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"FacebookPinterest\n\nKevin Federline is profiled in the September issue of GQ\u2014on newsstands now. Here, in a GQ.com exclusive, we invite you to sit down to breakfast with Federline and his buddies after an earlymorning interview at the Los Angeles radio station Power 106.\n\nKevin Federline poses for photos with the radio crew\u2014including the producer and the engineer\u2014before declaring himself \"famished.\" The morning went well, he says, and he seems to be breathing easier. \"Big Boy sat there and closed his eyes and listened to every word of &#145;America's Most Hated,' \" Federline says. \"That means a lot. He was feelin' it. He didn't have to say anything. I observe all of that shit.\" Federline and his friends pile into his new truck, a grey Dodge Viper SRT10 with tinted windows (he left the Ferrari at home for fear it might rain), and head out for breakfast at Vivian's, a nearby brunch spot that may or may not be owned by King of Queens actress Leah Remini's parents. Once seated, Federline fiddles with his Sidekick while his friends, looking over the menu, debate the question\n\nJIMMY The fucking mother of Leah Remini owns it.\n\nEDDIE Who\n\nJIMMY Leah. Remini. Her mom owns this place.\n\nEDDIE No. This is Spanish shit. How much do you want to bet on it\n\nJIMMY Ask the lady when she gets here.\n\nEDDIE No, let's put a bet on it.\n\nJIMMY All I'm saying is that Leah Remini is involved somehow.\n\n[The waiter comes over.]\n\nJIMMY What is the name of the owner of this establishment\n\nWAITER Angelo.\n\nEDDIE Angelo.\n\nJIMMY Is it somehow involved with Leah Remini Her parents, right\n\nFEDERLINE Who cares Order your fucking drink, dammit.\n\nEDDIE Can I get an Arnold Palmer\n\n(Eddie is sort of right\u2014the restaurant is halfowned by Leah Remini's husband.)\n\nThough Federline's album release is still months away, he has already made several promotional appearances\u2014for which he's reportedly been paid 10,000 a pop\u2014including a recent stop at Pure, the nightclub at Caesars in Vegas, where some people gave Federline the finger, though Federline doesn't recall it that way from up in the glass booth. \"They were feeling it,\" he says, picking at a double order of turkey bacon. \"I'm learning what I gotta do to get people hyped up. It doesn't matter even if they're not dancing, as long as they're bobbing their head and as long as it looks like a mosh pit down there.\" Federline took Jimmy and Eddie with him to Vegas. \"I don't want to show up and be sitting in a booth and have everyone staring,\" he says. \"Like it's just me and my old lady sitting up there like, &#145;Hey, how you doin'' \"\n\nFederline has begun thinking ahead to his own tour, which he hopes will feel\u2014backstage, anyway\u2014like the vibe on his first big job as a backup dancer for Pink. (Eddie hired him for that gig, by the way. \"I seen Kevin, and he had braids, and I'm like, &#145;Yeah, that's him.' White guy, braids\u2014he had a look.\") \"We did not have no drama on Pink's tour,\" Federline says. \"We fucking went in, did our shit\u2014when it was time to work it was time to work, and when it was time to play we played hard.\"\n\n\"It's the company you keep,\" says Big Mike, who up until now has been silent. Big Mike has been Britney's bodyguard for eight years, and he's one of Federline's best friends; he's also roommates with Jimmy and Eddie. \"I was living with them before she and I got together,\" Federline says.\n\n\"Everything's a cycle,\" Eddie adds.\n\nGQ What's good here\n\nJIMMY AND EDDIE Everything.\n\nJIMMY We said it at the same time. The chicken melt's bangin'. The pancakes are bangin'. Turkey bacon. All the breakfasts.\n\nWAITRESS [to Jimmy] Ma'am\n\nFEDERLINE She called you ma'am.\n\n[Federline's cell phone buzzes, and he walks away from the table.]