Michael B. Jordan • R&B MONEY Podcast • Ep.041

R&B Money! We are Tank, Jay Valentine And we are the authorities on things R&B Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Tank I'm Jay Valentine And this is the R&B Money Podcast Yes it is The authority of all things R&B You forgot the duck, you forgot the duck You gotta move, you can't throw it and just stay there and wait on it You gotta have some head moving In the building You know, some people are gifted Many are called But the chosen are few Come on preacher We've watched this young man grow From this small little bud, small little seed Through the wire Small little bud, small little seed Into the biggest superstar in the world Our friend in the building Yeah He hoops okay We still working on his hoop game But he's still a good friend Make some noise for Michael B. Jordan in the building Yeah! What's up man? Bredrin, Bredrin What's going on? Finally This nigga brought oranges He brought oranges It's a cutie What is it? It's a cutie It's a tangerine It's one too It's one He did not bring I ate the rest of them on the ride over here He's a solo artist Damn You understand that But a team player He's a solo artist It's crazy We see Frank but he ain't got no cutie At all Frank ugly Well Frank is all beard That's his whole attraction He didn't think he was gonna catch no Who said he doesn't have a cutie in there? He thought he wasn't gonna catch no strange Who said he don't have a cutie in there? Who said he doesn't have a cutie in there? He thought he wasn't gonna catch no strange Mike B. Thank you my brother Thank you for joining us man I know you are You're on a whirlwind Of a tour And Life has just Been really good Yes it has From the inside looking in From the outside looking in And As we've known you for so long You deserve it Thank you man You deserve it Appreciate it You work hard You got the gift And you're only getting better Which is very scary Very scary I'm more directing now No no listen Yeah Listen Yeah You gonna eat everything on the table? I mean there's some things on the table I didn't even see yet So I gotta You know I'm at this part of the table But there's There's a lot more table to go through So let's Let's do Let's do kind of a fast track Let's do it Let's start at Let's start at that first phone call Okay After After the magical audition And someone says You got the part Which part? Which one? The first one Was the wire the first Major role for you? Wire wasn't the first one Hardball was probably the first one Hardball Yeah yeah yeah For me When Steelo was G-Baby Yeah Hardball When Steelo was what? He's G-Baby Man he was Sterling King Yeah yeah yeah He got caught with straight Everybody can Everybody get caught with straight bullets I told him when he was here He's G-Baby He's still trying to prove he wasn't I would say You know the wire The wire No I'm sorry Hardball Was probably the first one That really had me travel You know part of an ensemble cast You know per diem You know what I'm saying You know It was real You know like Like you know Just the whole production Of like making a feature film That was like my first Kind of introduction To like the game on that level Yeah So working with You know Keanu Reeves And Diane Lane You know just It was one of those projects At the time he was Shooting the Matrix So we didn't even know What that was going to be You know what I'm saying So it was Oh he had shot the Matrix I think he was in the process Of shooting it Yeah that's when We met Lawrence Fishburne He took us out to dinner one time All the kids and stuff like that We met Lawrence Fishburne And stuff like that Did you call him Larry? Larry I didn't call him Larry Whatever Uncle Larry I'm kidding Tell him my brother Cameron Cameron had an appointment Calling him Larry We'll post that No no no No but But no I think that was the first That was the first Kind of like you know Okay I can I think I can do this This is cool I'm more curious About the industry You know Understanding a little bit Of the fundamentals Of what acting is Before that was just Kind of like Showing up Reading the lines And you know Trying not to You know **** up Right But that one was the first time I think I've kind of Teetered into the realm Of like the character And like how to like You know Act so to speak So Yeah So are you in school At this time? I'm in school You know what I'm saying Getting Tutor You know what I'm saying So I'm skipping A lot of days of school But at the same time You know there's a There's an on set teacher That you have to put in A certain amount of hours And you know Us and the rest of the kids You know do a couple Hours of school And then And then get back To work So when does School change? When is it like Do you go back After Hardball To like regular To regular school? Went back to Hardball Regular school And at that point You know you're still On the acting tip You know what I mean You're still hustling You're still trying to Go to auditions Stuff like that I'm like Not a star at school I mean I'm Hollywood You know what I'm saying Yeah I think Everybody that's trying To do something In the entertainment industry In like middle school High school becomes Hollywood No matter what Like that's your nickname They're not really That creative outside of that It's like Hollywood Is what it is So like that was the So it wasn't like a cheer Like yay Just look at this Hollywood Nobody understood it I mean how could you? You know you're doing Something that's so Against the norm And where is this? Where are you? This is Newark Newark Yeah this is Newark, New Jersey So Newark, New Jersey Doing that That's Brick City yeah? Yeah Brick City That's Brick City Yeah yeah yeah I'm sure that's tough