The R&B Money Tour Recap

On this week's episode of The R&B Money Podcast, Tank and J Valentine recap all the special moments, components, and highlights from their recent tour with Keri Hilson and Carl Thomas: The R&B Money Tour.

 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
R and b's Money. We are thank you, Jake Valentine.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
We are the authorities on.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
R and B ladies and gentlemen. My name is Tank.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the R and B Money Podcast, the authority
on all things.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
R and B tour. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, we we just wrapped up the R and B
Money Tour, which was incredible.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Shouts out to.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
DJ Fly Guy, Carl Thomas, Carrie Hillson. Yeah, I'm just
talking about the stage right now, guys. Jay Valentine popped
up a couple bill Yeah yeah, uh, Dave Hollister who
point yeah stage yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
And me, Yeah, shout out to you, Shout up man,
shout out to me, to me.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
For being me, and shout out to our partners, Live Nation,
Live Nation Urban.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, shan Gee and his whole team.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Man just came to the table and and blessed us
with a moment.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, absolutely, man, they were. They were amazing partners. Yeah,
they were amazing partners.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Marie Janice, Jasmine Tyler. I'm forgetting the people.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
The chrome I wear Master.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, and then you know, then our then our team.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Hold on March meet and greet, hold on me because
I want to make sure we we say we say
all the names you know, I got, I got a
list of names here that that I want to I
want to go down just to make sure we don't.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
You know, we'll mess this up. Uh Louis toes.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Uh road manager, extraordinary, tour manager, extraordinary. Hold on, So
let's let's let's give him this information for all those
who don't know. This wasn't like a regular artist go
on tour thing.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
No no, no, no no, no.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Let's get let's give the information.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
This wasn't oh tank, you getting paid this much. This
is your set time, be here at this time, do
your thing, and good luck, God bless you.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
I would like to say it was buying a new
house in every city and having to furnish it.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Wow. Wow, get the cable.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, and put it in your name and put your name,
your name, you put your name.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
That is a.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Great analogy that is accurate of what we had to
do in everything. And that's what it is when you
have your own tour, when it's your turn to have
your tour, which you and I have been talking about
for years about you doing your run and you choosing
who you wanted to be on that run, with you
choosing your partner who you wanted to you know, partner

(03:39):
with and.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
This is this This was a you know it was
it was a learning experience, absolutely a masterclass.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
And and I know touring. I've been touring for a
long time, but I've never had to do everything on
a tour. Yeah, Like we're getting down to the nuts
and bolts from from from local hires, yeah, two to

(04:11):
catering too.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah, because you know, you got to make sure that
that that that big shot got that lamb.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Chot to make sure that I got that lamb. I
got to make sure the locals got lunch. And all
of these are things that we have to pay.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
For everything from down to the what they say that
when they when the artist wants to red or green
eminem pay for that.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Got to pay for those red green eminem. Yes.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Uh so this this wasn't what you what you think
it was. This was a real business venture and us
uh standing in a place where we can now run
anybody's tour.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
So it made it where we're able to have R
and B money tour ultimately if we choose to.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
If we choose to, if we choose you can live
that you can call us and say, hey we got
X Y and Z artists going out. We need somebody
to run it. And it can be an arm B
Money It can be an army money team. Run the
whole thing from top to bottom.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
We can say we've done that, We've done that.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
We're ready to do more of it, which is just
now adding to our cachet of things, of all things
of our.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
R and B you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
And now as we gear into the R and B
Money Festival and all of these cool things that we're doing, we're.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Ready live events, live events. So yeah, you're doing You're
doing a road car Litsten again.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Lumano road manager, tour manager. He had two jobs, he
might have more. He had like six jobs on this tour.
I'm gonna just say your name again because your name's
on the list. Javallentie, Yes, the j ballon time. That
wouldn't come to any of the meet and Greeks, and

(06:04):
I had to answer all the questions, Where's Jay?

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Have you seen Jay? Is Jay coming? I think Jay
is gonna come. I went to Las Vegas. I went
to the Las Vegas Many Greek.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Thanks Richard, big shot Brown Okay security, uh, stage manager.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Held the whole tour down, held the whole tour down. Yeah,
he wouldn't let nobody get nowhere close to nobody.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Nowhere close to nobody.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
And mind you, this tour ran on time, yes, not
not nobody's time, not nobody's colors time. Yeah, time's time,
because again this is our tour. Any bit of overtime
which comes out.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Of which we experienced, we did experience that.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Come on, you want to before we go to the
next person, you want to talk about that out of
my pocket?

Speaker 1 (07:02):
How that goes? Listen, there's a load in which can
trick you off.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
What we relate for one and a half load ends maybe, yeah,
one of two load ends cost me at least a
kia at least a kia sportage something.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Then for sure, I don't. We didn't have any late loadouts.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
No, no, no, no, no, we got We got out
of every building, We got out.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Every bild on time, even with our meeting. Agree.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
But that load in costs. And what's crazy is that
that loading costs that one day that we we missed
that load in time.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
It was on all of us too.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
So it cost me, I think Harry and Carl me
more heavy of course, but so again We're responsible for
everything in this house, in every city, and it has
to be on time. Outside of that one mishap, one
and a half mishaps, maybe.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, learn from the mistake.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Perfect tour, Perfect tour, all right. Ariel Griffith, smirch dog.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Made sure we were straight out here.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
She made sure the merchant, you know what I'm saying,
was move when she was talking to the people. She's
also snacks.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
The third.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
She snacks, the third shot snacks the second right, of course,
I'm snack senior, senior, and you know she she came
on in and was very well versed in the twenty
twenty four, twenty twenty five snacks.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
I respect her.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
So there are this is like a real thing, like
how baby DC is. It's always it's always in a
snack because you know, I'm not really a snack person
like that.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
So she brought me.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Some gummies. I'm not gonna tell you what they are.
She brought some gummies to the table, okay that we're exquisite,
high level, high level gummies. Gum me okay, and there's
not not known the drug gummies, candy gummies. All right,
here we go, uh Thaniel Keys, playback guy yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah. Uh Kenneth Hamilton, come on, come on Lighting Tech.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Just sada hall huh v I p v I p
v I p Corey Owens, my brother who keeps makes
your team because my sprinter was out on the road.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
That was my sprinting, moving and moving and grooving. Good
A good investment, yes, yeah, yeah, great investment.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Corey. You buy to a bus now. Corey drives that
sprinter like a Lamborghini. He does.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
You have to tell Corey, hey man, slow this motherfucker.
He's going to stupid baby.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
But yeah, I think it, Suld I think you should
buy a bus now. I think so too, Yeah, I
think so.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Just the next Yeah, Sanford, Trey Henderson video, come on,
Video Tech, come on. Jimmy Park production audio technician. Henry
NaN's nas Bit monitor engineer. And he had a birthday
and lost his mind. Man, your fault. You don't blame

(10:16):
you know what I was hyping in. I was definitely
I was hyping him. He had a good time.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
We told him it was a show night. He said,
hey man, beverages on us.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
And he began at the meet and Greek and he
and Jay proceeded to put the battery in his back
and made sure he felt as gangster as he needed to.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
I had a whole playlist I had. I'm pretty sure
Ariol has a video.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
By the time I got out of the bunk, he
was literally leaning sideways with his glasses on his chin
and his mouth open, and he would not ride.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
He had a good time. He had a good time.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Tobias Tankard Senior, Yeah, senior, senior production manager, front house engineer,
and six.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
More other things. The big Fela is just that.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
That's he's a glue guy to the production That's my guy.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
That is my guy.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Precious Jay Tanker, Precious come on, Precious assistant tour manager,
and more glue.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
All things just just dope. I love Precious. Are you sure?
Lee come on?

