R and be Money.

We are.

Thanks Jake Valachi.

We are the authority on all things R and ladies and gentleman.

My name is Tank.

Oh this is the Army Money Podcast.

Be a thirty nigga.

God dammit, ship thirty of all things R and B.

Yeah, huh oh.

You thought we couldn't do it.

He did it.

We couldn't pull it off.

Yeah, Jay Baldis say, every day of the week, is this that?

Yeah, that's that's how.

You live his life.

Earth day of the week.

You know, you gotta be a bad motherfucker to name yourself everybody's favorite day of the week.

Oh, thank god, thank god it's Friday.

Yes, what's up?

Man?

Come on, man, really appreciate you all for having me.

Bro Man, listen, listen.

I want to get this out of the way really fast.

I'm gonna try to make it fast.

So I got this guy running promotional, guy who was running promotion on my page for the mixtapes.

Yes, yes, that you didn't.

You didn't like it, you tell me, but anyway, it was weak.

I tried it anyway, so I.

Know what you tell him.

So so he's cracking right.

Got the album he on fire?

Cut to now and I'm gonna go back to the back to the path.

He's cracking.

I'm like, I need him.

I got a song that I need him on.

So I go, I go to d M Friday and I see all these messages.

Friday's already, they already.

And I hadn't seen him.

I hadn't responded, but the other guy had seen it and was trying to charge him to get on the mixtape five hundred and I was And at that point I was kind of embarrassed because, oh shit, he for damned.

Hey, look I was first, bro, but I started getting hip to it.

Though you should charge this nigga five, I started getting hip to it, bro, Thank you for y'all.

Y'all, y'all should stop that, because it was a lot of niggas be falling for it.

It was I thought, you know, he was actually putting out mixtapes.

But then when I was like, I was like, hold on this on, this ain't I don't like this.

This ain't adding up, This ain't adding up to actually what I want to do.

And so when I went to that page and I saw the interaction, and I saw that you had been trying to get to me for a second.

It just for me outside of you know, feeling crazy that you had already been there and I could assigned you and we could have been partner some music.

It just it just, you know, confirmed the fact that you know your destiny is what it is like, You're supposed to be here and regardless of who or what the vehicle is, it was going to be figured out and you were going to be who.

You are, yes, for sure, no matter what.

And then moving forward, as I'm listening to the project and I hear moms, and I hear the spirituality, and I hear the connection, I'm like this, I get it.

I get it all.

It all makes sense.

So all that to say, man, from you just hitting in my DM saying man, let's work, let's do something to me, not knowing you do it to me, hitting you in the DM saying hey, man, let's work, let's do something to now you being here with us at the Army Money podcast.

Man, we appreciate that love and it's it's an it's an unconscious full circle moment, if I can say it that way.

So you know, I hit you, I work out.

To your ship, appreciate it your request, man, and see the people that be in there.

I can't even bro it.

Yeah, Friday was we could change the world.

We could, we could have changed God.

Damn, it's sitting right here.

You know what I'm saying, Ladies and gentlemen, hit me.

You know you want to get you find it please, you know, man, save your fin Just hit me.

Man.

So Friday, let's let's just do we like to do this.

Man.

We love to go back to the beginning.

Come on, Philly, we love to see you know, talk about the humble beginnings.

Where it started and where where the process began for you and who told you?

Who said to you?

Was it?

Moms?

It was like you have some dating?

You have it?

What was it?

Is that your Haitian accent?

You know this nigga tries to trying, he tries to acc.

First of all, you gotta let me, you know what I'm saying.

You gotta put some you gotta put some French on it to you need.

You got it.

You have something, You have something.

It was like that though.

My pot was like the musician.

He was a pastor too, so it was like he had the piano around, he played the guitar a little bit, you know, like one of them pastors that could do anything around the church type shit.

So I just picked it up easy.

All my brothers had a piano in the house.

Said, I got three brothers.

Now, I got like three close cousins, my uh my mother brother, you know what I'm saying.

So it was just natural.

I'm the youngest too, so they all playing instruments.

I'm like three years old.

I'm just watching them, so I'm just get on on the keys at like five, start singing in church like probably like eight, you know what I'm saying.

So I'm taking everything they doing.

And just really becoming like the you know what I'm saying, the young genius for sure.

So like by the time I was like ten, I was leading like like the big choir, Like I was leading like the grown choir, giving them three paramonies, you know what I'm saying, playing every instrument in the church.

So that's where it came from.

Sure, what did you playing?

I played piano, bass, guitar, and drums, and you just learned all of it just being in the church.

Nobody you figure out.

You just at the church.

You just it's just like you just listen to something and you just try to follow it.

It's yeah, for sure, you know what I'm saying.

You just absorb it.

Yeah, it's natural.

It's not even something it's like how it's just like it's just it just happened naturally.

Yeah, like you love it.

You listen to the songs in church and then you just follow it and then like years go by, just getting.

Better and better by here.

So you're singing too, Yeah hell yeh wasn't because you're from Philly.

So that's why I'm asking that, Like, so where is there was there ever?

Like A, I don't know if I want to sing, I might want to rap.

Yeah, it was like so I used to listen like the Boys and Men a lot.

That was like the first outside of church, the first people.

I'm like, yeah, I feel where they coming from the emotion and all that.

So and then like growing up in Philly, I'm just I'm still trying to find my identity.

You know what I'm saying, coming from the church and then outside of the church is going through my life, you know what I'm saying, living how I live and then the R and B.

I'm trying to put it all in one, you know what I'm saying, Especially.

With like the type of voice I got, I would to consider me like the best singer, but I had to like find my sound.

So he was like, all right, he his own person where it's like.

So early on you was on that like I gotta find I got on.

My ways, sad, and it took a long time.

Like at first, I was trying to follow boys and man like you know what I'm saying, niggas like Tank.

I used to be on YouTube just watching niggas bro like Jamie Fox, Tink, Brohman, Knight, Yeah, play the keys.

That's that's why I want to be.

But like growing up, bro, I'll say like I ain't gonna lie twenty fifteen, twenty fourteen, Bro, y'all might disagree.

I feel like R and B shifted.

Bro oh not like when.

Tory Lanez came out.

Tory came out.

Absolutely, I looked around.

I was like, these are the people.

You already got your fan base.

So you good, you already got your fan base.

But I looked around.

I was like, bro, I don't think females after they came out, I don't think these females want to hear well, see you.

Know what I'm saying.

It started seeing things shift where it's like, you gotta create your own type of sound.

You can't even just be a regular or be singer anymore.

You gotta create your own lane.

You gotta be Yeah, they gotta be different, like different, you know what I'm saying, Like you know what I'm saying, Brand Should Taylor, all these people that came out since then that created their own lay.

It just had to be different.

So that's how I was like, I gotta create my own lane.

But it's good to it's good to hear that from from you because as artists are now finding their way and trying to figure out which, you know, where where is their place?

Yeah?

And and how how can I accomplish what I'm trying to accomplish, Because I with you, there's there was a time and there still is a time where I'll hear newer artists that sound like Tank are sound like a Brian McKnight.

And I don't know how that works in this space.

Right now you're talking about like they could do.

It hasn't shifted.

Females get off of because the difference is is that the males and I say this all the time, I had to figure out how to compete with emotional rap.

That that's what it is, bro, you know what I mean.

So you're getting melody and you're getting emotions from rap, and it looks like a rapper and it looks like the hood niggas.

