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Friday
Wake that ass up. Early in the morning, the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy we are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. His album is out right now. Ladies and gentlemen, we have Friday here. Welcome, brother.
Friday
Sup, man? How y'all doing?
Angela Yee
You getting some money Friday? Yes, I can tell when the n done got some money now it's a.
Friday
Little different from last time.
Gina
But you staying consistent, though, y'all?
Friday
Yeah, for sure. Yeah, you gotta stay consistent.
DJ Envy
How you feeling, though, brother?
Friday
I feel amazing, man. You feel me? It's been 18 months since I dropped my last project, so the fans been waiting on this, so I feel good, I ain't gonna lie.
Angela Yee
What's changed over the last 18 months.
Friday
For you, personally and professionally? Yeah, I'll go personally. Just coming in the industry, last time, it was like my first foot in. Now it's like I'm experiencing everything all at once, you know what I'm saying? Like, the highs and the lows, just everything that come with the fame. It's been like a tricky past year, you know, Especially losing my dad. Lost my dad last year. Just at the highest point of my life. While I was on tour, selling out shows. I got the call. I lost my dad. So just balancing that and working on the album, for sure.
Angela Yee
You was in Europe when you got that call, right?
Friday
Yeah, it messed me up bad. Like, I get chills just talking about it. Cause I wasn't there when he died. I just could see him going. You feel me? His eyes open. I couldn't even talk to him, you know what I'm saying? Like, it, like, bring real trauma. Like, I cry every time. Like, I could they put you on.
Angela Yee
FaceTime with him or something?
Friday
Yeah, it was just. My mom put me on FaceTime. It was like, your dad gone. Like, I couldn't believe it. I'm like, let me see. And I looked at his face. His sword was all his body. I'm like, there's nothing I could do, though. You feel me? I'm 12 hours away. So it hit me every time I think about it.
DJ Envy
And that's where the record, I guess, with Meek Mill, proud of me. Cause y'all both lost your dad, and that's what y'all talking about in that song.
Friday
Yeah, for sure.
DJ Envy
You reached out to Meek for that, or how did that song come about?
Friday
Yeah, I was at the. Actually in New York. My album was already turned in, so I pulled up on Meek at the concert. Just chopped it up. Meek showed me love. He was one of the few artists that brought me out, brought me out to my first show. 20,000 people, you feel me? So we've been locked in since. And I dropped this song, like, a month after my dad died. And then meek DM'd me. Like, my dad died, too. So we connected even more on that. And my album was done. Like, I made that song probably, like, two months ago, you know? What I'm saying, I just called him. Cause I knew it was gonna touch his heart. You know what I'm saying? And we was on FaceTime for, like, three hours. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, I'm pulling up on you in New York. I need this verse. I pulled up on him. He told me, like, bro, I've been at writer's block for the past month, but I'm gonna knock this joint out for you. You feel me? So he was in the booth for 11 hours. Like, I watched him stay in the booth. 11:00pm to 11:00am just making sure he got this done for his dad. You know what I'm saying?
Gina
Cause drama like that hits different.
Friday
Yeah. Hit different. For sure.
Gina
Yeah. And the album is, some days I'm good, some days I'm not. Now I can't help but to notice on the COVID you don't look happy at all.
Friday
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Gina
It's a dope cover, but it definitely speaks. It screams that you're not okay.
Friday
And, like, that's how I wanted to cover. You feel me? Everybody around me smiling, too. Like, being at this position, you almost make everybody else happy. Because they all getting something from you. So you might be outside. Everybody happy. Because, like, but they not even wondering, like, how far I really doing. Cause it's a lot on him. You know what I'm saying? Like, nobody even asks you, like, bro, you really. Yeah, they don't really care. Cause we living like, you feel me? You feel me? And you putting them in positions like, and you changed my life. But they'll never even think, like, what bro going through. Yeah, for sure.
Angela Yee
But, you know, on the Proud of Me record, you talk about how hurt you are, but then you say you heal your pain by buying diamonds on diamonds.
Friday
Yeah, for sure.
Angela Yee
So a lot of people are gonna be like, oh, he good.
Friday
No, no, no. It's just something to, like. It's just something that get me happy. You know, I might be messed up and just go to the. You feel me? Go to shine real quick. I don't even gotta buy jewelry. I'll just chill in the jewelry store. Just look at it. You feel me? Cause it's one of my trophies to me. You know what I'm saying? I'm one of them guys. Like, I ain't gonna wait for somebody to give me a trophy. So I'm gonna go buy my own trophy.
Angela Yee
They call that retail therapy. But it's temporary, though. Like, how long does that last?
Friday
Yeah, it's temporary, but it's a trophy to me, you know what I'm saying? So this something like I worked hard my whole life for, you know what I'm saying? It's equal to a Grammy. I look at this like a Grammy, you know what I'm saying? For sure.
Angela Yee
Let me pull out my diamond test. Let me see if you should be happy about it.
DJ Envy
Don't stop, man.
Friday
You good. Go ahead.
Gina
I like that.
Angela Yee
I'm just saying, this man always gotta wa. You might be out here happy for no reason.
Friday
All the way. Good. This guy's crazy.
Gina
We got that old ass diamond testing.
DJ Envy
I was gonna ask, you know, how long did it take you to do this album? Because listening to the album, you could you feel the pain. From the first song? Yeah, from the first song. How long did it take you to do this album and how difficult was it to do this album? And there's so many elements in this album that's that scream gospel.
