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Guaranteed Human. Hold up. Every day I wake up. The Breakfast Club. You're all finished or y'all's done? Yep, it's the World's Most Dangerous morning show The Breakfast Club. Shalamey and the guy, Jess Hilarious, Envy and Lauren are out, but we got a special guest in the building right now. He's got a new album out, Quiet Storm lover. Tom. Is it Tom Un? Yeah, tone un, yeah, volume one.

That's value one for French. a special guest in the building right now. He's got a new album out, Quiet Storm lover.

Tom. Is it Tom Un? Yeah, Tom Un. Volume 1. That's it, volume one for French. Oh, okay. We learn something new every day. Rahim Devon is here. Yes, yes, what's going on? Good morning. He's still sick. Shut up. That is so sick. Anyway. Hi, Rahim. What's up, birthday girl?

Thank you.

I know you still celebrating.

Yes.

Getting it in.

How do you feel What's up, birthday girl? Thank you.

I know you still celebrating. Yes. Getting it in. How do you feel, my brother? I feel good, man. You know, I feel vibrant. I feel like I reinvented myself once again. You know, and I'm thankful just to have my name in the conversation after all these years. 20 years of the love experience and being in the music business.

You know, we celebrated that last year, you know, 2025. So I'm actually currently in, in approaching year 21 of my first album, you know what I mean? And it's great, man. It's great. And I mean, you know, and what better place to be in the morning in breakfast club? Thank you, brother. I feel like your name is always in the conversation. Like we had Jill Scott up here. Joe Scott was talking about how like there's certain artists that it ain't about number one records. It ain't about, you know, going triple platinum or anything like that. But their name is just always relevant and in the mix. And I feel like you're one of them, especially when it comes to R&B. I appreciate that. You know, I think that that's pulse, that's culture. You know, that's what that's, you know, that's, that's what I've always strived and aspire to inspire to be. You know, at this point of my career. and, yeah, it's, you know, it's not, we make it look easy as an independent artist. I've been independent for 15 years. You know what I mean? So I've been on, I've been my own trial and error in Guinea Pig for a lot of different things, you know, even, even this release, you know, this is an early release. There's two releases that have happened.

You know what I mean?

Shout to Even.

DiBiz and Mad Rodriguez for creating a platform that allows us to go direct to consumer,

you know, cut out the middle minute third party.

It's the second time Jay Coe has used the platform.

You know, most recently and being back outside,

I actually discovered the platform through La Russell, you know, who's the case study artist.

Shout out to Lussel, yeah.

And then we got technology like this, you know, NFCs, you know, digital real estate, where we allow, you know, the fans to get exclusive content, memorabilia.

And, yeah, man, so it's about being on the cutting edge of it, you know.

And I got in early, too, you know, if you know, you know, investment talk, you know what I mean.

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