Speaker 1: Miligue has how a knowledge you want, league, but has how.
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Speaker 1: They have out of books that the whole wild world
Speaker 1: one up read Malague Books. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's Bookshelf,
Speaker 1: bringing the world together with books, culture and community. Hi,
Speaker 1: my name was Malik, your host of Malik's bookshef Whoo.
Speaker 1: We was in an eventful day yesterday because we hosted
Speaker 1: Cedric the entertainer at Malik Books and it was festive.
Speaker 1: The community came out, showed out. It was electric, it
Speaker 1: was awesome, It was incredible. I love it. When we
Speaker 1: hit a home run out the park. We took over
Speaker 1: the Westfield Cuova City Mall aka Fox. We took it over.
Speaker 1: It was electric, it was exciting. The people were so beautiful. Listen,
Speaker 1: we don't all always get an a list, and we
Speaker 1: got one yesterday. We've been planning for a few months
Speaker 1: and the people came out. We signed a lot of books,
Speaker 1: sold a lot of books. Cedric and his team was
Speaker 1: so excited on the event that we were able to host.
Speaker 1: We did a wonderful job. We sold around two hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: That's right, came Cedric some comportunnel. You know. He already
Speaker 1: been touring the country for a couple of weeks then
Speaker 1: since the book was released. But tonight, well last night,
Speaker 1: that is, he was at Malik Books and we had
Speaker 1: a crowd that took over the mall and we was
Speaker 1: just so festive and had a great time. The people
Speaker 1: energy was high, it was electric, and we had left.
Speaker 1: It was a day of laughter and literature. That's right,
Speaker 1: laughter and literature. What Cedric the entertaining, let me tell you.
Speaker 1: So when he came in, we embraced each other. He
Speaker 1: gave me woo some shoutouts that you're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to hear on this podcast. I did it that. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't come to Malice and me not get an interview,
Speaker 1: especially when you're a listener. I'm gonna roll up even
Speaker 1: if your publicist hasn't green light why because we're brothers,
Speaker 1: were in the community, and no one knows about your
Speaker 1: book more than you. You wrote it. So therefore I
Speaker 1: need to ask you a few questions about your timely book.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that that should come with asking
Speaker 1: anybody permission. But I roll up and I do what
Speaker 1: I do, and it's organic and it's not scripted, and
Speaker 1: I don't have questions, but hey, we're gonna engage. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say, hey, I got a podcast, let me get
Speaker 1: a couple of questions in, and we're gonna go for it.
Speaker 1: And that's what I did. And I was able to
Speaker 1: get an interview right on the spot with Centric the
Speaker 1: Entertainer for my podcast, and my also got it on video,
Speaker 1: so you know, I'm gonna put that up on you
Speaker 1: to But in the meantime, Hey, I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and feature my interview with Cedric the Entertainer on this podcast,
Speaker 1: Malik's Bookshelf bringing a world together with books, culture and community.
Speaker 1: And I'm hoping you enjoy, because I know I did.
Speaker 1: It ain't every day that I get a chance to
Speaker 1: talk with and our Connie. Hey, listener, you know, Cedric
Speaker 1: has won awards, he's done game shows, he's done sitcoms,
Speaker 1: he's done stand up. He's entertainer. He can sing, he
Speaker 1: can dance, he can do a lot of things. But hey,
Speaker 1: on this night, on September thirtieth, we was able to
Speaker 1: host him right in my league book. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. When the mall found out that Cedric the
Speaker 1: Entertainer was coming to Malik's you know, they wanted to
Speaker 1: assist in every possible way to ensure the success of
Speaker 1: this event. So I appreciate the Westfield coch City Mall
Speaker 1: for indulging us and assisting us and helping us and
Speaker 1: trying to make this and it was not try making
Speaker 1: this a successful event. Cedric's publisherst team, some of his
Speaker 1: management team as well as you know Safety in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: So a lot of some of the people involved in
Speaker 1: producing this show the neighborhood. They was there as well.
Speaker 1: So we had a wonderful event. It was some VIPs.
Speaker 1: It stepped by, like I said, and the community came
Speaker 1: out and it was And let me tell you something,
Speaker 1: man Cedric the entertator recognized the passion of Malik books.
Speaker 1: He recognized the hype because I'm the hype man, and
Speaker 1: he recognized that all the social media posts that I
Speaker 1: brought my creativity. He was like, this brother is charged,
Speaker 1: This brother is pushing his book flipping.
Speaker 2: Box cars like nobody else.
