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Jun 18, 2025
Grammy-nominated R&B legend Eric Benét joins Sway In The Morning to introduce JBR Creative Group and share his vision for the future of real music! Dive into an exclusive interview as Eric unveils the story behind JBR—"Just Be Real"—a groundbreaking platform dedicated to empowering authentic artists. Featured guests Autumn Paige and Joe Leone grace the stage, sharing their inspiring journeys, raw talent, and passion for music that truly stands out. From Eric's reflections on the music industry to Autumn's bold debut single "Baggage" and Joe's electrifying track "Discipline," this episode is packed with moments that celebrate artistry, resilience, and soul. Plus, hear about Eric’s star-studded Co-Star album featuring phenomenal collaborations with iconic artists. Hit subscribe for more exclusive interviews, live performances, and in-depth conversations only on Sway's Universe! Don’t miss this celebration of creativity, authenticity, and the next chapter in music history. #EricBenét #JBR #RealMusic #AutumnPaige #JoeLeone #SwayInTheMorning #SwaysUniverse #CoStarAlbum #jbr #live #soulfulconversations #autumnpaige #jbrcreativegroup CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Eric Benét Returns to Sway in the Morning 01:57 - Eric Benét Introduces JBR Creative Group 05:01 - Eric Benét Introduces Joloni 06:33 - Eric Benét Introduces Autumn Paige 18:49 - Autumn Paige - Baggage Song 25:19 - Autumn Paige - Discipline Track 28:10 - Joe Leone Performs “Discipline” 31:21 - Joe Leone Performs “Discipline” A Cappella 39:58 - Final Thoughts and Reflections Subscribe Here! http://bit.ly/SubscribeSU
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come on that's all they wanted torch tell them what that was right there torch real quick they Everybody in the room is looking at me like "What is
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this?" That was Renee live in studio in 2012
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bro with us you You came on this show in 2012 that was 2012 i wanted to dig in
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the crate for you hey we've been doing this a long time hey it goes way further
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back than 2012 it goes way further back but I just want you to see how long we've been rocking homie so when I see
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you and you go "Man thanks sway man." Hey man you Yeah you said you was going to do it i know it and I always tell you
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I [ __ ] with you bro well you know it's the thing about it's real folks like you that make people cuz you know we kind of
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get used to people bullshitting and it's like "Oh yeah Sway is for real." It's like "No I'm going to have
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you on the show." Whoop whoop you be like "Okay okay okay." Hey but you you you know man Yeah man yeah you're family
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man appreciate it but but I I'll say this though is I think people like you
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uh for this music business um is needed we we we tend to put the business in
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front of the music that's understandable because we've been raped and pillaged of
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our IP for so many years it's important that we know the business but some people forget about the music yes right
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and there will be no business if it's not for the music so folks who write
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songs folks who produce songs uh folks who play instruments folks who entertain
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on stage um who have a great stage presence people like you are necessary
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you know right now they'll they'll replace you with a AI persona just like that just like that and and uh uh that
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and that'll be void of the soul that is necessary to fuel this thing we call the music business so I'm always going to
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stand next to you eric Bernay is in here ladies and gentlemen give it up for Eric Bernet come on he got the new album the
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dwell the duet album the co-star come on uh we Alex Eley from the Bay Area she's
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on it shante Moore karen Bailey come on karen Bailey Ray Indie I is on there
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come on man adam Page come on jol Leon is on there come on they're all on there mike Muse all of them all of them
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they're all on there all of them whoa how did we pull that off i don't know man how did we pull that [ __ ] off what a
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great project man what a great project and that was Ari Linux on it and he didn't come along you know I've been a
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man of my word to that young man that you brought with you absolutely sway is a real one a realist met that dude in
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the airport and we told his story twice at the airport and I said "Man I want to
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have you on the show." And he was like "Ah [ __ ] here we go another promise."
