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Embark on an emotional rollercoaster with Tyrese Gibson as he bares his soul in a raw and powerful interview on "Sway In The Morning." Unfiltered and explosive, Tyrese unveils the heart-wrenching truth behind the collapse of his marriage and the visceral pain of betrayal. In the midst of releasing his seventh album, "Beautiful Pain," Tyrese confronts the shadows of divorce, family, and the haunting question – did his ex-wife ever truly love him? This isn't just an interview; it's a confessional booth where the veil of celebrity is torn down to reveal the man, the father, and the wounded warrior within.
Witness Tyrese's candid discussion about his struggles with mental health, the pressures of alpha masculinity, and the tumultuous journey that led him to music once again. From the tragedy of Kobe Bryant's death to the isolation of quarantine and the sting of public criticism, every moment is laid bare. With his soul-stirring single featuring Lenny Kravitz and Leandria Johnson, Tyrese embarks on a path of healing and defiance in the face of adversity.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Tyrese Discusses Fast 10
0:22 - Tyrese Tackles Personal Challenges
5:42 - Impact of Quarantine on Tyrese's Marriage
7:23 - Quarantine as a Marriage Reset for Tyrese
12:46 - Samantha Lee Gibson's Departure from Tyrese
12:57 - Tyrese's Ex-Wife Therapy Insights
18:00 - Addressing Projection and Gaslighting Issues
20:19 - Tyrese Debuts New Music
22:42 - Tyrese's Perspective on Divorce Causes
32:40 - Tyrese's Apology to Michael and Roxie
33:19 - Tyrese Finds Strength in Faith
41:42 - Tyrese's Candid Reflections with Sway
47:01 - Tyrese's Concluding Thoughts
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we on a cusp of fast 10 which has come
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in May 19 2023 I'm not sure I I know
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they do ndas on that kind of thing so
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I'm sure how much he could talk about we
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good we're good with that but we're
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going to get to it
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in the marketing department they'll be
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all right but we got the seventh album
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Beautiful Pain yes wow campaign B
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beautiful Tyrese How is pain how does
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Beautiful Pain look and feel what does
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that mean
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um
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sorry I didn't go to Media training
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that's all right sorry I don't have my
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sound bites together
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I'm here
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I feel safe here okay
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um
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I'm not okay
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um
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big bro sway
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it's the hardest thing I've ever had to
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do in my life
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this is not just go through some [ __ ] do
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a song release it
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this is hard because
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as I listened to
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this song and these lyrics
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I really can't believe that this is my
1:26
life
1:30
can't believe that this is my life I
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can't believe that
1:35
these are my actual feelings
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um
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I just want to say just speaking an
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analogy for a second right so
1:47
because I was never close to my family
1:51
even though I buried my mother February
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14th
1:57
Valentine's Day last year
1:59
and I've been praying for you all night
2:02
I haven't called you
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um
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and I didn't want to text because I
2:07
wanted to put my eyes on you
2:09
and that prayer that just happened in
2:12
the lobby
2:13
was for you
2:15
and what you're carrying and feeling
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right now see the confusing part about
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an alpha male
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is that we sound strong we look strong
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we appear to be strong most people would
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say he got money he gonna be all right
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right
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but see uh money never stopped uh
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Anthony Moore the Bourdain from killing
2:35
himself money never stopped Kate Spade
2:37
from killing herself she had way more
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money than us now I've never ever ever
2:41
in my life thought about killing myself
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I love myself too much to do that okay
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never had the thought but I do know that
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there are real people out here that go
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through real things and they go down
2:52
that that rabbit hole
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but I want to tell y'all that
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this is not a song bashing a woman
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this is not
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me trying to teach this woman a lesson
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this is my truth
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it's my story
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I was never close to my family so when I
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got married to Samantha
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that became a world within a world that
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I never had before
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I was on my way home
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to fight for my marriage
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we had a couple little arguments nothing
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anything that would ever warrant
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I'm out
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you remember when Kobe Bryant rest in
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peace died we was in L.A
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I mainly live in Atlanta so during the
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winter ATL temperature drops
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so I packed up the whole family
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housekeepers nannies the whole Squad was
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like we out we going to LA
