 Baus, Baus, Baus, Baus Yeah, we on Baus Talk 101 Yeah, we on Top, we gon' have fun We be on five, we be Lidly It's a unique hustle, big shit Big shit, big shit It's a unique hustle, nigga, big shit Big shit, big shit, big shit Name another podcast like this Check it, check it, check it, it's a unique hustle It's your boy, E-CEO And I'm here with the lovely, amazing official What's going on? Man, we done touched down, man We over here in Los Angeles, California This is the third time being up here Man, but we got a jewel here today Man, we didn't get this guy This guy right here, man, he don't need no introduction Man, you guys know him If you frequent the city and you watching for the R&B Gurus I ain't giving him the R&B King, he locked up right now Check it, man I'll take that What's up, what up, what up, y'all Thank you, Stuart, thanks for having me here No, thank you for coming, man No problem It's just an honor and a pleasure, man To be in this Los Angeles area, man Checking in with this boy Keith like this, man Hey, man, shout out Is it Teresa? She's amazing How did you guys link? Through social media, yeah I was posting things and she just saw me Through social media, her daughter's an artist Correct She was like, okay, you want to help me I'll take that because y'all like the way you move So it means you was great, yeah So have you always wanted to be a singer growing up? Since I was a little kid I've been singing, being goofy since I've been little But To take it serious is something else Because in this game It's hard, it's not easy Yeah, but you got to love it That's how you survive, I love it Absolutely, I love it So are you like every other R&B singer In church first? The funny thing is I grew up in church But I never sang into church until I got older Really? Yeah, my whole family is gospel into church So I would be a little kid watching them Like, look at Granny, look at Auntie And then now here I am singing So why didn't you start out singing in church? You just didn't want to sing Or you didn't have confidence in your vocals at that time? Because I could sing but I was shy And just being in public at that time What does that look like? You have confidence but I was shy To display it Because if you have confidence If somebody says sing, you're going to jump up in front of the crowd And be like, oh, I'm ready Kill a nigga like me, rock in the building That's when it's on I walk in that thing, I'm going to be really judging you I'm judgmental And I'm going to be like, that nigga can't sing better than me Oh, shit I'm going to say it like that And then I'm going to be like, nigga, what's up? Remember Michael Jackson and them They didn't really fight but they almost fight Right, right If Dan's off for the sing-off, there it is So what made you so shy? Like what made you confident but shy? What was that about? I think the confidence came in I knew once I opened my voice people were going to love it But just the fact of people staring at you At that point, I don't feel like I was ready For that stage then Because you don't know what they think Now I can take it now But back then I was a little kid So what did your vocals come from? Was it your mom or dad? Were they both singers? My grandmother She was like one of the famous gospel singers Called the Stuart singers She was singing with Shirley Cesar The Clark sisters She was singing with everybody What's her name? Jessie Stuart, mother of Stuart Wow, that's awesome So you saw when she did all of that I seen it, she was just demanding I want to do that one day So do you have any brothers or sisters? Yeah, I'm the youngest out of four I got one older brother, two older sisters Can any of them sing? My sisters started off singing but they got too cool Too girly, too I picked it up and stayed with it Okay, and were you raised with your mom and dad? Mom and my dad, they're still together Beautiful parents Major blessing these days Because there's so many people who sit in that same seat That you're sitting in Raised by their moms Their fathers was a rolling stone Or was in prison locked up So you were born and raised where? In Compton, I'm born and raised from Compton So seeing a lot of your friends Were they the same like you Or were they raised by single parents? Single parents So did that make you feel special? Or as a kid, you don't really think about it I didn't think about that When did you think about it? Not until I had kids Until I thought about This is really serious I don't know if people really got issues out here Are you together with the mom? No, I'm single Anybody want to help me? I need a woman in my life You're about to say I need a baby mom I don't need no more baby moms I need another woman in my life I'm just going to be honest with you I don't believe you You're on that Instagram, that DM is popping You got your damn shirt off Who you think he fooling? That's the problem Come on man, I really see what's going on They don't want a guy like that The good woman Seeing that be like, oh no, he a playboy Right, that's not even the case So appeal to That perfect woman who might be watching you Right now, tell them Why? And who are you? And why should they choose you? My name is Keith Stewart But I can cook I'm a good father I can