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Yeah another empty promise and I was like "He's going to learn." No I believed you
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i believed you because I met you with Brian if I met you alone I wouldn't have believed you yeah well Brian Samson is
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here i met you with the OG hope to carry a little more pull no well you know what I do is I say these things
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and I I do my research and I I went back and listened to a couple of your projects and um made sure that I was I
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watched your evolution who you are as a singer as a songwriter and um I enjoyed
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it and I feel like man we have a large audience on this show wow larger than we ever anticipated you know and it reaches
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different spaces i had a 12y old call me today to tell me he had a new job i get
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17 got a job at 12 wow the young man got
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named Nvante he got a job working and he's a straight A student i love that so his mother listens to the show he grew
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up listening to the show and they came to New York and we invited them to the show they came to the New York studios
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and I became an uncle to him so I love that he calls me about his report card and he called the show to let us know
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he's working at a barber shop every four days a week making $20 a day that's
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incredible he's making more than me yeah yo you a make nothing streaming on streaming you just you just here now bro
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you just I mean time you move it cost you money so Joe welcome back to the show man jo is here thank you for having
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me back now this next young lady I saw at the event at the garage series but I had saw her already on on the radar and
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I saw her spitting some u some Rotation was a song she was yes Rotation she was
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spitting bar from her song Rotation mike Muse she had this t-shirt on yeah right
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and I'm like I'm trying to read the t-shirt e I was like she got bars because the thing is she had you got
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presence and you got confidence in in how you present yourself and I will admit it was new to me and I was
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listening to some of the things you were rapping about and I was like yo she's like a a male version of us you know the
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things you were singing about and I thought it was an interesting perspective hearing from you but I want to welcome you to the show for the first
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time give it up for the one and only Autumn Pay what's up Autumn Autumn
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so we got Tracy is in New York what up Tracy in New York what's up Mike is here
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with us you know Tracy well you saw Joe perform the other day on Thursday man did I know you know
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everybody wasn't familiar but what was your first impression charisma that was
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my first first impression yeah that was the word that just kept I don't know
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standing out to me and I spoke with Joe afterwards and I told him how I loved how he took full reigns of his story you
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know sometimes when it comes to a showcasing you're going to be very nervous and that makes sense right and
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in some cases as you should be because you're just getting started and a core memory is starting to um to to to settle
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into place however you understood either intentionally or subconsciously that
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your personality the makings of Jolony as a human is just
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as important as your artistry they go hand in hand they inform each other and so at the garage series of citizens for
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those who were not there not only did we get to experience like this very kind of
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sultry like oh turn the lights down low type of vibe that Joe had but we also
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got to learn a lot about his character and I felt that that really drew us in
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to the point where we would immediately become invested in your journey so yeah and all of that started with the
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charisma absolutely wow thank you wow that's beautiful can I Can I say something to that that was
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beautiful because at JBR of course the mission is to sign
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talented artists talented artists who deserve a platform and who who who
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deserve autonomy of of their creative statement and all that but what you just said Tracy is like paramount above all
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of that because you could be a dope artist you can have bars you can have a dope voice you can play instruments but if you're a garbage human being it's
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it's just like um you're
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you become another uh u cancer in the industry
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you know you know you become another tumor and it's like and and I am so
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proud that you just said what you said sitting next to Autumn sitting next to Joe the the the the first JBR artist
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these are these people these people are not only as you said Tracy just so talented so much charisma but just good
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good humans who who are are are focused
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and resilient and and and in their heart just good so I mean that's that's really
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what JBR is about i love it man come on man jbr JBR so this is the introduction
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of Eric Benet and and this platform JBR JBR creative group what is this what is
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it for the world to know in the same way that Barry Gordy introduced Mottown to
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the world right all right man come on speak in the same way that Russell
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Simmons introduced Death Jam to the world come on in the same way that LA
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Reed and Baby Face introduced Leface Records to the world we have JBR we got