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Making sure the line was tight? Edwards hands, Edwardson, you
know why I called it that too? That mother fucker
cut me.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Was going it happens.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
I got I got soft skin. That's that mother looks

(12:18):
like I just fought a thundershirt.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Man. I'm fucking bleeding, man, you.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Oh, and she's pulling out all kinds of ship. Just
stop bleeding. Okay, it stops to bleed.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
That's none of this. She stops to blee, my god,
that's my dog.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Grant. Uh oh, i'mkaying to me. Let me try and produce.
Pronounce it your ahead, Condura Jon, hmm, Condura Jan Grand
Condura John, it sounds it sounds right. Yeah, I like
that's uh lighting director, absolute monstar. And while I'm while

(13:18):
I'm there at the lights, let me shout out Dobblin Howard, Yeah, yeah,
who put all the expressions for me in and lined
it up on that led ed wall.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Them graphics was heaven sent.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
And then let me shout out my brother Jacob, who
actually filmed the live he's here, he's in the flesh
film that live content that we put together.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Man, just what a team. What a team.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Rassin Alexander that's his real name, but it's fly guy
toward DJ. We talk about keeping the crowd warm, rocking,
hot and moist.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was a full beef going
on too. Oh no, it was a full beef for
DJ mar DJ Mars a fly guy. It was.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Because he was carries DJ yeah, and he would he
would do the thing before carrying then like.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
It was, it was great. We was keeping scared. Yeah,
it was dope.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
It was really done wasn't amazing moment. Man two great
great DJs, Man and shout out to.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Shout out to the DJ DJ's got to get the
respect they deserve man and and all fastest of music,
because it's not that I think, and I think it
gets pushed into like, oh, DJ and is just a
hip hop thing. It's not DJ, is it. That's an instrument.
That's like playing a piano, that's like playing the guitar.
If you can play it, if you can DJ, you
have a special gift. That's a musician. Absolutely, And I

(14:43):
think it needs to be spylighted and highlighted even more
because those moments would let's keep it a buck like
those ones would be dead moments over the change out
or during the like you need that. And no, you
can't just put on a playlist like you need somebody
hyping the crow.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
You need that.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
You need to keep the energy up so that once
the artists come on stage, the crowd is still ready
to go.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
The dead space is just not it's just not it's
just not good anymore. It's just not conducive anymow you
know seeing I mean back in the day when we
took uh DJ Marketer spot was that savage too.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
That was savage to her. Yeah, savage to her, you.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Know, and just having him there for that, you know
what i mean, seeing seeing it keep the energy, keep
people from from getting impatient or you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Getting lost on their phone, because that's the that's the
big thing you gotta You have to keep the audience engaged,
you know what I mean, because you don't want to
have to restart the car every time the next artist
comes up, and you.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Know, I'll get to that. No, No, let me get
did to it right now.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
And that's the thing when you're picking, when you're deciding
who to go on the road, right because you want
to make sure that the artists going before you are
keeping the people in gaged, not rocking them to sleep,
you know what I'm saying, and raising those levels each
artist to get to the headliner and shout out to

(16:21):
Carry and Carl for doing exactly cooking. David Harrison to
a bus driver, why not, Yeah, why not have some
good drivers say no accidents, no nothing travit uh no

(16:41):
Trayvon Peterson box truck driver, that's.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
What all that? Yeah, Yeah, this ship got to get there.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
All the ship got there safe shout out to my
brother Blase, who in the ninth hour what do you Do,
came through with his personal led walk for all to
see for the low for little to nothing for I paid.

(17:12):
I paid less than what it costs for him to
do what he does. He did that as a family
gesture for me, and he did it at a time
where you know, I needed something. I needed it, and
he came in and helped fill that void. And in
between him right there that that lighting package granted him

(17:36):
lasers and you know, all these things coming together at
the last minute that really made this show.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Everything that I needed it to be. And it was.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
It was a cost involved, but a necessary cost. If
you were if you were at this tour, we we
showed motherfucker something. There's some more people on here. Carl Thomas, right,
how about him? I think Carl Thomas, uh, I like.

(18:08):
I love Carl Thomas. Of course, I've always loved him
as an artist. I love his catalog, but I love
Carl Thomas as a person.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
As a person. Carlo is coolest ship. I like being
on the road around I like being around Carl Thomas.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, yeah, And you know, for me, this is the
first time I've ever hung out with. Honestly, when we
did the tour photo shoot was my first time ever
meeting him.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
I never met him.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
I loved his music, been a fan of what he does,
but I never met him, not even in Passing. Okay,
So for me, it was like, oh, yeah, I really
rock with this guy. I really really rock with this guy.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Man.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
Mama prayed for us.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Oh yeah in Chicago, Yeah, all of us up there crying, Yeah, feeling.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
She prayed in Detroit too, he said, yeah, covered us real.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
She covered us. Shout out, shout out to uh Mama.
Thomas t was there, she was in on the prayer.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
It was just like, you know, he.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
He definitely exemplifies you know the place that I come from,
which is the church, you know what I mean. And
so that that common bond between us was just like,
it's just automatic. Man, that's just a guy that loved
to be around. I loved hearing summer rain, you know
what I'm saying. I remember Joe Budden was like, Nigga,
what you gonna do when summer rain come on it?

(19:34):
I'm going to dance. And so the Carl even in
the mean and greets when the sum raine would come on.
I was like, oh, yeah, it's time, It's time, and
I just appreciate him. To his team, to team yeah,
discoverer road manager, the Tyrone irving, Yeah, shout Tyrone, his

(19:56):
assistant David Thomas, which I think is his sons his son, Yeah,
David Thomas. And then she let's get into carries people. Yeah,
try at to carry man. I don't know how long
I'm gonn carry.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
It's at least twenty years we've known care. Carrie wrote
on sex cleve and Pain. It feels like at least
twenty years you should have two or three songs on
sex club and pain, but we ended up picking one.
For sure. Carry wrote on sex club and Pain and
she was cooking back that was like, what are you doing?
Is nasty?

Speaker 2 (20:28):
She wasn't even in the game yet. She was sitting
on the bench trying to figure it out in between
Polo and Tim, and I was like, you signed to them?
Are you gonna be crazy?

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Right?