Friday
Yeah. It took me like 18 months to do this album. Like the last album, I was very still. Like, I ain't even going on tour yet. I just locked in for like a month straight and just boom, two months, 14 songs. But this album, I was on tour, two tours, losing my dad. So it was like it all came together, like, in 18 months. That's why it's even 21 songs on this album. It's just a process of me recording through the whole year, making good music. I couldn't even take nothing out, you know what I'm saying? And it's also a reason why it's a double diss, you feel me? I got a lot of fans that love the R and B side of me and the other fans that love the life, you know what I'm saying? The pain side of me. So I separated in that way just to feed my fans, you know what I'm saying? It's been a long time.
Gina
Besides, you grew up in church. That's.
Friday
Oh, yeah, for sure. My dad's a pastor, you know what I'm saying? That's where I learned everything. He forced music on me, you know what I'm saying? It wasn't no musicians in the church. So he told me and my brothers, y'all n s gotta learn something, you know what I'm saying? Y'all gonna play something. And it kind of like came natural. Like, I was playing instruments and singing in the choir since I was like, 11.
Angela Yee
I wonder what the meek verse was it the writer's block or the difficulty of making the verse or the fact that y'all was, you know, sitting up, talking about grief that took 11 hours. Like, what do you think it was?
Friday
I think it's everything, you know what I'm saying? Like, when you make a song for somebody you lost, it's like, you gotta get it done. You gotta do the best you can for that person in that session too. Like, if you look at my Instagram, I was probably crying tears the whole session. You know what I'm saying? Cause while he was quaring, we couldn't hear. But when he finished his verse, even though he lost his dad when he was a kid, a lot of the stuff he was saying was touching my heart in a different way. I got everything, but I just really wanna hold hands with my old man on wedding day while I slow dance. You feel me? And just. I lost my dad. Then my brother got married. My pop wasn't at that, so everything he was saying was just hitting my heart. So that session was a therapy session, bro. We was crying real tears in there.
Angela Yee
What other healthy conversations have led to art?
Friday
What you mean by that?
Angela Yee
Like, other conversations that you've had with people that lead to music?
Friday
I get music like that. It's like a lot from experience, especially combos, even. I got a song called Some Days I'm Good, Some Days I'm not on the Album. Like, that was a conversation I had with my manager just finding an album title and then we found it. And right after we found it, I just went into my basement, produced it, and just freestyled that song. So a lot of my music come from experience for sure.
Gina
Hell yeah. Because Empty Stomach is still my favorite.
Friday
Oh yeah, she a day. That's why I love just. She been showing me love since the beginning. For real though, I was gonna ask.
DJ Envy
What else you've been dealing with on this album in the last, I guess, 18 months. Cuz besides your father passing, I mean, listening to some of these songs, it seems like your friends have snaked you. Yeah, seems like you know, your friends only out for one thing. A girl did you dirty. Like, there's so much pain, bro. I wanted to get. After he listened to album, I said, damn, I got to get his brother a hug. Like you've been dealing. So what else have you.
Angela Yee
He just wanted to hug you, cuz. He wanted to hug you. Don't let him blame that on all that other freaky ass nigga over there. But like.
DJ Envy
Like, son comes down, wait for me. Like there's records never leave. Like there's records where you're hurting. So talk about that A little bit.
Friday
I say, like, being the first person to make it out, it's like a blessing and a curse. And it's like, when you make it out, all eyes is on you. And I'll say this like, it'll be like, the closest people around you, like, they look at you to everything. You know what I'm saying? And they even blame you for everything. You feel me? Like, you just wake up and you get five calls. Like, bro, what you think about this business? Like, you feel me? I'm like, talk to me. Niggas don't got no clue what they want to do. I'm like, all right, bet. Old Friday weirdo you don't want invested in my business, then that's another joy. You feel me? And it's like, I'll say this, like, bringing people to the water. It's a blessing and a curse. Cause they take it for granted. I'll say that. And then they blame it on you. You feel me? In a way. Like, say you bring people backstage, right? I put people in this room. They'll look at you to do everything else.
DJ Envy
No liquor in the room. What a liquor at. No food. You ain't got no food.
Friday
They in a room with you, and they be like, yo, text Charlamagne, bro. I just put you in a room with. You just met 80 artists, but you worried about girls. You ain't leaving no numbers. And then you go to sleep like, yo, Friday ain't putting me in position. Only thing you could ask for is the. The door to be open. You feel me? So that's one of the things. Big things going through, like, making it out for sure.
Angela Yee
I tell you something that I wish somebody would have told me earlier. Focus on yourself, King.
Friday
Nah, for sure.
Angela Yee
Because you can travel farther alone. And then when you finally get in the position you want to be, then you can help who is worthy of being facts. You know another thing, too, man. You say that the pain won't go away. You say that on the. Some days I'm good, some days I'm not. It's like, it's not. You know, it's not really supposed to. Yeah. And you're supposed to just deal with it.
Friday
You're supposed to deal with it, understand it more, and find the good in it.
Angela Yee
Yeah. You said.
Friday
I know.
Angela Yee
You know, you might want to escape from it, you know, have a little drink or buy some jewelry, but it's just. It's a natural thing. Like, you should be grieving. You lost your pops.