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where I was born and raised
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probably two months after we got there
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we woke up to the news that Kobe died
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and he died like four exits away from
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where I live I couldn't go to the crash
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site I was devastated you know I've been
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knowing Kobe
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I think we we literally got on the same
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year and Kobe took Brandy
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uh Brandi took Kobe to her prom
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I remember that yeah
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and me and Brandy have been the best of
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friends since we were 11 12 years old
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so I've been knowing Kobe for many moons
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many years we ain't best friends I'm not
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painting that picture but I was
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devastated uh with the loss his wife his
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children just everything and I'm an
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empath I'm an alpha but I'm an empath I
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feel everything yeah
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so fast forward after the tragedy of
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Kobe and all of this negativity and this
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cloud of confusion
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that happened after we lost the homie
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then some called covet hit mm-hmm
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and they then then some [ __ ] called
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quarantine hit and we just stuck at home
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now quarantine for most looked very
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different than mine and I'm very aware
5:12
of it we were stuck at home
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house is nice Chef is there Nanny's on
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deck and this was after I woke up to
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child abuse claims and the psych meds
5:25
and what more do you want from me and
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everything that my marriage had to
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survive we had only been married for a
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year and woke up to all that goofy [ __ ]
5:35
and it took over our marriage and took
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over the vibrations of our marriage but
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quarantine
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changed
5:44
the vibrations of my marriage for the
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better
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some people was in quarantine and
5:50
everything that you had never had time
5:52
to address peel back that rug
5:54
[ __ ] it's cracking it's
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happening right now you remember when
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you told me and remember my cousin
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remember you know all that [ __ ] came out
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which is why so many people are divorced
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right now because some of us have
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purposely been too busy to address the
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[ __ ] that's really on our mind real and
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quarantine brought it all out
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quarantine for me was able to help me to
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hit the reset button on my marriage
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we were on Instagram every Friday doing
6:22
date night a beautiful day nice we had
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Eric Benet and Tamia to do their duet
6:29
spend spend one night with you which was
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our first dance at our marriage
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when we got married we had Brian
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McKnight on there we had the gospel
6:38
singer Jonathan McReynolds the pop-up so
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10 months of quarantine didn't need the
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money
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stuck at home no flights no meetings no
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Zoom didn't even hurt hurt never heard a
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Zone before quarantine
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changed my life changed the vibrations
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of the marriage that I was in
6:58
needed God must have knew in my case
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in order to hit the reset button on your
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marriage sit down pause pour into your
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family pour into your marriage nothing
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else matters if you try and make
7:11
something else matter I took it all away
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rest sleep no flights no travel no grind
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no no nothing right here
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then
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after 10 months of Date Night sex love
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magic reset button rest recovery
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restoration everything
7:34
we get on our first flight
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back to Atlanta where I live
7:40
I arrived 6 a.m in the morning Father's
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Day
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God put it on my heart to do music again
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since I had been with Samantha she's
7:50
never seen me get into music mode
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she married Denzel Washington
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[Music]
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you can't marry Denzel Washington then
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file for divorce when he get in
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character for a movie
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you can't marry a basketball player then
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divorce him when he gets up at 4am to go
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practice
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she married a singer
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she married a recording artist a
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successful one at that
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so I get in my zone when it comes to do
