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Oh my God, I'm so excited for this. I'm so excited because I love his music. In studio with us this morning, A guy who made this radio station famous with all of his hit music over the years. I think his catalog right now might be the biggest catalog that we have in our big old next-gen unit here. The last time that I've actually had an opportunity to kind of like hang with him was at our Mojo in the Morning pajama party years ago. Do you guys remember that? Look at his face. Do you remember that? Oh, my God. It was unbelievable. He's got more hit songs than Girlfriends now, believe it or not. This guy, look at this. Hold on. Oh, this is a song. Hey. The first. Is the first always the best for you or no?

Nah, man. It's about creating new firsts.

Okay. All right. I like that. Such a good song. This is my favorite, though. This is, I'm sorry. I like Miss Independent. This is my favorite. Neo is in studio with the Mojo in the Morning Show.

Morning, everybody. How you doing? Good morning, Neo. What is off the stage?

Yes, indeed. But first off, let me say this. You are definitely like, you need to school some of these newer artists that are out there now. That the fact that you could do a show like you did last night and then come into the radio studio. You know how many times these guys will, we're tired. We can't do this thing. Yeah, it's a different generation. You love radio still, don't you?

I do. I do. Listen, I got nothing against, you know, the streaming apps and all of that, but I grew up with radio. This is where I made it happen. You know what I'm saying? There was something special about hearing your song on the radio for the first time. That was a thing. That was something that you aspired to, you know, coming up. Well, at least something I aspired to anyway.

I think that there was a time on 955 in Detroit, Channel 955, that we had six Neo songs rolling at the same time. And there used to be, back in the radio days of, like, rules. They would say, oh, you know, separation, artist separation, or whatever the deal was. And I remember the program director at the time was Dom Theodore, and he said, I don't care if we play the whole album at once. Every song's a hit. And we played, like, sometimes we'd play three to four songs in a row of Neo. I thought I was listening to a special, you know, going on.

That's probably not even including all the songs he wrote. Right? That's true. You know what I'm saying? We've been making moves, man, for a little while now. Yeah, we just celebrated 19 years of my first album. Come on, man. That's amazing.

Oh, my God. I love that for you. That also makes me feel really freaking old.

We prefer the word seasoned.

Seasoned. I like that. Thank you.

Me and you look good. Things are good. I've got to say, I've seen you in press all the time. And everybody talks about it, and I'm going to get right to it.

Go for it.

Everybody's talking about your relationship arrangement that you have. What is it called, by the way?

It is a polyamorous relationship.

Polyamorous. Yes.

Are you looking to add?

uh i'm not i'm not capping it but at the same time i'm not i'm not looking right now you know i'm kind of i'm kind of happy with with the four that i have i'm in a good space so you've done

the whole you know i'll be with one but now you decided that you have four that you're in a relationship with yes and the four are all willing partners they're all excited about this absolutely

everybody knows what's going on uh not lying not selling any dreams not blowing any smoke uh everyone is consenting adults and uh yeah man we're happy we're happy as hell to be honest do

they so tell me the house thing because i know that the new thing now is uh people living in separate bedrooms but or two masters or whatever do does everybody stay in the same room or do you

guys have different rooms or how does it work um it it varies it depends you know i have an alaskan king bed which can comfortably fit like 10 people i've never heard of an alaskan king

no i've heard i've heard of a california king but i've never heard of an alaskan king is like

two california kings next to each other oh my god i've heard a dream if you're in the middle

of the Alaskan King, and you've got to go pee in the middle of the night, how are you getting out of that bed? Oh, no, no.

As opposed to going to either side, you just go straight off the bed. You just get up and go straight off the bed.

I one time had one of those, what is this, the ones where you sink into it, the foam mattresses. A water bed? Oh. No, I never had a water bed. A water bed would have been kind of cool too, but I had one of those mattresses, and I couldn't get out of the bed one time. I was like, this mattress

stinks, but... Wait, wait. Here's my question on your beautiful relationship. Yes, sir. Now, from a financial and business perspective, I'm going to try to draw a line between one point and another. From a financial business perspective, I've always heard from millionaires, I'll get there at some point in time, that it is harder to make your first million than it is to go from your first million to 10 million. Very true. So to equate that from this relationship perspective, is it harder to have one and then to get a second? Or was it harder to go from two to four?