Friday
That's understanding. Yeah. I'm learning that. I'm learning that as the days go by, like, I just understand it more. You feel me? I understand it and take it as a lesson how I'm supposed to be moving forward with my life. So. Yeah, that's fact. It'll never go away, though.
Gina
I know. Shopping for jewelry and, you know, just sitting in a jewelry store. That's your trophy. That's your therapy. But you don't have a professional therapist that you see.
Friday
Nah, not yet. I'm thinking about it, but not yet. I really just go to the studio. You feel me? I just. I don't know. It's kind of weird. I don't want to, like, pour my life out to somebody I don't really know. You feel me? And I don't want to pour my life out to somebody that I do know.
Gina
Yeah.
Friday
Because it might need something from me. So they'll tell me everything I. I want to hear instead of what I need to hear. So, Kitty. Yeah. Text you and all that, but. Yeah.
Angela Yee
When you're ready, I started going to 2016. Just do it when you're ready.
Friday
Yeah, for sure.
Angela Yee
That's your alarm.
Friday
No, I don't think it's mine. That is mine.
Angela Yee
You just be. You be waking up at 10:22.
Friday
Nah, look, sometimes I got alarms just to. You feel me? Pay this bill or something. Something like that. Just remind me, what was that reminder for?
Gina
Yo, noisy as hell.
Friday
Like, it was a gaslighting bill or something.
Angela Yee
A gaslight. Okay, okay. But now just go to therapy when that. When, when. When you're ready to.
Friday
Yeah, for sure.
Angela Yee
Let me check this jewelry, though. I need to see.
Friday
Oh, here you go.
Angela Yee
It was making a lot of noise, man. Hold on.
Gina
I love when somebody step up. I love it. Step up. Tell him to stop playing with you, Fry. Like, we not. We not doing that.
Angela Yee
I don't know, Fry, you doing a joke.
Friday
Go ahead. Go ahead. Hit a diamond.
Angela Yee
Where the diamond at? Okay.
Gina
It has to be on it, y'all.
Angela Yee
It's on the diamond.
Gina
That was the first diamond tester ever made.
Angela Yee
Oh, my God.
Gina
Cause I've seen other ones that don't look like that. No, that's right.
Friday
Oh, boy.
Angela Yee
Run up in the jeweler right now.
Gina
Ain't making no noise. Why it's not making no noise?
Friday
It's supposed.
Angela Yee
Why you think it's not making noise?
Friday
Hold on.
Angela Yee
Let me see.
Gina
It's supposed to make noise whether it's fake or real.
Friday
Busted.
Gina
It ain't supposed to be quiet.
DJ Envy
Is it working?
Friday
Fry, this busted. I'm telling you.
Gina
Should have waited to the end to do this. Now he ain't going to answer no more questions.
Friday
Get this right.
Gina
Okay?
Friday
Get this right.
Gina
God damn, man.
Angela Yee
I don't know. Come here.
Gina
It's about to be one of them days.
Angela Yee
Probably go to the jeweler, which. Okay, hold on, hold on.
Gina
Damn. This.
Angela Yee
Yeah, that broke.
Gina
Yeah, that's your. I already knew.
Angela Yee
Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Gina
Turn it off. Turn it back on.
Angela Yee
It's on all the way. Yes, it is.
Friday
We put real pain, real money into this trophy. You feel me?
Gina
I'm telling you, yo. About to put some respect on this man.
Friday
Julie, you see it ain't work for him, right?
Angela Yee
Hold on, hold on. What the diamond at?
Gina
Y'all see the diamonds?
Friday
You drunk? Broke. Yeah, Try every junk.
DJ Envy
It's broke.
Gina
It's about to be one of them daily. He ain't okay, man.
DJ Envy
Cause it would work. It would work on one of these days.
Angela Yee
It works.
Gina
You sure not playing.
Angela Yee
Oh, so. Okay, okay, okay. Let's.
Friday
All right.
Angela Yee
Okay, so why put it on? Let's see.
Friday
You got to put your thumb on the thumb.
Angela Yee
All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. Stop playing.
Gina
He told this. Stop playing.
Angela Yee
Okay, okay, okay, all right.
Friday
I knew you was going to do.
Angela Yee
I was going to go to the jeweler with you Friday. I like. He can't do it.
Gina
Put that little around your neck that you got tucked.
Angela Yee
Keep going. I gotta make sure he right.
Gina
Ain't no Philly like Friday where he come up here with no fake jewelry. Okay, this is the.
Friday
Yeah, this is highlighted the whole interview.
Gina
Like, what are we doing?
Friday
I'm cool.
Angela Yee
This would have been one of them days that he not having a good one.
Friday
That's crazy.
DJ Envy
Jesus Christ.
Angela Yee
But I like the Come Home record, too.
Charlamagne Tha God
Yeah.
Friday
Oh, you really listen this time. You ain't listening Last time. I ain't gonna lie. He talking about Nyla.
DJ Envy
Come on.
Friday
He talking about Nyla. What you got? That's how the last interview was. I'm right here with Charlemagne. Like, Nyla. What else you got? That was 10 minutes. I text Nyla right after. I appreciate you, sis. That joint.
Angela Yee
That nigga, that joint would have been.
Friday
Three minutes without Nyl.
Angela Yee
No, but I like it, though. Cause you talk about how you put a woman through a lot of shit.