Speaker 2 (20:38):
And then for her to go on and then be
that it's crazy, and then like it was awesome to
be part of her popping back out. I experienced it

(21:02):
really heavy in the Meet and Greek, where, first of all,
people were taken aback by actually standing in front of
carry and looking at her literally at least fifteen twenty
times in the meet and greetor oh my god, you
are gorgeous, like they were looking at it that oh

(21:23):
my god, you know what I'm saying. Guys and girls,
it was like Jesus Christ. They didn't know it's never
been that close to her to really like see her
that close but absorb her energy, which is great energy.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Right.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
And of course there were people who were like, I
love you Tank, I love you Carl, but I'm here
to see care you know what I'm saying. It was
that type of thing too, And it was like that's
what you go, Yeah, that's what you want. You want,
you want weighted people involved.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
And I think that, you know, ultimately, when we were
talking about going on tour and how she came up,
even just in conversation for the tour, was that it
was it was that she just in my opinion, she
brought a different element. Yeah, she brought a different element. Obviously,
you know, she's a woman's two men on tour. That's
one thing. But it was it's just her presence and

(22:14):
her being, in my opinion, her being.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Able to.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
Fill that space where you know, it gives a different
element of performance than the other two artists, completely different,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
And you know she brought them ladies out too.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
And the way she rolled, even th way she rolled
on the road, like people don't know that cares an athlete,
right right, So she's like in that space like behind
the scenes, she's really one of us, right No.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
And it's funny you say that, right, because what happens
with a lot of.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Women in the game.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
It's harder to move them around as far as on
the road because you know it, you know, it takes
glam and it takes you know, styling and all these
other things that men they don't really you know.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
We got on T shirts right now, you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
But I knew from Carrie's background, from her hustle, from
her you know, like you said, growing up being an
athlete and kind of just being game ready. I knew
she was going to be able to do the tour
without needing all of the other extra stuff that's some
artists they just they lean on carry. Lenly was backstage

(23:28):
doing her makeup, doing it all, cooking, you know what
I mean like she was like, oh yeah, I'll be
out there.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
And that's not that's that's unusual in the game.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
It really is.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
And obviously in this tour and what it, you know,
the requirements for this tour, we needed someone like that.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
It would have been tougher to do to do it
any other way, any other way.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Al Jamal Jones, Yeah, alchamal ou jezy my guy.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, what's my mother?

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Guy?

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Harvey Harvey Harvey Wilson Jr. Yeah, Security, I love Harvey.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Harvey said you want to hope to Harvey he said,
you know.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
You don't want to. That's what he said, you want.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
To, you don't want to. Alfred Ellis was that carries
the production manager? Yes, got it, Alfred. Throw Alford in there.
Let me see. Let's k got some more people here
Ativa Jones, Yeah, yeah, Edward, Eddie Smith okay, her box

(24:35):
truck driver, Jonathan White, Production and d j uh and Marshall,
d J Mars Thomas. We just spoke about him. Let's
see who else is on here. Can't forget my Guylney
Barrell come on, shout out to shout out to my

(24:55):
guyline Barrell man, come on.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Logistics Logistics his original name.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Here's what's crazy.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
When we originally put the tour together and lined it up,
I was like, Okay, you know, once we get into
the cost of all of this, I think I'm gonna
have to do this one by myself. I'm used to
be on stage by myself. You popping out with me
and you know that time, You're used to it, right,
And now I was like, nah, I get it. I understand,

(25:25):
big bro. It's all good, you know what I'm saying.
So we go and do the Tom Joiner Cruise. That
was like, I'm gonna take you with me cruise. And
Lonnie gets on this cruise and proceeds to show me
why he gotta go on to it. I should not

(25:46):
do this tour without him.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yep, I remember you called me chief, and I.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Said, I said, it was like it was to the
point where everybody was like, Lottie's the m v P
of the time during the job, he just killed and
our energy, our synergy was just so crazy. It was
just like it's gotta be this, It's gotta be And
I said, listen, man, I got this much space and

(26:26):
I got this much money left, right, He said, I
don't care right, let's get it. He's rocking, rocking, He's rocking,
and you can only hope and wish for something like that,
especially with a guy that talented and that season in
this ship.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Like he's a he's a fucking pro.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
He's a pro, and he knows I don't really ride
the bus.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
So he was like he was just waiting, Hey, ain't
Lonnie gonna sniff out the bunk? Gee, you ain't? You
ain't riding most I'm not getting.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
He's he's like knowing that somebody's next in line, but
he went to you specifically.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
JA told me that when he is like when niggas donpen,
it's like gave my spot.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
He gave me a spot. Trying to figure nobody next
on the board. I know where you next on the board.
But he came to Jay said I can take the bunk.
When he not, Hey, bron he had the bunk. Lotti
figured it out. Yeah, it was so funny.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
They thought they were we were because most obviously I
don't think nobody other than me and Lannie are from California.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
That was on the road, Me, Lannie and Lulu.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
And everybody was like, wait, Jay, you getting on the
bus from Sacramento to San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
I said, it's eighty miles.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Man.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
I was like, I'm not flying from Sacramento to San Francisco.
They was shocked, see you on the bus. I was
on the bus though. That's that's when we was turnt.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
And I think that's everybody. I think that's everybody, from
shout out to We said to late if we forgot.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Anybody, you know, we apologize, but thank you.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Thank you. We shout it out.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Uh yeah, yeah, I just think that and shout out
to all the venues who hosted us.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
You know.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
It was one of the things where these venues really
welcomed us and and set it out for us, you know,
some more than others. Some venues we walked into and
it was pictures on the wall and like it was
like you know, it was just like it was like
really like laid out like our house. Shout out to

(28:41):
those venues, but just the venues overall, man, and just
in just in terms of making space for us, and
and just even their conversation afterwards, how impressed they were with.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Not just the show but but our business.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Like they were they would go to Lulu and say, hey, man,
we'll work with you guys any time time.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, I think it's because and this is something that
you know, I would the advice I would give to
all teams, you know, teams that are you know, tenured
in this business and teams that are new. Just be respectful.
Be respectful everywhere you are. Be respectful people's time. People
have jobs to do, you know what I mean. So

(29:26):
when you think that you're just oh, that don't really
mean nothing, that is somebody that has to there's accountability.
Somebody has to be accountable for everything everything. Thinking that
you know, it's cool to go back and and raid
the and raid the lunch room, it's other people that
haven't eat.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
People have to eat.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
That's why they have lunch tickets, That's why they have
whatever these things are. They're preparing for the people that
are on the road to take care of you while
you're out there, so that you don't because most of
the times you don't have time to go somewhere and
go get food.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Most of the people that are crew, they never leave
the venue ever.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
They in the morning to they go from the bus
to the venue, or to the hotel to the or
wherever it is. But they're not like, oh yeah, while
we were in Nashville, I was able to go to
give me some hot chicken from such and such. No,
that's not That's not how it works because there's jobs
that need to be done. So that's why I say
just people being mindful and having accountability about what's going

(30:30):
on around them on these tours, because you know, you
hear so many horror stories of artists that just come
into these places and they just think, oh, yeah, I'm the.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Artist, so to move how I want to move, Like, nah,
that's just not how it goes.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
And every city is different in terms of what those
requirements are going to be. Like we go to a
city like Boston, which is the only city where we
had a laser light spacing restriction on stage, and I
get to call at six something. I'm at the hotel
doing my routine getting ready. I don't leave the hotel

(31:07):
till seven. They're saying, hey, you know, the the Union
here wants to show you where you can't go on stage.
And I'm like, yeah, I can't go on stage? Like yeah,
they they're you know, they're very serious about these laser
lights and they want to make sure. You know, safety
is first for them in terms of how they view it,
and they have marked off the stage where you can't go.

