Christopher Williams On Bobby Brown Being The King Of R&B & How The Media Made Us Turn On Will Smith

Willie D live so you never had to get a kidney transplant no I recovered and you youve made a full recovery your kidneys are operating at 100% now n that's good man that's good pigal um you name it I'm probably all the mushrooms Ry cceps Coralis um uh there's a fruit that I eat sour sap was one of the major contributors to um just looking at berock root sour sap I started learning how to cook with them differently how to incorporate them in my food and not always like a lot of times for me now especially when I'm traveling my food in the morning may consist of like hot tea with sea moss then I'll do a green juice that I was going to ask you about sea moss yeah okay and you know there's a discrepancy what's the most natural the silver the purple Dr sab's grandkids say silver my elders who are from Jamaica say the purple so the stuff that I order straight raw to the point where it has rocks in the seaons so you know with everything when it becomes big business like right now I used to love Whole Foods but now I got to go on Whole Foods and question everything cuz now it's about they've been lying they've been lying saying so now you stamping organic charging you know double and doing all the stuff a lot of the prods AR organic so it's no different than what you know what I feel the people who trying to take over the farming industry is that they're taking the seed away so we can't grow anything ourselves I want to jump in real quick man about um you and your your Insight right like I've been watching you for a long time talk like not just sing not just do interviews but actually talk a lot of times people have try to take do interviews with you and they just want to talk about you being a sex symbol or they want to talk about the music whatever and here you go yeah you know I'm doing this for the Youth and you know uh you know I I want to be a a conduit for for the new artist you know uh I'm I'm working with this organization you know I'm I'm doing music Consulting like have you I mean you've been like that for a long long time but have you always been like that as a person always um you know honestly bro like I didn't fit you know like I I always joke when I was young I said man there was a great artist named Bobby Brown he was the king of all of us singers and we openly admitted like when me and Al or when God blessed my brother sold J lever we would be like that little [ __ ] Bob is a terrorist he is the king like and I love him so it was just like you know again and I think we've gotten to a place where we in society like again I'm 30 years past Don't Wake Me I'm Dreaming I'm 30 years past the halberry Stacy Dash and every actress that was ever on TV in the 90s I'm 30 years removed from that and it wasn't something that transpired maliciously or felicious it was organic it was esoteric we just all happen to be like classmates in the right place at the right time and you know I get on radio or something like that and because it's probably like especially if I do like National radio that's why I do love podcast cuz you guys get to you guys get to impart what you want like yours is like dealing with life and real issues yeah you know you Willy D you've had another Jour you you're not just gifted at music but this Society will say you're good at one thing like for we just talk about Beyonce do you think the only thing she's good at is looking good dancing and singing what if she's a better mother or or what if she's not but here's what I'm saying and saying that why is this so greatly your concern it's nothing wrong with admiring her Whitney Prince Luther all of these great iconic hardworking gifted individuals including last year we had the 50 Years of Hip Hop so they finally hip hop lasted so long that they had to celebrate it not cuz they wanted to cuz we all remember at least I do I'm from the Bronx when they were like hip hop is is the devil it's a negative expression it's this it's that and the people don't realize it ain't even really about color what they're trying to misinform us is about our culture we're not colored we're melanated we don't hate and I speak here now because you ask the question it's like yeah I have always been like this and the thing for me has been like I'm probably the lightest brightest one in the room talking about solidarity and I made a record with the great Papa on crime and poverty no Humanity Grudge and envy and partiality no Humanity no generosity what we need what we need is solidar the record label was like you're fired yeah right they were like you [ __ ] get the [ __ ] you are fired [ __ ] we told you to go put on the we first of all where's the barber so now the actor comes out they're like where's the barber cut this nigga's curls into the Gumby and get him the genie pants call Hammer and get this [ __ ] in dance class so cuz this [ __ ] can't dance so it was always like if you're not willing to be this light-skinned cutie pie Prince Charming and there are elements to me that that's the way I'm if that's how you see me then obviously that's how God made me to you but I'm from the Bronx I've I have a real life I have real kids I got a real mom I was really adopted I really grew up in the projects and the sad the sad Paradigm is is that we exalt all this stuff like y'all don't even know rap aot's one of my first Inspirations you know why they owned it because I've always been enamored with yo how do we leave school and not know about the great kings that look like us who's monsam Musa who's Abu bakari 1 and two what is the malan empire about and why does all of their scribes and texts look like what Europe stole and said this is ours including Louis Vuitton all the stuff that we say oh now Massa says this is what the great stuff is and we don't feel good until we're in it we don't feel good till we're in it you could be the greatest star on Earth one day and if you do something and Massa puts out a report and says you're not a good person then you they're counting on us saying you're no longer Will Smith to me so you don't think Will has regular emotions just like me like if some dude keeps cat calling your wife and I'm not saying that's what happened with Chris because I love Chris Rock too that you know I'm proud of Chris obviously we started in a movie called New Jack City together but the real truth about all of that stuff is what cat's saying we're so designed to go at one another but the pressure cooker really comes from what we want to say about the truth this Paradigm and when we get so big the responsibility is okay if I drop this boy if I'm Jay-Z or I'm Beyonce or I'm will or I'm LL or I'm Latifa or I'm Janet and I drop this ball then what if they because we don't realize some one else is going to take that mantle but while we're in this seat right now in this human suit we got to do something to change the Paradigm and I've decided to small or big now it' be great when I was in the hospital I'm not going to lie I made a covenant with God I said God if you give me an opportunity and I don't call him God I call him Yahweh so my whole rest of my life is about the truth my authentic truth I don't go to shows and I'm sitting there going yo I'm sex symbol I go to shows to communicate a song even if I'm rapping don't wake me up cuz Clean Cuts dreaming in a deep sleep my mind keeps scheming I heard she had a man I said so what cuz she be looking Sweeter Than A Honey Dipped donut that's just not that was written for a reason when I was 20 years old that's how I felt I'm I'll be 57 in August I don't feel the same 30 years later I didn't feel the same 20 years later that's why I I dipped out all the stuff they're saying in music now I've been saying this since 91 it's weird that you're even saying this to me cuz I stepped out of music not because my record was whack not because they dropped me I dropped them