That was a really good question. i like the way you worded that that was good um you know what the beauty of this thing is that it actually came together pretty easily once once once all deception was out the window you know what i mean again that's the only way this works is if everybody is being 100 brutally painfully honest about everything okay you know so there's one that that has been around a little longer than the others you know and i basically sat her down and told her what what i wanted it to be and I gave her the option. I think that's another thing that's very important. You have to leave the woman with the option. And then should she decide that she's not with it, you have to be okay with her not being with it. Again, being honest with not only them, but being honest with yourself, you know? And yeah, so started with one, introduced her to the others. And, you know, again, by the grace of God, things came together lovely.

So everybody is cool with everybody else in terms of like once you had two, then do you like take a group vote of okay here's someone else that i you know i am interested in i

want to bring her in so the table we sit at is shaped like uh kind of like a kind of like a teardrop right there's me at the head of the table and the other side of the table is round meaning no one at the other side of the table outweighs or or is above anybody okay right their their side of table is round i'm at the head of the table so the final decision is always mine However, I have respect for these women I have respect for their opinions I have respect for their feelings So if I want to bring somebody else And I'm definitely going to have a conversation with them about it Like, hey, this is what I want to do Are you cool with this? Now, if they're not cool with it Then we have a discussion We figure out why they're not cool with it Why they don't like her Why they do like her Whatever the case may be Bring her around We see if everything gels If everything gels, it's all good If everything doesn't All right, well then I have the option To either decide to try to force this issue Or just let it go

Neo makes the greatest music And I don't know How much of your music is based on Actual real life relationships Is it? With now four You are going to be making box sets I can't believe

I can't believe We have some beautiful music en route Yes, absolutely All based off of my current And beautiful love life And just life in general Everything isn't about you know my situation you know i i like to i deem myself the artist and writer that writes songs for you to literally live life too okay you know what i mean so your graduation i got a song for that your first dance with your new husband and new wife i got a song for that you know what i'm saying it's any anything celebratory anything sad anything happy i have the soundtrack to that

moment for you yeah let me ask the ladies on the show a question here could you ever do a relationship like would you want to be too jealous could you be in that teardrop that's my dream

that's literally my dream is it really yes i don't need all of the responsibilities on my shoulders okay so you know what i mean like it really truly is a group effort to deal with a man

i saw your social media post about this recently and i saw the four women i would i would constantly be comparing in that situation they're all as kev says cold they're all beautiful and i think that i would be honestly i would be so super self-conscious about it we can talk about all

of that um uh you know they are new to getting this much attention from the public yeah and there are people out there you know people to troll and people that are just awful mean for the sake of being mean and what i say to them is okay your boyfriend is a multi-millionaire multi-platinum recording artist why does it matter what some dude sitting on his couch drinking his mama's orange juice word thinks about what you look i love your attitude i tell these guys this these people don't know you you don't know these people we we are the we are every person is their own gatekeeper to their happiness to their peace of mind there's a gate around your heart there's gate around your brain okay what you let in is what comes in if you don't let it in it can't come in literally nobody can make you feel like something you have to let that person make you feel that way you have to allow yourself to feel that will you please look at look at these guys look at her too look at her and tell her that with her not letting things that aren't important simply not be important and opinions are not important because everybody has one but it's so

easy to hear and say when you're not in the moment and i have to imagine when that first I know, but that first introductory period, especially for, I think a lot of times it's easy for us to say, we signed up for this. We signed up for public criticism and to put our opinion out there that's fair. But especially for them to be put out there on a platform just for the public to put their input right away. And I think a lot of people don't know a lot about polyamorous relationships or aren't open minded or don't realize or respect other people in their life decisions. And to get hit with that all at once is hard to deal with.

