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What's going on folks Man, hey man Crypt up on him man, you know what I'm saying Crypt up on him, you know what I'm saying Got him, what's going on So man, good to have you on the show man Man, so we want to know about We want our audience to know who Mark LeMont is So You got to dig deep down You know, tell us about your history Tell us about where you're from How you're raised, the whole work So, go ahead So, I am Mark LeMont The R&B singer sensation Extraordinaire, whatever you want to call it Boy, that's him right there Giving them bars like that R&B sensation You know what I'm saying, I've been doing this Man, I do this That boy said the R&B sensation I see R&B sensation From where? Compton, California Compton Oh, he got it Nobody at all, I'm not in it at all How did you come up and come I got to say this man I always try to figure out how Because you hear the stories Give me an understanding How is it to come up and be in Compton But be able to say it's Compton instead of Bumped Meaning, not being the way Things are rolling In that lifestyle Well, my mom and my dad Both from Compton Two separate sides Of Compton I have a lot of family On my dad's side That was law enforcement Oh, and none of that My grandfather My uncles All Compton PD I was just about to ask the same thing Uh, no I'm not going to do it Did any of your siblings end up doing it My brother is actually a cop But he's in Vegas Is he? Yeah My little brother I know it's only me and him One of them took 11 years I was by myself Doing my dirt When he came He was running the street Yeah, I was Stole your shine I was ready to give it up by then But here's the thing We don't have the same dad I was still my dad's only child So your dad and your mom weren't together They were raising you as co-parenting But they weren't together Child and Young How did I feel not having them in the same household? Great You played them against each other It didn't work No, because they were My parents were still friends Up until the day he passed I lost 10 years So were you one of those Sorry, were you one of those Child that would When the step-parents came in Were you not my daddy? No, I wasn't like that at all I gave respect I was brought up to respect Was it on duty that he passed away? No, my dad My dad actually was a part of a motorcycle club Rare breed And it happened At one of their annual runs He just went out there From the stories I got He was in Fresno He was dancing all night Partying Just relaxing My dad was a people person He was a fun guy to be around Everybody loved my dad How old was he? 46 I was 29 at the time he passed And it was on a motorcycle accident? No, it wasn't So he was supposed to come home I want to say Either that Monday Or later that Sunday evening When he went back After the party The dance function went shut down He went back to his hotel room And He ended up having a seizure that he never came out of Wow, so he basically Just ended up Had he ever had a seizure before? Nope, not to my knowledge And they knew that's what they labeled it as A seizure Something maybe that he took? No He dealt with high blood pressure And stuff like that And he was taking medication for it But I guess all that hype Warmed down And he partied like it was last It's so crazy How you hear stories Partied like it was last People saying they did this and this Until They passed, right? And the way he was moving that whole week I spent that whole week with him And the way he was moving The way he was doing things The conversations we had Definitely wasn't normal But I didn't put too into it But you would never know He's thinking he's living his best life You know what I mean? But he called me out I'll never forget We need to start doing more stuff Together Why don't you come over here tomorrow We'll get on the computer and look up some stuff We were planning our 2013 Together We had stuff planned that we was going to do So we picked our way We're going to go here, we're going to go here Do this, do that And How did that affect you though? It hurt because my pops was That was my dog I used to call off work I'm a domino player I'm a domino player I'm the domino guy Ask E-40 about me I saw a pack of dominoes Hold on, hold on I saw a pack of dominoes over there We'll take you on anytime I will play as soon as we cut these mics off Now listen E-40 was about to be late to a concert Losing to me I kid you not You end up, matter of fact You've been dealing with E-40 So My dad He had a catering business Him and his buddies His buddies was like my uncle They grew up together He's the one that was in the delivery room When I was born But he Had this big function And one of my dad's friends And his buddy's friends Inglewood Mugs And brought 40 with him My dad called me You might want to come over here E-40 up here He's like I'm telling you get up here I said alright And sure enough 40 was there I got a picture I'll show you Of me and him playing dominoes His security sitting around And when I tell you I think I'll be E-40 about Where he won And he says You made him win that last one Wow So He had a concert going on Back in the day it was a club called V2O in Long Beach He was doing a show there And this is at the time that He just dropped his revenue retrieving double album Bitch had not hit the air yet But out here We loved him Hit me till you short got one And I told him He just dropped his album I said I know what your single is right now I said bitch that's that gotta be a next single I said this is going out here He was like you think so? I said trust me So we playing He said man I gotta get to this show He was like I gotta go to this show in Long Beach He said you wanna go And I had my other boy with me I said Man yeah I wanna go He was like alright cool He said take my number Put my number He put his number on my phone He said I gotta go to the hotel Change up Meet me over there I said alright cool So we gonna get changed And as we're pulling up In this back alley way Security