You're from Brick City And you're going to do Movies and shit Yeah It's just It's not normal It's not So how do they process it? I mean it ain't for Nobody to really process You know what I'm saying But for me You know what I'm saying It was Leaving school early Going to auditions Missing days of school You know you might see A Modell's ad in the Sunday paper Or a Toys R Us ad Or you know A little Frito What are those Doritos You know Value pack With the little like You know points On the back of it You would collect And buy something Out of the book Yeah Yeah I was like A little kid in that You know shit like that That I was doing And then you know Then the wire kicked in And all my children Yeah And then it was You know Nick you was on the stories? He was on the stories Stories man Yeah You didn't know that I did so know that I know something You don't know You was probably Watching the stories No my momma Watched the stories That's what I'm saying Momma grandmama Had the stories on lock That's what it was So like All my children Was definitely where I kind of like learned Like the work ethic Of acting Like the actual Yeah cause they locked in Yeah I mean you do like A hundred You know Episode and a half a day A hundred plus pages a day You know what I'm saying A hundred plus Yeah They cranking them Things out Daily Yeah yeah Tyler Perry Before Tyler Perry What? I mean Soaps is a machine Yeah I mean there is no like You know you rarely get Multiple takes So it's like If you didn't If you ain't study If you ain't know your shit The next day it will be on air And people will be watching You **** up So like You don't even need One or two of those So you like Nope I'm knowing my shit No no I'm gonna be prepared I'm gonna know my shit Better than anybody So like that was kind of like Yeah And when did that Did you move to LA To do the stories Or were you still I was in New York So like So after I finished The soap operas That's when I Moved Once I wasn't going To college I was like Alright I'm not going to school I'm gonna move to LA I'm gonna keep Pursuing this thing And so So right after I finished My run on the stories I up and moved To LA That's what I said That's where we met you Y'all scoundrels Yeah Y'all scoundrels Right around that time Hey man We're nice guys I remember you from those days For the most part Yeah And what was that Transition like for you Coming from Newark Coming to LA And maybe the chase Is different Maybe the You know The process is different Just now being in Hollywood Versus being in that space In Newark I feel like the grind Was like I had a work ethic And developed a work ethic From like being on the East Coast It was just a certain Like level of like Grit and like Just wanting to go get it That really kept me Locked in out here in LA And then seeing the pace Of LA is a little bit different Than it is Not a little bit It's a lot different Than it is on the East Coast So just yeah Just the You know just being hungry Willing to like you know Lock in and sacrifice You know the only thing I did Was hoop and audition That was it We rarely went out You know what I'm saying Like well besides When me and Sterling Was promoting You hooped? What do you mean? Elite Come on Yeah no I heard him say it I'm just asking Listen listen Y'all know Y'all If you hoop If you hoop hoop Yeah you know too Cause I mean I know I know you and I have We got championships Oh my lord You know what I'm saying He never won See y'all Y'all were playing A political game A lot longer than me So you had already Knew that you had The politic with Shane You had to do this and that You got the little Stacked team Playing with your friends I was just happy Our team was stacked I was just lucky To get on the squad This is the first time I heard that Our team was stacked? Yeah I mean you had Team chemistry Y'all played with Who y'all wanted to play with I got I got my homie And then everybody else Yeah and I just You had your homie I got a place on the team You had your homie Who was my homie? Steelo You know how long it took For him to get in the league? Steelo was probably Taking me years For years And when he finally got in He shot for all the seasons He wasn't in Oh y'all didn't let me in? Oh you let me in? 40 shots So y'all scored 35 You shot 80 times You know You know y'all lost right? Hey man I ain't gonna let y'all Get down on my boy like that Yeah maybe Maybe 50 times Maybe shot 50 Not 80 I got a championship With my first team So you're right About the politic though Because with my first team We won Who was you with? I finally got It was me, Jamie Foxx Okay yes Y'all was on the Kings Corey Corey Hardrick No we was Spurs Okay We were the Kings I was on the Kings at one point Okay Corey Hardrick Broderick Fucking Broderick Oh man Y'all Yeah y'all Come on bro No no I wasn't ever On a team with Broderick I never Kenneth Carrere Yeah Was on my team This is at the time Marcus Polk Charlie Burrell And Breon Oh yeah I had a sub team Oh we had a team And then When I finally got Jay in They put him on an island And he was taking 40 shots 22 Small set He was averaging 32 Oh man Easy No but that was That was the beginning of Really all of our relationships Through the entertainment league Yeah You know what I mean Where we really built our bond With each other And everybody started To just get to know each other Because there were There were people in the league That it was just like Yeah yeah Dude talented But I don't really **** with him Yeah yeah You know what I mean And that's just life You know what I mean And an interesting thing I felt like the E-league Kind of brought That concept of how If you do make it To one of the Professional leagues You're dealing with Multiple