Friday
Yeah, I ain't say that. What you rapping about? What song you talking about?
Angela Yee
On the Come Home.
Friday
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure.
Angela Yee
Exactly.
Friday
In a way. In a way. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah.
Angela Yee
But to have that level of self.
Friday
Awareness yeah, that's a great record writing wise, you know, it's special. Like, it's just explaining, like, is it too late for me to come home? Like me being outside late and doing all my dirt and just coming home. You know, when you come home, you don't feel like you don't want to give nobody a hug. You gotta wash up first, you know what I'm saying? It's like one of them songs. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Angela Yee
You say you steady trying to cover up your filthy side. Yeah, I come home with a lot of baggage. I've been hard to manage.
Friday
Yeah, for sure. That song, crazy. And it's not even about love. It's about whoever you coming home to, you know what I'm saying? Even if it's your kid, even if.
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Friday
When you come home to see your mom, you gotta clean up before like me, I'm coming to see my mom, I gotta take a shower. If I'm doing something crazy, you know for sure.
Angela Yee
Do you feel like you have to, I guess hide things, hide the way you feeling sometimes. Because you said that earlier, like you don't want to express yourself to people. So if you do get close to a woman but you are having one of them days where you grieving or something, shouldn't you be able to share that with her?
Friday
Yeah, sometimes. But like I'll say, like sometimes women like, they take that for weakness when you like really open up to them. Like so that's how my dad was too. You almost gotta be like really strong. You feel me? Not even just saying woman, just throw it in your face, your weakness. But it's just like then once you weak, you know what I'm saying? It's like they look down on you. Most women, it's like they look down on you when you weak. From what I seen, you know What I'm saying, for sure.
Gina
That's them Philly chicks, y'all.
Friday
No, the Philly ones hold you down. It's just like, they just expect a man all the time. You know what I'm saying? They just expect that protector, the provider. Like, they don't even. The emotions. It's not worried about that most of the time. For sure.
Angela Yee
It was crazy. That's what men be needing.
Friday
Yeah, we.
Angela Yee
We be needing that. We don't just want to be the protectors and provider.
Friday
Not for sure. You mess around, tell you how you feel. She tell you how you. How she feel right after.
Angela Yee
Damn.
Gina
Or when you get upset, she throw it at me.
Friday
Throw it at you like, well, this time. But it's like, damn. I can't express myself without you throwing it back at me. Like, it's like, let me feel how I feel. Like, I was telling my brother that I don't think men could feel how they feel from the woman.
DJ Envy
You find the right one, you can.
Friday
Yeah, yeah. I know.
DJ Envy
You don't throw it back in your face. That's not the right one. Because you can't be open anytime that you feel away, you can never express yourself fully.
Friday
Yeah, for sure.
Gina
Now. One Call Away featuring Chris Brown. I love. You know I love Chris Brown. I'm a Friday fan, too. I love Chris Brown. Yo, every song y'all have together is a bop. Is he somebody that you know that you can just call and just talk to?
Friday
I wrote for Chris Brown before I ever was an artist, you know what I'm saying? I came in his game as a writer and producer first. So I was running around LA just writing for people, and he was, like, the first big artist that I wrote for. I wrote on two songs on his album with Bryson Taylor and Lil Durk, and we ain't really meet yet. You feel me? But when God did and everything came out, he DMed me like, Bro, let's lock in in person. You know what I'm saying? And I lied to him. Like, I'm in LA right now. I was in Philly though. Broke. You feel me?
Angela Yee
That's right.
Friday
But I'm telling my team. You feel me? I'm like, I'm telling my team I gotta get to LA tomorrow. You feel me? So I'm like, yo, I'll be there tomorrow. He invited me to his crib, and it was just like, love ever since, you know what I'm saying? He one of the most humble artists I ever met in my life. Like, he just let me head my way like, cook up. You feel me? He like, I just want to rock with you. Like, do what you need to do in the studio and just tell. He telling me, like, you could leave me in this joint. So ever since then, we've been locked in. So every time I call him, he pick up for sure.
Angela Yee
What do you think makes that connection so special? Because, you know, the industry's so fake. What makes that connection is so special.
Friday
First, it's just the music. Like a fan, Like a fan of each other. You know what I'm saying? Then when you meet somebody and they real genuine, you could really have a conversation, like, pass the music and talk for hours in the studio and create something y'all love. It's just a special thing.
Angela Yee
You won your first Grammy because of Chris Brown, too, right?
Friday
Yeah, I won, I won my Grammy, like, last month. You feel me? I'm featured on his album.
Gina
Well, you won the Grammy because of you, but yeah, for sure.
Friday
But I thank him because he put me on that album and I produced on that album, too, so I got two songs on that album. Wow.
Angela Yee
How'd that feel?
Friday
Feel amazing, man. I can't, I can't tell you how I feel. Like he was one of them guys like I just dreamed of working of, you feel me? Now I get to FaceTime him and celebrate a Grammy with him. It's crazy, you know, it's dope.
Gina
I, I, I'm going to say this, then I'm gonna move on. Don't Give It Away, part one, and then Don't Give It Away, part two. Yeah, that is something that I listen to. I have to listen to when I'm on psychedelics. It is like shrooms. I don't know if you fuck with shrooms. Shrooms.