That's what the girls unless you know, unless you fully going home your craft in a whole other way and just be completely different and you're willing to.

Deal with the winds and loss with that, you know what I mean.

But hearing that, hearing you say that, bro, like that's it makes perfect sense.

And it makes perfect sense why you're here today because you did your homework and most people don't do their homework.

Like, Okay, it's a shift, it's a ship.

Where do I fit in that?

Like every nigga keep talking about that.

We're about to do Joe to see again.

Yeah No, you're not for one.

It's no Davanta and you know, and going back to it, you're not Tank, You're not Brian McKnight.

Like them.

Niggas are just different.

They're aliens, you know what I'm saying.

And it's a different time, Like.

Breezy Care, I'm like, Bro, you ready to last?

You?

Bro?

Like I was telling you, Like Bro, I don't even think we want to see a light skin nigga come out and dance.

I told you, bro, like, think about it.

If a light skin nigga come out right now and then they are not having it.

You didn't too much bro, Like yeah, Bro, I'm just on the ground and I'm not going to I'm not gonna say.

I don't know why I feel like that, bro, because it is like that.

I'm looking at his gram and as talented as he is, I'm thinking myself, he's gonna have to stop dancing.

Why Because it's like you said, Chris has done enough for everybody.

That's it.

I think it's the style.

It's also the style of dancing.

Chris has found a way to be a cool dancer.

Chris is also mean dancing.

That's what I'm saying.

It's cool, So he's his dancing is like dancing maybe feathery.

Chris is not dancing soft.

So if you're a light kid, keep doing what you're doing all that.

Start dancing, Tucker, keep doing what you're doing.

Man.

I just think it is.

But you know it's when you say that I saw the separation.

We talked about this before.

When when Chris Brown was going before A Marion and I say, this is a screen tour in an arena, and I watch, of course A Marion was always in the beginning, the savvier dancer, the more had, the more cooler shit, right.

But then Chris Brown came out with his dancers and all black fatigues and they started and I was like, oh, Mike, and the girls was like it was grown women, like oh my god, who is this?

And it was so aggressive and and and had so much purpose to it to where it didn't take long for him to take over anybody who was trying to anybody.

I don't know any guys they can they can dance right now to where it makes sense outside of I'll give one.

Guy who's Friday already made this statement, bro stopped dancing.

It's one guy who's going to be yourself.

But I'm just saying, like, it's just like, Bro, it's not what it was.

It's one guy who can still dance.

Well, I give credit to Neil.

But Neo isn't for that audience got you.

But I'm just saying in terms of people that I see dancing and and I love the style, the fred Astaire, the I mean Usher's usher, he came in our time, all them legends.

I'm just talking about you, nigga, come out and dance the same way, even good, the same way.

I feel like people be like, bro, you we already got.

And it's unfortunate, because what's wrong with being talented?

Exact way?

You have to do your homework and you figure out how you make the dancing cool for you.

Fact, that's the whole thing.

You just gotta find your lane.

So let's go back to ten years old.

You're doing a big choir because everybody, everybody's goal in the church is young.

You want to be in the big choir.

Huh, what's the difference, Well, we had what was the mask choir?

So the mask choir was was the young adults.

Oh, it was everybody, and that was the big Sunday when the mask choir sang, Oh, you wanted to be in on that, you know what I mean.

And so as a kid like you would just look at the mask cho like, I can't wait to sing.

So the kids quire a week, Yeah it's a little kid.

Give it up for the kid, give it up, give it up for the kids singing.

We just had, we just had.

It was like an adult, like eighteen and like thirty.

So that's why I was like, that's where I was leading at.

Yeah, like ten twelve, that's.

Crazy, I was.

I was, I think, what what is?

What is eighth grade?

But I will say it depends on what state you in eighth grade, like twelve, you could be sixteen and eighth grade, now, kidd, twelve I was.

That's when I started with the with the older cho I was missing.

I was kind of almost minister music by then.

I was playing everything and teaching songs and the whole little thing like it.

It became a thing.

But tennis early, so you're playing drunk.

You're fully doing gospel, you're spiritual.

You ain't doing no at that time.

Yeah, yeah, that's all I knew.

You haven't even heard anything else yet.

I wasn't even listening to no shit all I know.

I was under my right now.

Yeah, I'm twenty six, that's crazy.

I didn't even I didn't, Okay.

Yeah at that time, I'm just I'm with my parents.

Bro.

Of course, you listen to what we listened to.

You coming to where we come.

And it was like probably middle school.

I started playing ball, like heavy Hooper.

Then I just you know what I'm saying, heavy hooper business, niggas.

I'm seriously I teach you a little So what what you just say?

Hoop?

Bro?

You hoop right now?

Right now?

I just hooped, like probably three days ago, I was cooking niggas in the gym, cooking hoop l a fitness.

Some gym near Philly.

I mean from Philly hoop.

Niggas and Philly can hoop.

I'll say that niggas and Philly hoop.

I'm not the best hooper, but I'm giving whoever a bucket right now.

We have to check on these these said buckets.

We gotta run with.

Let you know, we gotta run.

We invite everybody who say they hoop to no hoop, and then they be like, okay, I only hoop a little bit.

Gilly came to the run.

He had a nasty loud out he don't like you don't and found out he really don't hoop.

Forever.

You can't tell Gilly that Gilly hoop for though, you can't tell Gilly that no no run.

Gilly think he probably got the all husky niggas.

Young niggas.

Listen, it's it's pros.

It's division one it's we mixed.

We mix it so you know what I mean.

You mix the teams up so that it's all even and everybody you.

So you over Gilly, You over Gilly Gilly?

Yeah?

Should we say that up?

You just set that up.

Up?

Over you?

She set that up.

Don't don't stok.

How much would you play Gilly for the one on one anything?

Don't set lookle Gilly Gilly very rich.

Now, don't st I like Gilly.

No, no, don't do that now, don't do that now we all know we free.

I can't do that to him.

Y'all should play one on one.

I'm putting Gilly in the post for eleven straight, but you gotta stop me.

Shot not.

I'm just saying, I'm seeing what I saw.

He probably that day, what I saw.

We gotta set it up.

It's not what he thinks.

He knows.

I got ten thousand, I will put up ten thousand.

I put up I got Gilly.

I never see you playing, but I'm seeing what philadelp supposed to do that I'll gladly take you.

Don't do it.

No, no, no, he already we betting.

Yeah, yeah, what your money?

So yeah, I'm getting second, you know what I'm saying, Going middle school, hanging around my niggas and going through my own life, that's when I start you know what I'm saying.

I started listening to Kanye a lot, and then it was like it was that John he had with Jamie Fox Togger record.

Yeah, and then it was Jamie Fox for like a whole year.

It was like Jamie Fox, John Legend.

So Kanye introduced you to jam yeah, cause it was like and Ultimatelyohn Legends Yeah.

Because then then I just start shifting to like R and B.

It was like I heard Jamie Fox with Kanye was like, who this nigga?

And look him up?

You're playing on the keys.

Nigga said, who this nigga?

Yeah, Jamie this nigga?

Like Bro.

I used to be.

I used to be on YouTube like all day, like like my grandma house.

We had a low cable at my grandma house.

Bro, I'll just be on YouTube, Bro, Jamie Fox, John Legend, bro to night all day.

Bro.

A nigga that played the piano or something.

That's why I used to be on And that's when it like shifted.

I started listening to R and B and hip hop probably middle school are you writing songs yet?

Uh?

I started writing.

I started.

