know the times and what it did and same with like publishing like how do you scale publishing like it's just it's everywhere would you put your family back on reality show because people scrutinize your relationship and no matter what you do they all the eyes are always there yeah that's that but that's the and i and i mentioned that that's what you sacrifice really i mentioned that even through the first episode of inside the network i'd break down how reality stars get the end of the stick and i mean it's hard to show the end of the stick yeah i mean your church is even tripping like it's like yeah you know what i mean because but they don't understand the the arc behind the reality show so it's one thing
Starting point is 00:16:55 they're doing a good job because it's believable but at the same time we need more pay that's all it is like if everybody was getting like 10 million 15 million a season now we reality ball players that's what we deserve but don't that defeat the purpose though like if you are a producer or a production company the reason you do reality tv is because it's cheap no that's what it was done before but now you look at everybody out there i mean you you almost need a reality show to get a record deal is what i'm hearing right now i've never i mean that's how it looks like it's working now yeah and so reality the ratchet scene is about to do a takeover and it's going to be unstoppable for like a few years where it's going to be on everybody's nerves when did it go away though like in reality the reality
Starting point is 00:17:42 has been ratchet since it's been on now but Yeah, but you've never seen nothing like the Tronics Network. You've never seen nothing like the Tronics Network. I promise you if I hit play right now, you guys would be floored. I guarantee you at the end, you're going to subscribe. I don't know if that's what we need right now though, right? But what am I talking about? Do we need that level of ratchet? Yeah, because watch the story arc with it.
Starting point is 00:18:10 Okay. Yeah, this is ratchet with a message. Does it have a message? Absolutely. Ratchet has a lot of messages because when you watch yourself in a ratchet environment and you do either ratchet things or you do the right thing,'s how you know how to make adjustments with yourself okay but what i don't want to see and i'm pretty sure nobody is everybody is tired of seeing people just fighting all over the place all the time so that's what he's saying about like a storyline it's actually going to be story live like like inside the network is like my creative directors were fighting because they were tripping off something i just caught it on tape or the agency the agency i mean you got cameras set up back no i just no when they was
Starting point is 00:18:49 fighting i just grabbed the phone but after that yeah i started to have like i got four or five shooters just ready for anything to happen now but is that a good thing though absolutely that we fighting if we have a disagreement like isn't that a bad way of doing things like we can't have a disagreement without me punching you now. Absolutely. Absolutely. We let the stories flow. It's not like come on to our show and if you don't fight, you're fired. Right.
Starting point is 00:19:13 That's not producing. That's what some shows give now. It's almost like you know how you got client privilege? In producing, you can't do that because that's not what we – real producers don't. But you ain't do that because that's not what we real producers don't but you ain't gotta say that but if you give somebody a a full bottle of liquor yeah and then you give them some smoke or some edibles your creative and then you throw them in a room nine times out of ten you ain't say fight and get fired but you know what's gonna happen after exactly shot exactly so
Starting point is 00:19:40 they both have this like morality like like imbalance, if you really care. But it's I've really been like in the room for like four months building out some dope content. I'm so excited. I'm like the Ratchet. I tell people I am the Ratchet Shakespeare. Oh, I like that. No, it is. I don't like that at all. That sounds ridiculous, Frigga. Ratchet Shakespeare. Ratchet Shakespeare. I like that one. No, it is. I don't like that at all. That sounds ridiculous, Frigga. Ratchet Shakespeare. Ratchet Shakespeare.
Starting point is 00:20:08 I like it. Well, break that down. What is the Ratchet Shakespeare? Maybe I need to see it first. Maybe I'm judging. You know what I mean? Do you guys have time today to watch the sizzle? Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:20:17 How long is the sizzle? How long is the sizzle? It's like two minutes. Of course. We got two minutes. We got time. And then I have an emotional sizzle that's like a minute. Wait a minute.
