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00:00105 when I'm bounce Detroit still back for your pop and R&B it's your boy Showtime the czar
00:04in studio with me I got two legends man um one is a Detroit legend been dropping hits in the
00:10city
00:10for decades now all right Mr. Two-Tone in here Tone Tone what up though what up brody what's
00:16good with you and the other uh icon philanthropist humanitarian if you name it he's probably done it
00:23the legendary Aikon what up though what's going on daddy what up though first off gentlemen
00:27thank you both for coming in here man um so before we get into why y'all are here the
00:33what up though
00:33record okay um I just want to ask a couple little small questions real quick Aikon um this what this
00:41the how many times you been in the city bro when the last time you been in the city
00:47what was my birthday bash in July yeah okay okay what's your favorite thing about coming to Detroit
00:53man um funny enough the last took up times I came here I just been having fun I ain't really
01:00nice
01:00just been chilling yeah just been chilling that's what's up that's good Tone Tone you've been uh you're always
01:07moving and doing things man so you know um you know tell the people about what you've been got
01:12what you've been having going on lately man and you know things people should know about
01:16lately I've just been locked in man trying to uh get this music done get the motion you know
01:22I'm saying get back going all the way how I want it to go you know right since I'm really
01:25locked in
01:26with this right now running around just being active for through the city you know stuff like that
01:31how did this collab come together right here Aikon and Tone Tone oh no this is this this is a
01:37man this is a collaboration from 10 years ago me and tone been locked in last for the last 10
01:42um you know we we actually um thought about what was the the role we was gonna take to kind
01:49of
01:49reintroduce to like himself back to his audience because you know for a while social media wasn't
01:55something that we kind of took full advantage of because we just the era we came in you got to
01:59be
01:59private as an artist to get you know what i mean it's different now right it's totally different
02:02man it's like it's so hard to kind of adapt but i'm starting to get the hang of it i'm
02:06kind of
02:06figuring out how it actually really works but for the most part it was like you know we got to
02:11come
02:11we got to come back in a way to where you can satisfy not only the fan base that you
02:15already got
02:15but introduce yourself to a whole nother base all together and we felt like you know the ways he's
02:20coming now it's probably the best way to do it because he's actually merging with the newest hottest
02:26detroit wave yeah yeah i'm glad you brought that up because you got a lot of detroit heavy hitters on
02:31there man i swear bezo peasy uh what made you reach out to those guys uh gmack cash bro you
02:37got a lot
02:37of you got some guys on there man it's like the detroit all-stars yeah right facts peasy and bez
02:42them
02:42my brothers you know so that was a no question like you know what i'm saying they was gonna meet
02:47we've been since high school like young going to skaterland high school parties got you got you got
02:52you it was deeper than music with them it's like done skiller baby skiller actually yeah oh really
02:58he was happy because skiller came up you know i'm saying listening to he was happy to get on it
03:02you know what i'm saying so um gmack you know uh i just knew he about the culture like he
03:08got the
03:08lion he got the what he got the anthem he got the pistons the lion his songs the anthem yeah
03:13the
03:13tigers i think you got the red wings too bro or the tigers one of them two yeah i knew
03:17we needed that
03:18that's the culture right there so i try to make sure that it all made sense you know what i'm
03:23saying so
03:23i that's why i wanted to make sure it was like an all-star lineup like kind of said so
03:27so i grew up on the what up though record what made you want to bring it back out and
03:33reintroduce
03:33it to a whole new audience man because like for me when i heard it i'm like okay i like
03:38what you're
03:38doing with this like you said you're reintroducing it to the cause you got a lot of new guys on
03:41there
03:41so what made you want to say okay this is how i want to do it and they got the
03:44stamp of approval
03:44the kind the akon on there with the convict music so it's uh it was like two different things
03:49with it like one one one one thing was um the word i mean with the lingo of it gotcha
03:57you know
03:57what i'm saying the world know about it now when i first dropped it it was just us we knew
04:02about it