I went in the studio when I was in seventh eighth grade, so probably like two years.

And then I went in the studio.

My cousin Mirco had a studio and then he invited me, and then, you know, I played every instrument.

So it was like I produced my whole track that day, Like I made everything.

He's like thirteen.

Yeah, I'm like thirteen.

He like this, how go you loop your joint?

Like then, young, I play all the way through.

You just loop a few chords.

I looped chords, added the bass.

You know what I'm saying.

He was going to go to the studio on some motown.

Yeah, yeah, just pass record.

Let me play it all the way.

He's controlling everything, but I'm adding you know what I'm saying.

So I'm like, damn.

And then I added my vocals.

It wasn't the best track, but I was like, Dann, I could do this, John.

I just made the whole track myself, and then he gave me a laptop and I went home and just start making music every day, probably from eighth grade.

That's dope, that's crazy, that's dope.

Yeah, for sure.

And that just became your passion.

Every day, Like even like before school, my mom had to tell me, like get off your laptop to school out be up all night just like would Yeah I used to.

At that time.

I just had the headphones.

You could just plug it in and get like you know what I'm saying, not the best quality.

I'll record at home and go to my cousin studio record on the weekends.

So I would probably do like eight songs during that week and then go to his studio really recorded.

It's crazy because the thing that the different from his time in our time was that the actual studio process, Like we had to go to a studio.

Yeah, we have to we have to find a studio, have a friend with a studio with something.

It's some D eighty eight some aight ads, you know what I'm saying, the task cam something.

But like now it's like they have this computer man, and they are figuring it all out at a very young age, from top to bottom, tracked to vocal to everything.

Like that's crazy, and it's allowing you to develop in a way that we didn't get the opportunity to, like we are, development was more outside than inside.

You know what I'm saying, so you guys are understanding the intricacies of how to make a record sound to everybody in the world, the sonics of the entire world, like y'all are, y'all are running big knob and ques and all sorts of I don't know none of that stuff was y'all dialing up reverbs and delayed on but doing none of that stuff, and what that stuff was.

And one takes I was doing.

One take, I was singing, maybe I deserved from top about its different?

One take is different.

I was just like cause in my thinking, I was like, whatever I have in real life for this song, I want to be able to do a lot.

Yeah, And that's that's how I record.

Learned it from Gladys Knight.

But at the same time somebody else was recording me, I still didn't have the understanding of how to get everything out of my head on to a record.

Do you find that difficult at times?

From going from the studio to now being a live performer though, since it is a different type of you know, you're punching every either sometimes every other word or every you know what I'm saying, like, this is just a new form of recording.

How is that for you transitioning to you know, going into live performance though.

I was, I'm familiar with it, okay, but that was when I was a kid, So it was like once a God did came out, That's when I.

Was like, oh shit, it's time bro.

Then it took me like a few rehearsals, bro, and I was like all, yeah, it clicked like probably like third rehearsal.

With my with my band, my man Josh, and I'm good.

Now Now that's a that's a perfect segue though, Yeah, got it right.

So you're.

Early on you're writing these songs.

How were the songs?

Let's start there though, I would do you remember earlier thirteen year old son Cloud?

Your thirteen year old song?

Yeah?

I played the john.

I played the joint like last month, my first song I ever made.

I was on some Boys and.

Men and Ship I I got to hear it.

I got it.

It's not crazy, but it was like, oh, yeah for your first song, you you you're going by Friday?

No, I was.

I was frienish.

That was my regular friends.

Yeah, it was a real R and b N.

Yeah, it's like that I might go back to drop a R and b friend.

Hell yeah, so before we get to god there, how do you even get to Friday?

Uh?

It was like like probably like twenty fifteen, Like when I told you that shit started shifting.

I started listening to Party next Door.

I'm like, Yo, now you're paying attention to now?

Yeah, I'm paying attention.

Then Weekend next Door right head, I'm like this ship that's when already in my head, I'm like this ship shifting.

Bro.

You studying, Yeah, I'm studying the show.

Bro, no bullshit.

So it's like I'm like, Bro, in my head, I'm over Yo.

I'm like Drake in my head, I'm over Yo.

Shit, Drake gonna find me somehow, Bro, I gotta be with these different niggas somehow.

So I just we in the group, me and my cousins.

Like, Bro, you gotta think of a name.

It was just like Friday Leos on Friday.

I was like, yeah, that's the one.

So it just stuck.

I dropped the song with that name, and then I really went and I went to college.

I went to Penn State.

That's when I was like, because you know, I'm in high school, ain't nobody calling me Friday nigga?

We know your experiences.

They used to call me friendly.

So when I went to college, introducing me as Friday, right dad joont would just started a little conversation, a little humor with the you know, with the shorty.

So like on Friday here, the whole campus called me Friday.

Then that's when it just it just stuck.

I need a new environment sometimes somewhere else.

Now you go back to high school on a Tuesday.

Come, That's what it was.

We're calling you Friday, calling you Friday.

I went to college.

My name is Friday.

I did the talent show.

Yeah on Friday.

Now did you win?

No?

No, no, it was just like a talent show.

Yeah.

I had my way in there.

It was like Friday.

Yeah, I love it.

Give me this, let me get this, let's get this.

I just want to I want to talk about your vocal.

If I'm if I'm putting the you're like Keith Staton meets Charlie Wilson as a base mm hmm.

That's just something you go look.

Go look that up when you get a chance.

Charlie Wilson.

I'm gonna look upt him, though I did.

Charlie Wilson here used to, by the way, for I was like.

I was like, I said, Charlie, you've been reincarnated.

The legend, aren't there?

Bro?

He said, he said, what are you talking about?

Day?

I said, listen to this.

I said, I said, this is this is you.

You're back.

That's four and he was listening to him.

Was like, I said, yeah, I said, listen, you've you're pat patterns all that stuff you're doing.

I was like, this, nigga's there on Charlie, but you haven't keep stating yeah, Keith stating tone, but you're a base do you like, have you have you come to terms with how different your vocal is and and how you're delivering it and are you're purposeful with it?

Yeah?

Purposeful especially now?

Yeah, because it's like the time I was telling you when that ship shifted.

It was one point I was trying to sound like people.

You know, when you're making music, you just hear you listen to a party next door, so you're like, you just want to make something.

Yeah, But it was like a time I felt myself where it was like everything, even the way.

I was talking.

I remember I had like a shorty in the studio probably like eighteen nineteen.

She was like, Bro, this don't sound like you, like, who is this nigga like?

Because I was trying to sound like she had known you, Yeah, she knew me.

I was like, listening to this music, let me know what you think, Like, don't sound like you.

You're not talking how you talk to me?

You know what I'm saying.

So I'm like, shit, fucked me up.

Bro.

I was like, I'm not talking how I talk because I was trying to sound like an R and B nigga, like you know what I'm saying, ye baby, Yeah, I'll play you the stuff I was on some boys the men tip, I can't like you know what I'm saying.

So that fucked me up.

Where it was like from there, bro, twenty I'll say like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen.

That's when I was like, all right, I got talked.

How I talk to females to anybody like how talking life?

That's how I put on the record on a poject.

You know what I'm saying.

And then I gotta use my voice.

You know what I'm saying.

I gotta use it.

You know what I'm saying.

So I could separate myself even more.

You got this different voice, take it on another level where it's like, all right, you know what I'm saying, put the emotion in there.

Some songs I just I'll be sounding like I'm crying.

I do that on purpose.

