i stuff line scared kid promise on tour bus i just drove from miami all the way out they just to be right here on larry king all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king our special guest is d.j. khalid the grammy nominated multi platinum produce artist d.j. and the c.e.o. of the way the best music group dubbed the anthem king khalid has sold more than fourteen million singles and work with everyone from jay z. to rick ross to drake he is a music mogul collins eight studio album called i changed a lot will be released later this year have you have you changed a lot of the lot what ways have you changed scully you know taking care of myself and saying no been the gym you say should be three hundred pounds now i'm like two

hundred thirty four pounds making greater decisions on making sure the team is away from people that's you know trying to stop what we're trying to mean as in you know focus on a goal focus on the trophy photos songs all represent back oh yeah oh yeah now you have as i understand it your formulas and how are you bring several rappers together on one song like how do you do that how do you manage those egos you know you know you know they know when we when cal comes to the table they know which is going to be a great situation a great song and a great cause meaning as in you say represent hip hop culture and in that same town as you know i never had a problem with the egos of same people was excited to get all my records in and i'd be a match your mup you know kind of like kind of light. deal with the way the fans deal with it klum a fan of the movie i want to work with the best so some rappers not work well together sometimes sometimes sometimes they might not get along and sometimes i try

to do a song to get them both on the so they can get along and you know move forward as i understand the method you begin the thing but you don't rap i don't rap do you do a put the whole record together produce the whole record it was good in the studio with other producers another beat makers we collaborate orvis me you know coming together we're huq ideas sometimes are right on some of the records and as well as you know i'm saying i'm on the record us a lot of me. you know i hear your voice hear my voice saying i was saying you know if i don't call a rap i call it doing the cavett you know i might be on the hook might be on the intro but end of the day it's like quincy jones would put a record again i know quincy very well salute because the jones are calling and home you know i'm like the berry gordy the quincy jones of hip hop but quincy and barry never went on and did their own voice on the cut why do. you call it. d.j. or is that a name you took to. death we came up from d.j. still d.j.

and. did radio in miami on number one night show in the country about twelve years sheree are also you know on the turntables number one mic show in miami in our shot and i know james dean starred in miami yeah i'll get to that's where i start. you just work with jay z. for the first time on his new album is a zero on the new album guess james or yes always alive we're going to. inspiration is somebody i look up to as a music mogul on and he's one of my favorite artists in the game so it was incredible just to be in the studio with him watching them you know not right now and down and actually go on the mike and and do the song and just you know this caption that energy and him saying what makes him special. he's focused you know saying. he always doing stuff in whatever he says he does you're saying sometimes the same as raps you know he's going to do

a corporate takeover and he does a corporate takeover you're saying like he talks things in existence is a genius yes he's a genius were you subservient to him i feel like we relate i feel like i'm a genius as well you know we both said to terry is when is it come out the singles out now it's called they don't love you no more featuring jay z. work ross meek millie french montana myself is is doing extremely well singles a big you know it's turned into a single game on the singles or you know are selling a lot more than these albums and you know it's a good thing i'm saying all of the fans get what they want but there's our artist you're going to want to body a work of album like a j.c. like a ross you say like a good like a little wayne you say you don't want them body your works of albums you work with almost everyone is going to actually fuse questions about the properties who's the biggest perfectionist. i would say.

kanye west jay one who is the wildest i was me i'm the most productions. kanye west the peacemaker me is the one that you found them or maybe you don't want to say the most difficult to work with. i was difficult this is a very very sad day always were difficult a very you would want to his way. i would laughs or no no class or all like i would say like like genius ways meaning as in just want to perfect one was that detroit. drake is an amazing artist genia you release your arms through your own label call with the best yes you know you name it that way on the you know you'd be the best i mean because you know it's the truth it's been like eight summers and just like you larry king you know you the best thing nobody can can have a show like you some that i said i was going to do from the start you see other