It can be, if you allow it to be. Again, it's about what you allow. Again, it's about what you make important. I will repeat, opinions are not special. Every single person walking the face of this planet has an opinion. So why would you let somebody's negative opinion mean more to you than your positive opinion? Man, I love it. This is a therapy session. Life is 10% what happens to you, 90% how you react. Life is happening for you, not to you. Nobody is a victim of life. That's the motto that I live by. Life is not happening to me. life is happening for me i manifested my entire situation and i and i have been doing it my entire

life hey have you ever i want to i want to talk music uh with you too yes sir have you had a song that you wrote that was a song that was a mega hit big hit you wrote it and somebody turned it down and yeah and you did it you did it yourself or somebody else took it with this particular song

i didn't i didn't want i'm doing it myself i i wrote the song with the intention of doing it myself but then realized that the song uh would ultimately make more sense if a woman sang it okay so we actually shopped it to a few female artist names that you would know and uh yeah it got turned down a few times before it landed with the person that it landed what's what's yeah what song irreplaceable wow okay wait a second now i want to know there were people that did not get it because it had like kind of like a country song feel with the guitar within the drums kind of took it to another place and there were there were people that didn't understand they didn't get it and i'm like all right that's cool no problem doesn't it make you feel good to know when that blows up to be like you could have to agree it's more like it's more like uh and i told you so yeah listen you don't understand if you trust me on this one it's gonna be but you have

to admit though that would that's kind of like michael jordan getting cut from his his basketball team when he was a freshman like all of a sudden it's like that who gets chosen to do that song is the one that makes that song mega, you know? But then again, I mean, you also have to consider this.

Like, Beyonce is a phenom, right? Who's to say that if one of those other artists got it, it would have been as big a hit? That's what I wonder, too. It turned out to be a completely different song with a completely different feel, completely different energy. So, you know, I feel like everything happens the way that it's supposed to, exactly when it's supposed to. That song, even though it wasn't written for Beyonce originally, it was meant to be Beyonce.

So when you're writing, this is another one, too, because we keep notes all the time. I have a legal pad here. I write down stuff all the time, ideas and things that just pop in my head. When you're writing music, are you writing it with pen and pad or are you putting it in your phone? Are you singing it to something? I think about that, Miss Independent. The words to that song are so great. And then I wonder, how did you write the damn thing?

There was definitely a point in time where I was a slave to a pen and a pad. If I didn't have a pen and pad in front of me, I couldn't do it. and that primarily came from uh just the way that my writing came to be like i came up journaling and whatnot like i was i was like a really really angry little kid you know i grew up in a house full of women my mother my sister my grandmother five aunts and me until i was like 16. so you know i'm going through puberty and

becoming a young man i don't got anybody to bounce these emotions off of so i started doing stupid stuff you know just breaking stuff getting in trouble and whatnot and that was when my mom gave me my first red spiral notebook and she said write it down yeah i said write down what and she said i don't give a damn just write it down and that's that's how my writing started it was journal entries and then from journal entries i discovered girls and how much i liked them but i was not brave enough to talk to them so i write poems that they would never receive and then uh mind you the whole time that all of this is going on music is like the third sibling in the house it's me my sister and music my mom used to watch tv listening to music like it was just the stereo was always on so i took the melodies that was constantly flowing through the house at all times put it with these poems that i was writing lo and behold now you have a song and from there just it was just songs from now on out now mind you 45 years old at this point i've been doing this for quite some time you know i'm not one of these dudes that's stuck in the stone age yes i definitely write stuff for my notes from time to time i use a voice note every now and then if it's a melody that i got and i don't want to forget but for whatever reason there's something about that pen and pad that just

it's great feels right you know what i mean oh yeah what that is moleskins and notebooks and yeah is it still a red book is it still a red i have a red but i have a few different ones and

i love the spiral notebook i'm left-handed so you get the spiral yeah you know you can't write in pencil because it smears across can we delete the term moleskin can we just like as a society

It is gross. By the way, what is this? It's not attractive.

