 Donnie Hathaway. Can you say Donnie Hathaway? Give me some, man. It's over now to this song. That whole stretch. What's the difference, Danny Boy? I always ask these crazy questions. Like, what's the difference in that, Danny Boy? To that this song guy? It's over now, written and produced by Babyface. I'm grateful for that, obviously. Just around death row, you know, those are my growing years. You know what I mean? Finding myself as an artist. I knew that I could sing. At that time, I guess I didn't know what to do with it when to put this chop here or there. So a lot of stuff that I probably hear when I was younger, I'm like, oh, I can't believe I did that. I'm cringed by it. But the growth, I call it death row university. First, I learned a lot from death row. And to take that and to get into master's classes, so to say, these struggles along the way. I sing about things that I've went through or experienced that's close to me. This black heart album just means the same thing as the red emoji of a black heart, or the red emoji heart, I mean, love. The black heart of my album is why I named it that. Because I believe in black love. I don't believe that just out of living this life, everything isn't going to be great all the time. You know what I mean? Even in love ship, friendship. You know what I mean? My best friend, we're not going to agree and be on the same page. I mean, the love of my life, we're not going to be on the same page. The part is, is how do we make it through? How do we get to the next page, or to the next chapter? And to be able to sing about that now, certain things I just wouldn't sing, like songs I wouldn't, even with rappers. I'm not a part of certain songs. Am I done that already? I'm grateful for the gift that God has left me with and that I've been stained. So I'm pretty careful on how I use it. And with that, over the last year from releasing the album, I made it to top 10 on the Billboard. Yeah, I've seen that. Man, congratulations, man. How does that feel to be back in a mix like that, man? I mean, to be forgotten for so long. And, man, it's overwhelming when I'm out in the crowd and I'm singing the song sometimes, and I see people singing the words to it. They're finally paying attention to me. You know, I had that little five to 15 seconds on A.M. Attitude to get that attention at two-minute and 30-second attention. It's amazing to hear it on the radio. We just dropped another single called Just Friends. From the album end, I'm getting a lot of love. So I'm just, you know, still not aware, because I'll be like, oh, my God, when the promoters gonna start calling, I'm ready to sing and ready to go out. So I'm still waiting for a lot of those parts to connect, but I'm grateful for so many years to have passed and to still be able to, you know, I feel fresh. I mean, I feel like I could sing. I have the energy and I'm ready to do it. Thank you so much, man. I have one last question. It ain't gonna be the last because I got my own. Go ahead. R&B because, you know, people, some people say R&B is dead, right? Yeah. Do you think R&B, because growing up in the 90s, all of that, R&B was like to me the peak, like, I love R&B. Yes. Will R&B ever come back to that point like what it was? I know Cycle goes around and come back again. Do you think it's gonna ever come back? Yes. And when? What will it take? I think that we're on the right track with R&B coming back. It's definitely on the uprise. And I guess when I say it like this, the worst, unfortunately, the worst off that we are in the world, it seemed better for R&B than gospel because people need that healing and R&B music and soul music blues. And gospel has always served as a piece of healing for people. You know, when people was working in the cotton field, there was songs that they sang to make them get to the next day. I'm sure the guy that's sitting in the cell, there's a song that he sang every day to help him count those calendar years. I don't know if the happy birthday song would be as exciting if it was just a letter and not saying. Right. So for us to get back to that moment, we're going through so much in the world where, you know, that song is a lot of that healing. Wow. And a lot of people is searching for healing. And I'm not saying that a rap song can give you that, a poetry can't give you that. But you got to go to one of the Luther records, the Marvin Gaye records. Man. When you deep hurt in love, you go to those records. You said something that I laughed about when you said that, she would like to say you should have been and came out. Yeah. And if you had a came out and did something that he told you to do, you would really blow