Usher On Babysitting Beyoncé, Mega Group With Jay-Z, Pharrell & Diddy & The Super Bowl Halftime Show

who was presented the collab with Usher. and he turned it down he's like damn I. shouldn't have did that you going to. hate me for this one. oh. Jay-Z for. real Diddy damn us and me was supposed. to be a. group my. myle price want a slice got the roll of. dice that's why all my life I've been. grinding all my life look all my life.

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actor dancer allaround Entertainer one. of the most influential voices and. accomplished singers in the world one of. the most successful pop and RB artists. of the 20th century and early 21st. century he's been active in the game for. three decades and NBA championship owner. of the Cleveland Cavaliers and please. whatever you do do not leave your girl. or your wife around this man he's an. international sex symbol a successor to. Michael Jackson the king the king of R&B.

Mr Usher Shannon how are you sir I'm. doing good well let's go ahead you got. your own you got your REM I got my sh. listen by the way only in the best we. you know what I'm saying we bring out. the best you know China for you know. what I'm saying now but got it in a baka. Rock glass here in Las Vegas enjoying it. man I figured I come have a drink with. you boy I sure appreciate that I. appreciate that yeah man I didn't't even. get to say who was sitting down having a. drink and conversation but you see who. it is now Hera baby bro how you doing. I've been good bro you know we've been.

out here man in Vegas man just really. enjoying the time you know it's been a. an amazing almost 100 shows right and I. don't know if there's anybody that's. been able to track this fast to 100. shows you know but uh it's been great. man the Super Bowl yeah was that always. in the back of your mind or where were. you when you got the call that's like. bro we want you to do the Super Bowl was. it always in the back of my it's it's in. the back of every artist's mind really. yeah of course I mean as many times as.

we've seen performers kind of have an. entire career a legacy career you know. to have that moment I mean you can win. Awards you can travel around the world. have fans everywhere play Arenas. stadiums you know what I'm saying 130. million got eyes on yeah I know so it's. like that is it's a lot of pressure. don't get me wrong okay but but it but. it is it's a dream I guess for everyone. and I'd always um wanted to go there had. the opportunity to go there um you know. with the black IP Super Bowl 45 yeah so.

you did OMG so I after being bitten by. that moment I was like I got to go back. again I mean it's it's a little overdue. but you know what I'm saying definitely. um but you didn't want to go back you. want to go back as a headliner you. wanted to do your own thing now how do. you talk what you did because remember. you jumped over Will I Am you hit the. split and so now people like okay Usher. by himself what's he going to do to top. back I don't know if I'm going to have. somebody to jump. over. yeah um you know man I think that this. is is a legacy right this this uh this.

entire career and everything that you. had to say about me I really do. appreciate it did I leave anything out. though I mean I became a uh I got a. doctorate this year okay so so ke to the. city got a key to the city of Las Vegas. became a a doctor at Berkeley okay uh. but uh you know it's it really kind of. comes down to your 10,000 hours you know. what I'm saying and if you worked hard. then you should be given that. opportunity Jay-Z he reached out to me. personally right um and um it so what.

was that call so what was that call like. okay phone rang you look down it's whole. Jay I mean you probably got it in in. your phone it's whole but Jay you pick. up the phone you're like D I wonder what. are he calling me for okay here's the. conversation now what um I had an idea. that he might be. calling uh he happened to be coming to. town in Atlanta be was in Atlanta with. the um tour the tour MH so every time we. in Atlanta we play spades okay just so. you know me him Juan and I and pick my.

partner you know and the last time they. kind of gave it to me so I'm thinking. he's getting ready to call me to say yo. pull up to you know the arena or stadium. and come get this work and um no he was. like nah n I'm not calling about Spades. you know what I'm saying I'm like so uh. what What's up he was like it's. time yeah I mean yeah it is 5 o'clock in. the morning time but you mean it's t now. but um it was early you know and uh he. he said you know this is this is the.

magic moment this is the Michael moment. actually how he put it and um you know. are you ready I was like well you you. want to do it I'm like first of all I. was a bit in denial so my girl walks in. the room and I'm like she's like no way. he's like yes way it's like he was in. the room with us you know what I'm. saying but um yeah man it was it was it. was an incredible moment man and you. know some of the the greatest have done. Prince done the halftime and remember in.

Miami he was playing Purple Rain and it. starts to rain Michael Jackson. Beyonce everybody realized that God was. a a prince. fan that man that man was playing and it. start raining purple it start it ready. for re. what so so so how long is it going to. take you because we we're probably about. four three and a half four months away. yeah how long is it going to take you to. put a set together because it's it's not. like your res here and we will get into.

that a little later you probably got 15. 20 minutes to put something together. that will leave the people that the the. people will remember for the rest of. their lives well exactly that right for. your entire life I guess for the entire. time that you've been building that's. how long it took wow to prepare for that. moment it didn't just start these you. know few months that I have that lead up. to it it started you know 30 years ago. man when I decided that this is what I. wanted to do and you know had the. support of my mama and a host of an.

incredible a lot of people man I mean. this journey is not just mine to. celebrate it's everybody that has. something to do with it from the. beginning in Chattanooga Tennessee. making my way to Atlanta signing with a. record company at 14 years old then. having this incredible journey finding. music finding producers finding sources. of inspiration you know and then moving. on to other areas you know Finding. artists and working and collaborating. with other people so I celebrate all of. that leading up to that moment so if.

anything if you want to take note the. preparation starts today you're working. on it right now then hopefully you'll. get there someday but man don't take. those you know those those uh 10,000. hours lightly man it's we live in a time. where you know you can have success. overnight I mean you know we have social. interaction that gives us access to. everything but you know that work that. you have to put in in order to you know. own that moment and and and and deserve.

that moment uh can't be taken lightly. any early Super Bowl predictions. probably too early for me man I don't. know bro I I had come here to ask. you to be honest I'm like Y what you. think you know you. know but uh somebody somebody said. something about Miami somebody said. something you know about Kansas Kansas. City 49ers somebody say something about. 49ers yeah you a Cowboy fan I mean you. know I was born in Texas and have always.

been you know a fan you know of of the. Cowboys throughout the years you know so. you know who knows it could be could be. a good year they they seem to be getting. it together you know the new album. coming home releases going to release on. the same day as the Super Bowl that's. not an accident is it no no no it was. that was strategic you know part of it. is you know paying tribute to the Past. you know being present here in Las Vegas. what what is surprised right to have an.