people And multiple personalities Because what we do Is very singular Like even with you Go to your trailer Yeah yeah Like we found We found out that Okay now we're in a Locker room with each other Now we're going To E-league parties Now it's like Damn near sanctioned things They're taking All-star teams To different cities And guys are Participating in that And you start realizing like Yo who's a real person Yeah Like you know I remember When we first really Got cool And It was something It might have been An E-league event And you was like Man just come pick me up And I'm like Alright Shit Then I found out this nigga Was living far as hell At the time Damn man Way out in the valley Go pick this nigga Alright Let's go bro Go pick him up But just building Those relationships And finding people Within this industry Man shout out to Shane Shout out to Shane Because Shane put Something together That really connected A lot of us That we've kept going And then even You know Me creating With Tank The R&B Money Run For years Yeah And now it's like You know I had to like Calm it down Because it started going viral Nigga I'm like Nigga take the Put your phone up bro Thank you I'm tired of these phone calls That you know You were a part of And Chris Brown And pulled up And you know The Brim Brothers And Jamie Foxx But somewhere safe That you know We're not gonna get Some fool That just wanna hack us Exactly Because you know Because we do other stuff Yeah Because we have something To do with it Is what I'm always Trying to tell Jay Valentine Yeah I do other things Yeah Besides who? He knows I have shows on the weekend Yes Right? But on a fast break He wants to hack my wrist He wants to hack my fingers These are the money makers Hands are not part of the ball This is Hands are not part of the ball When it's your client You manage me You know man You know how many times I quit? Hey it was game point I can only imagine Hey Mike it was game point It was game point Yeah yeah yeah It doesn't matter Yeah you was You wasn't getting a shout out It's okay Alright Out of this basketball place Nobody plays better than me Oh my lord Can't wait That's where the bar Was built though Did you ever feel Any down time Or any lag Or see yourself In a space where You were at a crossroad And trying to really Figure things out To get to that next level Oh yeah I mean I would say The summer Maybe before I booked Red Tails I would say Was probably One of the Crossroads for me Like alright This is the last Rent check I got I done over drafted Everything I could Over draft And borrow money From every aunt I could think of Yeah This doesn't work out This month I'm headed back to Jersey And you know We gonna figure it out We gonna You know I don't know what I'm gonna do But we gonna Figure it out And then auditioned for it Booked it Found out that Thanksgiving That I had got the role And that was like The first time that I had enough money That I could actually stack I was like Okay cool I could pay off Everything I need to pay off This gives me Put a little bit Of something up I can stay out here For another six months You know what I'm saying Et cetera et cetera And then literally The jobs just kept I kept booking from there It was just kind of like That kind of opened up The floodgates for me And then it just Kind of continued From that moment So I would say like When I moved out here I was still booking Like little episodics You know what I'm saying Guest starring roles On you know CSI or Lauren Norder Or whatever it was That was cool But I was getting To know the town I was getting to know The casting directors I was getting to know Like you know The players That are in the You know The entertainment world And also you know The executives And the casting directors Loved the shows That I was doing So like it was the work That I was doing That they would see That either If they didn't like it Their wife loved it You know what I'm saying Oh my God My husband loves you Oh my God My wife loves you Like let's come in So like it was like This invested interest Of like you know Certain people in town To kind of keep me Booked and busy I guess a little bit So that was That was a That was a good run But you know I would say that When I first moved out It was like still booking jobs But still dead broke So like yeah You would be like Oh yo that's What's the name from The Wire But I'm like yeah But me and Sterling's Applying at Jack in the Box Right Or like You know what I mean And like no Y'all overqualified Like it was a moment Where it was like Yeah we were going To fast food spots Trying to you know Apply for jobs And it was like One of those moments Sitting in the car Before we went there It was like yo We about to do this shit And we about to Fucking apply for A goddamn fast food Right now And these niggas Gonna know who I am So it's not like Oh Right It's like a random person Like nah That's the tough spot I was willing to take the L You know what I'm saying And like And deal with the You look familiar And are you the You know what I'm saying Just to kind of like Definitely was gonna get that With a number eight What? You know what I'm saying He didn't even know That he could have Just called me out And gave him A quarter ounce of lye And got it back on his feet He didn't even realize that You know what I mean I am from the Bay You know Just gonna make sure my guy Was alright Hey man Hey Wallace I know I know you man Nah nah I get that all the time I look like Get up bro Take your food And keep it pushing The fast food Listen I remember being in Rancho Cucamonga Okay After the money When the money was low Okay And I was I had a A rented Lincoln Town Car That I was hiding From the rental company Okay The