Bigg Robb #1

June is Black Music Month and we're talking with Entertainer, Producer, Song Writer Bigg Robb on The Bev Johnson Show on WDIA Radio.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Don't Memphis probably presents the Beam Johnson Show.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let me say bath.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
First, let me you say She's done.

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Empis gain.

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No matter of the problem she can have so all
the phone and norma on your mind.

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She jimmy ding in.

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The hair by challing you to just keep.

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The fair.

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When a wrangle a pecking up The Johnson Show, because they.

Speaker 6 (00:56):
Happen you can hear every day.

Speaker 7 (01:00):
Indeed, I ain't man my bell got me.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
A missed king gave you good morning, good morning, good morning,

(02:10):
and welcome in tod I a the BEV Johnson Show.
It is in a data pleasure to have you with
us once again on Vice Thursday, June twelfth, twenty twenty five.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
Enjoyed this fabulous day to day.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Get ready to put your ears on. Yeah, I like
to say, as we spread the good news.

Speaker 7 (02:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:36):
Verse hour, we'll be talking with someone I think you know.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, surprise guests because June is Black music Man.

Speaker 6 (02:45):
Second hour, we'll talk to the folks from Heal the Hood.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
See what they have going on that you can get
involved when it's your turn to talk, you know you can.
Here are the numbers to dial nine zero one five
three five nine three four two nine zero one five
three five, nine three four two eight hundred five zero

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three nine three four two eight hundred five zero three
nine three four two or eight three three five three
five nine three four two will get you in to me.
And if this day, this day, Thursday June twelfth, twenty

(03:44):
twenty five, is your birthday.

Speaker 6 (03:48):
Like my nephew Andre Carie A two Taylor. Happy birthday, Carrie,
yeh yeah yeah, Happy birthday, Carrie. Yeah, just a beautiful
young man, a beautiful soul.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Happy birthday Carrie, and all of you all out there
who may be celebrating a birthday on this day, we say,
go out of y'all, go out and celebrate your life.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
You're better, you better.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
When we come back, we'll talk to a very special
guest next with me, Bev Johnson on the Bev Johnson
Show only on Double d I. A good morning and

(05:05):
welcome back to w d I A The Rev Johnson Show.
It is in adda pleasure I'll have you with us
once again on this Thursday, June twelfth, twenty twenty five.

Speaker 6 (05:21):
Enjoyed this fabulous day to day.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
As I said earlier, y'all know, June is Black Music month,
and we'd like to celebrate black music.

Speaker 7 (05:33):
Yeah, we do.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
And speaking of black music, that's my guy, Norman Brown,
a little Janet Jackson cover. That's the way love goes.
And I am so excited to have this young man,
this young man in the house. Say that one more time.

Speaker 6 (05:53):
Is he good looking? He good looking?

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Does he smell good? He smells it?

Speaker 6 (05:57):
He looks good, he looks good.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Can I tell you something a bad?

Speaker 7 (06:00):
Feel?

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Goodness?

Speaker 6 (06:01):
Lord mercy, y'all you know what it is.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome in the house, Big rob in
the house.

Speaker 6 (06:09):
What's up? Brother?

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh my goodness, ain't bad. It's a blessing and a plump,
pleasing pleasure to be spending in the mic here to
give you what you like this morning. The legendary at
w d I, Hey, I am so happy to have you.
Oh my goodness, man, thank you for inviting me, Thank
you for allowing me to come. This is a dream
come true. I've been to a lot of radio stations,
but I never got a chance to sit a spell
in wd IA.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
What legendary Beab Johnson? What so y'all need to call up? Everybody?

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Tell us tell them tune in right now, call up everybody,
every promoter, every DJ, everybody at every barbecue spot, and
telling that the B I G G y'all, BB, Big
Rob and BB Johnson is about to talk about it all.

Speaker 6 (06:45):
We're gonna talk about it all because and thank you
for being here, y'all, y'all.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
Rob.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
I told Rob, I said, we can do a telephone interview.
He said, no, ma'am, no, ma'am, I'm coming. I'm coming
to Memphis from Ohio.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
That's right. Absolutely, Please believe it's been driving all night.

Speaker 8 (07:05):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Thank God for traveling mercies and and safety. And I
mean the opportunity to come and sit here with you.
A legend, a person who's not only just you know,
on the radio, but in the community and is given
so much to so many of us right for so long.
My goodness, man, what you mean. I don't want to
talk to you on the phone. I want to smell
your perfume. I want to look at him pretty eyes

(07:26):
of your you smell it.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Yeah. I don't know, Yeah, we can't look here.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
I don't know who he is that's funding it, but
I know his black card must be awful.

Speaker 6 (07:34):
Charge up because you shall smell good you brother, Thank
you brother. Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
You know rob for people who don't you know? You
a big rob. But a little bit about your background.
Where are you from? Brother? How you get into this business?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well, it seems to be that my daddy and my
mama got together and they played Ray Charles and drank
a little brown look out some glasses. About nine months
later I showed up, and I've been a bad motor
scooter since I got here. Came out the pampers, dancing
and singing and doing all that. I started out as
the youngest DJ in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Speaker 6 (08:06):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Yes, and I was eleven. Yeah, I was eleven years
old back in the day.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
And that's right when hip hop Grandmaster Flash and Rappers
Delight and all them started.

Speaker 6 (08:14):
And then the town I'm from, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Speaker 8 (08:17):
Uh huh.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
There's so many fantastic artists from there.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
I just name a named some of them that well know, Oh,
Midnight Star, Oh yeah, the deal ye Isley Brothers, Yeah okay,
Randy Crawford, yes, okay, wow.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
And then there's a gentleman who took me on his wings.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Two brothers. I got the chance to be with, two
families that really really changed the game. And the first
two brothers that came and got me when I was
about thirteen was a guy by the name of Phelps,
Catfish Collins okay, and his little brother his name is
Bootsy Collins.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
And so I was raised up by those guys.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Now about simultaneously, about the same time, I also met
this other family that's from twenty or thirty miles away,
the Tropman family. And not only had Bootsy and Catfish
put Roger, Troutman in turn took it from Roger human
body to the group's zap Mo bounce announced they were,
you know, the guys who took him to George Clinton
and all that. So I got I was raised up

(09:14):
one one day, I'm over here hanging out with Boosy.
The next day, I'm hanging out with Roger. Some days
I'm hanging out with both of them as little kid.
And their influence on me. You guys can still see it.
That's what a Ryan Stone, Yeah, I see that influence.
Oh man, he both listen, Boozy I forever, I love him.
That's my big brother.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
And then being able to develop, I mean, like these guys,
it wasn't so much about being a fan of chasing
around behind them like that. They actually are my big
brothers and my uncles and my mentors. Those are the
guys who you know, Bootsy grabbed me up in the collar.
And you know what I mean exactly, You ain't never
been until you got choked out by a guy wearing
leather and Ryan stones and star shaped black boarf. I
ever cut you out there drinking wild hovers rouse again,

(09:54):
This this what's gonna happen to your bobble, you know,
two to the chest. And but you know through the
I said stuff that I had great heroes. Once I
got old enough to go on the road and leave
the city limits, Roger Troutman adopted me and took me
and just grabbed me up. And I spent the last
thirteen years of Roger's life with him. And I started out, Man,

(10:15):
I'm the guy who carried him through the audience. You
have been to a zapp and in the.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Day, you know what I mean?

Speaker 6 (10:19):
Yeah, all that.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
So I did everything, kept up with his guitar, his
voice box, got shoes thrown at me and all that.
But he turned me into the MC of the Zapp
band Wow. And then after that the rest is history. Man,
I can remember coming down here quickly.

Speaker 6 (10:33):
I tell you this.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
I remember one day I had to go to the
music store.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Think y'all got a play stand called Sticks and Things
or something, sticks or something music store.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
And we were playing at the Orphim, yes, And I
went out there because I need to go to the
music store and get something for the show that night.
So I got in the band van and go and
I got on two forty yeah, And I didn't realize
that two forty was a loop. So I was on
two forty five hour and a half trying to go
three miles away front of the Orphan and I'm just
riding around. I'm twenty years old, lost and confused, and

(11:04):
I swear I must have seen ten tops barbecue. But yes,
but but I finally got what I needed and uh,
but that afforded me a great opportunity. After losing Roger,
I met a guy named Male Waiters. Yeah, and we
went to the studio and did this record School Baby,
Sit and Hold in the Wall.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
And that brought me over to southern soul music over
two decades ago. And so since then, man, we've been
just non stop. I start having all these records special
shout out to our good friend, miss Christine Davis.

Speaker 6 (11:35):
Friends, we say the Queen of Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Well, and then they got me messed up down there
because there's two ladies down well.

