Jon B Shares Rare Stories w/ 2Pac, Michael Jackson, Thoughts On Today's R&B + New Music
Ebro in the Morning Podcast
HOT 97
4.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Singer Jon B sits down with Ebro in the Morning for a trip down memory lane to discuss some of the biggest moments of his 30-year career including working with the likes Babyface, Luther Vandross, New Edition, Toni Braxton, 2Pac, Michael Jackson, and more. He also discusses going independent, adapting to how music and culture is changing, working with DJ Premier, and how he feels about today's artists in r&b. His new album 'Waiting On You' is coming in the spring. His single "Waiting On You" featuring Tank is out now!
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen Zebra Laura and Rosenberg less Laura though she's not feeling too well but we got John B. Yeah. |
| 0:06.0 | What's up y'all. John B is. |
| 0:08.0 | Thanks for having me. I don't know if back outside is the right way to frame this but let me know is this officially like a |
| 0:15.0 | re-emergence for you? I mean I ain't gone nowhere bro I'm like one of the hardest |
| 0:20.8 | working I'm one of the hardest working R&B artists in the game so yeah I ain't going |
| 0:27.0 | So you've been you've been working this entire time but it does seem like you're having your media |
| 0:31.3 | present I saw you did button you did timber all the other day you like you're having your media presence. I saw you did Butten you did |
| 0:33.4 | Tambert Hall the other day. You're definitely outside to put a new record out. |
| 0:36.5 | So yeah yeah absolutely. Promo run is official official. Yeah we got the new single |
| 0:40.6 | available right now though. It's waiting on you featuring tank shout |
| 0:44.7 | to tank big shout my brother you know what I'm saying and yeah man so nice to be back so |
| 0:50.3 | for show if you didn't if you didn't actually live John B in the late 90s right which was a great time and you're a young kid now just on the internet you may see John B's name pop up. They may not know they like you're |
| 1:04.7 | one of them official R&B dudes though. Thank you man. Do you now do you feel any |
| 1:09.8 | of that from the young generations where they kind of think you were like a novelty act or some sort? |
| 1:15.0 | I don't know man. I mean when they sample your music it's just showing love so I just |
| 1:21.3 | I'll take it however it goes and that's been |
| 1:23.6 | cool the sampling has been pretty cool too I mean you've been he popped up on a |
| 1:26.3 | new way of being remembered you know what I'm saying which is dope um so |
| 1:32.1 | what was so during those years where you were not as active with dropping tons of |
| 1:36.3 | music or what people didn't see you tell us a little bit about the work you were |
| 1:39.2 | doing your prolific writer what what has the John be well we're gonna go back to obviously the 90s, but tell us about the last 15 years or so. What has John B been doing most of the time? |
| 1:47.5 | Well, I've been independent, so it's been a different thing to push yourself and to not have a corporate structure behind you that's pushing you and promoting you and |
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