 Good job. Sir Charles Benio. He been here. Mr. May. Sir Charles Benio. Hmm. How did you and him even meet? Does he know? How did y'all meet? You already know me and Sir Charles. It was like we were brothers at first. First time I met Sir Charles, Sir Charles. I say, God damn, man. Your head's smoking. And you know what he always tell me? Look, I did a show. When you were broke, I know you were good at it. I did a show. I did a show. I did a show. It was cold. But it was outside school. Bro, I did my thing. Killed him. When I come out of the show, Steve was coming on by. No, it wasn't. Ah! So I say, he never made no difference. Steve, come on. It wasn't. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101. 101. Yeah, we gonna talk. Hmm. Bro, let me ask you a question. What are you thinking about you in this movie driving this bad regal? This nigga had this. To my marriage? That old clean. I said, God damn. That wasn't a real old cut. Man, that thing was so clean. What are you saying? What are you saying? Bro, I got 79 cutters. I got 79 cutters. They call me pokey. Big pokey bag. Oh, yeah. 79, wasn't it? Yeah. I do. Don't sleep on me. Man, that whole clean. When did you see my bourbon? When I dropped my bourbon, my bourbon dropped. What? What movie is that, though? Get moving. Side piece. Side piece. I watched it the other night. When is new movie? Now I'm finna do my Denzel Washington. Oh, you gonna go here? Bro, you better learn that. All right. I'm going in with my Denzel. Because I'm older now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you better learn that. So, hold on. Give me a little piece of it. Give me a little piece of it. Oh, he's an actor now. No, I want to see it. I want to see a little bit of Denzel right now. So you said you don't want to be a part of this? Now you know who built this, huh? Who built it? Say it now. If I built it and I put the fortress on it, who's the captain? You or me? Man, what's up, man? What's up, man? Boy, you good? What's up, man? What's up, man? Man, that movie is going to be about, it's going to be about some shit, bro. I'm going all the way back. I'm going back to my kid thing. I got this young man. He's going to do the acting for my kid thing. And I got another guy that's going to the middle age. Middle age. Middle age. Yeah. It's all about how I grew up. I took him from Pine Grove, Louisiana. I grew up in the country. And I grew up with cows and hogs. Man. It was about the city. What is that coming out? I'm doing it now. It's going to take us a full day. I think about next year, 2014. Okay. Poked Bear, man, you're a damn star. You're a damn star. I don't feel like a star. I don't give a damn what you say. I didn't interview you. I didn't interview the lie on the news, man. I'll tell you what I said. That ain't gonna bear that. I said, Poked Bear, bring him over there, man. He's like, huh? I'm like, yeah. I told you. I said, what? I said, Poked Bear. I said, Nicky, you know how long I've been trying to get Poked Bear? I got to get Poked Bear. But you know what Poked Bear told me when he wasn't coming over here? He said, man, I ain't coming over there by myself, man. But they coming. He was like, man, I got something going. But I'm coming. I knew. I knew how God worked, man. I'm too nitty with y'all. Yeah. I'm too nitty. I'm going to end up at the house eating barbecue and eating steaks and niggas. I ain't coming niggas. I'm family, niggas. No sir. Right. No sir. One news, he was out here. I said, what you got going? He said, I got your bag. I'm going to go over there. See, that's one thing about building relationships. That's it. When you're building a relationship, you don't burn your bridge. Not at all. I'm always going to be there. Man. But if you burn your bridge, you better stay over there. Let me tell you something. It ain't never been. And I got Poked Bear number in my phone. And go back to that song and play with me. I got Poked Bear number in my phone. And I promise you, every time I called and he answered and talked to me and told me what was going on. But believe it or not, man. He told me what. If he wasn't here, he's going to say, I'm over here, man. I always a calling and asking where he at. Yeah. Anyway. And it don't never like me and Poked Bear together 20 times. We might go to the studio twice. It don't always be about music, man. It's about building relationships. Building relationships. Yeah. Family. Family. You just want to be regularly, man. Whatever you do for him, to set up for him, he can have a market. He can work when I'm not around. Yeah. So once we did that and we got to step to the video. Once we did that video, I say, go ahead. You got it. You got it. He said, now you got to go say it yourself. Say it. Man, I like that. He's been working every cent. Every cent. Every cent. Every week, new. Every week. I got to call him and ask him what he doing. I'm like, where you at? I said, I'm in Birmingham. Where you at? I'm at Atlanta. I'm at Atlanta. Where you at? I told you. Be your relationship. Let me tell you something, bro. In this business, what you know. It's who you know. Who you know. Who you know. And I'm not trying to say I'm better than anyone else. But when it comes to this business of Southern soul and blues. It's kind of hard to go past me. And I've been telling all these people this for a long time. Because every time they go past me, they got to come back to me. And I'm like, oh, God damn, where you at? What took you so long to get back? I don't know why you went that way. You know what I'm saying? So I then got to a business where I don't peel my capital. Yeah. So now my capital up there. So now I'm like, okay, she is. 53. 55 I'm retired. I told you. That's what I was wondering. 55 I'm retired. And I'm going to run my own establishment with blues. And I'm taking it overseas. Everywhere. Learn today. I'm setting that up right now. You heard it from me. Big poker bell is going down. Man. Lean that. I'm doing stuff right now. I build relationships with people that's going to put me in positions that I need to be in. And a lot of people try to keep you in this box. I keep telling people about this box. And I said, nigga, you can't keep me in no box. It's a different thing. I do music. I said, nigga, I do gospel. I do a church tomorrow. I do gospel, too. I do gospel, army, country. Clean me. Man, from Sir Charles Jones, y'all, every time I see y'all, man, it seems like y'all just growing. That's how it'll be going, man. Well, like y'all just always look like you're having a good, good time. Sir Charles Benio. He been here. Sir Charles Benio. How did you and him even meet? Because he knows. How did y'all meet? You already know me and Sir Charles. It was like we were brothers at first. First time I met Sir Charles, Sir Charles, I say, God damn, man. You head smoking. And you know what he always tell me? Look, I did a show. I know you a good head when you were smoking. I did a show. I did a show. It was cold. But it was outside show. Bro, I did my thing. Killed him. When I come out of the show, Steve was coming off my head. No, it wasn't. So I say, he never met no D.S. Steve. What do you think he has ever seen? Sir Charles. What's up, baby? Fuck that shit. I know it. I know it. I know it. So I say, I ain't never seen no artist to do that. He said, boy, you're the next thing. That's when I first started. Really? They called me pokey. Hey, big pokey bass. That's when I first started. They called me pokey. Big pokey bass. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They throw the song ahead. You know, Older Woman and... What was it on my head? Can't... No, no. I wasn't even out yet. No, no. I did... What's the other one I did? Do people ever request you to sing those first songs that you did? Yes. When I go to shows, they be like, can you sing this one? And I got my sit set up right now to where... When they ask me for something and I got time, I do it for them.