story Okay Yeah I took off Because I had You know They had a two bedroom It was only like $1,300 Okay So I took off to Rancho Got in there Yeah You picked me up Around that area Yeah so we were deep A different type of Rancho And I'm looking at This Best Buy like I could pack boxes here I could stack some boxes Right Because if you go do Like the overnight shift They not gon' see you They not gon' see me Yeah It's a good one And if you're trying to figure it out though But hanging out with Jamie Foxx Right And it looking like Mmhmm Yeah Everything was together When I'm at the party And I'm right next to him And the elbows is rubbing It's like oh okay They doing it And then I drive that That town car back Back to Rancho Yeah You know what I'm saying That rubber really Meets the road Yeah And trying to figure out What that next move is That's the entertainment Business in a nutshell Yeah Because it's about Staying the course Mmhmm It's about staying Out here Or wherever that is That you're close to the work That will One day you'll wake up And you'll get that phone call Yep That it changes for you Yep You know what I mean Like I remember Having a conversation With you And you're like I gotta go to the bay Mmhmm I was like What you doing in the bay Mmhmm And you was like It's a movie out there He was like It's an indie movie And the crazy thing is You know our relationship And my relationship With our fellow brother Mmhmm Tristan Wild Mmhmm He also Was supposed to be A part of that movie And got sick Mmhmm When he was doing 90210 Mmhmm And I remember you called me And you were like Bro this movie Is special And at first You didn't tell me What it was about Mmhmm And then I'll never forget this You said You should come up here And I was like Why? And you was like Nah nigga You from the bay I'm telling you You can just play One of the parts And I was like Nigga I'm not an actor I'm not an actor I knew you was Setting me up though I was like You setting me up He about to turn me up But I can say bro Two or three times In the movie And I'm like Nah I'm cool I mean you told He was like He finally told me What the movie's about With Oscar Grant And I was like Oh shit I knew About the whole thing And I was like This is about to This is about to be different This is going to be different And the crazy thing Is my cousin at the time Was going to college Before that With Ryan At SC Yep My cousin was the number one Linebacker in the nation At the time He go to SC Him and Ryan Both from Oakland They linked And he already Telling me about it And then you like Hey man This young director He out the bay He got this great idea And man what you did With that movie It represented us so well With you not being From the bay Like just not Aside from us all Being black men But just the bay area We have a very Like It's a cold It's a particular way of living This island that we live on Out there Right there It's just so different From the rest of the west coast But the rest of the world We got our own language We got our own The way we dress It's just We live in our own world You know Tank would tell you He'd go up there He'd be like I enjoy myself I love it Every time I go up there I'm getting it But it is different So to capture that And the way you captured it bro I don't even know If I've ever even told you Over all these years Like you really made me proud As just a friend Oh man Because I didn't see My friend anymore Yeah That's big And that's a huge part You know that with acting It's a big plus I did not see Mike You know what I mean Like I saw you playing Oscar Yeah And I'm like He did this Such a great service No I appreciate that So thank you from us No From the crew bro Hey no Thanks all mine Just be able to like Embody that character And that You know That moment in time You know me I was real pissed off Around that time Just in general Just like it was a lot You know Shootings going on Treyvon Martin just got shot It was a lot A lot a lot of shit Going on in the world And like that was an outlet For me to kind of Express myself the way I could Which is through the work You know what I'm saying And then you know And say something You know what I'm saying So you know Me and Ryan And you know Going through all the steps Of moving up there And living And staying in You know Just you know In close proximity To Oscar's friends And family You know people that I had to get to know him Through the people That knew him the best You know And that was my first time Really doing like a Like a real deep dive Like that You know as far as doing Like a real The real homework You know what I'm saying And like And so So for me It was doing a bunch of things I got a chance to say something I got a chance to Prove that I could carry a film You know But then also I represent you know So many other You know Trayvon Martins And Oscar grants Throughout the world You know what I'm saying That don't get their stories told You know what I'm saying That doesn't get an opportunity To you know To Get justice You know what I'm saying So so yeah That movie meant a lot Checked a lot of boxes for me Yeah man Awesome I want to get to the Where you going? You know I want to get to the I want to get to the blockbuster That's happening right now But I just want to Ask you one question Before we get to the You know to the series of Of amazing This amazing body of work That you've got Appreciate that Cause we see Like we've been in Hollywood For quite some time And we kind of understand The overtones And the undertones Of how this thing Kind of moves And shakes And The question I wanted to ask you Is like Why do you think It's you? Out of all the people You've come up with And out of all the people You know You've