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Discover the unforgettable moment BeBe Winans stood his ground to save the iconic song 'Addictive Love' in this inspiring video! Dive into the captivating story of how BeBe, alongside his sister CeCe, faced off with executives to ensure this track not only made it onto the album but also became the lead single. Witness firsthand the power of conviction and faith in the music industry, as BeBe shares this riveting tale alongside other personal anecdotes, including his close relationship with musical legends and his profound insights on songwriting and life. If you're a fan of Gospel music or just love a good behind-the-scenes music industry story, this video is a must-watch! Don't forget to hit subscribe for more incredible stories like this from the world of music and faith.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
2:04 - BeBe Winans "Addictive Love" Discussion
4:08 - Songwriting Mood Influence
6:05 - BeBe Winans "Hold Up the Light" Performance
10:05 - BeBe Winans' Whitney Houston Anecdote
12:28 - BeBe Winans New Tour Announcement
13:13 - BeBe Winans at The Apollo
18:09 - Discussing Moral Decay
20:31 - Mario Winans Career Insights
22:50 - BeBe Winans Personal Requests
23:39 - BeBe Winans First Solo Album
25:29 - BeBe & CeCe Winans Duo Formation
27:15 - BeBe Winans Family Background
28:25 - "The Color Purple" Discussion
29:30 - BeBe Winans Life Dreams
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0:00
I could have been arrested the way I
0:02
costed this man when I saw him in the
0:05
hallway he definitely had a
0:08
case what you say ketchup came out I
0:11
squeezed him so hard mustard came out
0:15
either I ain't never reacted like that I
0:18
seen a guest come up to the I ran up to
0:21
two them and said bab oh
0:25
man was like what's going on here easy s
0:31
I am not your
0:32
father I am not your
0:35
father man oh man no that was wonderful
0:38
that was that was wonderful I tell you
0:41
just listening to that you know it takes
0:43
me back it really does takes me back and
0:46
so the other day we were we were
0:47
speaking to to a
0:49
friend um Capital Records came to my
0:52
home and Cece and I was sitting there
0:55
and they wanted to tell me that they had
0:57
decided that addictive love was not
1:00
going to go on the album because of the
1:03
negative connotation of addiction so
1:06
they all said they they had all their
1:09
words and so after they finish I said
1:11
okay so everybody finish and and CeCe
1:14
heard the tone in my voice and she went
1:16
to
1:18
praying right in the middle of the
1:20
meeting she just went to praying said oh
1:22
Jesus uh because she knew uh I'm just
1:25
like my father I me I'm just like my dad
1:28
and so I you know
1:30
really nicely I said okay well thank you
1:32
for all that but not only is it going on
1:35
the album it's going to be the first
1:37
single wow and I stood my ground right
1:42
and so addictive love did what it did
1:45
yes indeed and I said wow I'm glad I and
1:49
they came back and apologized and said
1:52
you know you you were right an apology
1:56
just like the WNBA had to you know power
1:58
of an apology ain't nothing wrong with
2:01
it apology you know it's freeing I'm
2:04
glad you fought for that song Because
2:06
when we heard that you were coming up
2:08
here we were talking about it this
2:09
morning and letting our listeners know
2:11
the citizens I said addicted love that's
2:13
my favorite song I I just remember how I
2:18
I felt and how I feel every time I hear
2:21
that song I can drive to it I can cook
2:23
to it I could clean my kitchen to it
2:25
it's just one of those songs that just
2:28
reminds you that it's going to be okay
2:30
you say drive to it and my mind goes
2:32
back uh Luther Vanos who I Miss Lu just
2:36
a dear friend and so what we used to do
2:38
is when before I would release an album
2:41
sometimes I would fly out to Los Angeles
2:43
and so Luther and I were in the car and
2:45
he was driving we played the whole album
2:48
and he says addictive love is the first
2:50
single beat Luther said that that's what
2:52
he said to me so Luther picked that as
2:54
the first single based on driving yes
2:56
based on driving wow wow wow I love
3:00
these stories what people well if you
3:03
know you know but you're pen game like I
3:06
celebrate your vocals but your pen game
3:09
has been uh incredible throughout your
3:11
career as well thank you the pen game
3:13
give it up for the pen game pen game not
3:16
afraid you know to to to write about the
3:19
good times the bad times the triumphs
3:22
the
3:23
failures and I think that's why our our
3:26
music crossed genres because it was
3:29
coming from the
3:30
and I just I still believe to this day
3:32
if you write and speak from the heart it
3:35
goes to the heart of people no matter
3:37
what they believe right and so I'm
3:40
unafraid there's a
3:42
song I may send it to you first because
3:45
you hugged me so tight don't forget the
3:48
M thank you you got to pay me something
3:50
for that
3:51
hug but it's entitled I don't want to be
3:54
wrong today okay that's all I'm going to
3:58
give you the title and then I'm going
3:59
send you me world premiere it you know
4:01
we World Wide baby yeah you can do it on
4:03
good news Thursday do that's right do
