 You know, James Brown too? Well, my stepdad played for James Brown, right? You never leave him. You never leave him, baby. Oh, okay, I'll tell you the funniest James Brown story. Right, so I went on, I used to go on the road with them when I was a kid. Them and the J.B.'s, right? My stepdad, who plays all the guitarleads. Jimmy Nolan. So I wake up in the morning in third grade, smoking a piece of joint with him, right? And play those licks. He played all those licks with him and James Brown, so we'd get up in the morning. That was my thing, I was shot at school anyway, so nobody knew I was smoking when we were in third grade. What? What the fuck? With your pops? Yeah, I just told him a little bit. You have had the best life I have ever seen, a black man here. Your pops play with James Brown, right? James Brown, right? We're on this tour, the summer tour. Summer with the J.B.'s, and so they line up in the hallway and we're talking, smoking, waiting on him to come out of this dressing room, right? They got their light blue tuxedos on and they talking shit and smoking cigarettes. I was standing next to my step pops and so James comes out of the room, crowds out and he comes out, he walks by and slaps the shit out of everybody. Like... I'm terrified. I'm fucking terrified. What is this about? Grown ass men. He's like, fuck out all of them. Pow, pow, pow, pow. I just remember thinking, I hope he don't fucking hit me. Nothing goes out of me. So after it was over, I got back on the bus with them and it was talking to them like, shit, you know, this bad show. They didn't even pay attention to us. Why he hit y'all like that? He didn't want us to mess up. He said to get our attention to make sure we pay attention. So if he see us out there like that, he's like, yeah. And he's like, so we don't fuck up. I can't play good after you slapped me. After you slapped me, I'll all fuck up. I'll all fuck up. If one person fuck up, they'll play in the Bahamas one time, one person fuck up, he'll leave everybody. Y'all can find your way back. And he ain't played after you. That's how you kept them tight. But yeah, that shit scared the hell out of me now. Fast forward. Catherine Bruton, she's the head of BMI that all of us love very much. She's going into BMI just one year and she goes, you know, I think I want to start an award ceremony to be in my awards. And the first thing I want to do is I want to honor James Brown and I want you and Pharrell and Rodney Jerkins and Chad to be the J.B.'s. So I'm like, holy shit. This shit's crazy. Ain't nobody slapping me. Put that in my contract. Put that in my contract. If James Brown slapped me, I'm sweating. I didn't even think this much. I didn't even think this dude remembered me because of how long it was ago, but I guess through music and stuff, everybody kind of, the word got out, whatever. So here I am on stage. James is performing what it is and what it is. And I'm playing, it's reals playing drums and I'm like, this shit's crazy. Whoever thought I'd be playing the same shit was James, right? And after we finished playing, he goes, now where'd you been the older boy at? I'm like, holy shit. And I'm like, he's like, come and grab me. Y'all know how long I know this boy. Cause I used to be on the sweet child's organ when they would be practicing. I'd be on the sweet child's organ, like chilling. And he'd be on the sweet child's organ and I was like, shit, I didn't bought that flashback up too. I was like, that's the same day I remember that day. Damn full circle. Damn. I remember that day. I remember that day. You know, in these days of terrifying, you never forget them shit. Something to scare you like that, you just be like, that's the case. He slapped them straight. They were nobody laughing no more. They were geeking. They were geeking. That didn't exist. See the little boy flying. The dude was having them for a good time until that dude came out. James Brown slapped the phone at them next time. That dude was a little worker though, man. Y'all know Watch Mr. Dynamite. Watch Mr. Dynamite. That's a good documentary about James. You'll see all that stuff, some of that stuff in there and all that. There's a whole documentary just about James Brown slapping people. It ain't got shit to do with music. I knew you would fuck them up if they messed up. No, you gotta do it ahead of time. What you mean you get fucked up? Really fucked up. That's what you don't get and you don't get right. He was slapping them in the forehand. Damn, man.