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music
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I'm in the house we're editing we're
8:23
writing videos we got directors there we
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did a video
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that starred my lady Samantha as my
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leading lady called black Excellence
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featuring Rick Ross make sure y'all
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Google it check it out
8:37
directed by Dion Taylor
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I'm sorry yeah sorry directed by Brad
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Furman who directed The Lincoln Lawyer
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movie with Matthew McConaughey great
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movie we got a real filmmaker to do the
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movie do the short film black excellence
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so then we did another song called
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legendary featuring CeeLo Green
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dedicated to George Floyd Brianna Taylor
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Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner
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so I'm in my zone for three four weeks
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recording editing casting location
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scouting managing Crews covet testing
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under a lot of [ __ ] pressure and I'm
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my wife
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knew everything every step of the way
9:21
because I didn't I wasn't on location
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work and I brought all this energy home
9:27
so one night as I was on my way to the
9:29
basement for another editing session
9:31
she stops me in the kitchen I'm moving
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she said baby I said what's going on
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he said
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I said babe they waiting on me
9:43
downstairs what's happening she says
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are you not attracted to me anymore
9:53
I looked at her and I said
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what are you talking about
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you can't you can't question what's
10:01
going on and how much stress I'm under
10:03
and all that I'm carrying first of all
10:05
I'm about to release a video that that
10:07
has four people that passed away
10:10
I'm more concerned about the backlash
10:13
that might come if I don't get this
10:15
right
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George Floyd Eric Garner Trayvon Umbreon
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most people is doing videos trying to
10:22
shed light on just George Floyd I put
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four in there
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song is called legendary featuring CeeLo
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Green look at the video
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and so instead of me having a wife that
10:35
says I understand the assignment I
10:37
understand what God has put on you what
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you're doing on behalf of the movement
10:44
she made it about her
10:47
I gave you 10 full months of date night
10:49
and uninterrupted love and magic and
10:53
energy pouring into my marriage
10:56
I was doing this for three weeks
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so I left town after them videos which
11:02
again one of them featured her as my
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Leading Lady
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I go to New Jersey to work on my first
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film
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we were arguing about me being busy
11:15
before I left which never happened for
11:18
10 months just happened for three weeks
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I go to New Jersey to work on this movie
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we still arguing
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she said I'm leaving
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hmm
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I said what do you mean
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because I never heard her say that that
11:36
way because we do know the difference
11:37
when you mad saying some [ __ ] cause
11:39
you're mad you know we all say [ __ ] we
11:41
don't mean we mad but I heard something
11:44
different in her voice and
11:47
I left my movie set three hours before I
11:50
was supposed to rap because it was the
11:52
last flight out they threatened to sue
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me for 750 Grand because I was supposed
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to be in all of those scenes but it was
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the last direct flight from Jersey to
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Atlanta
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and I said respectfully [ __ ] you
12:06
nothing matters more than my family and
12:09
my marriage and my wife is telling me
12:10
she's going to leave me and I need to
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get home and do whatever it takes to
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make sure she don't leave me my daughter
12:16
was one years old at the time my family
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is all I had
12:22
so as I was in the airplane she somehow
12:25
got wind to the fact that I was flying
12:27
home
12:28
she has seven people to show up to the
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house
12:31
you covered up the rain camera with a
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covet mask
12:34
so I didn't see and get any
12:36
notifications
12:38
she grabbed 50 boxes packed up all of
12:41
her [ __ ] she took my baby and never came
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back
12:47
so that's the truth
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um if you're triggered by my truth
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I'm sorry
12:55
you don't have a stage in the platform
12:57
to talk about things on your mind she's
13:00
been all over social media telling
13:02
people what she's been telling people
13:04
playing victim
13:06
she does miracle Mondays
13:09
she's trying to create this uh
13:11
environment of women that's like you
13:14
know leave your man type of community
13:17
but I would tell women
13:20
if you're in a marriage the vows that
13:23
you took not to your homie not to your
13:25
friends through thick and thin for
13:27
better for worse till death do her
13:29
support I'm not dead and she's not dead
13:32
so whatever the agenda the goal in the
13:35
mission was
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she ain't here no more
13:39
she refused to come back you tried to
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get her back everything
13:44
uh every first lady of every church you
13:48
can think of
13:49
Taffy dollar Creflo Dollar's wife Aventa
13:53
gray this is what's crazy let me give
13:55
you all this I ain't never told nobody
13:57
this
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so Aventa gray and passed to John Gray
14:03