(31:29):
It's like, oh, okay, well I see when I get there. No,
you don't understand. They want to see you now before
they even open the doors, to show you where you
can and can't go and make sure it's.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Not going to be an issue. And I was like, okay,
all right.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
So I got to hurry up my routine because first
and foremost, I want the doors open. I want the
people to get in there, to be able to see
fly Guy and see Carl and see you know. And
so I've never been through this, but I'm like, you know,
it's their building. Let me go see what's going on.
And so we get to the building and they literally
have I mean, if we put it together, close to

(32:10):
thirty forty percent of the stage marked off, marked off
where I couldn't go, Me and Loney couldn't go, where
you couldn't go on that stage.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
And I was like, it was like, it was like,
how does this work for you? And I was like, yeah,
your house rules, let's work. And they were so.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
They were ready to argue because they're used to are
used to artists.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
No, I can't. I need to be able to no,
just cool, respecting the house safety first. This is how
y'all rock?

Speaker 2 (32:41):
That's rock, right, and we use all sixty percent of
the rest of the stage that was left and had
an amazing show. And they were so impressed that that
right there was so easy for them. We appreciate you
guys because they were standing by ready to press the
button if either one of us would have went into
those restricted areas, they were gonna press that button.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Show was over right.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
That wasn't Boston because I wasn't. I wasn't in Boston.
I was where was it? I got to think of
where it was.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
It was Boston.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
No, no, no, because I didn't do the Boston show.
I didn't do the Boston show, but I was. I
did this show that your job. That was definitely Boston.
You weren't there there it was because we had it.
Remember when I was one of these shows I was
at it was it was a laser light restriction.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Too, probably probably to but this was that Boston was
the biggest one. Boston was like they was cutting stage off.
I had a runway, wow, and then a space in
the front. It was definitely Boston and then I'm not sure.
I'm not sure where else.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
But yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
You know, it's being respectful to these to these guys
in their city and their space. Yea, they have things
to do. Your job, man, And if you're saying in
the interest of safety, then why do I want to
buck that right?

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Are you trying to keep me safe?

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Why you're trying to Sometimes the ego just gets in
the way of that. But that's why, you know, you
look up and you know there are so many venues
that you've done repeat business with because when your name
comes up, this is how it's laid out to them.
They're like, oh no, we love him, you know what
I'm saying, Like, you know, shout out to you know,

(34:23):
the boss lady at the Poms, Crystal amazing. She she
was amazing to us, and we had we had conversations
just about you know, doing more stuff over there and
doing stuff at the Pearl and doing stuff with the
Poms because of how we are with our business. She appreciated,
you know, how we came through and handled ourselves professionally

(34:46):
and did a great show, you know what I mean.
So I think that that is something that's really important
for artists that are coming up. Just just be respectful
the house man. Just come do your job or.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Do your job, you know, make sure to keep hand
our respect and.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
Your people because they are they are a representation of you.
Everybody that is with us on this road represents Tank first, myself, Lulu,
they represent R and B.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Money doesn't matter who you are.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Like there's a saying that people always like to use,
like no, I'll be the bad guy, but don't overstep that. Right,
there's there's you being the person who ensures that things
are the way they are supposed to be, right being
an asshole, but in being an asshole, those are two

(35:38):
different different things, two different things. And so you know
again with my team, I love my team because we
just we pride ourselves we are we are all in
the people business. My whole team, we're in the people business.
And and more importantly, like we want to have a
good time. Man, And we had a good time. We
ain't all that stuff that everybody own. I don't know whatever,

(36:00):
I don't know what they own. We on a good time.
We laughed together, we watched we watched series together like
Crack Joe, Like we did all of that together, like me,
you know, how I am. I'm like, we all at
one hotel. Ain't no a B team, C team and
then put them at the motel. No, no, no, no no.

(36:22):
They gotta be where I'm at. I gotta be able
to see my team. I gotta be able to laugh
and crack a joker too. I gotta be able to
make sure that they're good, and like, that's that's how,
that's how it has to be for me. Never been
able to operate any other way. So that there's that
your favorite city, my favorite city. Not to say all

(36:44):
the cities weren't good, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Because we had like you know what, bro, I can
honestly say they really showed up and showed out in
every city, you know what I mean. And that's not
like I'm not about to say what my face it was.
But just when I look back at every city that
I went to, which I went, I went to at
least fifteen of them, maybe twenty somewhere in there between

(37:10):
fifteen and twenty, and.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Bro to love was crazy. The love was crazy. You know.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Honestly, this is gonna throw a lot of people off,
you know, because it's a it's a smaller.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
City, but it was because of the venue.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
Raleigh was crazy singing in that opera house or whatever
that was, you know what I mean, like because they
usually have you know, it's tuned sonically, it's just for music.
They don't have anything else to have music there the place.
We you know that we did in Raleigh, And I

(37:49):
think for me that that really just just hearing it.
And plus I had a chance to kind of go
out into the orchestra and watch your performance after. I
really really listened from that point, and I'm like, Yo,
this is this is this is really dope because so
from a sonic standpoint, and the crowd was cracking. The

(38:10):
crowd was cracking everywhere, but like but from a sonic
experience for me, I really I.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Really really enjoyed Raleigh. I did. I really? What was
your favorite?

Speaker 2 (38:23):
I have favorites for different reasons, right, selling out DC
two shows, selling out the MGM two shows, Yeah, it
was like that was probably my favorite moment. And I
hit seventeen on Roulet seventeen Yeah yeah that that selling

(38:44):
out that and selling out l A. Yeah my two
favorite because it's like, no.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
That's great, that's great.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Home and you never like home and home You just
never know how people gonna pull it like people we
already know him, that is, they get that.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
That's that's the.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
All the time. We talk all the time. But all
those people showed up, bro, Yeah, like pulled up.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
And you know, for me, it's like.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
I want the support, but I also want my people
to be there, you know what I mean. I also
want to be able to should I bought an extra
forty tickets to make sure that whoever wanted to be
there could be there, could be there. And there were people,
you know, people who paid now, I already got my tickets. Dog,
you're good, and other people that was like, you know
what I'm saying, I need three dogs. I got you here,

(39:30):
you go, right, And those those moments were amazing to me.
To be able to show up in places that I
call home and people just give the love. Rody was crazy.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
But that's Chicago, Chicago and Atlanta as far as from like.
But before we go into that, okay, I must shout
out the young lady and Raleigh because you know, like
you said earlier, I don't really do the meet and greets.
I don't, you know what I'm saying, like, because and
this is something that people have to understand too.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
With me.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
I think they just think like, oh, Jay just don't
want to like when I get before I get on stage,
and when I get off stage, I go right back into.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
R and B money President, you know what I'm saying,
Like you know.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
What I mean, like no, no, real shit, like where
I have to now go talk to people about where
people's seats are, are go figuring out or to me
and Lulu got to have a conversation. You're like, brother,
this better, We got it, you know, so we go
back into our business. You know, as soon as I
mean the right right before I go on, we own that.