Starting point is 00:20:24 I need to see that. It's right here right now. Emotional sizzle, yes. Yep, an emotional sizzle. That's like a minute. Right here, right now. Emotional sizzle, yes. Why are you turning to a screen? There's nobody behind you. He is really selling it. I really want to see it. No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:20:38 Here's what's crazy, y'all. I don't have to sell this. I'm chilling. It's just your excitement for it makes me want to see it there's nothing better oh my god and walk off like yo source awards you said there's nothing better in this space this is like a 10 15 million people space this this doesn't it's i don't think it expands the threshold has to be at 10 to 15 million. Yeah. But 10 to 15 million people subscribing is beyond a blessing, right? But when you tell me extra ratchet, and I already think about Zeus,
Starting point is 00:21:11 because Jeff be making me watch his show. I make him watch his dude sometimes. And they be on there wilding. And now you're telling me that there's a show where somebody gets shot 17 times? Well, it's almost like it's... Well, no, no. And you're going to show it? Damn. You see how it starts
Starting point is 00:21:28 some of you might find this disturbing I had to go through a lot of legal and I'm still going through legal you need a curvy and through the album style show that's what the fuck you need to be doing that's what it is you are the black Larry David that's what I say this show is like
Starting point is 00:21:46 larry david i said i fucking love larry and this is my kirby rent those like i said that you really did that's who you are that's what this show is everything that's fucking happening oops this is ridiculous my top lip just we keep givingapped. You are kind of dry today, man. That's how I know you're getting some money. You woke up this morning like, fuck lotion. Oh my God. Ray just walked off the mic to put chapstick on his lips.
Starting point is 00:22:17 Two orange drops. There's nobody more entertaining. Now, Ray, let me ask you a question. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pick your nose with it. But, Ray, let me ask you this. Last time you was here the cocaine Back in the day well not even back in there a couple of months ago You said you had some new medicine ADHD medicine or a DD do you still you still take them overall? Yeah, I had to go back to the prescription though because if i don't if i'm not focused like um i don't know things things go viral and stuff so i'm i'm like i'm happy so you're not with her bro no more i take herbal i take it when i just want to
Starting point is 00:22:55 just chill but when i need to focus right then i gotta go back to the uh the stuff the doctor prescribed me got you are you really pushing for brandy and monica to go on tour together that's all i want really that's all i want like what made you wake up the one day and say i want this what i need well i've been saying it since the since they did the uh versus yeah like i got the jet for b we got we flew out there it was just vibe they were going back and forth it wasn't like a competition but it was yeah and brandy like her side we was i was it was like a mosh pit for in a ballot like it was a ballot plan and you look to the side and we giving her all that support and i just think brandy and monica is an undeniable tour right it's like you are you both win
Starting point is 00:23:36 last run like no matter what you feel or whatever like how can you not take that opportunity? If you know it's there, why do anything else first? And the last song of the tour, Boyz II Men, close it out. That'd be crazy. So I told him I think that's a hundred million dollar...
Starting point is 00:23:57 I think they can bring in a $200 million. Who opens that show, though? I mean, of course, Monica would have to open it, right? Have to open it? I mean, of course, Monica would have to open it, right? Yeah. Have to open it? Yeah. I would think so.
Starting point is 00:24:08 I mean, because they would be co-headlining. I mean, you could do something different. Maybe you could do like a song for song. Somebody has to come out first. Yeah. But that's not a... RSVP. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:19 Well, yeah, that was... No, no, no. No. No chance. Yeah, no, no, no. Look, Brandi ain't having that either. But the Brandy Monica tour or the Monica Brandy tour, whichever one. My title is Brandy Monica tour.
Starting point is 00:24:34 But I think that. Yeah, well, she would have to open. You know what I mean? And tell them why. It's whole headlining. But tell them why. And they can't do song for song for song because that'll be a replica of the verses again but no it'll break up there yeah yeah she will open she gets the crowd pump like this is great and then brandy boom like who does you think won the verses i think brandy i'm not
Starting point is 00:24:56 praying i'm brandy all day not just because you hear you know no no no brandy is one of my that's facts top three singers, R&B. I told you since I was little. They're not, who did I, this Women's International Month, Women's History Month, the first lady that was the first, Brandy was the first woman that I honored.