Speaker 6 (11:42):
Well, I know my my other sister and and roops.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
I see what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (11:46):
So and so you know I know about that area.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
So if I say, if I say the wrong thing,
I don't get a show. Or if I say the
wrong thing, I don't get no more. Seven Upcake on
Sunday at Annie Roots, so to Hello Queen A and
Rufe Moffatt.

Speaker 6 (12:01):
How you doing, Christine Davis?

Speaker 4 (12:03):
How y'all doing?

Speaker 2 (12:04):
But Christine brought me in one of my first hit
records many years ago. Same thing it took to get
you in the soul blues world. And we've been doing
business every since. And man, I can't remember, man me
and you go back so far. I know Dreamland Woo
and Holly Springs Dreamland. So we're still out here doing it.

Speaker 6 (12:24):
You have a fabulous memory.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Well, God is good.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
You know the one thing that Roger Troutman instilled in
me when I'd had to go pick him up because
I was his driver, And it's confidante the guy.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
You know what I mean. I go to this, Doug,
go get this.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
But I would have to listen to him every morning
when I pick him up and then when I take
him home at night. And there was a couple of rules.
The biggest one was no drugs and no alcohol. Okay,
so I violate the no alcohol thing because I'm old man.
Sometimes my body gets hurt now, but no drugs never ever.
And I don't eat no polk, no nothing that so,

(12:57):
and I'm married to a beautiful woman who keeps me
very ground.

Speaker 6 (13:00):
You've been married forty years? Wow?

Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, forty years and special my mine, your favorite drummer of.

Speaker 6 (13:07):
My son today birth you know that's my boyfriend.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Hey listen, well say you know that's my p yt
Happy birthday are three?

Speaker 6 (13:15):
Yeah, happy birthday?

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Are the creator of the down South Shuffle, which is
a staple line dance here.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
In Memphis, Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
And uh so, yeah, man, but we've just been out
here doing it and I'm here to talk about whatever
you want to talk about.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
But no, but I want to talk about you because
because I'm learning some things that I did not know
about you.

Speaker 6 (13:34):
Okay, I love it, And gosh, what the camera onwa
oh you got, I got Unclewayne with me, and let
me just say, hey, Uncle Wayne, let me tell you this.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Gentleman right here that's with me. He's my cousin, okay,
and he's the first one in my family that realized
that I had some kind of musical talent. So like
on my fourth or fifth birthday, he gave me a
tape recorder said something special about that kid. And so
from that day, five years old today, he been with

(14:09):
me and he's still with me, and that's the grace
of God. He's also a stage for a prostate cancer survivor,
So there's always a ministry around what it is that
Big Rob does. So if you ever if you saw
me back in the day with zap Man outfits and
shaking my stomach and shooting silly strain right, then you
also know if you saw us on HBO, I come

(14:29):
out and talk about God at the end of the show,
So you see what I'm saying. So yeah, we're always
trying to uplift and inspire somebody. We just don't want
to take you to the hole in the wall and
leave it there. We want to give you some positivity.

Speaker 6 (14:41):
I love it. I love it. Amen.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
If you've just tuned in this day, we are talking
with my friend Big Rob is in the house because
we're celebrating Black Music Month.

Speaker 6 (14:53):
It's June.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
And if you have a question or two, I'm gonna
let you. I'm gonna let you holler at him. I'm
gonna let you.

Speaker 6 (15:00):
Oh my goodness, but I got to holler at him first.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
Did y'all hear what she said?

Speaker 2 (15:05):
If you just tune then, oh I like that now
you man singing the voice of living with somebody on
bed Because every time me and my wife go to
Red Lops, Uncle Wayne needs a date.

Speaker 6 (15:15):
Oh he needs to day?

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah, yeah, because sometime I want to eat her biscuits
and she want to eat my biscuits and we want
to just you know, be mad.

Speaker 6 (15:21):
And he be sitting there and we be looking at
him like, okay, so can you go to Red Lobster
with us?

Speaker 4 (15:26):
Next time we go?

Speaker 6 (15:26):
I will be happy to you.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Like Uncle Wwayne.

Speaker 6 (15:28):
He's single now and he can cook pretty good.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
I told him everything.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
Let me say this, Uncle Wayne, I like you, but
I like p U. I t oh oh oh oh
you want, oh you want?

Speaker 2 (15:42):
You want that hard working stage tearing up drum beating
good looking son of mine. Yes, sir, but today is
his thirty fifth birthday. Wow, so I guess I talked
to his mama. I don't think that would be a
big age gap now. Plus he needs some stability in it,
you know. Let me just as you like I asked
his last girlfriend.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
Thing in your four one k? Baby? What's handing?

Speaker 5 (16:02):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Say?

Speaker 6 (16:03):
Let me tell you this, Well, I got some of
my four one K, but that full one.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
K is for me.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Oh my goodness, Well son illep going. I'm had to
give him. I'm had to go write a book and
tell him how to shake that thing right exactly.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Your big robbers in the house nine to zero one
The fuck you d Ia Yeah five three five nine
three four two is our number. Eight hundred five zero
three nine three four two eight three three five three
five nine three four two will get you in to us.

Speaker 6 (16:35):
You're listening to double d i A. Don't go away.
The BEV Johnson Chill returns after these messages The BEV
john Say show.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
I'm telling you to just.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
Keep around loving shows you.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Oh yeah, we're rocking and rolling on w d i
A with I. He's the legendary, extraordinary.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
Big Rob is in the house.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
Oh my goodness, that's how you love singing.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
I just heard O Your Love. That's my brother for art,
your love. Where you're at, man, let's love art your
love and his loving wife kkh Man And yeah, yeah,
that's my folks. Dare man, you're you're your folks. That
my folks man, so many folks down Clayton's well.

Speaker 6 (18:07):
Kirk wrote that for me.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
Oh did it?

Speaker 8 (18:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (18:09):
Oh that's my man. I ain't made a record our
curtain the last fifteen years.

Speaker 7 (18:13):
That's my guy.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
I tell him, that's my musical director. He wrote the
Bev Johnson theme song Rob. He wrote it and it
has been a hit. Everybody sings it, you know. And
someone asked me, I want to do yourself.

Speaker 6 (18:28):
No, I'm not doing it. I'm keeping what Casey did
for me because people love.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
It absolutely well. He's a phenomenal brother.

Speaker 6 (18:34):
Yes he is.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
I tell a short story about him. I was in
zap he was in the barcades. That's how long ago
we were back in the day.

Speaker 9 (18:41):
Man.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Especially much respect to Reggipe and late Great Bubba and
oh Man, so many guys, Zeke and Bright Bear and
all those guys, and so Larry Dotson, good morning, somebody James,
somebody wake Larry Dotson. I'm telling him his favorite nephew,
the best looking fat man in show business is on
wd I A with Bear Johnson this morning. But Casey

(19:01):
came said, man, I see you trying to make these
little songs. Man, you need to let me help you.
I said, no, Man, I got me a write. Now
I got somebody to help me. He said, well, brother,
if you ever need just call me. I'm just a
phone call away. And it was a Tuesday night and
I needed some help. Aver fifteen years ago. We've been
inseparable to this point. Man, phenomenal guy and man, much love,
much respect to him. And I come up with all

(19:23):
these songs and all these ideas. I might call him
and say, man, you know that beat this on the
Led Zeppelin record and such and such, and you know
how Roger said, oh, I want to put them both together.
But it's gonna be a blue song called look at
Us She's Sexy. And he said he never says no.
He wake up in the middle of the night. I
can call him anywhere. That's my brother. So much love
to Kurt Casey Clayton. He's phenomenally if you ever get

(19:45):
a chance to work with him. Yes, he's going to
be one thousand percent professional. Yes he is one thousand
percent accurate.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yes, and a quick story. I'm coming to the phone lines, y'all.
That Rob that when I told Kirk did that for me?
When I was celebrating my t You're doing this show okay?
And and it was a weekend I was. I said, oh,
I forgot. I had been talking to Ksey and I
called him on a Friday. I said, Casey, I need
this song for Monday. I need him a theme song.

(20:11):
So he says, okay, he says, tell me about your show.
I just gave him some things. He went from there.
Monday morning I had I had the song on there
and Bobby said, where you get that from? But Bobby
loved it, Bobby, he loved it.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
And much love and respect to the legacy of Bobby Ojay.
I remember I did a what was the thing y'all
to do down at the casino.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (20:36):
It was called juke joint to it juke joint too,
And I played Brandom juke Joint down mercy Man. We
need to bring back the juke joint too. I am
man my son and I three. Well he's thirty five now,
he's probably twenty at the time. Uh No, they was
in the casino. He might have been younger than that
because he had to sneak him in there.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
But the casino is you're right, we were down there.
But yeah, we were doing the juke junk to it. Yes, ma'am,
all right, man, Rob, I'm going to our phone lines
because some folks want to talk to you.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
Hopefully Memphis will be nice to me.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
They gonna be nice to you. Hey, they know what
they know what I expect, Yes, ma'am, all right, w
D I A Hi Beverlee.