incredible residency run here 100 shows. I will have played by the end of. November and then to have the treat of. being able to play the Super Bowl you. know so um yeah man it's it's like you. know here here you have this this Grand. opportunity that is almost like a. crescendo of what started off really in. a pandemic right people don't really. know that part right when I came to Las. Vegas it was quiet nobody was.

here nothing was happening people. thought I was crazy for putting tickets. on sales but to be honest it was belief. belief that we would get back to the. norm you know what I'm saying and in a. time when the world just felt like. upside down like what is normal anymore. we ain't been outside or been into a. concert hall or celebrated with each. other in our year you know what I'm. saying and and here you have this Grand. opportunity to start this journey that. now leads up to the Super Bowl for me so. that moment was also for you because you.

wanted to get outside also you wanted to. see people cuz you was shut in you. wanted they was like oh man I get a. chance to see user but you like us you. get a chance to see. y yeah man the first thing that we did. we did a show in Los Angeles for iHeart. Radio which was like the actual first. time I'd sing and also to been in the. room or anybody had been in the room in. La so that was the first thing and then. to come to Las Vegas and then launch my. residency successfully as I said you. know the time that we been here now to.

be able to to come here and uh and. celebrate man this this incredible. moment this is your ninth solo album. yeah this is your first in eight years. what can we expect um well first after. the Super Bowl as you said the album. comes out coming home we released one. record so far good good featuring summer. Walker and also 221 Savage number one. record there so really happy about that. radio has played a major part in that. social interaction ton of other things. but you know I really you know feel like.

I put a lot of heart and time into. making certain that this was curated. right something that felt like you know. this next chapter of my life as I talked. to you about the past the present. happening here in Las Vegas the future. and once we get there in February is the. next Frontier is that next chapter of my. life and my legacy this by the way um. marks the first album that I put out as. an independent artist very important. part right cuz what should know is that.

yeah Legacy obviously is a part of what. you know gave me the hit records to be. able to have a foundation to stand on. but at that juncture in my life I didn't. just rely on that I decided to move away. and also to be independent mega mega uh. myself Larry Jackson LA Reid and I came. together and formed gamma um and mega is. the support of. it since then uh it's just been a labor. of like being reminded of why we did it.

I can go back to my 13year old days and. remember the beginning between me and La. now at 45 years old and him having a. world of it experience you know all you. know just one of the greatest Executives. of our time black Executives of our time. you know breaking so many artists in so. many different genres now we get to. bring all that Equity together and do. something that is all about he one the. greatest record executive regardless of. color right you look at all the acts. that he's discovered and put put on he's. been unbelievable yeah um this residency.

and you spoke about a little earlier. that was that something that had the. pandemic not happened with The Residency. with Usher would that have. happened it was going to happen it was. it was about yeah it was it was going to. happen we had plans for it to happen. Okay and right as we were in the process. of launching you know I think I was in. France at the time and it was just this. crazy outbreak came back to America and.

then before you know we were quarantined. you know and I've been working on music. so I've been kind of ramping up to. something whether it was new music a new. tour and we all felt like Las Vegas. would be an incredible reintroduction of. new music also to celebrating Legacy but. it turned into something far far more. than that man you know right we're here. at the Nomad Las Vegas right down the. hallway um from where you're performing. your residency tonight at the Dolby live. Park MGM my daughter whose flight with.

the lady wanted to be here but I'm. bringing her tonight for her birthday so. when you caught a lot of flag got you. know the women come and you know you. come with your daddy or come with your. sugar daddy no no no this or come with. your husband this is my actual this is. my actual daughter I'm very protective. about this one now so I ain't got with. two girls but I'm very protective of us. so don't be don't be messing around so. the criticism I mean you're just having. a good time you say you got your things. on I mean are you surprised that you've.

gotten the criticism and the blowback. that you've received I don't know man I. I just know that this juncture of my. life is just about having fun you don't. even care no it's not that I don't care. it's that I want you to know that I'm. having fun and that is a part of me. having fun being out in the audience. amongst the fans and also to the people. and feeling that energy I don't remember. the last time that I've been to a show. like that you know I know that we all. feel good when we go to Frankie Beverly. and we you know we all dress in our. white we go out there we enjoy each. other in in you know in the aisles and.

have a great time but like what an. artist comes out and just is amongst the. people you know this Arena gave me an. opportunity to be able to be closer to. my fans because I had been I had put out. an album in almost six years right so. now being able to reconnect in that way. you know obviously it spun into. something that became it gave me a new. uh a new title yeah uh I think. Charlamagne the god named me like the. domestic. terrorist I'm like bro I'm just this is.

a this is actually a Usher show right. well you said you can feel the energy. you can't feel the energy from them. husband and them boyfriend G you the. evil eye like you need to back up n they. actually cool the guys that are there. you know what I'm saying the girls they. get a little Ry I'm just saying but you. know it's don't leave your girl around. me I come with your girl you know what. I'm saying come with your daughter you. know what I'm saying bring your wife but. it but yo but by the way I again it's. all in good fun and and the whole. purpose point is to bring that energy to.

Las Vegas when I look out and I see my. people I see you know I see us doing. something that I don't F I don't feel. like it's been done here like the black. dollar is strong in Vegas man more than. it's ever been and the cast and the and. the crew and the feeling of what this. has built has been a celebration so you. know now I didn't I don't know if I was. able to even look at it as a negative. and then anything that has happened in. terms of the girls who came up there.

rather it was terazzi P Henson or you. know what I'm saying Kiki you know. Palmer you know that woman had just had. a baby and she. would I mean she wanted to get out and. have a good time you know what I'm. saying should you not feel like you you. know what I mean like you you should get. out with your girls and enjoy yourself. you should right yes and there you have. me to assist your. usher oh you you ushering them into a. good time you taking that L help me you. going too far with this you know the. ushers help you to the chair. seat I'm ushering you to a good time.

baby you know what I'm saying come have. a good time with no but working out yeah. man I talked to Steve Stout yesterday. and he said that when you getting ready. for a show that you would train chasing. the U-Haul and they're playing. confessions because you are an. Entertainer you're not just sitting on a. stool singing you're moving and you're. every word and you're dancing you're. doing all these dance moves bro how you. able to do this night in and night out. still got them 20y old knees yeah I know.