Bro.

Certain songs bring that out of me, but certain I just I'll just go a little left sometimes just to be like, all right, what the fuck?

You know what I'm saying.

So yeah, but you have like a very unique and undeniable vocal.

Yeah, you know, as soon as you as soon as you come on the track is exactly who it is.

Yea is you, And it's like.

It's it's refreshing, especially as we you know, once we dial into the project, like even the things that you're singing about that you're using your voice for, Yeah, it's all of it is refreshing, from the vocal styling to the lyric to the production what you're doing all like that's just it's just it's different and it's great.

Thank you, Bro, it's really really good.

So when is your point of discovery?

When does when does when do the big leagues call?

Oh?

Yeah, so like from eighth grade bro to like ten years later, Bro, I'm probably like that ship start shifting.

And I was like probably like twenty two, twenty three.

Uh, I'm right every day I think I found myself, you know what I'm saying.

I'm like, I'm ready.

And my brother France went to la He probably had like three brothers.

Name is France.

Yeah, so you friend France and he Frank.

Yeah, I like, what's going on?

Okay?

My older brother name fran ya Haitian.

My pop name France.

Shit, my older brother name France or.

Pop bro he was on.

I had nothing to do it.

Oh this is great?

What Yeah?

All front French or franc Er crazy.

I got one brother named Jean though.

Man, but that's still in the space of like, hey, hyeah, that's a Haitian.

Yeah, that's a Haitian name.

Yeah.

Yeah, but I know, right Jean really You're right heavy cool?

Keep them there, keep them.

But yeah, he went to l A and like when he did bro, we in Philly, like I'm probably like twenty three twenty two, me and all my other brothers in Philly, we're like, Dann We gotta go out there with him.

Yeah, he's sneaking in concerts, he getting in concerts, he taking the picts with Mustard Keanua Day, all these people like dag, I gotta go out there with him, you know what I'm saying.

At that time, I'm thinking I'm ready.

I go out there.

Bro, Me and my cousin Leo go out there probably like four thousand dollars play like two months rent.

Oh yah move.

Yeah.

We moved full out an apartment for sure, and that ship just was like, bro, we was fucked up.

I was gone, yeah yeah, and.

Then we out there you know, you know, coming from Philly, you just think l A is l A, everything about to change.

But it's like, bro, we don't know nobody out there.

We just going to the.

Beach and record music in the cribs ship.

We could have did in Philly, but it was like my brother, he was like, bro, carry a keyboard.

I got the pictures on my ground.

I used to sneak in the contests to carry like that blue keyboard.

But I played for the band, you know what I'm saying, So that was my whole thing.

I used to pass out my flash drip, So that was just like a whole moment.

And you were sneaking as a band member.

Yeah, I mean, most security is not gonna stop you if you got to, like bro, ever get stopped like, nah, he not with us, No, Bro, you got in every concept like that.

Yeah, Bro, I got the pictures.

Bro.

It was never not one time.

I'm with Miguel with the keyboard with MCGA, you play for my band, I said, with another artist, with another artist, that's crazy.

Man, you got such a cool demeanor.

Yeah, it's believable, like you wouldn't rattle.

No, No, I'm with somebody else.

But even at me holding the keyboard, producers was coming back to me backstage like.

Who are you?

Who are you?

So?

Like I was doing a little but a little running around out there, you know what I'm saying.

But it wasn't doing nothing for me, bro, Like I'm watching the niggas throw my flags driver, you know what I'm saying.

As soon as they walk down, put it in the trash niggas for sure.

And even it.

Opened my eyes, like I linked with a few producers out here and they opened my eyes.

Bro.

I was already, Bro, Like the time I thought I was ready, you know when you went Philly, Like all right, Philly, it's a lot of rappers right now at this moment, so I'm like I'm ready.

Bro.

It was like, got the sounds like niggas took it on the whole other level.

Another yeah level, this where every the best people come to La, you know what I'm saying.

So that opened my eyes.

And then during that time I met my manager Edgar, and then he was like, Imber, I was posting like a video.

He was like, bro, you hard, Bro, let's link, let's let's let's connect.

That's when I went back home.

The rent was due, we got you know, we got evicted, went back home to my mom crib, started just making music and send it to him every week.

He was like, bro, you ever think about writing?

I know you're on some artist shit right now, but it might be an easier way for you to like step your foot in the door.

So I used to make like probably like you know, ten hooks a week, five ten hooks a week and send it twenty.

Users building like that from your mom yeah and my mom crib.

And that's how I got like my first pub deal in like twenty twenty twenty, twenty twenty twenty two.

Round Yes, your published the first Yeah, I was moving as a writer.

Okay, So my man the news though he was a producer.

He was about to sign it, but I used to do a lot of hooks on his beat.

Well he was signing, he was about to sign.

There was like, who all these hooks?

You know what I'm saying on all these hooks, And it was like, that's how I signed my first pub Dude.

I was moving around as a writer for like a year.

So when you get your publishing deal, do you move back to l A just you know and Tucket they just signed me off.

You fired nobody know you yet.

Bread was little, It was like weird little.

I gave my mom a couple of beans and I went to l A for like a couple of months, you know what I'm saying, moving around, But it wasn't It wasn't you know what I'm saying, doing much by like a year that that money ran out like a couple of months.

Year.

I didn't last no year.

Yeah, I was smart with it though.

You shout out my A and R.

She used to let me stay at her She had like a guest room, so I wasn't you know what I'm saying.

She used to show a lot of love.

So like that ran out, and I remember my A and R bro she left the company.

The only person I know at the company.

I'm like, bro, how are you gonna leave me in is?

I don't know nobody else.

And my manager, Edgar, he connected to Mary J.

Blise manager Eddie.

He's like, bro, we need to buy out.

Bro.

You know what I'm saying, We need a buyout, telling you if you one of the ones he put the work in.

He just kept bothering me.

Eddie bought me out.

That's why everything changed.

Everything changed, Like that's when I wrote for Breezy.

I wrote will fall off?

I need you right here on the Breezy album.

Yeah, and then I producing for Ray Shrimmer, producer for a lot of people.

That's when everything just starts shifting.

Bro.

And like two months later, God Did came up.

So even God did.

I was like, you're a Philly Philly fucked up in Philly, Like I ran out of money.

They just bought me out, you know what I'm saying.

Like that video of you recording whatever wasn't That wasn't that that God did.

And my mom and my mom care.

That was like makeshift.

That wasn't like elaborate.

That's my that's my laptop, my keyboard.

Let's shout out Edgar and Eddie Yeah, shout them.

Let's shout them out, because that is a that is a huge thing in this business right where someone has to identify like you said, like you said, he was bothering him, like Yo, he's the one I need you to do this for me.

And probably whatever their relationship helped move you to where you needed to go, because you know, we hear it all the time.

Nigga be like, hey man, I'm telling you this.

That's not gonna make a niggas buy you out your deal or you know what I'm saying and help you in any way.

So those those moments along the way, bro, are key to getting us to where we got to go.

That is, that's that's amazing, bro.

So now you're in Philly.

It looks like he's in the kitchen or something, bro Like that wasn't like that was like a bad crib.

I took a picture get my hair cut in the launch They got it with bad tank.

Yeah, it was one of the pictures.

That is one of the.

It was it was my barber's place.

But I'm still sitting in the lawn chair in the living room.

They let that attack happen.

And when I saw that video, I was like I was like, oh, he's he's writing and producing from a place.

