00:00Clearly you have hits on your hands back to back to back with this power franchise.
00:19What is it about Tommy's character specifically that made you and Courtney see his storyline
00:24as one that was a good one to follow up with and give a spinoff to?
00:27Well, the Tommy show is a natural spinoff.
00:31It is where the stakes are as high as power.
00:36You know, like what I was afraid of was what Courtney was willing to tackle,
00:41and that was the continuation from Tyreek's position because he's going into college
00:46and it's like he was new in the business, so it's stages that he would go through
00:51before I thought the audience would believe him in that way.
00:55And then when you get to Tommy, it's like saving the best for last
00:59because the original show, Power Up, was based on a drug dealer making it to the top of the trade,
01:06feeling like he could have done something different because there's no old folks on drug dealers.
01:12Just the federal penitentiary.
01:13He's saying maybe I could have did this and not been caught up in his lifestyle at this point.
01:19And Tommy's the only person, the only person on the show that was straight up.
01:24It was like decided I hustle, this is what I do good, and this is what I'm going to do.
01:29You know what I mean?
01:30And I gravitated to him.
01:33I liked his character from the beginning.
01:35I think it was season three was when I really became like a Tommy's fan.
01:41Now you have another theme song, as you do with all the Power franchises.
01:46Can you tell us what is your favorite theme song that you've done so far for all the Power shows?
01:52And what was your least favorite?
01:54I know the one that you did, the remix of Trey's songs, wasn't exactly everyone's favorite.
02:00What was your favorite?
02:01Look, people don't go over well when you try to change things.
02:07I always use Big Rich Town because that one is my favorite one because we ran it so long.
02:15This was the theme for Power, and then when it came time to do Ghost, we made a decision to leave Big Rich Town as the theme song.
02:26Right.
02:26Then I'm like, okay, now I've got to make something new for Raising Canaan because it's the 90s.
02:34I needed to make something to match South Jamaica in that time period or what was really current at that point.
02:40And Kenny Green's, Kenny Burke's Rising to the Top was what I sampled to offer that energy.
02:47And then when we got to, phew, BMF, Wish Me Luck, that record, that was cool.
02:56I got a chance to collaborate with Moneybaggill on that one.
03:01Luke, Moneybaggill, and Wesley, and Charlie Wilson.
03:05And then this one, Forces is different because it had to feel like Chicago.
03:10Right.
03:11And, you know, I thought the best way to do that right now would be with Lil Durk and Jeremiah.
03:16So we started to work on it.
03:18But there's two versions of it.
03:19Like the version, when you hear the version on the actual show, my first performance on that record.
03:27And then when you hear the song that's out at the present moment is what I sound like when I match everyone else's tones on the record.
03:39Because I want the song to be a song, like a collaboration, not a collage of things that just fell on the record.
03:45So I had to revocal it.
03:47But it's all the same words.
03:49It's just a different image.
03:50Absolutely.
03:51And with the success of all these songs, they become radio hits.
03:53You see yourself making another album.
03:55That music will come with some stuff.
03:59Appreciate that.
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