YH Exclusive: Will.i.am and Rick Ross

Welcome to Younghollywood. com. You're an icon. I really have to say. Like you really are. You're an icon especially with all you really are. No, to me you are an icon. I mean you really changed the the landscape and how things have changed with the music industry. Everything's kind of coming together. You know it's like Dance, Hip-Hop, Pop, it all kind of fuses. How do you feel about the way that you know you've been an inspiration to a lot of other artists, you know? will.i.am: I've been I've been inspired by you know Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, I've been inspired by Lionel Richie, I've been inspired by Earth Wind and Fire, you know, Tribe Called Quest. I've been inspired by a lot of, you know, talented folks. And I'm a fan of them. And this is my expression of how I've been entertained, you know, over the years through by their music.

Yo, Rick Ross. And then there's Rick Ross. Dang. I just called him an icon. Rick Ross, you think he's an icon? You know what I'm saying? You just said he's inspired you. He's the Michael Jackson of Hip Hop. Look at that. He's the he's the he's the Michael Jackson of Hip Hop.

And you know, this is a special story right here. You know, the late great Eazy-E, you know, you know, ran across this gentleman. That's one of that's one of the dudes that inspired me. You know, the Ice Cube and Eazy-E. I ran into Cube today. That was real big for me but just to watch will. i. am, you know, um, like I you know everybody that asked me, you know what I think about him. I think, you know, he got a load of hits. He could fill up a Santa Sack. He got a load of hits. And and and the beauty of it is is he's going to do it forever because he really loved this. I was actually partying in Vegas one night and he was the DJ. I'm partying and I look over and he and I was like, see he loved the he loved it. So and that's the passion that he put in his music. So when I hear his beats and it sounds like the when they come out of the the damn speaker that let you know that you know he really did his homework, man and he really deserved this and I salute you my brother. will.i.am: Thank you.

Got to respond to that will. Thank you. Thank you so much. How do you feel about Rick Ross, you know? Oh now. All the time I see. We we we got a we got a a glasses fetish. Yeah, we got a glass of glasses fetish. I say glasses. We got a glasses fetish. And we shop at the same place. The goggles. You got. We shop at the same place. So I I go to the place. I be like, yo let me get these. He was like, you know your boy I was like, I can't get these. I can't get the same glasses? will.i.am: No, we do though. We do man. We keep it a secret though. That's why I didn't say the place. This is like our first time really even touching on because those you got on so crazy. You know what I'm saying? You going to you going to buy some of these shoes then? Look at that Rick.

Oh listen, the Louboutin spikes is legend. Trust me. Trust me. I know what day it is. Trust me I know.

A lot of people are saying things you know in the blogs about you. How do you respond to all these haters out there, you know?

I love them. We number one, of course. Good. That's how they make you big, you know. Of course. They they like that right there. You see what he do to get his right angle? That's what we do to them. Exactly. To get our right angle and at the end of the day it's all about it's all about the supporters, man and the people that's that that understand the street music. You know, the level of music I make. I don't expect lames to understand it. I I understand they don't understand it. It's totally understandable. Exactly. And that's what you, you know, you have this life. Of course. Of course.