Yeah, it's a story that came out about the brothers spoken reasons.
If you know that brother, he's been on YouTube for a very long time.
He was also in that movie, uh, the heat with Sandra Bullock. Um,
and uh, what's her name? Um, Melissa McCarthy. Yeah, you go,
her name is [inaudible] my mind and you know,
he had a role in that and he was doing comedy and all kinds of things that he
was doing. And remember the guy Manuel Hudson,
he's the one that had that song, you know, she's so ratchet.
What are you dressing up like women and all that,
which that wouldn't fly today. Him doing this.
She's so ratchet thing because recently I saw a,
him and his brother Philip Hudson on the, uh,
old clip of America's got talent. They did that mess.
And I'm watching them and I sit up there watching them doing that shit and I'm
looking at it like, Oh my God. I was like,
this is some clown ish, but black men are doing mean. I'm like,
take the way. People are laughing at that back in that time period.
But they did.
But this was before everyone's awakening because if they tried to pull that now,
Oh no, we're, none of us would even laugh at that.
But I'm bringing them to up because
Emmanuel Hudson and spoken reasons done a video together. Okay.
It was called asking all those questions now, recently,
and I can't play the clip because it's a, you know,
TV thing that went viral was a manual.
Hudson went on a while and out and spoken reasons was there too.
And they do that wild style where they doing like a freestyle, you know,
Bal and each other. And Emmanuel Hudson had brought up, uh,
what happened after they made that video asking all those questions because
those,
that video had basically went viral and Emmanuel Hudson felt that spoken reasons
cheated him out of money with that video.
Okay. Now that's the just of it.
Then I started hearing him in the, uh, you know,
freestyle talking about how he went on to do comedy and how you got into movies
and all the things for me,
hearing him say that sounded like he was salty,
that spoken reasons went to certain places that he didn't even go to yet.
But that's that. But I want to, you know,
talk about this because it's a lot of things that spoken reasons didn't have to
do for him and all.
But there was this one video clip I want to show before I started talking about
why I am on the side of spoken reasons, what the whole situation,
just thinking about it on the area of business.
But let's play this clip of spoken reasons. Now he went on a Kev on stage,
they had a interview,
but let's play this short clip and then I'm going to build from there.
People have felt the same way. They want to know about this to you.
And Emmanuel Hudson did that song [inaudible] the astronaut questions. Uh,
that was, that was the person that was on that. So he did the song, I,
he was in Atlanta. Uh, I hit him up, you know,
got in contact with his family or whatever, you know, chopped it up.
I flew him to Orlando,
we put him in the studio the next day I put them in the Marriott,
you know what I'm saying? And um,
yeah we did a video the next day on a one tape. We shot that video from like,
I don't know, it was right. 12 to five o'clock.
We shot it like it was a whole one tape with the cameras and the dashboard.
And the last take was the best voice was the one that made the cut.
And I edit the video or whatever, but I didn't, I wasn't a part of this.
So I was a part of the song. But he did the song,
cause I guess what a lot of people want to know is how come you guys,
since that song was such a big success,
how come you guys never collaborated more after that?
Cause I know as a fan I wanted to see more stuff. I'm like,
Oh these two dudes is fire. But I'd never seen you guys collab again. I mean,
I don't, I mean every time when I collab with people,
I mean sometimes it's almost like a job. It's like, I mean I wouldn't say,
you know, it's like a job.
I'm not going to always call on you and stuff like that.
Of course you run into your in differences and stuff like that.
But I mean that's just a part of life. Okay, so that's it. Well,
another urban legend that I wanted to ask,
this is something that I've heard about is now I have no way to confirm this,
so I'm just going to ask you straight out.
Let's go urban legend on the streets is when you got that song with Emmanuel
Hudson, all right. And you put it out that he wasn't compensated at all. Okay.
For that and for his time and his trouble and then it blew up and he was just
never given anything from that. Is there any truth to that? No,
that's not true because the song is registered on BMI and he owns the majority
of the song. I only own like 20% of that song. Okay. Yeah. BMI.
So, so, so w you know, people at the time,
people look at ass and it was on my channel where the problems came in was I
uploaded the video first to your channel on my channel.
And so whatever money came from that for millions of views,
he didn't see any of that. Not because that's, I mean it was all new.
It was new at the time. Like we, we, we just not doing this.
Like I've never flown nobody to me and it was just all new.