man it's like the conditioning is no. different than you know football you. know what I mean you got to really have. the you know you got to have a core you. got to make certain that you can sing. and dance so part of my moving and. singing and running and doing some of. these things that are probably not a. part of the you know the build of. artists you know that type of artist. development is something that I learned. I learned it from a guy by the name of. AJ Alexander the guy who actually. discovered me uh who was uh Bobby. Brown's bodyguard right so as a kid he.

had his kids in Atlanta and this was our. training like it was like boot camp. singing wasn't just like oh we going to. get out here and just jam and sing the. girls no you got to like he was like. putting us through Straight boot camp so. you had to learn while learn to sing. while you're tired because you're. running and like you said it's boot camp. but I yo I just think that that. generation of entertainment it was. different you know what I'm saying and. i' had been in a group before and we as. a group you know we worked in the same. way you know what I'm saying we play.

basketball you know what I'm saying and. we got our wind up or when we were. working we would sing and dance and and. move around he would have us running and. singing all of that kind of stuff that. wasn't uncommon that's not an uncommon. thing if you consider yourself an artist. that is part of artist development if. you want to be able to get out there. sing dance not miss a beat be on key. that's the type of work that you got to. do right you you mentioned you born in. chat you're in Chattanooga you moved to. Atlanta at a very very young. age and you you said your mom I read.

where you said your mom like kind of. quit what she was doing to devote all of. her attention to you and you said your. mom was like kind of hard on you and. making sure that's what you wanted where. where do you where is your stance. because we see Richard uh vus and Serena. Richard Williams was very hard on them. we hear T we see tiger story his dad was. hard on him and then I see Dwight Howard. trying to push his son and he gets. blowback so where is Usher if your kids. how are you going to be with your son. you say you got a son that's playing. basketball now now how's Usher the. parent given where he came from knowing.

what he knows how's he going to. be man I deal with the same you know. issues that any parent deals with kids. who are influenced by you know the. things that they see the things that. they get into but the one thing that I. do is care for my kids right I view. disciplinary you know you know kind of. measures as something that is preparing. your kids especially black kids for you. know the reality of the world that. they're living in you know I hold you to. a higher standard you know I personally.

hold you to a higher standard because I. know what work it takes to be great and. for parents who do that you know look at. the evidence look at the incredible you. know artists the incredible athletes. that were created in that moment this. generation might not necessarily have. the same respect but God bless the. coaches that we have God bless the. mentors and stuff that we have that. motivate our kids cuz it almost puts. this pressure on parents to not be. parents n that's it's it's a hard.

Dynamic especially if you come from an. industry where you know what it takes to. not naturally kick into that mode and. say yo if you want to do something you. want to play basketball you got to run. at a certain rate I'mma push you if you. really want to do this you got to show. me you're going to show up on time you. ain't on time give me push-ups right now. what yeah give me push-ups run these. laps run these suicides right now you. serious Dad yeah for real and I'm not. playing and if I catch you if if I get. if I get there before you do you going. to give me 100 extra push-ups wow you.

know what I'm saying that's just that's. just the nature of the you know of the. animal that is inside of who we are as. as I don't know man as as entertainers. as athletes you know so I don't I don't. I don't look at any of that kind of. disciplinary kind of measure uh is a bad. I do think it's equally important to. talk to your kids okay if you're going. to push them that way then you got to. love on them just as much you got to. explain to them why you push it there. you go that's right they got to know. that yo my dad's going to push me to be. great my dad's going to talk to me as.

well and help me understand why he's. pushing me the way that he is but how is. that because you have to understand. you're in a totally different situation. than what they are your mom didn't have. it like your kids's dad has it right so. they're looking because you like man I. got to get my I got to get my mom out of. this situation I want to have your kids. come home they got a sixc car garage. they got 25,000 square feet they got. Nanny they got ma they got Chef they got. they got all that yeah. that that is that is a harsh reality.

which is more the reason why you got to. be harder on. them um but mindful that their normal is. different than our normal right and the. access that they have is greater and. grander and the expectation is actually. higher that's the one thing that I have. empathy for my children especially the. ones you know that yeah I name my son. Usher so every time he's out obviously. there's that pressure um you know I've. even battle at times you know my kids. sometimes they don't want me to come.

they don't want me to be at the you know. that basketball game or the recital or. they want to be very very lowkey cuz. they don't want that energy they don't. want oh dad walked in the room and took. you know all all their focus off of me. yeah and it's hard because I try my. hardest to have that empathy but I want. to be there you know what I'm saying. countless times being able to just sit. at the back of the room quiet you know. what I'm saying is keep myself as small. as possible and and be as quiet as I. Poss can you want to be a parent yeah. man yeah but it's it is you're right.

like that that access and that reality. that they're looking at it gives them. some expectation and. unfortunately I can't take it back you. know what I'm saying like I I walked so. that we could ride you know what I'm. saying and now that you're riding you. know I want you to understand the. importance of. walking did you always at the age of 10. 11 and 12 you on Star search um did you. always know you wanted to be this.

well which part of this do you mean. right cuz this the guy that's sitting. across from me that's internationally. known that goes and sells out every. concert the guy that's almost at a 100. shows at a residency the guy that's. doing the halftime show one of the the. king the king of. R&B. this thank you very. [Laughter]. [Music]. much but let me give you a little. Clarity right okay okay no I don't know. if. I I don't know if I was prepared for any. of it but I know that I was dedicated.

enough to stick to it until something. happened and then something that I. didn't expect happen to become a. businessman to then understand. entrepreneurship to understand. philanthropy to understand empathy to. begin to understand the other side of it. um I wasn't prepared for that I knew. that if I set my mind to anything the. affirmation of me once saying it and. actually making it it happen it willing. it to happen was something that I was.

committed to as a kid yo I walked around. and my mother used to tell me all the. time you need to stop telling people. that you going to be a big artist I'm. like why that's what I believe this is. what I think about myself if I don't. believe it nobody else would but you. don't have to say it it ain't happened. yet I'm like but I wanted to so let me. just keep manif I must keep saying it. until it actually you know becomes the. reality and I'm gonna not only just say. it and expect somebody to give it to me. I'mma take the long way around I want to. work for it I want to be able to say I.

earned it you know what I'm saying I. remember the first time that I saw you. and I didn't know quite know who you. were I saw you in Nike Town in fips. Plaza man I you see you in Gucci all the. time and you always sing I was like man. why this dude singing I be all I be like. he's like he's like and you was just. singing and singing and singing and I. was talking my sister I said man I saw. this this this uh I mean you couldn't. have been no more than like 16 or 17. tops I said I saw this I saw this kid in. in in in Nike Town and he was singing I.

