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solcial Train Performance. So I was inspired. But you know, at that time, Chris Cross came out dissing them with Jump Jump on everybody. That was a direct disc that was a battle wrap for kids. In what was that nineteen ninety three, ninety two, I was twelve years old. Read was thirteen, and Read was my manager. Strange enough, yeah, thirteen yearner. I had a thirteen year od manager and I was twelve.

me recite this rhyme? Then Red disappears, ABC disappears for six months, like man, that was my manager. Now he's just not even answering my calls. And then I go to seventh grade and my friend Kevin is like, hey, man, remember that rap you recited to me. He's like, I think it's on this album that Michael Bivens put out on the Big ten compilation All for One, One for All. That was the first single off for It was like, oh for One and one for All. I don't know

if you guys remember that. And he had the Boys, de Men, ABC, BBD, the East Coast fam So that was the whole compilation. I listened to it on a cassette player in Holmes home room in the seventh grade and I hear it come on boom boom, check us like a boot tick Tactoe, Chris cross him out the box, happy jumping, not just so. And I'm like, and I was so confused because I was so happy. Yeah, but I was sad because I'm like, wait, let me open up the credits. And then I looked at the credits

and understood credits. I understood credits. Well, yeah, I understood what the credits were because you know, as I was making music, man, I sucked at it, but I was making it enough to know that the people in the credits were the ones that were behind the you know, the magic. So I went to read the credits, I'm looking for my name, and I'm like, well, where's Red's name? And then I didn't get credit. Read didn't credit. The manager of the group at the time, not gonna put

nobody out there. But they got the credit, they got the publishing for it, and that was like the first time actually had something like a copyright storming from me. I just happened to be twelve years old. It was a young lesson. Yeah, I was in the seventh grade in the middle of College Park. Did you have any.

was like excited but disappointed. You know, It's like, man, this is my like this is I can hear it, but it's not. It's nobody gonna know, So you know, I kept that. I kept that story secret awhile because I was more embarrassed by at a younger age than I was like using it to show people that, like, hey, man, you could get ripped off at a young age. There's no there's no age limit on get ripped off. So

but I didn't. I didn't tell anybody for a while, man, And then I started thinking it was it was cool to just be a voice for people who get ripped off at a young age and be like, hey, you're not the only one. You know what I'm saying, and you learn from those things you learn had I learned at a young age, like publishing is something I didn't even know what it was, and I'm like, this is something serious. And then it took my cousin, Courtney Bear.

I don't know if you guys know Big Big Bear who discovered one twelve and Jagged Edge at one talent show. My cousin how I got into the music business. My cousin Courtney Bear seals he's working. He works with Killing Mike right now. He discovered at one talent show Tri Cities High School one twelve and Jacket Edge. One twelve's name used to be called Forte. It was the name of him, and then Jagged Edge. I forget what the

name was, but it wasn't jagged Ash. Then he went on and introduced one twelve to Puff Daddy, and Puffed Daddy gave him the name one twelve and Jagged Ash went on to Social Death for Jamaina prix Man. He went and managed one twelve, moved to New York. They came out the first album sold the million records. Cupid only you big success. Yeah, came back and was like poop be you know you can make money writing songs.

I'm like wow. He was like, I'm gonna put you in with the guys, gonna see if you have a chemistry with any synergy with with Doran and see how it goes. Maybe he'll work with you. So he takes me over, drops me over. Durn Jones shout out to durran Q was there, you know, quinn Is Parker and we created the song Anywhere. Duran had already started it and already was working on it, and I just came and added to the record Anywhere and that was my first hit.

wiggle wiggle. That's the only got Anywhere was straight original. Yeah no, no, no, Barn Barron. But the one they did rip was the that Mob Deep. Remember that It's over now? Yeah? Yeah man, yeah yeah yeah, he too hot to stop. Yeah man, that's your question.

you what it was. It was a Genie suit. I got a green one and then my homie got a yellow one. We looked like a sprit commercial. Yeah, it look like the Sprite.

out man because She's turning Me on. That was my first single, and we had an album released party, a single release party on there Forget That and through Jungle Juice Records, and so it was it was an independent label. Yeah. The guy, the owner's name was Michael Jackson, same as yeah, Michael Jackson, and he used to lock us in the studio and I never forget that, and I didn't realize that that was a fire hazard till I got older.