Look, this is what I used to do every day of that room.

I used to wake up, pray six to eight hooks, go to the gym, come back, six to eight hooks, pray, go to sleep.

That was my routine for like eight months.

Every day, every day.

So it's like by the time God, they came out, I got six hundred hooks, I'm pulling up the breezy bursing tailor crib.

I'm pressing pray for like two hours, like you know what I'm saying.

So it's like that's what I used to pray and make like ten, ten to twelve ideas every day, you know what I'm saying.

So it's like by that time, Eddie, Eddie, like all right, this nigga working hard.

I'm sending them boom boom back, you know what I'm saying, thirty two thirty two every week, Like twenty five to thirty two ideas every week.

So like we got that deal done, then, bro, I'm watching Kyle it on the ground.

God, did you know doing this?

Yeah?

Did you know he had picked the song?

Though?

No, no, no, did he just saying it?

Oh, he's just saying it that.

He just going with that logo.

You know, he a marketing ball, right, So he just before the album even named that, he just keeps saying it before he even has Yeah, before he even had a song.

He's just saying it got you.

But you know, I believe.

I'm I'm a I believe in God heavy.

So every time he's saying it, it's just touching my heart.

Bro, Like that would like motivate me to like go to the gym, you know what I'm saying.

So I'm like, bro, i gotta make something called God.

Did you know what I'm saying?

And I made like a sample first and I sent it to my manager.

He was like, I was like, senators call it.

He was like, now we don't need a sample, bro, Like we need a real hook.

I'm like, bet, I'm gonna call you like two hours.

I'm in John.

You know.

I always started on a piano like they that just came out.

I'm like, as soon as I did that, Joe Bro, I called my camera man said, pull up to the curb.

Bro, they is about to be crazy.

They don I'm like, oh ship.

I finished that and I added the choir the choir part.

You know what I'm saying, i'd be doing, Like what was your process.

To adding the choir?

It was like all us and all all tracks as you sometimes it's like forty eight tracks.

Bro.

Like that was like crazy, bro, because I sometimes I go in different parts of my room in that room and just you know what I'm saying, go in the back the room, going to the front, doing the higher actives, doing the lower active.

You know what I'm saying, in a different.

Down to a science at this age, like ship is crazy for sure.

So once I made that, Bro, I called him a manager.

Show what the fuck?

Bro?

We just sat on the phone for like five minutes.

He like, I'm about to add Eddie and the boy that brought us out.

Yeah, Eddie was in his car, he heard it.

He ain't say ships.

Like two minutes.

He just whipped outside his window.

He said, I got Collin number, the one that bought us out.

He said about texted Colin now texted call Cola textas The next day he said, it's a movie, that's all.

He said.

Two days go by, no, like a week go by.

We starting the business, were like, all right, I needed this like an interlude from my album Friday interview, Guy did a couple of days go by.

He said, y'all just put three rappers and a singer on there.

Who's gonna live forever?

He ain't say who, bro.

In my head, I'm already thinking of Kanye right, right right, I'm just thinking it's an inspirational, high quality record.

Never said, who said a singer fucked my head up like that and took me off the song?

Right?

Because that's your first thought.

First all Like, because at that time, I ain't shit.

I'm a writer, I got three thousand followers.

I already put it in my head.

I text my team, I'm like, can they just leave me on the choir?

You know what I'm saying, Just leave you to the choir.

I'm like, can they just leave me on the choir and still feature me?

Though I know they're about to get somebody to lead this whole joint?

Bro, So I already put that in my head.

Then I heard it was John Legend probably like the day is about to come out.

I say, they took me off to the record, but you still don't know you're on the record.

I know I'm on the record, but got the record.

I don't think I'm leading it.

I don't think if they kept my choir, maybe I'm the last.

You don't know what piece you're playing.

All I'm thinking is they not about to let a nigga with three thousand followers lead a song with jay Z when John Legend on there?

Right?

So, Bro, I'm waiting for twelve a m.

Bro, you still hadn't heard the song the straight.

I know it rumors already jay Z on there.

I know John Legend, but I don't know how out how it is.

You know what I'm saying.

Yeah, I'm next to my mom, brokle it talking.

My voice came in, Rick, I start going crazy.

I said, this ship your lifetime?

Yeah.

Twitter going a little bit.

Oh hell about to say needs me and my mom?

Yeah.

I'm just like, oh ship, this ship just changed.

Bro.

I go on Twitter Friday Friday.

Who the fuck is Friday Friday?

You know it's not John Legend?

Who is Friday?

Voices something?

Bro Friday next morning, number one song in the world.

Friday Friday.

Just going crazy.

I'm like, oh Ship, I remember I went out to we went out to celebrate the next day.

I don't got a dollar in my pocket.

The payment ain't come through yet.

Right, My cousin took me out, Kyle it DM me and then he called me while I was in the club.

I ran out the club.

Bro, he telling me, thank you.

You know what I'm saying.

He's like, Yo, you gave me a song on my album is best song?

Yeah, I'm like, thank you, bro, Like you know what I'm saying.

Like I'm walking around Philly, I'm hearing people say my name.

Nobody knows me, you know what I'm saying.

So we just I'm just thinking him, he thinking me.

He's like, you don't understand, bro, Like we're gonna be at the Grammy's.

You know what I'm saying.

Since that, bro, everything followers went up.

It's artist time already.

Put in my head, It's all I've been waiting for.

You know what I'm saying.

I used the writing shit just to get in you know what I'm saying.

But I know now it's artist mode, bro.

So that's how that God did me.

So did you from that moment, like you said, it's artist mode, did you start creating Friday the artists?

From that moment?

What you need to look like?

The style?

Like, did did you go through that part like remember I told you like I was already identifying it.

Where when like party in Them came out and I was already an artist, I was just using writing to you know what I'm saying, you alreadyknew what you wanted to go already.

I know my identity.

I look myself in the mirror every day.

I was like just looking at myself, like who you want to be?

Bro?

Like goal you want to little here?

You're not an R and B nigga?

Bro, you know about to be licking your lips and ship.

I just was like, you know what I'm saying, but look it starts like.

Really fuck with you now?

No no, no, no, no, no, ain't no no.

He's that nigga for a reason.

They want to see him do that ship.

You know what I'm saying.

They don't want to see me.

I'm just look that ship is natural for him, right, No, no, give what you said.

So I just had to look myself in the mirrors, like be yourself, bro, dress how you want to dress, talk how you want to talk?

Right, this is Friday's artist time and I already had songs ready, project already ready God did came out single already ready.

We sat with dev Jam getting the EP reready lost the melody immediately immediately.

How long did it take to get the deal done from after God deal drop God did drop until you have probably like a month.

That's quick.

That's quick, Yeah, because because.

I'm a bull, bro, I'm like, you gotta take advantage of the moment and like you don't know if this moment gonna come back again, you know what I'm saying.

So but right after God did the record, a little baby came Forever Forever record, So.

How do you how do you get that?

Now?

Is this all d ms?

Is this now?

You moving around?

After God did?

It's like all right, the whole industry.

So it's like I linked with everybody but Tank eventually a technically that ship.

Niggas still doing it too well, probably with a whole other artist.

I saw a bunch of artists post I'm looking for new artists, new writers, new hit me.

You gotta tell me that you got later though, you gotta tell me how that worked.

Bro.

I'm like, yo, this is this is put it like that I don't want to talk about.

But for me and my brain will get more into it, and for me and my brand after getting in it and watching how it worked, it wasn't for me because it just wasn't.