was like y'all can't be back here I'm like nah we meeting Me 40 up here 40 already went in And I'm like what? I know he didn't just do me like that He probably didn't know man He asked another guy He was like yeah I said yeah I said alright so we turning around And I'm calling 40 And he not picking up Two minutes later my phone ring is 40 He was like hey Y'all up there I said yeah They said you already went in He was like we coming down right now Turn around And a van is pulling down He was like is that y'all too I said yeah he was like this is us right here He said come on back Man I get there We going inside And busy bone From bone thugs and harm He was back in the green room And he 40 introduced me He goes man He was like this motherfucker right here And I'm like Man but he He was all of so We going on stage and I'm with 40 on stage The whole time Girls in the crowd asking me who are you I was like I ain't nobody Yeah So anyway He's doing his songs and what not Then the last song of the night was Bitch Soon as they heard The crowd Went crazy And he looked over at me And he just grabbed and put his arm around me Rocking You told him that was it I told him We stay cool man Rememberable night Were you singing at this time I was singing but I didn't mention Much to him I know he gets bombarded With people trying to get on I'm the type of person if I meet Somebody in the industry I don't want to bombard you I want you to be regular around me That's how I end up making a lot of Relationships that I have Yeah you built them I know stuff about certain people Or been places with certain people And I don't always talk about it It's because we have that That relationship where you ain't Got to be like man So Talk about some of those relationships Who Is somebody else that sticks out to you Like a E-40 That you spent time with Forward twist Tank I just was with T-Rail T-Rail redid That thing I deserved Tank Matter of fact was in Kansas with him So you You and Tank Can you all sing Tank No I'm not even going to do that I look up I look up to this dude He's a tremendous My first time actually Meeting Tank was So I did my first album My first album was labeled First impression How old were you at that time? This is actually right after my dad Dang that's heavy So God put him in your life right after that Like That album happened because My dad was on my ass at the time I had four songs recorded before my dad passed And Me and Keith Stewart We worked on All of that music beforehand I had zero Songs By myself until Me and Keith started doing music together And Keith was Pending these songs And then little parts whatever Some songs I ain't do nothing to Keith already had them ready and I'm like Man I want to record that He'll say I got one for you My dad used to play it on this Harley motorcycle And he knew all the lyrics Like he was the one that recorded these songs But My dad told me the week before The week he passed He said you know what You need to get off your ass And start doing your music This is where it's verbatim You need to get off your ass and start doing your music I want you to get a band together I got so many different connections And There's so many things you could be doing I could plug you in My dad was He was Cat Williams bodyguard You know So I got a chance to be with Cat Actually shout out to Cat Williams He was one of the first people That came down to see me After my dad passed He came to visit me How long was he the bodyguard for Cat Williams A few years A few years That's why your dad used to say he could plug you in With so many people because he had the connections Listen when I got into this Industry finally like fully got in And meeting different people So many people knew my dad And I'm like What's your dad's name? His name was Terry Yeah He used to talk About Jamie Foxx My dad used to take his My dad had a lot of horses He had a shuttling pony He used to take down to Jamie Foxx's house For his daughter's birthday For Corinne When she would have a party Jamie would always call him Hey we having a party up here Can you bring that horse And they used to trip off the horse The horse was a drunk The horse was a drunk I hope he didn't fall out one day Yeah he did I kid you not the horse Was in the driveway Walking sideways Sideways and sail out Well I want to ask you about Cat Williams you don't bring that name up And then just slide right by it That's one of the he wanted to go to When it comes to the comedy world But there are so many different crazy stories Out there with Cat Williams Which Cat Williams I always go to the You know me I'm phasing it in Was it the time When your father passed Was this after he had went through The situation with the boy Fighting him or with him Before Also it was before Yeah before Yeah so he was on it at the end Like yeah Man and how is Cat Williams How is he as a person He's respected Man great dude Good heart Very good heart Very good heart I heard that a lot about him Very good heart Say you'll give you the shirt off his back We were sitting So he had a show in Vegas This was my first time meeting Cat Right It was Cat's birthday Weekend And he's doing his show And We're sitting at the slot machine I'm putting my money in slowly Because I don't have that much I don't have Friday after next money So Cat sees our run out Cat starts feeding my machine With his money Now mind you Me and Cat sitting next to each other He's playing the slot I'm playing the slot But I'm losing his money faster Than I lost my money So he gets on stage During his show And he cracks a junk money He was like man he was like Just do it out here Losing my money I'm gonna have to go shoot Another movie Just to recoup the money that he lost He cutting up Yeah He was like that He was like that But man I enjoyed We got a chance to To hang He took me to Kanye West After party Took me to DJ Who was it? DJ Kid Caprice After party Out there We had fun And that's what Faze on Love talked about him Trying to buy him a pair of shoes He was like man I can't let