 Do you know That's my friend And welcome back to new Jack thriller city man, yo, I am excited right now man T-Rex You know I'm excited, right? Whenever we have some R&B shit going on here You put me in nasty R&B mode, you know I'm saying because low-key you you know I'm R&B thug You know Bro, gospel sex symbol, the gospel sex symbol man God know my heart and my ding-a-ling, you hear me? Let's get it, let's get it, baby Come on Go in the hell, you got there on a full scholarship You hear me, he know what you do He know what I want, please give it to me Come on, come on So we about to get this show started, but before I do that got to introduce my co-pilots today Alright man my cousin, blood cousin I always got to do that He's the godfather of the crank movement, y'all give it up for a little playboy Alright one thing about it podcast y'all give it up for money talks And this is my favorite girl in the world she got her own radio station TKO radio y'all give it up for Chelsea Speaks Hey y'all And today we got a legend, I thought he was a Atlanta legend But he is a Nashville Tennessee legend, Nashville Tennessee legend But he wrapped the A-town, we claiming him, fuck that I like to call him the R&B Mr. Brown The R&B Mr. Brown, y'all give it up for the one, the only, the only singer Lose control, lose control in the name of Jesus Now how you doing sir? I'm doing pretty good man, parking lot, pimping, trying to catch that ride You know how to do it Come on, right What would Big Red say, you sing, you dance, what is it that you don't do? Bullshit Oh Come on now Hey bruh, like I'm really excited to have you on the show man Like I said I thought you weren't coming, I ain't gonna even front I thought you weren't coming man You all wouldn't disrespect you like that bruh In the name of Jesus, I was praying on him I was praying about it I asked him, you know what I'm saying, to deliver you and that's what he did And you came in here shining man, you know what I'm saying, got your R&B You came in R&B that day Got your school clothes on Got my school clothes on Got your school clothes, so you know, I want to see everybody's school clothes for this episode real quick Playboy you already know what time it is Yeah Let me pop it up Yeah Oh, okay, that was something cool, like Let's start off with the kicks These are some Hunter boots I got a quick story about these, right? They're about $220, I literally just bought them from Marshalls yesterday for 60 bucks And these are a woman's shoe Only a real woman can make a woman's shoe look this good, right? What do you say? They're a male shoe now Everything else is pretty light, you know, your regular Nike sweatsuit, pants, hoodie That's what it is for today Hunter boots, we in there I love it, I love it Alright Chelsea, show them your school clothes Alright now, alright Did they like sundro of 227? So y'all know, I love to support black businesses, so the skirt is Shop 119 The top is H&M Women Are Dope is my brand And I love my sneakers There you go That's what's up, Imani Okay, let me get myself together Right Amen, amen and a woman Damn, it ain't that simple about that Oh, the boots That's complex Boots I think are These are Steve Madden The tights are Naked Wardrobe The skirt is Pretty Little Thing I'm sure And the top is Forever 21 Come on now, amen Lil G, show them your school clothes, man Let me speak to how to know what to say Okay Damn Man, teach me how to dress Man, what you call this right, cause check this out When you're getting ready for shows and stuff This is one of the most major parts Of getting inside superstar mode Man, put us on some game real quick See what happened was with this See I just put on some put-em-owns You know what I'm saying, I just Picked out some things out of my closet This is a special shirt Cause as you can see it says the Lorraine Motel That's with Martin Luther King So they did a play The Lorraine, the Inkwell Productions More Productions, so I went to that Got this, so I copped that Man, the only thing that I know With the name brand of me is my shoes It's the Jays, you know Throwing this little satin jacket For you to kinda spruce it up a little bit Show y'all some props Y'all's props for doing what you're doing over here Show them mad respect for y'all Yeah, 100% man The new people call it Putting that shit on And you put that shit on That's what's up, that's what's up man Let's get right on in there Listen, Lil G, you are quite The epic, I mean Legendary creative that you are But more than anything You're an instrumentalist, you're a musician Out of all the musical instruments You play, which one is your favorite? Hold on, how many instruments do we play? It's crazy, you play instruments? Yes, sir That's his big passion I play in a little 13 instruments 13 13 He is on the market man What the hell? No So, my favorite Is gotta be the guitar Really? Why the guitar? It's tied between the guitar and the piano But I'm gonna give the edge to guitar Okay Um, Prince was like My musical mentor Gotcha Gotcha And though he played everything too That's right So, but some about that guitar I just get a feeling when I'm out there in front With my wireless pack on I can walk around the room with my guitar And just shred it if I want to As long as I want to And things like that To get my musician rocks Okay, okay Do you think you have an alter ego Or is little G your alter ego? Um, now You know, it's Little G, you know, from silk and everything Now my alter ego is G7 Talk to us about G7 Cause I know the flights and all that But why G7? You got something up under there? Mhmm Okay G is the seventh letter of the alphabet I'm the seventh child I'm the baby of my siblings And seven is the number of completion So I put all those together To come up with G7 That's my name for my new project G7 No Parole I'm sentenced to life in music I ain't getting out Okay then Sentenced to life in music Okay, married to the music So I was doing a little research on you And I thought it was highly interesting That you actually had the chance to perform With Dizzy Gillespie A lot of you don't know that Like you've really been in this for a minute From your whole tenor at Tennessee State But you played with Dizzy Gillespie Like, talk to us about that Yep, it's my HBCU Tennessee State University TSU TSU Jazz Ensemble Yes, sir I was the piano player for the jazz band And Dizzy came to the school, man Through Professor Prof Kurt Rest in Heaven He was the director for the band One of the directors for the band And Everybody out there in Nashville Didn't see what it was about But anyway, yes So he came, man And he