4:06
you um does your does where you are in
4:09
life at the moment factor into the songs
4:12
you write if you on a high do the songs
4:14
typically come out one way and if you're
4:16
on a low yeah I mean this particular
4:19
song I'm talking talking to you about I
4:21
finished it maybe a couple of weeks ago
4:24
but I started writing it 30 years ago
4:27
wow 30 is that something you can say 30
4:30
and that and you still Gran
4:34
mhm you know what you know what I'm
4:38
saying that's when you know you
4:41
old you still grown still grown so
4:46
baby I just did my own bathroom said
4:50
[ __ ] are not in front
4:56
of all right CHR
5:00
how about conru I am but but but
5:02
seriously it's is is so I write when I
5:05
am but that song you know I don't want
5:07
wrong I was in a movie and the name of
5:10
the movie is the paper it was uh Michael
5:13
Keaton and Merill Street and he's
5:15
getting ready to print a story and she
5:17
says I don't care if it's right or wrong
5:18
we'll correct it tomorrow and then he
5:20
said but I don't want to be wrong today
5:23
and that's where that came from that's
5:25
where that came from y baby you got the
5:27
best stories ever bro my God
5:30
what made you what made you revisit it
5:32
after 30 years later because of what
5:35
what I'm going through and what I was
5:37
going through you know you you always
5:39
have there's a there's a lyric in the
5:41
song and it just took me back to that
5:43
lyric as I was going there's always
5:45
right and wrong presented to us but we
5:48
always have a choice at hand is what the
5:51
lyrics says and so I always remind
5:54
myself no matter what tomorrow throws at
5:57
me because tomorrow will throw something
5:59
at you I still have a choice at hand and
6:02
so that's why that song came back up man
6:05
BB wiers is here come on I was I was uh
6:10
I I in in the short period of time that
6:12
I hugged you and brought you in the room
6:14
uh I brought up something that I saw
6:15
years a while back and when you were in
6:17
South Africa and I want to say it was
6:20
Kaa The Kaa Network you were on I can't
6:23
remember the young man that was
6:24
interviewing you but he did a great job
6:26
and you talked about not performing
6:29
again
6:30
yes right I have never seen you live
6:33
I've seen you recorded uh award shows
6:37
I've seen you so so many different
6:39
videos so whole nine that's not still
6:42
true right well well first of all you
6:46
see me right now I'm live you're live
6:48
I'm live right now so what song you want
6:50
me to perform
6:52
really we never have say that hold up
6:56
hold up I don't think I never said that
6:58
Let's do let's do father and
7:00
right no no you want me to goep woke up
7:02
this
7:03
morning closing my right mind love that
7:08
you bestow makes my heart
7:12
resign is that enough that's enough
7:14
right there come
7:16
on we could go into a medle hold up the
7:19
light hold up the
7:23
light save the world from
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Darkness hold up the light
7:30
won't you please
7:34
America come on man I got him be on the
7:37
roll let me get a little take us to
7:38
Heaven what about heaven I got
7:42
you now that it's
7:45
over there's no more use for guns and
7:50
War it cost me a
7:54
lifetime just to gain this life's reward
7:58
they say what's my background try to
8:02
step into that I told him don't even
8:04
don't even pretend when you here we
8:07
normally sing along with you but a
8:09
nobody we ain't going to take this woman
8:11
else did you tell her before I came in
8:13
you told her not curse what else did you
8:16
say don't sing with them no one is
8:19
singing with
8:20
you do some nothing crazy today don't do
8:24
that we'll our heads we're going to BU
8:25
our head yeah we just marveling in we we
8:27
want them to come back
8:30
not
8:31
we when when you just Sayang hold on the
8:34
light it made me think about um a Martin
8:37
episode when Martin s that Gina Gina end
8:40
up S that at the talent search and then
8:42
I'm like well you and CeCe were on
8:45
Martin for the Christmas special how did
8:47
you guys get on that show um we got a
8:50
call from Martin Lords and and the the
8:55
beauty for me first of all I love people
8:57
I really do love people and and and so
9:01
um the word introduction is one of my
9:04
favorite words and so over my career
9:06
I've met some wonderful people and so
9:10
with those kind of relationships you
9:12
know you don't know where people going
9:13
to end up at the same time we we
9:15
received a phone call and I just asked
9:17
him when we got to that set I said you
9:19
you can't act up or laughter is just
9:23
going to overcome and so we we we had to
9:25
do that for a long time because every
9:27
time you turn around he was saying
9:29
something else that wasn't in the
9:31
script and I would just go to cracking
9:34
up but uh boy what what uh wonderful
9:38
time that was and so we and Pam and Gina
9:41
I mean they have been friends for a long
9:42
time long time for a long time in New
9:44
York when I first did uh the Broadway
9:47
show don't get God started in 1986 and
9:50
that's when I met Gina and and so we
9:54
have been friends a long time Tia that's
9:56
when you first met them wow 86 man thank
9:58
you for sharing that stories like