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JBR for real and what does that stand for jbr stands for just be real no but
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uh J Have you ever said that before
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i think I think Did I get that from Maxillion or Max you gave him that yeah that's dope so uh JBR um well it does
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stand for just be real but it's really for Jordan Ball and the last R is uh I
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don't know if he's our he's our silent partner who probably would prefer to not be named um who basically is doing this
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we call him Mr r rich mr r so Jordan Jordan is my full name a lot of people
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don't know Eric Benet benet is my middle name actually so Eric Benet Jordan and uh B the ball is for that lady over
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there Allison Ball allison Ball who gave me my first and second record deal she
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signed me to Warner Brothers so um and then R is Mr uh Mr mr revenue
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mr revenue we'll call him Mr revenue i love it and then and then Allison Ball is is a pillar you know you come on you
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you have been responsible for the success of a lot of artists so many so many producers artist writers the whole
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n I know this because I was there you know so when I see I saw Allison the other day it was like I felt like I was
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in a [ __ ] time warp because you and then you see Eric together you two
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together and I'm like "Yeah this works." So today then we will open up the phone lines 8887423345
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is an introduction uh to JBR Creative Group and and their outstanding artist
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let's start with Autumn Paige welcome to the show Autumn Paige thank you again
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absolutely now what are you from Cleveland you from New York you live what what is what's
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your story Autumn i'm kind of from all over the place um I was born in New York
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um I moved when I was seven to Cleveland after the economy dropped um that's where my family is originally from so
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most of my cousins my aunts my uncles they all live out there i spent most of my life growing up there growing up in a
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church is really where I started in music i also love musical theater so I
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was a little shy on the acting side but I could sing so I would do a lot of stage managing so giving all the cues
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behind the scenes and then I'd hop on stage do a solo hop back off stage also was a part of the costumeuming and stuff
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too um and then my senior year of high school I moved across the country to Texas by choice or were you following
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something my father got a job at the University of Houston Victoria campus
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okay um so he moved to a very small town called Victoria in Texas and and and then you felt smothered and sheltered
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there you felt you know how that is you go to the small town it's like I'm
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further and further away from my dream yes and and honestly I wasn't even
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thinking about music at the time um I was actually um in college for fashion
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merchandising okay um and I ended up being in my my dorm room with some
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friends and we were doing karaoke and they were like looked at me and they were like wait Autumn you can sing and I was like wait I can and I got excited
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about it and I was like wait I'm going to go write a song and I was like okay and co hit and we all had to leave
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school and so at this point now I'm sitting at my parents house and I don't really have the freedom that I had before living in the dorms and you know
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being on my own and so um I got hit by a car in high school and I ended up getting a check for that wait stop you
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just threw that out there you really did run over by a truck and then find a car
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or something give us something wait how do you like how do you get hit by a car
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at a young adult age that's that resilience I was talking about oh my god so I was at I was at my high school um
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and I was like walking to the cars um and I was like you know how a parking
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lot is set up like you have the rows of cars you got the little in between where you kind of go around so I was in that
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in between part and then there are the cars i was probably literally this far away from the cars and all of a sudden
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in the corner of my eye I see this car coming around the corner and like they're going fast and in my head I'm like they'll stop i'm like they're going
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to stop so I turn and I go like this and I'm like "Hello I'm right here." Boom hit me straight on i roll over top the
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car wait was in the George video whoever Whoever pressed that car horn noise is a
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mess it was a pretty traumatic experience i'm not going to lie my knee was literally on the other side of my leg they had to
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pop it back in place but anyways anyways point is during this time when when CO
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hit I got a little bit of a bag and I was able to say "Okay I'm going to move to Houston and I'm going to try to
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pursue music." Oh from the bag from the bag so that had nothing to do with the song Baggage i mean it could i mean we
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all got trauma that we got to get rid of you know i'm here all day y'all i'm here all day so you was able to take that
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money invest into yourself yes moved to Houston and pursued a singing i tried
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okay i tried uh Houston I had a hard time figuring out how to even get into a
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studio so the studio that I was at was Rap Aot which they don't really do R&B
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yeah that's true so like I'd be hanging out Dev and the Dude you know Deb and the Dude they rap a lot they do right so