who I love to this day it's two of my
14:05
favorite people he got caught having an
14:08
emotional affair never had sex with any
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other women
14:12
a woman he just had an emotional affair
14:14
which is also wrong
14:16
and he repented his wife forgave him but
14:19
when his wife listen this way this is
14:22
this [ __ ] will rip you up
14:26
Samantha arranged
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for a therapy session with Aventa gray
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at my house
14:34
the day she left me
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she was in Samantha's office doing a
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therapy session because aventur
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was on the brink of leaving her husband
14:45
so she said you can't leave your husband
14:47
so she arranged a therapy session at my
14:51
house with having to create in her
14:53
office with Samantha's therapist
14:57
so when when Evan to gray walked out of
15:00
her therapy session on the brink of
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leaving her husband so I had to say you
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can't leave your husband
15:06
and arranged a four-hour therapy session
15:09
with aventur in Sam's office
15:12
Craig came out of the [ __ ] therapy
15:14
session
15:16
I got bumblebee in my foyer in Atlanta
15:18
there was 50 boxes in the foyer
15:22
an avatar said
15:23
what's what's going on
15:26
she said I'm just grabbing a couple of
15:28
things you know we going through some
15:29
stuff she's like you're not
15:31
you're not leaving your husband right
15:33
she's like no no we just gonna take a
15:35
little break so whatever
15:37
she needed to say in that moment to make
15:40
Adventure feel like we just grabbing a
15:42
couple things to calm her down because
15:44
obviously if you going out of your way
15:46
to stop me from leaving my husband I'm
15:48
not gonna leave out of the therapy
15:49
session and be okay with you leaving
15:52
yours yeah
15:54
she did whatever she could do to get
15:56
Avenger to pull off and leave
15:59
she left her husband and never came back
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imagine that
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imagine that
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to my Six Degrees of Separation I'm
16:11
gonna stop you from leaving your husband
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at my house and when you come out of
16:17
your therapy session to stop you from
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leaving your husband you're gonna walk
16:21
in on the 50 boxes of me leaving my
16:23
husband while I was in the airplane on
16:26
my way home to try and save my marriage
16:29
to all of the ladies out there I'm gonna
16:31
say this not on behalf of being a sample
16:35
being an empath he's like yo go easy man
16:38
you know women it's feminism out here
16:40
man this women's group man even if you
16:42
say the worst [ __ ] ever about your truth
16:45
people are gonna always see things
16:47
through the lens of a woman you should
16:49
if that's what you want but you're not
16:51
going to stop me from telling my truth
16:53
I'm on fire
16:56
I am a walking breathing time bomb
16:59
I'm on fire now I've moved on okay I've
17:03
been in a relationship for two years the
17:05
love of my life zelly but I want to say
17:08
to all of the women out there who called
17:10
her a side chick a Band-Aid a rebound
17:14
soonest y'all get through a couple of
17:16
months he's gonna chuck her away she's
17:19
disposable and go back to Sam zelly is
17:22
still in the building and more
17:25
importantly zelly never asked to be here
17:27
mm-hmm
17:29
she left her husband and never came back
17:33
zelly was fresh out of a relationship
17:35
and I was too I wanted to be married for
17:38
the rest of my life so before y'all come
17:41
at my girl just understand she was out
17:43
living her best life there was Tyrese
17:46
Gibson Samantha Gibson and Soraya Gibson
17:49
we were very married she left her
17:51
husband what y'all want me to jack off
17:53
on PornHub every day and wait on her to
17:55
come home
17:56
I'm a grown ass man dog
18:00
and guess what here's my last thing in
18:03
closing
18:05
stop projecting and gaslighting
18:08
telling me what I should and shouldn't
18:11
do you know you Instagram therapist
18:12
y'all are amazing I'm one of them I was
18:16
going to say to you I give out a whole
18:19
lot of advice that ain't nobody you know
18:21
ain't nobody actually Paula you know
18:22
nobody needed you to over share and go
18:24
into all that truth is
18:28
why don't you heal
18:30
spend some time alone
18:32
recommit your life to Christ and and you
18:36
know
18:37
heal instead of you rushing right into
18:40
something else you know it's not in
18:43
everybody's cards to be alone
18:46
after you go through a painful breakup
18:48
some people should not be alone hmm
18:53
if you could go celibate you know if you
18:57
can you know put on those celibate
18:59
panties and and and put you put your
19:02
draws and put you put your PP in some
19:04
boxer briefs and never pull it out for
19:06
two year pause if you can go two three
19:09
years and be celibate and be alone and
19:12
that's a part of your process of
19:14
recovering then that's your process
19:16
don't project your process off onto
19:19
somebody else
19:22
I did not need to be alone
19:24
and I knew specifically
19:27
that wherever this woman came from
19:30
because she never asked to be here I
19:32
looked at it and I said God sent me this
19:34
woman
19:35
because I'm laughing I'm flirting I got
19:38
butterflies in my stomach I'm in love
19:41
with this woman best sex I ever had best
19:44
chemistry of any woman of any Vibe and
19:47
I'm not saying these things despite Sam
19:49
I'm not with zelly despite Sam
19:54
Sally never asked to be here
19:57
but I don't think you ever loved me
20:01
I don't think you ever loved me
20:04
um
20:04
because if you did it wouldn't be that
20:06
easy to leave and never come back
20:10
so you [ __ ] can do whatever you
20:13
want to do with my truth
20:15
but I'ma tell my truth and she's running
20:18
around as the victimizer playing victim
20:21
telling her truth
20:23
and she's got her fans and she's doing
20:25
her podcasts and her interviews and I
20:27
wish her well
20:29
but she gonna get this work
20:31
because I'm very vocal and outspoken
20:34
about my [ __ ] I got a double album
20:36
called Beautiful Pain
20:38
and my single is entitled I don't think
20:42
you ever loved me featuring Lenny
20:44
Kravitz and Leandria Johnson
20:47
and I'd like to play the song right now
20:50
you want to play it right now I want to
20:51
play it right now so that we can talk
20:53
and I'ma shut up when we come back from
20:55
the song but since I really broke
20:57
everything down I don't want y'all to
20:59
just hear the song I want y'all to hear
21:02
my heart I want y'all to understand that
21:04
this is a song that I never wanted to
21:07
release these are feelings that I never
21:08
wanted to express in a song and this is
21:11
a double album that I wish belonged to
21:13
somebody else and you [ __ ]
21:15
would be lucky if I even finish this out
21:18
um because it takes me at least eight
21:21
days to recover after I record each song
21:24
because I can't have real yeah the [ __ ]
21:27
I'm singing yeah
21:28
you're a singer just get in the vocal
21:31
booth and
21:32
[ __ ] it's my life yeah
21:35
[ __ ] is hard
21:36
imagine losing a child
21:40
and then having to go do a whole album
21:43
about losing your child you think that's
21:45
an easy song to do or an easy album to
21:48
do I didn't lose a child and God bless
21:50
the people that have even if you can
21:54
sing you think it's easy to go to the
21:56
studio and sing about some [ __ ] like
21:58
that
21:59
oh you're a singer just
22:02
[ __ ] this is my life