\n\nGQ Where did you all meet\n\nJIMMY I grew up with Kevin. We danced together. I knew him when I was real young. Then a couple years went by, and then I got to know him more when I was 16. And then we hung out a lot when we moved out here. Then he went on tour with Eddie and our other best friend Marty. Marty lived in a quadruplex apartment, and me and Kevin moved in.\n\nEDDIE The P Palace.\n\nJIMMY The P Palace.\n\nGQ Why did you call it the P Palace\n\nJIMMY The Pimp Palace.\n\nEDDIE The Pimp Palace, because it was so packed. We taught dance class\u2014\n\nJIMMY The hot spot.\n\nEDDIE\u2014so the afterparty from class was always at our house.\n\nGQ What about the neighbors\n\nJIMMY There was a woman, she was on medication, so at night, after eight o'clock, she was gone. We'd come home from the clubs, and we'd blast the music at four in the morning. Just like blowin' out, dude. It would always be cool. People above us would have loudass parties. Everybody just vibed together.\n\n[Federline comes back.]\n\nGQ Kevin, when you go on tour, will you dance in your show\n\nFEDERLINE Uh, a little bit. Some stuff. Won't be fullout choreography like it was when I was dancing, dancing. But I'll have some constructive chaos. That's what I want my show to be. I gotta get some fucking girl dancers that can go up there and really rock it, though. That'll be great. That's where Eddie could fuckin' help me out.\n\nEDDIE What\n\nFEDERLINE Picking out the girl dancers, dude.\n\nEDDIE That's gonna be an allout audition search. We'll hold your audition like a Janet audition. You want to see propaganda, watch. You're gonna really see the hype.\n\nGQ Tell me about Vegas.\n\nFEDERLINE It was wild, dude. They had a red carpet there. I did some interviews with Extra and E!\u2014I have to get the tape.\n\nEDDIE You see it It was good.\n\nFEDERLINE It was\n\nJIMMY We got it TiVo'd.\n\nGQ What was the crowd like\n\nFEDERLINE There was a majority of women there. I mean, I've gone to those places quite a few times, and I've never seen\u2026 There are always girls there, but not like this. The ratio of girl to guy was crazy. The show was on Friday. I slept all day Saturday. I got up in the morning and went and gambled Saturday morning.\n\nGQ What's your game\n\nFEDERLINE Craps. And it was crap this time, too. Big time.\n\nDAN Craps is awful.\n\nJIMMY The rooms were dope. I think we gotta stay at Caesars next time.\n\nEDDIE I love the W. But the size of the rooms is gonna be small.\n\nGQ What do you guys remember about that first Pink tour you did together\n\nEDDIE The first tour I think that was like the best time of my life. One of my best times, besides working for Janet. Hell, yeah. We went through a lot, dude.\n\nFEDERLINE Pink, dude\u2014that was my favorite tour ever.\n\nEDDIE Because she was just a great artist to work for. When the artist makes the environment great to come to work every day, you want to wake up and work. She was just the greatest. Nobody like\u2014as far as being humble, real grounded\u2026 And you could see what she's been through. She doesn't hide it. The best part of that whole Pink tour was that Domino's Pizza delivery guy coming to the crib.\n\nFEDERLINE [laughing] What about when we went to Melbourne, Australia I'd been awake\u2014I can't fly on planes, so I'm up for like fifteen hours. I'm drinking on the plane, trying to relax, and by the time we get there, I'm wasted. I have to go through security check. I was the only one picked out of the whole group. They dragged me in there and did a security check, because I looked so fuckedup. My face was pale, my hair was just\u2014I was gone.\n\nJIMMY Are we sure we want to let this guy into the country\n\nFEDERLINE So we're on our way to the hotel. As soon as we got off the plane and I went through security, I had to throw up, because I was fucking finished. I'd been up for too long drinking.\n\nEDDIE You're scared of flying.\n\nJIMMY That's an understatement.\n\nFEDERLINE We're on our way to the hotel, and Pink's like, \"You guys gonna be downstairs in thirty minutes. I got a surprise for you.