Earlier this year, P announced his plans to launch his own TV station called Better Black TV, and while the network is still in planning stages, P’s first proper show No Excuses is premiering this Monday (October 26) on VH1. The pilot follows a former gangbanger named Torrie who can’t seem to get a straight job to support his kids. Enter P. Miller, who convinces Torrie to stop making excuses and shows him how to get his life together. We recently spoke with P for the latest installment of “YouTubin’ With The Stars”—read on to hear his commentary on No Excuses, his daughter’s new music video, his classic Converse sneaker commercial, and more…

Interview By Brendan Frederick

VIDEO: A Scene From VH1’s No Excuses (2009)
P SAYS: “This will change the way people think about VH1—it’s a positive show. This is who I evolved into…I realized that I could have more to offer to people than just hip-hop. My goal is to replace [BET founder] Bob Johnson, and that’s why I started Better Black TV, so people can realize that if you educate yourself and you get your mind right, you can be whatever. I mean, now that Obama is the first African American president, you can be a president if you want to!”

“In 2010, Better Black TV will be up and running. It’s just a lot that you have to go through, getting all these different certifications, federal approvals, and it takes time. It’s not something that can happen overnight. And while I’m in that process right now, I’m saying, let me take some of my shows like No Excuses and take it to other networks so people can see that this is the type of quality shows we’re making. And this is what you would see eventually on Better Black TV. You’ll see entertainment and education together—that’s what it’s about with me.”

VIDEO: Master P x Converse Sneaker Commercial (1999)
P SAYS: “That was a great commercial. I was the first rapper to have a tennis shoe deal, and that opened up doors for so many other rappers and entertainers. My whole thing is thinking outside the box and doing things that other people aren’t doing. I mean, that’s what thinking big is about. As hip-hop artists, entrepreneurs, business people, we really gotta think outside the box, because we don’t realize that we’ve set a lot of trends, we’ve been broke a lot of stereotypes that the world has gotta look at what we’re doing and take it serious.”

Complex: If a sneaker collector wanted to get his hands on a pair of the original MP Converse shoes, where could they find them?

P SAYS: “You can go to Converse and you could also go to P.Millerclothing.com and you could get some.” [Ed. Note: that website does not exist. We think maybe he meant PMillerDesigns.com, but they also do not have any MP Sneakers. The hunt continues!]

VIDEO: Cymphonique (a.k.a. Master P’s daughter) “Lil’ Miss Swagger” (2009)
P SAYS: “She could be the next Beyoncé, the next Mariah Carey, as long as she works on her talent and keeps going. Now she’s on Disney’s The Next Best Thing, which is about the 5 top talented kids in America—it’s like American Idol for Disney. I think she could have a promising career, the same as Romeo. But what I’m stressing with her is education. I want you to get your education first. I look at a lot of these talented kids, they end up getting in all this trouble because they never really got a real education behind them, they only been in it for the money. I’m just so proud that she has talent and if she had an education to go with it, she can be as big as Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus in the next couple of years.”

VIDEO: Master P “Gutta Time” (Directed By Alex LeMay) (2007)
P SAYS: “To be honest with you, on this video we worked with a director who wanted to showcase how we stereotype people. Like how every African-American male is a gangbanger, or every white person is a Ku Klux Klan. That was the director, that’s what he wanted to do and he was showcasing that. Through your eyes you might see somebody, but what if they not like that? What if they good people? That’s where that whole concept came from and I thought it was great. I think that we gotta stop looking at people and judging them by how they look. And not really getting to know people and not giving a person a chance. We not living in the days when the older generation was living in where they look like that. Times have changed. You know, every girl is not a hoochie mama. So that’s where that whole concept came from, from that director.”

VIDEO: West Coast Bad Boyz f/ King George, Master P, Ray Luv, Dangerous Dame, Lil Ric, JT The Bigga Figga, Mac Spoon, Rappin’ 4-Tay, The Delinquents, Toby T, The Perk, Erase E & Keylo “Peace 2 Da Streets” (1994)

P SAYS: “Crime was up in the Bay and we was losing a lot of young people. We all got together and said, You know what, we gotta put some peace in the streets. Even when I was on the streets, I was into trying to do something to help make a difference. I think that’s what people gotta realize. If we stop pointing the finger, and do our part, we can make it better. Even if it’s at our own level. That was a movement. At the time, that was a movement. We brought a lot of people together from a whole bunch of different cultures and everybody showed that we all have the same Love. I directed the video and shot it in Richmond, San Francisco, Oakland and Vallejo.”

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After destroying our brain cells with asinine dating shows for the past few years, VH1 owed us this one. The network has brought back its classic Behind The Music series to expose the ills of another fleet of rock stars. Last night, Bobby Brown was the show’s subject and what a story it was. Prepare to hear about the former superstar’s ego-fueled departure from New Edition, insanely successful Don’t Be Cruel album, intense cocaine addiction, and infamous marriage to Whitney Houston on a level that you never have before. R&B singers don’t wild out like this anymore and if you have 40 minutes or so to spare, the chronicles of Bobby’s out-of-control lifestyle are more than worth taking a look at. Part one is embedded above. When you’re done with that, keep it moving and check out part two after the jump…

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His new VH1 show'I Want To Work For Diddy, which premieres tonight at 9 P.M. on VH1'promises to be no different. To prepare, we remembered Diddy’s top reality show moments below.