It wasn't a reflection of how I wanted to introduce artists.

He thought he was really helping.

I thought I was helping.

He thought he was helping.

I almost fell out with my nigga about one of my niggas about that ship because I start peeping, Yo, this is it's not real, Bro, It's not some niggas tragging some birder.

Bro, one of my niggas.

You hit me like you know this after God did one of my niggas Like, Yo, I got opportunity, bro, Bro, I said, let me see, let's see the d n Yo, if you want to get your mixtape five hundred.

I said, Bro, that's some bullshit, said Bro, you.

Hating on me, Bro that you got.

Everything telling you Bro, you mad as ship?

Bro hat you know you pay that five hondred Like Bro, you was right my foot.

Bro, because what it is is like, it's not you know, it's not being funneled and being and being pushed into a space to where you know, real discovery has happened.

And my thing was that like after watching it go down, you know, watching a few of those little tapes come out, just looking at the process, like I was like, Nah, this ain't That's not how I do music.

That's not how I you know, that's not how I want to introduce him.

I'm gonna introduce somebody like I'm gonna really introduce them.

We're gonna really, we're gonna really put on for him.

I was like that ain't that ain't it?

And then and then it's like grabbing the paper from him.

And then I was looking at some of the d ms and it was like, yeah, when I get my paycheck on Friday, I'm like, nah, because nahn, this, this ain't what I want you to spend you know, if you check the check, this ain't what I want you to spend my check on.

This ain't that.

So I had to get out of there.

For the rest of the Industry show.

I apologize all the upcoming you could have had you forever.

Man, we're here now, Man, we're together now.

Man, So embarrassed God did Bro came out?

They're like, who Friday?

A little baby junk came out?

That was a different energy.

Yeah, because it.

Was like what I'd say about God Did It was like it's an inspirational record.

It's so emotional.

But Forever came out, it introduced me to it.

It's the streets, the street streets.

So it was like that song, I'm able to come out to the arenas and just you know what I'm saying and go crazy.

So my my EP coming right after that, it was just a setup, bro, and I dropped my Lost Melody EP.

It went crazy, like perfect introduction.

You know what I'm saying.

That's that's how that went.

Yeah, bro, like it's been your your but it was a perfect no.

No, it was a perfect introduction because I didn't want niggas to I just want I wanted niggas to know that I'm a regular nigga, and God did came out.

It's a lot of niggas they hear that song about your gospel nigga.

Yes, Forever came out like no, I'm a regular nigga.

I like sure, like you know what I'm saying.

And it was just a balance for my EP where it's like, all right, I believe in what I believe in.

I'm gonna tell my story and it's the R and B side of me.

So them two records, it was like a perfect introduction and everything, you know what I mean.

But like I said that, I feel like your path and the way you've been able to weave your upbringing into your music, it's refreshing, bro.

And I'm not I don't come from the church, you know what I mean?

Like, that's right, but it's just the fact that you've been able to make that relevant in this space exactly.

Yeah, well you can't.

It is thisn't we are?

We are all Listen my guy put out a record church Niggas like we are that whether you like it or not, you are not going to be able to get away from the emotional and spiritual thing that connects you to the higher source.

No matter what you're singing about, You're You're just it's what separates you that you're able to be street, spiritual and emotional.

You know what I'm saying.

Like all of those things put together.

When I listen to your project, it's all of that.

No matter what you're singing about, I feel it differently, Yep, because of where you're from.

Absolutely, because of your foundation.

And Jay says this all the time.

You know what I'm saying, and we share this.

There's there's a.

There's a lack of that, which is why our music kind of suffers.

There's a lack of spirituality, there's a lack of connection when it comes to our music because we're we're ultimately sitting here to change lives.

And if we can't connect, the message doesn't connect.

What are we doing?

What's the point?

And that's the origins I mean, because like you know, obviously me not growing up in church, I had enough of the music from the R and B artists who did, you know what I mean?

So you know, like I grew up on Charlie Wilson, Yeah, up on Stevie Wonder, you know what I mean.

Like, you know, I go down the line, these these guys Aretha Franklin with Houston, like this is all church.

They're just singing R and B songs.

I'm not knowing I'm receiving it that way, you know, but I'm still I'm still getting it now in our music.

It's a little tougher because from an R and B standpoint, because it's not, in my opinion, you know, enough church guys still in R and B, you know what I mean, still giving that vibe to R and B music, And that's why we're you know, obviously it's picking back up, but that shift has to happen, and I feel like you're in the forefront of that, like you having a song with Maverick City Crazy, which I love that songs, you know what I mean, Like you having that record and you taking that chance coming off of two rap records.

You know what I'm saying, Like you have to make that conscious decision.

I'm like, Okay, what can I You can say as many times you won't like, yeah, I'm not doing that, but you are though, you know what I mean.

I know what I'm doing.

Yeah, I'm doing it in a great way where I put it like everybody believe in something, bro, Yes, it is no matter who you are.

Bro.

Like I play Blessing.

I was buying some jewelry.

It's like a lot of you know, a rad Jewish people like they hear it go a song called Blessing.

It's like love this song, bro, blessings Blessings.

So it's like translate.

Everybody, bro believe in something.

And I put it in a way where it's like anybody could listen.

It don't feel like no church.

It just feels like a nigga that believe in something that's putting it on a record that everybody could relate to.

Even the Maverick City records.

We done came way too far.

I'm not talking though.

You know what I'm saying.

You know what I'm saying.

It's but I put it in a way where it's like, it's inspirational.

That's what I like.

I wrap it up in a way like any anybody listening up, Bro, it sa't no you know.

What I'm saying.

Listen, bro, I know gangsters.

They wouldn't miss church on something exactly exactly.

Right, y J.

We played ray J the album.

He like, bro, some ship you lead a club to and go right to church.

Of course I never forgot you.

Like, of course I never felt good about that ship.

But it's like you go from the Chris Brown joints, this joints like.

Yeah, I was like, that's what it is for real though, Like how you just said it?

Yea, As I heard the Chris Brown record, of course, Chris played Chris played for me in his house.

He's like, you, here's new Friday joints.

It's crazy like this.

I was like, that's on, I said, you guys, he said, that's on his album, I said Ship, So I was already looking forward to you dropping.

Yeah, he was already saying you was it was him?

Yeah.

Shout out Chris, Yeah, shout out to breath and the fact that you the fact that that you're on the mission that you're on as far as even just delivering the music.

Like most new artists, they don't drop projects.

They're not ready immediately.

They're not ready.

You were, you were ready for your time.

Yeah, you have two projects.

You gotta epn album out?

And what has it been a year and a half.

Yeah, Like I said, I studied it, bro.

Yeah, I don't been to concerts where you think it's the biggest artists and everybody in there waiting for the one banger.

Like you know you've been in them concerts, everybody waiting for that one hit when it's coming, when it's coming.

We just came to see one song, bro, Like when are you about to sing that?

Ship?

And I'd have been to concerts where it's like the artists that got dropped albums and projects, where it's like the whole show turned.

It's a most little experience.

So it's like, I know, as an artist or artists got to know too.

It's the projects that that build a real fan base, where you get them sticky fans that will never leave you.

It's because of them projects that emotional experience.

It's not one song, you know what I'm saying.

Yeah, they'll go to the next nigga that they give it a nice another song right next the girl that got a viral moment.

So it's some projects.

It's like, I know, this where you get your real fans.

This where you get them people to buy your tickets.