10:01
stories B got stories um withy Houston
10:05
Whitney can you tell us a good I know
10:06
you sang at her um at her celebration
10:10
right one of my favorite stories see as
10:13
you know she was a Jersey girl I don't
10:15
care how many gowns you put on her she
10:17
was Jersey Jersey and
10:20
so what does that mean exactly exact
10:24
thing that comes with us being from
10:25
Jersey it's just a thing sway okay
10:28
Jersey Jersey Jersey it was in her blood
10:31
and so we were at a movie um actually uh
10:35
me CCE Whitney and Cece and Whitney were
10:38
sitting together and me and Robin were
10:40
sitting together behind them and we came
10:43
in after the lights had come down you
10:46
know cuz she is with in Houston and it
10:48
was a Barbara Stan movie uh with Nick no
10:52
I think the name I forget the name of it
10:54
but during the movie Whitney was talking
10:58
to 60 say oh you know about the movie
11:00
you know you whisper oh I don't believe
11:02
that girl is going to do that this and
11:03
and so there was
11:04
a there was a couple white couple in
11:07
front of him and the lady kept on
11:09
turning back cuz she was annoyed at them
11:12
talking which I understood you know and
11:15
so at one point it just boiled over and
11:19
that woman turned she had a ponytail she
11:21
turned around and said will you shut up
11:23
will you just shut
11:24
up and I just went to praying oh God you
11:28
like Cece J like CE oh Jesus cuz I knew
11:31
Jersey is
11:34
present I thought my prayers had went
11:37
through cuz Whitney sat back and didn't
11:39
say nothing and after about 30 seconds
11:43
Whitney leaned up and grabbed
11:46
that and jerked it back said don't you
11:49
ever talk to me that way and threw her
11:51
head up to the front and then a man she
11:53
was we got up and I had to get up saying
11:55
oh wait I'm getting ready to fight I
11:57
don't believe this and then
12:00
and then Robin says b get withy and take
12:02
her out of here and I took her and we
12:03
run I mean my heart is beating like cuz
12:06
this is not my
12:08
life and my heart is beating until until
12:11
we get outside and we jump in the car
12:14
and we jump in the car and I can't
12:15
hardly breathe and Whitney looks at me
12:16
and say wasn't that
12:19
fun
12:22
got JY stand up Jersy stand up stand up
12:26
Jersy stand up we got BB wiing here
12:29
uh BB winess is set to announce a five
12:32
five City US tour this summer right H
12:35
just say appearance I'm allergic to that
12:36
word okay that's right he'll be
12:38
appearing in five different cities this
12:42
summer um and this you know after you
12:44
sold out the Apollo um in 2023 come on
12:49
man man that stage I just saw lunell the
12:52
comedian who's from Oakland where I'm
12:54
from shout out to the Hawkins family and
12:56
all the different folks that I grew up
12:57
around in Oakland um and I was so proud
13:01
of her and she
13:03
cried because she had never done that
13:06
stage MH and and and what it means to us
13:09
what it meant to music what it meant to
13:11
culture our community the whole nine
13:13
what was that like for you is that stage
13:15
different that stage is different from
13:16
every stage I mean because you grow up
13:19
you know in my household and you know my
13:21
father allowed us to watch TV a little
13:23
bit here and there and you just imagine
13:26
you know you dreamed and you imagine
13:28
that there's nothing nothing impossible
13:30
right and so to to arrive at that stage
13:35
was just you know a moment and so every
13:38
time you arrive at certain places you
13:41
you take that moment and enjoy that's
13:43
what I've learned to do so I enjoy that
13:46
moment you know um at the same time you
13:49
know you grow into maturity and various
13:52
other things and you appreciate it even
13:54
more so I was very much more
13:57
appreciative to be there then last year
13:59
than I have ever been you know and from
14:03
there we went to South Africa which is
14:05
one of my favorite places to go on Earth
14:07
yeah you know and um I think there the
14:14
the bear kind of came out of hibernation
14:17
because I hadn't done any shows really I
14:21
walked away maybe 15 years ago and I
14:24
love behind the scenes I love writing I
14:26
love doing things behind the scenes and
14:28
so you really couldn't get me um in
14:31
front of the microphone for a long time
14:34
and that's not for any pity yeah yeah
14:37
cuz I enjoy being not at the microphone
14:41
you know that do that doesn't mean I
14:43
didn't sing I sung a lot at home but it
14:45
was at home wasn't performing in front
14:47
of a live audience yeah and so the bear
14:49
has come out of hibernation the bear has
14:51
come out of
14:52
hibernation and I don't know how long
14:55
he's going to be out uhuh but but what
14:57
is the Bear's mission M the Bear's
15:00
mission is to share what the bear has
15:02
been through and that's always my
15:04
mission is to share what I've been
15:07
through um all of us have something
15:10
we've endured through through um the
15:13
pandemic and everything else yeah that's
15:15
and the the the the the days we live in
15:17
nobody wants to be
15:21
corrected yeah what do you mean like
15:23
people I mean lawlessness we we live in
15:27
a world where it's just lawlessness so