DIDDY FORCES “DA BAND” TO FETCH HIM CHEESECAKE
Making The Band 2 (Season 2)

Diddy set the tone early with this infamous episode. In an ironic twist, Babs and Ness now clean the bathrooms at Junior’s. Full circle!

DAVE CHAPPELLE ETHERS DYLAN Chappelle’s Show (Season 2)

Diddy took a lot of humorous pot shots at Dylan during the season, but Chappelle straight buried him in his parody of MTB. Merciless.

DIDDY COINS “BITCHASSNESS” Making The Band 4 (Season 2)

OK, the T-shirts were a little much, but you can’t front on the awesomeness of the phrase (and Diddy’s verbal dressing down of the Day 26 lames).

LAURIEANN GIBSON ETHERS HERSELF Making The Band 4 (Season 1)

We couldn’t locate the classic clip of Diddy cursing out former MTB choreographer Laurieann Gibson, but we did locate Gibson’s music video…yeah, she’s trying to do her own thing now. MUST BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED.

I WANT TO WORK FOR DIDDY TRAILER

That first contestant? Man, we really hope he/she wins.

When we had a chance to talk to Flav recently, we decided to flip the script and ask him some offbeat questions. What we got in return were some answers that would seem terribly awkward coming from anyone else. Read on to learn about dog-shit cracker sandwiches and how Flav lost his virginity at the tender age of six.

Interview by Joe La Puma

Complex: What would you consider to be your superpower?

Flavor Flav: What do I consider to be my superpower? God. God is my superpower. The Lord Jesus Christ the savior. The creator of the universe. He gives me the power to have a crazy personality that's a lot different from everybody else's.

Complex: So what's the best trick you ever played on someone?

Flavor Flav: The best trick I ever played on someone was putting tacks on my teacher's seat, and when she came to chase me out the class I had a string over the door, I jumped over the string, and she tripped over it and fell in the hallway. She fucked her face on the wall.

Complex: How much trouble you get in for that one?

Flavor Flav: Honestly, I got suspended for three weeks. And my mom beat me when I got home.

Complex: What was the worst trick someone ever played on you?

Flavor Flav: Umm, the worst trick someone ever played on me was when someone put a booger in my hamburger and I ate it.

Complex: How you find out?

Flavor Flav: Nah, I'll tell you the truth okay… For the person that put the booger on my hamburger, I got him back by taking some dog shit and putting it on the Ritz Crackers and he ate that shit.

Complex: [Laughs] So was he tight?

Flavor Flav: Was he pissed? He was shitted for reals! (Laughs) Yea, forreal G. He put a booger on my hamburger so I got him with thinking peanut butter cookie sandwich it was dog shit.

Complex: Speaking of food, I guess, What's your favorite food to barbecue?

Flavor Flav: My favorite food to barbecue is ribs, and chicken. And shrimp! Ribs, chicken, and shrimps! And I like barbeque my steaks! Oh man~~~ Come on! I'm one of the best barbequeist in the world.

Complex: What's your most prized possession?

Flavor Flav: My most prized possession right now is a coo-coo clock that was made for me over in Switzerland. When we were over in Switzerland, they made a Flav Coo-Coo clock. And when it strikes three o'clock you got little Flav that comes out and say “YeahhhhhBoy! YeahhhhhBoy!”

Complex: (Laughs) What movie have you seen the most times?

Flavor Flav: Scarface. That's my favorite movie of all time.

Complex: Whom do you have beef with?

Flavor Flav: I don't have beef with nobody. I eat pork.

Complex: What celebrity intimidates you?

Flavor Flav: Umm…let me see. Well, Denzel Washington that's my man. I love Denzel. I've met Denzel twice in my life, and every time I've met Denzel I was crazy star struck G.

Complex: Where did you lose your virginity?

Flavor Flav: Where did I lose my virginity? I lost my virginity in the bushes on a box.

Complex: Really?

Flavor Flav: Yea, in the bushes on a box. A girl and me were having sex on a box in the bushes, in some big tall bushes.

Complex: How uh…when was this?

Flavor Flav: This was when I was real, real, real, real, young.

Complex: Like elementary school? Or middle school?

Flavor Flav: Nah, I'm a tell you the truth; I lost my virginity when I was 6 years old.

Complex: Really?

Flavor Flav: Yea, man. Because you know we learned to have done the nasty back in the days, and me and this girl we experiment, we were experimenting, and my little joint got hard, I penetrated for about a few seconds.

Complex: I respect that. Early start my man.

Flavor Flav: That's right early start and guess what and I have a great finish right now. [Laughs] Yessir!