04:03now every everybody know what it is so um it's kind of cool that the world know what it is
04:07now we have
04:08a record to represent our slogan you know i'm saying then the second thing was to show the detroit that
04:13we
04:13all really can work together and turn up together because we don't work together a lot so if everybody
04:19see all us on it and now they're seeing the record do good i think it's gonna motivate the city
04:24to
04:24come together the motivation man yeah because like i always said man there's so much talent that come
04:29out of detroit right like detroit's so lit but they just so divided though now that's visible like you
04:34could see it gotcha yeah right imagine if they actually came together man some unity man it'll be
04:39crazy what was your thoughts when you first heard the song oh it was a smash it was like instant
04:43i was
04:44like bro we gotta redo this like yeah like now like this generation don't know about that yeah
04:48we gotta bring it back now you know so yeah yeah and then we just we went in and just
04:52turned that
04:52thing up yeah so uh akon you got a tour coming up with neo man yeah talk a little bit
04:58about that
04:58whose idea was that was that you him yeah well i mean it's both of our ideas really because we
05:02come
05:02from like this nostalgic era you know i'm saying right now nostalgia is working like we're seeing all
05:07these things going on i was like bro we need to just let's we need to go on the road
05:10together
05:10you know what i mean so i reached out to neo he's like man hell yeah let's go you know
05:15what i mean
05:15so we decided to do a world tour basically versus just domestic because we got a huge international
05:19following so yeah the tour starts in europe then canada then the u.s y'all you coming back to
05:24the
05:25city ain't you oh yeah we back here i think i want to say in july yeah that's sound about
05:28i know it's
05:29something yeah don't tell you hitting that stage man what's up no i'm just popping now i'm popping
05:33i'll enjoy it as a fan man i want toto to start singing yeah you feel me i want me
05:38to get going
05:40now i'm just gonna enjoy it for real watch bro do all them hits man and probably watch it from
05:45the
05:45crowd for real like sad because on the side of stage because i want to i'm gonna go watch it
05:49from the crowd enjoy the show what is something that you learned from akon man just hanging around
05:55before you say i've been on television about 10 years yeah so i know you got some game from what
05:58was something that he said to you he was like damn man just don't never get comfortable man
06:02because he could stop and be good like and then he just be on go bro like his motivation like
06:09don't
06:09get comfortable with it man like ain't no topics just levels to it and don't never stop working
06:14you know what i'm saying yeah i see him like he don't stop and i'll be like i asked him
06:19the other
06:19day i'm like yesterday i'm like you a diamond archer like what make you you know what i'm saying
06:24so that'd be motivating me you know what i'm saying got you got you what made you interested
06:29in working with tone tone man from 10 years ago yeah no it's just he just stood out like
06:34it was one of them automatic things like i just got this gift when i see an artist i just
06:38know
06:38like i just know that's it it just and you can tell because time always will always weigh out the
06:44person you know i'm saying the legendary aspect of status of him always gonna pull itself out so
06:48but with him he just was just original he had a work ethic out of this world that i that's
06:52what i
06:53really attracted to i i'm i love artists i just love to put the work in got you because with
06:58that
06:58man when you got that work put in man you just it just you can just like you can maximize
07:02every
07:03opportunity that comes to you most artists they lose those things that's why they don't last long
07:07because they don't have really to work at it you know i'm saying what's your thoughts on the music
07:10of the day because we hear a lot of people saying it's trash it ain't i'm really want to ask
07:14both of
07:14y'all that because you right y'all came out in the 2000s you know what i'm saying so when
07:18y'all was
07:19really popping the music was different yeah now everybody's like i don't like this you know what
07:24i mean so yeah i mean i think it's it's more of a preference thing though um because a lot
07:29of music
07:29that i may not be like i wouldn't add to my playlist my kids love it you know what i'm
07:34saying
07:35they love it so i can't tell them that it ain't hot it just that ain't my preference of what
07:40i like
07:40to listen to me i love melody i love lyrics of substance and i like songs that just timeless you
07:46know i'm saying so i kind of tend to stick to records that i just feel like the melody locks