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yeah so I I'd be hanging out at Rap Lot and and just trying to figure out you know I'd still link up with producers
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find beats on YouTube but I ended up working in the bottle service industry okay and I got a little sidetracked
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because I was making so much money and I'd be working these late hours from like 7:00 p.m to like 5:00 a.m what
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would be a good night a good day in bottle service um I think the most I ever made was probably like,500
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gosh damn not even strippers i wish I was a hot girl we made more than the strippers i know right the strippers
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would actually be mad like they would have bad nights and they'd be looking at us like "Dang I ain't making no." And I'd be like "Girl I'm making money i
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don't know about you." Wow wow i mean I worked it was COVID it was Houston we
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were wide open so football teams would come basketball teams would come so you would have some pretty big people in
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these you know they they'd be And I worked at Onyx which is a strip club oh yeah we know what Onyx is so as a patron
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clarification I have no idea so I mean what's that i think it's a stone wall to
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wall you know everybody's flying in from everywhere so it was a time where I I kind of got lost and so what really
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started my journey on music was the governor passed a law that you couldn't be under 21 working at a strip club and
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so I lost my job the same day fascists wow
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yeah so so lost my job fire from Onyx i was sitting at home and I was just like
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"What am I going to do?" My lease was up i just got approved for an apartment that was more than the apartment I was paying for just totaled my BMW and I was
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trying to figure out what am I going to do so I put on gospel music because I come from a church and it always calms
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me down it always helps me get my thoughts in order and it ended I just it just was playing and all of a sudden this sermon from Tyler Perry comes on
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and he's like "Tyler Perry gives sermons." Yeah perry sermon yeah i
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didn't know he gave sermons i mean I've seen the movies myself i've seen the movies i never heard a a sermon i never
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heard the scripture but you you heard a sermon in the movie yeah and he wrote it yeah i know i guess yeah that makes
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sense kind of how that works huh yeah so his sermon came on and he was just like "What's your purpose?" And I was like
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"Dang I came here to make music and I've been out here half naked in these
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clubs." Yeah like that's not what I came here for like yeah the money's good and all but I can't like keep doing this so
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I made a call to a friend and and he lived in LA i said "I got no money i got
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like $70 in my pocket i could book a ticket to LA can I come stay on your couch come find a job and figure it out
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so I can do music?" And he's like "Yeah come i got you." So I move all my stuff to my parents house and um I take a
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flight to LA and yeah I came out here with nothing i started doing music
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videos i I was in my first music video I think was DDG uhhuh um shout out to DDG
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yes we got some stuff going on but besides that you know he was really nice though he was on the show some some
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stuff is an interesting way to I actually had some heels on and and they had like these um uh are they RTVs
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r What are the little four-wheelers yeah and and he literally put me on his back and carried me down to them cuz I
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couldn't like walk in the you know the hills and stuff he was very nice though but yeah so that's kind of where it all
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started for me was was getting in music videos getting around other artists and trying to figure out what was going on
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and um I actually started going to all of my favorite artists Instagrams yeah and look at who they're following who
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they're working with what producers they're working with who have them tagged in pictures i'd follow them i'd like every single one of their pictures
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and then I'd send them a DM and I'd just be trying to work with everybody that I could work with and and that's kind of really where it all started for me what
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a [ __ ] story for your ass right there boy you know what I love about
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that that's You're right that's just the first chapter but what I love about that story is it's like everybody who is in a
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position you me Allison we all have our version of that story and I love hearing
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that story it's like yeah man yeah cuz I did my whole in Milwaukee single dad hopped in my Datson
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my my 1979 Datson drove across the country stayed at one of Allison Allison
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was balling back then yeah Alison Ball was balling she had like she had she had uh just like a
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condo in Westwood she wasn't using with her Warner Brothers executive ass and I
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was like Allison can I just crash and so we all we all got those stories it's like she Allison had my back forever
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let's Let's talk about these stories i want you to get to know Eric Benet even more okay i want you to get to know my
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man Joe Leone right here even more and I want you to get to know Autumn Paige even more i want to play the song
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Baggage is that okay do it all right this is Autumn Page 888 Citizens 7423345
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autumn Page right there man give her a big round of applause she just said something really interesting what what
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did you say um I was saying that shout out Apple Music because they um put baggage on the Brown Sugar Radio um