sing, I can sing you to sleep Sing you to bed, sing you panties Okay, here we go That's what he come out with He want to sing a panty You can't do that, you can't do it right Man, what was the song that you When you was If I was saying, man, I need you to audition To be To make a meal ticket right now What would be the song that you would sing To show you how it works Give me a little bit of it, you ain't got to go long Let's see Say yes to this Cause this ain't so bad Say yes to sex Even when we get mad Say yes to kids One day We'll have And say yes to love And I'll say yes to that Man, I like this man I like this man That's dope, man Yeah, yeah, yeah, you gonna get in there at the end, that's what's gonna put you in there I think there's something About a person who can sing R&B in this day and time You got some guys out here now that You know, they rapping and singing I just interviewed T-Rail, I just interviewed Deriz Deshaun They're rapping, but they singing a painful way And they rap, but it's not R&B all the way It's a different way that they do it Are you trying to convert R&B into something else Or are you really trying to stay grounded in R&B No, so I'm trying To convert it into something else R&B obviously is the soul And the heart of where I came from But because I have this youthful energy To my life I feel like I'm transiting with each Music change that goes on in the industry Music is constantly changing I feel like I'm constantly With that flow of ideas And how the world is shifting Do you think you have to change it because R&B is dead? I'm just asking because It ain't never died, you know It ain't never died to me It's just not exposed the way we need to expose it So, you know, just like when Usher Did that little thing That little thing he was singing Everybody going crazy now They're saying putting it out there like they should be Can I see so many R&B artists Changing it Not traditional R&B They're changing it to more Whether it's pain, music I call it because they're singing with that pain It's not that love-making R&B Everything is about pain And suffering and all of that I still love it, I like what the new people are doing A lot of people before us What happens when baby-making music Is the one? That brings up a good point You know, R. Kelly is Considered to be the king Of R&B Now he's locked up There's room for People to step up to the plate They locked him up because We don't agree what R. Kelly did But the music can't be denied The talent with Michael Jackson The talent with Aron O'Island The talent with Charlie Wilson You can really take this guy out Of the scenario in my eyes But what do you feel about it? That's one of the main reasons why I do music R. Kelly I'm sorry people might not like that But Lauren Hill, Michael Jackson, R. Kelly Like he's one of the guys How I do sing my backgrounds How I looked up to R. Kelly For the positive things he was doing in music So I can't never take that away from him The man worked hard Yeah, he did work hard People trying to separate the two And it's hard to do Because of the way This whole thing transpired So it's like, dang Band is music Cut it off, don't play it I'm telling you what people are saying You got those on that side And then you got others to say We'll never stop listening to R. Kelly So it's a catch 22 It's just so Terrible the way you see A lot of the brothers Once they do get to a certain level Whether it be Bill Cosby and what he got caught up in I'm not saying these guys Or I'm not saying that they're Whatever, I don't know the case I don't watch it that close anyway But just the mere fact That seeing Bill Cosby as a Doctor when I was little And seeing what's that Old girl named with him Y'all know Felicia Rashad Seeing her as a lawyer Seeing them having a family And not divorcing but standing together That stuff inspire people So you got to make sure You don't get lost in the sauce And not get to understanding that there is some good One thing Paul said, and I'm going to get out of this Paul said every time I do good In the book, he said evil was present You'll never have good without evil Wow, that's deep It's real So let me ask you What's been your music? You know what, I've been writing Stuff since I've been I would say junior high school But far as when it got on a serious level My first placement I say with Marcus Houston How did you get that? Growing up in the church We call him Bernie Mack But his name is Marcus Hodge He's like the music director for Keisha Cole, Marian A lot of people, so at the time I was working with Marcus Houston And I did some records And I got a call with Nissan Stewart I don't know if you guys know who Nissan Stewart is And we did it at Universal Records How did you feel When you got that call? I felt ready But when I got there, it was my first experience So I'm telling Because he had sell millions of records already So I'm like, hey man, you doing my song And he's like, nah, you tell me I'm like, you want me to tell you? He was like, yeah, so then I was like Okay, I'm on now Damn You brought up What did you say his name was? Marcus Houston Marcus Houston Don't he got a brother named Omarion That's Omarion's brother Then they do an R&B Something like that A verse of stuff tonight