musicians who are on labels hold their artists back. i have it you know asra most of around great people you release your albums through their own label right. to read abbess and cash money what's the key to having a successful label on a competitive business like this caring caring caring for the for the hip hop culture caring for your artists on caring about sound caring about way things are market kang caring you have to care for what you put out there your pelvis dinny and you were born khalid bin abdul khaled how many arabs and hip hop on you know this is there's a few is a lot you know saying that's coming up but i would say me as a palestinian probably you know one of the few as well as french montana he's a moroccan you saying he's a successful artist he's actually i'm a single too so

a muslim yes you practice the faith yes our practice it. but i could do a better job when i mean you know just because you know i feel like. you have to do certain things and sometimes you know my work you know same class three times a day i pray more than ten times a day you know you suppose appraiser and i pray more pray walk in here walk in i says some i do it all comes you grew up in new orleans yes probably the number one music city in america yeah i was born in the one i was how did that affect your. grade because you know i got to see the struggle for real you know saying and you know the passion of the music out there with the jazz and the soul and this. amazing record stores in the. us amazing what it took to florida that were to get in miami. you know my family moved to orlando so you know when i was in high school you know they they had to go back to the woman i want to stay in florida so i moved

to miami or did they. used to sell clothes you know saying you know your old man's broken the radio that was a star a broken a power a radio first of the water you know secure location. also college radio then i got to the big station called debbie i know a lot of guys i worked in where i worked in rio's a discharge i knew i got him to talk interviewing. i did you know you wanted to be you know a producer of the most deejays stay deejays well you know i think deejays wear many hats some of them don't realize to me has they wear like a d.j. just no music and no what the people want because when you're out there playing for a crowd you have to keep the crowd excited so i love making beats and i was just that i love being in the studio putting things together if i was making it personally i knew what i wanted and i got the sounds from certain musicians to get a brick always or a big you know i came up the game is basically you know put now takes in doing

radio and doing clubs and then you know shot a fat joe on somebody like osama early in my career on big pine and then you know saying rick ross you know never want to be a singer and i never want to sing a rap no you sell was going to be a music executives or you want to be a mogul absolutely that's what we do and that you have a heroes quincy jones want to rosalie's the jones jay z. birdman. puff daddy is a few out there you know was the album was called suffering from success yeah did you suffer from so yeah so i mean i learned a lot through that process you know. nobody really told me clearly when you make you don't you know calm the non-con that people were actually trying to you know knock it down yeah like i've been to that but like this on another level though you know saying and at the same time is you know dealing with actually more stress with success you know saying so chorus suffer for success and then you know realize the

myself like man you know they talk about you when you ain't got nothing they talk about you when you do got some so you know when i figured that out i said you know what they suffer from success it's harder staying there than getting there oh yeah getting is more fun yeah i would say root for you and then when you get there it's like a make it harder for you part of the public perceive you you think oh my. i think they look at me like you know. a guy makes a happening and you know not only makes it happen they look at cattle like a winner and that's what cat is a winner does hip-hop cover everything about me it is lifestyle it's a lifestyle it's life it's not just music it's not just music it's clothes it's fashion it's sauce laying on it's just you know our swag you know certain things that we do on this is a lifestyle is part of life as a change or has gotten bigger. you know i'm on larry king right now is there an

originator of it definitely you've got the kool herc south african member out as the star early in the game and it's kept going you're saying it just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger all because it isn't going to stay singles market do you think unknown on a it's definitely a singles game but it's def we're out in game two and only the best can you know produced in the body of works like a week ross a j z onas you know you've got a new waters that kendrick lamar you got drake you know drake is a little wayne are you a it is are you good at predicting its absolutely that's what i do up always put it i don't know is there a theme that runs through hits or is that through our dance or is i just know you know side is know what the people want and i make sure i keep myself in tune in the streets you know saying you know what they want knowing the sound and that is that you have to make music where people can relate to that can understand no one's perfect. songs that you thought would be big and weren't on. i've been blessed to

always put out hit records but getting it on is the true but you know there's records out there off the album that we expect to be big and maybe they understand or they do understand it and maybe radio didn't want to take it there or maybe television didn't want to take it there sometimes as to stay in the street there actually. and so you know that's a culture and that's what i mean hip hop is is it's a lifestyle life our guest is the emphatic d.j. khaled wall with this music mogul right after the break. world. country and technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

