Mario

Her role for the first half of the film is just like...

the horny friend archetype like her role is to is to is to make eyes at nora for and make googly eyes and go oh girl he's so fine like it's channing tatum at all like that's her whole job um but in love with her is miles played by the singer mario and i i found a really it's an interesting um kind of transition with Ashanti, with Coach Carter, that Mario is the same kind of thing where he was recently at this time coming off having one of the seminal pop hits of his generation.

Mario has a song called Let Me Love You.

That was

an absolute juggernaut in 2005.

There's so many layers of artifice.

Yeah, it's so fascinating.

So Mario, he was not in very many.

I wrote Rihanna's Take a Bow.

I wrote Mario's You Should Let Me Love You.

I've written for Jennifer Hudson.

I've written for Lionel Richie.

matter.

Speaking of quality records, one of the songs that changed everything for you was a song that you wrote for...

Not for you necessarily, but it was Mario's Let Me Love You.

Yes, indeed.

any requests? I have nothing today, man.

Mario, Fred.

What? Mario, just a friend.

Mario, just a friend?

Okay.

No, yo, run, run.

what tune? Yeah, yeah.

I said, Mario, Let Me Love You.

It's a riddim, but relax.

No, but like...

Yeah,

and what else, mate? You

can't stop man from Mario, bro.

Yeah, no, no.

I forgot he passed away.

Alexander Stewart, the great Kali, Mario Barrett, Peter Stomar, Sarah Chalk from Scrubs.

Peter Amensa.

Let's see.

That's...

So Eric Bellinger, Mario, Tank.

So that, that, this is what made it-

So they got little mini sets within the set.

Right

... are major artists.

It's Eric Bellinger, it's Mario and Tank going in there.

Tank had the most R&B thing happen to him in the world.

I don't give a fuck how many...

It's the same thing with the Mario and Omarion shit.

Everybody walking into that thought Omarion was gonna be able to song after song Mario out of there.

Mm.

And they forgot that that nigga can get on stage and sing whatever.

Tell me if you like it.

Born in Connecticut, began modeling as a teenager, also appeared in the video for Just a Friend by Mario, the R&B singer who, of course, nearly got a number one single with his track Let Me Love You a few years later.

She met the producer Rockwilder, who I believe is the guy behind Dirty by Christina Aguilera, who encouraged her to sing.

She took voice and dance lessons while modeling.

However, we will get another single from her in October when, unfortunately, I'm sure we'll get another chapter of her messy legal dramas that she finds herself in.

But we're leaving her for now to talk about Ne-Yo at twenty-two.

Of course, he's the guy who wrote Mario's Let Me Love You, so a unexpected link between him and Cassie there.

Making love to you.