Starting point is 00:25:16 No, it was your mom. Yeah, it was my mom. You know, yeah, but Brandy, you know what I'm saying? She was on the second day. I grew up on this woman. So I'm like, all right, cool. And I also grew up on Monica, too. And when you think of Brandy, you think of Monica.
Starting point is 00:25:28 And it's all right. But yeah, but Monica will open. Brandy will end it. Absolutely. Make that money. We've debated who got the best catalog. It's not about the best catalog. It's just the best, the overall accolades, right?
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Starting point is 00:29:20 Saturday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah, okay. Everything he's been doing lately has just been well cringing y'all know each other y'all know each other of course y'all know each other my sister cool friends they always been cool you never liked them i don't you know i'm saying i don't i don't care about you know tyrese okay i don't like you know some of the stuff he'd be doing and saying you know i'm saying but and crying about a bunch of stuff well i'm not gonna diss tyrese yes you already did oh yeah that's going on you've
Starting point is 00:30:09 done enough for him to go on instagram remember last last time he was playing around with eddie murphy remember last time i got mad at tyrese i remember don't play with me yeah don't play with me tyrese i don't i don't we don't i'm not like that but still yeah man don't, I don't, we don't, I'm not like that. But still, yeah, man. Don't play with me. Yeah. Why you turn to Ray Park all of a sudden? Like, what the hell? Like, why?
Starting point is 00:30:32 What did you go over there and drink? What did Tyrese just start getting shots for? I don't know. Why? Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, because y'all was talking. We was talking about him. So if you look at his interview, he just did, and somebody missed. He said, oh, no, me and Ray J, he said something real smart.
Starting point is 00:30:44 So I'm just responding I'm just responding So you don't fuck with him But my sister does So it's cool That's one of her friends You know So it's like whatever
Starting point is 00:30:53 But stay away from me So what happened With the trailer Let's go Let's go Let's continue Oh okay Put it right there
Starting point is 00:30:58 Let's pull it up Let's go Tronics Network Let's go Oh Ray come on Let's go, Tronics Network! Let's go! Let's go! Oh, Ray, come on. Just wait. Just wait.
Starting point is 00:31:13 Let's see. No! Oh, shit! Ray, come on! Whoa! I'm trying to tell you something! I'm breaking the internet! I'm trying to tell you something! Ray, did somebody just shot? got to cut it out, Ray.
Starting point is 00:31:30 Hey, nobody fuck with me. Now, let's show them the trailer. So that's the first block. So that is the show. That's the show. That's the show. Inside the network. So now it gets into my creative directors.
Starting point is 00:31:44 It goes to the agency. It goes to Mangina. Oh, OK, OK. That's the show. That's the show. Inside the network. So that's what's coming. It goes to my creative directors. It goes to the gay agency. It goes to Mangina. Oh, okay, okay. So Mangina is the show. Did I just see a guy on your screen shooting somebody? Yeah. That was from the gay agency or Mangina. That wasn't a stuntman.
Starting point is 00:31:57 None of my shit. Did somebody really get shot? Almost in the head, blown off and up. Okay. To the grace of God. To what happens to the guy that got shot? Is he in jail? You gotta see it, dog come here let me let me test this tron exchange man wait i got the voice oh that's good
Starting point is 00:32:21 talk that talk right there. Yeah. Yeah I go big is when I'm talking about reality shows how good. Jewelers be getting over on people. I don't know. I just said you. I just said jewelers. That's good money. That's Alex. He got his story in Miami exclusive with all the top dogs. It's bigger than that. It's the craftsmanship. Let me check that earring though.
Starting point is 00:32:58 Alex, you didn't do the earring, did you? No, I just got these earrings. I'm going to show you what these are. Show me the LED screen. Let me do it. Okay, thank you. This one is more clear. Why you smell it?
Starting point is 00:33:10 Why did you smell it? You are nasty. You just smelled me. That earring back there is crazy, bro. We just smelled you. And you nasty. Sometimes niggas is. Yo, you violated me by smelling my ear.