Speaker 8 (21:14):
Hey, good Thursday to you, Bell Johnson.

Speaker 6 (21:17):
Good Thursday to you, Beverly. How are you?

Speaker 10 (21:20):
I'm well?

Speaker 8 (21:21):
And good morning to mister Rod.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Hey, good morning, miss Beverley. God bless you. Thank you
for thank you. I know it was a little weight.
We had to run some commercials. That's how we pay
the bills around here. But uh, you've been on hole
for a little while. But but we're talking to you.
Ain't gonna do you like the Gas Electric Company and
tell you send you to a machine.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
You got the real one. Right here, baby, what's havney?

Speaker 8 (21:42):
Look, we we w d A calls.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
We know how w d A operate.

Speaker 8 (21:47):
We don't get been out of shape when we have
to call.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Take it, amen.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
And if I have to, I go down on Thurstreet.
I know where the watermelon man is down there on Thursday.
I don't know a lot about Memphis, but I know
if I go out Thurstreet long enough, I find the
water a milion man and I bring four five watermelons
up here with.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
Seeds in them. I get them. I'll get them to
get the station back together.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
I promise.

Speaker 8 (22:08):
Okay, we're good, we we we we Lord listens and
callers were good. Boy.

Speaker 11 (22:15):
I want to tell you something what.

Speaker 8 (22:17):
I got When you and mister Robb are talking about
his thirty five year old son, O uh huh, And
you said you like p YT and mister rob said, yeah,
his sound like some four one K.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
You said, yeah, you got a fall one cake, but
it's for you.

Speaker 8 (22:36):
But I want to tell you something.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
What if you get a p y T, you.

Speaker 8 (22:41):
Got to share that fall one case and not a
one time thing.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
You got to do it periodically.

Speaker 9 (22:49):
The p y T is like a lounge.

Speaker 6 (22:54):
Beverly. You don't know, Beverly. You should know me. Now
you know I dealt with p p y T. No
allowances from me. See the ones, the ones I work with,
They know me, Beverly. Oh yes, ma'am.

Speaker 5 (23:11):
Okay, so you.

Speaker 8 (23:12):
Keep that for one case you bust out.

Speaker 7 (23:18):
Let me cald Ben.

Speaker 5 (23:19):
She's p right T.

Speaker 12 (23:21):
She got to show that fall one KH.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Well, well, well she gonna I share.

Speaker 6 (23:25):
I share.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well, I would never be I wouldn't be a pimp,
but I guess I'd have to be a manager because
I got to get my ten percent.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
This is my son, right.

Speaker 13 (23:37):
Right.

Speaker 11 (23:37):
You're gonna move on to another.

Speaker 9 (23:39):
P y T.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
She can get him on there, because I I know
she got something in a fall one K.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
And I got my eyes set on a brand new,
brand new eight track eight player. Okay be remember the
tracks back in the day. Yeah, yeah, well they they
gonna come back out with them and I and and
I know exactly who go to help me pay for
my son? Gonna help me pay for it? Oh my goodness,

(24:07):
what do me a favor, Miss Beverley? Would you do
me one favorite? Do you know how to do you
know how to spell Big Rob?

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (24:16):
Spell it for me. Let me see if you can
get it right.

Speaker 9 (24:19):
I would say B I g R O B just
like it sound.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
No, ma'am, ain't nothing I do like it's sound. It's
always bigger and better. Now I'm gonna teach you how
to spell it, and you ain't gonna never forget it.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
Are you ready?

Speaker 8 (24:30):
I'm ready write down B I G G R O
B B.

Speaker 11 (24:39):
I start to put two gs.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
That's right, baby, because because you you you you, you
ain't never seen this stomach I'm walking around with on
a I'm the best. They don't call me the best
looking fat man and show business for nothing.

Speaker 10 (24:50):
Be everywhere Rob something else.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
He Hey, miss Beverley, God, bless you. Thank you for calling.
We're gonna call, We're gonna talk to somebody, but hey,
I got I'm on. Thank for you, Miss Beverly. Are
you ready read the new Big Rob album is called
Juke Joint Soul. It it'll be out in a few weeks.
And as the old school guys, you say, because you
sound like you from the days of doucing quarters and
buickle Sabers, and you remember, you remember Captain Curtis Lee

(25:16):
and all them guys, So let me do that. Cap
would do that now, you put that where you wanted.

Speaker 6 (25:21):
Babe, Look you that's my You're right, that was my
cap Captain Curtis Lee.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
Oh we got listen.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
We gotta keep my heroes alive.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
Around here, we keep our heroes alive.

Speaker 11 (25:32):
Then with a good tang, thank you, take care of you,
you God bless you.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
Bye bye high boots.

Speaker 12 (25:43):
See we'll go morning to you all a big rock.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
Talk to me, man, talk to me, tell me something
good like.

Speaker 11 (25:52):
This is Boots comfunction.

Speaker 6 (25:55):
Oh what's happening baby? How you're feeling? You're good?

Speaker 14 (25:57):
The pe punk, the pe punk on the comfunction.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
All right, you're the funk? Okay, well, now how did
you get your name? They call you the farm name.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Some people call me. You don't know nothing about that,
you know.

Speaker 12 (26:13):
You remember when Fun came out in nineteen seventy seven.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
Absolutely, I on the forty five to eight track, the Real,
the Real and the record.

Speaker 15 (26:20):
Yes sir, And then you had then on Down It
came out with they did another album called Love Shane.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Absolutely, but you got to talk about secrets. You gotta
talks a bunch of them. You gotta talk about a
lot of function records and then uh touch Absolutely but
you know, yeah, my homeboy, great Gary Jackson. They got
a song called Too Tight and he played base. But
I'm very good friends with Felton Pilot and uh Michael Cooper.

(26:49):
Been knowing those guys forever, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (26:51):
And my main man.

Speaker 15 (26:54):
They are they're my family. During them two of my
family functions. Well you know the originals on the original, Yes,
sir Beckon beck in nineteenth seventy three, when I started
out with I was nineteen years old.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Well man the road for the.

Speaker 14 (27:10):
First time in my life.

Speaker 12 (27:11):
So yeah, I've been too.

Speaker 14 (27:12):
We came up to a Cincinnata o'hi. When you're talking
about Roger Travis Jeff and did all the icons, Booster
Collins and George Clinton, Parliam and a Parking.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
Day Absolutely, well.

Speaker 12 (27:26):
You know I was.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
I was raised on that mighty Old Jays.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
As a matter of fact, let me tell you this, Boots.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Uh So, this year, July twenty six, I get the
opportunity to go back into a hometown concert and it's
in conjunction with the Cincinnati Black Music Walk of Fame
special shout out to them. I got inducted in last
year twice as a member of graduation of the group
Zapp and Roger. They gave us a lifetime achievement for
stars in the ground and also as a musical influence.
And uh, but this year we're bringing in the Ohio Players.

(27:56):
We're gonna get a star. The old J's gonna get
a star. Nancy Wilson's going to get a star, and
the legendary Misdoddy people is gonna get a star. And
then I'm doing the big homecoming concert for all of them.
We're gonna put ten thousand people out there. So anybody
out there is listening. If you get a chance, come
through what we call Music Fast Week in Cincinnati, Ohio,
and you can hear what Boots talking about all those
great groups that come from that. Yeah, you know one

(28:19):
of the guys who touched me, Boots. You gotta tell me.
Do you know anything about Sugarfoot.

Speaker 9 (28:25):
O Sugarfoot? Oh?

Speaker 12 (28:27):
Yes, the Old High Players.

Speaker 6 (28:29):
Absolutely.

Speaker 11 (28:30):
We performed with the Ol'hio players back in the day.

Speaker 10 (28:33):
That's he wasn't nothing night man.

Speaker 11 (28:35):
He was a great musician.

Speaker 14 (28:36):
And my fact, the old How Players came to Memphis, Well,
we was having all those off doing, you know, putting
all the balls.

Speaker 12 (28:43):
And stuff on the stage.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
No boom boom boom.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, I still do all that. We
still got lights, cameras, action TV and fog. If you
get a chance to come see me at the rocking chair, boots, man, man,
I take you back to nineteen seventy four.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
I might come out there with a first coat on.

Speaker 9 (28:59):
You.

Speaker 10 (29:00):
Miss a big roun. You remember making the setting the
miss South where they where they where they bought told
us that we couldn't use them bomb on stage?

Speaker 4 (29:11):
Oh my goodness, Well yeah yeah, but you know that's
where we were texting.

Speaker 11 (29:15):
The musicians and even the barcades will use them, and
we use them a couple of times.

Speaker 15 (29:22):
But when the old how players came, Yes, man, you're
talking about blowing up the state, man, bro, they were
blowing up the stage too.

Speaker 6 (29:31):
Boots. Well, thank you for the memories. Thank your boots.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
W D I a hei caller.