Friday
Okay, okay. I was a little worried a little bit psychedelics. It's just shrooms.
Gina
Yeah, it's other things. Lsd, all that. But I only do the shrooms.
Friday
Okay, okay, okay.
Gina
But the Don't Give It Away part one, it's a, it's a like, y'all, they had these niggas gotta listen to me. They don't know about it. It's so different. And it's a, it's, it's, like, heightened. Yeah, it's enlightenment. Like you and Chris Brown together.
Friday
Yeah, it's crazy.
Gina
So I'm trying to see if y'all can do a collaborated album like that.
Friday
Yeah, a lot of fans be asking that. Even like a little ep, you know what I'm saying? Yeah.
Gina
Is that something that y'all talked About?
Friday
Nah, for sure. We got songs in the tuck too. Like people didn't even hear it.
Gina
Crazy.
Friday
We talked about it in the stu. Like it would be crazy. But you know, we doing our own thing too, so we gotta push our goals first.
DJ Envy
What do you prefer? You prefer doing the Afrobeat sounding records or the more the R B sounding records?
Friday
They both a vibe. Yeah, they. I, I like it equally, you know what I'm saying? Because growing up, Haitian Afrobeat and Jamaican music was like second home in New York, you know? So it's like, yeah, compa. So I like it both equally, for sure.
Angela Yee
How much did God did change your life?
Friday
Changed everything, I ain't gonna lie.
Angela Yee
Really. Talk about financially, did you get all you posted?
Friday
I signed my, my first artist deal right after God did, you know what I'm saying? And I was still in the hood when it came out, you know what I'm saying? Like, came out. I heard, I didn't even know my voice was on there. I was just waiting. Midnight came, I heard my voice, I seen the feature. I'm like, everything about to change, you know what I'm saying? I'm like, I gotta get out this hood though, you know what I'm saying? Then I bought a crib, you feel me? It changed everything.
Angela Yee
Was that the third year? Cause I saw you talking about how your third year is when you really started making money in this business. Or was that.
Friday
Yeah, I'll tell every artist, like at first, the first year is really like sacrifices if you're doing it the right way. Like, I feel like a lot of artists, they do it like. I wouldn't say the wrong way, but it's just like a money grab. Just like for shows. Of course. Like. No, it's a money grab. I'm coming with me and my DJ and just rocking it out just to get the whole. But me, I like to present a certain show. Like, I gotta make sure the sound right. I gotta make sure I got a band like you feel me? So for me, the first year was more sacrifice.
DJ Envy
Breaking even.
Friday
Yeah, breaking even. Like my tour. Like I ain't even. You feel me? It was even. I might have to come out of pocket sometimes, you know what I'm saying? But this, like, this the year. Like, I feel like I start making more money for sure.
Angela Yee
What do you call real money? Like what, you don't gotta give a number. Yeah, I want a number. Like what, what did you. Or maybe financially, what did you be? What were you able to do that made you say, okay, now I'M making real money. So you don't gotta give a.
Friday
What I'm able to do now? Like, I'm able to help the people I love. That's. That's like, at first, you know, when you sign, they don't really understand a million dollars turn into 3, 400,000. You feel me? You pay your taxes, pay your cash taxes, you pay your team and all that, but everybody looking at you like you got an M or 2, you know what I'm saying? And they got their hand out like, yo, you supposed to. You feel me? Nigga might ask you for 100,000.
Angela Yee
God damn.
Friday
Like, you feel me? That's how you think you sign for. And we grew up together balls enough.
Gina
To ask somebody $100,000?
Friday
Yeah, that's crazy. But it's just a mindset thing. So now, like, two, three years in, I'm just. I'm more comfortable with, you feel me, helping my family. You feel me giving them money. That's. That's what I feel like. I'm good now.
Angela Yee
Are you honest with them, though? Do you tell them, like, look, it ain't that yet.
Friday
Yeah, I had. I had a few sit downs last year. Like, a year and a half. Like, really explain. Like, you feel me? Is not that you feel me? Because most artists, they would even pretend in front of their family. Is that you feel me? And they be like, you bragging to us. Is that. And we starving. So I'll make them look at you and even build a hate. You feel me? So you gotta be honest with them. You explain what it is. You feel me? And they'll understand. They'll understand how you move.
Gina
That effect, huh? I be acting like I'm starving too. Nah, that's just what y'all see. Yeah, you're not paying me at the Breakfast Club. I say it all the time.
Friday
N. That's what you guys say. You might have to put it a little lower too. You feel me?
Gina
I don't wear no design, nothing. I'm like, I'm an intern up there. I'm not really.
Friday
Yeah, I bought this chain. They start asking for more.
Gina
I mean, come on now. Like, what?
Angela Yee
That's why you should be happy that they wouldn't go off at first.
Friday
Look, I know him too. Make sure you get with it. What it went on. Don't edit the.
DJ Envy
I see what he was trying to do to you.
Friday
That's why whole Instagram clip it cut off.
Angela Yee
They definitely cutting that part off.
Friday
Redoing it. He got text the editor, like, yeah.
DJ Envy
And the last Thing going to be like, yo, I'll go with you to your jeweler. But that's what's going.
Gina
How was it working with Will Smith? Jumped on the phone. The song with his you can make.