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station and I was listening to it just you know to hear who my song is is in
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with and like every song that came on like sounded the same and then Baggage came on and I was like okay I feel
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really good about this because it's doesn't sound like anything else that I've heard they call that a radio break
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it's a radio break that's what they call that and and I was pretty proud of it yeah you should be you know I saw you on
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um you're very versatile baggage is um to me I I I took that as finding real
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love and um somebody to help erase the anxieties in your life right yes that's
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how it came about i I was in the studio with my producer and I met this guy is that Emil emil yes emil what up Emil
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shout out Emil shout out Emil um and he's really who who who believes in me
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first and foremost and really at first he wasn't messing with me he was like I was in his DMs like let's work let's
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work and he was like "Girl I'm too busy for you." He really is too busy in general for now he he is the other
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Allison and I he is like the biggest like autumn supporter
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emil Gantos because because Autumn Autumn is that type of person that type of artist where she is just so driven
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and she like creatively she has it all in her head and she's like "Oh I'm going to get with this this stylist and this
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and this and like she her her father was like that was his thing he was like this
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brilliant stylist Hollywood stylist right and so she definitely got that gene i love it man and when I saw you at
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the garage series the other day I took note that okay she's ready i don't know
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what she was ready for but she was ready what's interesting like she's ready yep so I'm just meeting you um and so when
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you first meet you the outward presence is a statement unto itself right you're very colorful right the green hair the
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red leather jacket the cropped shirt and then the story matches what you look on
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the outside and so I kept listening to because I've seen it before i've seen the smoke and mirrors right and so I
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kept listening to see if the music was going to match the story and if it was going to match the look and your music
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actually does match both that's dope and what I enjoy about this song is that
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it's refreshing um and so I'm frustrated right now within the music business that it all sounds very similar in one
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monotone talk about it and no one opens up their mouth when they actually sing their vocal performance and what I love
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about that song is I feel like that could be played on multiple formats of radio and I think that as we look to
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expand R&B as we look to expand um vocal performances I think that that's needed
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the versatility um and a feeling right and I'm known for not knowing words uh
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but for me it's about a vibe and and a melody you and Alison Both you are known
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for not knowing words you just said all that so eloquently bro words of songs lyrics of songs oh I got
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likes to dance there's a song but and you match that so congratulations now I'm looking forward to hearing your
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other stuff now she got a song called Rotation that's kind of opposite of baggage yeah so there's a story there
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there's a story so so where baggage comes into play it's about me meeting
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this guy and this guy is like I'm ready to be in a relationship and and I am not
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in a place where I am probably ready to be in a relationship so it's about getting rid of that baggage of like
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people but also habits and you know things that you do that you can't do
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when you're in a relationship as well as trauma from past relationships or talking stages or situationships and so
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it's about when you get rid of all that and you're with this person and then they mess it up ah and now I'm back to
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my old ways and I'm I'm a little toxic the rotation talks about you know listen
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we can have a I'm paraphrasing she got Ronnie Bobby Ricky I got Ronnie don't
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Don't get Thank you don't get caught up on this love I'm giving you you know because that's all it is is sex i got
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Ronnie I got Bobby I got Ricky and I got Mike right and they're all waiting for
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me and I'm not And I'm unapologetic for it yeah i mean return of the max
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sometimes it you take it there it It is what it is yeah yeah they say women can't you know they say not me they say
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women can't be sexual without having a emotional attachment oh a residual
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emotional attachment i disagree i have definitely been in in situations where I personally like older men like that's
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what I like hello and so
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there were some men that I was messing with a few years ago that are like to me
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I'm 24 so these men are like 3840 oh [ __ ] um geriatric wow
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and you know so for me like I I would meet with them and like they gave father
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they gave dad and that's not what I would want in a relationship so to me I had fun in you know the bedroom you know
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and and that's what it was i didn't see myself taking it out of that and I think that there's a double standard there too
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because I was having a conversation with somebody and it's funny because it's like I even had some some blogs post
