Armani White on Performing with Billie Eilish, Making "Feel Good" Music, Love for Will Smith, The Roots, Eminem & More | R&B Hip-Hop Power Players & Live 2023 - video Dailymotion

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Armani White chatted with Billboard on the red carpet of Billboard's 2023 R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players & Live.

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00:00 - I'm hanging out with my man Armani White, dude.

00:02 Why you came in dripping so hard like this?

00:04 - This my sweetness fit from RollerBounce.

00:06 Remember Sweetness?

00:07 - Oh yeah!

00:08 - What?

00:08 - Man, that's it.

00:09 - Boy, you're killing it, man.

00:10 First of all, I just noticed in the bracelet,

00:12 I just came from a Taylor Swift concert,

00:13 so I'm like, they be passing them out.

00:14 - They be passing these out?

00:15 - They pass them out.

00:16 So where's your friendship bracelet from?

00:17 - I make 'em.

00:18 - Oh, really?

00:19 - I just be making these in the crib now.

00:20 I might just start giving 'em out now.

00:22 - You gotta do it.

00:23 You gotta show up to Taylor's show,

00:23 be like, look what I got.

00:24 Listen to my music.

00:25 - I'm gonna have a man before she breaks the fleece.

00:29 - We were talking about how Billie Eilish just DM'd you

00:31 and you were excited.

00:33 Fast forward, wait, you were just on stage with her.

00:35 - On stage with Billie Eilish.

00:36 - So tell me all about it.

00:37 - Billie's my dog, man.

00:38 Billie, we was supposed to play Uno,

00:40 and I think we just wasn't gonna have enough time,

00:42 so she was like, yo, but, crazy idea,

00:44 what if you just come out on stage with me?

00:46 I'm like, of course I'm gonna come out on stage with you.

00:48 You know what I'm saying?

00:49 So yeah, Billie my homie.

00:51 We got that kinda, she just,

00:52 yeah, it's her world, we living in it.

00:54 - I'm glad you finally got to do that.

00:55 And you're here at our event,

00:56 performing at R&B Hip Hop Live.

00:58 So tell me how is it gonna feel

00:59 to perform in front of your peers?

01:00 Does that make it a different crowd for you?

01:02 - Nah, man, sometimes you gotta let 'em know

01:04 who the big dog is.

01:05 (laughs)

01:06 Nah, man, we gonna go up there and have fun

01:07 like we always doing.

01:09 Sometimes we gotta show 'em how skillful we are with it,

01:12 but we just having fun.

01:13 - And the music, man, I was at Sound Shake,

01:15 like, hearing you vibe, everything's so good.

01:17 How's it been feeling to put out that feel-good music

01:19 when there's so much going on in the culture right now?

01:22 - I think we just, I don't know,

01:23 we got the Midas touch right now.

01:25 We can't miss, you know what I'm saying?

01:26 We got some really good music that we put out.

01:28 We got even better music that we 'bout to put out,

01:30 so it just feel good.

01:31 It's a good feeling.

01:32 - And we're celebrating hip hop's 50th anniversary,

01:35 so what's a core hip hop memory for you?

01:37 - Core hip hop memory is,

01:38 "Dot, dot, big T-shirt, Billie Eilish."

01:40 (laughs)

01:41 - Hey, he's not wrong.

01:43 - That's a cultural moment on all sides at this point.

01:46 - And I feel like a little Big Willie, too.

01:48 - Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure.

01:50 I mean, for me, other than that,

01:52 the core hip hop moments for me was early Will Smith.

01:55 I was definitely having the CDs,

01:57 the Black Thought, The Roots in Philly,

01:59 Eminem, you know what I'm saying?

02:01 That was one of my first,

02:02 Marshall Mathers EP was one of my first CDs.

02:04 Eminem show that I bought with my own money.

02:06 My mom got me the clean version,

02:07 I had to go find a dirty one.

02:08 - Oh, yeah, we've been talking about that.

02:10 - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like BET Uncut.

02:11 I mean, I was wild. - BET Uncut!

02:13 Oh my God, that show used to come on so late at night,

02:16 we'd have a stress out.

02:16 And when do you see hip hop in 50 years?

02:19 - Man, I think it's gonna dominate.

02:21 I think in 50 and 50 more years,

02:22 we're gonna have our hip hop hall of fame,

02:24 you know what I'm saying?

02:25 We're gonna be inducting people.

02:26 I'm gonna be in there, you know,

02:27 big silver teeth shining and all that.

02:29 - There we go, man, well, thanks for talking to us.

02:31 - For sure, always good.

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Armani White on Performing with Billie Eilish, Making "Feel Good" Music, Love for Will Smith, The Roots, Eminem & More | R&B Hip-Hop Power Players & Live 2023

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