(40:43):
And as soon as I get off, if there's anything
that some mishaps or if I gotta hiller out the
people from Live Nation real quick or it's something that
happened with I get right back into that. So sometimes
it takes me, you know, a minute to you know,
just take care of that before I can go and
just and enjoy, you know, the artist side of it,

(41:04):
which I said it on the you know, on the
on the on.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
The tour introduction episode. It's not my tour.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
I'm very understanding of that and very appreciative that you
want me to come out and rock with you. But
I still am very mindful, like, Yo, this is tanks tour.
This has to work, this has to rock a certain way.
We're presenting ourselves a certain way other than me pulling
up at the Meat and Green with a drink like yeah, yeah,
so everything good, you know, I mean, like I still.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Got to do business, you know.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
And it's something that's we talk about all the time.
What we're doing has never been done. It's never been done.
And that's not saying like we're banging on our chest,
but we're just saying like this, there is no one
that can tell us how to do what we're doing.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
There's never been.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
An artist, manager, manager, artists partner partner and a company
that are both doing music side, creative side and business side.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
It's just tough, you know.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
What I mean. And so but in Raleigh, I'm not
sure how she figured out how to get to me.
I don't know if it was through Lulu or through
Tobe or whoever it was, but a young lady. They
brought her so she could meet me after the Raleigh show,

(42:26):
and this is my first time experiencing this, and she
started hyperventilating and crying and.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
I didn't really know how to react to that, you
know what I mean, Like I'm like, no, don't don't cry,
I'm just regular O Jay. But it was, it was
it was really dope.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
It was really dope, man I And I appreciate her
just you know, feeling feeling comfortable and free enough to
have that type of emotion towards me and what I
do in music because I had never experienced that. I'd
never experienced that. That was it was a really cool moment.
I was glad that, you know, I was able to
take pictures with her. And I don't know if it
was it was either her friend or family member that

(43:09):
I think, and they might have been family, but just
I got a chance to take pictures with them, you
know what I mean and tell them thank you. And
it was it was a really cool moment for me.
That was like my highlight of my tour moment for
me of being like, damn, that's that's crazy that somebody
would feel like that toward me because.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
I you know, I don't you don't go you don't
go to do, you don't go to you know what
I'm saying, You don't you don't go to smell those
kind of flowers. Yeah, you stay very much away from
anything that that any sign of accomplishment, any sign up.
I did that, like, you stay far away from that,

(43:46):
which so many people wanted to give you on that tour.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
So they showed me a lot of love through through Instagram.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Yeah, it was like, it's always fun for me knowing
when you walk out, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Like we experienced that on on the New Edition tour
where that first started really warm enough, and then I
think on this tour it was like I was getting

(44:17):
messages like that motherfucker you better bring Jay with you,
Better bring that motherfucker j with Jay better be at
this show. It was almost like, what's the ones that landed?

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Ship? The mothership, the mothership that land the mothership? What's
my guy? Uh from back in the day? What is it?

Speaker 3 (44:38):
Yeah, they had that mothership, George Clinton.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
George Clinton. It's like you're the mothership.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
So they were always waiting for the Mothership to land.
Every show where was jas, oh yeah, he't make this
a man, you know what I'm saying, And it was
just it was great. It was great to see that.
It was great to see that, it was great to
experience it. Then once we get to the West Coast
and I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, we're doing up

(45:07):
And I was like, you want to do up?

Speaker 1 (45:08):
He was like, I mean, do you want me to
do up? Because I want you to do up?

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Because that's the thing, bro, Like, I think I'm so
used to people expecting things that I never expect anything.
I'm always in the space in mind of this is
this is this, This space belongs to you first, if
you allow me in that space, I'm very appreciative of
that and.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Let me know what it is.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
But I'm never thinking, oh yeah, it's just you know
what I'm about pull uping like once again, artists be
respectful of someone's stage and so once again their house.
This tour, this was your house, Like, yes, this is
it's the R and B Money tour. Granted we are

(46:05):
R and B Money, but this is this is Tanks tour.
This is somewhere for you to present the way you
want to present, you know, and even from a business
side of it, understanding like when you would tell me
you like Tank, I mean, Jay, I need this, this,
this this I want and I'm like.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Okay, bro, it's your tour. Here are the calls for that,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
But if this is what you feel like you need
to to get off, what you got to get off,
and what you want to present to these people, I'm
rolling with you. Let's figure it out how to get it,
you know what I mean. I'm not I'm not trying
to talk you down on everything. I just need to
tell you to you know the business side of it
of like, hey, bro, cool this this was just gonna

(46:46):
staying right here, you know. But but then as far
as just you grinting access to your stage, like I said, Bro,
I couldn't thank you enough, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (46:56):
It was, it was, it was. It was an amazing
moment and it was.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
Cool for me to see it because I think I
don't I don't and you know this, I don't look
at myself in that way. I just look at myself
as someone who does music. I don't know if I
really look at myself as an artist or an executive.
I just look at myself as not even just does music,
who does entertainment. I want to be I always just
want to be in an entertainment world. So whatever that

(47:22):
job is at that time, I'm rolling with you. Know
what I mean, But Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Bro which was crazy because you know, full transparency, San
Francisco was a problem. Is a tough market ticket wise,
tough market ticket wise, and those people showed up in
that room and went and acted though.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
Yeah, but you know, and you know, and I'll kind
of I'll talk about that because I'm from there, and
you and I had this conversation backstage.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Most of.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
The urban community has been moved out, so the percentage
of our crowd honestly in San Francisco at this point
is very low. So you may get a trickle from
some of the people that are still in Oakland, which
they're moving us out of there too. You know, I'm
a Bay Area guy, so I you know, I mean,

(48:23):
I know these numbers. So people are moving closer to Sacramento.
Sacramento sold out, bigger venue, bigger everything, sold out a
lot faster, the whole thing because most of our black people,
it's just it's so expensive to live in San Francisco

(48:45):
and Oakland now that it's tougher to do concerts up there.
Because it's not only our concert that that was starting
to have it that was having issues there because I
really looked into it. A lot of the shows that
are coming up to the Bay Now, it's just it's
becoming trick here and trickier to really sell hard tickets
up there because it's tech and it's you know, people

(49:06):
that aren't listening to R and B and rapped and
urban music, you know what I'm saying. So it's just
a harder sell. But the people that that pulled up
for us, pulled all the way up, put it all
the way up all I'm talking about energy on the thousand.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
That was family.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
Yeah, yeah, now that was Yeah, that one was That
was the toughest date for me because trying to accommodate yeah,
you know what I mean, just accommodating all the people.
Obviously the ticket side of it is cool, but then
of course everybody wants to come backstage stage. The backstage

(49:45):
is that that that venue was only a hallway, so
it's like ship what.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Do I even figured it out? We figured it out
that we had a good time and we had a
good ass time that that concert. I was like, Okay,
this this conce or.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
I can go, but I ain't got to go crazy,
you know what I'm saying, Because you know, it may
not be crazy in capacity. You know what I'm saying.
We got, we got Vegas is the last show. It's
gonna be a big show. I walked down on that stage, bro.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
I mean we heard them when called. I mean, what
was I got?