think I think he might be something. yeah I mean I don't know if I was. auditioning or what you know what I'm. saying but I was I I Was preparing for. my moment you know what I'm saying and I. think that that's that's the plight you. know what I'm saying to anything that. you want to be great at you have to make. it a you have to make it a process like. it it's it's a part of your every. thought like if you want to play. basketball you always bouncing the ball. if you want to play football you always. readjusting you always managing you. always ready and alert you know if you.

want to play sports it's like you have. to stay activated and stay active as an. artist is the same and you know I'm also. too haunted by the idea that I had this. Talent so it's naturally just coming out. it's like you can't help but just be who. you are you you had this. Talent obviously in high school normally. when you have a talent everybody's not. as talented as everyone else so were. there hating going on with with you in. high school did people hate that you. were so gifted cuz you in a talent show. you winning you know that you're not.

losing a talent show. no so they like then it's like okay you. okay you won the last five talent shows. you're not entering this one no but. that's what makes you great right the. fact that you know that there's. opposition you know if you're playing on. a football team right you going to go. out there you see that you you up. against some dogs you know what I'm. saying you got to go out there with a. different attitude you got to like. believe it you got to like be it you. know and by the way I had a hard hard. trip bro my name was Usher like yeah.

like I I don't have like Marcus or Derek. like Eddie or something like that like I. was already like a outlier you know what. I'm saying like wait a minute you. walking around with this name and they. weren't nice to me you know what I'm. saying ARA what's up ARA you you want. ARA boy you know what I'm saying arsh I. was like man come on man all right. that's cool so so what was dating like. for Usher in high school. dating um it was a bit difficult you.

know what I'm saying because I just you. can saying you can Swoon them yeah I. know but you know I was just trying my. hardest to stay focused on my actual. goal and I don't know man I was you know. I was just trying to figure out how to. get to the real goal you know to have a. girlfriend that was cool you know what. I'm saying like I would definitely. impressed the girls and see see I do I. do go get it out you I do I get it out. you of course you know what I'm saying. but you know I just you know it was it. wasn't about that man I was focused bro.

I was like I need to I need to stay. focused and I I have a goal you know. what I'm saying when I figured out this. is really what I want to do I think I. was willing to make the sacrifices that. were needed and while I wanted to enjoy. you know having relationships it was. like if I find a girl that I think is. really cool and I can learn something. from her she can learn something from me. then we can help each other but for the. most part I a't yeah man I yeah we can. help each other out but. um yeah I I don't I don't think I I I.

there was a a phase where I was girl. crazy you know what I'm saying but um. yeah man I just I was trying to figure. out how to get as many numbers as I. possibly could cuz I wanted to be a. player you know what I'm saying from the. Himalayas you know what I'm saying but. you know I was I was uh I wasn't really. focused on on you know that too much how. do how did you deal with your voice at. 10 is not the same as the voice at 14. and the voice at 14 is not the same as.

the voice your mature voice is going to. be so how did you handle the voice. change going through Pro F it's crazy. you know I just had to figure out how to. focus on something else uh until it. changed back and just keep keep working. I changed my eating habits you know what. I'm saying in addition to losing my. voice I had pizza face you know what I'm. saying y'all know I'm my teenagers yeah. you go through a phase where it's just. like nestly crunch you know what I'm. saying and I was like man I got to. figure this out you know and I but I.

didn't let any of that deter me from. like oh yo I'm I still got to stay. focused on what I what I want to do uh. yeah I lost my voice completely it was. hard asz I didn't lose my voice and. didn't have anything right I lost my. voice and I actually had a record that. was on the radio I had a record that I. put out just called me a Mac and I. couldn't sing it here I am at you know I. think it was uh Jack the rapper in. Atlanta uh can I be down I can't. remember which was one of those two and. I sang My Song and I got through it that. was the first and the last time that I.

actually sang and I impressed uh an. audience of people some of whom still. come up to this day like y I remember. you in this yellow something you was. like a little kid man and you really. just had this this real big. energy um and then after that I lost it. and trying my hardest to not lose my. mind in that and become like depressed. like fall into a deep depression it took. a great deal of support it took my mama. it took my grandma mother took my nanny. it took my family members to you know.

just continue to to you know encourage. me and um I managed to make it through. it the people who who managed to stick. around you know the people that I was. working with at the time a lady by the. name of Shirley Riley you know an. amazing uh coach as well you know um but. you know working with Kanan pra who was. the person who I worked with at the time. Shanti dos you know these people who you. know were kind of appointed for me to. work with they didn't give up on me they.

they continued to see something bright. in me La re they continued to invest in. me working with you know vocal coaches. and and continuing to help me find my. way sent me to New York City to work. with puffy it was just like okay we not. giving up we we we still believe in it. how difficult is it as a child to find. topics to sing about because you're like. 13 14 you can't be singing about this. mature stuff and you you're not a you're. not a gangster rapper you ain't shooting. up the club and talking about this this.

be and this garden tool and all that so. was it difficult this garden. tool was it difficult for you to find. material come on was it difficult for. you to find material to single single. about yeah it was like uh Pips and g. tools. um man I didn't have to worry about that. as much I think they spent time with me. I was funny uh Eddie bishop and uh Tim.

Thomas the first two producers that I. work with he just posted something and. uh I look back and I it's like man I. just so great that you on the road to. riches you stop and take pictures cuz it. actually just takes you back to that. moment I almost forgot about you know. just the hope in my eyes and the fact. that I was just a a little kid right but. here they are trying to make songs for. me about being a Mac I don't even know. what a Mac is you know what I'm saying. Mac Truck a Big Mac like no but you know. again you know I I just I think I left.

it to them to help you know help me. figure out how to talk cuz I could have. easily right became you know one of the. sensations that would have been locked. into being a kid only had made kid music. specifically for kids but I think that. they were trying to make music that. adults would listen to as well that was. a real smart thing for them to do and. really um it it was it was great to. think ahead because it made it easier. for me to transition when I worked with.

you know organized noise when I worked. with puff when I worked with you know. those those guys they they were trying. to tell the coolest young guy Story the. guy who you know was kind of having. emotions but still trying to be a young. fly player you know what I'm saying you. know like yo I got I got a little. movement here you know what I'm saying I. talked to women a certain way they were. giving me like yo you got to talk to a. girl like this you know what I mean and. you know we do intros like you talk over. R&B records just how you got to talk to. him bro you know but um great that I was.