Oh, yeah, you gave. What is this? So excited for this. Oh, yes. So, in the name of just expanding on my portfolio, it's not just music, y'all. It's not just music and girlfriends, okay? We're doing stuff. So, I got approached by these cats with this really weird yet really cool technology. So, what you're holding? It's called Tasty Sounds Music Pop. It is a lollipop. There's a button on the base of the lollipop.

It's on right now.

Hold the button down until it turns on. You put the lollipop in your mouth. you bite down and you can hear my song playing what oh my god what wait can you hear it megan

is happening are you kidding me and it's delicious wait stop oh and it comes with earplugs what a

win-win yeah the earplugs are for you know if it's somewhere loud i'm gonna give it to myself quiet it's really good it's sugar-free candy you know what i'm saying it's kind of good i mean it's candy but it's kind of good for you as of right now we got one flavor one song but we're working

on more flavors i thought this was a tickler i thought it was i mean listen depending on your

lifestyle it could be multi-purpose i'm not what you decide to do with it after the candy gone is

up to you that's on you hey hold on neo in studio with us before you go anywhere because i know you got to visit all the other studios here i want to play we do a thing called uh the throwback throwdown on friday mornings here where we play music like yours that are big hit songs and these guys got a guest title and artist of the song oh wow well i would never do any other artists because you have too many hits but i want you to see if you know your songs okay okay so you're gonna play against kev and megan and shannon unfortunately mike's uh not with us right now to be able to play So I'll play the song.

Wait, it's just Neo songs?

It's going to be all just Neo songs. I'll play the song, the start of the song, and then you scream your name out. Your name is your buzzer. When you know the title of the song. So it's just a Neo song, you'll know it. But there's some songs that might have an accompaniment. You'll have to be able to throw the accompaniment on. All right, you ready? I always get screwed by those. All right. Neo, you ready to play? I am ready. Don't mess this thing up. You mess this thing up. You're going to look like you don't know your own kids. That would suck. That would suck. Which, by the way, as a dad, I do that all the time. That's why I feel like this is very unfair, but I'll go with it. Here's the first Neo song in the Neo throwback throwdown.

Neo. Neo. It's because of you. That's right.

When you hear your voice like this, do people recognize just you talking if you're in the drive-thru at McDonald's? Um, no. No, they don't. No? They don't.

But it's always cool when I roll around and they go, you know what? You almost look just like me. I never told you that. Did you like your voice when you first started singing? No. Absolutely not. No, no, no. Before you hear your voice back, like what your voice sounds like in your head versus what your voice sounds like in Kansas. I'm sure y'all already know. Yeah. It's a completely different thing. Yes.

I hated my singing voice initially. It's all because of you. By the way, when somebody says, you look so much like Neo, what do you say back to them?

I normally play along. I'm like, wow. She's going to insult me like that? That's great. You can think of anybody cuter? That's what you're going to do to me? All right.

See, that bit me in the ass one time. I went, ugh, I hate her. And she goes, me too. Oh, my gosh.

She's so ugly. Wait a minute.

Damn.

All right. Next song in the Neo throwback throwdown here on the Mojo in the Morning Show. Title and artist. The song is... Neo. Shannon.

Neo. No!

Wait. He's not even making this fair. Go ahead, Neo. What is it?

Let me love you. There you go. Yeah. What a good song that is.

I feel like I need a shot on the dance floor.

This song always reminds me of, mind you, this song was co-written by Sia. Oh, yeah. Sia wrote the hook to this song. Wow. And it was my first time ever meeting her, and I was a huge fan before I ever met her. Mind you, this is before Chandelier, this is before she, like, became Sia, right? Okay. And we're sitting in the studio, and I'm talking to her, I'm like, yo, you're so dope, you should be so much bigger than you are. And she was like, and I quote, she said, yeah, but I want to go to Taco Bell.

And I'm like, what?

She's like, no, no, I want to be able to go to Taco Bell, sit down, enjoy my taco, and then walk out of Taco Bell without anybody bothering me. And I'm like, okay, well, I guess you got to figure out how you're going to do that. And she did. Sure enough, a few years later, chandelier drops and all the other ones, and it's the wig with this. Sia could walk by you in the street tonight, and you would not know it was there. It's amazing. What a great story. She figured it out. All right, hold on.