was actually standing right there In front of me, man I was a little nervous at first But then I got cool And I said, oh man You can't be nervous You gotta shine, man So I just got into it, man And I saw the jaws Popping out and everything Like that Hey, it was a wonderful experience One I would never forget As a musician Wow You said that kind of set the standard For your whole performance as a musician You being around such legendary people Because you're an overall creative You did theater A lot of things people know that you do So do you think that kind of helped you Translate that into your musical composition style? Yeah, I believe so Going through my years in school And everything Because it was a God-given talent All the instruments I play And everything is God-given talent And when I was younger I couldn't tell you what I was playing I could just listen to it Pick it out And play it like that, yeah He blessed me with perfect pitch Yes, he did And all of that kind of thing So music has just been my life You know, I just started When I was five years old Around the house My mama would clean up On Saturday mornings And she'd play all of her favorite records And all that kind of stuff And so I just started singing to Michael Jackson And Stevie Wonder Asley Brothers I bet you were tearing it up And so on and so on and so on So it was being nurtured into me From the jump And then Went to church I was just finished, right? When I was seven You know, I sang with Bobby Jones Bobby Jones got home You did? You did? Get out of here Yes, he did You was in it, innit? I was in it, man I was on stage with James Cleveland Shirley Caesar and Bobby Jones And Cleveland Ohio at the age of eight years old At the Gospel Music Workshop I used to go to those workshops That's crazy, man So you was ordained to do this From the kick-rand Jesus name told me you better get out there and do it Okay I knew when I saw you at New Horizon In Mississippi performing Because I'm from Mississippi Yeah, yeah I saw you singing your heart out So with that being said What part of your spiritual journey Kind of opened up and let you know That it's okay to do secular music Because when you grow up in the church I'm a pastor's daughter A lot of times they kind of be like Nah, you shouldn't sing this or that So what kind of freed you And allowed you to go ahead And step into the secular world? I think what it was Going through my history Going through school and everything I was playing secular music as well In school, talent shows And all that kind of thing and everything And then I became a church musician At my home church Would you sleep with all the ladies Because you know church musicians be Or no, I'm just I'll go ahead If you want to answer that What's so easy about church musicians? They say church musicians Had a pretty flagrant selection I just met her I'm sorry, man Hey, you know what time it is That's right, man Jack Thriller's Beauty of the Week Hosted by Gigi McGuire Show me these hotties Come on, Gigi Let's go Who's coming with me? It's your girl Gigi McGuire And I am also known as Miss Show me the money for yours Don't know Okay Today's Jack's Beauty of the Week is I'm Juju Juju, hey girl Hey How you doing? I'm good Damn, Juju Juju How old are you, honey? Actually My birthday's in two days I'm 30 You'll be 30 Yes In two days, so Dirty 30 We're dirty 30 Dirty I'm here for it What are your birthday plans? Sleeping Girl, you're tired I am tired What about birthday sex? Ooh I gotta find a man first for that I'll do it I'm gonna have to take him up on that Okay So We're in Aquarius Yes I'm in Aquarius Okay And what might I'm sorry And what's your hometown? Where are you from? I'm from North Carolina What city? Hey It's real small Yeah Goldsboro Goldsboro It's like an hour away from Raleigh Okay I'm not out there Not out there What brought you to Atlanta? Money I know that's right Good answer Okay, let's get spicy What's your sexual interest? Be strictly dickly We doing a little licky, licky What we doing? I do a little bit of everything No Okay Try anything once Okay What about twice? Would you consider yourself bi? Yes All right I bi How much you go? What you doing? What we doing now? And Beyond a favorite Position Because that's so basic We're going to go with What's your favorite sexual activity? I like getting my nipples set Yes, ma'am This is crazy This is crazy I like sucking nipples This is nuts It's going to match Made in Heaven if you ask me I got some matches on me Let's go And some wax Let's do it You hear me I thought your tits played So What are your thoughts on the 50-50 relationship? Well, I mean, I'm cool with that I prefer though To be taken care of But I'm cool with 50-50 Well, let's do what you cool with then Let's do what you cool with Cool with still one And how often have you Or will you fake an organism? Oh, I'm not doing that Never ever faked it Nah, I'll yawn I might, you know, cut my hands Okay, if you yawn I'm going to put something in your mouth now If you yawn So, it turned long So in the event that That turned long, what? Real long So will you eat the booty? No comment I am definitely one to Have a little anal fun Pleasure play when it comes to the bedroom So you're saying I'm here for it Gigi, I can sit on your face That's what you're saying I cannot sit on my face I don't know Okay, gotcha I can sit on my face So what about if I was on all fours? All fours is my face Let me tell you something If I can get a man You can On all fours You can Ain't nobody trying to hear that bullshit So, let's end it on a high note Where can the people find you? At Magic City, actually Come on, Magic It's giving up alumni Okay, I love Gigi I was wondering why you look so familiar I am Gigi McGuire The originator of the snack pack Okay, that is me That is totally up my head Yes, I'm your sister Oh my God Yes What is it giving? I was meant to be here today Juju, what is it giving right now? Match made in heaven Okay Just getting matched in heaven Yes, ma'am It was nice meeting you You wanted to answer it Well, you know They put those kind of stigma You know, on the On some of the preachers And some of the deacons And, you know And then, you know Musicians and things like that You know, you know Jesus wet when I see why Okay So, but yeah Yes Yes Oh, lose control Now, what were we talking about? So your church background You being free to go into the secular industry What was the catalyst? When was your freeing point? I think it was, you know Singing with the marching band At Tennessee State You know, I started doing that too You know, I was traveling with them And