able to to have more mature conversation. cuz I didn't get caught in the kid thing. I wasn't like a kid teen type sensation. you know I was out there trying to. figure out how to take my shirt off and. show my six pack tick pack you know what. I'm saying you mentioned La Reed sent. you to um to New York and you live with. P did it they call it flavor Camp flavor. C so what was that experience like and. how did that help Usher's career I think. but I think um I don't think I would be. the artist uh that I am today without.

the experiences that I had in New York. City one just being in a new place where. I would have to adjust right I didn't. have the comfort of home I'm in New York. City and they was you know done and. sunning me to death bro and I was like. shouty I don't know what you talking. about you know what I'm saying and we F. to go Overhill you know what I'm saying. and they was like laughing at me cuz I. was Southern and they were like New York. but they would like took me and they. they they like they took me under their. wing you know what I'm saying and looked.

at me like the little BR right you know. I think back to you know the earlier. times of being there when bad boy was. formed you know I learned something. about business I learned something about. artist development in a different way I. learned something about culture so. having the ability to be around all. these different cultures of people it. just helped me understand the world that. I lived in I didn't I wasn't isolated. and felt like I needed to be protected I. wasn't I was like yo we're going to show. you the real to show you what the world. really looks like and give you a front.

seat I'm looking at biggie you know what. I'm saying I'm looking at Craig Mack I'm. looking at Onyx we running in the. streets we like literally out here. seeing how we in bar Barber Shop they. shooting dice you know what I'm saying. you know bet I don't 44 out 4 you know. what I'm saying 4 five you know I'm like. yo what is this you know what I'm saying. but so great to have had those. experiences because one I didn't have a. big brother and my dad wasn't there in. my life as a kid so all these these. experiences just readed me for life so. greater than just being an artist that.

man helped me understand life he helped. me understand what it was to be an. artist he helped me understand what it. be what it was to be passionate about. something he he helped me understand. culture he helped me understand business. and a at a on a different level because. I'm seeing him go from his independence. to then becoming Puff Daddy you know. what I'm saying and I'm I got a front. row seat looking at that thank God that. I had that experience you know what I'm. saying and then you and by the way at. New York's hottest moment you know what.

I'm saying this is Terra Squad and Fat. Joe I'm like how do I know all this. stuff you know what I'm saying like I'm. literally I can remember being on stage. I can't curse on this but I was like one. of the craziest experiences ever I. happen to be on stage performing with. Biggie and this is back when he had a. song called party and. bull. d c dong all uh you know what I'm saying. I was like yo I this this is crazy but I. was able to take all of that and then.

begin to understand oh okay I get it I. see where the world is but now I want to. do this my way. yeah Atlanta Jermaine Dupri you link up. with JD. and what makes JD so good at his. job you know creative he's extremely. creative and he's mindful of the artist. that working when he spends the time. that is necessary to understand how to.

tell the artist story he spends the time. making certain that he understands the. Cadence as he writes he's one of the. world's greatest writers I mean you. don't get no better bro like somebody. who has like multiple skills as a writer. as a Artist as a creative whether it's. fashion whether it's lifestyle. cool incredibly emotional when it comes. to knowing how to pin it cuz he listens. he listens to every word he he manages.

to get out of the way too that's another. thing it's not it's about him because. it's about his interpretation and The. Interpreter always wins but his ability. to not make it about just him he makes. it about his artist he's able to then. say all right I'm going to breathe life. into this artist who's trying to find. their way now what you do with it rather. you dance or you rap or you go into. movies or you do other things that's how. you keep going but he really does. understand the art of artistry the art.

of being able to see the greatest things. and pull the best things out confessions. yeah everybody thought confessions was. about you like you was just confession. you went to a confessional but it was. about him well no it about you no it was. about a it was a colle by the way we. made an album and we as men sat around. like this we were having real. conversations real talk as a matter of. fact uh Mark pittz um you know you know. myself. JD there a couple cats in the room that. was going through this situation I ain't.

trying to put nobody on blast but I'm. just saying we all were having a. conversation about this thing that was. happening and it ain't the first time. that it happened but here's an. opportunity for me to be able to tell. that story in a way where everybody. could relate to it it wasn't just me I'm. uh at JD it was it was everybody it was. everybody at that table was was going. through something yo by the way I tell. you no lies everybody was going through. some portion of what we were talking. about out in that studio is confessions. the album that Usher is a Bonafide.

Superstar he's here to stay he ain't no. flash in the pan he's not here today G. tomorrow Usher Raymond is here and you. will forever remember this man's name. you got to tell me. bro yeah it's you think so I think. that's your greatest that's the greatest. uh body of work 8701. oh no okay see see you when you put it.

like that 8701 that's what I'm saying so. it's like it's great that I could even. have if you could sing one album if you. only had to sing one album and you could. couldn't sing you got you got a lot of. them but you got to sing one for the. next year and only one what you rocking. with man that's a hard one. bro yeah I'm a rock with. confessions cuz I'm. right it's well-rounded which I mean. just saying this like between those two. albums yeah I think that it would it.

would definitely have to be based off of. success it would have to be confessions. yeah I mean when you look at it I mean. Diamond Crazy Sexy Cool Whitney H. Whitney Houston Thriller bro you get the. diamond ain't a whole lot of diamonds. out there there has been no other. Diamond since in this. genre that make you feel good do it it's. a good thing to have you know what I'm. saying but also too it's a it's a. it's a bit of a thing right because. you're then aiming at that and I never.

wanted to get caught up in what I've. done in the past so much that I can't. focus on where I am because the success. has changed right if we you know could. count success by how many albums you. actually sold right they don't sell. albums in that way as a physical copy. where we get on a line we stand outside. a Tower Records you know you did ity. right I did it too know what I'm saying. and we got that album we weren't like. quick ordering that joint or either just. clicking at a button and it's just there.

so yeah it's like the measure of success. has to change in life and by the way. this is important because if you don't. do that you manage to get caught in your. mind and the psychological like damage. that could happen if you don't reach the. same goal makes you feel as though. you're not a success that's not true. there's just always a different shift yo. I remember when you know what I'm saying. Vince Carter was jumping out the gym bro.

like yo he shifted his whole game and. and three crazy still can jump if he. wanted to but them ankles you know what. I'm saying they they that's what I'm. saying so you it's about yeah those are. the people that I look up to bro you. said something very interesting because. and a lot and I've heard people say this. about Michael is that he kept trying to. replicate the success that he had with. Thriller and and dirty Diana was a great. album it sold 8 million copies and and. subsequent rep albums that came out. after that but it wasn't Thriller and it.

