 Right easy, so I'm not gonna lie. I'm talking easy like this. All right easy What you won't wait? Hey, can you just sing them they told me about you? So I started and so if they start feeding put on your edges I was that you know like, you know, you know housing my home And so when I did that easy say that's him that's him. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one Okay, you you you you went to easy you didn't bounce the way Okay, so I want to hear about easy you can't just skate across I rocked out with easy and and it didn't you know They picked him and how did how was did you have a relationship with him? So this is what happened the group so easy like the concept of the group Singing gangsters. He was like, oh, this is cool and they had a nice look, but they didn't have a sound So when I went in our audition, this is this is the truth I went audition I went to this and I wasn't I really wanted my two cousins my two cousins could sing really well I come from a singing family and so I wanted them to be a part of it And I said, you know what? I'm in college now. I'm about to graduate. I'll be a manager So I went to one cousin and I didn't know that he was he was on drugs And they didn't know that and I couldn't find him for the audition my other cousins the other he He's still a minister music right now in the Bay Area. I went to him. He said God told me I'm not doing secular And I'm like this if I tell you I'm gonna do something I'm gonna tell you about juice if I tell you I'm gonna do something I'm gonna either try to do it or my best if I can't do it I'm gonna try my best to do it and my people and my friends and DJ Cali remix will tell you if I say I'm gonna do something I go ahead and I say, okay, I'm gonna do it to your man of your word. Yeah, I'm a man Well see and that's nothing we need to teach about Today's society we got to start being men of our word if we say we're gonna do something do it If you say you're gonna email somebody email somebody Yeah, you coming back in a little bit come back in a little bit. Don't say it if you're not gonna do it, you know I'm gonna call you I hate that just you know and my My thing is I went to the audition thinking cuz my mom I go like my mom we got your argument And my mother said nigga, you just want to do it for yourself and I said no ain't true My mother told me she was trying to talk me out of it She knew that I really want to do it myself So I went to this DJ and I told him I said hey, I think I'm gonna go to this end of this audition I need a song and so he gave me a temptation song and gave me the Johnny Gil my my my So I'm be honest with y'all. I'm bad with lyrics sometimes Sometimes I have to have to sing a song sometimes 20 times just so I can remember the song And so I only have a lot of time even today. You're still like that Oh, yeah, he was asking me a glimpse that what do you do I sing and sing and sing in my head sometimes people Like are you offering another word? No, I'm thinking of lyrics right now I'm like in my head cuz I'm like I didn't make sure and I go like sometimes we cheat sometimes you do Some people don't even know you do the first verse Mm-hmm don't even realize it but but what happened is I went in there and I put on the my my mind back then You know we had to get that thing didn't we had to get in so I'm all my mom my mom my mom my mom my mom And I'm like I just Got in my witness you remember those remember they used to have the curtains that used to go like this Yeah, the multipurpose and this white boy opens up the curtain and runs out And at that time in the 90s they were doing in Cali they would call you say hey, you want a television Come in and you go there Warehouse and you thinking oh, actually you have a warrant for your arrest They would it was doing that and I thought oh my god, I did something I forgot so I just take off running No, the guys in the group that were there they used to carry these little bats I don't know if y'all see some pictures We got pictures when we had our names on back and they just instinctively picked up the bats and ran after me So I thought oh, I don't know what I did and I'm thinking oh my god like you know y'all gangsters I got to Pendleton's on your sagging like what I'd like I'm like School and didn't remember it so they was running go no no no no his name and his name was Terry Heller Okay, and it was Jerry Heller's nephew And what happened is he goes oh no no no no, you know, it's cool. It's all good. It's all good He said no, I just haven't heard a voice like yours because it now mind you I didn't think that out of everyone in the family I thought I had the worst for wow because I was a teddy pender grass kind of yeah Yeah, everybody else had them sweet melodic, you know, and I thought well That's what made you different from everybody. Did you do the my god my god my god my god Could you pass on a message for me? Tell him put down those dice. What's thinking Lord and I sing a little bit in the front part to a little bit I see I heard it when you said that they had to come get you Yeah, so when it so what happened so what happened is they didn't know no We're just trying to find so I thought that they was full of shit You good Y'all like my voice So what happened is um so EJ was like man, we need you so they said well We're not saying that you're in the group, but can we get your information your email? Can we you know like where you at and I just happened to come home because I was interning for channel 3 Because I'm beyond what you what I really wanted to be I didn't have a hearing in my ear back there because I wanted to be a telecaster I wanted to be on the news. I wanted to be a sportscaster. I wanted to be like Who inspired you to want to be that? You know what how well growing up. No growing up. No, no, no growing up I like to I like acting and I did like to sing but I didn't think I was a great singer I thought I ain't gonna lie. I thought I was I want to be Denzel I wanted to be I wanted to be an actor like a serious actor go out there You know get awards and stuff like that. So I never really thought that and my mother said that I always thought you'd be an actor I never thought the singing part would come along. So So the next day I'm asleep and I come from one of them traditional My mama's one of them church, you know save sanctified feel with the Holy Spirit kind of ladies and all right Someone called us at six o'clock in the morning and my mother was like this better be good She woke me up and I was like I get on the phone and Guys my witness the homeboy from Chris pick they call him pick He was like hey a Lamar. Can you can you do a little Joe to see and I was like in the morning Yeah, I was like dude. Are you just waking up your voice? No, I like great and I go I don't really know that can you I got a fever. Well, this is easy on the phone with me. I was like Right easy so I'm not gonna lie. I'm talking easy like this. All right easy Which you won't wait. Can you just sing a little they told me about you? So I started and so if they start feeling put on no red dress I was that you know, like, you know, you know housing my home And so when I did that easy say that's him that's him And so he said, um, what you doing tomorrow I said what I gotta And he said I need your name needed all the information and One thing I have to say about easy he got me a ticket. He got us a ticket the next day And we flew out to LA and we were met at the airport when holes without it Remember holes without it too. They was there and he was like whatever you want. I mean, he was just very accommodating And it was cool. We met with them They liked us and then we heard that there was another group and they were from St. Louis And that was bone thugs and harmony and it was like we did it back then this I'm real old school We had things called demo deals and the demo deals were three months They gave you a three month three months to be on the demo deal and after the three months once three months was up They had to a day one day to either decide to keep you or let you go Mm-hmm, and I was told that because at the time should night was interested in us we had a lot of people that were interested in the group and At the time our production company whole nine They had just signed a contract with MC Howard. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one You