there was a guy In natural Tennessee There was a really popular club The modern era club People like Ida James And James Brown You know, a lot of other people Had been through that club And it's been in existence that long So there was a band down there And so Michael Johnson He was the guy who worked down there From Mr. Sue So he knew I was Playing and everything And stuff like that So he came and got me And he said, man, you know what I want you to come on down And I want you to try to audition You know, for this band I'm like, okay cool So I took my guitar down there You know, the band was up there They were doing pretty good You know, it was rockin' and everything And so I did Kiss Interesting choice By Prince Yes Little did I know You remember the movie Cadillac Records? Yes Oh, how cool You know, they call them head hunters? Yes I became a head hunter Because at the end of that night They ended up firing the guitar player And told me I was the new member of the band I felt so bad Because I was like, I didn't come down here You ain't coming to do that And taking nobody's place I mean, if you wanted to have me to it But what? Wow But you took that niggas job Anyway, neither here nor there Sue said it back You don't have to be rich To get in the band What? So I think that was my transition But I was still a church musician Wow Sunday morning, so Friday and Saturday Hey, what's up, man? You know what time it is It's foodie call Now what a foodie call is Like I told you That's when you take a girl out And she had no intentions of giving you some But you didn't spend a lot of money So today we got Gigi McGuire And we got another comeback Because it's comeback season With Chef Torres Yo, Gigi Tell us what Chef Torres got for us today Show us the money It's your girl, Gigi McGuire Miss, show me the money And it's a foodie call with Chef... It's a foodie call with Chef Torres And this is what we like to call Crab Rangoon Okay You gotta roll that tongue And from what I know about this dish Is that it's sticky on the outside Oh, shit And white and creamy on the inside Okay So it's giving a perfect dish For a foodie call What's that you, Chef? I say the same Most definitely it's crispy It's hard on the outside Oh Like she said, sticky and hard on the outside Nice and creamy, gooey and... Delectable Absolutely On the inside Everything you want So I definitely like it hard And it's definitely gonna be a little stickier After it pulls out And I'm gonna put it in my mouth And I'm gonna have the white stuff It's giving It's giving But I'm still not gonna give him none Okay Because this is a foodie call And on the foodie call He ain't getting no booty But again I might give a little tease for this one too It's the sticky for me I'm a sauce girl I'm a sauce girl I like it saucy I like it wet I like it covered I like the lick Okay It's really not about me You had it right You know you can lick the sauce off You can bite it Let the filling just burst in your mouth Oh You can get messy with it Talk that talk, chef You can enjoy it any way you like But it's gonna be very enjoyable That's for sure Very enjoyable Very enjoyable for the foodie call How you feeling over there, Jack? Hey, you so nasty And I just might do anything you ask me My nature hard is still Does she feel real? Hey, tell him how to follow this nigga So, chef People how they can find you Better get up Instagram Chef Therese T-E-R-E-S Not with a Z Not with a Z And although we are here In the beautiful state of Georgia The city of Atlanta Where the peaches are peaching You travel as well, correct? I will fly I will drive I'll end up right at your doorstep Okay I don't care how you get there That's hard and sticky For that ass And very clean We'll see you next time On Foodie Call See anything saying? How did the church feel about that? Did they turn it back on you? Did it work? You can't serve two masters? Did you get that talk? You know, you had a couple of mothers To do that But even the pastor He didn't really go there with me like that He gave me my congratulations Because he knew music was all in me And then I was kind of known as the The gig king in Nashville Because I was at a lot of churches And doing little secular gigs And stuff like that I had a little production deal With a guy from famous music publishing And I recorded two songs And those two songs Was what I actually auditioned for Silk In when I became the new lead singer What were those two songs? One was called The Rose Can Only Grow From the Rain And the fashion was called I Got a Thing And these were your songs? You wrote those You did some originals For your audition You got some balls I liked that Auditioning and being discovered It was Keith Sweat, right? Yeah, y'all was young Yep, we were very young We were really a group A four man group And Keith was actually five It was already five then Wow Once again You had it again Again? That's how I was looking But the good thing about this situation Is that he already knew it Because Keith had wanted a different sound So it was about that audition And later on in life I just got to be like maybe two or three years ago I just found out that C. Lil Green was also one of those Wow You heard that, right? Yeah, I definitely did I think he still, he feel away about it too, bro I asked him that like two times And every time he look at me And he's like, I think he still feel away about you, bro Have y'all ever talked about this? We talked about it, we cool as a fan Okay, cool Yeah, by the fact Anyway, I can't say, but you know That's my dog We might be embarking upon some things I would love to see him I'm hoping, and I'm praying I'm getting ready to take it right to him I'm gonna be like, hey, let's do this thing That's gonna be fine So we're gonna see what happens That's a hell of a story right there, man Don't poke me But we're gonna see what happens Now, God got this But two more gathers This isn't happening Yeah, man, so My transition was pretty easy, you know So, in that, you know When I got to Tennessee State I was in a program called the inroads program And that was for business and engineering majors And computer science and stuff like that And so, I've had a meeting with the president And I opted out Because I had the bud I couldn't sit still I had that bug, so And then I said, you know, why Don't try to open it up Because there's more black, Hispanic And American Indian students Than want to do more than that What about the people who want to do music What about who wants to act What about people who want to Do some other industries out there Stuff, you know, so I opted to go