drove him to a point that if it didn't. do 30 million 40 million 60 million. copies he didn't feel like it was. successful you said I got in my mind. early on that if I don't do the physical. number that confessions did I'm okay. with that how are you able to do that. Usher because we're measured by our. success because we only people judge you. by what you did as a younger you they. don't compare you to anybody else that's. in your genre currently they compare you. to a younger youth well they.

shouldn't. what come on with it us come on with it. see I know I get it out of y'all see. what he say y'all better leave the. battle on y'all keep on talking about. y'all the king of this and king of that. I'm sitting with the King right here you. know I'll just tell you um two things on. King talk right but the confessions. right again if you are. living by the Applause you will die by.

the. booze TI told me that yeah and it's. spoton if you live for the Applause. you're going to die by the Bulls you got. to do what you got to do and you got to. make your offering as clear as it could. potentially be because it's going to. serve at least one person cuz that's why. we really do it right we do it because. we want to offer something that's going. to be the right dialogue or the right. help or the right moment or a right. service to to whatever needed to happen. in that moment the celebration the love. making the baby making the ability to be.

emotional and finally be able to say. what you really mean to this person you. know be true to that if you start to. chase the success in that same way it'll. it'll it'll it could drive you crazy. right uh the only way that I was able to. do that is to focus on other things uh. to focus on building uh longitude. longitude latitude right I got build. more space let's let's take this thing. that I got my perspective and I want to.

introduce some other artists I want to. try and go let me go fail at some other. things and get great at that right right. because you peak in some way in some. ways and then you figure out something. else to work on and then you peek at. that and you figure out something else. you peek at that but how are you able to. have such success and willing to go try. something that you might fail at I mean. once you become successful you like I. kind of like this I ain't really trying. to fail so I kind of want to stay I'm. going come of stay where I'm at but you. willing to go outside like okay let me. try to be a producer let me try to. discover Talent yeah well I mean part of.

it also too um honestly. became um a bit of a reckless thing for. me because I think some of the actions. that I had taken some of the decisions. that I made began to sabotage me and it. may have been personal sabotage because. I just wanted some idea of normaly I. wanted to be able to get back to normal. I wanted to be able to have like a. little bit I didn't I didn't look at it. the same like yo I got to go like we we. just we we're now you know we're getting.

ready to take off now I want to go to. the moon get to the moon I want to go to. the sun you know what I'm saying N I. think that in some way I started to. figure like I need to move things around. and maybe move things and and some steps. didn't help me some things that I did. were not right some decisions I made you. know hey but I live with them all too by. the way and and I'm okay with that um. that's the only way that I was able to. get through it I actually enjoy being in.

a position where I'm a bit of an. underdog and I got to fight my way back. up to the top I love for you to say oh. it's over I love for you to say oh no he. ain't GNA do it again oh no it can't. happen no that right there is motivation. cuz that means I got someplace to go I. got some place to grow I mean you were. the first artist in the 2010 to collect. three number one singles and three. consecutive decades the 90s nice and. slow you make me wna y you make me want. to lead a one my way and then 2000 You. Remind Me You Got It Bad you don't have. to call me yeah burn Confessions Part.

two and then 2010 o OMG There Goes My. Baby climax hits I mean we got hits yes. got some hits bro I mean you were landed. more precious than Mayweather yeah yeah. yeah do you have you when will you sit. when would you go back and sit back I. mean or do you take the time like this. is it that's what's happening right now. I'm actually sitting back and enjoying. all of the labor of that this that's the.

moment I'm in right now I'm in that I'm. in that moment of really enjoying the. hard work now I don't get a lot of sleep. but I think that that's just the reality. of who I am as a person CU I love to. work and I love to I love to create but. I'm I'm enjoying it finally I'm able to. you know CU I've always been of service. to people rather I'm offering something. and whether they like it or not is. really up to them not up to me right um. but I I like that that that actually. makes me feel good but now I get a. chance to actually enjoy what I am.

creating enjoy what I have created. what's your favorite. decade I mean 90s 2000 somewhere in the. 70s like being motivated by that and. bringing that forward cuz so many. incredible artists were born in that. time or created in that moment um living. in the '90s I say it was a grand moment. for all of us because it was a mixture. between R&B and hip-hop and and a way. that felt you know it felt Sensational.

by the way even in the South cuz the. South um it didn't have as much of a. definition but through the '90s and then. on to the 2000s you then begin to. understand you know organized noise. Jermaine Dupri Little John incredible. producers out of the out of the out of. the South you know begin to to really. really have a moment um but I I really. do think that it's something in the 70s. bro like the artist that came out of the. 70s if you could if you could have let's.

I'm going give you three if you can. perform with three collab with three. artists from the 70s who would it be. um if I could have collabed with them in. the 70s in oh it would have been Quincy. Jones okay you know it would have. been. um uh Out of Philly. um huh gambling Huff um let me see who.

else. 70s I think I said the to that that that. actually is so I thought you I thought. you was talking about artists that you. would have liked to perform with oh. perform with yeah an artist you want to. collab with a artist to collab with. um man it would have been great to do. something with. like Diana Ross would have been great to. do something with you know dunny hat the. way uh would have been great to do. something with um Michael Jackson yeah.

give me a m Rushmore of R&B singers M. Rushmore you only get four ushers so I. mean I've had people on here they try to. get five Stevie. Wonder uh let me. see Johny haway Whitney. Houston. oh I said Sten Wonder right you said I. put him on. twice. Michael. Jackson Marvin Gay that's didn't I just.

tell you had four I'm sorry I'm say I'm. so okay so I can't take Michael off of. Marvin oh come on now you look at. Michael as R&B do I you don't I mean I. thought he was the King of Pop but man. he created a format that like R&B was. like I mean you know this is here's. interesting thing right Kings right yes. I think all of those guys are Kings. right. I think that we get so caught up on. being the number one king person right.

to have that title to be the king. because you only got one king you got a. king and a queen you got a lot of. princes you can be a lot of princes but. you can only have one king Usher you can. only have one king one Queen but you can. only have one Usher. baby and Usher you know what I'm saying. he get the ceremony right he come out. white glove service baby you know what. I'm saying we going to Del no no hold on. but greater than being a king or either. saying I want to have that one spot what. I see is needed is a kingdom okay right. so when I look at all of the genres of.

