INTERVIEW: Mr. Dalvin & K-Ci Of Jodeci Talk ‘Forever My Lady 35th Anniversary Tour, New R&B Era, ‘Verzuz,’ Kurt Woodley, Barbara Jean And Poo-Poo.

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

Every day I wake up, wake yo ass up.

Charlamagne Tha God (0:03)

The Breakfast Club. You gonna finish or y'all done?

SPEAKER_3 (0:08)

Morning, everybody. It's D-E-J, Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. Long-Rose is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. Guest. We have Jodeci. What's up? K-Ci and Mr. Dalvin. Welcome, fellas.

SPEAKER_4 (0:20)

How y'all doing this morning? How y'all doing this morning? I can't complain.

K-Ci (0:24)

Man, it's early.

Jess Hilarious (0:24)

I'm so happy to see y'all. That's why I finally get to meet the legend.

K-Ci (0:28)

No, half of us anyway.

Charlamagne Tha God (0:29)

Man, celebrating 35 years of Forever My Goddamn Lady.

SPEAKER_4 (0:34)

Forever My Lady. It's a long time.

Charlamagne Tha God (0:35)

It don't seem like it. It don't?

Mr. Dalvin (0:38)

No, not really. Okay.

K-Ci (0:39)

But, you know, it's there.

SPEAKER_4 (0:42)

Does it not feel like it because the music is still so present and people remaking it and using it across TikTok and all the things or just because you guys just don't feel it yet?

Mr. Dalvin (0:50)

I mean, I think it's a little bit of both. Like, you know what I'm saying? I mean, I guess like new artists keeping Jodeci live, sampling the music, just regurgitating over and over. You know what I'm saying? So I guess like, you know, I think going to the shows and just seeing how fans still react to, you know, still screaming loud, like, you know, like teenage girls and stuff. So it's pretty cool.

Jess Hilarious (1:06)

What does that mean to y'all though? Like, how do y'all feel all these years later? That's still happening like it's present day.

K-Ci (1:12)

It makes us feel good, you know, that it's still happening like that. But like I said, 35 years of getting it, man, it's like part, we feel like it's part of the routine.

SPEAKER_3 (1:22)

Yeah, look at the impact that y'all had from the 90s to the 2000s and how it's still just as relevant. And I feel like with the R&B day parties and the day parties, that music is, you still feel it.

Mr. Dalvin (1:33)

Right, right, right. Well, I think like when we started recording the albums, I don't think you ever expected that, you know what I'm saying? Just going there without expectations and, you know, you don't think, oh, I'm going to try to make a hit so it can just last. It just happens that way, you know, if you do, I think that we wouldn't have put everything we had and everything we felt into the music, so it just stuck around like any other great artist, you know what I'm saying, song is still around, like The Maze, you know, Frankie Bailey, even Michael Jackson, The Resurgence of Michael Jackson, you know, you go anywhere, you hear like little kids playing Michael Jackson, like Thriller, like it just came out last week, so it's kind of like the same thing. But your breakfast club.

Charlamagne Tha God (2:02)

When y'all listen to the album today, what do you hear that you didn't hear when y'all were young and recording?

K-Ci (2:09)

Especially me, it's like, they used to call me One Take K, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_4 (2:14)

K? Yes, you explain what that means.

K-Ci (2:17)

I was going to Boo when Devontae said, it's my turn to go sing. I would nail it out like that first take.

Now, when I listen to it, I'm like, you know what?

SPEAKER_1 (2:29)

I wish I would have did this.

K-Ci (2:30)

I wish I would have took my time, really, really. I would have put my all into it. But it was just so easy. But like I said, I wish I would have took my time, it would have been much, much better. Not saying it's, you know, it's right.

SPEAKER_4 (2:43)

It's not perfect, you know what I'm saying?

Charlamagne Tha God (2:45)

You know how to give me an example. What would you have changed? What would something you would have changed?

SPEAKER_1 (2:49)

I'd probably have said, oh yeah.

K-Ci (2:52)

I would have did something, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_5 (2:55)

I don't care what you say.

Mr. Dalvin (2:56)

Yeah, but I think forever great artists, even producers, you always hear something you should have or would have done. Even actors, they look at themselves on the screen, it's like, we always going to be our biggest credit and always going to critique ourselves the worst. So even like, we sit down like, man, we should have did that, we should have wrote that, should have used this word, but you always going to do this, it's a never ending story.