worked with That you know Put into work And who are talented And you are Amazingly talented Amazing work ethic What is The special quality About Michael B. Jordan That sets him apart From everybody else? I mean That's tough Only because We're men of faith And I think You know That It's above us You know what I'm saying Like our blessings We're blessed You know what I'm saying And highly favored You know So we know Spirituality God has a lot to do With Us And success And the blessings That we have And just And just the avoidance Of bullshit You know what I'm saying That could knock us Off our path Cause that's Equally as important You know I'm talking about Family Prayer circles People that we're shielded So there's that That goes there I mean That was a little bit What this movie Was about for me You know Trying to figure out Like you know Having that conversation You know Kind of exercising My way through You know Why me You know And I think Part of it is Chosen You know For certain things And then also My ability I think Maybe to I don't know Process information Think Put things together You know Build shit You know I My gut My intuition You know I listen to that shit All the time You know Being able to Read people You know Hear the Hear the note Behind the note You know What is The real intent Behind things You know Being able to Kind of like Dissect that All the time Which is A lot Yeah But at the same time It's my norm You know what I mean So I You know And then like you said The work ethic You know It's a combination It's a bunch of different things I don't think it's like The one thing that Makes it different I think it's just a Combination of just Particular point of views And approaches And disciplines That That equal You know The ability to like You know Do what I do You know That's the I want to accept All of that Right Because all of that Is very much true But I feel like You're You're part of a Bigger Universal message It's empathy bro I think it's empathy Being able to like I feel I'm an empath You know what I'm saying But once you feel And you understand what it is You can give people What they need Well that too All of that is amazing You know what I'm saying Yeah You are Proof That Good people Win That being a good person I would agree with that Being an amazing human being Because there's always this quote of Good guys always finish last That's not true I agree And you are giving Good people An example Hmm You can do it the right way You cannot be part of that And part of that And these other things You can do it the right way You can be raised right You can talk right You can act right You can walk right You can do your best I met your mom and dad You know what I'm saying You know them well Yeah You know my family You from good stock bro Like you come from good things And what he's saying Is absolutely right You're an example of that bro Yep And we're here to tell you that Yep Fuck all the rest of this shit Yeah You have been consistently you From the day I met you And I had no idea You was going and looking at Jack in the Box applications Yeah Cause that didn't matter to me Yeah yeah yeah And I was like that's the homie I never get caught up in none of that My friends are my friends But now we all know What this life has done for you In the position that it's put you in And you are the same exact person Appreciate that You are the same exact person If Like listen At the premiere If we catch eyes Yeah Nigga It's expected Yeah I don't care who in this building Nigga we gon' say what's up We gon' hug out We gon' tell each other We love each other man Thank you and congratulations And this is what it's supposed to be When it's a real brotherhood Yeah Yep This ain't about nothing else And we gotta stop telling people That it's about Oh he ain't checked in with me He ain't called me And man we got lives And we busy Cause it's moving Mmhmm But When we catch these eyes And I see my brother Pick up where we left off No time is lost Ever Toast to you for that I appreciate that In a real way I was trying to figure out If you was trying to Ask why you wasn't Killmonger And he was That's I thought you was going there But you didn't go there You didn't go there No Was that a question? No Were you curious? No You don't wanna be Killmonger? No He killed Killmonger I can't be Killmonger Killmonger's back He went crazy In the dream He rocked I just made him think Maybe I did wanna be Killmonger Maybe I'm the homie Killmonger's homie Let's get to the shit man What's up? Let's get to Creed man Let's do it Bro In the one I said Okay He's coming Mmhmm In the two Mmhmm You sat in that hospital bed And you shook me up Mmhmm I said he's here Mmhmm In three I said he's out of control And you cheated too What you talking about? The little girl was a cheat code You're out of control It's a cheat code I said oh Oh my god You're out of your mind You're out of control And he must be stopped He must be stopped I'm sitting there like this I hate him That's what you're doing I'm in there doing this Look I think that's how I sound Whatever Bro I watched Creed 3 Yeah And I was so proud of you Very proud On so many levels I watched that entire movie With a smile on my face Even when I was emotional I still had a smile on my face I'm like this Ah It was And I'm sitting next to Kevin Gates Okay And when I say enjoying himself Yeah Loves it I'm talking like See that's where it goes right there That's a soldier you feel me You gotta understand what's going on right there So y'all were engaged the whole time Oh man Yeah When I say at the time of his life I love it It's a great movie I love it man Bro it was It was amazing And it was More growth Yeah You're the director Man it's crazy You're