15:30
somebody can come up I just I had a
15:31
conversation with a friend I said so
15:34
anybody at this moment can say you know
15:37
what red light means go no that's green
15:42
light yeah that's facts if we don't have
15:45
a red light we going to have more deaths
15:48
more crashes so there has to be some law
15:52
and and so I I I you know I decided I'm
15:55
I'm still going to bet the law cuz you
15:57
ain't going to see me in Orange yeah
15:59
yeah yeah yeah and behind I'm not going
16:01
to jail for I used to tell my kids all
16:03
daddy love you but Daddy not going to
16:04
jail for me I will tell on you snitch on
16:07
your kids in a moment damn you you don't
16:09
want to think about
16:10
it he justed that finish
16:16
the excuse me sway you don't even have
16:18
to finish that question yes I got I got
16:22
a daughter I got a daughter who's um now
16:24
25 so I got a grown adult and um I
16:28
always wondered like when do parents are
16:31
parents able or allowed to let go you
16:34
know with your kids yes I believe I said
16:37
that quickly I didn't finish the
16:39
question I didn't ask you a question I
16:41
was telling you what I was thinking but
16:43
U but yes you believe that at what point
16:45
and what is let go is that just
16:47
Financial what does that mean that means
16:50
to me okay and my family it means
16:53
totally see you know I come from a
16:55
family of 10 I have two kids so I look
16:57
at my mom who's still alive and say you
16:59
know what can I do for you because 10 I
17:01
don't understand y'all even though I was
17:04
number seven and so my father when you
17:07
was like 16 my father would come say hey
17:11
son all right where where you going you
17:13
know next year you'll be 17 and you
17:16
getting out of here where you going
17:18
let's prepare where you going where are
17:20
you going have plans cuz you getting out
17:22
of here I done did my job and it was
17:26
don't come back either
17:30
did he say don't come back yes and we
17:33
knew he loved us but he was serious I've
17:36
done my job and so I did the same thing
17:38
to my kids you did that to your kids my
17:40
daughter one time said Dad I want to go
17:42
uh get some out my room I said baby you
17:44
don't have no room that is gone you
17:47
rented that room for 18 years until you
17:50
went off to college and and so to me oh
17:54
that's ganga but we learned how to swim
17:58
yeah yeah we learned how to sore we
17:59
learned how to fly and in these days you
18:02
know I don't understand a kid is still
18:04
at your house at 35 yeah that's that's
18:07
yeah that's that's your enabler that's
18:10
impris you said imprisonment you know on
18:12
this is Mike mes what you were talking
18:14
about what people don't can't stand to
18:16
be corrected Mike um does a lot of
18:19
various things including he works with
18:21
gma3 Good Morning America 3 um he's one
18:24
of the Premier correspondents in the um
18:26
in the news world uh in particular uh as
18:28
well political news culture the whole
18:31
nine and he did a call of action today
18:35
um and we were talking about the very
18:37
thing you're saying you know yeah we
18:40
were we were talking about like the
18:41
lawlessness and and more so the
18:44
moral um deviation away from the the
18:47
fabric of society um and really talking
18:50
about like the role uh that parents have
18:52
right in the sense of raising this next
18:55
generation of critical thinkers that
18:56
we'll need to advance the society and
18:59
that people just don't convene together
19:01
as family like on Sundays they don't
19:02
read their local newspaper together as a
19:04
family and just have a conversation
19:06
about whatever the topic you may be and
19:08
so I'm just curious to know your thought
19:10
on you know how that moral has shifted
19:14
and in our society right and is there a
19:17
way that we can get it back I'm up here
19:19
smiling talking about your family I used
19:20
to go to perfecting uh when I lived in
19:22
Detroit with your brother Marvin and so
19:25
I'm just curious about that from your
19:26
thoughts and your perspective I think M
19:28
can we get it back yes but it starts
19:30
with the parents I mean seriously when
19:33
when you're reading or you're looking at
19:35
uh uh various Clips on on on the media
19:39
um how the parent is coming to the
19:41
school and telling the the teachers and
19:44
the principles office off because they
19:46
corrected their child well then you let
19:49
that child go because the the the
19:51
problem is not the child the problem is
19:53
the parent you know and and as time goes
19:57
on that whole thing is starting to Decay
20:02
um um when when I was coming up you know
20:05
we respected everybody because if I came
20:09
home and my father knew I disrespecting
20:12
an elder oh it was it was trouble in the
20:16
win and household you know um and and so
20:20
if you don't have
20:22
discipline you you don't have Justice
20:26
you really don't you don't have Justice
20:28
BB
20:29
here we got him a few more minutes okay
20:31
I'm open up the phone
20:33
lines
20:35
888
20:36
742
20:39
3345 BB winens is here yep six time
20:43
Grammy Award winning and can I can I
20:46
give a shout out to Mr Geral Albright on
20:48
thatal alright what I'm saying on
20:53