had the My mom always let me go. She was like, no matter what, you got to go to school. I don't care if you worked till four in the morning. She was like, you just got to go to school. So my mom always let me. She used to drop us off at the studio, me and my singing with my group, and she's just like, look, you just gotta go to school. I don't care. You can stay all night, but by five o'clock you need to be coming home, taking a shower and getting ready to go to school

at seven thirty. And so wow, yeah, so she let me do that. I support my mom, you know, thank my mom for supporting me and dropping us off. She was like our uber back before uber, you know.

energy never seen light and buts she used to see me. Man. So I grew up. My dad left when I was seven and a half eight. He left two weeks later. It was a tornado, like the only tornado in Connecticut history. And new Haven is like, you know, still one of the poor. So you're originally from originally from New Haven, Connecticut, one of the poorer cities in America, and the tornado came to up our apartment and then we were homeless.

So me and my mom and my brother were homeless from I was homeless from like age eight until ten. So we slept everywhere, you know what I mean. We slept wherever we could sleep, and we ate when we could eat. And the church did an offering one day and they gave my mom like four thousand dollars. I'll

never forget that. And then we moved to Atlanta and started over there, but we still, you know, were struggling there and we ended up living with my grandmother and it was like eight of us in a two bedroom apartment. So I slept on the floor till I I probably slept on the floor till I was about sixteen. I got I was when I started I started to flo You were sixteen, Yeah, man, I started making my first like after anywhere. I started getting a little ass cap

checks and I need so what what ages? I was seventh sixteen, and then it came out when I was seven. I did it with dorm I was sixteen. Came out when I was seventeen going seventeen, and then it went in from like ninety seven to ninety eight. We can do it anywhere. It was out. And then I also worked with Pink when she was Burgundy. She was making R and B music, So I don't call her pink. She was black, she was Burgundy. Can't she was pink? Yeah,

her next album she went pink. You know what I'm saying. I worked with I got the Burgundy Pink, but those were you know. I told my mom and my grandmother. Then I was like, I'm gonna move us out of here. And I never forget, like, get my first little ask cap check. I didn't have a bank account. I went to the check cashing place and they take four percent out. I never forget that. I was like, went in there with a check and came out with money, and I was like, wow, you care about before? Yep, it was

about four thousand, seven hundred dollars. I bought a cell phone. I never forget that that first thing. My first purchase was a cell phone. And then I bought a bed. I was like, my first time. And then I started renting a room from my cousin because I didn't want to sleep on the floor in the two bedroom apartment with my It was like it was eight of us, so ended up renting the room from Bear, who discovered

once twelve. And then I got my first I bought my first bag and I was like sixteen seventeen seventeen.

on the Face Records in nineteen ninety seven, nineteen ninety six. Actually, so even with that, our then manager ran off with our advents. He took our advents. It's the second time.

the other fifty percent of my publishing. So I didn't have I didn't have one hundred percent. I didn't even own. I didn't even know what publishing was, and I didn't own it. But the way God works is like my contract ran out with both of those when I turned sixteen. So the second I actually had my first placement on my publishing and I didn't even know what it was. But he was trying to get us to re sign, and then this other this dope. It was like, nah, man,

he got your publishing and don't resign. Then we ended up signing with my family with BMF Man. BMF was like the first you know they gave me, you know, say, they gave us a record deal. They paid us in cash. That's my family. Yeah, Bro, I turned nineteen. DMF Man me, I was there. Yeah, and me. She used to always tell me like, look, we all going to jail except for you. He was like, he's like, look I should have got He told us for years bro him Pops like Pops he did fourteen year he did a bid

for for beingf you know. So it was like, when we go to jail, I need you to help turn my story into a movie. So he gave me so Meach gave me his life rights, you know what I'm saying. And I went I had no clue. He was like, you already in the music business. And at that time I had did Peaches and Cream danced with me. So they were looking at me like you already in the energy over them, like they were just like you know, oh well, I was eighteen. That was like cracking. Yeah,

but he was like, Yo, we're going to jail. You're gonna be the one to bring this project and make people understand, you know, our lifestyle and taken see it. And I'm like, I don't know anybody in the in the film or movie industry. He was like, You're gonna figure it out. And I remember like just taking meetings with people and I'm like, yeah, I got meet his life rights. And then I met with James the Bows. I don't know if you got rember, so I thought