22:05
I'm living this [ __ ] every day so rather
22:08
you like my song or not rather you
22:10
spending my song or not this my truth
22:13
the Andrea Johnson's featured along with
22:16
Lenny Kravitz on Tyrese's new song don't
22:18
think you ever loved me big round of
22:20
applause for that
22:22
and the round of applause to my brother
22:24
for always being
22:26
100
22:27
authentically himself in expressing
22:30
himself and the things the trials and
22:31
tribulations that you go through I find
22:33
it quite amazing watching you grow up
22:35
since she was a young teenager
22:38
um to who you are now and things are
22:39
never how they appear to be
22:42
um you gave us a real insight into your
22:46
past marriage and what had happened I
22:47
used to enjoy watching date night I used
22:50
to enjoy watching you happy when you
22:52
were with Samantha so some of these
22:53
things you're saying are you know
22:56
kind of eye-opening and mind-boggling I
22:59
didn't realize that's what happened with
23:01
you guys but I will say uh salute to
23:03
zelly because I also like the new happy
23:05
I just like seeing you happy and when I
23:08
see you with her and I see how y'all
23:10
interact you know I don't know I've
23:11
never met her but you know if you love
23:13
her I love her you're my brother that's
23:14
how it goes you know but um the way you
23:17
expressing your pain you know it
23:19
definitely will raise a lot of questions
23:21
like how did it it seemed like you were
23:24
caught off guard right
23:26
um by her leaving but in retrospect is
23:30
it anything that you feel you did other
23:33
than work hard to contribute to it well
23:35
this is what I will say right because
23:39
unfortunately she doesn't love me enough
23:42
to
23:43
still to explain
23:47
you know I got a song on my new album
23:50
and it's entitled when was it over for
23:53
you
23:55
um
23:55
okay so there's a lot of titles on this
23:59
album that's uh that's as posing
24:01
questions because I have them so let's
24:05
just say
24:07
it was all my fault
24:09
let's say whatever I said whatever I did
24:12
however I said it however I did it let's
24:15
imagine that it was all my fault
24:18
I'll take one hundred percent of the
24:20
blame I don't even know what I'm to
24:22
blame for
24:23
um
24:24
I don't know what I actually said or did
24:30
um and more importantly
24:32
you would expect how abrasive and how
24:36
aggressive her departure was which left
24:39
me there just like pulling out my little
24:42
human calculator I'm pretty smart I'm
24:44
like okay we argued about that and I
24:47
remember I said remember she said that I
24:49
don't care but we made up you know
24:51
pre-marital counseling and Creflo Dollar
24:54
was our pre-marital Council and he said
24:56
he literally dropped his book He said
24:59
I ain't got nothing to do here he's like
25:01
you would be surprised how many people
25:03
call themselves falling in love and
25:05
wanting to get married and they don't
25:07
even know each other every question I
25:09
ask y'all y'all have already talked
25:11
about it full transparency unpacked it
25:14
all y'all have done all the work y'all
25:16
have done more work than most people
25:18
that are actually married pertaining to
25:20
understanding who y'all are and what
25:23
Journey you're all about to take and
25:25
Creflo literally had his book legs was
25:27
crossed dropped the book in the middle
25:29
of our therapy session I said I mean I
25:31
ain't got nothing to do here
25:33
uh-huh
25:34
so wow I can say this this is my best
25:38
answer until she decides I love you
25:40
enough to tell you why I left what you
25:43
said and what you did that made me say I
25:45
was out
25:47
it was not easy to wake up on September
25:49
11th to child abuse claims from my crazy
25:53
ass ex-baby mama
25:56
and
25:58
then they took my daughter away from me
26:01
for a hundred days no calls no contact
26:05
then obviously to take your child away
26:09
from you when knowing I spanked her with
26:12
my right hand directly on top of her
26:15
butt on top of her pants no bruises no
26:18
marks no aggression
26:20
and it was only the second time I ever
26:22
spanked her in 13 years at the time
26:25
second time
26:28
so to have my baby taken away from me
26:30
for a hundred days no calls no contacts
26:34
and then after depositions and a full
26:37
trial including my ex-wife
26:41
meaning Sam
26:44
100 exonerated nothing about anything
26:47
she said on any aspect of what she said
26:50
checked out
26:52
and it wasn't because I could afford a
26:54
lawyer
26:55
I didn't do it
26:57
and there was nothing about what this
26:59
woman accused me of that was true
27:02
so here we are
27:03
one full year of being married up there
27:06
with the Care Bears love Bliss
27:09
butterflies in our stomach we knew that
27:12
this is what we wanted to do for the
27:14
rest of our life and my ex
27:17
like a witch
27:19
at home with a Shriner are you happy huh
27:23
you [ __ ] child abuse claims
27:27
can you imagine the vibrations in my
27:29
marriage and how [ __ ] up it became
27:31
okay because now we're fighting and
27:33
arguing and trying to figure out
27:36
something that we never asked for never
27:38
seen coming and of all days I was
27:41
accused of this [ __ ] on September 11th
27:44
y'all know the significance of September
27:46
11th my marriage got burned down to
27:49
Ground Zero
27:50
so in the ashes here we are trying to
27:53
figure out how to create better
27:56
vibrations and magic in our marriage
27:58
that was ripped out from my ex
28:01
and Not only was I 100 exonerated
28:07
when I finally got custody of my baby
28:09
back
28:11
they end up having two months of
28:13
monitored visits
28:15
over me and Sam in order for me to see
28:18
my child they never sent the monitored
28:21
visits over to the [ __ ] who
28:22
accused me of some [ __ ] I didn't do she
28:25
needed to be monitored
28:27
so now we got monitor visits
28:30
for three months after I finally got
28:32
custody of my baby back after a hundred
28:34
days no calls no contact now I travel
28:36
and I move all the time I'm used to
28:39
being away from my bed but to take my
28:41
baby away for a hundred days yeah oh I
28:44
was [ __ ] miserable so then the
28:46
psychiatrist says
28:49
here's some psych meds that'll help
28:52
stabilize your mood because you barely
28:54
sleep and you stress the [ __ ] out your
28:56
firstborn was taken from you
28:59
so they gave me these psych meds what do
29:02
they give you they gave me some psych
29:03
meds called Rick salty
29:06
[ __ ] me up I was up there with the
29:08
Care Bears for real
29:10
yeah what more do you want from me says
29:13
Mr Gibson that was in that moment every
29:16
bit of it
29:17
okay Will Smith is going to give me five
29:19
million I never even talked to Will
29:21
Smith I was out of my mind
29:24
they took my baby for me my firstborn
29:28
100 days
29:30
I ended up paying for an airplane I knew
29:33
what time my daughter went to lunch it
29:35
was a no contact no nothing I could not
29:37
get access to my baby so I ended up
29:41
paying for airplane
29:43
to fly over my baby's School
29:46
and it flew over her school during lunch
29:50
because it was my only way of getting a
29:52
message to her
29:54
Daddy loves you
29:56
Shayla Daddy loves you no matter what
30:00
and I told them fly for two hours over
30:03
her school so she went out to lunch
30:05
after not no calls no contact with her
30:09
dad worried about me as I found out
30:11
later
30:13
and she went out to the play area and
30:15
looked up
30:16
and my dad never violated the court
30:19
order
30:20
because they didn't put that in the
30:22
court order they said no calls and no
30:24
contact
30:27
but they didn't say you couldn't fly a
30:29
plane over the school um
30:32
[ __ ] wow I'm gonna get this
30:36
message to my baby
30:38
Shayla Daddy loves you no matter what
30:40
y'all can Google it it was all over TMZ
30:42
they had a picture of the damn Planet I
30:44
saw it flying over the scope yeah so