So that taught me a lot of lessons because that's when I started doing
paperwork.
All right,
so you heard it was spoken reasons has to say now spoken reasons said that he
flew him mean spend his money from Atlanta to Orlando.
He didn't put him in the motel six. He put him at the Marriott. Okay.
So he treated the brother right from there, they end up,
he paid for studio time because nothing's free with that.
They did the song. Now manual has to say is his song okay,
but you didn't pay for studio time and didn't pay for flight then pay for hotel
at the time. This woken reason said they went to shoot the video.
It said it took about what few hours, five hours,
etc. After him shooting the video, then he had to edit it,
which editing is a cost. Okay,
so spoken reasons did that and spoken reason had to pay for him to go back to
Atlanta.
So spoken reasons already financially invested into that one video and Emmanuel
Hudson never came out and say he broke any bread out there other than the song
that basically spoken reasons paid for the studio, time to create,
then it would manual.
Hudson was so concerned about his song that why didn't he do any kind of
paperwork or spoken reasons before that video was filmed?
The paperwork supposed to say, Hey, this is my song. Um,
you know, but I'm doing it on this video.
We're going to talk about the split with the, uh, money, if anything comes,
et cetera. Right. He didn't think about any of that. Now later,
I think two years later spoken reason to say he went to,
you heard him say he put it on BMI,
which is on the music management things and he ended up giving um,
a manual Hudson, the majority of it because he said, Oh, it's his song. Okay,
I feel that's the right thing,
but he should get a portion of it because he paid for studio time.
He paid for everything in the beginning.
Now I want to put something up because if you listen,
if you listen to that whole rant, that's basically what he was doing.
Ranting on wild style. Now spoken reasons and we put this up,
look at this spoken reasons.
Put that video up on January 21st,
2012 he got 66 million views. Now on the next screen,
if you look at this as a manual and Philip Hudson's page,
January 22nd,
it got sit 26 million views. Okay,
so one day later if you listen to him and the way he presented that and wild
style, you would think the video was up for a hot minute.
And then he finally put the video up later and he missed out on a whole bunch of
money. So you mean to tell me you put the video up one day later,
one day later you got 26 million views. See,
this is, this is why it makes it hard
to work with black folks sometime. Let me tell you why. Foresight.
Okay. All you see is today you don't see down the line.
You don't see opportunities. All you're looking at is it you,
what you was doing,
it was counting his money or that he was getting off this video. You,
his whole thing is the video blew up on his page. Dude,
the video got 26 million views on your page.
You made money off that video, bro. He made more.
But you made money off that video.
But see he wasn't thinking at the time periods, spoken reasons.
Page was a lot bigger than he is.
That's why he went to spoken reasons with it because if his page was where it
was that now he would have went and spoke and reasons why anything,
he didn't put it on his page. He wasn't thinking obviously,
and I know he was thinking, Hey,
if I go on this other YouTube where you've got a bigger page in mind,
then maybe I can get some residual and you got the residual.
That's why you got 26 million off your page.
That's how you would find out who you are. You know what I'm saying?
So what are you mad for?
You created other things that actually had more views than this video.
Why are you mad? I don't. I don't understand that.
The brother basically helped put you on and you took advantage of that audience
that he had to bring people where you were at and you capitalize off of that.
See, people don't understand.
Sometimes it's not always about the money and sometime in business you got to
let somebody else eat. Sometimes I've done it.
I've done things where I've had to let somebody else eat off of me.
I don't care about that. I'm looking at the bigger picture.
Sometimes your audience is the money I need.
I don't need cash money for everything that I do.
Your audience is enough for me.
I will try to present something to your audience or they can come back this way.
And if I don't do nothing good enough for them to come back this way,
that's on me.
But that's a gamble that you take and there was no guarantee that that video is
going to blow up like that.
Nobody on YouTube knows your video going to blow up like this. Nobody,
Oh young, put this video up and this deal with 10 million views,
nobody knows that.
One of my biggest videos on my news channels with 10 million views,
when I posted that video, I didn't know that was going to happen.
I've seen videos go to a million views on my page overnight.
Didn't know what that was going to happen.
Spoken reasons did not know it just happened that way.
That's the nature of the internet. Things go viral and that's it.
A celebrity can retweet it or whatever and something could just take off.