him and he was yeah, man, James the Bow's happy birthday. Man. He was the first one that wasn't afraid to entertain. Everybody was like, nah, I want to I want to repercussions. I was like, there's no percussions, Like they're not killers. They were. They were the only crew to unite all the game bangers like they had you know. Yeah, it was like blue red you know what I'm saying, Yellow everybody just come and get them out of you forget to leave your ego, leave your colors behind, and come

get money. So you know that right there, I got it, brought it to James the Bowls and then from there, it took its channels to fifty cent, So thank god. And Mitch's whole plan was I want to pay taxes one to day. He's like, when I get out, I want to pay taxes. He's like, I don't want to live that life. And so, you know, shout out to fifty the Curtis man for making that that come true and sending little young young meats to acting school. And you know what I mean that was it's been a blessing,

And thank you fifty cent. You know what I mean, because I used to sleep on the floor and be a meth like out in out here. You know what I'm saying, you know, in the valley. Then we went to the Marino Valley, and then you know what I'm saying. Then it was a time when they separated. The brothers split up in two thousand, two thousand, they split up, and Meach was like, whoever come with me, come with me,

whoever stay with my brother, stay with my brother. And I stayed with me, and in my group, I started getting real jealous because of my success as a songwriter and never started calling me Hollywood. I was never Hollywood, bro. I'm you know, I'm still same right now, I got you know what I'm saying.

But I was like, so, wait, when are we gonna record? Because I see y'all spending eighty thousand every night in the strip club. We go to the strip club. They would hand us money and I'd be like, I can't really throw this, and I would throw like thirteen dollars. I would thirt thirteen singles out of the hunting and be like, all right, nobody's gonna notice that. I ain't throw my whole hunting. You know what I'm saying? Going to my find, Yeah, I'm pocketed. Yeah, I did dedicated.

I invested thirteen dollars into the dancers. But I just, man, they always liked the shout out be a meth man and like the image that they tried to paint. They weren't violent. You know, everybody protects themselves no matter what you know, it doesn't mean you're violent, and they were about you know, they were the last you know, ones to do it on that level. That brought all of

our cultures together. Man, like it's dope. It was an amazing example of like, even though it was in that world, it just showed unity and show how powerful we could be if we come together, no matter what kang we're from. And I just you know, I'm I'm I'm superly Like, I'm really blessed that they were able to turn it and fifty cent was able to make that a successful show man, just because that was Mich's dream. That was

all always meet. His dream was like, yo, I want to I want to want my story to be told the right way, and I want to come out and pay taxes. So everything set up for him to do just that. Man. So yeah, but that was the part. Like we go back to the investment. It was the Dope Boys, and I was like, man, you spend man. I just seen you spend five hundred thousand in this trip club last week. Can we record? And he was like yeah, he's like you want to record? I was like, yeah,

that's where we signed a recording contract with you guys. Right, So he was like, all right, set up the studio. So where did I go? What did I do? The first session we did was Circle House, so I'm the first ones to bring being met down the Circle House and then we booked it. Then that's when I never forget. Diddy was there and he was walking. He was like, hey man, you liked the studio. I was like, it's the only mind you said. Circle House was my first

session studio ever worked at. When I was twelve years old. We mixed down that music from Young Harmony at the Circle House. So I was there in ninety two too, to Miami too. Well yeah, Michael with Michael Jackson with Jungle Juice took us to Miami to mix with Lewis DS who discovered pit Bull, Yes, Louis d Yes Brothers. Yes. So he mixed down my first single. He mixed down our first single when I was twelve, nineteen ninety two. It was it was just mango trees and rock wellers

back there. No pool no, no no house like pool House. So I talked niche in the like letting us go record there. So I booked the tour bus, I bought the study sessions, and then from there that's when I realized, like, man, we might we might be up front. I was like, when you realize, yeah, I was like, I don't think we ever coming out. I was like, I think we just looked good and they'd be like, I got a group there, Blue Daventure was rapping. You know what I'm saying.

I'm like, maybe we never coming out. Yeah, And then all the you know, all the indictments started, and that's when me was like, look, man, he always told me this throughout the years, like we're all going to jail, except for you. Ended up getting their time. Everybody got their time, and you know, dude should be getting home and uh in a few months. So that's a blessing.