07:50me in and i just make me feel good mm-hmm what about you man how you feel about because
07:54you came
07:54out early in the game man so it's like it's a different time well you should feel about what
07:59again repeat it i feel about like the music of today man a lot of people are not they love
08:03it and
08:03then they hate it it's no in between it's just more people voice their opinions nowadays gotcha
08:09um you always going it's always going when people don't like something it's like you know
08:14what i'm saying that that's what come with it you know what i'm saying so i feel like far as
08:18artist
08:19wise with me like because not to switch to such it's just like when you drop music now everybody's
08:25so pain that it'd be crazy you know what i'm saying so you know what i'm saying just i i
08:30don't really
08:30pay attention to that on that end you know what i'm saying but i just feel like we're in a
08:34world
08:34where you know what i'm saying just music is music people some people gonna like some people
08:38like so that's what it is y'all both talked about the unity in detroit right what you think the
08:44next
08:44step is for us to take that next oh unite literally mm-hmm that's it i think so i think
08:49because that
08:50was a step atlanta had to take got you once atlanta came together ain't no stopping them i think i
08:55think
08:56detroit got the same potential yeah i think the same thing uh like i say like that record i think
09:03it's
09:04really gonna influence more artists to work together because it's doing so good at the same
09:09now but let's say the record we did on the record ain't really you know what i'm saying but people
09:12like people like to see stuff do good and motivate them you know what i'm saying so for them to
09:16see
09:16oh they did jump on that record to hit all these millions of views and stuff everywhere you open
09:20up the net it's like okay that's us coming together you know what i'm saying uh when i put it
09:25out they
09:25all posted you know what i'm saying it ain't just no regular out now it's my brother drop my brother
09:31drop my people need to see that type of stuff you know what i'm saying so it's it's that's i
09:35think
09:35that's a good start for the city yeah that record right there all right last thing and i'm gonna let
09:40y'all fellas go because i know y'all y'all busy um when can we see either a akon
09:46featuring tone tone
09:47record or like when is that coming can y'all say that oh yeah you could definitely say that that's
09:52definitely coming we're working on tone tones um as we speak you know nice that's fire yeah so i mean
09:57y'all got a date for it yeah yeah it's gonna you're gonna definitely get it in may fire how
10:01you feel
10:02about that man what did that mean to you as an artist from the city and you got akon backing
10:05you
10:06man that's like you say diamond artist man that's a big deal diamond bro um it's a blessing though for
10:11real because a lot of people don't get this opportunity so i'm just taking advantage of it
10:15and you know i'm saying just hitting ground zero just acting like ain't nothing like all the legend
10:21stuff cool and stuff but i ain't like now you got you gotta flex a little bit though no i'm
10:26gonna
10:27flex when i i feel like it ain't time gotcha i'm saying i let the fans be flexing for me
10:32right now
10:33but i'm gonna pop it in a minute though you feel like this should have happened earlier in your
10:37career you like this the right time i'm i feel like that but i'm glad it's happening how it's
10:40happening yeah because it's like it's looking like everything unfolding like perfectly at the
10:45time i was talking to god like man you want it to happen now yeah yeah yeah god's like god
10:53crazy
10:53like man what's wrong with you like just you know i'm saying now you don't understand it all to the
10:58end of your story so i get it now as i started being more patient more stuff started happening
11:04too when i was rushing and doing stuff from the wrong way it was it started not moving right when
11:08i
11:08started being patient and when i didn't even understand stuff i started still thanking god
11:12for the little stuff and being more humble everything started unfolding hey con one more
11:17question for you bro you ain't did a versus yet have you no would you do a versus honestly if
11:22it
11:22made sense or who is somebody that you want to do honestly to be honest and i'll be as transparent
11:26as possible if i do versus today it's only because they paying me well i mean i would want a
11:32huge bag
11:32to do it yeah yeah but had it not been the money at all i don't really know if there's
11:38anyone out there i can do a versus with to be honest i really don't i can't think of nobody
11:47the only person the only name that kept coming up was t-pain but i'm like he's my heart that's