Just a month ago It's just coming to me And I'm glad you brought that up You know, I just want to know What was up with that? I mean, it seemed kind of weird to me R&B is something that Already is struggling out here To try to be seen and noted But there was some things went on With some guys that night Like Ray J Me and my boy Mark Lamar talked about it I didn't know about it until he told me He said Man, you know, the verse is going on I said, what? I said, what? They got this going, they sound horrible But who? They sound horrible Both of them sound horrible Who sound horrible? Uh If you look over there Who sound horrible? A lot of people I know for a fact Our name dropped And I'm about to use this interview on me One day they might need you And they're like, oh, he did that I remember he said that So, I mean, do you think that A lot of this stuff is fluffed up Like you just gave us an organic sound A while ago, but there are so many Machines in all type of ways To tune music up to where The voice is not even eloquent enough To sing in that tone On that level Of music, is this happening a lot Or am I tripping? No, it's happening every day Milly Vanillie should be right up here With everybody else Okay, I'm going to play I'm going to say it the other way Maybe they're having a bad day That day the vocals are singing They know bad days They just chosen They can't sing So they find other ways to get to the bag In music still You can't really prepare like To try to get your machines right In two days they'll be like It's going to be this week And you ought to do it in two days And they're like, damn, let me Do I got an auto tune mic? So can I lip sync in this thing? So if you were the manager There that day What would you have done When they went on stage and you heard it Would you be like, cut it, you coming off What would you have done to help them No, it was all for publicity I mean, I feel like it was good It was a lot of views, I feel like it went the way It was supposed to go I feel like it was part of What should have happened for them They didn't bring in tank, they didn't bring in Real singers like that besides Mario So what did they expect to happen? Man, and you think Mario saved the day Mario was decent I'm going to be real with you You bring in a guy like Kim In something like that, it's a problem Oh, Kim is a beast You got some serious singers, bro You bring in Joe Oh, that's one of my favorite singers Any of these guys you bring in Tell me what I gotta do That's what I'm saying, so You do have some good singers out there But what I hate that night was so tragic For R&B Somebody died Somebody died You definitely dismantled something For Mario I'm sorry Shout out to Mario, they used to work with his brother Shout out, no That's his cousin I thought that was his brother That's how I got over it I knew they had something They used to be cool but they They're not cool no more Damn It's funny how that's something else I wonder what caused it though Probably a woman Money All that So do you feel like When you think about Just where you came from Some of the relationships you built Over the years This is a good subject because I've been going through this personally Sometimes people leave Sometimes people stay Have those things happen in your career Where some people that you used to deal with May not be there anymore for you It's a journey that happens all the time It has highs and lows Some people around for the right reasons Wrong reasons but in time You can always figure it out Why people are really around you I agree So you said You dealt with Marcus Houston I know that opened the door For a lot of other artists Request your services So who came next after Marcus Houston and how did that happen Jamie Foxx was right after Marcus Houston How did you get that hookup That was crazy Which Jamie Foxx Jamie Foxx the actor No no no I'm talking about the Jamie Foxx Was that before Ray or after Ray Or let me say it like this Don't answer that yet Was that before Kanye West or after Kanye West This was This was after Kanye West That's a bad boy The house in Hidden Valley Because he had two other places So the house he's still at now This is then That's a bad boy at that point The old Jamie on the show He was just clowning and singing At this point he got in the full estate He had already Horses everywhere in his backyard He had already did that drink I'ma buy you a drink Was that him in T-Pain I think it was that one Alcohol that one That was him in T-Pain I believe so So he had done that already And then you came And what song did you write The song that I wrote for him It's called translation So he hasn't put that out yet Because it was supposed to be for his artist Marcus Anthony Jamie wasn't supposed to be on the song I went there to go work And Marcus Anthony Which he lives with Jamie at his house He's his background singer So he's in there working And Jamie's like what's this Who's that Then he come there and put a verse on there I'm like what the heck But they never put the song out I know what they doing over there I know Jamie like a book I'm a clown so I know clowns He be cutting up He's so talented How long ago was that This is maybe like five years ago Wow Don't you hate that when you