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it's a. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. the studio album i changed it will be out this fall our guest is d.j. khalid a major mogul in the music industry you still have family in palestine on yes i do . how if you get involved politically in the middle east ah ah ah ah get involved with the peace you say me as i'm all about peace i'm all about unity i'm all about

and often and i want my people you know to always be glued here's what puzzles me i've been to the west bank i love the people there you know you i'm jewish you know published in the us with cousins yeah you know we go back to isaac and he saw we will back a long way why can't we get together. i wish i had the answer but i look in maz i don't see was a problem because. i'm sitting here with you right now i mean you have no problem i respect you respect me and that's how life should be you know same i think it's more. you know out of our hands you know same but that's why i come here to live to promote peace and he needs more people like me to say you know it was coming together there's to some games they show people what we do come together and i think we do in that by being here i think people do that every day by doing business i think you know a lot in america people come together to happen over there are you bitter about the hostility. between the two i have to be bitter anything that's going

to hurt people you know saying i would never want my people to be hurt so at the same time it's like you know i can do is pray every day for peace to state in existence i think so and the reason why i think so because i got to have faith i got to have hope you're saying that's the way out the way i am so i'm going to be positive about it and pray every day that it's going to be love you go to the middle east much last time i've been in the middle east was in eighty four that's a long time time why not sooner i stuff line scared you kidding i promise shown a tour bus i just drove from miami all the way l.a. just to be right here on larry king live it is you have flown the part when the pilot tells you where he take off and then when you're in the air he decided to tell you by the way we have bad weather throughout the whole flight i wish i were told me earlier our never jumped on his plane. flew actually was

a flight to miami to l.a. about six years ago was a bad flight is one of her sake term was a drop you know i just i hate being in a place tacking control. you know so like to be locked up no you know as a businessman as a mogul that can affect your right course there's a deal tomorrow in new york and you're here you're going to take a train or a house to ride but you know i've been blessed to figure it out you know my schedule has been blessed where how to get to new york i would be miami to an afternoon i.b.m. new york seven eight no morning. i sat a good team to make sure my time is right has your faith and your hip hop style ever clashed. thing off a hip hop style is been supported i think it's my vision is clear it's been great. it's been great where do you go from here i mean how old are you thirty eight so

you're very young yes do you where do you see ten years from today a million dollars is where a billionaire forbes cover the forbes cover of being a billionaire. your many time millionaire we bless we def we we bless them and we get to d. but we bless you mary no you want to be i have a woman basically i am mary not legally but i've been with my woman for like ten years now is that against your faith now i know i want to marry or we've actually got to get married just told i want to get this sort of mark i want to get before us. bestially sam marry you want children absolutely what drives you to do it is it money fame like what if you go on life you know just the you have to appreciate that we have a life you're saying and on that's the most beautiful thing ever because if you have life when you have a problem you can deal with it you have like to deal with it some people have it so

you when you get up in the morning you don't think what am i going to make today would you want to be a billionaire of course i'm a hostle you know sam will always think nonstop how to get this money take care my mother my father my teen and now is that they live good you know i want the house on the water i want a nice car i want a nice watch i want to stay fresh i want to stay clean you know says no wrong with that is you should strive for greatness how did you gain all the weight. just in a lie you know saying so are cut back at all that are no for our food no carbs to want to lose more oh yeah i want to lose like twenty thirty pounds more i had to down sex. i understand you're launching a new line of headphones with a bang and all of a bang olsen's a very he was this is there an electronic driver that is the best so we reserve call we the best as a new class of down and shout heads audio we collaborate with being a nose and you notice how they're not to breathe a comfortable and the craftsmanship you know bang and also they don't play no games