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about rotation and and a lot of the comments were like "No you can't do that the only way that you could do that is if you're a hoe." And it's like "So men
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can do it but if a woman does it it's it's not right." Like hoe is such a
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relative term also men are hoes that part too so what's the
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difference well let's listen i'm glad I'm glad Joe um you know intervened into this conversation and thank you Adam for
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breaking that down the way you see the world and then Joe you following up with men are hoes they can be yeah and when I
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listen to your song discipline discipline when I talk about Dexter you
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kind of lose control in that song you talk about going four rounds in one night what does that mean exactly i
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remember those days that's It's pretty on the nose what What were you confused about i
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don't know man we play dominoes i don't box yeah i'm not a I'm not a fighter it's definitely a love song bro is that
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hyperbole or that's just you know that's Are you asking me how many rounds in a
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row I can really go i'm asking you what is the lyric what's behind the lyrics that you wrote well here here's the
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discipline i wrote that song with my dude Felly felly the voice out of Atlanta she is one of the most
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incredible songwriters alive we're going to remember that name for a long time i promise you okay um and how how our
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writing sessions kind of go is cuz I I can do the the full scope in the studio right but giving up control of certain
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aspects and collaborating has been the most inspiring thing for me because I've been with this brain my whole life i
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know the lyrics I can write and I know the the melodies and the choruses and the chords I could come up with but
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pulling and creating that with somebody else has been my favorite part of this JBR journey that's when you grow yeah
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and it's also when you get your best work i mean and then he at the end of the day even if Phy and I wrote the same
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song it wouldn't do the same thing for me to not have his name attached and to
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not have his relationship so how how he and I's songwriting sessions kind of go is because he he's kind of like a
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freestyler so I'll come in and I give him I give him meaty breadcrumbs like I give him something really cool to work
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with um and discipline um I mean I could say it on here because it's not uh real
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radio but I saying I'm saying discipline the whole song for sure is that what you're saying discipline yeah discipline
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is it as in like like bad discipline yeah yeah yeah um by the way this is way
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better than what you may see as real radio but I I prefer this i prefer this
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wait for that comeback i was like "Okay let I prefer this i prefer this because real when I when I say real radio I mean
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um like with rules rules and regulations where I got to be uncensored super Christian it's 75° outside and you know
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that that Here you are with DJ the [ __ ] is going on eric I love Eric i'm like
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I'm like a Tourette's Robin Williams or something sometimes." But uh but but yeah so that one came
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from a conversation with Fel where I was like "Yeah man i'm just you know I'm hooking up with somebody I'm not supposed to." And um we're trying to
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figure out if we need to cut this off or we can keep figuring it out and uh I was like "Yeah man i just got some bad
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discipline right now." And he was like "Did you say discipline?" Like dick discipline i was like "Yeah." And he
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goes "Please let let us write that song." And so the song was born he was trying to say four times in a week and I
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was like "Felly ain't nothing like impressive about that." Uhhuh wow
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four times a four times a week we got to go four in a night or nothing and he was like "All
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right sure you'll learn to pace that [ __ ] out right
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or quality over quantity homie you'll learn about that right
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god God willing I don't I I don't have to learn uh uh anything else than what I
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already know you know pray my health pray my health stays up youth youth is
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wasted on youth i want the youth man it's got you know when when you perform one of one of the things I think you
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take pleasure um in surprising an audience because absolutely the Garage series audience
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cuz well I I this was me i added I added Joe on the on the bill so it was like and credit to you you never even saw me
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perform you know you you called me broke uh in the opening with no problem because I was in coach and we had to
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walk past you but but I'll call you i got I'm going to get you back oh my god i'm going to get you back right now
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because I had both me and Ro James had you on a list for the beacon and you missed both of our sets so you know what
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it is what it is he got me back that's it rather but I was there and and to your
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credit you didn't even see me perform but were willing to have me come uh be on your platform which was uh you know
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the trust was amazing i I was so nervous with that level of um respect and trust from basically strangers you know for
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you to just off off the company I keep believe that I was going to show up and do you justice i appreciate that i love
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that yeah that that's what you said like you you surprise people and that's one of the things about Joe when you see him
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live it's just like okay the record sounds dope whatever anybody can sound dope on a record but then you see this