And when he comes home, he's gonna come home exactly the way he wanted to, with you know, his story being out there and him being able to pay some taxes as a publisher at the time.

I did a pub I didn't anything. It is the first number one anywhere was R and B up on the R and B charts, yep, yep, and then Peaches on the R and B charts.

you and that I'm pushing. I never knew to the rest of the industry, you know what I'm saying, because like you said, you're keeping.

my grandma. I never forget moving her, was putting her a little in her bed. I put a boy the hospital bed, moved it right in there because I refused to put anybody in an old folks home or retirement whatever that was called. And I put her right looking at the lake on the tenth hole of a golf course. And then I was like, I told you, and she was just like dying. But she died in that house. She got a chance to see my hard work, me standing out all night, sleeping on the floor, me telling

her like, I'm gonna move us out of here. She got to see it happen. So for me, that was like I never really cared about being famous or none of that. I just wouldn't buy my mind as wanted to move my mom and my grandma out the hood. But that's amazing, bro. So that was my whole thing. So once I did that, I was like, okay, so now it's my new tribe right now what drives me now? And it was just like they just don't. People don't

think I could do it again. And it turned into I just got to prove this to myself that I could do it again. Because the average lifespan of a writer is two years. Producer writers two years. You get it hit, you get hot, everybody cheerleads you, then you start celebrating, you get caught up in it. But it's somebody else working twice as hard as you, and they come out with two hits. Now their sound is popping, and you're done forever. So in my mind I was like,

I don't want to be done forever. And I always had this fear of like what happens if my sound go? And I didn't even realize that I was creating a sound. I wasn't allowed to listen to secular music as a kid, So that's why you can't compare my songs to anything like you can't what the peaches and cream sound like nothing? But it anywhere sound like nothing? What does? What? Where are you now that I need you? Sound like nothing? So and that happened because I wasn't allowed to listen

to secular music. So I wasn't I had zero influence. I was allowed to listen to trumpet Christian trumpet music by a guy named Phil Drisco. He was a trumpeteer and so Christian Christian trumpet music that was all I was allowed to listen to. That was the thing because I ended up playing the trumpet in the market in the band from a church kid.

so knowing that it made it. It was that much of an uphill battle because I had zero influence. It helped me in the law room from lawsuits because nobody can ever say I stole that melodies because it's all my own I created my own melodies. But at the time, I was like, I suck, and I was like, I just got to keep getting this garbage out of my system because eventually something good is gonna come. Nothing good really came. One twelfth Duran Jones started to believe in

me and he was like, nah, bro, you're good. I was like, nah, man, it's like this sucks. And then that's where we can do it anywhere. Pink Love is such a crazy thing on that album when she was Burgundy, and it gave me enough hope and I was like, well, maybe they just tell me that because they're nice man. Like nah, And then we worked on They brought me on tour. I didn't graduate from high school. I went they used me, Bro. I was singing all God bless

a child every day for everybody. You know how they used you to be the representation for anybody. Then I get to the twelfth grade. Mind you, I had already made a pe in summer school in the eleventh grade. Yeah, so in my mind I got to hit record already. I ain't tell anybody that knows nah, but one twelve used to pick me up, like each one of them used to come and pick me up in school and they'd be like, hey, man, I think I seen Slim pick you up yesterday. I was like probably. And then

I had a bad boy jacket. You remember the bad boy jacket with the baby. I had one. You know what I'm saying. So you and school with a.

And he told me that to this. Why you said western piece, I guess because that's because as he's saying that to me, anywhere was in heavy rotation. Every hour. I could have told him to be like yo if he turned on B one on three right now, yeah here anywhere, because it was every hour. You don't know this, and I'm like, I'm not it's not me. It's not in my place to say this, but all right, I'd already been. I had already became the one percent while I was in school. I had I had a record

on the radio and heavy rotation. I got ask captain words when I was in high school. You know what I'm saying. So he was saying this. And I never told anybody because I didn't want anybody to feel uncomfortable. Because I had some success at a young age, I kept with a secret. Nobody still nobody knew until like later on, and people just found out, but I never It wasn't a thing. It wasn't like the rumor in school, like oh Pooper did that anywhere. So I never told anybody,

and I just wanted to keep it a secret. And I really just wanted to buy my mama house. Like I wasn't doing it for any other reason.

want all that. Yeah, I'm like, why don't they want the sh I'm writing for them? And really I figured out, like artists, they don't want what they already sound like. And yeah, here's a here's a fact.

is make music for yourself. Write songs for yourself that you love and hopes that they can resonate with that. Don't try to make songs for the artists unless you're with them every day and you know they're going through heartbreak, you know they're in love, you know their story. You can't really you're just getting in a car and driving without having actual address to put in the in the ways.