30:46
after I got my baby back
30:50
depositions with Samantha by herself
30:53
with me full trial psych meds out of my
30:57
mind crying video I filmed the video
31:02
uploaded the video
31:04
and the video was on the internet
31:07
for three full months before the psych
31:09
meds was finally out of my system
31:12
so imagine being the butt of every joke
31:14
memes
31:17
all your homies friends people that
31:19
ain't your friends clowning joking using
31:22
your emotional psych Med meltdown
31:26
as the butt of their jokes and guess
31:28
what because I'm a bit of a troll myself
31:31
I would have probably been clowning the
31:33
[ __ ] too yeah you trolled before
31:35
I've seen it
31:39
I didn't like that I was on the
31:42
receiving end of it of the jokes from my
31:44
meltdown but I'd have definitely been
31:46
clowning too rather I know the [ __ ] or
31:48
not but at the end of the day if you ask
31:52
what do you think caused the shrife and
31:57
the energy I think there was a
31:59
particular wear and tear okay that that
32:03
worn on her
32:05
because now
32:08
as much as I can look at this through
32:10
the lens of Samantha I was [ __ ]
32:13
miserable yeah
32:14
um
32:15
and I've been dealing with baby mama
32:16
drama for 16 years right she just got
32:20
here
32:21
and the level of baby mama drama that
32:24
this [ __ ] went to even I did not ever
32:26
experience that level I mean that [ __ ]
32:29
was evil
32:31
going through financial trauma child
32:34
custody court is pretty well we'll see
32:36
you you always pipe up when those topics
32:42
I personally three months we you you
32:45
walked into Tyrese today and you said
32:47
that we were crazy yeah you walked in
32:50
here today Tyrese and said that we were
32:52
family and I appreciate you saying that
32:54
to us and I personally want to apologize
32:57
because I had no idea you were going
32:59
through all of this I had no idea like I
33:03
have brothers you know I have a husband
33:04
you know what I mean I had my father
33:06
passed away but I grew up with a father
33:08
in my house so I I I'm sorry you know
33:12
that you had to deal with all of this
33:14
you know I I honestly I'm gonna thank
33:18
you for saying that give me give me give
33:19
me a thank you I want to just say to
33:22
y'all listen
33:24
the Lord Jesus Christ amen amen is my
33:28
Lord and Savior amen
33:31
and
33:34
there are people who ain't been through
33:37
nowhere near as much [ __ ] as me
33:40
and they're suicidal they're in a mental
33:42
health facility ramming their head up
33:44
against the wall they own lithium
33:46
whatever they it is so many more levels
33:49
and so
33:51
what's really interesting about what the
33:55
hood taught me
33:57
South Central LA watch although it was
34:00
hard
34:01
everything that I've seen and
34:03
experienced and went through when I was
34:05
in the hood
34:06
prepared me for this real life [ __ ]
34:09
yeah it's some [ __ ] that if I didn't
34:13
like there is no greater School of Life
34:16
than to live and experience all things
34:19
Hood
34:21
murder prostitution drugs crack cocaine
34:25
heroin excessive force I was there in
34:30
1992 when the Rodney King [ __ ] went down
34:32
I was in the riots
34:34
I was looting
34:37
I had the [ __ ] military trucks
34:40
in the hood
34:43
keeping us locked down
34:46
I've seen and lived some [ __ ] I would be
34:50
playing basketball with one of the
34:52
homies on a Wednesday he'll get killed
34:54
on Thursday and these [ __ ] expect me
34:56
to go to school and focus on algebra
34:59
I'm [ __ ] up
35:01
I'm a child I've I've been exposed to
35:05
some real [ __ ] my mama was an alcoholic
35:07
for 27 years may God Rest her soul
35:11
father was an alcoholic and a crackhead
35:14
I'm the first millionaire in my family
35:17
I'm the first singer in my first movie
35:19
store I got 10 billion in box office
35:21
receipts on my name I'm one of one of
35:24
one I am from the hood but I'm not of
35:27
the hood right
35:29
so
35:31
sway knows
35:34
Todd Ramen was dropped off many days
35:36
from sway
35:37
me and Gail Atkins who discovered me
35:41
I was just telling Paul Stewart this
35:44
Gail worked at priority records the
35:46
woman who discovered me and she used to
35:49
steal CDs from Priority records not
35:52
anything that was for sale but the CDs
35:55
that were promo CDs where they would cut
35:57
the edge of the uh of the of the CD so
36:01
they wouldn't sell it and so
36:04
the Ice Cube album we had about 20 of
36:07
them uh any other album that was on
36:10
priority records was at the house and we
36:13
used to go to
36:15
um
36:16
the record store that's out of business
36:18
now off of sunset uh oh records or the
36:23
Tower Records and we would sell the CDs
36:26
there in order for us to have food and
36:28
gas money hmm
36:30
so there is nothing about my entire
36:33
upbringing that's connected to
36:35
millionaire look at me my watch my
36:38
Maybach my this man [ __ ] all that
36:41
my peace
36:43
that I live every single day is that in
36:46
my mind I've already survived the worst
36:48
yeah
36:50
and so do I want any of this [ __ ] that
36:53
I'm dealing with that would pop up here
36:55
and there am I looking forward to the
36:57
growth in the character development and
36:59
what I'm supposed to learn I want none
37:01
of this [ __ ] man you think I want a
37:03
[ __ ] crying video all over I'm a fly
37:05
handsome [ __ ]
37:08
you think my level of confidence swag
37:11
and stature when I walk in the room
37:14
homies want to be like me and women want
37:18
to be with me do you think after being
37:20
on psych meds and having a video out for
37:23
three full months and not even knowing
37:25
it was out I did not know the [ __ ]
37:27
video was out there I was gone
37:30
I don't drink I don't smoke I've never
37:33
been high in my life when I can't sleep
37:35
I take an Ambien to go to sleep
37:37
and I'll take a Five Hour Energy drink
37:40
to stay up sometime when I ain't got no
37:41
energy I've never popped a molly X
37:44
Percocet I've never drank red or white
37:47
wine a Heineken nothing ever in my life
37:49
why don't I drink oh that's cool
37:52
it's not cool I don't drink because
37:55
everything about drugs and alcohol
37:57
[ __ ] my life up throughout my
38:00
childhood everything was out of control
38:02
so which made me a control freak so I'm
38:05
not successful because I work hard
38:09
I'm successful because I've worked hard
38:11
as hell to be the opposite of everything
38:13
that I grew up in and around and these
38:16
are the fruits
38:17
so for someone who doesn't use drugs you
38:21
put some [ __ ] like Rick salty in my
38:22
system
38:24
it's going to have the worst adverse
38:26
effects ever
38:28
so I'm online talking by Will Smith
38:30
giving me five million I never talked to
38:31
Will Smith
38:33
and I still haven't recovered from the
38:36
damage that I did to him
38:37
and his family they didn't deserve them
38:39
phone calls I still haven't recovered
38:42
from announcing that Samantha was
38:44
pregnant when she wasn't at the time
38:47
I did yeah everything that was happening
38:50
I was out of my mind
38:53
but then I go back and I look at all
38:56
those posts and it's crazy how often I
38:59
was quoting Bible scriptures
39:01
I was I was operating vehicles on psych
39:04
meds
39:05
so that's saying Jesus Take the Wheel
39:08
he did
39:10
because your brother that's sitting
39:11
right here could have been in jail for
39:13
vehicular manslaughter
39:15
and been able to say that I was on psych
39:17
meds that's why I ran somebody over but
39:20
God covered me even when I was out of my
39:22
mind now let me tell you let me tell you
39:24
what I learned and God blessed Samantha
39:27
for having to go through that because
39:28
she never asked for that nor did I so I
39:31
can say that's my long answer but I
39:33
would tell y'all something that I
39:35
learned what did you learn from it all
39:37
and yeah how did you become a better man
39:39
on the other side of all of this [ __ ]