on and take my chances Okay Thank God, you know It worked out for me So, I became I changed my major in music With emphasis on piano and voice So I even did opera I saw that So I did a couple of operas in In college and things like that And so that's where I Learned my preservation tactics You know, for my vocals You know, a lot of people ask me that You know, how you still doing like I just remember Those practices that you learned in opera He taught me back then, you know Where to bring it from And you know, never bring it from Your throat, you know, all that kind of thing So majoring in music Like you said with the piano Which is at your voice You feel like College actually helped you in the long run In your career Or you think it was just, you know Something that, because I know Most people, they feel like college degrees Don't mean nothing nowadays Because we all want to be artists and creators But for you to have a degree That goes towards that What's your insight on that Well see, I think Where it really helped me It helped me to learn the theoretical part of music You know, the nerd stuff Yeah, the nerd stuff The money To all everybody out here Listening and watching Musician, singer, whatever Make sure You get theory Because I don't care what you're putting together Even if you're putting together Just a hip hop beat You know, you gotta know meter Pentameter All of that kind of thing You gotta know staccato, legato You know, you gotta know tone I play piano What? I thought I knew you I started singing opera when I was younger Yeah, I was an opera You were your major if you were already with the guitar And stuff Well, I picked piano because If you learn piano You can learn anything Learn everything Huh? Circle of Fist Chromatix Everything man, so Make sure you get that under your belt Yeah, I'm not the best reader in the world But I can read It's important You don't ever know what kind of Venue you're going to step up in And they're going to hand you some sheet music And be like, okay, sing that like that Right on an audition You gotta know how to read them notes Would you say you brought I was just going to say with your background Like with music and theory And everything and really learning it and being in it Do you feel like artists nowadays are less well rounded Like they need to learn more about Actual music before they get into it I believe so And it may not necessarily be their fault What it is Is that Microwave It's quick Your record execs They started it Back in the day, they looking for their quick fix That's why Longevity music Is not really around Like it needs to be Some of these artists out here and right now In the next two years In the next two months And you know That's something we were talking about last night Listening to your Projects One thing I appreciate about Lil G Is that you ain't trying to conform With whatever the trend was You always stay true to yourself And gave us the Lil G sound When you ain't doing trap beats You know shit where you start rapping Or some shit like that All of a sudden you're drinking I think artists like yourself You know what I'm saying Start doing shit like that You remember on Fireheart Beats When Flash had them Turned into some other shit with the box Towards the end I hated that With the horsemen Flash and the fire horsemen It's lonely at the time Worst transitioning career I couldn't do it I couldn't do it I'm doing a disservice To my fans To my loyal people To my future fans And everything else Because you can't Go out here and give somebody Somebody you're not Because it's going to become unveiled At some point How do you feel about that With having writers write for you If somebody is writing something That you don't 100% agree on Or turn it down Yeah It's always a way to Work out creative Creative connotation It's always a way to To Find that happy medium Things like that I'm that kind of brother I don't like to turn anything away Because you never know Unless it's just bad Bad That you thought was bad But it ended up being a hit That you recorded That's why I'm careful about that Because you never know Because there's been some stuff that's come out here And it's like Boom, number one Yeah So With your success in the group Do you feel like you're prepared For how quickly the fame grew When silk came out For that level of success Even after being known in Nashville Really Any of us were ready What happened bro Give us a story Surviving silk What's here Dock you pick Coming soon You guys still touring You still touring together What, yes Book, book, book Matter of fact, December the third Will be in Miami On the tour, yes But yeah Uh We were recording the record The last song we did Was Freak Me The last song Church Boys Right Tennis Wow Is that what happened She didn't Rest in peace here mama Yeah Happy days were the first one we did I mean it was jumping Well had to be you Boom Freak Me Y'all back You know what I'm saying Let's get this thing going What's up Pete You gonna see these Trust me out But anyway How we gonna do that Y'all gonna Get them in there and do this Trust me man you gotta trust me Man our mama's gonna kill us man What are you talking about Pete Our mama's gonna kill us man You just gotta trust me I gotta do this trust me I'm telling you So we went on in and we did it We put that hump dragon on it Number one Out the box 93 That was when Freak Nick was Freak Nick Yeah You had Freak Me During Freak Nick Crazy Duranged How old are you 21 at this time 20 Wow No one man should have All that power I'm curious Did your personal life Have an uptick after that came out You didn't have no girlfriend Right then did you Oh Don't tell me you was that church Dude And then you was in the group You wasn't him was you No So you was able to Go ahead and be a R&B slinger right then Stick it move right It went down Elevator Spacement Crazy Please Please I got five on it No But It was quite an experience I remember The first time I was in my brother's Caprice Landow In Nashville, Tennessee Riding down this road Happy days came on the air I had to get out the car I parked it I was running all around the car And then when I got to the house I was like ma Everybody I saw them on the radio They ran it Da da da Da da da Yeah So And after that man we just started Started hitting You know he started taking us out places He would always put me up To battle against somebody Me against Johnny Gill And all this kind of stuff Live shows and stuff like that He's put you on a spot Tell the truth did you smoke Johnny Gill Johnny Gill is a great singer He's amazing He's an amazing singer man I