Speaker 6 (29:42):
Okay, lady D.

Speaker 7 (29:43):
What's up Lady D?

Speaker 9 (29:47):
What's up?

Speaker 10 (29:47):
Big wow?

Speaker 4 (29:48):
What's up?

Speaker 7 (29:48):
Lady D?

Speaker 4 (29:49):
I got I got a question, baby?

Speaker 3 (29:51):
Have you have you?

Speaker 4 (29:53):
Have you made some biscuits and some with some homemade
and some tramps of eggs At this.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Morning, I'm hungry, No, no, big Rob.

Speaker 12 (30:05):
Guess what what I had the back cup off for
cookie that cad stuff called j T.

Speaker 7 (30:11):
Like I call him.

Speaker 12 (30:12):
You know, he can eat, so I think that stuff
for him.

Speaker 11 (30:16):
And Lady D just got some eating wallamellon callow.

Speaker 9 (30:22):
Ye this streams.

Speaker 6 (30:25):
Hey, Lady D, don't worry, Lady D, don't worry. I'm
gonna see it.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
I'm gonna send Big Rob down to the Rocking Chair
so he can get a meal. And all I said
before he before he travels going to Mississippi. But I'm
gonna send him down there with Koto because the rocking
Chair is open today.

Speaker 6 (30:40):
Big well, you know that is open now.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
And special shout out to Coach and special shout out
to pe we our pairs because they reached out to
me and they brought me to the rocking Chair. I
think we've been there twice and yeah right, yeah, And
you know in the rocking chair, man's one of my
favorite places to play because it's up close and personal.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yes, and if you don't earn.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
It, they don't give it to So you got to
get out there and I got to walk at the
audience and I got to shoot and and you do it. Ron,
oh man, we got it, and I'm trying to figure
out when am I coming back to the Rockets were
working on it. We got we gotta get it. But
but what you you know what I might have to
come by there, and uh, I also got to find out.
You know, Coach promised me he was gonna, you know,
got on the pictures out there in the parking lot. Yeah,

(31:20):
he told me gonna put my pitch up on the wall.
So I gotta find out what's going on. But I
love the rock and cheer. You guys don't know where
it is. It's down there on the hood side Elvis Press.

Speaker 6 (31:29):
Fifteen forty twos press man.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
But much love, much respect, because like I said, they
make sure that you know this whole thing of keeping
the music alive. And they do and they do and
they keep the music alive, and they not don't give
opportunities in myself, but you know what I mean. I
know one of my artists, Bird Williams. Shout out to
Bird Williams. Everybody in Memphis love Bird Williams. I took
you to the studio, Archie loved say man, I ain't
singing on no more records for you, big Rob, unless

(31:52):
you cut a record on Bird Williams.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
So we went to the studio.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
I cut a couple of records on Birds so much
love because he's phenomenal for giving everybody so much opportunity.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
You know, I mean O B. B. Canna another one
of my partners. So the rocking Chair is a great spot.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
I haven't had a drink made in there yet, but
they tell me the drinks are very good, and I
know the food is outstanding, Yes it is, and the
service is outstanding.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
My favorite there is those margharitas. Oh my goodness, oh yeah,
oh my god, get me to fix you a margarita
or Beka.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Okay, oh wait a minute, now on now and the
margarita and my son the p y t Hey, I
might be a granddaddy pretty soon. Thank you for calling in,
Lady d God bless you. Keep keep eating that watermelon
and spitting the seeds in the grass.

Speaker 12 (32:42):
I love Rob.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
I got one more thing, Well you go ahead now.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Look will you be staying?

Speaker 7 (32:51):
So?

Speaker 13 (32:52):
Do you be for real?

Speaker 9 (32:53):
I know you be, Parilla, I know.

Speaker 11 (32:56):
You, I know you for real?

Speaker 6 (32:58):
Well, well let me ask you this. What's what do
you know any Big Rob songs that come to mind?

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Uh?

Speaker 12 (33:06):
Big Rob, you got something everything well that there's no
doubt about it.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
So I got a song. This is beenly grown and
sexy men working like a slave. Now it's time getting
my party on that. That's real, Am I real?

Speaker 6 (33:19):
Right now?

Speaker 4 (33:20):
I got one called the sugar Shack. Here, anybody man?

Speaker 2 (33:23):
They asked me about five foot five, Am I real?

Speaker 4 (33:26):
Ain't nothing fake about me, baby. I'm from the generation
before I you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
My mama didn't have to get no bb L and
uh if we wanted Jerry Cart, we had to sit
in the chair and they had to roll your hair
one roller at a time and put that put this
stuff on your head, be burning, you know what I'm saying.
So we real, ain't I'm not from the wig generation
of the you know what I mean. I'm on TikTok
right now. But we all the way one hunderd.

Speaker 6 (33:51):
Yeah what you mean?

Speaker 5 (33:52):
Am I am? I? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (33:56):
Lady?

Speaker 11 (33:57):
One last thing okay, John, Yes, yes, you know you
got a couple of them that comes up there with
look my head shapes.

Speaker 6 (34:13):
Tell Big Robin and Beverly.

Speaker 15 (34:15):
Hey look she I'm receiving them.

Speaker 11 (34:19):
And beb I've been so beings the believable in my
I got so much going on, no gift laying over
on the table.

Speaker 9 (34:26):
I'm a l D.

Speaker 6 (34:28):
I can't you giving me that for my birthday? I'm good,
I'm good. It was last morning.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Okay, what what.

Speaker 6 (34:38):
I celebrate the whole month of mail? Oh yeah, so
what lady D?

Speaker 12 (34:45):
What did I say when I gave you that first tumblow?

Speaker 7 (34:49):
Now on that no bad John?

Speaker 6 (34:51):
Yes, sister, I want.

Speaker 11 (34:53):
You to have a glu and in Big Rob he
serving missus well like staying keeps.

Speaker 15 (35:00):
Haven't metus?

Speaker 12 (35:00):
May because when you come.

Speaker 6 (35:02):
Here, yes, ma'am, we love it well, I got it bad.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Hold on, lady, I got one question for you, because
you've been to the Big Rob show, right, I guess
I have. Do people get their money's worth when they
come see me?

Speaker 13 (35:14):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (35:15):
They do?

Speaker 6 (35:15):
They get more than their money's worth?

Speaker 8 (35:17):
And the bell all he meant him, I just love
uh huh?

Speaker 10 (35:23):
Who was that?

Speaker 12 (35:24):
They was at the gay house?

Speaker 11 (35:26):
I got off everybody on that picture.

Speaker 12 (35:29):
It's two people living.

Speaker 11 (35:31):
Bibble gone, Fred Hollywood Moore gone, Chap.

Speaker 12 (35:37):
Gone and j Blackfoot. But I to love on nothing.

Speaker 5 (35:41):
What a woman.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
I'm gonna send you their picture bill.

Speaker 6 (35:43):
Okay, Hey Bell, Hey, lady D. Let me tell you something,
Lady D.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
You ain't gonna recalling the w D I A with
Bev Johnson, the Big Rob this morning on the takeover
and starting.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
No s h and it ain't gonna be no.

Speaker 6 (35:58):
I God, lady D, Lady D, that's my girl, Big Rob.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Absolutely yeah, she's been down there when you performed at Christine's.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
Oh wow, wow, wow wow. I gotta get back down
to Christine's.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
And all the promoters that I don't know, they they
all they said, man, you got too many lights, too
many cameras. You change outfits too much. I say, man,
come on. I looked over at Bobby Rush he ninety
and still doing the same thing. I said, I want
to be like him.

Speaker 6 (36:27):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah, I don't want to be like the flavor of
the month. I'm not the flavor of the month, you
know what I mean. So yeah, we're not gonna do that.
We want to be here. Frankie Beverley did it to
the wheels fell off. Hey, Eddie Laverton O Jay is
still doing it right.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
They still Charlie Wilson, who was here Friday, Big Rob
ron Eisley Nerd. They still doing wrong with they performed Friday. Yeah,
they're still doing it, and I'm like you, I want
to be like them.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
Oh yeah, and my show, you know what I mean?
Like I said, we still put on the show.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
You do.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
My son is even though it's his birthday, he's in
the practice in this morning because we can start back
and going out on tour.

Speaker 6 (37:00):
Good and oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, we put on
the show man.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
I got rhymestones and when I went in there and
I made some picto beans. Last week I been in
the something.

Speaker 6 (37:08):
I said, man, what is it this? It was Ryanstone
up because we end up.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
We spent sitting I've been sitting to dinner table going
Ryanstones on stuff. We never stopped. My name is the
B I G g all b B Big Rob. You
are listening to the Bev Johnson Show.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
On w d i A.

Speaker 6 (37:22):
Please believe it. I love it. Hold on, y'all, when
we come back. That's a Big Rob. That's a Big
Rob song right here. Oo wee ooh wee sugar shack.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
Anybody seen my lady?