39:40
I'm going to tell y'all something man
39:44
my mama rest in peace said to me
39:47
You're A Marked Man
39:50
God has marked you even if you go above
39:53
and beyond to [ __ ] it up yourself that
39:56
favor and that oil is on you
39:58
and you're gonna always get to the other
40:01
side of everything
40:02
you know how many near-death experiences
40:05
I had you know many times I would go
40:07
somewhere hit a corner go walk into a
40:09
liquor store come right back to that
40:11
same coin I made it right at it'd be 12
40:13
cars piled up people hanging all out
40:16
dead
40:17
not many times God said leave the club
40:19
right now I pull off and the club get
40:21
shot up big ass fight breakout you know
40:24
how many near death experiences I've had
40:27
something about
40:29
what I carry and what's on me allows for
40:33
me
40:35
to always feel like God's got me there
40:38
you go
40:40
and
40:44
the only connection I can make
40:47
never said this publicly
40:50
but in the Bible it speaks that there's
40:52
life and death and Power in the tongue
40:54
be careful what you say
40:57
be careful what you say be careful with
40:59
the things you consistently talk about
41:02
because you're inviting that energy and
41:04
vibration into your life I had a song
41:07
called Shame
41:11
number one for 16 weeks on Billboard
41:15
the song was being played
41:17
hour on the hour
41:20
the song was number one for 16 weeks the
41:23
song was called Shame
41:26
and I ended up experiencing the most
41:28
shameful [ __ ] I've ever experienced in
41:30
my life
41:33
Shame Shame Shame Shame
41:36
and the shame came shame showed up yeah
41:41
yeah
41:42
um yeah yeah Tyrese man I want to thank
41:45
you brother for expressing today I I
41:48
told you it's my last interview man yeah
41:50
I have to recover from this yeah I want
41:52
I saw that's what it was that's why we
41:54
didn't inject a whole lot I wanted to
41:56
allow you that opportunity in that space
41:58
to talk I always wish you the best you
42:00
know I personally don't like when I see
42:03
my friends love lives and these type of
42:05
things play out in public but you got to
42:07
do what you got to do she has to do what
42:09
she has to do 100 you know what I mean
42:11
she's still the mother of my child I
42:12
wish her well whatever she doing all I
42:14
say is man stop playing victim
42:16
I think the hardest part was when we
42:19
broke up and I finally realized that it
42:22
was actually over lawyers involved every
42:24
time I get a letter I'll be like wow
42:28
this lawyer doesn't know me from a hole
42:30
in the wall so therefore everything I'm
42:32
reading on these 12 Pages you gave them
42:35
that information
42:37
this is how you feel and this is what
42:39
you want yeah these lawyers don't know
42:41
me from Adam
42:43
so this [ __ ] came from you
42:45
that's your signature at the bottom of
42:47
the page
42:48
and then whenever she would drop my baby
42:50
off
42:51
I had so I was so shocked and [ __ ] up
42:55
over it all
42:56
literally if okay this is perfect watch
42:59
this y'all I'm being very literal
43:00
because I want y'all to understand my
43:02
life so front of my house is my office
43:06
and so I would send the nanny out the
43:08
front door and I had curtains and my
43:11
windows are tinted in my office and so
43:13
every time Sam would pull up to drop the
43:16
baby off I'd be standing behind the
43:18
curtain and just looking
43:22
and everything about her energy
43:24
was like she had literally disconnected
43:27
and disassociated herself from
43:29
everything that had to do with
43:30
everything
43:32
we got married in this house we made
43:34
this baby in this house
43:36
we had our first dance in this house how
43:39
the [ __ ] could you pull up to this house
43:41
with so many emotional and sentimental
43:44
moments that we have shared and started
43:47
a family and you pulling up dropping the
43:50
baby off like it's a [ __ ] daycare
43:52
she would get out the car I really just
43:55
singing like this to the baby in the car
43:57
seat she would get the baby hand it to
43:59
the nanny and just get in the car okay
44:01
bye and drive the [ __ ] off and I would
44:03
be sitting in the [ __ ] window just
44:06
like this looking
44:08
looking for something before you get in
44:12
the car
44:13
can you have a moment look up at the
44:15
house look at your life in your world
44:17
that we shared together
44:19
we tore the street sign down we used to
44:22
pull up in front of this house and pray
44:23
in front of the house because we knew
44:25
that our life and our family was going
44:27
to be lived in this house and when we
44:30
got there after we closed we said hold
44:32
on don't take the sign down we want to
44:34
see you pull the shovel out and take the
44:36
sign down we prayed this for sale sign
44:39
out the front door
44:41
and I just wanted her to give the baby
44:44
to the nanny and before she get in the
44:47
car just look up and go
44:55
then get in the car and leave yeah give
44:57
me something that feels like we had a
45:00
life in this [ __ ] for five years
45:03
so I don't understand so this is not a
45:06
song
45:07
I don't think you ever loved me it's not
45:10
because she left me people leave each
45:12
other all the time rather it's his fault
45:13
or her fault who gives a [ __ ] Cry Me a
45:15
River
45:16
it was all the other [ __ ] that happened
45:18
that was so heartless and so abrasive
45:21
and here I am I am the millionaire I am
45:24
the alpha I do got a big ass ego and
45:27
personality but I got the biggest heart
45:29
of anybody you'll ever meet and I would
45:32
have never done that to me I would have
45:35
never done that to her
45:37
break up people break up all the time
45:40
are you in a cult
45:43
you know you walk up to a woman to a
45:45
mother walks up to their daughter and go
45:47
Cheyenne it's me and they like
45:51
I don't know who you and just walk the
45:53
[ __ ] away like no association whatsoever
45:57
I understand women cut off game is
45:59
strong yeah but what was that
46:02
so I don't think you ever love me
46:05
it's for real bro and guess what yeah
46:09
I'm in a relationship yeah I'm in love
46:10
yeah I'm yeah she's patient and kind and
46:14
allowing me to endure this process
46:15
because guess what the reason that men
46:17
are here killing themselves
46:19
I'm gonna tell you why men black men are
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out here in the suicide rates are
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through the roof
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they tear us down
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when we don't communicate and express
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our thoughts and feelings and sentiments
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or our vulnerabilities
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and then as soon as we talk and express
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our thoughts and vulnerabilities we get
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our ass beat and get torn down for that
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too
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but you ain't for I'm not gonna let
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myself Drive Me Crazy from keeping all
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this [ __ ] bouncing around in my head so
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as long as these interviews are
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scheduled [ __ ] I'ma show up and
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talk and if you don't want me on your
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show because I'm too raw and real for TV
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well I'll be on my Instagram
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[ __ ] you're gonna get this work