think I held my own I don't know if I killed him Very diplomatic I don't know if I killed him I've had these conversations with people We put you Tank Johnny Gill Who is another power singer And what not on I was up here arguing with this white boy About two years ago And he was going so hard for you So hard for you And then I ended up Having to give it to him like a year later After I watched some live Concerts with you I've seen you for millions of times In person I've opened up for you before But this is one performance that you did At a Lakewood Amphitheater And I was like you know what That white boy was right And he got a little G Got some pipes This nigga got everybody What do you have like six octaves Yeah I think it's like that Wow I think it might be five now You know Message But anyway Do you come from a musical background Is your mom In the business or was your dad In the business or are you the first one Inside your family to break out like I'm the first one in the household To do it like that You know my sisters And brothers could sing They could sing and everything They did the church thing But nobody wanted to Pursue anything Larger than they like that My mother had a golden voice She was in the choir So I played for my momma Singing and everything We had our little gospel group together The Jenkins family Yeah you know My sisters and one of my brothers and everything We used to sing a church and everything And I was the musician All this kind of stuff It's always been in me My uncles My uncle and my cousins Preachers Things like that There was few musicians Family and things like that But my grandfather John D. Southall I'm left handed So I found out He played guitar He was left handed Now My sister I play right handed My sister and her husband My brother Ray They got me guitar lessons When I was nine years old So the instructor Was right handed He flipped me over I took lessons for a year And then he came to us and said I can't do any more for him He needs a higher level instructor than me Now What were they grooming you for? What was they grooming you for? They were getting ready for you for Was it some kind of plan For you to be this young And what now What was the mission inside Your family's plan for you What was that? I think they realized I had a gift And they wanted to hone in on it And they wanted to Be supportive of me to keep it going And to Try to succeed Musically and everything And stuff like that And you wanted to do it You weren't pressured to do it I had that tick I got to go I got to go I got to pick up a music instrument Word Give me a microphone Does your family ever pressure you to So when are you going to do a gospel album? Well it's Funny you say that Yeah Especially my Sister mama Sister mama we all got one My sister mama she's the The oldest girl And So That's the one who got me the guitar lessons Her, Beverly and Ray So they just kind of Nurtured me up under them Took me under their wing and stuff like that man I'd go everywhere with them They'd always have me with them and stuff It was fun Now I don't know if I'm really supposed to Say this right now But Everybody get ready Because I'm going to finish Where I started We getting one real soon Take that as you may Okay It look like it's going that direction It definitely look like it's going inside Of that direction I can imagine you Making the gospel version of freaking you Or lose control Man you can flip any of these songs You can flip any of these songs They do it all the time Kanye did it You ever seen that before? The Sunday service They be flipping all the 90 songs Yeah It's possible How do you feel about that? You know Ray Charles used to do it Would you allow them to do that with one of your songs? Would you allow them to do that With one of your songs? If you didn't do it I want to press you up and down Right I'm weak Right And I won't stop Hey Let me read the bible baby Wait a minute Let me see I won't stop Let me read the bible baby Your grace don't stop Okay Because hell is hot We'll figure that We'll figure that Let me read the bible baby Because hell is hot I don't want to go Come on So you said you want to finish what you started So in the industry A couple things happened with the label Electra and then Silk So you made a statement And you said that Because there were some things that you wanted to pursue Individually In reference to that statement you just made Can we correlate that you really What's the unfinished business? Well I started it off With my first album The other side What is the other side? The other side Is The real Gary The real G Jenkins The musician I produced I wrote I played all the instruments I had other people come in And write with me co-writers Co-producers and things like that But the other side Because I was always known As the crooner In the lead singer of a five man group Nobody really knew about Like you said nobody really knew The instrumentation The musicianship And all of that other thing They didn't really know that I produced I produced on every silk record And Wrote on every silk record You know so Yeah That's it With your song being a real like I categorize it as like really like Silky smooth like R&B We don't get that anymore R&B it starts on a like rap almost Like do you think like are there any artists That you listen to now that's like okay That's kind of like our song back in the day I love her Okay That too Yeah that's one too but It's just her Overall Music Her vocals and everything She's got an old soul Definitely Young beautiful You know and smart You know Nationwide is on your side Come on Check Her did that Yes So I've always said That there's room in the Industry for everybody You know it's just that Some They learn their place You know some need to Hone in and stay On their place You know not to put yourself in a box You know because you can always Have a creative flow with anybody You know in the industry they don't do what you do Sometimes collaborations are Some of the fireish things that come out In the music industry you know so I'm a firm believer in that But It's a few of them out here You got this new kid Sounds Like Marvin Gaye October London Yeah so I listen to I still listen to hip hop What you listen to Normal day in your car Normal day in your car what you poppin in You know I'm Having tendency to listen more to the Older hip hop Oh your course I still get into it You know I can get grimy sometimes You know You know I even produce tracks like that You know I have a couple of With 808s on it Hip hop tracks and things that I'm You know that I got in the bag I'm gonna try to