Speaker 6 (37:36):
Yeah, when we come back, more talk with Big Rob.
Hold on, y'all, I got your next on w d
I A.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
About five.

Speaker 7 (37:48):
Sax, the Baddest Chick Sugar workingd to bring Oday.

Speaker 6 (38:21):
Never and welcome back.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
We are talking with Big Rob is in the house.
Rob back to our phone lines and talk to Lady P.

Speaker 6 (38:52):
What's up, Lady P.

Speaker 5 (38:54):
It ain't one deb I'm so glad to be.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
That peace stand for baby.

Speaker 11 (39:01):
The whole lot of things. You like that, you know what,
you know what.

Speaker 5 (39:08):
I don't remember me and you never, but you know what.
I love the way you sound. You sound about dudes
out the year and I never been, you know, but
I got it, I got.

Speaker 7 (39:17):
I have, Lady.

Speaker 6 (39:19):
You mean to tell me, Lady P, you didn't come
to the rock and Chair to see Big Rob.

Speaker 11 (39:22):
When he was there.

Speaker 5 (39:23):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 11 (39:24):
Bad.

Speaker 5 (39:24):
I had to be out of town and I'm trying
to see where is this man gonna be in now?
Because I'm my god.

Speaker 8 (39:29):
He's talking on the radio, and.

Speaker 5 (39:31):
The way he talked, he already told me it is.
I mean, I'm serious because he when he made that song,
just a few just a portion, I don't I don't
you know, And he talked real bad and he sounds
so real. He talked me like he ain't sugarcall. He
like me, bab, I got to meet this man.

Speaker 6 (39:50):
So why are you talking?

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Well, hold on, hold on, hold on, lady, let me
tell you about Rob now, lady, P can talk.

Speaker 6 (39:57):
Now, Okay, you talk, you talk, I can't stop.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Well don't don't you worry about the thing. We'll be
coming back soon this way. Uh, you know what I
mean to come do a show? My thing is I
want to do.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
My new album is called juke Joint Soul. It's not
out yet, but I'm gonna try a little different approach.
You know, all the big blues shows and stuff. I
love doing all the big shows, but I love being
up close in person with my people. So if the
button pop off my shirt, somebody at then and I say,
here rhyme, here go your button.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
Yeah, you got what I'm saying, you know.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
I mean if I missing note, people look at me
and laugh and they kick their partner and look at it.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
Missed that note. So I love being up close with
my people, and I make juke joint music.

Speaker 6 (40:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
So we don't want to get so big that you
gotta pay a million dollars to come see us, exactly,
because that's not how.

Speaker 4 (40:47):
They staying kicked off.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
You know, I got to keep it closer to the
reality of what you know, legendary from going from the
days of BB King and Muddy Waters and all those people.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
Coco Tailor, I ain't that. Oh now, listen, listen, you
could have been born two weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
But if you live or grew up in the house
that's got hot sauce, and y'all got some Johnny Tailor
in there, y'all got some Marvin C's in there, and
in the last twenty years you got some Big Rob
in there too. So, lady P, I don't know where
you're being, but my name is spelled b I G
g R b B. You can go to my website.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
Oh yeah, you can go.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Go go go to my website www dot b I
G g r BB dot com. Are you on TikTok
You can follow me on TikTok. Okay, Well, if you know,
I get anyway, mister big Rob Okay, But anyway, you
go to my you go to my website. And when
you go to my website, are you mad singing voice
living with.

Speaker 7 (41:45):
Somebody on my way?

Speaker 4 (41:48):
Which one.

Speaker 13 (41:55):
Man?

Speaker 2 (41:56):
Look a look at you and Melvin go to my
website and you tell Melvin to pull you a little
bit closer, and then you listen to my music and
you watch my videos, and then you and Melvin just
do what comes naturally. After you've been listening to some
big so Big Rob music make you feel like getting
up cleaning up the house, and clean up the house.
And Big Rob used to make you feel like coming
together and getting on y'alls knees and praying together. Then

(42:18):
you just pray and it Big Rob music make you
feel like cutting all the lights out in the house,
just like.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
Y'all ain't paid the light bill, and y'all light some
candles and do that too.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
Whit Big Rod heard you say your son? So do
he's sing or he play this?

Speaker 1 (42:32):
My son? My son?

Speaker 6 (42:33):
I have two sons and a one loving daughter. I'm blessed.
I'm blessed. I'm blessed.

Speaker 9 (42:36):
I'm blessed.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
My son, my oldest son is the guy who makes
all the album covers. So when you go to my
website you see all these images. He's been doing that
since he was eleven years old.

Speaker 7 (42:46):
My art guy.

Speaker 6 (42:47):
He's the creative director of my record company.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
And my youngest son is my drummer, and his name
is odd three and uh, I always tell the story.
But I had another guy playing drums and that guy
started acting crazy. You know, got a little brand new
to My song was about eleven and a half years old.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
When we were sitting in the rehearsal hall.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
He said, Daddy, I can play and I said, oh really,
And it was just one of them days. It was like, well,
I need somebody to.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
Play the drums.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Let me see what you got, kid, And he set
behind the drums and played one song, two songs, three
songs for I told his mama, I said, well we
better get him outfit. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, he gonna
sit behind them drums. And that was over twenty years ago,
and very very proud of him. He has a line
dance song that's very very popular here in Memphis called
the down South Shuffle.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
So if you ever been out to line dancers.

Speaker 5 (43:37):
To the right right, that's miss bably right there. Well,
I gonnas, you go to start talking shopping.

Speaker 12 (43:43):
Let me say this right quick, yo.

Speaker 5 (43:45):
I heard you tear choice to say to say, we waited.
I've been waiting so long for something here just bluejaw
just what she was talking about.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
I have not met missus Tracy before, but she comes
highly ri So if she's on the billing, I'm gonna
meet a day and I'm gonna go buy watermelon on
Third Street and bring her one to it.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
Ain't no problem.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
Well tell lady, he said, have great days that she's doing.
Grab her the commercial and she sounds good on the radio,
but I want her. Don't forget about your fans. Is
WBA calls and listen, So we ready to have something?

Speaker 15 (44:19):
Does that get that?

Speaker 5 (44:20):
Juwe Jo just started anything. I don't care what we
do the way, Beth, thanks for taking my car. Y'all
be care of him.

Speaker 6 (44:25):
A great day.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
I'm ready to Lady p Right before i go to
our next phone line. Robert ask you you have something
in matter of fact this weekend. His father say, you
have a new video.

Speaker 6 (44:35):
Tell me about that.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
Oh man, everybody please go to YouTube subscribe to the
Big Rob channel. But I've got a song called good Guys,
and God gave me this song that talk just celebrating
the black men in our communities, you know, Miss beb.

Speaker 4 (44:48):
They act like it's this guy to call.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
The boogey man, somebody who comes to gets all the
ladies pregnant, and then he leaves and so all he
and he leaves behind nothing but homeless children and fatherless
children and all that.

Speaker 4 (45:01):
That's not my experience in my neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
That was the man who fixed the car for you, right,
And we said, hey, Willie, I man, I ain't got
all the money. He said, well, but he put your
brakes on for you. Yeah, and kept your rolling. There's
the lady across the street who helped you and looked
out for you, you know what I mean. And just
all this, there's the man down the street who walked you.
There might have been the wine over, but when it
came time for the kids across the street, he get
out there.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
He'd be tipsy his heck, but he'd be at the
hard and stop these cars.

Speaker 6 (45:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
So our community is filled up with strong, real me
and real fathers. And I wanted to create a song
not because his Father's Day this weekend, but just in general.
It celebrates all the real men out there. So you
guys go watch the video. The song is called good Guys.

Speaker 6 (45:43):
Yeah, it's good. I like it, Rob, thank you, And
like I said, God gave me that vision and I
had to be obedient.

Speaker 9 (45:49):
I know.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
I'm an interesting artist. Because I am led by the spirit.
So yes, I do talk about going to the hole
in the wall. Yes, we do have Hennessy on the
kitchen table in my house, but we also got the
Bible on the night.

Speaker 6 (46:00):
Hey you feel me?

Speaker 4 (46:01):
I feel so h yourself, so you know.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
And I have a song also called please Don't Judge
Me that says I may not be all that I
want to be, but thanks be to God.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
Yo, I'm better than I used to be.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
So if that's your testimony, listen to some big rob music,
keep listening to bed of Johnson.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
What it is?

Speaker 6 (46:21):
That's right? W D I a Hi caller?

Speaker 3 (46:25):
Hello? How you doing?

Speaker 6 (46:26):
I'm doing fine, Carl? How are you?

Speaker 3 (46:29):
I am okay? And mister Rob, how are you today?

