How did you get involved with Marty in the first place?

So when I opened American Recreation, we, we build playgrounds, uh, for schools and government.

And, um, Marty came to me and he says, "Hey, you know, my buddy Kenny Shroy, uh, uh, he left his last, uh, employer and he's looking for something.

Do you wanna meet him?" I said, "Sure." And they were roommates on the Jets, and I was friendly with Marty.

Kenny came in.

Kenny worked for us.

We hired him.

When you think about just your involvement to where we are now, watching the, the charity evolve with Marty at the helm of it here, what, how much has Marty Lyons meant to you?

Mm-hmm.

Uh, like NV said, uh, some of the classic stuff that people have come to know us for, uh, If It Isn't Love, maybe even You're Not My Kind of Girl.

Mm-hmm.

Some of those things we're gonna keep in place.

We might add some variances, but I think people wanna see us do something new and fresh, so we definitely wanna give people a different experience this time, for sure.

What about y'all?

Um, I think that in the beginning of our career, we actually, um, we were groomed.

You know what I'm saying? By great people.

We had, you know, Michael Bivins, we had Khallil Roundtree.

We had, uh, um, Gerald Busby.

And a lot of, um, the things that, that they were doing was cultivating what they already knew existed.

Um-

Mm-hmm

I want to know from this life coach what some of the biggest reframes or some of the pieces of advice that he gave you about reframing when you feel like you've completely lost control.

Well, first of all, a lot of the things that he had me do were very tactile.

Like, for example, you know, he's like, how are you doing? And I'd be talking about it and I'd say, you know, my house is driving me crazy.

Because it was the first time I was really home in 20 something years.

My couch was like beat up, the stuffing was coming out, I had piles in a room.

He said, all right, let's walk around the house and take a picture of everything that bothers you.

I did.

always been the less is more

[laughs]

I don't, I don't know.

It's up, it's up to Brooke and it's up to, you know, the guys on how much they want me on the stage.

Um, I don't, I don't plan to do no more than the next man, I know that.

[laughing]

You went off on Give Love On Christmas Day.

That's, that's all I had to give.

I, I ain't have money back then.

What is this charity? And tell people where they could...

Um, the charity is called Bobbi Kristina Serenity House, and we are a safe haven for domestic violence, um, abused women and abused children and, and men.

We, uh, have uh, partnered up with, uh, Brookview and Share House-

Right.

... at that time.

Um, but you can go to, uh, bobbykristinaserenityhouse.org. Yeah, bobbykristinaserenityhouse.org.

But I do it because I've seen, I've seen too much of it.My daughter didn't have to go the way she went.

You know, um, what the young man did to her is, um, just was unbelievable.

Really?

Usher's also a great entertainer, but I gotta go with Chris on being as close, close to Michael as anybody could ever get.

All my life.

Been grindin' all my life (All my life).

Sacrifice.

Hustle paid the price (Price).

Want a slice? (Want a slice) Got to roll the dice (Dice).

Yeah.