the star Give me Give me the process Real quick Of You learning sign language Oh So like I was learning sign language While I was working out In pre-production too So like One of the things Me and Bianca Once I got Me and Tessa When I got the new script I was like man We should've just kept up With it from Creed 2 We would've been way more fluent Right now We would've been great You know what I'm saying But we put ourselves On a fast track To kind of like learn it While I was working out So like while I was working out I would work out Have production meetings Script meetings You know what I'm saying Whatever We're building the thing But then I'll just go off To the side for a little bit Do an hour a day You know what I'm saying With my coach And we would You know go through the basics You know what I'm saying He would kind of like You know he would sign I would you know You know mimic the sign And then he'll test me On those like four or five signs You know what I mean Every like 15 minutes or so And then we would like You know recap that entire hour And I would try to go off Memory and do that And then the next day They'll recap half of what we did The day before Et cetera et cetera And kind of just stair Stair-stepped me To Until I didn't have Any more time left But honestly on the day I'm a real guy I'm a visual person I'm a visual learner So I could I could pick up On signs pretty quickly And then register it Digest it And then go Go do what I gotta do That was That was a very special Yeah Part of the movie Thank you It's very special And it was like It was We It was a natural evolution Of things Of course The first movie You know Adonis meets The love of his life You know what I'm saying She has progressive Hearing loss You know We don't know what Where that's going Cool Second film we pick up He's starting a family of his own You know what I'm saying Now You know You realize that the daughter Can or can't she You know The parents are Number one concern You know A healthy baby You know what I'm saying Can he get passed down Does she have it or not The heartbreak of You know Within You know internally Between Adonis is Okay damn Now what How am I gonna move forward With this Questions around that It was played beautifully By you know Rocky and Adonis You know what I'm saying Really trying to figure out Like what manhood is And like what parenting Is all about You know Cool we got that The third film I don't have to talk about it We're already A fully ASL family Right You know The house is already Tricked out Adonis is clearly Invested time to make sure And money To make sure his daughter Is gonna get all the things That he never got You know what I'm saying And really trying to like You know Make her life a lot better And comfortable Et cetera et cetera And building all the things And blah blah blah blah Whatever So in this movie It was really important Like to just normalize In a way You know It really felt inclusive And it wasn't about The audience or anybody Having sympathy for her No It's like no It's the empathy You know Of understanding You know She's a superhero She's fearless What's her name in real life Mila Mila Davis-Kent Mila Superstar Yeah And like 100% So talented And I learned so much From her And she encouraged me Like look Mike Even if you don't know Exactly the sign Gesture Your body language Is signing You know what I'm saying And the deaf community Appreciates that so much By not just talking to them Or like getting frustrated No gesture Like try And that's something for us That you know The hearing We're definitely You know You know we're ignorant In a lot of ways But And But just Getting out of your own Get it out of our own head And being like Oh I can't do this I'm gonna feel stupid No just try And I think It'll make a big difference My last piece You ready I mean listen In Jonathan Majors I mean you know Listen My last Listen Let me tell you something Hey man Listen What's up Listen What's up Yeah Cause I act a little bit Like if you're on TV One Get out of here man And like Lifetime It's not the time I'm like Michael B Okay Michael G I'm like Michael G Michael G Ford Michael T Anyway You guys Were having So many conversations Outside of the script Like Just within the physicality Of how you guys Were dealing with each other From eye contact To no eye contact To When I say it was crazy It was like y'all had done Movies before Like you guys had been Synced before In other moments To build Cause to build up That kind of chemistry Yeah Is really crazy And it's rare It's rare Yeah it's rare And that undercurrent That y'all were carrying Along with what was being said In the environment It was incredible Thank you man No He's a special talent You know what I mean He's a kindred spirit too You know what I'm saying He immediately He would feel like One of us Like a brother for sure And he He has so much depth to him And complexities That just played perfectly You know in the film That we needed From our antagonist You know what I'm saying To counter To counterbalance Our equally as Complex And the depth Of Adonis You know of our hero So he played That perfectly He was a workhorse He was willing To get into shape He was sacrificed You know what I'm saying You know just time Just to really put it in And take this shit seriously Learning choreography Learning a certain style You know Embodying You know Damien as a character You know what I'm saying Coming from Crenshaw Just being Like just an L.A. L.A. story And it worked man It really worked And then the boxing stuff Just really like Fell into place And that was something That I probably daydreamed The most about From like just over The course of the Entire trilogy Just like how would I Do