Friday
It song, you can make it. Will Smith, a Philly legend, you know what I'm saying? I actually made that hook, like, 20, 21, 2022. And he heard it this year by producer Ayo, and then he just did the verses. So it was love. Since he just hit me like, yo, we got a record, and he sent it to me. It was love. That's dope.
Angela Yee
I know all the old heads in Philly around, you really thought you made it then.
Friday
Yeah, yeah. Especially the OGs, like my mom and all that. My aunts, they like, you got. You feel me? You got a record with Will. I'm like, yeah, you feel me? That was. That was a big moment. Yeah.
DJ Envy
So how far did you. I'm sure you moved out of Philly.
Friday
Yeah.
DJ Envy
How fast did you move out of Philly?
Friday
Real fast. Cause it was getting, like. It was getting a little bad, you know what I'm saying?
DJ Envy
You were pulling up at the crib.
Friday
Just Pete walking down the street, like, oh, Friday, you feel me? The first week, it was like, nobody even knew my face. They was just saying my name so I could go to the club. I'm hearing, boy, Friday, snap. They don't even know it was me. But it was like three weeks later, a month. I'm like, I gotta get outta here. You know what I'm saying? I don't even feel safe, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I ain't even feel safe. So that was the first thing I did. I bought a crib and I moved away.
Angela Yee
Was it something that happened?
Gina
You moved with your auntie and your uncle in Bel Air?
Friday
No, no, I moved my mom out and all that for sure.
Angela Yee
Was it something that happened or you just felt it?
Friday
No, I just felt it. Philly, like crazy. It's like. It's like a dangerous city. So it's like I already know what it come with. You know what I'm saying? Especially it's like, it's not a lot of. It's not a lot of resources out there. So when you the one getting a little bit of money, not even like God did. I'm talking about, even if you just up and coming, it's a lot of upcoming rappers with 30,000 followers, niggas getting shot just because niggas hating on your success. So I had God deal with Jay Z. So, niggas, look at. I knew I had to deal for sure.
Angela Yee
That don't make no sense to me, man. Like, why would you try to hurt somebody who potentially could help your whole situation, whole community? That makes no sense.
Friday
But they don't really look at it like that.
Gina
Yeah.
Friday
They more look at it like, wow, wow, him and not me. And they look at it like, shouldn't be him, it should be me. You know what I'm saying? It's more of a threat, bro. It's dangerous in Philly, for sure.
Gina
Who's your support system?
Friday
I keep my brothers close, especially my mom close, too. Every time I get a chance, I go see my mom for sure. She the one pray over me and all that before I leave the crib. That's my support system for sure. My mom and my brothers.
Gina
Okay.
Friday
Yeah.
Angela Yee
You know, there's this thing called the five stages of grief, right? And it's a series of emotions people experience after a loss. And it's denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Friday
Yeah.
Angela Yee
Where do you think you at?
Friday
I mean, I'm almost at acceptance. Y'all say that. I'm almost there. You feel me? I'm understanding it more and more as time goes by. Cause it's a lot of whys and hows, you know what I'm saying? Like, the way my father died, the way somebody died, it could be like, damn, like, why I had to go like this, you know what I'm saying? So it's more like, why? And I'm kind of accepting it right now, for sure. Yeah.
Angela Yee
How would you like his legacy to be remembered?
Friday
Just by what I'm doing now. Like, putting my reel in my music, inspiring people, giving people good words of encouragement and all that, you know what I'm saying? That's why I keep it in the music how I can. Because I know I'm doing right, you know what I'm saying? I could do a whole R B album if I want to, and some people want that. But I know it's people that need the real. You feel me? The real music that get them through life. Like, my DMs is crazy. Like, a lot of people in the jails listening to me. A lot of people, like, about to commit suicide. A lot of. A lot of people, like, I saved them through their day, you know what I'm saying? And just me reading them dms, I don't take that for granted. So I feel like I'm doing his legacy right now because he taught me everything.
Angela Yee
Did you get to hear him say that he was proud of you?
Friday
Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I bought him that crib, and I just told him it's because of you, you know? Because of you. You don't gotta pay a bill. Like, you know, he gave me music. He forced it on me. You know what I'm saying? He gave me God. He showed me everything. So it was like, yeah, for sure. Even when I went to Europe, before I went to Europe, I'm like, bro, I'm about to go to Europe. You know what I'm saying? Forget the US I'm about to go to Europe and do a Europe tour. It's because of you. I looked him in his eyes. Look, it's because of you. Feel me? The way he died, like, you see, like, the Lavar ball thing where he had to amputate his leg, that was kind of like, my dad's situation. But I got Haitian parents, so it's like they got a lot of pride. Like, my mom and dad be like, we ain't cutting off his leg. But the doctors would be like, I think it's smart for you to cut off the foot right now, like, so it won't go up. So it's probably been like six years, like, three, four years. My mom like, nah, we ain't doing that. Too much pride, like, let's do something else. So my dad joined it. Spread. Spread it up. You know what I'm saying? So last time with the doctor, like, we gotta go above the knee. You know what I'm saying? And that was the last time I was with my pop. Like, it was about to cut his first, like, leg off on top of his knee. He just looked at me balling up like, they really about to take my leg off. I'm like, we cried for, like, an hour before he went in there. You feel me? And I went to tour. Like, I went to tour that weight. And I performed the first show, and they said they about to cut the other leg off. They have to. Right then, like, everything just stopped. I'm like, yeah, I don't know how we gonna do this. You feel me? Like, it really hit my heart. So once they cut the other leg, that's when we lost them. You feel me? So that's why it's more of a wild. Like, you feel me? It's more of a wild right now. Like, I don't really understand how he went, but I know God, like, knew, like, my mom ain't want to see my dad like that. I feel she more at peace right now. I feel like she more at peace, even though it's a. It's a hard thing. She more at peace knowing he in a better place than seeing him. How we would have solely.