manal Albright yes yes your nam's like
20:57
that come on he you know I he picked up
21:00
the phone said Jal I want I want you to
21:01
play on this just do what you do and
21:04
then he sent it back and I said that's
21:06
that's J that's J man I love it man BB
21:10
wiing is here are there any um hip-hop
21:14
artists Mario did his thing Mario winess
21:18
your nephew give it up for Mario wus
21:20
play his dis right did you when you
21:23
heard this you listen to his music right
21:25
you know he called me yesterday uhhuh I
21:28
had heard from we call him sker okay and
21:32
so I called him back I said you just
21:33
called me he Uncle I said yeah I said
21:36
what what do you need because you know
21:39
when I'm just sorry that's what comes
21:42
out straight to
21:44
It uncle Y and he he laughed and said
21:48
Uncle I was just calling to say I love
21:50
you I was like
21:53
okay you didn't believe I don't believe
21:55
you but I but then we hung up so I
21:58
believe them after we hung up that was
22:00
it that was it he just called to say I
22:03
love you I told him I was he didn't know
22:05
I was in New York I just landed and so
22:08
we're supposed to go to lunch tomorrow
22:10
tell him we said hello I don't think
22:12
he's ever come Mario has not been on did
22:14
the Happ hour yeah he did my show but he
22:17
never came here and we love we love he
22:19
did your show too Mike okay yeah I tell
22:22
minute hold up he did your show and your
22:24
show but he hasn't done this show so we
22:26
going to make sure he does no I got you
22:29
uncle said yeah no no that's cool did BB
22:31
do your
22:33
show B do he doing my show
22:37
now you said it's s more than featur it
22:41
y'all go ahead y'all keep that Mario I
22:43
got baby cool got a lot more albums we
22:46
can be here long we be all day brother
22:51
that's great yo what percentage of PE
22:53
what percentage of the phone calls you
22:55
get would you say are people wanting
22:58
something
22:59
from family yeah that would be
23:04
89%
23:07
got but it's okay what what I told my
23:10
all my children my nephews and and
23:12
nieces look my love for you overrides
23:16
all your foolishness it does and so even
23:20
though you're calling for something I'm
23:23
most of the time gonna give you that
23:25
something um but my love is greater you
23:28
know and and that's what my family
23:31
experienced for my dad and mom it my
23:34
love is greater than anything that you
23:36
can do to me especially when it comes to
23:38
family so yeah let let me ask you this a
23:41
career question I remember when you um
23:43
put out the self-titled BB
23:47
wiing this was in the 90s and that was
23:50
uh was that your first so that was your
23:51
first solo studio so yes um and you were
23:54
out on your own were you ready for that
23:56
but was there any or was there any
23:57
apprehension I never toured it okay
24:00
right okay um no and and when you know
24:04
when Cece and I were doing the duet
24:07
situation every um every album we had
24:11
solos now Capital didn't want us to have
24:13
that but I knew we were G to have solo
24:16
careers and so on every BBN ccwi this
24:19
album there's a solo CCE does by herself
24:21
and and me as well so when that moment
24:24
came I said CeCe go for it you know
24:26
because we couldn't be in the
24:27
marketplace at this same time you know
24:29
doing solo situations for so for years I
24:32
didn't do anything and CC went ahead and
24:35
then I did that first album um it was it
24:38
was different but easy because I was
24:42
pretty much the one who wrote most of
24:43
our songs and so it was just writing
24:46
from experience and and situations it
24:49
was easier because it was just my
24:53
opinion you know when you're working
24:54
with someone else sister or not you have
24:57
to do you know that's not my opinion but
25:00
your opinion as well how did then the
25:02
song Come about with ain't no need to
25:04
worry with Anita Baker how that's my
25:06
brothers that you weren't on that song I
25:08
wasn't on that song at all I was in the
25:10
studio listening but no wow I didn't do
25:12
that it's so crazy because every time I
25:14
hear whinings like I was just talking
25:16
about the Three Brothers you're in the
25:18
three you're in the Three Brothers but
25:20
you weren't on the song
25:22
with so confusing all right that a poor
25:24
brother a lot of
25:26
kids it was a
25:30
so Phi when did you have a conversation
25:33
with your sister about the fact that you
25:35
both wanted solo careers oh that was day
25:38
one okay okay you know B and CeCe was
25:41
not um we didn't plan to become a duet
25:46
um C me and my sister moved to Charlotte
25:48
North Carolina when we joined uh Tammy
25:52
Fay Baker and and Jim Baker uh as PTL
25:57
singers and so he came in one day and
26:00
said um I heard the song on the radio
26:02
officer and gentleman uh love Lift us up
26:04
where we belong and he looked over and
26:06
said BB and CeCe y'all gonna do that
26:08
together that's how we became duet okay
26:11
Jim and Tammy Baker made y'all duet Jim
26:13
made us duet and after we kept singing
26:16
that song at one point we looked at each
26:18
other and said do you feel what I feel
26:21
it's like yeah so we had to go back to
26:23
Detroit and tell our other members that
26:26
