Charlie Wilson says fans recording with their phones at his concerts are A-OK in his book, but he completely understands why Busta Rhymes is drawing a hard line on the topic.
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00:00Busta Rhymes was at Essence Fest too and a lot of people were talking about he was calling
00:07out the fans and I guess he's been doing this.
00:10He called out the fans and basically said, put your phones down, you heard about this.
00:16He was telling people sit down, if you're not just enjoying it.
00:20So I wonder, is he missing on the way things go now, is he not connecting with the times
00:27or does he have a point?
00:30You know, sometimes people, sometimes the younger artists, he's not that young but I'm
00:36saying they want to see.
00:37I don't know, I can't remember if Busta Rhymes ever did at Essence because there was no rap
00:42back in those days.
00:43When we first started doing it, it's like, but I mean, hey I'd rather have him up having
00:49a good time, you know, and get what you want to get.
00:53Do you think he went a little too hard on it?
00:56I'm not going to say anything bad about it.
00:58I'm not going to go against anything that Busta wants to do, that's how he does his
01:02show.
01:03He wanted them to sit down and just look at his show.
01:05I prefer people to party, I prefer people to party with me, I don't care how you do
01:10it.
01:11So you're fine with phones?
01:12I'm fine with fans standing up, on the handstands, I don't care how they get up.
01:16Even with their cell phones though, is the question.
01:19Yeah, that's good.
01:21I mean, you know, I didn't stream, we just like, why would I put all that, you know,
01:26to stream?
01:27The fans, by word of mouth, it's good.
01:30Right, so that's good.
01:31It's good for business to have people going live.
01:34Yeah, people are saying, hey man, you busted that place up.
01:39I said, I know, that's what I do.
01:41Yeah, act like you know, right?
01:43Yeah, that's what I do.
01:44What was it like for people after the show saying, you smashed Usher's show.
01:50That's big, that's, you know, I mean, to you there's nothing, but to hear people say that,
01:55what do you think?
01:56I work hard.
01:57I work hard no matter, everybody gets the same show, whether it's five people, 15 people,
02:0315,000, 5,000, 50,000, they're gonna all get the same show.
02:07I work the same way all the time, and if I can do that, you know, that's what I'm gonna
02:12do.
02:13I don't care who it is that's coming behind me, it's not a thing that I'm trying to beat
02:17up on somebody.
02:18I just work hard.
02:20You just do you.
02:21Yeah, and the other night I was, I had gum in my mouth like Michael Jordan.
02:28I was chewing and singing and chewing, and it was, hey, I had a great time there.