Speaker 2 (50:17):
When Cary was out there, I was like, what's going
on out I had to ask, like, what the fuck
is going on out there? Carry rocking younger at that motherfucker?
I said, oh, they want ship and walked down on
that stage and I said, listen, I can't hold back.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
It is what it is. Of course, Chicago, but Vegas
was special to me too.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Last show one of the shows, which show did I
bring the kids up on? I went in Texas?

Speaker 1 (50:46):
What's it? It wasn't.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
I was there to bring my kids out. My kids
got to see the show. That was really yeah, yeah, no,
I wasn't. Text that was the first first brought my
daughter and my son on stage. My wife is there
and they got to sing. But going back to Vay Vegas,
I'm walking, I walk, I wake up on the bus
and I'm walking into the building and Toby's like, oh yeah,

(51:12):
you have to say.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Everybody's looking at me like oh yeah, yeah, I'm like,
what are y'all talking about?

Speaker 2 (51:18):
And I walk in and I'm like, oh, ship, like
fucking screen that L E D wall the size of
the building. It was like, we're using this, and I'm so,
you know, I got O C D so I'm so
used to what we use and the way it looks
in its frame. I'm like, are y'all sure it's gonna

(51:40):
work with us? They said, oh, we're sure. I was like,
so we don't need to set them. We're not using
your walls. Using this wall.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
I was like, you know, I kind of decide what
we're using. It's a video game to night.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
Remember you, like you about to be out there looking
like a fucking white Walker from the Game of Thrown.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
You gotta be tall than the bitch out here, bro.
It was incredible when I saw the video playback from
people's Instagram, Yeah, it was crazy. It was crazy, and
the energy in that building was that that Again, that's
a studio.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
Yeah, so people don't know that you can there's a
there's a state of the art studio upstairs the s
SL the whole nine where you can literally your show
live straight to the straight to the uh, straight to
the studios and mixing, so that room is set up
for that type of thing. And my first time, you know,

(52:38):
performing in that room was with baby Face. Shout out
the baby Face who also pulled up in l.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
A because we gott it. We can't. We can't, we can't,
we can't brush over.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
L A l A.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
L A was a moment. Shout out to the Aces
pulled up for me.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
Yeah, the good people, and that was my first time
meeting them. The good people. Love them to death. Shout
out to the w n B A peer. Yeah, yeah,
because I've been going to w n B A w
NBA games. He has been going to the games.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
Been singing the national anthems at the games, for the sparks,
for the Aces, Like really really right, listen, Let's go
back to Tank playing in a celebrity game and getting
his ass kia by the girls. No, no, listen, listen, Hey, hey,
take they kick your ass. You play goods as you

(53:31):
were part of the team. Don't do that. Don't be
that guy. Y'all lost by seventy seven points, lost by fifty.
That is the team loss I won.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
Let me tell you you know what I think.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
We talked about this story too, about how like Tank
is at Dave and Busters talking crazy to these women,
these professional basketball players, and one of my friends just
happened to be a sports agent and caused me, and
she says, uh, they're gonna kick your guys ass tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
I said, what did he do? What did he do?
He said, David Busters talk crazy to.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
Everybody about what he gonna do in this game tomorrow,
and then they end up losing by what.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
It started at David Busters where I started to kind
of get the glimpse of this might not go the
way I think it's gonna.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Yeah, but you couldn't.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
There I met the shooting machine, the big shooting machine,
and I'm like, what you want? And I cannot think
of this. This young lady's name she was, she's one
of the one of their shooters, and she's like, however
you want to do it. I was like, well, let's go.
She proceeds to beat me about like twenty, said let's
do it again. I think she might have beat me
by thirty the next and I was.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
Like, whatever, whatever the last tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
You guys that shoot. At that moment, I'm thinking, ship, yeah,
they're pros. And when we get to the arena. I
said to all the guys flex and all these guys,
I said, listen, they are women, but do not let
that fool you. These are pros. And if we don't

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get out here and play, they're gonna fuck us up.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
And they were.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
They were chilling the first half, you know, just kind
of we was all having a good time. Michael Clark
Duncan was out there. What's my other guy? A light
skinned guy.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
I know he's talking about they used to play football. Yeah,
I can't think of something white or white.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
And then that second half kicked in mm hmmm, and
they just started just started doing pro shit, and I
just started losing the players. I didn't know where the
person I was, I said, I didn't know. I didn't

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know where she was. She sold the shooting second.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
So what hell.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
I mean, listen, I ended up, you know with my
twenty and ten. You know what I'm saying, individual, and
I got you still know your assass from a game?
You know, damn well, I know my stat because it
was a moment I'm on the bitch. I catched the
ball on the on the on the right there at
the three point in the corner, and I'm on their

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bench side.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
Girl pull up on me. They're like, lock that, lock
him down. He ain't got nothing. Jack dribble hard cross
back Alan. I had some fade away. Yeah, I got
turn look at the h I'm like that right. How
much are you down at this point, we're down like forty.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Like I said, they lost, I want shout out to me.
I saw it was it was the girl who Your
girl repped the sinner, she repped her. She was like
to be ourselves. That who Sylvia Files. I think back
to back because yeah, yeah, she came across Michael Clark

(57:21):
Duncan's chest when he was going to the basket, like
he stole something. Michael Clark Duncan hit the ground.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
I think I'm pretty sure that Sylvia. That's the I
saw grown men complaining, they do chat. You gotta stop
this ship. I was like, I told you so.

Speaker 3 (57:49):
Shout out to the w n B, A shout out
to the wame. And before they were filing Clark, they
were filing Michael duncle Michael Clark Duncan.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
Yeah, because I you know, I tease tease spoon like
like spoon. I remember we used to stay in this
I used to stay at this uh, this this big building.
It was an apartment and a hotel in New York
like thirty fourth or something like that, Lexington something like that.