was in the name of our group was the
26:28
Lance part two we had to go tell them my
26:30
brother Daniel and a couple others that
26:33
y'all got to get a 9 to
26:37
five right here don't touch me that
26:40
don't touch me don't touch me I did it I
26:43
did it Brothers I it see that doesn't
26:44
hurt my brothers s because that's what
26:47
my father my father was he enjoy he was
26:50
an only uh child so yeah only child and
26:54
so he he enjoyed confrontation my father
26:58
was funny as all get him and then my
27:00
mother only had one sister and she's
27:02
just even killed so I'm I'm 80% my mom
27:06
even kill but boy that my father 20% wow
27:11
it can override that 80 yeah that's a
27:13
hard house it's interesting like to have
27:17
parents with with no one a single child
27:19
and then your mother just had one
27:21
sibling and you got they had 10 kids 10
27:23
of us it just boggles my mind every time
27:26
I think about it it really does but but
27:29
and my father did everything he's a
27:31
barber by trade but you know right
27:36
riding on the motor
27:37
my I keep you out here all day my father
27:40
left home one day in the station wagon
27:43
and he came home with a Kawasaki 500
27:48
motorcycle how old was he at the time he
27:50
was 40s old oh that's a midli so it just
27:53
so happened it was a midli cist it just
27:55
so happened that we
27:57
heard and then my mom and I was at the
28:00
uh window at the same time and looking
28:02
out the curtain and we saw my father on
28:05
this
28:06
motorcycle and my mother's even killed
28:08
oh she looked at me and said I'm going
28:11
to
28:12
bed and she went
28:16
upstairs couldn't take I'm going to bed
28:19
I'm going to bed wow man BB wiing is
28:22
here man what amazing man
28:26
congratulations with the color purple
28:27
too we didn't you know yeah man that's
28:30
pretty give him a round of applause for
28:31
that Shaka play Sophia and that um
28:36
Broadway big
28:38
screen little
28:40
screen it's funny just keep breathing um
28:44
and you know I years ago I I started a
28:49
radio show right yeah and where did it
28:51
live was it on was it here well I still
28:54
have a radio show on serious here but I
28:56
had a terrest radio show before
28:59
before that one and so my first artist I
29:03
mean my first person to interview was
29:05
opra Winfrey right it was my but but but
29:10
you know friendship that go way way way
29:12
back okay but one of the things I I was
29:14
like who I asked her that I said so did
29:17
you dream all of this and she said no
29:20
she said I dreamed God's dream for my
29:24
life and his dream is vast and I took
29:28
that and I adopted that really and so as
29:31
as life goes on I don't dream my dream I
29:35
dream God's dream for me and sometimes
29:38
that dream scares me because I don't
29:40
think I'm up to par to do some things
29:43
but I let the fear go and I dream his
29:47
dream so Broadway I have a show that's
29:49
coming to Broadway that I wrote called
29:52
Born for this okay right and I didn't
29:55
plan that it was on my bucket list but
29:57
it was through a friend that said you
29:58
know what get started on that I was like
30:00
what are you talking about you didn't
30:01
take your medication that's not what I'm
30:03
here to do but I started following God's
30:07
dream for me so looking forward we we
30:10
did regional theater and it's a story
30:13
about me and my family and my sister in
30:15
our path a journey through music um and
30:19
and and people you know people think
30:22
they know you because they they invited
30:24
you in their homes with through
30:27
television and through radio and music
30:28
and everything but for instance my last
30:32
name was not
30:33
winens your last name was not Wiens no
30:36
my last name was
30:37
Glenn explain it Glenn my father his
30:41
parents was not married and his father
30:44
denied that that was his child so we
30:46
took on his mom's name which was Glenn
30:49
and so before my great grandfather
30:52
passed away who was Isaiah Winan's um he
30:56
loved my father my father loved him and
30:58
so my father my grandfather had a
31:00
meeting and said I know you love me and
31:03
I love you and I know the the strin
31:06
relationship you have with your father
31:08
he said but if you love me I want you to
31:10
change your name because I want my name
31:12
to remain in the earth and my father
31:15
marched us to the courthouse and changed
31:18
our names from Glenn to wiing wow what
31:21
an see you didn't know that I did not
31:23
know
31:23
[Music]
31:25
that BB and CeCe Glenn see it don't even
31:29
ring don't ring right bro I was going
31:30
say man yo thanks to that your
31:32
grandfather boy that Marquee wouldn't
31:35
have S that would have looked the same
31:37
BB Glenn no no no
31:40
no BB Glenn at the door Su don't don't
31:43
let him in so my brother Ronald who
31:45
passed away I still miss him his middle
31:48
name was winens so he became Ronald
31:51
Winan's winding instead of Ronald wind's
31:54
glow
31:56
wow beat me one
32:00
love I love it man now BB you're single
32:03
now right that's your status BB man they
32:05
call you the flyest gospel singer on the
32:08
planet right now single we about to hang
32:11
out
32:12
man I'm carry your backpack cuz I know
32:15
you ain't you g be like I can't do you