Starting point is 00:33:19 Ray, this one ain't real. I told you. These aren't. I lose to an earring. Oh. I told you. I said I got them from CVS I lose too many earrings
Starting point is 00:33:31 I ain't buying no more grills either All jokes aside, people joke about Ray J Ray J really is a mogul Ray J has sold Has bought and sold and flipped so many companies And you know how hard that is It's not a joke, it's not a game and even in this society where everybody is looking down on the young lit african-american entrepreneur like you know you can be lit you can be focused at the same time
Starting point is 00:33:58 i mean when i say i don't give a fuck that means that i'm on time i'm over prepared i know what i'm talking about i know everything about what i'm selling because it's in my soul you know what i'm saying i wake up every day like every show like my creative directors the agency everybody that's a part of the show they're really they're really my producers and they've cut all of these shows right but you just see the drama behind the scenes you see it in front of the scenes and then i mean wow we got stun a girl young rich moolah oh are you ready for the backlash that's gonna come because you know you're about to get all the backlash we got blue face oh wow oh so you got blue face so they do a show on there it's already done so you got juice to come with you no because see that at the see at at the tronics network
Starting point is 00:34:39 we want you to work with everybody okay we want a different show yeah we want you to come with us come produce your shows come on set and have fun reality stars i don't know i have never met one that said i was so excited to go on set today they always complaining and always are kind of like not ungrateful but just mad right because they're not having fun everybody that's working with us said damn this was just it's like we just living and we creating and the quality and the edits are coming out better than everything that's on tv so that's not fun though right it's not are y'all ready for the backlash naacp urban league social media they all gonna give you mad backlash for for that you know that did you guys see the uh the super trailer no we have to see you have to see it despite yeah No, we didn't. Oh, you don't have to see it?
Starting point is 00:35:26 Yeah, come on. We said we were watching it. Y'all definitely got to see at least the beginning of Fight Club 2. Okay, let's see. Oh, I love that. Let me talk. We went through a divorce and all equally separated. So it's a tough question. I don't care about falling for divorce But I'm not a weak bitch
Starting point is 00:35:49 Oh Safari What the fuck? Whole time is at 11 o'clock. It's not fucking whenever you want to show up Yeah Yeah That's main time Who loves me and Jeff I'ma to be the VHS. Oh, shit. So we've got Krishan on his mother. Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:36:54 Okay. Let's go. Oh. Oh. Oh. So then it goes like that Wait for it Wait for it Wait for it Damn
Starting point is 00:37:10 Oh Oh You gotta show me the balance Ray Where is the balance Ray where is the balance Show me the balance Yeah
Starting point is 00:37:21 This is Ray be crazy Okay where is the next one I just want Jess to host the Who Loves Man John of Reunion show. Ray, can Jess host the Who Loves Man John of Reunion show? I want you to do a transgender reunion
Starting point is 00:37:33 because that's the one. Okay. Alright, I'm going to do that for you. Oh, man. We're not letting Jess do that. Jess is not doing that, man. We're not letting Jess do that. No. Jess is not doing that, Ray. No, Ray.
Starting point is 00:37:48 Jess is not doing that. Is this the positive one, Sid? Oh, my God. I love them. Ray, is this the positive one? Yes. Let me see. That's it.
Starting point is 00:37:57 With the bird. That's a good bird. With the bird. You think a bird makes a positive? No, no, no, but it's a good bird. Ray said no, but it's a good bird. He said no, but it's a good bird. I'm so fucking excited! Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:12 Yeah. I believe it. Because what we're not about to do is fuck every fucking five minutes. It's fuck every fucking five minutes. I don't want to see y'all fighting each other because that's me behind closed doors. Y'all don't fight me. And I ain't dealing with that shit. I This is my fucking best friend bro, man. Dude, I fucking love you. I have to ask you a question. I have to ask you a question. I'm fucking mad at you.
Starting point is 00:38:50 I'm mad at you. I'm mad at you. Crazy, if you don't get the fuck out of here, man. No way, please. Oh, that's my bitch. Oh shit. Shawnee. That hurt. When we're under the influence of drugs, we don't want help. Oh shit, Shawnee.
Starting point is 00:39:14 Ooh. What's that, enemies? You can leave a voice of reason to explain the things you've been through. Oh shit. Why did you run? points of reason to explain the things you did. Oh, shit. Ray, like, man, I'm going to be making so much money. I'm going to make so much money off these niggas.