the fights If I ever had an opportunity To do them And like that Was something that I really like said Fuck it we just Want to swing for the fences You know nonstop We'll go for the fences You went for the fences Special movie bro You went for the fences Special movie Appreciate it So why is he here? I mean this is the R&B money pocket Why is he here? Okay let's do it Yeah so hold on Did you drink your tea? Oh yeah I'm here to Whoa Ah nope See that was it Nope Lord wanted to keep me humble That's not what I did Where you going with it G? I don't know where he's going Where you going with this thing? Where you going? It was a little bit like It was a little cheers And that a little bit Her cheers a little bit It's a lot of bar action It's low key A lot of bar action I knew it Top 5 Yeah Don't look at me like that You're top 5 Michael T I'm looking at you Top 5 You're top 5 R&B singers Yeah R&B songs Yeah Michael B Michael B's top 5 Top 5 You're your top 5 Yeah Alright tank Tank tank tank It's tank 5 Take it You're my top 5 Take it Yeah He's clearly auditioning for my top 5 right now Michael B's Tank tank top 5 Top 5 1 2 3 4 5 Michael B. Jordan What's up You're top 5 R&B singers I'm going Marvin Gaye Can I go Marvin Gaye? I'm going Usher There's no particular order Just by Usher I'm going So if he's the king of pop Is that considered for Michael Jackson Play with Michael Jackson Beyonce Yeah That's 4 Oh man This is tough Luther Isn't that right? Isn't that thing alright? Yeah yeah yeah Lufer I don't want to mention Tank's going in there Got you I don't want to mention Tank's going in there You're a 6 man You know what I'm saying? I got a you know Michael T. Jordan I don't mind coming off the bench It's the same But that's starting 5 That's a cold start 5 Yeah So now we're going to go to the songs Top 5 R&B songs What's on your playlist? I know you got something on the playlist I know you get busy Get physical Grab your phone You know what I mean? Let me see You got to put something on for the ladies Let me see I hope it ain't Right now? Or all time I mean it could be right now It's yours Ladies Let me see what I got on my playlist What I'm going to play with the ladies Late night drive You know what I'm saying? When I go for my drive Because I love driving Yeah You feel me? I got Cranes in the Sky Solange Yeah Ghost Yeah Ghost I'm going Solange Ghost I'm going I'm going Jhene Summer 2020 Yes Love Jhene Black and Asians We stick together That's right Team I'm doing Ooh Naomi Sharon Hills Galant Bone and Tissue You heard of Galant? Yes I'm hitting some I can't go Everybody says the originals and hits all the time I got to go I got to go up You know what I'm saying? Yeah Ohio Players Sweet Sticky Thing Oh, okay Is really? Yeah And then he'll go there Yeah, I'm saying You're out of control Yeah, out of control You must be snob I'm saying You should Alright Is that okay? Listen You've made me I got to go do some homework We got one more thing One more thing We won't let you out the door Where you going? You've been associated with Lobster A lot of great people Yeah Uh-huh But in this segment Better not I ain't saying no names I ain't saying no Chicago Dance Convention Who you is What you did Don't say she I ain't saying no Names I love y'all. I love y'all so much. I'm sorry it took me so long to get here. I got to do this again. We can just vibe out. You're invited back. You're invited back in. I'll give a standing invitation. Okay. Anytime. So listen. Right now, you give us a story, funny or fucked up, or funny and fucked up. Okay. The only rule to the game is you can't say no names. This is Michael B. Wakanda, Creed, Wire, Fruit Bill Station, Jordan. Whoa. I ain't saying no names. Man, I got stories. Now I got to figure out how to tell these stories without no names. Okay. Let me see what I got for y'all. It was Frank. It was Bobby. Bobby. I'm trying to think. What's a good one? Yeah, my mind goes. Y'all okay with this? Y'all okay with this question? Let me see. You know I'm disruptive. No, I know. I would rather y'all give me like a city. Miami. Okay. Okay. It's getting warm. It's getting warm. So I'm supposed to stay at a particular hotel. Yeah. And I'm promoting a film. So I'm only down there for a little bit of time. You know, you hit, you know, certain outlets, you know what I'm saying? You know, television, Telemundo, you know what I'm saying? You, you know, you bounce around, you do your press or whatever. And you go back to the hotel and then that's when you do the rest of the press. You know what I'm saying? Press junkies. So cool. So had my day of press. I didn't eat that much that day because I woke up a little late. You know what I'm saying? From the night before, which is we're in Miami. So there's not a lot of sleep going. You know, liquid IVs are helpful. Coconut water is top tier. Rehydration. Okay. So next day, don't eat that much. Don't eat that much. A couple of my other co-stars don't eat as much as either. So nobody's really eating a lot. A lot of tea. Chunky the voice together, talking a lot. So we leave the hotel and then we go to, uh, we go to dinner. At this point, you know, order appetizers, et cetera, et cetera. But you know, we're really drinking. We're really, we're drinking a lot, you know, alcohol is flowing. So it's a lot of drinks, not a lot of food. And I repeat, we didn't eat a lot the last couple of days. So, uh, we proceed to have a good time. Take a little nibble here, a little of this, a little of that. You know what I'm saying? Tasting a little bit. I didn't eat a full meal. Cool. Great. Right this time, I'm a little lit. A couple of other people that I'm with, they lit too. A little bit more lit, more lit than I am. I'm usually