you buy me I said what? And I know it's true Cause you can't make that up You know He was like who's that the shoe store I'm like man I can't let this guy buy me shoes Right But it's just like To see a person trying to really And then big court said the same thing Big court and they fell out But he still said He would give you the shirt off his back So you hear those stories about Even though he had his issues He was a good He's a good genuine person Very good dude Like I say He's the one that reached out With my dad And said you know I'ma come Visit me He came out here About midnight We shot pool until like Two o'clock in the morning He's competitive as hell Aw man He wants to try to be somebody And some That's what he does So man So the singing thing man You know You say you can sing But you know Yeah that was a lia If I had to If you was coming in And you had to come behind tank What song would you sing And just how Yeah this is This acapella of course But what song would it be And how would you sing So to be something like Don't be afraid I promise you That I won't hurt you And lady have no fear Cause my love will keep you near And unplug the phone Cause what you come to do You will be all night long And you don't have to worry Cause you'll thank me early In the morning Girl can we make love Yes son Yes son That's it right there Let me ask you this man Do you Like I know you and My boy man You sound good I thought about what's the name What's the Drew he on them You get that lie I get a lie You went there boy You took me somewhere man That's good man So what do we do to keep R&B alive man It's been so hard man Supported Because it's You hear a lot of people say R&B is dead Or you hear a lot of people say Oh they ain't doing this type of R&B They are It's just the lesser known Artist That You don't fully know yet And the only way to get them out There is to support it Like myself Keep steward You know I got a whole conglomerate Of artists That You would swear People aren't making the type of music That you've been missing That are making the type of music That you've been missing So It's just You know Really Supporting Getting The word of mouth out there And that's it We don't have to make sure That we keep supporting Because I love R&B And y'all ain't the only one That do a little singing I might go in on y'all Next time we do an interview Next time I do an interview With y'all I might just go in on y'all All you R&B singers And all you LA people I'm coming up in LA And I'm going to have a sing off The South Versus LA Sing off With E.C.E.O. Yeah A boss talk verses Yeah Yeah Speaking of verses Friends and verses between Which one you want to do? Usher Chris Brown Chris Brown I got to go back to that Because there was one guy On there earlier He had his I want to see what you had with it I'm going to Usher A hundred tips So you don't think Chris Brown Got it like that? No You trying to throw me in He's sung this Christmas He's sung this Christmas Yeah that's cool But No That should go in Some people say better Than Michael Jackson But let me tell you this too I'm just saying When you get to verses This is another thing That's not always mentioned It's what you play Where you play it You know what I mean So if you playing If Usher goes up And he plays You don't have to call And then you come behind it With some slow stuff It's like wait a minute Yeah It's going to have to come on with it It all depends on the DJ It depends Yup Well I tell you right now It's not going to be crazy man Because we going to get that one day Watch what I tell you What's the best verses so far Since they started that you've seen To me And this goes back Honestly to when it first started Was the Teddy Riley Yeah I hear a lot of people say that Because a lot of people Weren't familiar with Who did these songs Like wait a minute I didn't know Babyface did this Or I didn't know Teddy Riley did this I miss that I miss that But I wanted to see Who That They had one But I felt it should have been Charlie Wilson And a gap band Versus Ronald Isley And Isley Brothers I said that would have been crazy It would have been really crazy They had their solo stuff And their group stuff And they could have just Right I got to ask you this man Top the artist of all time Did in our life Any Joner Number one Number one Donnie Hathaway That's the first Donnie Hathaway We've had Number two Stevie This boy got an old soul Number three R. Kelly And one little Kelly Got to get it everybody What do you think about R&B You can't not say R. Kelly You cannot If you have a conversation Of R&B music And you do not mention R. Kelly's name Or Joe Please don't talk to me Wow Do you think it will fade though Like Say in the next 20 years Do you think they're Going to be talking about R. Kelly Hell yeah Where music is concerned They can't get away from it Listen He just said Donnie Hathaway They have to put a bio pic Out on this man There has to be a bio pic No 100 I agree 100% People who doesn't watch it Because they're going to be nosy That's it I mean that too That too But you think about it Even through all the stuff That R. Kelly's been going through Whether the naysayers say this Or that His album sales has shot Up Of course Those streams have went up Of course So all that mute R. Kelly shit That they talking It ain't happened I went to I'ma say this I was somewhere last week I was at a bar And they put on a new R. Kelly record People knew it was R. Kelly And they was in there It went crazy And they was going crazy So I don't want to Man please It ain't happening You can't ban R. Kelly You can't ban good music Man When it comes to what he does What his body of work I don't You know Condone what he does I don't condone that Yeah But I know how to separate The artistry From his first Yeah Check it man Hey man Thank you so much for coming On the show man Man thank you for having me Man it's going down Man Mark been in here Doing this thing man Yes It's been another great segment Of boss talk 101 What a bosses talk Oh yeah Hey