Angela Yee
Absolutely.
Friday
Yeah.
Gina
Wow.
Angela Yee
Good look.
Gina
I love you, Fry.
Friday
Nah, for sure. I love you too.
DJ Envy
The album is out right now. Some days I'm good. Some days I'm not. Have you performed in Haiti yet?
Friday
No, no, no. It's a little tricky in Haiti right now. I want to go so bad, but, like, you feel me? A lot of people be like, nah, not right now. You feel me? But I got. I got a Compass song on his album featuring Joey Dweck Fil a. You feel me? It's called Compass, a Haitian genre. And I feel like since Wyclef, this about to be one of the biggest songs to. To just show Haiti in front of the world in a big way in front of the mainstream. So all my Haitians excited about that for sure.
Angela Yee
What's the misconceptions about Haiti you. You would like to clear up as an artist?
Friday
Yeah. The first thing that people in America think of Haiti is just. I'll say they just think of, like, a bit like a bad country. You know what I'm saying? Like. Or they think about. They think about all the bad, but it's a lot of good in it. You feel me? They never, like, really go there and see the good, and it's a lot of product that come out of it. It's just like, we just. It's just L after l. And what they put on the news, that's how they show Haiti. They don't never show the good side. They don't never show a good part of it. I feel like in America, they only show Haiti when it's some bad stuff happening. Not always. Not never when it's some good stuff. You know what I'm saying? So I feel like it's gonna change in a little bit. Like, Haiti's a great place. It's a lot of talent. It's a lot of great people out there.
Angela Yee
When I think about Haiti, I think about some strong people who revolted against white supremacy.
Friday
Yeah, for sure.
Angela Yee
And white supremacist been making that country pay for it ever since.
Friday
Yeah, I look at it something like that, too. You know what I'm saying? First, independence, strongest people, you know? I don't know. I gotta do more research, but I just feel like, you feel me? Something happened. Like, they just made it that way. You know what I'm saying? Even separating Haiti from Dr. And all that. At first it was one. It was one people, you know what I'm saying? And they at one time even speak the same language, you know what I'm saying? They separated. It's just a lot of stuff like, you know. For sure.
Angela Yee
You go to the doctor though, right?
Friday
What you mean just in general? Oh, yeah, for sure.
Angela Yee
He thought I was talking about another type of thing.
Friday
I went probably like six months ago. Okay, for sure. Yeah. All right.
Gina
Keep up with your health and everything.
Friday
No effects.
DJ Envy
Let's get into it. Join off the album. What you want to have. Proud of me.
Friday
Yeah, for sure. Proud of Me featuring Meek Mill. Rest in Peace on filers. The video out right now too. 228.
Angela Yee
And keep trusting yourself, man. Like, you got. You got good instincts, man.
Friday
Thank you, bro.
Angela Yee
You got good instincts. I've read stories about how, you know, they wanted to put you in a 200 seat venue and you held your ground and was like, nah, I can do more than that.
Friday
Yeah, shout out my team too. You know, you feel me? They didn't understand the vision at first, and it was comparing me certain artists, so I understand where it was coming from, but we was just saying we bigger than that, you know what I'm saying? We got Haitians that's going to come out, Africans that's going to come out. It's R B lovers that's going to come out, and it's rap fans that's going to come out. So me and my team, my manager Edgar, just pushed that. Like, no, we bigger than that. Sure. And we proved them wrong too.
Angela Yee
And the last thing you said, I once saw you say, don't lose yourself in the music business. Can you explain to me which one.
Friday
Was song I said that on?
Angela Yee
I don't think it was a song. You just was. It was in an interview or something.
Friday
Okay, okay. Yeah, it's just like, you just gotta stay grounded. And I feel like I came in this game a little different. So I can't speak for like the, like the hungry artists that's like, want to be everywhere. Want to be at all the parties, want to be at all the sessions. But I feel like when you hungry, you'll eat anything. You feel me? When you starve and you'll go for anything, it's like, damn, I'm hungry. I'll go to this party, I'll go to this studio session. Not even know who going to be there, Diddy. Not even know who gonna be there. Like, you might go there. You don't even know what's going on. It's not even laid out to you, you feel me? And I feel like that's, that's how a lot of upcoming artists lose themselves. They so hungry, it's like they'll go anywhere. You know what I'm saying? A lot of the stories I hear I can't relate to. Cause I'm just at the crib making music with my mom to this day. You feel me? And I stay with my brother. So that's how you just gotta stay grounded and just focus on the music. Everything else is gonna come.
Angela Yee
Absolutely.
Friday
For sure.
DJ Envy
Well, let's get into it right now. It's Proud of Me featuring Meek Mill.
Angela Yee
Some days I'm good, some days I'm not.
DJ Envy
Album is out right now. Pick it up.
Angela Yee
What success to me. Friday it's the Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
Good morning.
Friday
Wake that ass up early in the morning. The Breakfast Club.