push them out to somebody You know listen to the young thug Don't ever push yourself into a box You know what I mean Yeah Tennessee got a lot of big hip hop Artists that's taken over right now Like they ain't really been on a map this big In a while probably I can't even really remember Do you have any of them that you think might be Your favorite or you might see Having longevity in the game It's a few of them Out of Memphis You know what I'm talking about Gloria London That's your reference St. Louis You know St. Louis Money bag yo Money bag yo Yo Gotti R.I.P. Doff You know I think there's some longevity there I think they're gonna be around for a while If they keep doing what they doing You know Matter of fact Hip hop is the quickest way To venture off into movies Everything You know what's happening It's kind of Harder for us R&B guys But I always say I always give homage to hip hop too because Hip hop came from R&B 100% If you think about it freak me with hip hop and R&B Really? You gotta put me on with this Freak me with Don't you understand I wanna be your nasty man Okay It's rapping Definitely rapping When you ventured off You were doing a lot of theater You worked with Tyler Perry How was that? That was a great experience Yeah It was really great A lot of people still to this day Couldn't be talking about It ain't over Hey G It ain't over Yeah I still get Accolades From that And I've done the numerous amount Stage plays Worked with a lot of Different Playwrights Things like that over the years I started doing that With Michael Matthews In 1987 How many plays you think you didn't done After that? When me and you got on the phone You was right in the middle of Doing a play Right You was in the play with My home girl Andromeda Yeah She's a comedian And I think it was What's my man Everybody lonely Sir Charles No it wasn't Sir Charles Wasn't his play Man I did Mama's Boy I just did Child support I can't remember Child support sound like a good play What's that about Pastor Out of Nashville, Tennessee My bro Gary James Wrote a play called Child Support I did the theme song for it It's about the ins and outs of child support The rearages How they get you caught up The rearages and everything Stuff like that It's a dope play You're going to see it Coming around in the future Coming back around You know he got about 15 kids How many kids you got How many kids you got Gary Dose You ever been on child support Me neither You're married right Me neither I'm divorced but my kids came out of my marriage See He did it right That's that church in you Come on man We put no stereotypes on my man Can't have no babies out of wed life Do you feel like your music Sometimes drove a narrative That you didn't necessarily live Like people would think of the freak me And all the different songs that you were highly sexual He is I mean yeah but do you think that it may have Been a little bit more You know exaggerated than the truth No, well you know everything Is going to be sensationalized in a way So you just have to be ready for it And just let it you know be what it is So you embraced it then He was responsibly sexual That was good You just got to be responsible with it That's all That was a good question No But uh yeah Two beautiful girls Garen and Xana Blue Do they want to be in the business Well my daughters can sing You know my oldest daughter Can sing a little bit more than my youngest daughter But she's very creative As well And uh I was Started to work on a project I'm going to take her country I was just about to ask you about that After you go ahead go ahead I'm going to Produce a country album for her So coming out of Nashville Of course it's the country city The country capital of the world Cause I was going to ask you Did you ever think about doing a country album Do you got some songs in the cut already You know He look like I see a K. Michelle collab What do you think Is most misunderstood about country music Because a lot of people think it's so different But it's a lot like R&B Black people create a country Folk music The slaves To that You know Folk music is the first country music You know And that was us With a little guitar and a little Washboard or whatever Little box Things like that Wooden box and stuff like that That's where it came from Stomping your feet And I'm waiting for you baby I want you to come with me To ride down the speed And my horse in cash Fingers dizzy You know what I'm saying Watch this Smoke stack lightning You know what that is That's a Don't you hear me cry Woo Yeah how it was Come on man How did you catch that right after real I'm a DJ Come on now You be DJing some country shit My dawg we gonna talk He get around man That's what's up man Let's talk about the G7 Project Because We been waiting on it since like 2021 You got a date I'm ready to hear it You singling us to death The other side The other side was crazy now That was over a decade ago So we been waiting for this G7 to come man Like I was telling you earlier Don't say nothing just make that sound That's my cut Girl shit the fuck You hear me The sound you make before you About to scream out loud Come on man Yeah I just Put up today Inside out From G7 No parole Now the first single that came out From that was That's My Baby And I Done pretty good And I did a video for it So I'm getting ready to try to do a video For Inside Out as well And So Maybe in about two or three weeks from now We're gonna release another Two or three weeks from now I'm gonna keep it going Until I get every song from that thing out And The meantime while I'm doing that I got another special surprise for y'all That I'm gonna do It's gonna be a seven Song EP I see what you did Number of completion Bringing it back And That's not all It's going to be A Reno That's daring That's pushing the envelope a little bit Something needs to be said What you re-making I see what you're going with it I'm brewing I see exactly what's happening What are you doing? I'm in the dark Is it somewhere in your mind That you feel like Although you've had the blessing To work with so many amazing partners There's something about you when you do a project And only you The only you can accomplish Is that feeling in that narrative anywhere Because I feel like there's a part of you That feels like it still ain't been done right Okay Gotcha I'm sort of a perfectionist I'm a queryist A queryist You in your head Yeah I like a woman Who loves me For me So you prefer like your solo work To when you were in the group You prefer just kind of like doing things yourself Making sure it's what you want it to be Yeah Being in the