up. He's like, man, see you bullshitting. See, you let Lil Nas take your shit. I'm on the phone. I'm thinking he's going to be mad. He's like, man, Lil Nas took your shit. You supposed to come out. He's like, I'm going to tell you what you should do, though. Shit's always a plan. That's hard, man. I speak with him every now and then. Yeah, that's cool. My phone line is open to him. That's good. Forever and a day. How is he doing in there? He in jail. I know. He's in jail. I think he's comfortable. That's what I was trying to see. You know, he might be comfortable. He doing a podcast or something. He got a podcast going. How can you have a podcast in there? He's got a podcast going. He was there on TMZ the other day. Collect calls. Really? Collect calls. Yeah. Have you been on his podcast yet? Not yet. He's going to have to pay me. I don't give a fuck. What happened to pay me? The podcast. He really got to pay me. Oh, man. He definitely, but y'all loyal to one another, man. He was with him as a kid. Don't mean I won't get with Snoop Dogg. I'm just kidding. Snoop. You rock out with the new death row? Man, I'm so excited about this death row thing. Just the possibilities because I feel like it's unfinished business. It's a place that, you know what I mean? I was there and I definitely want to be home. That's all. I want to finish some, I know some records that was left in the vault. Yeah. I can't, I would love to get in the vault. Yeah. And everybody knows Snoop is a part of everything. Top three. Top three artists of all time, dead or alive. Any genre. We're getting them out of here now. That's the wine down there. Donnie Hathaway. Can you say Donnie Hathaway? Give me some, man. For all we, we may never meet again. But before I make this moment, can you make it sweet? We won't say good last minute. My, my, my, man. Oh, you about to cry over there. That seems a deal. Wait a minute. My wife was about to cry. You messed up. You messed up like that, boy. Man, you so talented, bro. Thank you. God, dog, man. God, I bless you, man. Where did you get that time from? Your mom, your dad? My mother was a singer. She was. And I just think that God left me with the serousability of the talent. So I have her voice and my aunties. I come from a singing family. So God. You killed that, bro. Give me the second one, bro. This is strength. This is strength of that boy. That made me forget about my top three. But we coming back. I need the next one. Number two. So Donnie Hathaway. You killed that. Stokely Williams. Stokely Williams. Of mid-condition. That boy bad. Oh, my God. That's, that's my mentor. That's like who I look up to. That's the one that said, we fell in love. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was a bad nigga, bad, Negro, dead. I went to their concert one time, so I was hurt behind it. I was hurt. I was behind it. You went? You went because of the music. So can I tell you what? You drowned the man to.... You know, he's a musician, a musician's musician. So to say, like he's, like for another artist. Like you'll probably just be crazy in there. But then I've been in a, in the concert and I've seen some stuff and I'm like, wow, only a musician would sit here for it. I was like, it's too musical and man to me. But went pretty brown eyes and. That was cool. Yeah, I like. I'm one of my favorite. What kind of man. I'm going to be honest with you. The reason that night, Kim clowned that night with me. That's the thing, because I looked. Kim, Kim a beast man. That night. He's got a story. I like it. I like it. Man, yeah. It was just too. He's so talented. I think of Charlie Wilson. And Charlie Wilson. Oh, wow. So it was a wild blend. I love me Charlie Wilson. It was a wild blend. Oh, wow. Man, so. My last one. So we got Stokely of McIndition. Danny Hathaway. Oh, the last one I was on. Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder. Oh, yeah. You're a true musician. The daddy of music. You've met him? I met him once, but I met him once when I first signed to Death Row. But since I released this single, he showed me a lot of love. Shout out to the station in LA. And I was calling into the station to speak with him on the radio. And she was like, he'll voice his song. He's like, man, this song, man, this song is incredible. And I'm like, thank you so much. And the lady was like, that's Mr. Stevie Wonder. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And he talked on the phone with me for about 10, 15 minutes. That's awesome. It was just to hear the stuff that he was saying about us. Thank you, Danny. That probably made, that's the, ooh. And maybe want to sing much longer. So y'all got to do with me. I'm here.