the guy that like you can't tell is like really drunk, but I'm, but I'm, I'm nice. I'm, I'm there. I'm all the way there. It looks like the lights are on. Ain't nobody home. A couple of other people, a little bit more visibly messed up. So in my mind, I'm like, okay, cool. Let me, let me, let me, let me help these people get to where, you know, where we're going, you know what I'm saying? Safely. So I'm in the middle of like, you know, trying to, you know, help people get to where they got to go, et cetera, et cetera. We run across some ladies. All right. This is Miami. You know what I'm saying? We're outside. You know what I'm saying? Other, the venue in which we're getting ready to go into and some ladies that are there, they might've recognized maybe a couple of us or whatever the case may be. All right. They wanted to roll in and we all roll in. All access. So we're in this particular spot. More drinks are coming. A certain group of ladies are there. One of the people that are there starts to not look so good. You know what I'm saying? They, they, they, you know, they stumbling a little bit, you know, balance a little off. All right, cool. I'm like, Hey, yo, I think it might be good. Probably just go back. You know what I'm saying? To, to where we came from. You know what I'm saying? Where we, where we reside at. You know what I'm saying? I think it's, I think it's, I think it's done. You know, we got to get up in the morning. We got to leave. This is it. We did it. We did it guys. We had a great time. It was a great time. Cool. So he didn't want to go. So he didn't want to leave. So he proceeded to, to grab the bottle from a lady that was with us and he grabbed it. Like, so like he grabbed the bottle with like such force that he, he, he cracked his own face with it. Right. And he just kind of like kept drinking. I saw it vividly. So I was like, Oh shit. I was like, Oh man, like that, that was like, that was like, it was, you know, big bottle filming like that. I know that, that, that's, that's hurtful. That's not, that doesn't feel good. But he kept drinking like it was nothing. So everything was cool. All right, great. So we had the rest of the night. Had a good time. Get back in the car. Cool. Get back to the hotel. Cool. Skipping over a lot of things, but that's not important to the story. Got it. Next morning, wake up. My phone is like, what the **** is going on? Hey, what's up? FaceTime. Yo, what's up? What's going on? Oh shit. What happened to you? What happened? No, Mike, tell me what happened. I don't know. You're good. What happened? What's good? What's, what's going on? You aight? Yo. Oh, like, I don't know. I don't, I don't know how to, I don't know how to, you know, if he was calling a person, I was supposed to calm him down and like, act like it wasn't as bad. I wasn't the one. I wasn't the one. I'm fresh up. I'm fresh. I'm fresh out of sleep. Hey, yo, you need to, you gotta, you gotta call somebody. And I don't know if you can get on a plane like that. Like, I don't know if they're going to let you on a plane like that. So you might need an emergency dentist, you know what I'm saying? Some stitches, you feel me? It was the, it was the whole situation. And that was, that was a night in Miami. That's a story without saying no names. I did a good job. A couple of times I almost fucked up, but I did a good job. The moral of the story is don't drink with Michael B. Jordan. Without eating. Without eating. Without eating. Yeah. Because you want to try to match my shit. Don't match my shit. And if you're looking for, you're looking to be consoled. Comfort. Don't call. Don't call Michael B. Jordan. No, I'm going to tell it to you real. You not. You bust your shit. You bust your shit. You bust your shit. It was, it was, yeah, it was. Wow. I have many nights in Miami of those kind that I don't really remember. You know, just, just thank the Lord. I woke up in the hotel. I checked in. That's crazy. Not me. I don't live like that. What? Anymore? Ever. What you mean? I don't live like that. I always know where I'm going to wake up at. Say it again. Ever. OK. You, you know me a long time. You ain't never seen me get. Ain't nobody had to. I had to hold no shoulders to walk out of nothing. You hold your shit very well too though. No, no, no, no, no. He doesn't. He doesn't. He don't do what we talking about, but he gets extremely violent. OK, gotcha. Grab it up. Grab it up. Is that what it is? Yeah. Depends on what he drinking? No. OK. It doesn't matter. That's a nice guy. He's like, he walk in with a Henny at. These niggas. And it just goes from there. It goes from there. It goes from us having a great time to him telling Steph Curry. Tell that nigga Steph Curry took a picture with us if he want to be safe out here. I said, why do I have to tell him? Why do I have to ask him? If you want to be safe out here. Why does that have to be the message for me? Why do I, why do I got to tell the man that? My step took the picture with us. Put it in front of my boyfriend. Pictures on my face. Shout out to Steph Curry. That's not how I relate to Memphis. I said, did you take a picture with his brother? Absolutely. Very nice. But Mike B, my brother. Oh, man. You're awesome, brother. Yeah. And that's just not, that's just not, you know, friends talking. That's that's, you know, I'm gonna pull myself outside of that. Outside looking in, man. Amazing brother, man. Thank you. You've done amazing work. And your ledger's clean, man. Keep it that way, brother. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Tank. I'm Jay Valentine. This is the R&B Money Podcast. Michael B. Jordan. Did you say that? Cool. What else can I say, man? Greatness in the building. The Michael B. Jordan.