group I love it That's my family That's my business family You know what I mean Sick will never die We still got the five original members right now But I believe That there is Prongs on the tree The branches Point different ways on the tree But The root is still there The roots The bark is still there Quick question So when you get booked By yourself Are you able or allowed to Perform the silk songs Or you can only do that when they book silk That's a good question Yes So the other members don't get mad If you take bookends by yourself and sing the silk song We've had We've had our situations But see but what I've done Is I do it in a way As to where not to Interfere I change the beat or something I do medleys I do medleys and things like that When you hit it and quit it I do my parts On those songs and things like that And then sometimes I've got one mix That's It's called the munchies mix The munchies mix Yeah Whole different track None of the tracks from the silk music But I've infused it As to where I do Some of my most popular parts Of the song in there Yeah There's so many layers to you You're a true creative Do you paint? Do you do anything else outside? Because you're creative I feel like there's something else you do That people don't know about I can paint a little bit I draw a little bit Things like that She's very intuitive Oh yeah, 100% What's one of the biggest misconceptions About you, Ludgy? I'm kind of like an open book You get what you get You get what you get I don't need strangers But I don't want people to think I'm a fool either What you mean? I'm nice Very caring Very sharing Very giving But there's that tick button You cross me You Treat me unworthily You know, in some You don't Might get that two piece Don't take your kindness for weakness That's it Don't take my kindness For weakness I've been in this industry for years 30 years as a matter of fact Mmm And in those 30 years What is the best advice you've ever gotten? And then what's the worst advice you've ever gotten? Ooh The best advice that I've gotten Would have to be To stay true to your craft Number one And then number two No matter who's Put in positions To take care of your stuff To take care of your stuff Still take them Stay on your business In the background Don't micro-manage You know anything Micro anything but just know what you know That's right We got a couple minutes Situation shift I got a card game here I want to ask you a couple questions Oh no, I don't even know what I'm going to ask though I'm going to just pull them out Whatever we get is what we get Entanglement or situation shift Yeah Shout out to the Tonya CEO The situation shift I might have picked some good ones Man, okay, okay, okay Okay, okay, okay Here's one Why are you single? Are you single? Yes Why are you single? I'm not necessarily single Okay I mean I'm not married I don't know What do you consider Single? I say you're single until you're married That's what I say That's what women say That's what women like to keep their options I don't agree I say you're single until you're married I don't be just out of my husband But some people will say My boyfriend or my girlfriend That counts as being taken But you saying you're not single I'm not married He said I'm not married He said when you found them texting Head of household Married, divorced, widowed Single Single check Got you What's the cornyest thing you've ever done While in love While in love Corny Corny You know, let's define corny real quick Whatever he thinks is corny Corny is, a lot of people think Lovey Dovey stuff is corny Like real R&B, doing some R&B Shit You know what I'm saying I think the new people call it simping But it ain't simping, it's just being a gentleman It's going out of your way Right Yes, just to give you some content I can't necessarily I did anything corny Well, yes I did Don't hold back now Come on, let it out I took a ring out of crackerjack boxes They were you married me How old were you? I'm sorry Oh lord Oh lord They don't got them names Message No, I was What was that? I was like, I was 19 That's cute That's cute That was cute until he hit it That's cute until he hit it You know I was just bullshitting You know he doesn't engage On this crackerjack This is not real This is not real Okay, we're going in with this one This is a cute game In your past relationships What lesson has stuck with you the most? Alright now This is a whole lot, I like this Communicate, be honest Communicate and be honest I think that's it That was a lesson for you, you were better communicating Yeah, you know how some of us Me and I sometimes We don't talk a lot, right fellas? Right, but you know I'm expecting a little G R&B, I be talking I be talking too Yeah, I'm coming from here You know as an R&B singer, I imagine That y'all be excellent at communicating And saying exactly what's on y'all Is that one of the misconceptions about R&B singers? Must be It could be Y'all just like us Yeah, just like niggas that don't sign Yeah, cause not all of it, cause you know Sometimes we just don't want The confrontation We don't want to hear all that You know, we roll We roll like Have you ever sung to a woman The first time you met her to try to win her over And get it Oh I'm so impressed Oh that's a given Before or after Your sister said Before So you didn't do it after? After they already knew Oh this Lil G, you didn't sing to girls anymore They used to ask me to Okay Yeah, they used to ask me to do it all the time What you saying That ain't you, say it for me Let me Say something You know how they do How y'all do something That's hilarious Hey Lil G, this is always something I'll be wanting to know about When you get your first big check What's the most Ridiculous thing you ever bought What's the stupidest shit you ever bought Man that was So long ago, I can't even remember what it was Let me see Was it a fur coat Was it a leather Outfit made out of alligator skin Was it a water bed In my bed I've got a brass water bed I have an Italian chef And Vinny Stratagaccio Something like that No So you always been pretty good with money then Yeah I've been pretty good because coming up You didn't have a lot of it This makes a lot of sense I had to learn how to You were saving from the get grain My momma raised seven of us by herself Right Her and my grandmommas Pops wasn't around So We had to Do it now And I watched my mom She did her thing So Always I always said to myself I would never Be that dude To depend on a woman to take care of me I would never I would always try to be The one to take care of A woman Them And I learned to be frugal