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Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club. We're all finished or y'all's done? Yep, it's the world's most dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club. Shalameen to God. DJ Envi and Jess Hilaris aren't here today. But L.L. Coobe, Lauren La Rosa is. and we got a very special guest celebrating 30 years, man.

30th anniversary of his R-I-A-Certified guy. today but L.L. Kulbe, Lauren LaRosa is, and we got a very special guest celebrating 30 years,

man, 30th anniversary of his R-I-DoubleA certified gold debut album, Bonafide. John B is here, man. What's going on, man? Good to see you, man. Good to see you, man. I'm blessed, man. Good to be with you guys, man. Thanks for having me. You know, it's so funny. I saw you say some way. it might have been Vlad TV, where you were the first white

R&B singer, and I'm like, damn, you're right. That I remember? Between you and color me bad.

I remember, you know, other people being in R&B, but I don't remember any of them claiming R&B the way I have.

Like Michael McDonald, you know, he was very soulful, you know, hollow notes, very soulful, the BGs, you know, Tina Marie was an R&B. Oh, absolutely. You know what I mean? And she claimed R&B. So that's all I basically was saying is I feel like I was one of the first ones to really claim R&B, you know, George Michaels, he was soulful, but he wasn't an R&B.

They weren't saying they were R&B?

Yeah, yeah, you know.

I wonder if that was because they were white, and so the labels probably was like, don't say you're R&B, because that would limit you.

There you go.

Did they tell you that?

Not tell me that.

They showed me in their own way. Like, we want you to work with Diane Warren and David Foster and make a pop record. And I'm like, I don't really want to do that. But I'm gonna do it to satisfy you guys. I don't want to look like a difficult artist, you know. But I was like more interested in work with Tupac. You know, more interested in working with Babyface, you know, real R&B and hip-hop, not doing pop music.

What about calling me bad?

What would they be considered?

R&B, but more like Latin R&B, because they were more like, you know, kind of with the

Latin mix up, you know what I'm saying?

A little bit of that.

Yeah, they had the Myanmar, I adore Mi Amore.

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