DJ Envy
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Podcast Summary: The Breakfast Club – Interview with Fridayy
Release Date: February 28, 2025
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Guest: Fridayy
Episode Title: INTERVIEW: Fridayy Talks New Album, Father's Passing; Dealing With Grief, Meek Mill, Chris Brown, Haiti + More
The episode begins with DJ Envy introducing Fridayy, an emerging artist who has recently released his highly anticipated album, Proud of Me. Fridayy expresses his excitement and relief about the album's release after an 18-month hiatus since his last project.
Notable Quote:
DJ Envy [02:27]: "How you feeling, though, brother?"
Fridayy [02:28]: "I feel amazing, man. You feel me? It's been 18 months since I dropped my last project, so the fans been waiting on this, so I feel good, I ain't gonna lie."
Fridayy delves into the challenges he faced over the past year, balancing his burgeoning career with the profound grief of losing his father. He recounts receiving the heartbreaking news while on tour in Europe and the emotional turmoil that followed.
Notable Quotes:
Fridayy [02:37]: "Lost my dad last year. Just at the highest point of my life. While I was on tour, selling out shows. I got the call. I lost my dad."
Fridayy [03:26]: "My mom put me on FaceTime. It was like, 'Your dad's gone.' I couldn't believe it. I looked at his face... there's nothing I could do."
The conversation shifts to Fridayy's collaboration with Meek Mill on the track "Proud of Me," a poignant song reflecting their shared experiences of losing their fathers. Fridayy explains how their mutual understanding deepened their artistic partnership.
Notable Quotes:
Fridayy [03:53]: "He was in the booth for 11 hours... just making sure he got this done for his dad."
Fridayy [04:25]: "It was a therapy session, bro. We was crying real tears in there."
Fridayy describes the intensive process of creating his album, which spans 21 tracks and incorporates elements of both R&B and rap to cater to his diverse fanbase. He emphasizes the personal nature of his music, drawing from his life experiences.
Notable Quotes:
Fridayy [07:01]: "I was on tour, two tours, losing my dad. So it was like it all came together, like, in 18 months."
Fridayy [07:44]: "My dad's a pastor... I was playing instruments and singing in the choir since I was like 11."
Addressing his struggles with grief, Fridayy candidly discusses using shopping, particularly buying diamonds, as a form of "retail therapy." He acknowledges the temporary relief it provides and contemplates seeking professional help in the future.
Notable Quotes:
Fridayy [05:08]: "It's something that get me happy... it's one of my trophies to me."
Fridayy [12:46]: "I really just go to the studio... I don't want to pour my life out to somebody I don't really know."
Fridayy reflects on how his newfound success has affected his relationships, noting that some friends have become insincere or are only interested in his money. He describes fame as both a blessing and a curse, complicating his personal life.
Notable Quotes:
Fridayy [10:07]: "Being the first person to make it out, it's like a blessing and a curse."
Fridayy [11:25]: "They take it for granted... like, yo, you really."
The discussion moves to Fridayy's longstanding relationship with Chris Brown, highlighting their collaboration that earned him his first Grammy. Fridayy shares how their professional bond evolved from writer and producer to close collaborators.
Notable Quotes:
Fridayy [22:51]: "I wrote for Chris Brown before I ever was an artist... Now we got songs on his album."
Fridayy [24:25]: "I won my Grammy... I'm featured on his album."
Due to increasing safety concerns and the challenges of fame in his hometown, Fridayy made the decision to move away from Philadelphia. He explains the reasons behind his move, emphasizing the need for a safer environment to continue his career.
Notable Quotes:
Fridayy [30:13]: "I moved my mom out and all that for sure."
Fridayy [31:38]: "They more look at it like, wow, him and not me. It’s more of a threat, bro. It's dangerous in Philly."
Fridayy speaks about honoring his father's legacy through his music, aiming to inspire and support others who are struggling. He highlights the personal messages he receives from fans, including those in difficult situations.
Notable Quotes:
Fridayy [32:57]: "I'm putting my real in my music, inspiring people... I saved them through their day."
Fridayy [33:41]: "He taught me everything... I'm doing his legacy right now."
The episode also touches on Fridayy's connection to Haiti, addressing common misconceptions and showcasing the country's rich cultural heritage through his music. He expresses a desire to perform in Haiti, despite current challenges.
Notable Quotes:
Fridayy [36:39]: "People just think of, like, a bad country... There's a lot of good in it."
Fridayy [36:39]: "Haiti's a great place. It's a lot of talent. It's a lot of great people out there."
As the interview wraps up, Fridayy reiterates his dedication to staying grounded and true to his music. He encourages listeners to support his album, Proud of Me, which features collaborations with prominent artists like Meek Mill and Chris Brown.
Notable Quotes:
Fridayy [38:22]: "I stay with my brother. So that's how you just gotta stay grounded and just focus on the music."
DJ Envy [40:10]: "The album is out right now. Pick it up."
Fridayy's candid discussion offers listeners an intimate look into his personal struggles, artistic journey, and the resilience required to navigate fame and loss. His commitment to honoring his father's legacy and his efforts to uplift his community through music stand out as central themes of the interview.
For fans and newcomers alike, Proud of Me promises a blend of heartfelt storytelling and dynamic collaborations, reflecting Fridayy's growth as both an artist and an individual.
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