INTERVIEW: Nelly & Ashanti Talk 'We belong Together' S2, Parenthood, New Music, Hip-Hop Era's, Taylor Swift + More

Charlamagne Tha God (0:05)

You gon finish or y'all done?

DJ Envy (0:08)

Morning, everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God, we are The Breakfast Club. Lona Rose is here as well. We got some special guests in the building.

Charlamagne Tha God (0:16)

Yes, indeed.

DJ Envy (0:17)

We have Ashanti and Nelly back. How y'all feeling?

Nelly (0:19)

I am.

Jess Hilarious (0:20)

Good morning.

Ashanti (0:21)

Feeling good.

DJ Envy (0:22)

Y'all look good.

Nelly (0:23)

It's nice chilling.

Ashanti (0:23)

Thank you, you too.

Jess Hilarious (0:25)

Thank you.

DJ Envy (0:25)

Season two, We Belong Together, The Reality Show.

Are you changing pampers now, Nelly? Are you changing pampers? At first, they said you weren't changing pampers. Are you changing pampers now?

Nelly (0:35)

Man, I changed them when I said it.

Jess Hilarious (0:38)

It just wasn't a consistent change. You know what I'm saying?

Nelly (0:41)

It's like, yo, if the nanny's within his shot, I'm paying for that.

Jess Hilarious (0:45)

That's right. You know what I'm saying? That's all. That's all.

Ashanti (0:48)

He actually changed his very first diaper. When we slept in the hospital room when he was born, he popped up first to change the diaper.

Jess Hilarious (0:56)

That's what's up.

Nelly (0:58)

You get your one out of the way. That's before you can smell the poop.

SPEAKER_6 (1:02)

That's right.

Jess Hilarious (1:03)

It's different now.

Charlamagne Tha God (1:05)

How does reality TV change things, or does it at all? After doing the season, you know what I mean?

Nelly (1:10)

Well, we like to call it more of a documented television. Yeah, because we're basically telling our lives in real time. It's not like, you know, reality shows, you could be reality, but they try to throw shit in there, and make it, you know what I'm saying, a little bit of what it's not. So ours is more documented in real time. So as you see it, that's what we're doing in that real moment, you know what I mean? So that's basically our logist.

I wouldn't call it a reality show, but I guess it's definitely in that category.

Charlamagne Tha God (1:40)

Does it change the dynamics of things? Like, you know, you're looking like, you know what, I could do that better. I might react too crazy to certain things.

Jess Hilarious (1:48)

Not for me.

Nelly (1:49)

He looking at you crazy. He looking at you like, what you doing?

Charlamagne Tha God (1:53)

He like, what you doing? She like, not for me?

Jess Hilarious (1:54)

He like, yeah, all right.

Nelly (1:56)

I like, babe.

Charlamagne Tha God (1:57)

He like, did you see you?

Ashanti (2:00)

Ah, I'm like, I'm good.

Jess Hilarious (2:01)

I want to do the best shit.

Nelly (2:04)

Nah, I think you, you know, you probably do some things, but that's period. You probably say some shit up here and be like, damn, maybe I should've.

Ashanti (2:11)

Every day.

DJ Envy (2:12)

All the time.

Jess Hilarious (2:14)

I should've drew that one back.

Nelly (2:15)

All the time.

DJ Envy (2:16)

I should've said that like that.

SPEAKER_6 (2:17)

Maybe I should've just kept that behind the scenes.

Nelly (2:20)

But, I mean, you know, it's out there, but, you know, our main goal is just to show positivity, especially in what's going on. You know, shit is crazy all over. And you want to show, definitely in our culture, you want to show that, yo, you know, you could be married in this business and express some love, some joy, work hard and be prosperous.

SPEAKER_6 (2:39)

You know what I mean?

Nelly (2:40)

And not always have to, so to speak, be woe is me.

Jess Hilarious (2:44)

You know what I mean?

Nelly (2:45)

Like, you want to show, yo, we can thrive. Have y'all balanced out the, I'm sorry.

Jess Hilarious (2:49)

Did y'all settle on where y'all wanted to live? Did y'all decide? Because I know Nelly, you wanted St. Louis, you wanted New York.

Nelly (2:56)

It'll never be settled y'all won the championship. She trying to...

Jess Hilarious (3:02)

Bow down, bow down.

DJ Envy (3:05)

I was going to ask, how y'all figuring out the love life with the baby, right? Because the baby takes a lot of time.

Jess Hilarious (3:10)

Yes.

DJ Envy (3:11)

Then y'all both have careers. Have y'all been able to figure out y'all times between all of that?

SPEAKER_6 (3:17)

They gon Nelly with that look?

Nelly (3:18)

I don't care if he ain't over there. He gon figure it out.

Jess Hilarious (3:21)

In the trailer, you're talking about some She Got Batteries.