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guy not only vocally killing it live blowing everybody away but then he'll be be like "Let me pick up this guitar and
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play the next song on the guitar." He'll be on the keyboard playing the next so it's like he is the real damn deal yeah
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thank you and and it is it's and you what Tracy said you you definitely have
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the charisma but I will say sometimes you could you could see a lot
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about a person by the company they keep boom and when I saw Eric May 5th Cinco
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de Mayo when we was partying at some bar that's right that [ __ ] was off the chain you couldn't even walk in that bar
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you guys name Carney it's across the street from uh
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Taisho T uh Valley on Ventur Casita what's the name of that i can't the
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Casita Ray Ray's one of the owners yeah yeah the Boulevard they on Boulevard Cafe on Tao and then they got the the
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Yamashiro yeah yamashiro and this one that place you couldn't walk and he
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talked about you yeah i was like we got to get Joe on got to get Joe oh see I'm
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thinking about y'all all the time i never doubt that i never doubt that but but um I want to play one of Joe's songs
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that's what we got DB we got Jolie on discipline right now
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let's do it all right and we going to come back man this is discipline
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eric you want to talk on that you want to speak to that no he's I'm going to change the subject right now
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[Music] i love it man hey man that's Jolony give that man a round of applause too um
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thank you for what you did my auntie Katie Diane Cat these are people who came up in the black power movement you
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know that post civil rights black power movement afro um Isaac Hayes to come my music
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toutelage comes from the realness the realness comes from the music that they played i fell asleep to this music right
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and when you performed last week I invited them they had no idea what they were walking into right
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and when you performed last week I never they look like teeny boppers like it was happy days all over again that's the
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barometer if you can get if you can get them your people that go all the way back mhm that's the barometer that
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That's like when you walk into a Chinese restaurant it's like man I don't see no Chinese people in here i'mma leave yeah
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right it's like if you get like the old heads like the aunties who can look at somebody like Joe and be like that's the
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truth right there that's the old music yeah all they know is old has no music
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and that was my first time hearing um Joe's performance no I'm talking about just now oh um but I know it's a play on
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words but just taking the word discipline um you actually use vocal discipline
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knowing when to have restraint because it sounds like you have range and it sounds like you have you can run your
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butt off but it feels like you know when to use it and when not to use it and I think that's important
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are you asking him for a capella this record oh of course yes yes
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like I could I didn't even see that coming my bad i said what time it is
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straight in that song if Joe does it that don't mean I'm doing it cuz my voice in at what is it 8 no right now
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yeah i was about to say R&B before noon is is what I went to i do i feel like in
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the morning you got a deeper more brassier i could give you this one you'll never find yes exactly you'll
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never find like you keep on searching that's as much of
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that song as I know honestly you got them Mike let it go Mike that's it i do my job you got it um Um I'm come to you
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in a second Eric you You did what this shout out to the guys on on the radar man those are my guys over here they got
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an amazing platform and I I did see you do the rotation um to that you killed
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that and you was very just ready you just seem ready that's what comes to mind that's exactly what
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comes to mind right ready what does your t-shirt say though wait I got t-shirt
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makes about good [ __ ] that's why it's like it's like my [ __ ] so good that
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that's why I can act like that or something like that like I'mma end the show with that right there man god damn
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you don't even know what the shirt said you can't say things about that it's like it's like my my [ __ ] is so good that I can act the way I act hey that's
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and it's true cuz I'm I'm a brat and and I get everything I want hey I believe
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that she did not did you see that she just ass
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yeah I see you i see you honey that's that confidence someone walk
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around with that kind of confidence that's Joe's walking around like that yeah it it is well different reasons
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it's not cuz my [ __ ] is so good but it ain't I don't know four four times in one night is pretty impressive you're a
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58-year-old i'll tell you that it's lyrics you guys we're having fun
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all right all right all right hey uh so this this album you you featured a lot of amazing women on the Co-Star album
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yes right Eric it was it was an amazing incredible process it was just like
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Allison had the crazy idea to do it and then it wasn't easy to choreograph the
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whole thing and pull it together but once we got to the finish line we just kind of looked back and went we did that