Starting point is 00:39:34 You got it right there. On the mic, on the mic, Ray. On the mic, on the mic. Nobody's ever seen me cry. But you can see me cry on the Tronics Network, huh? That's not a question for you, sir. That's not a question for you, Envy. Jess, ask the question.
Starting point is 00:39:49 I mean, y'all married. I'd be so excited to ask. I see him crying. I'm asking. Yeah, were those tears about, you know, the fourth time? Okay. Damn. Ooh. Okay. What's going on what you want princess
Starting point is 00:40:08 it's hot in here huh yeah it is no take your coat off you take your coat off you probably it's kind of hot yeah a little bit it's alright
Starting point is 00:40:14 what's really going on with that I mean for the fourth time I mean it's been a conversation for a while yeah okay
Starting point is 00:40:23 and we just He's taking his overall right now We trying to figure it out We seen things unfold on TV From the beginning like y'all been through a lot together Y'all got kids A lot two beautiful babies
Starting point is 00:40:37 I want to do one more day with you guys here I know you guys are busy but I'm having fun My son is here I brought him with me and it's just like it completed a lot of stuff for me because i was like he a boy my daughter loved going to school and and she's in her zone you know i'm saying she's five about to be six but he four and he like he like be wanting to be with me and when i'm out of town and i'm not there that's when i get emotional because it's's like, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:41:05 Just the little things of what they're trying to learn and who they watch is who they are like. You know what I'm saying? So he hasn't wanted to leave me. You know how you're like, all right, I want to go back. Yeah. He's like, I want to be with you forever and ever and ever and ever. You know what I'm saying? And then if I even go to the store, he'll just start crying.
Starting point is 00:41:23 So I'm like, you can come with me everywhere. Because it's not like you can't. You know what I'm saying? Parents and everybody or creators be like, I need this time to die. That's a front, bro. It's just making yourself more busy than you should be for the kids. So he here with me. He got on the plane with me.
Starting point is 00:41:42 He hopped on the plane. He got on the couch. He went to sleep. He woke up inork you know just having a good time why is princess after for a divorce for the fourth time yeah um i just think that sometimes you you reached a peak and you said this before yeah and i'm saying everyone is that next peak because sometimes when you break up that one is where you're just like depressed about it and you're like can't think about nothing else. You know what I'm saying? And then the next one, it gets easier and then it starts to make sense. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:42:12 Because I guess happiness is important. You know what I'm saying? But for me, if my kids are happy, then I don't care about happiness. And a lot of people put they say you have to be happy to for your kids. Yeah, for sure. And I feel much more like I feel like I have the power in my hands now. But at the same time, I would I would the fact that we made the vow and I'm 100. I would I could just I could not be happy and be happy for the kids and just ride it out and figure out which years we're gonna have that's gonna be great
Starting point is 00:42:49 and which aren't you know what i'm saying so i'm willing to not be happy to be around my kids every day like that's not good because the kids are the kids are all right no no i get that but it's like if you say you're gonna die for your kids like you're gonna die for your kids but but you won't sacrifice your happiness for no no just no that's not that's not mathematically it doesn't doesn't add up no because if you're if you're not happy uh you know the mother the children not happy the kids are gonna feel all that energy so you know energy is never lost to just really transfer from one party to the next. But you have to have what you need to give.
Starting point is 00:43:27 Do your therapists talk back to you? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Mine doesn't. Oh, you paying her a lot to shut up. I just don't. I'm just like trying to figure out what did I do? She doesn't have conversations. You just talk and just takes it in.