Much love to Sia. Just a couple more. Are we still going to three? No, he's going to win this thing. He's going to win it. I'm just enjoying my sucker. I gotta get one on the board, bro Next song Remember, you gotta know the full title Ready? Is Neo Come on, come on, hold on a second But you gotta get the title and artist in there, too Okay, that is She Knows by Yours Truly featuring Juicy J

There you go Look at him, he knows how to play the rhythm Wow He's gotta go back to college

So many hits. Another funny story. Yeah. So, mind you, when we sent the song to Juicy, mind you, I met Juicy J first, and I'm like, oh, man, I'm a huge fan. He's like, yo, I'm a fan, too. I'm like, wow, really? All right, cool. So, we figured out we wanted to do something together. So, I sent him the song. Have you heard the uncut version of his verse? Oh, no. Is it dirty as hell? Man, listen. Really? I was like, can I get away with this? Oh, man. He went hard. In Juicy J form, he went there. And I'm like, okay, this is the most cuss words I've ever had on a song ever. All right, cool. But we rock with it, and everybody loved it. It's all good. Thank God for the radio edit, because, man. It was dirty. Oh, he went there, yeah.

Have you ever had a fan singing in the front row that was so bad singing that they threw you off? Or do your in-ears keep that out of your ear?

My in-ears definitely keeps that away. However, back in the day when you do signings and stuff like that, I remember we were at Virgin Megastore, may it rest, doesn't exist anymore, and it was this lady, she came up, and mind you, she just knew that she was going to get signed by me. She just knew she was, because like every other sentence, she would sing. She'd go, Neo, I just want you to know I love your music. That's hysterical. Okay, well, I appreciate that. I've been a fan for so long. Okay. It was weird. It was weird. And she sounded about like that.

Shout out to that woman wherever she is. Let's get a clean sweep here, Neo. Stop. Come on, bro. Do you know that Kevin on Fridays, he gets so depressed, he goes home and he just sits there and cries in his pillow. If I don't win, the rest of the show is washed for me. Yeah, it's bad. My energy is thrown off. I at least need to get one. All right. All right. Let's get it. Let's see what happens. Next song in the Neo throwback throwdown with Neo in studio with us is... Kevin. Kevin. He let you have that. Wait. I'm gas knocked. Come on. You're looking like a failure. Come on, Kevin.

I literally slowed down.

I know the first. I know the first. Go ahead.

Go ahead. Neo, what is it?

You're like that lady now.

It is mad. Mad. There you go.

Nothing.

Nothing. I gave you a shot.

Play that one real quick.

Nothing. Nothing. Why not? Come on, everybody. Sing along. Baby, I know sometimes it's gonna rain.

This TV actually knows the word. I know. Matt, cause I can't sleep through the bed. No, I don't want to go to bed.

Matt at you. And I don't want you to go to bed. Matt at you. Matt at me. Matt at you

Matt at you

That's it, that's it That's all we got

I hope you hit the note

There is nothing better There is nothing better than

listening to, I believe music does this to you. TV shows kind of do, too, and movies. Put you back in time to where you were when you first heard. Absolutely. And you have so many great memories in my life, in my career, because of this. And thank you for what you do. I appreciate you, Neil. I appreciate the love, man.

And thank you for loving radio and coming in the night after you. We so appreciate it.

By the way, shout out to everybody that came to the show last night. I mean, I knew Detroit was going to be crazy.

It was absolutely amazing. I had a great time. Will you do our Jingle Ball or an iHeartRadio Music Festival or something like that?

I'm down. Let's figure it out.

Tony Travato, sign him now.

I'm in the studio. I also want to say thank you for making Say It. Yeah, man. Because that has been the soundtrack to many great nights in my life. Definitely one of the ones.

One of those ones. Yes, yes, yes. That song is either Congratulations or I'm Sorry. For the child that was conceived.

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