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[ __ ] i mean like everybody there there was something you know that Allison said
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early on because obviously you make a list a short list of everybody you want on the record and me being an artist and
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a creative person my mind might go to oh man but what if we can't get them and Alison be like everybody who's supposed
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to be on this project is going to be on it and now that we listening to it it's
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it's truly magical I mean it's something that I haven't I'm sure you know duets
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records have been done before but the way that we've executed this with not
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only representing who I am a as an artist a true representation of like my
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journey like there's songs on here that I've written and produced you know with my boy uh Randy Amada where it's like
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okay that's some old school Eric Bane right there but we also reached out to these
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other producers and other songwriters like Felly the Voice like DJ Camper like Tony Dixon and um added this other
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element that just just I I I'm just incredibly profoundly proud of this
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project yeah great i'm happy for you to consider Yeah all that you do all that you've done all the accolades you
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receive and to still be excited like you're a new artist right now man yeah you just That's That's it you just said
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it right there Sway it's like the thing okay not to toot my own horn but uh the
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horn about to get tooted in three and one people say I look good for my age
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right which is true but toot that but I will say I will say I did just notice
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the the the readers hanging from the jacket right there and that's hilarious
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you just look sexy that's some [ __ ] if I ever seen it you look good you look good
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for playing trombone trying to read the phone hey hey my ap
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Hey hey real proper real proper you look great but but basically people will say I look good for my age and it has to do
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with what you just said it's like when you immerse yourself in what you love
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then um well that's part of it that's a big part of it you immerse yourself in what you love and your energy i love
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making music i love reaching out to new artists i love supporting artists um it
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the the the magic of the creativity doesn't go away so I can be just as excited about this new project as I was
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on my first my first solo one true to myself you know it's like that's the magic of it i love it man give it up for
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Eric Ben man give it up for Autumn Paige give it up for Joe Leone leone JBR
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Creative Group right here give it up for Allison up for Max give it up for Brian
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Samson brian Samson like that man and um this is just an introductory but I'll
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love to have y'all come up again and we'll do something where we'll be performance yeah let's do some live man
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performance cuz you know we I don't know if y'all notice but Tracy Heather and I make pretty good hosts for these kind of
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things pretty good huh i don't know if you noticed that i I have taken notice hall of Fame automoted
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i'm tooting to them if you know but listen um I'm happy to have y'all on
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this platform i see I'm not only do I see it in your future I see it now huge
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things are happening that means a lot coming from this guy right here it means everything yeah man and you know it's
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genuine you know I wouldn't say these things if it's going to make me look wrong a year from now that's true that's
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absolutely facts best believe that Eric i love you man congratulations brother
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keep going Adam great to great to really sit down and talk with you thank you for having me absolutely we got more to do
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Joe hey what we want to end with what you got what's my What's my selections torch oh
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we got you you want to go Joe or what songs we got what you got eric we
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did both of us do Eric why don't you do do the uh if you if you uh if you're going to do some Eric do the uh must be
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the me and India retail got it must be we'll look that up we got it got it okay
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we're going to end the show with that um thank you to our crews to our citizens that tune in don't forget we got merch
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at benrighteous.com the t-shirts been selling out lonnie Light put some new t-shirts up some new hoodies as well go
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to benrighteous.com get your citizens t-shirts eric you want to say something in closing yo uh JBR we coming for real
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we got the amazing artists my new project uh Eric Benet the co-star um yo
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follow these artists i about to say can we drop our handle for follow them i am
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Jolleion Sings on all social media that's L E O N E Jolion Sings follow
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that fool yo citizens we need you to follow him this dude is crazy talented
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and mine is the t autumn like the season page p a i g e and you can follow me on
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Instagram and Tik Tok yes man and she will not blink when she brags about herself
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at all Tracy i was like and she was nodding while she was saying it to me
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that's how you know yo and then you can reach Eric Bernet where yo follow me um
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my website ericbay.net or just on Instagram at Ericbenet uh if you see me on the street just give me $5 and I'll
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sing something man come on man
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