But Emmanuelle instead of saying, you know what? Spoken reasons bro,
I appreciate you man. I appreciate you. You know, that's, you know,
believing in the brother that's working together and you know,
I took advantage of that time period and you know,
I've got more money down the line then that even video.
But he was salty that he didn't get the movie deal. He was solid. He,
that he didn't get the recognition, that spoken reasons. God,
that's what it got to in his, you know, wild style thing.
If you're not paying attention to see, I know brothers,
I know how brothers did that ego that we have as black men,
especially toward each other. Instead of being happy in his lane,
he was mad that he didn't get to a spoken.
It's got to add and [inaudible] why you heard spoken? Restate.
This is why I do paperwork for everything because you're going to run into that
issue in problem. If you don't do paperwork. I had to learn that too.
You got to do paperwork. You think, Oh well I want to do this.
And then the third. But you know, when money started getting involved,
it changes things. Now you want us to do it on the streets.
You know what I'm saying? That's why they always say money changes the world.
It do. So you do, you do your paperwork,
whatever you're going to work with a person you set up with each people going to
get or whatever, right?
You make that negotiation whether you like the deal or not,
just to make a negotiation. If you don't like it, walk away from it.
If you want something to continue working with this person, you make, you know,
whatever deal. You guys come to the agreement and you,
you go out there and hash that out and do that. You get what I'm saying?
But I think that brothers or sisters should pay to work together.
I don't think money should be keeping people away from each other.
But if somebody came to me right now and said,
they said they had us pays 10 million subscribers and say, Hey man,
you want to post a video here? You know, and,
and let's say I post a video over there, blow up to 20 million views,
right?
I'm not going to be trying to count them pockets over there on that channel and
say, man, I'm missing all that money, man. I'm looking at it.
That's a lot of traffic coming to my page. So I was,
I must have done something right at that page. So,
and then I know they gonna come looking for me at that point.
So that's what I want. I want that traffic coming here,
but a manual Hudson and think that way. So he's thinking, Oh,
you got more money than me, man.
Somebody's always going to get more money than you for something
and let's call it what it is.
If MTV would have got that song from him right,
and he had a paid him would,
they thought he should have got at that time period and that video would have
blew up on MTV and it would've got all kinds of views.
MTV and making money and let's say they made $30 million off his song.
He wouldn't, he couldn't have told MTV anything. Not a thing.
At least woken reason. It was like, look,
I want to do this BMI and give him the majority because they're thinking about
it in capitalism. He didn't have to do that. He said, man,
I paid for you to fly out here. I paid for the studio time,
I paid for the filming, I paid for the editing,
probably paid for your meals and I flew you back.
Record labels do that all the time. They give you an advance,
but it's not what they're going to make off of you. You understand?
So like I said, now I'm on spoken reasons side with deal,
some man spoken reasons. Look bro, you see the video,
you did nothing wrong brother. You did nothing wrong. You learn from that.
You say you're going to pay. You did pay work in the future.
I know why you did it. You did nothing wrong. And manual Hudson, if anything,
he didn't take care of good business because he the one should have had tried to
get something written down where they could talk about, you know, money aspect.
But when people don't look at, I'm a do something on his page,
or I'm gonna do something here because down the line I'm gonna benefit even
bigger by being on a bigger platform. So he didn't think that way.
He's still salted by some money that's probably come and gone. And I did.
I did a little calculation of what both of them made,
just based off of what I know about YouTube and spoken reasons.
Estimated probably made about close to $400,000 of that video within eight
years. And then, uh, uh,
well Hudson made a total close to $200,000.
So why are you complaining you may close to 200,000 hours? Oh,
because he made more. I mean, God,
I can't stand when people try to count your pockets.
I hate that other thing is this,
this is why a lot of times my brothers don't make it.
They don't want to work with other people,
especially other brothers in the community.
Because when one thinks that he should get a certain amount and he didn't
because he didn't take care of business, he didn't take care of paperwork.
He didn't even have a conversation with brother. He just wanna, you know,
start it. But he made other videos that made money.
That's what I don't understand. I understand. That's the only video.
And then he just crashed and burned. A dude made other videos in the millions.
I don't understand why you salty about spoken reasons and you had other things.
They got more views then that video his page.
But I believe it goes right back to this.
It goes back to he mad that he did not get the movie deal.
That's what I believe it is. But let me know in the who do you think,
do you think spoken reasons was right?
Or you think Emmanuel Hudson is right or you just kind of middle with the both
of them. Let me know what you think.