Speaker 4 (46:32):
Sir man, I'm blessed man, blessed by the best in
praying for the rest.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
All right, I'm gonna ask you a question and I'm
going to apologize them dance. Let me leave this up
to it. I've been in some clubs Tyrone Davis and
Barbiblue blairer okay, And when I was in the clubs,
some of the women say, oh that Tyrone, he ain't
nothing but performer, and that Barbadoo blaying he ain't nothing

(46:58):
but entertainle. So what are you? And I would help
and listen. Are you a performer or enter tailor when
you do your thing on the stage?

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Thank you, Hey, Carl, thank you. That's a great question,
A great question, right. First of all, that's a fantastic question.
I'll answer that first by saying I'm gonna answer that.
But first I'm gonna say I'm a child of God,
and so when I wake up every morning, my prayer
is to be a blessing to somebody. And Carl, to
answer your question, I am not only a performer. I'm

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not only entertainer. I am a most important I'm a
child of God.

Speaker 6 (47:31):
But I'm a father, I'm a husband, i am all
of that that encompasses what God has called me to
be in my lifetime.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
But in the music business, I am a record producer.
I'm a songwriter. I'm a musician. I'm a recording engineer.
These records that you hear that I may I didn't
go somewhere and buy the beat from them. I went
in a room with silence, just like STEVEE wanted to do,
just like Kelly do. I didn't say I was as
good as those guys. But I'm just saying that I
go in there and I make them. I make every
one of my records, mix everyone, my records recorded, engineered,

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and we out here promoting them. So I am the
complete package, Carl. And if you come to the Big
Rob Show, you never had to call w D I A.
That'sked that question ever again. You'll be running around telling
people what you saw and what you experienced. And I'm
quite sure to be very very positive, brother Carl. But
that's a great question. I'm in so deep. I don't

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know this, like asking Michael Jackson do you dance to you?
Saying I don't I know it all Car?

Speaker 6 (48:27):
Hear hey, Frank, Hey, Hey, doing well, Frank?

Speaker 9 (48:34):
And you I'm doing all right? You know that that
that that young man he got.

Speaker 13 (48:41):
There with you, Yes, sir, you know he's gonna he's
gonna be great throughout his life. I'm listening and for
him to stand firm on God on everything he say.

Speaker 11 (48:56):
I have to take my hat off to him. But
I that sugar shack, is that?

Speaker 6 (49:02):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 11 (49:03):
Well, I think that I think I made a I
see why I made a on the sugar shack.

Speaker 4 (49:11):
Hey, Frank, let me tell you it's the song. The song.
I need to tell you the story of the song.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
The song is originally written by a gentleman by name
of Nelson Curry and this class act man out of Augusta, Georgia.

Speaker 6 (49:21):
And I heard their version of the record. It was
coming out.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
It was blowing up, man, it was doing like boots
on the ground. And I reached out to him, said, man,
because I'm famous for doing these remixes in the soul
blues world, right And I said, Man, I want to
flip that record and do it the way I want
to do. He said, man, take it, take it, take it,
go do what you do. And so that's how we
end up coming up with the big Rob version. And
I wanted to make it very very danceable and all that, man,
and especially shout out to my sister, miss Jackson, because

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she sings on the record as well.

Speaker 4 (49:47):
And when her little party come in, you know what
I mean. The ladies they love it. But thank you, Carl.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Keep making them babies now, remember good guys. Ain't I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (49:59):
Frank, Frank Rob, that's over with making them babies.

Speaker 9 (50:03):
No more, no more, no more. Let me say this sir,
Miss Beblin, you are a legend within a legend.

Speaker 4 (50:17):
Time, Frank, save one more time.

Speaker 9 (50:18):
You are a legend with then within yourself.

Speaker 11 (50:23):
You don't need sometimes you just don't need nobody to
tell you what you here. You done made it, you
done did it, and you really have actually one thing
about me. I'm gonna tell the truth because people need
to hear the truth. Do you know how many people
lies has been saved? If a man told me that

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he heard somebody on the radio telling the truth and
he was gonna go and do something that he had
no business doing, but it stopped him because he heard
the truth. The truth said a free y'all.

Speaker 15 (51:01):
It don't the enemy.

Speaker 11 (51:03):
Won't you to think it's gonna stop what you need,
But you don't need it. If you're scared to tell it,
that's right there, you don't need it.

Speaker 6 (51:10):
Amen.

Speaker 11 (51:11):
I'll say this, Miss bab Johnson, you're a legend. You
came to you, you lean people to the water, but
the show ain't drinking.

Speaker 9 (51:19):
I'm here to Tim you have a great us, you.

Speaker 6 (51:21):
Too, Frank, Thank you. Frank w D I a high caller.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
Oh, miss Justin, Hey my god, I'm doing well.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
Hey, Hey, have we got to who we got this morning?
Good morning, get to West?

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Got miss West?

Speaker 4 (51:36):
What's up, mister West?

Speaker 3 (51:38):
I heard you mentioned Sugarfoot.

Speaker 5 (51:40):
I'm a good time enthusiast, Yes, sir, and uh I
think there's one of the best guitar players that over here.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Man, let's talk about it. Let you you do know,
mister West. Let me just give you some inside information.
Sugar Foot is from a town called Hamilton, Ohio. Same
town the Troutmans are from, Roger Troutman. So Sugarfoot taught
Roger how to play the good time. Oh Steve Shockley
from the lake Side. He taught him a lot of stuff.
And then now Sugarfood was inspired by a gentleman by

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the name of Wilbert Longmyer who's from Cincinnati. Was a
jazz guitars worked with Bob James and all them. But yeah,
sugar f you remember sugar Fool used to play that
double neck moss right, yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
And for you guy, you know what the double neck is.
That's the guitar with two neck songs.

Speaker 6 (52:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, real big yeah. Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
What about Bobby Womack, Oh.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Man, well, you know Bobby Womack is left handed, so
Bobby Womack has a different little twitch on it. That's
why when you listen to songs like uh uh turn
off the Lights and different records like that, that's Bobby
Womack in the playing.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
But of course you know Bobby Womack played.

Speaker 9 (52:41):
Man.

Speaker 6 (52:41):
I mean, I'm a Bobby Bobby Womack man. Two guys. Well,
we mentioned Bobby Womack. I can'tnot.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
I gotta say this name. Are you ready for this?

Speaker 1 (52:48):
One?

Speaker 4 (52:48):
Young man?

Speaker 6 (52:50):
He played the guitar too, Willie Hutch Oh yeah, will Okay.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
So when you started talking about those guys, those legendary guys, man,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (53:01):
Who uh man?

Speaker 2 (53:02):
And then you know that whole stack sound, you know
what I mean, Steve Cropper, all those guys.

Speaker 4 (53:07):
So that's when people say what is Southern soul? That's
what Southern soul is.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Even our knewest, youngest generation of it, You're gonna always
hear the essence of what came before us so much.

Speaker 12 (53:19):
Yes, is that boble Wolback playing on games? People play
that solo?

Speaker 4 (53:24):
I believe it is.

Speaker 6 (53:25):
You know that I believe it is.

Speaker 12 (53:26):
That's incredible, that's incredible.

Speaker 6 (53:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, sir, Yes, yes, well, thank you, thank.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
You for mister West all right now with that yes, yes,
you know I was going to ask you the question.
I'm glad you brought that up. It's a big deal. Now,
Rob this Southern Soul.

Speaker 6 (53:44):
What do you think about it?

Speaker 7 (53:45):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (53:46):
I think that it is fantastic.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
I also think that it could not exist and would
not have existed, and it would have died a long
time ago if it was not for people such as
yourself who've always kept alive, the Duke Joins who kept
it alive, the club own who kept alive, the little
you know, everybody at the end of the street, the people,
the fans who come out to the fields and supported it.

Speaker 4 (54:06):
So that's what it is, you know.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Much love and much respect for eight oh three Fresh,
because that record boots on the ground, the record.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
Feel good is good. There's nothing bad about that record,
nothing bad about him. As artists.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Much love to all the new and younger artists who
are now inspired because me and O. B. Buchann and
TK Soul and Omar Cunningham and Searchills was sitting around
for a minute looking like man when somebody gonna show
up to help help us keep this torch. So now
they're able to come through technology and they see things
different like we learned it from Marvin Cees and Johnny
Taylor and Tyrone Davis and Jay Blackfoot and Ardie Blues

(54:39):
Boy White and Quinn gold and then the list goes
on that old record.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
Yeah, man, Quinn.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Golden was one of my first when I first came,
I was talking about male waiters. Quinn Golden. He had
a rehearsal hall here and I came to town and
I went to his rehearsal hall, rehearsal hall, recording studio,
and I was in there and I looked up and
there was Shirley.