You know what I'm saying.

I'm seeing that now.

How was how was the feeling of performing at the Grammy?

Yeah's crazy?

Like, how was that feeling for you?

Bro?

Like I said, especially with who you perform with.

Yeah, Kylin always told me, Bro, we're gonna be at the Grammy, trusting, So I know the Grammy's coming up.

I got I'm getting ready.

Probably found out two weeks before.

My manager called me, say you performing, Bro?

You gotta think I ain't performing.

I probably ain't performance college, bro.

And then then from.

Church first show here it's my first show, bro, why not?

Why not?

Yeah?

I couldn't even sleep bro, right because you.

Can't get those guys together anywhere else way.

Yeah, yeah, obviously haven't done this song anyway, and do it.

I did it sometimes.

It just came out at club live with DJ Callen.

You know what I'm saying, just out but like this where it's like this ain't a club.

Niggas about to hear you sing, bro, and niggas want to hear you saying the same way you seeing on that record.

So it was like, Bro, I couldn't sleep for like two weeks, bro, because I was just so nervous, bro, thinking like I could suck up a jay Z performance.

No, no bullshit, it's like not yourself.

Yeah, I can suck up a jay Z, but you do not want to be there, like you up the.

Whole performance, bro.

And it was like, Bro, I couldn't sleep the whole like two weeks.

Probably that week came up.

I was just in the shower just singing it every day, Bro, nervous, just he I remember the day of Grammys, We're in the trailer, Cali brought his people out.

It's on my TikTok the video, and then he put the instrumental in my ear before we're about the stage and I just started singing it.

He didn't even expect me to sing it.

I just started singing in front of the people.

It was like, all right, bro, ready and then from there I just got that confidence hopped on stage.

I seen jay Z.

That's up, bro, I might get ready.

It was it was easy.

Since then from there, Ye was your first time wearing EANs, bro, it's my first joke.

I'm saying that you Yeah, that's my first time when it's my first real joint.

So it's like, because that's the thing that people don't know, the transition from the it's just a way different thing because now you're singing in your head.

Yeah, facts, and that was different.

But I'm you know, it's kind of like the studios to you.

Yeah, but it was just like a whole different experience.

And it was like from God did and forever You gotta think Forever video ain't come out yet.

I think Forever video came out after the Grammy's a little Baby, nobody he knew.

It was more you really knew you look like exactly.

It was like we know the voice, Yeah, we heard about everywhere, but this was like the first time the world about to see me.

After the Grammys.

It was like it was like a shift.

I'll say that's dope.

That's dope, that's dope.

So you got an album out, man, Yeah, and it's tour time.

Yeah you sell out, let's start there.

Yeah yeah, Yeah, niggas be on tour.

Niggas be on tour.

They don't always say ten minutes to following ten minutes.

Yeah.

We just sold out London like one day.

Yeah, we had an added date.

Yeah, added a blessing bro Hell yeah, what's your prep for that?

Knowing that now you have sold out shows?

Is that does that adjust the playlist?

Does that adjust?

You know?

How you create the urgency in terms of creating your sonic for the show, your visual for the show.

Like, what's the thing.

Now because before you probably have a plan.

You're gonna do these songs, We're gonna vibe oll, We're gonna do such as And now it's like you're sold out in every city.

It's like it's a mental thing for me.

I know the people are here for an experience.

Like you said, my music is a little different, So it's like I know people coming out here for a different reason, you know what I'm saying.

So it's like I try to get my mental right, like you know what I'm saying more than anything.

And then it's just like the how the songs just putting together.

Shout out, my man, Josh, it just it just got to flow right where it's like it's just a flow through the whole show, you know what I'm saying.

So it's just more of a mental thing for me, and you know what I'm saying, and I make sure my being right, everything right.

I mean, I love the way you started the show, like you know, you started out talented, walked out there, you.

See the god.

That you see what the Lord has done, and then you go to the piano and as soon as you hit the first chord, they know exactly what time it is and they are with you as soon as you open your first word for sure.

How does that feel, bro?

It's amazing.

Bro.

Yeah, Like first show, I probably I cried on stage.

Yeah, yeah, it was like, this is the first time everybody here to see me.

Nigga.

Nobody can be you tell every artist, nobody can be you, but you.

Nobody can tell that story.

But you I can here with your original piano today, my friends, that you got for today.

We approaching the end of the week, a special day we always look forward to.

It's our favorite day.

But even our favorite day has some favorites.

Brother Friday, if you don't mind me calling you, brother Friday, he said he might go back to Francis.

Brother Francis Friday.

We want to people want to know.

Your top five, your top five, top five, your top five?

What is R be listening?

Guys?

Yeah, R and B songs?

We want to know you got this show all lot these days they don't matter, but.

Friday, we want to know, Yes, top.

Your Fridays fun.

Yeah, come on, I agree.

Boy playing.

It sounds so good?

Don't you agree?

Sounds so good?

Don't you agree?

Friday?

Top five?

Your top five R and B singers?

All right, I take it back, so it's like boys and many Jamie FOXX.

Wow, come on Fox making appearance.

Yeah, I'm gonna go, Chris Brown, what you mean it's not tough?

Then you go usher taking it up like yeah?

And then the last ball, the last boy, I gotta give a new ball.

Yeah, I'm gonna go.

I'm gonna just say T pain.

Yeah, what's gonna say, Todd Dollard, I'm gonna say T pain.

I love T Pain.

That niggas cold t paint cold, yeah cold, Okay.

I like what you did there.

Yeah, what you did there?

All right here top five R and B songs.

I'm gonna go, Uh water runs dry, but man, I'm gonna go.

Uh Jamie Fox, I wish you were here.

That opened my eyes up a lot.

I'd like to say, kind of keep going, keep Caving's caving changed my life.

Bro.

He performed that joint in the junk.

Remember he performed that joint one of his concerts.

He had a uh, we had a we had a thing that he did for TV where Yeah, he was older.

Ship Ship Crazy.

I'm gonna go some new ship no gut it, Chris Bro that's special.

Every China joint come on drink dang.

Yeah uh legend you said, John know they don't know special classic Alzheimer.

Yes, that's my favorite songs ever.

That's four yeah yeah, and I'm adoring it.

Miguel hm hmm.

Came with that record these.

That ship crazy?

What is the fist?

Fist?

This Beard?

No special special.

It's a formula that writers were smart, they would pick up on it.

Mm hmmm.

Smoky Rymington, all of them, all the greats did this formula.

I'm not going to tell you what it is.

But if you're smart, because they have to study like this man did.

Wow, this man studied.

That's why he is who he is.

That's why is our favorite day that we study.

If they paid you five hundred dollars, and then we can talk about upcoming artist, writers, producers, m real coming out ship Friday.

We're gonna make your vultron.

We're gonna make your super your super R and B artists.

We're gonna get the vocal from somebody.

We're gonna get the performance style from somebody, the styling from somebody, and the passion of that artist for you.

We're adding an extra segment of who's gonna write and produce for this artist?

Since you do that so well, let's start with the vocal to build your super R and B artist your voltron.

Who are you getting the vocal from.

I'm gonna go with Usher.

Yeah.

I feel like he could do the old school ship like they can do it, and he could do the new school supert I'm saying he going vocally everything because he could do pop hip hop.

Go back to the real.

I'm gonna us your vocal love it, love it yeah, performance style on stage get into it.

I'm gonna go breezy.

Yeah, breezy, unstoppable.