Starting point is 00:43:43 And then she might ask me one or two things and then i say everything and then i'm like so i got somebody for you do they give you advice yeah okay i don't know okay so this is somebody for you maybe let me read the paper that this one that this this lady is because i don't she's taking your brain for you ray is she black is she is she black she mixed is she bad culturally competent there no no i don't yeah no i've been like i'm so old like i'm past like the the the you know what i'm saying the slick you know what i'm saying the slick player shit i'm saying she's black because most times black people understand black people no i asked them was she bad oh yeah and i said to certain people that like that kind of style oh she is so no no i'm
Starting point is 00:44:28 saying everybody's bad that's not true that's i'm telling you come on you there's no there's no truth on somebody saying that a song is whack oh because everything's subjective i get what you so that's what that kind of is like it's like you know if your earbud doesn't work bro the right one just doesn't work you can't get somebody's opinion you want to get a divorce right yeah i'm i'm just i'm really happy i'm happy that i'm just able to like create something like like in a sense of like give me this building and do all of this shit right now and let me see it that shit is like it's it's crazy do y'all speak do you have a good relationship yeah we talk every day we super cool like it's all good get a divorce yeah i don't i just i don't know what that means you know what i'm saying like if we're not together
Starting point is 00:45:18 then you know i just want to i just want to protect her as far as whatever the industry has or whatever it's doing. She's killing them in poker right now. Yes. There's a lot of millions on the table. You're playing with millions of dollars. You know what I'm saying? So you just got to protect her and protect the kids. My kids love their mom.
Starting point is 00:45:43 That's their everything so how can you not make sure that that figure is even if you say all this crazy shit and just call me out my name or say I'm going to die early whatever it's still all up is it true that you're trying to get a pardon
Starting point is 00:46:00 for Suge Knight from Donald Trump or you were trying to get one when he was in office for Suge Knight from Donald Trump? Oh, you were trying to get one when he was in office? Mm. What did you get that from? What? I mean, I heard that was one of the reasons you was around him when he was in office, because you were trying to get a pardon for Suge Knight.
Starting point is 00:46:19 No. No. No. And that's what you said. When you said it, I'm like, that is a like a good idea when it can't happen now because he's not president well i was just but see i was i was just about to say when he wins again that's what i was just so you're going for trump i don't who we vote for shouldn't be the topic of conversation what can we do to help this place like you know what i'm saying
Starting point is 00:46:39 like what or what does it look like are we all is it all messed up it's all messed up to me man interest racer yeah interest race was was chilling with with with dt bro we talking one percent three percent two percent two percent for all all people everybody ate like you know i'm saying four more man i don't know i mean i i guarantee you this you can't get canceled if you say you're gonna vote donald trump like you used to right i'm saying like if you said that you you risking something right yeah now it's like i'm voting for him too um but but but listen if you if you have your mamas and your grandma if you have your grandmas and your mamas Putting your ballot in for you
Starting point is 00:47:29 Cause they like well we worked hard for this so I'm gonna put yours in And you tell them to go Trump Just know that they still gonna go Biden So if you wanna vote you gotta get out there And do it yourself Because that's what my mama did How's your mom doing speaking of your mom No go ahead you got it
Starting point is 00:47:44 Moms is overseeing the whole company That's what my mama did. How's your mom doing? Speaking of your mom. Go ahead. No, go ahead. You got it. Moms is overseeing the whole company. So I got moms as the CEO, the interim CEO right now of Tronics Network. My mom sees it different, and my mom is super positive. You know what I mean? What she did with Brandy was just very, very strategic and was very clean right and then there's me you know i take showers all the time but i don't know how i don't know how clean it's not as clean as it should be no no no no no i'm spotless even if i wore white drawers well you told people don't wear white drawers exactly but i'm saying
Starting point is 00:48:24 i'm still dirty inside it's a deeper message i take a lot of showers but it doesn't take away from the creative filth that um that crosses through my mind every day yeah but i want to take you guys somewhere yeah we're gonna go i want to take you guys yeah go to the bahamas what just hang on Breakfast Club Ray J I mean we come a long way together oh nice families you bring your family we ain't good
Starting point is 00:48:51 like we ain't good like dang I said let's go to the Bahamas that don't sound like something I'm interested in going to the Bahamas with Ray J no no no
Starting point is 00:48:59 in the six cameras no and the editors that's ready the version of me oh the version of me is serious the reason why we asked is
Starting point is 00:49:09 yo let me tell you something let me tell you dude I want to do whatever you want to do that's what you said to Puff oh my god Ray Ray how that
Starting point is 00:49:23 you can get the cameras going right now and wrestle Charlotte. That'll be a good one. Ray, I'm just asking. Don't want to play with you, Ray. That's the second time we're going to play with you, Ray. Oh my God. That's the second time, Ray. Because you got the goons.