11:51on
11:52the same team yeah that's like jordan and pippen playing each other yeah no that's that's like dr
11:55dre and no we talking about y'all that ain't with us that don't make sense like he's with me
11:59like
11:59he's a part of my versus yeah yeah yeah you know what i'm saying so it's like who else can
12:05honestly and even even if i had to go that far
12:09i mean it ain't you can't think it's yeah i can't think yeah you got a unique style bros i'm
12:15trying
12:15to think right where's the i try to think i wanted to talk about it one day like a couple
12:20months ago
12:20i couldn't even yeah it's just too like it's just too many genres to cover yeah you got a lot
12:25of
12:25if we cover hip-hop y'all already know what that is right if we go into pop that goes
12:30even further
12:31then we can go into dance music like who then forget that we're going to afrobeat i feel like
12:38we are thinking about black people i think we got to find somebody white bro because i i couldn't
12:42but even only when i'm saying even if it was white because it's they won't be able to they won't
12:46be
12:46able to touch me on the hip-hop side yeah they're gonna get whooped like who i wish i would
12:52have
12:52thought about that i want to give you a pushback on that but i can't think of nobody right now
12:57trust me i wanted to find somebody that i could i don't know but the only person to be honest
13:03that can probably come close is probably pharrell oh no no man no this is the thing listen hear me
13:12out he's a producer he's a songwriter and he's an artist oh he performed to other people's songs
13:18he did beats for with it yeah okay that's only pharrell is the closest me knowing he's got pop
13:23records for real yeah he got pop records that's a good he got hip-hop records right so yeah only
13:29thing is he ain't got dance records afrobeat records and like i got records in other countries
13:37in them languages that nobody even know exists yeah yeah yeah relax man i swear to god like i got
13:43a
13:43hip record in india where i'm singing in indy hindi i got records in arabic where i'm like number
13:49ones where i'm speaking in arabic like wow yeah it's just it's hard i couldn't i couldn't love him
13:57like i would literally have to i would have to verse like five people at the same time in different
14:02genres i don't agree with that for real one though bro he can't i feel like i would have to
14:06the
14:06closest nah i would have to i'm feeling that one it would have to be me and then get a
14:11producer
14:11i challenge him get and then we didn't talk about my songwriting's the part of it man i can't think
14:18of nobody yeah that's a good one then the artists then the features then the different territories
14:21then the different genres it just wouldn't uh i can't see you got deep back bro yeah it'd be hard
14:26yeah yeah you would have to literally do parts that's crazy and we can start wyclef i'll go with him
14:33first that's a good one we'll start there first because clef is probably the closest chameleon
14:39that i can say okay we can start that because he got different territories different languages and
14:44he writes produce and he's an artist what you think about that dwight clef but that still ain't
14:48it nah bro cliff even his pop like but clef got pops too he didn't recognize your stuff still connect
14:56with the streets though like right now it's still the streets still mess with that the streets still
15:01mixed with like i like want to love you is like both like yes i don't know man it's gonna
15:05be hard
15:06bro it's gonna be hard yeah that is difficult well gentlemen thank you both for coming in man
15:10appreciate y'all um y'all want to shout out anything that y'all got going on tom tom will
15:15start with
15:15you man you know the record is out what up though yeah yeah yeah it's out right now all uh
15:19streaming
15:19platforms on youtube you know i'm saying type it in tom tom what up though hey detroit just repost share
15:25it like i say that's y'all record not just my record it's the city record you know i'm saying
15:29repost here i'm i'ma repost them shout out you out all that um and let's get it man detroit what
15:36up
15:36though hey as an inventory man anything else you want people to know about yeah definitely of course
15:41the album is coming out april 16th i mean 17th um you actually the first to know that that's why
15:48i do
15:48my job bro okay yeah so i appreciate that you dropped it till my run oh okay my bad yeah
15:53you
15:53slipped one in just now well y'all heard it here first yeah 105 with the bounce 17th yeah be
15:59ready
15:59for it y'all be ready for it akon tone tone appreciate y'all man it's 105 when the bounce
16:04showtime the czar peace let's get it sir
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