Speaker 1: Because I am the late nights person of books. And
Speaker 1: so he recognized that. He acknowledged that went out did
Speaker 1: my interview. He blew me away. He recognized that energy
Speaker 1: that passion, that hypeness and he talked to me about
Speaker 1: that on the podcast interview. And he's not the only
Speaker 1: one head of the knowledge that you know, when three
Speaker 1: people tell you the same thing and they don't know
Speaker 1: each other, then it must be some truth to it. Look,
Speaker 1: Ryan Seacrest recognized my passion. That's why he helped, you know,
Speaker 1: indulge me with getting this podcast. Who else said you
Speaker 1: to entertate to recognize that passion and that hypeness. And know, well,
Speaker 1: another guy who used to be the hype man for
Speaker 1: what mc hammer back in the day when he was
Speaker 1: on top of the world, and so he was not
Speaker 1: only his hype man, he won his dancers and so forth.
Speaker 1: He came in and said, brother, you the hype man
Speaker 1: of book. So look, these are three people don't know
Speaker 1: each other, never talk to each other, and they talk
Speaker 1: about Malik and my hype and my passion and how
Speaker 1: I push books man, and I do it wherever I go,
Speaker 1: whatever stage I'm on, and I'm just blessed to have
Speaker 1: you know, I consider this Elik two point oh why
Speaker 1: because Malik back in the day, I wasn't like this.
Speaker 1: It's like I'm almost it's almost like like George Foreman,
Speaker 1: you know, the old George Foreman, headweight champion, didn't talk much,
Speaker 1: and then the new George Forman who became the heavyweight
Speaker 1: champion when he went on the spiritual quest and he
Speaker 1: became more energetic, more passionate, more outgoing, commentating, talking, more
Speaker 1: spirit That's like that, that's kind of transformation I feel
Speaker 1: like I've had now. I don't know what created that,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and but I know that
Speaker 1: years ago Desic can go and I talked to Cedric
Speaker 1: about that when his interview. You know, this is the
Speaker 1: Elk two point oh. And I'm loving it because I'm
Speaker 1: more passionate, I'm more energetic, I got more energy, I'm
Speaker 1: more hype, and I'm just you know, and it's all organic,
Speaker 1: it's all now, it ain't scripted. And let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. You asked me to say something again, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say it different you know why, because that's me.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to just mimic something you know
Speaker 1: or read it from a paper. I gotta come from
Speaker 1: the art. I gotta come from what I know. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it in a way each and every
Speaker 1: time differently. Why because I wasn't born with a lot
Speaker 1: of this photogenic memory that a lot of people have.
Speaker 1: They can read these scripts and then they can talk
Speaker 1: about you know, repeat this over and over. I ain't
Speaker 1: never been like that. I got a degree from mESC,
Speaker 1: I passed high school, but one thing for certain, I
Speaker 1: ain't never been that type of student. I've never learned
Speaker 1: that way. My brain don't work that way, and I
Speaker 1: realized that it never will. So I'm content and happy
Speaker 1: or who I am? You know, I can tell you
Speaker 1: right now, I don't even know. I couldn't recite or
Speaker 1: sing one song from the beginning or the ending. So
Speaker 1: I admire people who are entertainers, whom are artists, who
Speaker 1: can remember all those different songs and stand up before
Speaker 1: all those people and do what they do. I ain't
Speaker 1: never been like that. Or these actors who can read
Speaker 1: a script and verbally, you know, say the lines and
Speaker 1: just read it in a minute or two, you know,
Speaker 1: a whole page, or for the Jim Remeo or some
Speaker 1: tat or just had a good memory. They can. I
Speaker 1: ain't never had a brain that way, and I realized
Speaker 1: I never will. And you know what, I never looked
Speaker 1: at it as a handicap, because despite that, I would,
Speaker 1: you know, if I had to study to pass a
Speaker 1: test when I was in college, I knew that the
Speaker 1: day before or two days before. That's when I sat
Speaker 1: down and I studied, because then I was going to
Speaker 1: be able to retain that information. But right after that test, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know where that information it is gone. It's gone.
Speaker 1: So I know that for me, it would works for me,
Speaker 1: and that's what everybody gotta find. What works for you.
Speaker 1: What works for me is that I took you know,
Speaker 1: and I never looked at it as a handicap. I
Speaker 1: just looked at it. This is how I am. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm not the only one out here. I
Speaker 1: don't have a memory that can remember a lot of
Speaker 1: things in that way. But on the spot, at the moment,
Speaker 1: give me a mustard seed and I'm gonna blow it
Speaker 1: up like a mountain. And that's what I do for
Speaker 1: Malike books. And it ain't scripted, you know, Like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, it took me a long time, and I'm
Speaker 1: just opening up, you know, about a little bit about
Speaker 1: me being who I am and how I didn't let
Speaker 1: obstacle stop me from the excitement and the energy that
Speaker 1: I put into my brand Elik books. You know, I've
Speaker 1: never when it came to even like learning and remembering
Speaker 1: like the prayer, that was a challenge for me, and
Speaker 1: I have to say it over and over and over,
Speaker 1: and even when I said over and over and over,
Speaker 1: I still sometimes stumble with saying it exactly in the
Speaker 1: order that it was supposed to be. But you know what,
Speaker 1: that's I'm not looking at that as a handicap. I
Speaker 1: look as that is me being me, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be me. I'm gonna move forward, I'm gonna enjoy me,
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna use whatever. I know that I
Speaker 1: have limitations to stop me from being who and what
Speaker 1: I am. So I'm the hype man of books, and
Speaker 1: I do a one and done when I do certain
Speaker 1: book reviews and so forth. If I had to come
Speaker 1: back and do it again, I'm not gonna say it
Speaker 1: the same way, you know why, because my brain don't
Speaker 1: work that way. When I read the book and then
Speaker 1: I come and do a book review, I'm not writing
Speaker 1: it down. I'm coming from the heart. And if I
Speaker 1: had to do a take two, it's gonna come out different,
Speaker 1: you know why, because that's the way my mind worked. So, hey,
Speaker 1: I got an interview with Cedric the Entertainer, and I
Speaker 1: interviewed him on the spot. Didn't think about what questions
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask, didn't think about, you know anything.