So the ways, the actual address is the concept, that's the idea, you know, ways to take you through the hood. They take you to the hood because now they're trying to get you to buy stuff. They're advertising pop Eyes. You know what I'm saying. They're like, you know you can start know you're hungry. Yeah, out the way. It's not the greatest in Miami. Might have had you in the hood of Miami.

like quickly, and then I play. I'm like, well, I'm just playing something I've been working on and I'm like I want I love that, And I'm like, but that's too mature for you, and they're like, no, that's where we want to go. That's mine. Yeah, my rug, but you I had a song on the radio that this is how humble I am. I had a song on the radio that was heating up called Alone, and I never forget. I just met Justin and you know, I wrote something called Recovery and and he absolutely he heard Alone.

He was like, what's that. I was like, that's my song, but it's on the radio right now. He was like, yeah, I don't care about that.

can have it. So I gave him the record while it was on while my version was on the radio, and they went on the internet. They scrubbed it down, they put down. The crazy part is you can still find my version on YouTube, which is crazy, but they literally took it off and then he cut it. And that was like me understanding, like, you know what, this is not about me, man, It's about me getting my songs out there and getting my melodies and being able to elevate my family.

ontang grip. So I started going in and he was like I want that. I was like, well, maybe I'll just started pging all of my braided R songs. And that's where journals came from.

It became a thing. Yeah, when the producer became the star.

we going right now? And so like just learning that, Like you know, the very first song that that l A read demanded that Usher cut was Superstar and Ryan had already composed this. I came in and added whatever I added to it, you know what I mean. That's Ryan had already cut and created the whole, like the majority of it, and I just came in and put faith on the bridge and you know what I'm saying. That was amazing. But that was the first song that

Usher cut on Confessions. Then it was caught Up. Then it was come Following Me, but it was follow me too, Yeah, come follow Me, and that was for Yeah, that was that was for Mario. Come Following Me was for Mario. And then Mario passed on it, and so we played it for Usher in New York at the studio. He was like, he's like, what's that? You came just in time? Runnated and other girl tell me. He's like, low that

up right now, and he cut it immediately. That was like the first time I didn't see ushers sit there and Twirler's ring and be like, man, I don't know, like you never know, Usher it was you always had great years around you that known for you. And that was the first time he heard a song and was like boom, cutting immediately. But you know that the process it was, it was frightening because it was a two year window. We started with Usher in two thousand and two.

Confessions didn't come out to four so and we were making those records. I know, in my mind when I was with Ryan, I was like, caught Up was like, this is like he's talking to Chili and in my mind, I'm like, he's the new Michael Jackson. So when we approached Caught Up, we were like, what would Michael Jackson do right now in two thousand and two, And that's how that's absolutely yeah. So and then he went on and did a video to match that, you know, like

the Smooth Criminal that ale. He spent God, he spent like a million two on that video. I never forget that. But it was just interesting because in my heart, I knew we weren't going to make that album because I'm like, the songs are all to you, and because and he wasn't with they weren't together no more. So I'm like we made these songs based on him being with Chili. She was the superstar, he was the groupie. He was caught up with her. You're not like the other girls

I meet every day. These were songs were about Chili from TFC, So I'm like, he's not even gonna resonate with this, So you know, thank god, La was locked in his mom shout out to Usher and mister n Nettterman. She was locked in to caught up. So we had some emotional connections to those records. And then two years later the album comes out and the songs made the project, and I was like, unbelievable because he was confessing now. So I'm like it went from like being caught up

to I fucked up. It was a full story. It was a full story. And it's crazy enough. The concept of the album didn't come until like almost the end. So yeah, so it wasn't like we're like, oh, we all know we need to be confessing some shit. We didn't have a clue. And then that project, it was like for me, it uh that I'm doing one man that like one point one the first week and from

there it was like god Lee. Then I was sure didn't think we were gonna have a single because they put my boot on the on the on the what do you call it? When the deluxe and then that went to radio. I'm like, well, there goes our fourth single, slide right there. Yeah, with Alicia. Then we did like like somebody did a power move. I don't know if