music I see EDM and I look at festivals. and I look at the the lifestyle the. equipment I look at you know what I'm. saying country music I think boots I. think Cowboys you know what I'm saying I. think chaps I think cowboy hats and and. rodeos and all kind of stuff like that I. think pickups you know what I'm saying. there's a culture there right there's a. kingdom to this idea there's a. monetization of that thing R&B or either. the genre that I came from I don't think. it possesses the same weight in terms of.

the other ancillary businesses that are. there and that's what I'm focused on we. going to be all Kings matter of fact you. know what I'm saying there's tons of. people who put in the work I ain't the. only person that's been put in them. thousand hours and I don't and I don't. know or profess to be the only King am I. the king of what I feel yeah I am every. day I wake up feeling like a king you. know what I'm saying and I work hard to. be that King but I want a kingdom I want. us to be able to have the same potency. and him hop right when I think of Hip. Hop I think of what you're drinking I. think about the glasses you wearing I.

think about the shoes you got on I think. about you know the records I think about. that culture I think about the clothes. you're wearing right I want the same. thing I want that Kingdom for R&B in. that same way who was presented the. collab with Usher and he turned it down. he's like damn I shouldn't have did that. collaboration yeah um is there a collab. that someone asked you to be a part of. and you didn't and when it came out. you're like damn yeah you gonna hate me. for this one.

oh. Jay-Z for. real Diddy damn us and me was supposed. to be a. group yeah that's crazy yeah you gonna. hate me for that I know yeah why you why. did you say no I didn't say no you. didn't say yeah I didn't say yeah you. said yeah on the record but you didn't. say yeah to. that that's the one I think that we just. got caught up I think we all got caught. up in a moment we was talking about it.

having secret meetings about it we were. talking about music and how we going to. flip it and The Business of it and. somehow man we just got distracted you. know what I'm saying and it never. happened you know that's the one that I. actually wish would have happened right. um is there a movie or something that I. was supposed to be a part of a. collaboration yeah uh David geffin uh. reached out to me to be uh in Dream. Girls and um it yeah man it just didn't.

happen and I had I think everybody hit. me about this joint too I had Eddie. Murphy hit me man Brandy hit me just. there's never just there's always a. reason you don't get in your car and. just sit there you go to the grocery. store or you drive to the you drive to. to a concert I know you turn that down. yeah uh I Didn't Do It Shanta did you. know about. this know. yeah drink to. that I read that you were Beyonce's.

Nanny were you Beyonce's Nanny first of. all how could I be a nanny i' be a Manny. but you know what I mean no no I would I. wouldn't be un Nanny n um Daryl Simmons. uh he had a group by the name of the. Dolls okay and they came to Atlanta for. the first time this is when this before. Destiny's Child became Destiny Child and. um I think I looked over them while they. was doing something in the house I had. to watch over cuz I was like the you. know the authority cuz I guess I was the. the teenager at the time but no I wasn't. a nanny you know what I'm saying no but.

you were just overseeing like making. sure they ain't break making certain. that they didn't you know that they. didn't get in no trouble in the house at. the time did you see did you know that. little girl was going to grow up to be. that big International. Superstar can you look at because you. did discover Justin Bieber so you did. see something so clearly you got an eyer. Talent yeah well and not just by myself. there was a host of people you know they. say success has a million fathers and an. orphan you know you know you got it so.

um I think when I saw them I knew there. was something very special about all of. them because as Destiny's Child they all. Thrive even still to this day when you. see them and you see them together they. all Thrive they all are an incredible. unit Beyonce uh had a talent and also to. a Brilliance and a brightness that was. much different and it was actually uh. Frank Gaton Gaton who who helped me see. it he he worked with me at the time he.

was my choreographer and then he started. working with them okay and he'd always. told me man like she's really special. you need to keep your eye on her I was. like man she is she is really special um. and really great for my sister man to. see that she's done so amazing and. continue to to thrive and and just get. bigger and better and just you know just. I mean whether it's musically or in our. life or creativity all of it man. how is it working being on the stage. with Michael Jackson because he's I mean.

if you're in this business it's. nerve-wracking bro I'm I'm going tell. you um you know so I'm in my seat and um. his manager comes over to me and he says. yo you're going to dance with Michael. tonight I'm like I'm watching the show. what the heck do you mean I'm getting. ready to dance with Michael so he's like. no come backstage I'm like first of all. I ain't got my Air Force Ones and I'm in. Boots I can't dance in Boots so I'm like. oh my God so now I'm going crazy I'm. backstage running around you asking I. was asking like the people in the street.

yo I literally left bro and I ran. outside down the street asking somebody. for some shoes give me some Air Force. Ones he it was like wab bees and like. some new balances I was like n that. ain't going to get it I need air force. ones so I come back in I ain't got my. air force ones I have some like some. boots so anyway I went out there so. y'all see me like I'm I look a I'm stuck. a little bit that's real what happened. uh but no I it was nerve-wracking to. actually dance for and with Michael I.

can remember uh rehearsals and I mean I. don't normally go all out in rehearsals. dude I was going all out singing at the. top of my lungs dancing harder than I've. ever danced sweating flying all over the. room he was like man you really have a. talent that was one of the greatest. compliments that I could ever get wow he. says to me you not only sing but you. dance to I know how hard that is you.

sing and you dance that combination is. vicious that is that the greatest. compliment you received he didn't say. vicious but he said you dance and sing. I'm I'm putting two on a 10 right he. said that that that's a really special. talent and um it really felt good to get. that compliment from him well you know. ATL we running the music game right now. absolutely we on top of the world. yo how do that because you a part of. that yes I mean you can't you can't tell. the story of Atlanta music without.

mention Usher Raymond no. man how did that make you feel man we. did something man the ace man listen the. South got something to say is what Dre. said and we've been saying it for a long. time you know and and and the potency of. that you know I think that I think it's. great I think more than anything again. there's this transition and this Focus. just for me and and I think it should be. a focus for more artists you know what. I'm saying to really focus on the other. things that these genres or southern.

music and entertainment breeds there's. an there's an entire movement and. feeling when you come to Atlanta right. right the world needs to know that. that's why I brought Atlanta to Las. Vegas wow you need to understand it no. different like you look at Cirus solay. and all of those shows right they. celebrate their culture whether it's in. Spain or wherever it is our culture is. the same it might not be marketed the. same it might not feel oh because it's.