Yeah, two hours straight stop.

I've never seen nothing like.

I'm different.

Different.

Okay, you got this drink you'd be drinking, was like, would make me to drink.

I wasn't even performed.

I just want to drink to drink because christ was drinking to drink.

E would goddamn drink styling, Yeah, the drip.

Yeah, I don't know.

I would just say he dress like whoever performing he got dress like what like like breezy, Breezy, whoever like perform gotta have that's gotta match.

That's no boxes with breezy, you know, telling him what's breezing for?

You know what I'm saying.

It's no rules, it's no dress.

It was four it was four rolls of clothes.

I was like, oh yeah.

I was like what, I said, what are you?

What are you wearing?

He was like, I don't know.

I said, you perform in twenty minutes.

He said, I'm just scrabbed some ship.

What no rules?

He just said, I'm gonna put on something.

It's gonna look fly.

The passion of the artists who mean it.

Who's gonna make these people cry.

Man, I can't shave the gentle thing.

I'm gonna say.

Uh, I'm gonna go with Charlie.

Yeah, yeah, that's passion right there.

I just had church with Charlie not too long ago.

I'm gonna go Charlie.

He has a church segment any show, every show, for every show.

Then it goes, yeah, I'm going Charlie.

Does it means especially if you know Charlie story.

Have you ever met Charlie?

No?

Oh, you gotta meet him.

Yeah, and you gotta do something.

You gotta listen to that story.

Yeah, that's special a story.

Okay, who's writing and producing for this artist?

I'm gonna just say, baby face?

Why not?

I mean he's you know, he's no sense as well.

I mean yeah, he's not just the deal.

He's also yeah different right there.

He's then and now his wardrobe now is thirty?

What many four months ago?

Yeah?

This nigga with the youngest bro cool is super cool.

But I'm gonna go with him.

He wrote something like a lot of boys man ship.

I was young and looking it up like what the fuck?

And you know, back then it was a.

Few writers, Yeah, probably like five to ten, right only very small.

All the hit records he's going.

You're gonna see his name at some point, for sure.

Everybody's albums you go through you.

But oh and Babyface, Whitney Houston, Babyface, Babyface, yeah something, baby Face Baby.

To God, Bro, nigga's incredible.

I'd love to just he just let me collect his ass cat for you.

He's gonna be hold it for a year, just letting million dollar checks hang out on the table.

You forget to get you know, that's a nigga like they sampling his ship every day.

Bro, His streaming is out of control.

It has to be.

And that's just that's just extra extra income.

He never even imagined it.

Still where he comes from, you no digital world where he comes from.

Now there's an additional fifteen million dollars.

Do the work.

Do the work.

Do the work, Ladies and gentlemen, do the work.

Go do the work.

And it's the crazy part about streaming is that we're we we haven't exhausted it.

What you mean, there's still territories being added.

It's still going up.

It's still being added to devices as we speak.

Became a good time, my brother, You came at a great time.

Yeah, Yeah, someone will say what you got.

Yeah, I ain't saying no names.

Hey, I ain't saying no names.

Ain't saying no names.

Ain't saying no names.

Where you was?

Who is weird?

What you did?

Don't say?

She?

I ain't saying no, he's showing out.

He's here, Yeah is here?

Yeah I was slain.

I was slain.

So yeah, yeah, no, we we had this very very very important segment of the show, very important important.

Man.

The people, the people, man, they wait all week for this.

Want to no man, Yeah, they want to know.

They want to know.

Because you know, they don't live the same life that you live, so you know, they can't get behind the curtain.

Sometimes they can't sneak into the show, you know.

Yeah.

Yeah, So this segment of the show is called I Ain't saying no names.

Will you tell us a story?

Funny or fucked up?

Are funny and fucked up?

And the travels of the journey of a young man named Friday Francis to the high school niggas, but Friday.

To the people, to the people.

Yeah you ready, yeah, I'm ready?

All right, So right now, right now, right now.

One thing we do know is that whatever story he tells us.

God didn't do.

So maybe getting you out of it.

But this is Friday.

I ain't saying no names.

H you didn't see something.

You just seen something.

Business is you know you're gonna see something, Yo.

I ain't see nothing.

I see nothing.

No, I really brocause I'm new bro like and then most places I be is intimate.

So it's like, you know how we got respect.

That's just where I go studio career.

But I will say, like, funny ship.

I seen, yeah, without saying on names, is just funny ship.

I've seen it.

I notice in this industry the niggas is more groupies than the females.

Bro mm hmm, that's what I will see.

Say.

I've seen a lot of times muld have been in these places with the biggest artists around them next to them, and it's like, bro, like, the niggas is the more groupies than the females.

That's the most shocking ship.

I'm like, and the group is be niggas that is respected.

You think it's respected, but they still trying to get get close to the nigga.

You know what I'm saying.

So ain't nothing, but I've seen some funny shit like that.

It was like, you're.

Gonna say the nigga's name.

It's like, Bro, it relaxed, Bro, like we're chilling.

Everybody don't have that button though.

Everybody don't have the relaxed button.

And you'll find out that very early in his niggas be trying to prove themselves.

And even to add to that, niggas is trying to connect themselves.

You think they're already connected.

It's like, Bro, I thought you was connected already.

A lot of people make a living off of staying connected or close in proximity to what's cracking and what's popping.

Now you're in a privileged position to where you cracking, so people want to stand next to you.

You don't necessarily need to stand the next No.

But you've all so come in this business with purpose.

You have purpose, You have something you're going for, you have something you're pushing towards.

Like a lot of people in this business, everybody's a transaction.

Every new introduction, every new room that they get into.

They look at people as transactions like, Okay, what can I get out of this?

What's the transaction is?

What can we instead of just being like you know what, we just happen to all do the same thing, and that's cool.

And either I like this person, I don't like this person, no matter if I ever see him again.

These people are trying to make sure they see them again or they get in a room.

But also not understanding that that that energy would also push push you out of a rest, especially I mean definitely with us.

Then we'll be driving off somewhere and we'll be like, man, shoot man, they can't come.

It's usually me saying it.

He tank has never met a stranger.

Me.

I'm like, nah, bro, with no bullshit.

I might think I cenship, but I really don't be around like that.

Be in a crib, bro in the studio with the people.

I funk with the people all trust Yeah, yeah, go back to their crib, no bullshit through the work, might not keep doing.

That's funny shit.

I'll be like, oh that shit, that's the type of ship that make me.

I don't want to go out bro.

Just you know what I'm saying, I'm going back, going back home.

At twenty six, I wish I would have had wing back home that I'm going back home attitude.

You had to keep the party going at Toude.

Ever, twenty six in l a hit record outside as long as humanly possible.

Where you are going, where you are going.

It's four in the morning.

Man, I know what.

I won't do nothing else, Brother Friday Bro phenomenal talent, Yeah, Bro, phenomenal phenomenal an i'minal talent, amazing spirit.

As as Brother Wendell Muhammad used to say, God rest his soul from South Philly.

Beautiful brother, Keep doing that, Keep doing that, keep doing the work more importantly, because it's it's it's it's doing all the talking, man, it's doing all the talking and then meeting you and and just and and just sharing room with you.

I don't I don't think it's anywhere you can't go anything you won't be able to do.

Lead the emotional revolution, the spiritual revolution.

Where music means something to be lead it sure appreciate that, bro.

Yeah, Ladies and gentlemen, MO name is take This is the arm Your Money podcast, the authority on all things R and B.

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