Speaker 4 (54:59):
Brown over there.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
It just all kinds of phenomenal musicians, right, So what's
going on now is the next generation, the generation is
after my generation able to come along and they're able
to mix the technology as well as the beats and
the grooves, and man, I just think it's fantastic, you know.
I mean, it's not a competition, it's not exclusionary. It's
all inclusionary. So that's the one thing we got to

(55:21):
do in our culture. Let me just speak upon this
because it's something that came across the other night they
had to bet awards, right, yes, and Glorilla won a award,
Gospel Award, and lots of people in the gospel industry
are giving her flag about that, and Gloriala when they
gave her the award, she even said, wow, you know,
I've been nominated six or seven times for my you know,

(55:43):
the hip hop stuff that I do. They ain't gave
me any award. Man, this is kind of interesting, like,
you know what's going on here? I just won an
award with Kirk Franklin and it seemed like she was
a bit surprised about it. And then the culture comes
in and said, well man, what is that? And no
other whatever? We don't know what God is going to
do with that young We don't know how God is
taking this music. You see what I'm saying. So we

(56:03):
got to not harden our hearts, and the scripture teaches us.
I'm not a preacher, So if y'all see me having
a little jit and juice later on, I'm not your preacher,
but I am your neighborhood big rob, And I will
say this, Love holds no record of wrong, so he
can complete a work in you that he started. So
that means if you was down in the hood, still

(56:24):
in hub caps, but then you end up being the
guy who owns the biggest car dealership in town. That
empires other young men who look like you, and you
lift them up, you know, because we have a bad
habit of doing that in now culture. We'll find something
bad about somebody and we'll never let them live it
down right. Well, you be sixty years old, and if
there was your name when you was little was Winky Winky.

Speaker 6 (56:44):
I remember you went for you on the rand there
you and Winky huh lo Veil's dot.

Speaker 13 (56:48):
You know.

Speaker 5 (56:49):
No, no, no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 6 (56:51):
Because it's called growth. So that's what's excars going on.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
And even in the southern soul business, you know, yeah
that the music is growing, so there's new artist to come.

Speaker 6 (57:00):
I love it and I love to see these young
people coming up. Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
Yeah, because the Bobby Rush, you know, and you know
the folks going on Tarron, a lot of we're not
gonna be around.

Speaker 4 (57:12):
Not gonna be around.

Speaker 6 (57:13):
Plus, if you it's even in your family, if your
mom and daddy went and worked all their lives to
get a little piece of house and lead the family something,
it's called a legacy, right, okay, and that's supposed to
continue to grow.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
So why in our communities don't we want it to grow.
So in other words, it's not where you start, but
it's how you finish. So that's the that's the big inspiration,
you know what I mean. So I'm happy and excited
because many people can say, man, but what you think
about the boots on the ground, Man, I think it
is fantastic.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
Yeah, I think that that brother was able. They put
him on b E t U U.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
And as my pastor taught me a long time ago,
if you see your neighbor getting blessed, that means blessing
in the neighborhood. So at some point they gonna call
old Big Rob's right, So they're gonna do the same
thing for Big Rob. That Snoop dogg get up night.
For Charlie Wilson, they gave him an award. We looked around.
He said, Hey, this is a guy who I love
and I grew up listening to this is my guy.
You know, y'all might not called Uncle Charlie to come out.

(58:09):
He though he deserves to be out here, but y'all
might not have. But I'm gonna stop. I almost not
sang a Snoop song so that we can sing. Uncle
Charlie gonna sing one of his songs.

Speaker 4 (58:18):
And so that's it.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
So we have to continue to uplift those who came
before us. And so I'm happy and excited about where
Southern soul is going. And it's a lot of fantastic
artists out here and more to come.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
I love that before I go to get this last
call and then get Rob out here, because Rob, he's
in the South.

Speaker 6 (58:34):
He got some places to go.

Speaker 4 (58:36):
I got some places I got to go. Yeah, yeah,
you gonna go.

Speaker 1 (58:38):
You see my brother Sorrio, Oh man, we always together,
we always together, right You to my said, hello, we
all do Sorrio and Ragman.

Speaker 6 (58:49):
We do the Greenville Festival in September. Yes, so we're
in my too.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
And that won't book me on the Greenville festval because
they say I charged too much, and I said, well,
these outfits I wear.

Speaker 6 (59:00):
But you know what, brother, I'm gonna try to work
on getting your well. I would I would love to
come because oh they would love you down there.

Speaker 4 (59:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, and my records. Everybody out there knows
the records.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
You know what.

Speaker 6 (59:09):
I mean, it's just uh, you know, in God's time.
And let me just say this.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
Oh yeah, you go to a party and you got
potatoes out and deviled eggs and you got fruit punch
and you knocking, say hey, let me in, and nobody
comes to the door. So you put the stuff down.
You're getting the lot taty. But you called on the phone.
You can see them through the window, and nobody comes
to the door. Say man, they seen me out here.

(59:33):
And then you leave and you beat deject. They couldn't
let me and they'd seen me out there. No, God
didn't allow them to see you because it wasn't your season,
wasn't your time. So some things we have to wait
on our seasons and our time for you know. Because
I said, man, how come I can't my one of
my dreams? And I played every let me say this bad.
I've been blessed. I've played every venue in the world

(59:54):
that matters. I've still on the stage at Connegey Hall,
I've stood on stage at Madison Square, Garden, Staples Center.
My careers afforded me to not just stand up there
watching somebody, but with the microphone in my hand, I
didn't been on HBO, Soul Train, all of them that matter,
I have done. Okay, at some point in my career,
say man, I just want to play the land the
Center's big Rob. I drive past that at the Soda

(01:00:17):
Sen City, I said, I just want to play over there.
And every time I drive past that, I play over there.
So somebody called Julius Lewis and tell him. I said,
I want to play over there.

Speaker 6 (01:00:26):
Rob, you read I was just thinking about Julius.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
I would say that I got to tell Julius because
Julius is keeping this Southern.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
Sola line, has done a fantastic job of it. And
let me say this, in all feners, I would I've
been less to play on the blues already to him
many times. Yeah, they have a specific way that they
like to do things. I have a specific way, and
when I was younger, I was probably a little bit
more hearted. They say, don't bring nine fog machines, Rob
and a horse, and you can't land the mothershipping in
And next thing they.

Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
Know what they doing. He's landing the mothership tonight and in.
So I had to learn how to follow the rules.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Because your gift, your gift will make room for you
but you also have to be obedient and have and
learn to have respect. And so I'm not perfect. I
know I didn't say it some stuff and well and
try not to as much as I used to when
I was younger.

Speaker 6 (01:01:09):
I didn't say some wild stuff to some folks.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
I know, I have you know what I mean, just
because that's just a part of growth is So that's
my message out there. So if somebody out there, for
somebody in your family this morning you mad at and
you ain't talking to them because they said something to you,
Hey man, gone and gone. Man, you be the first
one to say, hey man, I'm sorry today, even if
you didn't do the one just gone apologize to him.
Sey'll can start the conversation because life show is short.

Speaker 6 (01:01:35):
Yes it is, Yes it is. Get this last phone
call w D I A hi caller.

Speaker 12 (01:01:42):
Bell.

Speaker 6 (01:01:45):
Hey, Prince Charles, there you go.

Speaker 12 (01:01:48):
How you doing today?

Speaker 6 (01:01:49):
Dollars and doing well in yourself?

Speaker 12 (01:01:51):
I'm alrighty, Good afternoon to you your guests, they.

Speaker 4 (01:01:54):
Grob, good morning, good morning, brother, Prince Charles.

Speaker 6 (01:01:57):
How they doing over there in London, England?

Speaker 4 (01:01:58):
Man, I ain't.

Speaker 6 (01:01:59):
I haven't been in London in twenty years. Man, what's handling. No, no,
I'm just messing with you. No, No, really, Big Rob.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
No, this Prince Charles, he's the Prince Prince of the Charles,
the deer slayer, the croppie all killer. He likes to
fish and he likes to hunt deer. Oh wait, man,
hold on, hold hold man.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
Then you need to come pick me up right now,
because we do have We got our ugly sticks and
our tackle box ready, and I keep a box, and
I got and I got me some wheaties, and I
got me some red yellow I can make me some
dough balls on the spot while we roll into the pond.

Speaker 12 (01:02:32):
Man, let's go No, no, let's just go ahead and
then some dirty some of the night problems.

Speaker 5 (01:02:37):
We can do it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
We can do We can do all that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:40):
And I'm gonna hold you to that, Prince Charles, I promise.

Speaker 12 (01:02:42):
You know, can show you some pictures of some of
the trophies I have taken and some of the nice croppies,
baths and cats and brands that I have pulled out
of the water. So don't jump here, hey, big Rob.
A serious note. I want to ask you two questions.
If I mean, just recently, we just lost a major

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icon in the music world. Uh Slidestone. Yes, I wanted
to get your take on Slidestone and what you felt
he contributed to the music world because he was a great,
real big asset to the music world. Let's let's not
get a twisted and my second question to you, what
is instrument do you like playing the most when you

(01:03:24):
play on states.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Okay, well, the second question is easier than the first.
I don't specifically play anyone. I don't I'm I'm the guy.
I'm kind of like your George Clinton, doctor dre got
where I don't specifically play an instrument, but when I
go to the studio, I know where all the instruments
supposed to be. So I walk over to the bass
player and say, hey, man, play this Doom Doom, and

(01:03:47):
say that I have drums and all. But I do
do the drums and all the stuff like on my record.
So I'm not a musician per se like that, because
I'm an entertainer. But I can play them and I
know how they work, right. But my thing on stage
is to work that cret. The crowd is my instrument
to stand on that bar and shake my big old stomach.