32:17
got to be concerned do you have to watch
32:19
like when you when you were telling a
32:21
Whitney story you was thinking oh my
32:23
gosh I'm going have to fight but you bb
32:26
whining so with that comes Legacy you
32:29
know comes image all of these different
32:31
things publicly you have to kind of
32:33
manage well you know what you it's it's
32:37
it's more easy than
32:39
people um think it can be okay and I say
32:44
that because I'm just me now I'm me in
32:48
the my public life I'm I'm live me in my
32:52
private life so it's not me trying to be
32:55
something else when I'm outside mhm you
32:58
know this is me so you what we're doing
33:01
here is what I do there right um and me
33:06
is not perfect me have my ups and downs
33:08
and so there's times that I'm just don't
33:10
want to be bothered I don't go outside
33:13
you don't go
33:14
outside there you go I stay home and I
33:18
enjoy now this may sound crazy but I
33:20
enjoy my own
33:22
company Rel some people don't want to be
33:25
by themselves I enjoy being by myself
33:29
and so being by myself I can work on me
33:33
those things that need to prove you know
33:35
to be
33:37
um uh approved and and and straightened
33:41
and so I work on me every day both
33:44
mental physical and spiritual you
33:47
actually can see that by the way you
33:48
laugh like you entertain yourself like
33:52
you've been laughing this entire time
33:54
like you've been entertaining yourself I
33:56
wrote a song I could see that come
33:58
laughter does good just like medicine
34:02
with Korean show my my my Korean group
34:05
from from so but um I wrote that song
34:09
because I was going to the I went to the
34:12
supermarket after I I ran and worked out
34:15
and I was went in the house took some
34:16
bags and came back and I hit the door
34:19
and the the door was locked so I was
34:21
locked out of my house it was summertime
34:23
I called my assistant and she lived
34:25
maybe 5 minutes away and then she called
34:28
me back said you ain't going to believe
34:29
this I locked myself out and so we had
34:31
to call a do Smith you know a locksmith
34:33
to come in and change the door so I'm
34:35
sitting in the the garage and I just
34:38
start instead of getting angry I started
34:41
laughing and so I wrote that song So
34:45
laughter has always been a weapon for
34:48
mehm o I like that it really has did you
34:52
have to fight for that Joy huh do you
34:54
have to fight to find that Joy well yeah
34:56
but at the same time I I don't I don't
34:59
allow anyone to take away my peace more
35:04
than Joy um the joy of the Lord is my
35:07
strength but my peace you can't take
35:09
away my peace I won't I won't allow
35:12
anyone to take my peace Away really no
35:14
matter what people say or what they do
35:17
um I hold on to that which is
35:21
important why y'all so quiet no I'm
35:24
thinking we' been having these convers
35:26
we've been having these conversations
35:27
Tapp into a energy a vibration that
35:30
we've been sharing you know what I mean
35:33
and then all of us are public now Mike
35:35
works on Good Morning America 3 Tracy is
35:38
here has a podcast does hosting Heather
35:41
be is the most famous artist that come
35:43
out of Hip Hop because she was the first
35:45
African-American reality TV star with
35:47
real
35:48
worldy and then and then BB I'm me you
35:53
know that's so you understand yeah yeah
35:56
you well but and then we in the public
35:58
eye and a lot of times you know you
35:59
could get where that's where that is
36:02
most important to me is when I get
36:05
Negative um press or if I get backlash
36:08
or negative feedback that don't ever and
36:11
see I thank my father for that okay
36:14
really because neg negative press ain't
36:17
never had any part of of
36:23
controlling or or anything affecting me
36:25
mhm really didn't and that that doesn't
36:28
mean I want to be talked about no but
36:32
the again uh the name of the the um my
36:37
book and the the barway show is called
36:39
Born for this and people think
36:41
immediately that I'm talking about
36:42
singing I was born to sing but beyond
36:45
that I was born to be rejected I was
36:48
born to be talked about I was born and
36:51
so my father would always say before you
36:54
leave my house you're going to know who
36:57
I can almost
37:00
cry he used to say you're going to know
37:02
who you are before you leave my house so
37:05
when the world starts to tell you who
37:08
you are you won't believe it because you
37:10
already know who you are come on man
37:13
baby wiers man we going to take some
37:15
phone calls man these people been
37:16
waiting for for 45 minutes I couldn't
37:18
get I didn't care I wanted to talk to
37:20
you that's selfish Rob and Cali welcome
37:23
to the show Rob Rob what's up man thank
37:25
you what's up what's up
37:28
uh I just want to say um BB wiing sir
37:32
yes you are a blessing you have been a
37:34
blessing to me for years um I remember
37:37
when you came to San Diego you and your
37:39
sister um our choir San Diego Mass Choir
37:42
we opened up for you and you were so
37:45
kind and gracious um you signed
37:47
autographs and you took pictures so I
37:49
just want to say thank you sir for being
37:51
you I appreciate that I really do
37:54