Starting point is 00:49:40 You know you got those goons. You got a booty goon show? No, Angela, you made up booty goons i said it more uncut but i do got the gaygency now i do got you know i'm saying my transgender squad um and then oh suki and i we have hangover 69 the first song is called pipe you down the video is done i want to break it here. I want it to be on heavy rotation here first. Before anywhere else.
Starting point is 00:50:10 You know what I'm saying? This is where I see heavy road for this. Because it has this drill beat. I like that. That was in the trailer though, right? Yeah. It's a good tune. It's a really good tune.
Starting point is 00:50:24 And I think that here is where I know it should be first. But not not just playing it you know what i'm saying like you know but but the world gotta love it and i want you guys to love it and if you don't i'm your friend ray's been in that one that's my guy uh i've had my quota of ray j for the day now he's been in that listen listen i have a place down the street you guys should come see it it It's filled with TVs and, like, all this editing thing. It's dope. It's dope. Hey, Ray. I'm watching the Ray J. Kirby Enthusiasm Show.
Starting point is 00:50:52 And we're doing Titty Tour. What? Oh, my God. Okay. That's what I want you to do. She's pregnant, Ray. What is the Titty Tour, Ray? Yeah, well, Titty Table Talk.
Starting point is 00:51:04 Oh, I like that. Yeah. Titty table talk. Titty table talk is really about educating, like, giving your experiences on. Topless. Oh, the women topless? No, absolutely not. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:51:15 So why is it called titty? This is after the titty tour. The titty tour is me, and I got all my. Oh, your titty's out. No. Oh. Nobody's. It's a strip club tour.
Starting point is 00:51:24 Oh. Got it. We're going on a strip club tour a titty tour it's called tops off for radio gotcha um you like that yeah i like that you get me because i'm thinking about it's us in the strip clubs right we go there with the bus and it's invite only so we're not we don't want you to we're not there to make money it sounds like it sounds like we are there to throw all the money on the dancers and give you a strip club yeah and give you an experience with the songs behind it right so you're watching they're watching this beautiful
Starting point is 00:52:00 celebration you're listening to the songs and when you leave you can't get them out your head and so that's how we're kind of doing our radio radio run oh that's kind of like jocelyn's cabaret how she has that strip club tour yeah the jocelyn yeah yeah but we're just we're we're just going in and just having fun this isn't a show this is just oh okay no no no it is a show oh it is yeah i think now it is okay i know't wait for it no i can't wait to see you as a billionaire i'm telling you it is cold fun it is like some things i pray for god please oh wow I don't think people respect you you started that electric bike stuff before before Lyft
Starting point is 00:52:57 before other creators saw it and said I got a better idea right cause that's what ideas do and I had to stand up because I I'm sitting down a lot when i'm editing so i'm like it's time for you to stand on business right and what i mean by that is like you need to do more interviews where you're talking about your business acumen and your business portfolio yeah it's time now but you know i couldn't do that there because it was so sealed tight and i had to like you know just watch a couple things but
Starting point is 00:53:25 i'm in full control i spent all my money i spent all my money on this never subscribe you didn't even tell them how to subscribe tronix t-r-o-n-i-x network.com you should give people 30 days free where they can see if they can enjoy it first and then you'll get them clicked he was already talking about you know how you do you to put your credit card info anyway. I get 30 days. Yeah, don't do that. See, you got to understand, DJ Envy, this is the loudest, most premium content they're ever going to get with an arc that you can't beat that just makes you feel good for $4.99. That you've never seen. Yeah, because what's
Starting point is 00:54:06 out now is a saturation of inconsistency where you don't know what's going on, but they're fighting. It works for a target audience, but doing my testing with that audience, they love these story arcs as well. They love, like, you know,
Starting point is 00:54:21 a show to start, and then it has a climax, and then it goes into the inspirational thing or the cliffhanger for something else it's not being produced like that right now yeah on the other shows and and if zeus is our competition then we're our competition yeah because there there hasn't been another show after the shows we did that are the shows we did you can take us off of baddies executive producer for the second and third season and on fine you see where the first time it starts what they say boom no man what I love about what you showed us is we saw the side that demand letter and then we saw the
Starting point is 00:55:02 emotional parts behind it we saw fights and then we seen the same niggas crying like I love you then we shoot you know we throw to a clip of you with the two tears oh yeah so that was the gays that was the gays the rod and dumping d dumping d and the rod
Starting point is 00:55:19 what was it dumping d and the rod the rod is the CEO of the agency and Dumpin' D is his associate. His name is Dumpin' D? Dumpin' D. Dumpin' D and The Rod. Yeah, it's the agency.