do work And they hold on to it don't drop it Yeah but it's part of it I wish I had that on them I wish I had been over there that day Sometimes it's just about the memory It's about the pride Because ain't many people Can say what you just said I know and I think about that all the time That's the part this don't You didn't put it out I don't care if they put it out I just want to be over there Doing my thing and Jamie I just interviewed Mack down in New Orleans And Mack said something that was so dope I was like he's like man Yeah I went on Scarface and him They got a podcast too And he was like yeah I got to rock out with face I was like damn you got to rock out with face He said yeah I said man did you record it He said no he said And they both were playing it together And I think it was the fact that he got to do it It wasn't for the public It was for him And I thought that was dope cause you know We talked about a guy that did 21 years in prison Come home and everybody's interviewing him Be high of all these people that are interviewing him And he gets to Scarface And the only thing he wants from Scarface Which he's a big fan of Scarface Is to rock out with You see what I'm saying So that's what I'm thinking about I had to get it It was too big of a state So you got it Let me put that out there You know what I'm saying Let me put that out there See then I'm not invited Because I don't think he's gonna I don't think he's gonna want that out there What the hell fun is it to have it and can't use it Just to show my kids and show my son Like you know what daddy be Do you know I was here So let me ask I heard his parties are historical Never, that's the crazy part I've never been to none of his parties I just always wanted to go and work with him And just develop that kind of relationship You know, so I would love to though I heard they're crazy I've had so many females It's the females Which one, I know the females Faison said it was crazy Somebody was another male I can't remember who it was I thought it was a female I can't remember right now It got to the point where I was going To his house so much that I would go And just tell the security of my name He had two gates, like one gate He has like a long driveway And then another gate You gotta say another code again I'll just tell him my name And they be like old keeps here I just stopped going I stopped going I did That's exactly what I was thinking You know what, I'm going to say this No, I'm going to say it anyway Because I'm going to tell you what these folks do And they do this all the time Shout out to, yeah, I'm going to say it A Y Cliff Shout out to What's the boy brother His brother named something wonder Jerry Wonder Shout out to these guys They've had a moment But they bring a young buck in So that they can get that energy feel I already know that I know this I know this So this is what they So they can feel Just feel that feeling again because they know That feeling is something they're trying to get back to And I never smoke crack But drinking The first time you have sex It's a place where you're trying to get back to That you can't get back to So you say, you know what Let me just get around somebody Who hadn't made it but hungry Like I was at that time And if I can get around it Then I feel it It's kind of like Saul did that with David And the Bible, I always go to the Bible He just wanted to be around him He just wanted to be around him So he could be close to him When he got close to him, he felt better Because he was sickly When David would come around because he had the knowing on him He felt good because he played a harp And it made him feel good because God had an knowing that David is king And Saul was being moved out of the way I'm being real, so this is That thing that they're trying to get to They want it back Wow, wow That's deep, no, you're right on the money with that He said the Royals before I even said it I'll tell you something No, that's the truth So I want to go back to, you said you're from Compton When I think about Compton, you think about Compton, that's one of your videos It's called Bompton You think about the gangs, the violence The hood, all of that So it's Compton, Bompton The way how everybody perceives it Hell yeah it was That's how I grew up, but it's not like that I can't really say You got areas You done grew up, you not in it Like you would Right, right, right You know what, my workout routine I go to Compton like every other day Just to work out, because I grew up there So I jog around the city Places people would think, what the hell is he doing there But I still work out there Really, so is it like Shout out to Atola Mar Shout out to Compton Menace Shout out to them boys Shout out to Kendrick Lamar Right Shout out, I'm shouting out Them boys over there, they come for them But the thing is Do you feel like Coming up with that pressure to be in a gang Or just explain to me what it was like Coming up in Compton When it comes to gang related issues Trying to go to schools So my dad was A really respected gangbanger So me and my brother We didn't grow up like that because He already put us on a game He just taught us how to fight So a lot of gangbangers, and I'm an R&B guy Would be trying to test I'm