Speaker 1 (58:17):
And they used to stay there and I used to say, going.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
To get y'all got games that, Yeah, we got games
such a and I used to go to like Liberty
Games every time I could sneak in there. Like since then,
it's like two thousand and one, you've been a supporter,
Ty Young. Yeah, now she's a coach over there, showed
up to the show in Chicago. For up to the
show in Chicago. You know she's coaching. I remember my
first my intro to the Aces was her playing with

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the Aces, you know what I'm saying. And so going
there and like, this's just I think it's just an
amazing league. I think it's just an amazing thing that
they're doing. And shout out to them for coming to
the show and now to La where just shouting out.
I think just you know, one of the greatest R

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and B and music figures just of just all time,
the baby Face.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
Baby Face to face himself, pulled up man, pulled up,
pulled up on us, pulled up on us, man set
side of the stage, I got to tap him up.
It's my guy for a hundred years, it's my guy.
But he sat on the right side of the stage
and that's why I come out on that side of
the stage and being able to like tap him before

(59:25):
I go out on stage. I'm gonna remember that moment
for my rest of my life, better than rest of
my life. And you know me, it's funny because you know,
we we we laugh about this all the time. You know,
I'm the king of telling somebody watch this right because
and and that's the that's the energy that the crowd

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on this tour was giving me. Like you know, I knew,
I knew what was coming with with with my walkout
as soon as I started singing, and and and that vibe,
that that that we were having and for baby Face
to be able to see me in that, you know,
in that space.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
I don't think that space never never, ever.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
Yeah, we wrote songs together, but he's only known me
as a writer and producer and you know what I mean, businessman,
but like as an artist, never my whole life that
I've known him my adult life, you know what I mean. Where,
Oh that's Jay He managed to say, Oh, that's Jay.
He writes songs, not oh that's Jay. He about hit
the stage. Yeah yeah, yeah, so it was that was

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really cool.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
Man. I appreciate him. And he kicked it with us too.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
It wasn't like he like popped his head in and
got him out of there. Like him and Rika like
the backstage with us kicking.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
It, tapped in. She's hysterical. They always dressed like they
both have a shell.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
Yeah. They they put that on, they put that ship on.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
And that was like for me, like I'm just like,
I'm like babyfaces here. I just you know, it's it's
never he doesn't realize it, but it's never normal for me.
It's never normal. It's never like, oh no, it's always
like baby face.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
Baby Face.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
He can be anywhere he wants to be, Yeah, anywhere, anywhere,
and and he's in there kicking it with us.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
Man the Mookie.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
Mookie Best pulled up on it, man, come on, man,
Mookie Best pulled.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Up on it, broke broke handing off.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Here's what's crazy. Like these kids were fanning out, like
completely fanning out. Like Judah who was with us, who
came with us, was on his Zois friends. He was like,
are you serious, you serious right now? Nobody else mattered

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and Jessica, who was there, her son, found out that
Mookie was there.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
You get a picture with him. What do you mean
you didn't talk to him? Like like losing their mind.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Nicest, nicest guy, this guy ever humble him and his
lady miss Yeah, cool man.

Speaker 1 (01:02:06):
Shout out to the Dodgers for pulling up man. You
know that was that was really cool man.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
That was really cool and that and that's just something
to that that like the major cities like Los Angeles,
it has.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
That element where you just never know. You can have
that element.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
Yeah, you never know who might be in a building
because you know, shout out to you know, you know
who came and just literally didn't come backstage.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
I just literally setting crowd. Eric Bellinger.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
I saw a picture of him, Eric, I saw a
picture of him with everybody in the in the friends
and family room, and I didn't see him.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
He just came and kicked it, Bro, He just came
and kicked it. That's my guy.

Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
Yeah, because he had hit me and then Amara pulled
up sat side the stage hopped out.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
I came out.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
When I came out on one of my breaks, I
looked at him. I was like, yeah, you here. He
was like this, I'm here. I said, are you here?

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
Though? Are you here? He's like this, I'm here, big bro,
what's happened? It's like, cool, you said that day, I'm
gonna need you in twelve minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
And just the love he got, I mean, it's oh,
I mean yeah, now this this tour, bro, this tour
was special because it it made us uncomfortable. So I
feel like we're growing, you know what I mean? Like
they said, if you you know, if you really want
to grow, you got to be uncomfortable. And I feel
like as a team, we're growing. We're adding to our repertoire,

(01:03:34):
as they will say, by being able to say no,
we can do that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
Yep, we know what it takes to do that. On
a level. We didn't fold.

Speaker 3 (01:03:45):
We had moments where we could have folded, bro, Like
we had moments where we could have folded where it
was like who all, right.

Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
Well what we do now? We figured out get them,
you know what I mean? And I think that's that's
it was.

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
It was so import or for us all to be
in this experience together and be able to you know,
rise from it, rise from it and feel successful.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
It's believing in each other. It really starts there. It
starts with understanding that the people that we have in
all of these positions are extremely capable, extremely beyond capable,
and qualify and and trusting that and just rocking with it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
What was the drip you had on this tour?

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
What was it?

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
You know, give us, give us the you know which,
what kind of drip you had on?

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
Shout out to Mary that provided the suit. Come on,
Mike with the with the the sequence.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
Uh and in the glitter lining that I you know,
went and just had custom fitted to my to my
to my body, you know, just to make should fit
me just right, but still loose enough to give it
the flair, you know. And I, you know when I
do this, Uh, shout out the Gucci on my feet,

(01:05:13):
shout out the Gucci.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
On my sock. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Yeah, shout out to my brother Thrash on the custom
silk shirts, custom silky those you can get those silkies
no way.

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
You told me where the white shirt? You told me?
And I got the white shirt.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
We did staying together man, and I got the white
silky maid from Thrash and and just pieced that together.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Man, and it just it just it just did what
it did. Yeah, now he was clean, bro, it did
what it did. It was clean. Yeah, you had Lonnie
out there clean too.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
I had Lannie in the merry top, which I told
him would fit him. Great, you're gonna look at starting this.
I think the I think the pant he had on
was maybe either a huge gold boss or McQueen. Yeah,
it's one of the two, because we was deciding through
the two.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
And then he had a nice, a nice simple, simple
sparkle Giuseppe.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
You know you shoot damn. You know, I don't know
what the sock was doing, but you know what I'm saying.
And get into the man's.

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
Socks, a designer shoe with no socks and gym sock
like you just put on the Nike dry fist with.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
And that was and I hit. I reached out to
a Mary and Michael. Mary is like, hey, man, I'm
wearing your clothes. You think you guys we can do
something together and never hit me back.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
So if you get a chance, I hit him, Mary,
tell him tell him my ma, I'm down to la.

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
If you keep bullshit, Mike Bri We're gonna have to
go have and make Malik. You won't get that sell, okay,
so look out for my brother.

Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
Ultimately, a shout out to everybody who came to the tour,
everybody who pulled up, everybody who bought tickets, everybody who
tuned in on people's lives when people were live watching.
I don't care how you internalized the tour. I'm just
glad you got to see it, were part of it.
The people who bought merch, thank you. We're gonna put
some more merch from the tour up on the site

(01:07:23):
so you guys can buy it. At least feel like
you know you was a part of it a little bit.
And the rest is just the rest is history.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
It was, it was.

