- What's up everyone.
I'm Scottie Beam and I am here with the very talented
Isaiah Rashad.
I am so, so happy to be talking to you.
- I'm happy to be here.
- I'm here to ask him 21 questions.
- Let's get it going.
(mellow hip hop music)
- What's the first thing you do when you wake up?
- Usually it's clean my room, brush my teeth
or whatever, but lately it's been
getting my daughter together.
- Yeah, responsibility, that's adorable.
- Little bit.
- Where's the last place you traveled to?
- I went home to see my parents.
That was the last place, to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
It was good.
A lot of food, lot of family, a lot of lag.
- Wow, there's nothing like home.
I love my home.
- Nothing like home, yeah.
- What was the first hip hop album you bought
with your own money?
- Honestly it was a Azealia Banks.
It was 1991.
- Well, you just made me feel mad old.
- Oh!
(laughs)
I ain't have no money till I was about like 19 anyway.
- Okay, okay I understand then.
- You just had a brain fart there.
- But I think I was saving my little allowance like.
- I was buying shit on like Adidas
and all that type of stuff and Nike's.
I wouldn't buy music until about 19.
- What's your favorite breakfast food?
- Hash browns gotta be my favorite breakfast food.
Hash Browns, bacon.
The hash browns is like, make it complete.
You feel me?
- I wasn't expecting that.
That was, that's nice.
What has been the biggest highlight of your career so far?
- Honestly, being able to
take my friends and shit with me to overseas.
Like being able to let other people see the same things.
Sometimes don't take your,
what's the word I'm looking for?
Appreciation in the moment.
- Yeah.
But I have people around me.
It's probably the biggest thing.
Taking my mom to all these different like type of shows
and stuff that she didn't do when she was younger.
Probably the coolest thing,
the avenues in which we move versus
the actual thing I do.
- I'm glad that you brought up your mom.
I read that she was a hairdresser.
- Still is.
- Still is. My question is,
do you know how to do any like hairstyle
that people would be surprised?
- I don't really know.
I don't know how to braid hair,
but I can twist it.
- You can twist the shit out of some hair, huh?
- I'm waiting for somebody to come braid Mykleia's hair
right now. I tried to, even my expertise.
- What's the best advice you've ever received.
- Be patient,
and enjoy your patience.
- What is your greatest motivation?
- Besides my kids, probably myself,
my kids came later in my life.
From the jump,
I've always been somewhat of a self-starter,
so motivated.
I'm not afraid to say that.
- Why would you be afraid to say that?
- It sounds, you know, kinda full of yourself stuff for real
but the only thing that really get me going is like
imagining what I could be doing.
- Who's the greatest comedian alive?
- For me personally is between Dave Chappelle
and Cedric the Entertainer.
- Ceddy!
That's a good one! Usually he's not in the top.
- Ced's like the closest thing to soundin' like (mumbles)
- What's your favorite thing to do outside music?
- Honestly,
I be trying to work on these comics,
that I'm really into,
and tryna write.
- Oh, like a comic book?
Okay. So our question, if you had any superpower,
what would it be?
- Teleportation
- I just want to be able to leave
as soon as they start talking to me.
(laughs)
- That's pretty good.
- You feel me?
- What's the best gift you've ever received.
- The best thing I ever got
is probably like this card I got from my little girl,
she kind of drew me
and it looked a little bit like me for the first time.
- That's adorable, I love these father answers.
- What's the greatest risk you've ever took?
- Doin' this rap.
Being committed to it at like such a early age.
So when you like 14, 15
to where it seems really unrealistic.
You gotta go through all those times where people
are not doubtin' you because they don't believe in you,
doubting you because of the probability.
And then leaping off the porch from that,
and really decided this is going to be like
how I maintain my livelihood until it branches off into
something else, saying whatever.
So it's probably the greatest risk
because riskin' myself for myself on my words
and all my loyals.
I mean, what's a bigger risk than that?
- So you're from Chattanooga, Tennessee.
What's something most people don't know about your city?
- I think a lot of people don't know that
Usher's from there or
the Samuel L. Jackson from there.
That was probably the most beautiful scenic green city
you can go to.
- Tiktok or Twitter.
- Lately, Tiktok, just 'cause it's funny as hell
but Twitter
'cause that's where I can get all of my little thoughts.
- Yes. You do. You're really big on the Twitter.
Everybody loves Isaiah on Twitter.
(laughs)
- Dream singer to have on a hook?
- Aretha Franklin.
- You duggin.
- Aretha Franklin would be the coldest one on the album.
- You a bit Aretha fan?
- Huge Aretha Franklin fan.
Come get to know me, baby.
- I mean we gettin' to know you the 21 questions
in the show is a lot.
What's your biggest turn-on?
- Intelligence.
- We love to hear that.
70s soul or 90s RNB?
- 70s soul.
I'm gonna take Curtis Mayfield over usher,
but I love Usher.
- There would be no Usher without Curtis.
- Wouldn't be no Usher without Curtis.
I'm gonna definitely take that for sure
- What is your favorite classic BET show?
- Cita's World. It was tight. It was like my one.
Wasn't it your first like real introduction
to like some 3D CGI type a shit.
- Yes it was.
- Early innovators.
- Yeah, exactly.
And a black woman at that. Like that was fire.
What is your favorite BET awards moment?
- Imma say when Lil Wayne came out and did that,
that stop hatin' on a (bleep).
That is a weak emotion.
I forgot what you,
It's that moment right there.
And I knew I wanted to be on BET
right when I saw that shit.
- If you had to make a soundtrack to your life,
what are three songs that aren't yours,
that would be on the soundtrack?
- I get around by Tupac,
Mo Fire by Lil Wayne,
and then Stanklove by Outkast.
- Yes, absolutely. That's great. I'm so happy.
Thank you Isaiah Rashad for doing this.
- Thank you!
- This was really fun, I learned so much about you.
I think a lot of other people have, too.
We love you so much.
- Thank you, I love y'all.
- Tune in next time.
You don't know who's coming.