In an early age Because during my time of Being a church musician And doing being in the club on the weekends The monies that I was making And stuff like that I was splurge here but once in a while I'd take my leg Europe and somewhere And things like that But most of it I was trying to Do something More with it Ended up buying my own car Things and stuff like that You have to I always said No matter how far I went in the industry That I was going to stay grounded And rooted like I was Even at church So that's What's been able to help me Be my same person as I am today Because I wouldn't let The industry overtake me As to where I just went But while crazy with it You know what I mean I've always had that Thing in the back of my mind Watch yourself stay on the ground Bruh It's easy to do Really quick to lose yourself In this industry Y'all know that Yeah so It's been a battle it's been a struggle Sometime you want to slip Hold on What keeps you grounded You know what I'm saying Level From slipping and jumping off Stay prayed up And I remember where I got All my talents from And if I don't use them right Snatch them right away from them That's what keeps me there What is it that's kept That same DNA in silk Because we see a lot of groups that don't even Communicate no more They may get past a second of their album But you guys still have the ability To come together for the business What's in that chemistry mix We brothers And we've learned Even though we don't have all the same blood We really do Because We decided to come together As five individual men In order to do something To catapult Our lives So We've been able to do that It's been kind of rough Sometimes it's been like Like a rollercoaster, like a slope But then you get to a point where After you get through that You get through all the hustling The bruises And the pain and everything If you can get through that Everything else is like butter So We learned how to learn each other You know Individually I know what he's going to say I know what he likes And don't do that Because he don't like that You have to have a diplomatic A diplomatic approach To everything You take votes on things I might be our voter You got to suck it up Jimmy might be our voter He got to suck it up So we learned to do that We've had our knockdown drag Everybody does it But we learned how to get past those It's almost like I was told At one time you never take Your life out on that stage When you go out on that stage You're a totally different person Because Those people out there Are who are keeping you paid Or who are supporting you You're not supporting them That's where some artists Lose it You know, they be like I'm losing Let it be Two people out in that audience And you don't get your check So So we learned that We can be in the dressing room Knockdown drag out SILK Baby, bring you Right, ain't missing a beat After the show Oh my God And then we hug it out I'm sorry man, I love you That's what's up That's one of the benefits Of being in a five man group That you can do majority rules If three say left and the other two say right Everybody gotta go to the left I was in the group once and it was four of us So we used to always be split down in the middle And we could never get on the same path That's why we're working You need a one more nigga That's a call in the manager Or the road manager Johnny Come here Did you guys ever Have any tension between girls Choosing one of the members and the other guy One of that girl or something like that I'm sure it was enough to go around Hey man, that's what I heard why B2K broke up And a lot of people broke up Some people put it out there Yeah He ain't gonna tell you about that That's what he just said He ain't gonna tell you about that shit Nah We affirm believers in She let you You bet you Wow, okay Why do your face look so serious though Can we zoom in on this face with that He just said some pimp shit just now What's the pimp shit right now What happens is when I go into Pimpology 101 I had that face on my face Y'all gonna take me seriously Y'all gonna take me seriously If I don't have that serious look If she let you You bet you Goddamn Your girl chose me, nigga We can get into Some gentlemen's handlers like gentlemen Luckily we ain't had none of that Got you But you know that's When you had the right Mind frame with people It helps with your congeniality Yeah Hey, that's the word for the day Guys if she choose whatever she choose You gotta let her choose that and keep it moving baby It is what it is I'm putting an end on this No man one guy that I think And this is let me know He always reminds me of you when he performed He performs like you Bruno Mars Bruno Mars Do you Do you see yourself in him Have you ever met this guy Haven't met him yet But I was told and I heard That In his sound checks Sometimes he does Some soup music Huh I can see that That's how you stretch yourself out Doing some little G runs Well thank you If you gonna pull out A little G run You can sing That Bruno Mars man He's a beast Total beast Much respect Much respect You think silk Played a part in silk ason Hmm Hmm There it goes Shifty in here I kinda wanna say yeah Do it You gotta do it Yeah because you know I would be proud For them to have considered us You know like that For us to be a part of their makeup You know in their thought process Yeah so I hope so Hey Bruno Comment Last question for real If y'all was to do a verses Who'd a soup do a verses with Jodesy You know it He said it with his chest You heard what he said Little G thank you for coming New Jack thriller city Thank you for having me You wanna say the new jack thriller city For we get up out here my boy I wanna say to everybody in here In new jack thriller city You guys are the epitome Of the quad I've had a ball up in here y'all It's so laid back And it's so natural You know you can have fun You know everybody's They serious with it but they crack the jokes And everything and they allow you Me the opportunity to do that man This is a top notch Top notch y'all man I need that shit And DJ DJ D-Rex Sick with it Okay Sick with it y'all We got some referrals So hopefully They'll have me back Oh you damn right As a matter of fact we gotta do We gotta do like Do like a listening party Version of this show Will you come in as long as saying Play the songs sing the songs You know what I'm saying let us help you promote this Message You like that Message Well like I always say you just can't say you really Something you gotta be man Lil G We up and we out here let's take some pictures T-Rex let's go Y'all proud to get We almost had it