Starting point is 00:55:34 Fantastic name for a game, man. Yeah, he's like, look, next week when it comes out, Dumpin' D? He's the one that like broke the thing off the... Yeah, like in a gas station. That's Dumpin' D.
Starting point is 00:55:44 Shout out to Dumpin' D. Yo, I told y'all y'all was going to be popping. Now I'm talking to the Breakfast Club about y'all. My word is all I got. Hey, me and Jeff's pregnant, man. What? No, please, that's not. That's not.
Starting point is 00:56:00 We appreciate you for real for joining us, man. I thought that was the cold word. We talking a lot, presenting a lot. No, I'm happy for you, Ray J. Ray J, ladies and gentlemen. I can't wait to see what the Tronning Network does. We are working. It's live now.
Starting point is 00:56:14 You can go and you can subscribe, pre-subscribe now. The trailer is coming. I'm dropping the super trailer, which y'all just saw, right now. Okay. Oh, you're going to drop it right now okay oh you gonna drop it right now so we get a breakfast club exclusive okay send it to us we gonna put it in the video to where they can see when we watching it they can see it on that was our computer right yeah but look and you got that first episode that don't nobody got that's crazy but we're not gonna
Starting point is 00:56:47 put that one up there no but when it comes out on the 25th so that's next week so y'all can you guys can do you guys have
Starting point is 00:56:53 you guys are the only ones with that episode thank you Ray well it was an accident because remember I was trying to show y'all the other stuff but we were supposed
Starting point is 00:57:01 to get that we were supposed to see that murder live yeah I just I didn't want I didn't want you know what i'm saying yeah you used i was just thanking me and i can we drop a bomb for ray j man yes yes ray j ladies and gentlemen yes yes yes yes let's please play that you're a part of the elohim bro you are a part of the
Starting point is 00:57:19 elohim i know you would you like to play the I know All right, so this is the new song This is the first song Because you got Tronics Media Group Then you have Tronics Music Group It coincides There you go There's a subsidiary off one And then the other
Starting point is 00:57:34 That's right All Tronics Industries There you go Right? This song is the first kicker off Sukiana and Ray J is called Pipe You Down Pipe You Down
Starting point is 00:57:44 Pipe You Down Pipe You Down and it's a really good tune Suki has a show coming out on the Tronics Network where she's executive producing it here's the title, Lil' Coochies of Las Vegas Lil' Coochies of Las Vegas there's nothing real about Ray J he's a spoof
Starting point is 00:57:57 it's about all of the sexy little dancers oh the little people oh shoot but then Splits who's the first fighter on the bike club It's about all of the sexy little dancers. Oh, the little people. Yeah. Oh, shoot. Little coochies. But then Splits, right? Splits, who's the first fighter on the Fight Club. I let her produce a show called Big Hoochies of Atlanta.
Starting point is 00:58:13 And that's the big ones. The big ones. Ooh. So we got the big ones. Big back to ATL. Okay. Ray J got a show called Big Back to ATL. That's crazy.
Starting point is 00:58:24 That's what's up. And the Gagencies series is like Brokeback Mountain but the reality version. Oh, I love it. Oh my God. Ladies and gentlemen, Ray J! Tronics Network, we appreciate you
Starting point is 00:58:38 brother. Make sure you didn't pass out over there. Ray is the illest man. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake that ass up, girl. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Hey, y'all. Niminy here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records.
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