let's begin with the newest addition
your baby girl how is she now she's six
months beautiful family thank you
congrat and levi blazed on my beautiful
wife Jodi oh that's a wonderful job yeah
now you gonna go for the tiebreaker are
you good right now I don't know we were
we were saying to and then she was
saying my wife was saying if we got
another boy she would go again okay and
then when we got Remy we were blessed
with Remy and it was so good and she's
like maybe maybe one more as a mother of
daughters and he hasn't buckle up get
ready for that girl she's gonna come in
hot it's exact I'm experiencing being
swept away right now so that was you
know um being a being an artist and and
now having a family how does that
changed you how that impacted let's
sleep and you have to balance a lot you
know I mean um I still go to the studio
frequently I'm producing now so I do a
lot of artists kind of liaison I'm
trying to coach or can I say you know
give people my perspective on their
career I'm not really managing but
producing and kind of mentoring and that
takes a lot and then at home you know it
it it's demanding for my wife especially
right so I try to be there for her and
and you know be there for the kids it's
kind of crazy every time going away now
I'm a little bit more and more
apprehensive but I don't want to go away
yeah it's teamwork though I know their
wife has her back then yeah you're all
good to go sure I'm digging the new Cup
man with tell oh thank you thank you
that's great man so how do these
collaboration works because you work
with so many cool people is it pretty
much the label suggest them you approach
the artists er I go to I have writing
camps you know where I try to find
writing camps yeah so I try to produce
stuff and find people who can give me a
different perspective on stuff with this
song you know we wrote it with a girl
named Nigel she's she's been writing a
lot of hits for people like Beyonce
a lot more and she was starting to lose
hope she was starting to smoke calling
on me and everybody in the studio was
like oh it's a booty call song and to me
was just more about unity and love you
know my father had recently passed so I
all these words started to come in true
level never fear love never falls we
love conquers all and you know lyrics in
theirs were actually my family talking
to me myself also I'll be there to give
you what you need I support your cars
itself Leslie that's my mom and my
brother and my wife kind of been there
for me when I'm away the things that
that I'm not home doing we're a good
family unit and that's kind of like what
the song means to me
Wow deep yes about many different things
so I didn't write it in those words that
people would actually be thinking about
their father you could think about you
love one or whatever I mean so sorry dad
thank you were you close with him you
know it was a weird relationship he had
been to prison when I was a kid and when
when I was in my 20s it was kind of
weird between me and him and then we
became very good friends after that
that's good so yeah yes he did oh that's
really important that's cool man yeah
yeah I want to talk about some of the
people you work with yeah we talked
about Tove and you mentioned Beyonce
earlier but you have that great jam baby
boy with how wasn't working with me
thank you though that was my first
number one I was
so that was amazing whirlwind time for
me first number one huh yeah so I've had
four on the Billboard charts no and that
was just an amazing thing for me you
know what was very special about songs
like this is that she's a great
established artist and was her first
solo album but she came to me and the
tracks actually danced our music a lot
of times I do step out some on other
people's tracks but this was showing
especially me and proving to my own self
that my culture dancehall and reggae
music is such a strong thing and that
that big acts like Beyonce would come to
do it and even a couple years later we'd
see her you know I had another number
one with her and that was a dancehall
track also so I'm very proud of my
culture I'm very proud to be someone in
the forefront of it yeah and when did we
get this little piece this is just to
celebrate success or is that just a
Wednesday I tried to have a halo I tried
to get a halo and it just people quit
Keyshia Cole do a leaper again did those
just sort of come was that the writing
camp
yeah the writing cannot pinpoint artists
who I think might be the right person to
kind of you know represent the song yeah
and some of them do come too you know I
I don't know sometimes I don't even know
if the person wants to do a sound with
me but I presented to them and most
times they're like yo this is dope and
they were out there their own special
vibe to it right and that's how it
happens nowadays you don't even have to
be in the same studio right a lot of
things a lot of collabs I've done has
been like that the only one that was
really kind of close to heart for me was
Rihanna because she came to Jamaica and
she saw you know at the beach and Bob
Meyer a museum and the studios and the
clubs and it was cool to be able to show
her that yeah in the beginning the show
we're talking about Milli Vanilli young
do you remember that
it does I mean it's dope music to me is
is uh is something that brings us out
together I mean so I mean I know back in
the day we kind of looked at that as
weird where someone else was singing a
sign and they were doing it but you know
they still want a special place in a lot
of people's hearts right it was a lot
put a charge for a while so it grabs on
all your success
you