Ryan told this, but drama down. Put p D crack, you gum really put p D crack and then a yes and did a remax of caught up and released it and sent it to funk Flex and funk Flex started dropping bombs on it, so we forced them to so then it started the report started coming in on the RAATEDEO and Mark Pitts was like caught up and spinning on the radio, and then it forced them to make it the fifth single, in his fifth and final single, and then they on the video question.

that humble ship right. I was so used to being like hidden and tucked away that it didn't really affect I didn't feel the effect of it because at that time Usher gravitated to Ryan, you know what I mean, So it more affected Ryan you know what I mean than me because I was like the fat guy that was I was doing a lot, and I was doing it, but I was always in the back of the room because I was like trying not to be seen and like and I were like still doing vocal producing, still writing,

but then it was like all right, once I was done, I vanished, you know what I mean. So I didn't really feel the effect of it like I should have. If I would have been more you were avoiding life. I wasn't because I just felt like I was super I was insecure, I was obese, and I just felt like I didn't want anybody to feel like I was trying to I was seeking attention because I wasn't. I just wanted to continue to buy. I wanted to buy my mom another house. At that time, I was on

my second, second, second house. So so it didn't really affect me as much as I if I would have been, like, let me put myself out there so people know that, I was, like, you didn't even know I did. Come found with me to this day, was twenty years later, So I didn't. I just wasn't putting myself out there enough to ride that the way that other people were doing.

Nanny half the way. Oh my god, I'll say that one because that's that was the one that inspired me to even want to be in a music You got, Donny, you got, I'm I'm gonna say it man, Mario man, yeah, ye, I don't know if anybody, no, everybody, Okay, okay, we've seen it in that that that that versus yeah, we don't play about Mario, Okay, okay about Mario. That sure was amazing.

I know, I know, I know I'm fighting it. It's a battle, humble flast, humble battle. Nah, It's okay. So maybe I deserve Cender. All that matters. All that matters, man, R and B. Come on, man, Oh, I'm gonna have to go back to oh tripping mm hmmm mm hmm faith Evans as soon as I get home. Come on, I'm dig I'm going like I'm diving in because like you know what I mean, No, I don't really listen to music, so I'm leaving diving in what I had that Oh man, No, that just made me think of

Carl Thomas. I wish I never met her?

what you've done and contributed to our society. But I response like, yeah, I love you too, such and such, such and such and such and such, and then I was like and then there was like I'm gonna cook for you. I was like, all right, and then so we did. We did a record two days later, come back and she brought food. She brought food, and she brought hot sauce. It was her own hot sauce.

me sleepy, you know what I'm saying. We hear the work like we hadn't even started the sessions feeding me and macaroni and cheese with seven cheese. I didn't even know there was a macaroni cheese with seven cheeses at that time. Even I couldn't name seven cheeses. And I'm walking by. I feel something, mind you, I never had an ass. So I walked by and she grabbed whatever I thought was my ass, and I'm like, I had never had anybody actually grab my ass? Was my mom

might not even have an ass to grab. I'm like, what she's grabbing right now? Grab my ass? And I was like that was uncomfortable. That was awkward. I'm like, all right, try to play that off like that didn't happen. Get upstairs in the room and studio, and it is hot, okay because the heat rises to the top, so it's hot. It's shit. So I'm working me the artist, the engineer, and the engineer was like, hey, man, can I take a quick break to go to the bathroom. I'm like cool.

As soon as he before he could leave the room, she was like, whoa, it's shure is hot in here. Don't you want to come out of that shirt? And I mind you. I'm four thirty, Bro, I got titties. You know what I'm saying. This wasn't I. I was not proud of my titties. I used to so I used to wear two shirts to try to hide my titties. So I was like, it is hot, So I pulled off a shirt, but I had on another shirt. A why lie? How about that? You know what I'm saying

about them titties for cars? You know what I'm saying. So then she kicks up, she comes and stands over me, and she unzips her pants that she squolls in for me, and I just see like these fits like net like see you through panties. And I'm like, my heart's beating.

like no. I was like, hey, no, we're ready. I was like, no, we're ready.

what party? She's just I can't even say, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely not dreaming that.