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my man Tyrese that's my brother right
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here uh
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I hope well I won't even use the word
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hope I'm thinking of your daughter I
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know you'll get it to a place
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where she's not
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impacted
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you know where the Middle where there's
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minimal impact on your daughter
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starters right where it's minimal impact
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on the kids yeah I know you and I know
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you'll get it to that place uh
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regardless right I love you brother
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thank you for your truth
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your ability to express yourself and
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your willingness to put it all on the
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line is commendable we all don't do that
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we all weren't chosen your mother was
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right I Met Your Mother man she rest in
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power we haven't seen each other
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um since then we've spoken on the phone
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the whole nine and I appreciate your
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prayer about my grandmother Elsie Waters
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Grandma's up there with Mama they up
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there dancing oh they're having a good
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time they're proud of us
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up there laughing right now yeah they
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came to heaven with so many stories to
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tell man it's unbelief yeah they proud
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of us man
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um we'll talk again yeah you're always
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welcome here I just want to make sure
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you had a platform where you can express
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yourself
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um I didn't want to interrupt that thank
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you right I thought it was necessary for
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you to just speak and then we'll have
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more conversations all right I wish you
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and Samantha and your daughter's the
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best yes sir all right Sally I'm looking
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forward to meeting him yes sir because
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he invited me to stay at the house when
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I come to Atlanta do they know how
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hungry you are all the time you know
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okay yeah oh yeah the chef is ready
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okay so uh don't think you ever loved me
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it's available now yes his seven studio
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album Beautiful Pain
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it's coming and when it does he's coming
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back up here I'd love to hear you have
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you perform brother hey y'all on all
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streaming platforms worldwide
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and uh pray for me y'all because not
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only did my mother die on Valentine's
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Day and I got married on Valentine's Day
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um the record label I was signed to an
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independent label
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and um they fired everybody they're
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reshuffling which is what most record
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labels are doing so after I put this
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song on the air
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my lawyer get on the phone because we
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like yo why y'all won't call us back you
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know I'm independent I can go drop a
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single tomorrow if I want
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so they said
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with all due respect we we love the song
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but we all just got here we reassembling
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reshuffling things around we won't be
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able to do a meeting with you until six
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months from now
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so with all due respect you're in the
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black you don't owe us no money would
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you be willing to walk on a handshake
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so I don't have a record deal right now
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and yet my song is on the air come on
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man that's the new way though I saw you
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said you meeting with three labels we
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gotta talk about that next time yes sir
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okay I just wanted y'all to know this
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love right here yeah and every time Kev
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is two or two thousand spins whatever
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you streaming whatever city state or
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country you listening from giving me
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love on this song right now yeah means
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more than it's ever meant because in
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success God willing I'll be able to find
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me a new situation and not have to push
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this album back I'm sure you are all
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right give it up for Tyrese Gibson it's
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my brother y'all uh don't think you ever
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loved me it's a new single featuring
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