appreciate that and you know that says
37:56
it all yeah it really does that's it
37:58
right there that beat any press all
37:59
right hey Rob you a you're a citizen Rob
38:02
SW good morning uh Lou is in Illinois
38:04
what up Lou Lou Hi l hey h how's
38:07
everybody doing
38:10
good thank you so much for everything
38:12
that you do I feel like I officially
38:14
help you with your tide and offering
38:16
because I literally have purchased every
38:18
single thing that you have produced so
38:21
thank you so much and not only that you
38:24
are the
38:25
flyest gospel singer out there and you
38:29
think you slick with it too I watch I
38:31
watched the old um clip of yours and you
38:34
had on this suit and the back of it had
38:36
like a basket weave and I swear you sung
38:38
half of the song backwards so that
38:40
people can see the back of the
38:43
suit you know okay okay your next
38:46
project needs to be men's suits you need
38:48
to do your own line because you
38:50
definitely put a nice flare to it so
38:52
keep up the good work thank you so funny
38:54
we me and CeCe were in Los Angeles we
38:56
were going to do a concert and I was
38:58
standing outside waiting on um the ride
39:01
to pick us up and so these two ladies
39:03
came up and said oh miss hi we're coming
39:06
to your concert I said great and so one
39:08
of them said do you know why we're
39:10
coming I said um
39:14
songs that's what they do at concert she
39:17
said what that too she said I'm com I'm
39:19
not lying y'all she said I'm coming to
39:21
see what socks you wearing I so socks
39:24
she
39:25
said she had been to the concert and
39:28
whatever I was wearing the socks were
39:30
going to match right is that like oh my
39:35
god
39:35
god wow it taught me how detailed and
39:39
what some people come to see right and
39:41
so um my my father used to always say
39:44
when you walk out this house you know
39:46
walk out like you know where you're
39:48
going bro we you got to for the sake of
39:50
that story we must see your side
39:53
uhhuh just got to lift the ankle up a
39:56
little bit I don't know man
39:59
they just black I got all black okay
40:01
they match they match all right okay D
40:03
the ladies were right all right CJ CJ
40:06
take us away man go ahead man he's in
40:07
Orlando CJ
40:09
CJ hey sway hey Heather be how's it
40:13
going we got Tracy Mike mes Kanani DB
40:16
and torch here too and Drew and the
40:18
whole team the whole team oh Jake the
40:20
kiss in the back I'm a first time
40:25
calling long time
40:29
listening welcome to the
40:31
tribe yeah I just appreciate you guys'
40:34
show I listened when I used to work and
40:37
everything like that now I work from
40:38
home I have my own business and things
40:40
of that nature and I love me some BB and
40:43
CC whining yes wow wow so this is the
40:48
reason why you called for the first time
40:52
I should I should join this show you are
40:55
a member I didn't tell you right
40:58
you only have to come up whenever you're
41:00
in New
41:01
York I thank you sir I thank you for the
41:04
love and and and thank you for
41:06
supporting us all these
41:08
years well thank you guys and sway keep
41:11
doing what you're doing you're blessing
41:13
the community the uh black community you
41:16
don't know what you do for us every
41:18
single morning the rap battles I would
41:21
appreciate their BB raps but the rap
41:23
battles is phenomenal I love what you do
41:25
love your career and shouts out to you
41:28
to me thank you brother I appreciate you
41:31
hear that I heard and clear CJ but I'm
41:35
just saying no I you ain't got to back
41:37
up that's good I'm good hey CJ thanks
41:41
man that makes you a super citizen
41:42
brother the morning hey B was you was
41:45
you paying attention to the Drake and
41:47
Kendrick thing I was paying
41:52
attention unavoidable you have to pay
41:55
attention you got to pay what are your
41:56
thoughts
41:57
I I
41:59
don't what I didn't say it enough okay
42:03
Mike you say something there you
42:04
[Laughter]
42:08
go I like that that's the answer that
42:12
did good that's good enough for me you
42:14
got nbls listen I I I I got to thank you
42:17
brother I know our time is uh Li yeah
42:21
but I still don't know how the Anita
42:22
Baker s came
42:24
about that I would tell my brother
42:26
Marvin that you love that song I love it
42:29
I love it too Marvin wrote that we have
42:32
to come see one of these us appearances
42:34
you do this summer like I would love to
42:36
come bring not my team to come witness
42:38
five cities right five cities and we
42:41
start in Chicago to whoever that was on
42:44
the um on the phone call um and then
42:48
we're here in New York at Westberry
42:50
that's the one we'll coming to all right
42:52
we down everybody down everybody down
42:55
down look good we just got to get the
42:56
date look good now hey baby we do our
42:59
thing too brother you just make sure you
43:01
match your socks make sure make sure you
43:04
looking like your name s okay there you
43:06
go man I like that man give it up for BB
43:09
wiers man thank you brother my pleasure
43:11
I hope you enjoyed yourself I enjoyed
43:13
myself I really do I'll be back thank
43:15
you man BB wiers man love you brother
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