\" I'm like, Fuck, I don't know if I'm gonna make it. She's bitching me out. I went upstairs and got in the shower for as long as I could and just like, I don't think I'm gonna make it, I don't think I'm gonna make it\u2014walking downstairs with a headache. She's sitting at the bar, dude. It's like fucking nine thirty in the morning over there, and they're pouring us Patr\u00F3n shots. She's like, \"Drink this\u2014you're not gonna want to have a hangover all day.\" So we get in the van and drive all the way to the fucking middle of nowhere. We get there, dude, and she takes us on a safari on horseback. It was dope. She paid for all of us. Eddie, this guy right here, he doesn't know that he's allergic to horses. We get on the fucking horse, we ride for two hours. We're up in the middle of the hills chasing kangaroos and shit, and this dude starts breaking out\u2014his face is swelling up.\n\nEDDIE My nose looked like that ketchup. I was fucking done.\n\nGQ What did you do the rest of the day\n\nEDDIE Sneeze and cry, sneeze and cry.\n\nGQ Jimmy, were you on the tour as well\n\nJIMMY No, I was on tour with Mandy Moore at the time.\n\nGQ What's life on the road like\n\nEDDIE Hard. You do show, show, show, day off, show, travel day, show, show, show. It varies. But a new act, they try to compress it fiftyone dates with Sundays off. You might be in a different city every day. Once you finish that show, you're on the road and you wake up in the next city.\n\nFEDERLINE The bus is the best thing invented for tours. I love the tour bus.\n\nGQ You guys like to make bets, I hear.\n\nJIMMY We used to bet on PingPong.\n\nFEDERLINE That's what started it. And this fool had a Sega Dreamcast, and we were playing NBA 2K on it, and everybody was hustling me on tour.\n\nJIMMY He was the worst.\n\nFEDERLINE They had been on tour playing, and I was the worst, and everybody was hustling me out of my fucking per diem every week and shit.\n\nJIMMY He was the new guy on the bus\u2014we had to! It's like college.\n\nFEDERLINE I was getting pissed. So whenever these fools would be off doing other stuff, I'd sit up playing until I made sure I got good, and finally I got to where I fuckin' took everybody's per diem.\n\nFEDERLINE Then Marty comes in with his dice. We gambled so much that we couldn't gamble for money anymore. It wasn't fun, you know what I mean It was like, \"We gotta do something better. We gotta start creating stunts.\" So we got these fools jumping off the roof into the trees and jumping off the roof onto the plastic chairs.\n\nEDDIE Which comes back to the Domino's Pizza guy.\n\nGQ What happened with the Domino's guy\n\nFEDERLINE So I lost at PingPong, right, and we ordered Domino's pizza, and they told me whenever the dude rang the bell, I had to get it, open up the pizza box, take a big old piece of the pizza, and slap it in my face.\n\nJIMMY It sounds sort of random, but it was hilarious.\n\nFEDERLINE I took like half of the pizza, and I smacked it on the side of my face. I didn't think about how hot it was. Dude, I had this shit\u2014the cheese was in my ear, burning in my fucking ear! So I'm looking at the Domino's dude, and the guy is looking at me like, You're a crazy fuck, what are you doing\n\nEDDIE [imitating the Domino's guy] How much is that gonna be 13.98 Oh, that smells good. Wham!\n\nFEDERLINE It was hilarious.\n\nEDDIE We have it on video. There's gotta be the DVD bonus features.\n\nJIMMY [to Federline] You working with Jason later\n\nGQ Who is Jason\n\nFEDERLINE My trainer. He's gone right now. He's in Virginia. That's another fool's been stealing my cigarettes. He comes right into the house. You know, I leave my cigarettes in the bathroom. He always knows, and he'll look through the drawers, and he'll find the packs that aren't even opened. He puts them all in his pockets. I always know when he takes them, because he'll leave me one cigarette. He does it on purpose.\n\nJIMMY That's messed up.\n\nFor more photos of Kevin Federline\u2014and the GQ profile\u2014pick up the September 2006 issue."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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