sinking, but they'd be like You don't talk like you bang, you don't talk So they'd test it, but because my dad was Really out there He taught us, and I'd be Beating up gangbangers Just big, six, eight Stories So I was like, bro I'm in a path where I'm going to be on a stage I don't want to be having no enemies Or doing that, because I don't gangbang I don't have no alliance No, I can call, hey blood I don't have that, I'm just trying to do right But I'm crossing paths because I live here So I was like, let me just stay away from this And focus on music That's dope, no It sounds cheesy Because it sounds like you were scared to be in the hood But you weren't, you really just didn't I was beating them up, you know I was beating them up I tried to throw them under the bus You're like, no, I was beating them up I'm the one that's beating them up But it feels good to make it out To try to give back to the youngsters Because I believe that if a man Get an opportunity to be something special He always has to have some type of Give back to the youth Or give back to the community What do you do to try to give back? My most precious gift to me To the youth is knowledge I try to share knowledge because We waste so much time Making Decisions that we shouldn't make I try to inspire people and say You got a dream, go after your dream Don't let nobody discourage you Because if you want to settle down You can settle down later But right now is the most time you should take risks At this young age Take risks and experience And get knowledge on whatever you try to achieve Get the knowledge on whatever field you're trying to do That's what I tell them What I want you to go into After Jamie Fox Who else did you work with Or who else acquired your service Something about Chris Brown That was the big I'm not going to say that was the biggest But that was so crazy But Chris Brown is like The youthful Iconic artist of our time right now He's like the Michael Jackson Of our time right now Did he reach out to you? I have wrote The song for this TV show Called Hell Date I don't know if you heard it So when I did that This lady Deidre Graham She was over at Def Jam with Kevin Louse Yeah, Kevin Louse Went to New York Me with Kevin Louse Jumping on the cow stone Peanuts because it was out of me and Trey Song When Trey Song still had the braids Before he cut his shit He had one girl in there Telling me who do you want Keith Stewart or Trey Song She came in and I'm looking good So she's like I can't choose like why you want me to do that Front of him so that he never chose Then he started turning up Trey Song Throwing peanuts everywhere I'm like man he been Extra because Trey Song is his artist It didn't work out But Deidre Graham was like man Keith I know you the shit You tight so one day I had all these songs that I was writing And she was best friends With Tina Davis Chris Brown's manager For the first time and they went to college together So now I'm at home my baby mom at the time I'm taking a shower And then I get my phone ring She's like yo phone keep ringing Give me my phone So I get the phone and Deidre But her boyfriend name is Chris Which is her business partner So she's like hey Chris wants to meet you At the studio And I'm like why is she telling me Chris She's like I'm with Chris Brown right now I said what the She's like what's up from therapy I mean from his therapy to take him to the studio She was the one that was picking Chris just them to So she in the car they talking about therapy stuff And she's my music is playing in the back So he's like hey no no no What's that what's that She's like she's trying not to be one of the ones Like hey I got me I got Cause they have a real relationship But he's like no no Turn you turn it up what is that She's like oh that's one of my artists Keith Stewart My songwriters can he come to the studio right now I'm like So she's like I go to the studio this dude in the studio Singing the lyrics To my song I said how he just how you know the lyrics That fast like I said how you know the lyrics And then he is girls in the air Rockstar which is a big producer And then he's like hey everybody this is Keith Stewart He wrote two songs so I said two I said he done picked two of them So we right there He like Load the file up load the file up You got the files I'm like yeah Here you go see they load the files up Then Sean Kingson bitch ass I'm sorry He come in there I'm sorry I'm sorry He come in there I'm sorry I'm sorry Because he came in there With a big gang of weed up in there With this dude named Sam Hook Who wrote the stuff for Trey Psalms So I'm sitting up in there Because I'm trying to be respectful Because Deidre is the one that brought me And I'm trying to be good business So now they come in there And now they going through tracks And I'm just sitting in the corner He puts your stuff out You done already tried to get in there This man playing I'm sitting there I'm like Man we ain't gonna record that Next thing you know I'm out the thing But my files was in the thing Next thing you know he goes to jail And then so I'm thinking Because they saying my song is going to be a single Next thing you know he got the royalty album The song is not even on there So then following summer