they is the top is the top of the top what took you into this business you know as you why because i put out a lot of gray anthems in a great great sound out there and it's like we talked earlier. i'm the best we do best you know saying in collaboration with other best i bring in ocean heads on we created the sound in and the right headphones that represent to get money out now on the come out july august promotion be given to people and then we'll come out in october our expenses you know we talk about the price is right now you say no i'm saying with the whole team is to make sure we get the right price a very nice appeal room they really nice very nice no you know dr dre what is so is the apple right here to be us three billion three billion here you look going to so i'm going over some they already what are they are they partners you know we call it work i mean i can't discuss the business part of it but you know we teamed up heads audio we do best sound with bang and olufsen and did you design them i hope

design is yes ok before they'll be on the markets and oh yeah definitely we do best that's right ok ok we have some social media questions so no sam on instagram wants to know what would be doing if you weren't making music what would you do if you weren't in the business or you're in on i probably probably own a bunch of called in stores or you know my father i am jordan kneel on instagram would you ever collaborate with them and i've been trying to collaborate with an unknown for a long time anybody out there that you know i know more you want me to say i want to collaborate a m i call him yeah absolutely i'm reading it models the color tweets why do you feel it appropriate to use the n word in your songs and lies appropriate when you've got to remember the end were it isn't any of my songs on that artist use and it's not an a negative ways is actually is you know this is like homey you know saying that's

my friend that's my you know i mean you know disparage you know really no way no way. instagram what does rap music represent to you. this it represents life you know i'm saying because you know you guys are descent speak about our life that's like you talk about larry king you know rap he actually speaks for you you know she speak about our life ok we're going to play a little game of if you only knew the first girl you have a kissed. it was a name on our name and i remember. i was in middle school in middle school s. when i you know i was right by the lockers and saying always on florida what's a guilty pleasure you. eating ice cream with chocolate chips. a lot of the chocolate chips don't need and i'm stuck

about them by loving mother la what was your first job. or you know i said ice is so close back of the car and free market because i was a really and i used to be a busboy a shoney's. and then i saw work at champ sports yeah i did all that manuals it was hard to hold the champs yes so close to sneakers and as you saw my mix tapes you know on the side of saying i had to at a do you know what's the best thing about miami. the coach you know saying on the people you know make skull guess is mix and i love that you know our spanish spain is jamaican haitian arab americans everything is a vob puts a mistake young rappers make spending all their money too early. you've got to be focused you've got to be smart because you know we so blessed to get money for what

we love to do but sometimes we forget to actually do what we have to playing for the future you know and that's you know i make sure our plan we always did go away always favorite artist to work with. rick ross in a sewage what are you most proud of. that you take care of my family you have an embarrassing professional moment oh i'm going to screw up on the air come on we've all had screw ups on the air i screw up i just didn't do my prediction didn't happen. i thought my meat was going. to go to the absolutely best piece of advice you ever received from my mom and dad man. you know i always always keep god first him saying like you know he's the greatest ever doubt your faith now that about my faith i was

i'm my faith is is is a blessing you feel muslims get a bad rap sometimes yeah i feel like sometimes they try to put a bad name on it we're not really terrorists yet for no really because you know i'm not a terrorist and is a lot of money as muslims out there is not terrorists you know saying and it's you know everybody can have a criminal it don't matter what religion or what race or whatever but you know most of our beautiful people muslim is life you know brothers and sisters yes or they do one is actor and one on the other one is take care of my mother and she owns a shoe store in miami jacksonville told me something people don't know about you. i'm not so hyper always around really yeah i mean i'm a laid back person you know that's the look and everything they do mary said have you changed the obvious question i changed a lot it's coming out this fall and the this is coming soon to be the best

headphones it's like thanks to my guest d.j. khalid looks out for his latest album i change the law later this year remember you can find me on twitter at kings things see you next time.

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