culture but all cultural things. eventually become something that's. commercial and I wanted the world to be. able to see and celebrate who we are how. we get out what our music feels like. what our energy is what our experience. is you know two-part question y it's R&B. dead and will R&B ever be what it once. was at the height I'm talking about at. the height 90s early 2000 it. was will it ever be that again so long.

as. we um quantify the success of it uh as a. number one spot that has to be garnered. in order to consider R&B the biggest. thing I don't know that's in question. for the world uh musically I think that. R&B is in everything see I ain't no fool. I understand weird all comes from I. understand the source maybe y'all don't. understand the source maybe you don't. understand that it's gospel Blues R&B.

and everything flowed upward from there. so no it's going to forever be a source. uh will it be and have potency for the. entire world to celebrate I believe so. and I'm going to continue to fight for. it I'm going to continue to be that. conduit for it uh as I said man it's a. king that Kingdom that I'm after I want. the world to understand the value what. this music is not just the service of it. yeah you put it on to make love yeah you. put it on to celebrate good times yeah.

you put it on to emote and have emotions. but it also too serves so many other. things that we got to celebrate as well. you know how do you balance being a. father and being this you have the have. the The Residency here in Vegas uh I. don't know if you're going to go back to. tour again because you got it pretty. good right here you don't have to leave. you don't have to leave you hey One Stop. Shop yeah yeah you get once you get done. you go up to your room well you got to. place is not here in in in in Henderson. you see and so now you don't have to. worry about getting on plane getting on.

Planes Trains Automobiles and going one. state to the next state to the next city. how is how do you how do you balance. that because you said because your. father wasn't around when you were. younger that's very important to you. that you around for your kids now but. you also understand that the way Dy make. a living is by doing this so how do you. balance that well the balance is you. know up is. 7:00 funny uh you know I'm I'm I'm. focused on my kids right and then at.

7:00 on a DOT you know I'm. working it's funny how that works right. but um you know man it's a balance man. it's a balance in any field that we are. right especially if you got to travel. with a team I like to travel actually so. I don't think that I'm done touring. right um I do see it in the future. um but maybe in a different way I just. played Paris you know what I'm saying. and I had an 8 day residency or eight.

night residency uh in Paris that was a a. major success uh to be able to you know. find Space to sit down and really enjoy. you know cuz that's the most important. part yes like the greatest the greatest. thing that we have is time it's not. money it's the time that you spend right. and being able to spend that time with. my children spend that time and really. enjoy the places that I go um. I don't want to lose that right you're. part owner of the Cavaliers and LeBron.

comes back and wins a title yeah what. was that moment cuz you were there what. was that moment like in Cleveland and. what was that moment like for you well. it all started right um because I I. don't know if I had as much to do with. Cleveland as much as it was a a business. opportunity for minority minority. ownership in this team and Dan Gilbert. gave me that. opportunity uh you know just as LeBron. was making his way in to the league so. we all you know had heard and and known. about him and his talent so I felt like.

the luckiest man in the world to be a. part of this incredible organization and. what a story to be told and a legacy to. be built um I was just happy uh. obviously to have that be one of the. first major uh entrepreneurial you know. kind of things that I G that I had gone. after and it had the potential to be. successful man when he left I think it. was hard for everybody in the world. specifically speically in Cleveland. right um because he's a Native Son yeah. yeah yeah but sometimes man sometimes.

you got to leave sometimes you have to. go away from home in order to be truly. valued and appreciated and maybe find. yourself I mean sometimes in the. wilderness you'll find something. valuable and you come back and you can. really enjoy it and what I've seen after. that moment after he left and came back. and then one in Cleveland obviously it's. just been a joyous moment for him since. right so you look at that the. opportunity because you you said this. was in 2005 you become a minority owner. and you've done really good you you. you've invested you broadened your.

portfolio if there are there other. opportunities are you looking like an. NFL team an MLB team or you just kind of. like stick to kind of what you know um. no I mean always open you know what I'm. saying I'm I'm I'm open to continue to. expand I want to make certain that it's. authentic right uh and also to it makes. sense uh I want to grow I want to work. in different areas I want to you know. engineer and Pioneer new things. um there's no reason for music to be the. only thing that you recognize me for.

business is something that is very. important to me here in Las Vegas. specifically I've put my flag in the. ground here you know it started with a. Vegas residency has now grown to a very. successful Festival by the name of. lovers and friends and just received the. key to the city now I'm trying to see. how many doors I can unlock right you. know what I'm saying are you gonna get. in the restaurant business hey man I. mean that's tons of opportunity out here. if there's Partners I'll let you. boy I'm gonna get you out of here on.

this one I am bringing my daughter to. tonight's show so if you would like you. know a song that's appropriate for. someone her age she is in her 30s I'm. not she don't want me to tell you. exactly how old she is but she's not. married she's not married okay. cool I'm custom you know I'm customizing. this moment go ahead yeah. Usher I appreciate your time man. congratulations on everything you done. continue success bro and uh I know.

you're going to knock it out the park. with hey bro I appreciate you too dog. thank you man keep it real Usher yes sir. God bless you dog all right guys as you. can see your boy dress to impress I'm in. Las Vegas and I'm getting ready to take. my daughter for a birthday to the Usher. concert she's super excited because the. very first concert she ever attended was. Usher so for her birthday she's like. Daddy I want to go see user so here we. are let's go thing we do for our kids.

bro wonder what my my son going want for. his birthday knowing him he going to. take the money my other daughter knowing. her she going to take the money leave. the one I'm. with I can't you got it you got it I got. it. bad hey baby I'm nervous you know you a. got to be nervous CU I'm sh you whatever. Kayla C the one that kicked it off don't.

put that on there she a play she a play. she tell me that all the time user. actually was your very first concert. that you ever saw I was 12 and this was. during the confessions era and Kane West. opened up for him tearing up this is so. exciting so we making a weekend of it we. making so we got usher tonight we got a. Dale tomorrow and then Thursday we got. Lakers game they open up against the. Sons so w yeah woo is on the SE yeah. yeah Kayla on the seing a dadd tonal.

money yeah well thank you I'm excited. I'm excited to baby yeah thank. you thank. you all my life grinding all my life. sacrifice hustle P the price want a. slice got the roll a dice that's why all. my life I've been grinding all my life. all my life been grinding all my life. yeah sacrifice hustle P the price want a. slice got the roll a dice that's why all.

my life I've been grinding all my. [Music]. life.