Which is a few months after My boy called me hey They put the song out I said nobody didn't call me and tell me Nothing what you mean but I'm excited Because I'm like hey Chris Brim put the song out I got my what song was it It's called Pussy He put the song out I used to go look it up And it was on the mixtape though But I said he still put it out I got my credit but he put it out And I was excited like damn he didn't even tell me He didn't want to he didn't But you gotta realize that Oh yeah he's telling me who else I wrote for it too I forgot You wrote for so many people you forgot BBD they like an iconic group I wrote for them For real? Yeah I did two songs with them too When was that cause they ain't didn't You can look it up They still working Is it song out? It's called Operator Sing it let me hear a little bit Operator Help me get my baby back Cause I never meant to hurt her And I just can't give up on us It's like that Really and you basically Who sung that part Ricky Ricky is the dark skin one Yeah that's who it would have been Michael Bivens wasn't there Don't sing like that No it was the light skin one The tall one It was only them two there But that's dope man You gotta say it with them and talk with them The same thing they have with Marcus Seustin I'm going there cause I'm like They tell me They telling me to tell them what to do How to sing it Because your vision How long does it take you to write a song What do you get inspiration from Does it depend on who you're writing it for Is what you write Or you just write a song If I get a beat I'm just going to go Off the top of energy But if I get an artist I'm going to ask questions And what's their story so I can make them Feel it Man Give me the top three artists of all time Did or not It don't matter to me what They could be rock and roll stars Who's your number one artist of all time Did or not Michael Jackson Whitney Houston R. Kelly Man Michael Jackson You work with Chris Brown Is Chris Brown better than Michael Jackson It's a rumor going around That he might be better than Michael Jackson For his artistic flow His singing His flipping in the air In one spot That they kind of count Mike out on this, what's up with that No, it's like explaining Omarion and Usher It's like okay Of course Omarion is technical and can dance more But when Usher is overall Going to give you that show That experience Usher is going to make you feel like that And even though Chris Brown is UFO And doing all these flips and all that Michael Jackson's mind is so creative He's just going to give you an unbelievable experience You can't even top I always argue the point that Which Michael Jackson He went through so many phases His star power stayed so long It's hard to go back now When you Chris and you 19 or 16 17 and you doing your thing What about when Mike was 5 and 6 You can't compete You can't really gauge it It's hard It's not even close So if you're talking about that Who would you say would be better Between Usher and Chris Brown That's a hard one there Why? That's hard You agree with that For me You agree with that It's hard man Are you talking about vocals or overall Chris Brown Why? Because he's overall He can do different things And Usher can't Like what? Like he can do pop And do this country song And it makes sense and it doesn't seem like it's forced Like Chris Brown when he does things It seems like it's just natural Sometimes Usher we see like Brother don't do that move Or we'll see something like Don't do that man But I've never seen something Chris Brown's doing I'm like don't do that I don't know about that Man my boy Usher had a powerful move They did a versus If they did a versus If they did a versus Who win? If they do a versus Usher's winning If they do a versus Usher's winning But you asked me my opinion That's because You work with him No Because from what I want to see What I want to see I would rather watch Chris Brown dance Because I think it's cooler He uses futuristic type of things Like his mind is always changing It's not like one thing Like you never know what to expect with him But with Usher it's going to be sexy It's going to be just good vocals It's going to be safe And so for me I like the wrist Okay So that confessions album What Chris got that ever topped that confessions album Nothing That superstar Was hard on that thing That's the best It's hard to deal with Usher You're going 20 songs It's hard It's going to be hard to beat Usher I always tell people They always say Chris Brown is the man He the best But then when I put that question out The same thing happened with you just done 20 songs It's going to be coming It's going to be coming Chris if we talk about more albums We don't know Usher you're going to get him That's crazy Man I definitely appreciate you for coming How can people get a hold of you if they're trying to rock out You can always find me Every social media tag is Keef 25 music Keef 25 music Every social tag Keef 25 music K-E-I-T-H 25 music I appreciate you for coming on the show today Thank you Embracing us in LA like this Man thanks for having me Man we come in like this That's how we come in I love it Thank you so much God bless you It's been another great segment Of boss talk 101 What a boss is talk