Speaker 12 (01:04:04):
Okay, so you're pretty much like somebody like Flavor play.
We get audience all hyped up.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Yeah, but I'm way way cuter than him and way
more section than him.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
No, that's that's my man.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
And and and and let me and and and and
let me say this about Flavor Flave. A lot of
people I know Flavorflav personally. A lot of people would
be surprised know that Flavor Flavor is a concert pianist,
classically trained. What oh yeah, you gotta go look at
Oh yeah, his mother was a master musician and she
taught him. So Flavor Flav can play any instrument under
the sun, drums, keyboards, guitar, bass. He is a musically

(01:04:37):
a classically trained musician. Wow, right, you know what I mean,
classic trained musician. But let me answer your first question.
That mister Sylvester Stewart Okay, sly Stone, leader of Sliding
the Family Stone. Wow, sly Stone was remarkable. His music

(01:04:58):
will continue to live on. He's remarkable in so many ways.
He had the silliness and the zaniness of what it is.
But then you listen to the music. You can make
it if you try sing a simple song. Don't call
me nigga, whitey sex machine w thank you for letting

(01:05:18):
me be myself again. Right, all these great records and
man and I sun in the summertime and he stand, yes, right, you.

Speaker 4 (01:05:28):
Know everybody is a star.

Speaker 9 (01:05:31):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
He showed us what family togetherness was.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
He showed us what fellowshipping with other communities and other
people who didn't look like us was. Because he came
out with the biggest, baddest multi racial band, uh, slid Stone.

Speaker 4 (01:05:44):
I guess we have to say that he is synonymous,
just like.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
Little Richard in this standpoint and James Brown being the
guy who Michael Jackson started out singing Slidestone songs, Prince
pretty much took the whole photo copy of what it
was a slide does and took it to a whole
another level for his generation. He worked with George Clinton,
inspired all these people. But the thing that always cracked

(01:06:07):
me up about Slidestone was this one thing I'll share
with y'all. There's a song Slidestone has, which was the
last hit record Slidestone had. It's called if you don't
Want Me In and Stay, I'm being around today to
be a van unbum for you to see. Right, that's
the last big hit record Slidestone had in his name,

(01:06:29):
and that song doesn't have what you call a hook
or coorse to it, right, he says, if you want
me to stay, that's the night of the record. You
only say it one time. It does never go back.
You know, there's no course to it. But it's a
run on sentence as they taught me in first in
second grade.

Speaker 4 (01:06:43):
So it just goes on and on and on and on.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
But then at the end of the song, Slide says,
and I'm about to go, then you'll know because for
me to stay here, I've got to be me right, Hey,
never being a die what it's all about. Take it
for granted and smile when you me again. I hope
that you would have been the kind of person that
you really are now, okay. And the last thing he

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says is on the record is I'm through with it.
That record came out in nineteen seventy three. Sly kept
making records, but he kind of checked out because his
whole body of work he did from sixty three or
sixty four to nineteen seventy three is so phenomenal and
has inspired so many people. The way he made his
organ sound, the way he dressed his band all of

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that with Bootsie and Elton John look like they look
without slid Stone under no circumstance, right with the fucke No,
I'm just gonna say, so you asked me to expound
upon him, and you know, weah. One of the things
I do is I am a music historian because I've
lived through all of this and so sly Stone man phenomenal.
It's a great loss, but at the same time he's

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at peace. And one of the other thing that made
me smile is as a kid, always heard about how
high he got and how he did this in all
this wild that he did, but he loutlived all the folks. Yeah,
so slide left for eighty two with a spine on
his face. And there's a great documentary that's out right now,
the question did Which will. For those of you who

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do not know about mister Sylvester Stewart Slidestone, go watch
that documentary. It's called Black Genius and man, it's just phenomenal.
But it's a great loss. But he inspired so many
of us with sugar Foot of sang the way he
sang your man man missays and them skin tight wrench
ass with line of Richie have sang young girls, Ah
my weakness right with Larry Dotson sang the way he sang.

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Y'all know, got the Holy Ghost with Michael Cooper. All
those guys got it from sly Stone.

Speaker 6 (01:08:42):
Thank you, Prince.

Speaker 12 (01:08:44):
That's always thank you for allowing me to speak mister
big Rock.

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
Did I answer your question? Did I do all right?

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
Dad?

Speaker 4 (01:08:50):
Did I do all right?

Speaker 12 (01:08:52):
You're on the top shop with me, so you did great.
It's always thank you for allowing me to speak of
a beautiful black slate and healthy day. Take care of both.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
YouTube Prince John's Big Rob. This has been my pleasure,
a lot of fun. But you you will have to
come back again.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
Please please any and and and any time, any anytime, anytime.

Speaker 6 (01:09:12):
We go, we're gonna talk to coach and work.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
Get Oh man, I got to come back, man, we
got to come back. And when you guys hear we
coming back to the Rock and Chair. I want to
play the Land of Center and I want to play
the Rock and Chair, and I wouldn't play everywhere that
they got a place for good musicians and entertainers to play.
But like I said, I like them all from the
hall hole in the wall to the Coliseum, Colosseum, to
the hole in the wall.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
I just say before you get out here, this was
one of my favorites of yours, Big Rob.

Speaker 6 (01:09:39):
I love this song. Do y'all know this? Oh, y'all
here on w D I A M hmmm. You know
I want to send us from now to Wow everybody else.

Speaker 7 (01:09:55):
Who knows about the side effects.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
I love this Rob, And when I put that record together,
I was thinking about it. I stand and q's I
know your jobs? Wow, y'all can hear that piano?

Speaker 7 (01:10:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:10:09):
You think about it?

Speaker 9 (01:10:10):
Ike?

Speaker 8 (01:10:10):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:10:11):
Absolutely absolutely make your crime good loving man.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
I got miss Bell. Do you know David Porter.

Speaker 6 (01:10:18):
That's my uncle David Porter.

Speaker 4 (01:10:19):
I got to meet him.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
I'm a fan to hear some groovy, getting groovy, getting it,
getting it, y'all at and the thing I'm with, the
clown on the front of him.

Speaker 6 (01:10:27):
We're gonna make that happen. That is my godfather. Oh well,
I got uncle David, Uncle David. We're gonna make that happen.
We're gonna make that happen.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
How this springs Mississippi? Yeah, Oh my goodness, Tennessee, Oh
my goodness, Oh my goodness. All we're going north going
towards Jackson, Tennessee. Going south, going towards Mississippi. Guy into Delta.
You're listening to W D I A. My name is
the B I G G all b B Big Rob.
Please follow me on TikTok. It's mister b I G

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G R b B, mister Big Rob. Come find me.
I'm ready to come play your backyard party, your bar mits,
for your hole in the wall, in your coliseum, for
miss Bell.

Speaker 4 (01:11:08):
Thank you for allowing me to come in here. God
bless you.

Speaker 6 (01:11:11):
Can.

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
I tell you some turn this record up right here.
Let me tell you about them pyts. Listen this part
right here.

Speaker 4 (01:11:15):
Okay, listen when cheers don't fall.

Speaker 6 (01:11:22):
If you're making love and tears don't fall, he ain't
getting it off.

Speaker 7 (01:11:29):
It'll make you cry.

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
It'll make you cry, Ladies and gentlemen, This is my brother,
my friend. Thank you so much, and you safe travels
to you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
Yes, ma'am. You guys keep us in your prayers. We're
gonna do the same for you, guys, and we'll be
coming back at you real soon. New Big Rob album
is called Juke Joint Soul. It be out real soon,
but you can find me I'm all on all of them, everywhere, everywherewhere,
everywhere where you go get your music. All right, we're there.
But thank you so very much, and thank you to
w d I A four doing whatever y'all had to do.
How many years is it now for me here?

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
How many years are you?

Speaker 6 (01:12:01):
Forty two? Rob at wd IA, This is my forty
ninth year in radio Lord have mercy and so good?
How long has wd I A been on that seventy
five years? In October we will be seventy six. Wow, man,
that's just a blessings. It's a blessed.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
So thank you guys for having a place where artists
such as myself can come and still be here.

Speaker 6 (01:12:27):
Thank you, You're welcome, Big Rob.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
Y'all as we get ready to go to the other
side of the Bev Johnson Show right here on w
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Speaker 5 (01:12:39):
Bev Johnson Show.