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
I was sad it was over, but I was happy
it was over because I'm ready for the next thing.
I'm ready for the next thing. Yeah, I would love
to take this overseas. This would be great to take
this overseas, so you know, we'll talk about that. But
I'm ready for the next R and B Money Live Nation,

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Urban Collab.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
And what is that?

Speaker 3 (01:07:58):
The Toyota Next Step shot out to Toyota Toyota Next Up.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Shout out to those ands and those artists who pulled up.
I think we.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
I think we should bring those artists on, get into
what they're doing, uh, that experience on that stage. A
matter of fact, if we can shout them out. In
Dallas it was Miracle and Colton, I am Carlton. They rocked.
In Houston it was Savannah, Jack Freeman, they rock Atlanta,

(01:08:36):
Alexia j Jeremy Williams, No, Remy Williams, Sorry, Remy Williams.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
They rocked, Uh, d c Alicia and uh and Kenny.

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
Sway they rocked Chicago, d Lyles and it's like a
last minute edition.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
In Detroit, hit my guy Upshaw. It's like what you're thinking.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
He's like, say less because he had opened actually for
me before on the other tour when I was having
people open, I just thought, I just I just like
dudes energy. Man. I thought he was dope, and so
we brought him out so we don't get them on
the pod man and and turned them up.

Speaker 3 (01:09:16):
Absolutely, we have to do that. And don't let me forget.
Our brother pulled up on us in San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
Adrian Marcelle. I love that brother, man.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
Man, it's such great energy him, his teams, everybody with them. Man,
like they they move, they move out. We moved, man,
were like people enjoy having them around. We shouted him,
shout the sunny beach, shot.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
The like, and chopped it up like it's always a
life lesson. It's always that when we get together and
sit down, like it's like we get past the surface
so fast man, and get into that ship. And that's why,
that's why I love that brother man and all the
and all the people around him. Man, it's just it's

(01:10:03):
more to life. Yes, when it comes to those.

Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
Guys, it's not just music, man, it's now we're rooting
for them. Yeah, We're absolutely rooting for them, man. And
I'm glad that you know, he answered the call because
I hit him. I'm like, yo, bro, you had hit
me early on. I ain't forgot Yeah, pull up man,
I love and they came into the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:10:21):
Yeah, I love Adrian. Wow. One tour down, One tour down, man,
let's go be on the.

Speaker 3 (01:10:30):
Lookout the R and B Money, the R and B
Money Festival. Yeah, that's where we had it. That's where
we had it. That's where we had it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
You you. We want to give you that stage. We
want to give you. We want to highlight, we want
to for R and B man, Yeah, why not? Why
not us?

Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
It needs to be done done. I'm saying, theod be there. Yeah,
everything R and B Money will be there, all things
R and B money, and you will be there too.
Uh we go.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
We got to pick a city, y'all. Let us know
what city y'all want the y'all want the festival in.
We got to pick artists. Yeah, what artists do you
want there? We want all of them there. We want
all of them there.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
I'm going to, like I said before, before we even
did this tour, I'm going as a fan, like even
being on this tour, I was like I was literally
finding my spaces to watch the show, to watch everybody set,
Like I really enjoyed everybody that was on this tour.
Like it wasn't a thing where I was like, ah, man,

(01:11:38):
let's just get through such and such a set like no, no, no, this.
And that's why I'm glad that we that we curated
the way we did with the artists that we wanted
to have on this road with us, because I enjoy
listening to their music every night just like you do,
you know what I mean? So that was that was
really important.

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
Man. So in the future.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
I would love to be able to pick the you know,
four or five artists that we put together as a
package take out on the tour. Maybe we hosted, maybe
we sing, maybe we whatever it is. But we keep
this thing going.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
Because we got it's got to be. We got to
be tuned into the future. Yes, we got to be
tuned into making sure that the platform is preserved and protected.

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
Oh, and all of the tour merch that you know,
for for the cities that we weren't able to hit,
you will you will be able to get tour merch
at the arm By Money Shop. Army Money Shop shouts
everybody who bought candles to.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
Candles, appreciate you, appreciate good. Yeah, that's it man, That's
that's the Army Money Tour man. I appreciate you, my
brother man.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
Brot a lot of good work man putting that together
and executing that. Shout out to to my team, Shout
out to Carrying her team, Shout out to Carl and
his team. DJ Fly Guy Us, Shout out to headlinerment.

Speaker 3 (01:13:10):
Yeah, before we go, we only had one after party,
only had one after party, and they tried to tell
us not to go.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
They tried to.

Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
They tried to tell us, try that we don't need
to party with our people, tried to.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
Wrong, wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
We showed up. We had an amazing time. Wasn't no drama,
what none of the foolishness.

Speaker 1 (01:13:39):
Shout out to Chris Brown.

Speaker 3 (01:13:40):
Shout out to Chris Brown. Is his team, whole team,
you know what I mean. Yeah, it felt like a
hometown party.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
It felt like that. It felt like going home. Yeah, yeah,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
Like I even sang randomly, that's randomly saying it was yeah,
you looked up.

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
It was like, wait, is that Jay? No? Man?

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
But you know that my brother D nine, we was
out there in the wild hunting what they call Yeah,
it called the wild hunters out.

Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
There and we were out there and and we were safe. Yeah.
And I just I love I love the post that
you put up about.

Speaker 3 (01:14:26):
Being with our people and being with the people that
truly support what we do and touching the people man like,
because you could you know, you know me, I'm a
people watcher. So I'm looking around the room. I could
tell there were people in there that was probably like.

Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
No nervous, damn. They really showed up.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so well, I mean I think a
lot of that post was, you know, putting the responsibility
back onto to our people, our community, our community, like, yeah,
we're gonna come, we take care of us, take care
of us. We're gonna take care I promise, we're gonna

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take care of you. Were coming, We're gonna show up
and show out now and return take care of us,
and and putting that responsibility back on them, and and
they were up for it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
They were up for it. Now we got y'all good.

Speaker 3 (01:15:14):
Yeah, I got I got a chance to see to
CBS level stardom. Mhmm.

Speaker 1 (01:15:23):
They were chasing this tour bus.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
They were if there were rails that they could have
hung from, if they have hung from the rail on
his tour bus, they would have been hanging like this
on the tour bus the whole I'm like, wow, I
was like, I'm famous. But some guys you just end

(01:15:52):
up becoming security for.

Speaker 3 (01:15:55):
And and then there's one fan who loves you that says, wait,
but you're you take yeah, cut off his bus.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
Hey, it's two people always become security for is c
B and Jamie Fox. I just always end up becoming security. Hey,
back up, back, up. You're not doing pictures?

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
What about you?

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
I'm not working right now. Niggas more famous to me,
look at but yeah, shout out to that man. Shout
Chicago for taking care of us. And that's it man,
R and B Money to her, I'm proud man. I'm
happy it worked out the way it was supposed to
work out, and we got more to come. The people

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show love. People show show love. So thank y'all, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
My name is.

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