All right, they're gonna call y'all, so you know, and then so the days go by, days go by, and then finally you know they this person they she flew me in. Oh, you gotta flew it out. She flew yeah, like a girl.

surprise party. So people are gonna jump out. So I'm like, where are the people, Like, where are we jumping out from where are the others? Where are the others? Where are the others? And then then she comes out. Bro, she came out, and uh she came out. Bro, you know me cried my left eye. Wait a minute, bro. Yeah. So now I'm at the surprise, the non the surpriseless party. But just me, I'm sweating because I'm like that it's

I'm getting hot. Sit there, here she comes and a fucking see through rope, a sheer nightgown, naked sheer with like fur fur naked birthday ankles, so everything covered up was ship that we don't care this like ankles was covered, her neck was covered. I'm like, naked, come sit on my lap, rubbing my rubbing my pony tail, of course the back, you know what I'm saying. And she's like, hey, thank you for coming, Like, happy birthday, this is a happy birthday. Came No, I just said happy birthday. Way

before that. I start happy birthday. I was like sixteen, but man, and so I'm like she's like, thank you for coming. I'm like, yeah, happy birthday. Where is everybody? She's like no, it's just us. And I'm like I'm so scared.

She was like I need to get him discombobulated, like he needs to not be in his right mind to get to this. So I'm like, man, I'm okay right now. And she was like, she's like, wait, I got you something. And I was like, what'd you get me? Bruh. She came out with a jackiet Bro. She got me at your chill like one from like a real store, the one to do like sixty bands. She got chill up. Yeah, And so I was like, oh no, I was like, I can't you know what I'm saying. I'm like, what

is this? She was like, this is something for you, a gift. I'm like your birthday. You know what I'm saying. I'm like no. She put it on my sho was like, I'm like, man, with all due respect, man I got I went to the ship. I'm like, man, with all due respect, I can't take this. It's just like, yeah you can. She's like, I got it for you and I'm not. She's like, I'm not keeping it here. She was like, it's yours and I'm like I was like, I was like, you know, what do you mind? I

heard it with how girls hit dudes. I was like, do you mind if I go back to the hotels like a freshen up? You know how the girl had to do? But I need to do to go fresh. So I was like, do you mind if I go back to the Soffie tails like a freshen up? And she was like, yeah, as long as you come back. I was like, yeah, I'll be back. She was like, put the jacket on his cold outside. Yeah, I'm gonna call you now. I was like, I'm coming back. She was like I'm gonna have the driver stay, like he's

gonna he's gonna bring you and stay and waiting. I was like, yeah, bruh, I was sweating bullets. Bro, I've never been That was the first time I've ever been in that scenario on my whole life. Bro, I'm not used to women like I wasn't coming on to me. I was really obese. So I didn't get it. I was confused and I was engaged. I was engaged, and that okay, okay, so sound like I'm gay. I'm engaged. What's happening. So now I go to the hotel and

I'm like, damn it. I spelt embarrassed. I was like, should I call the people that introduced me, like, because they clear didn't even getn't get invited, So it was like I was the only invite invited. It was the only attendee, and it yeah, And I didn't go back. I didn't go back. I actually stayed the night at the hotel and caught my flight because I had a flight the next day to go back to Atlanta, Georgia.

I never went back. Man. And then it was so crazy because this was in two thousand and one, two thousand and two, and this was before the whole me Too movement, right, So I had cut records on this artist, and because I didn't sleep with her, she pulled all my songs off the album. I was the first me Too as a guy, and I thought about it years and years later. I thought about a year you got oh you got me Too too by a woman hopefully right. Yeah, okay, okay, okay, yeah, how damn you?

question that she didn't say, Hey, how y'all doing. Oh, it's good to see y'all, she said. The first thing he said, she said was where's your friend with the ponytail?

what Soul trained. What was it done? Yeah, video soul video soul right, but that's like twenty So thank you for creating this platform and I appreciate you and you both you both kings and your amazingly challenged as well. Thank you man.