Speaker 1: I just wanted this opportunity, and I wanted to be electric,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to be exciting. And he was at
Speaker 1: Melik Books, and Malik two point zho showed up and
Speaker 1: showed out. It was just an efestive and wonderful event.
Speaker 1: And so the only thing I'm gonna feature on this
Speaker 1: episode is my interview with Cedric the Entertainer. So enjoy. Welcome, Welcome,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Malik's Bookshell bringing the world together with books,
Speaker 1: coaching community and today Cedric the Entertainer is at Melik
Speaker 1: Books and he's blessing me to ask a few questions
Speaker 1: from my audience. Cedric flipping the boss car, how you
Speaker 1: doing talk to us about this wonderful book? What's going on?
Speaker 1: And Malik, Man, it's been a pleasure.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: It's my first time writing a novel, Man, so I'm
Speaker 3: excited about the response that people are having to it. Man,
Speaker 3: it's a story about a fictional story about my grandfather
Speaker 3: getting these are those stories you get in your family
Speaker 3: sitting on the family reunion, and then and then and
Speaker 3: then I just took that and used my imagination to
Speaker 3: tell a great story around four or five days in
Speaker 3: his life.
Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, what spark you. I mean to go there
Speaker 1: because this is your debut novel. I mean you comedy,
Speaker 1: you do sitcoms, got your Hollywood star and now you
Speaker 1: write it, wrote a book. What was his gration? Like myself,
Speaker 1: you know, I was. I tried to do what I do,
Speaker 1: which is television.
Speaker 3: And so but when the opportunity that came to write
Speaker 3: a book, you know came, I was like, you know,
Speaker 3: this show has the has all this TV show has
Speaker 3: all the makings of a good book. And so we
Speaker 3: went and investigated it and it was just a great opportunity.
Speaker 1: Right there, we're doing this podcast right here in the
Speaker 1: middle of book signing the Malise books. He didn'et came
Speaker 1: to Malik today. It was standing room only. The community
Speaker 1: came out, showed out. So if we get interrupted, Hey,
Speaker 1: everybody want to get there. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: She oh, and now gonna be the now she individge
Speaker 1: she done. She walked at my TV show like that. Yes, yes, yes, yes, Terry.
Speaker 2: And today a lot of people came out. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm being honest.
Speaker 1: It was some high pro It was some people from
Speaker 1: the neighborhood, the production of the neighborhood. They came out
Speaker 1: and showed the love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know why we got them off the mountain.
Speaker 1: They came down.
Speaker 3: Man, that was really good man, Like, you know, this
Speaker 3: was uh, the fact that we've been on you know,
Speaker 3: everybody been on strike, but that that fact that there
Speaker 3: was so much love and so much family that all
Speaker 3: the production crew, the back crew, everybody showed up in.
Speaker 1: Man, it's awesome.
Speaker 2: I went hard. Brother.
Speaker 1: You saw all my social media posts and I did them.
Speaker 1: I didn't paint nobody. I sat at home and did it.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say.
Speaker 3: The only person could compete with she was DJ Kelly
Speaker 3: right now, you the king of hip, like.
Speaker 2: He said, I'm the kid.
Speaker 1: You know, they call me the late night salesman of
Speaker 1: books like Kyle Waterson back in the day with the
Speaker 1: car Well, I'm the late night self person for books.
Speaker 2: And look he said, I'm the hype man for books.
Speaker 1: I Dinet had one of mc Hammer's uh dancers come
Speaker 1: in here named Larry. He came up here and said, Man,
Speaker 1: I was a hype man for MC and I had
Speaker 1: to come and meet you personally. You know why because man,
Speaker 1: the way you hype up book, ain't nobody hyping or
Speaker 1: telling my audience again.
Speaker 2: Ain't nobody hyping up no book like Malik books. Man,
Speaker 2: you heard it lot, I've got excited.
Speaker 1: He you heard it lot right here at Milik book.
Speaker 1: He got excited centric the dent tighter. I just used
Speaker 1: my this is miliek two point Oh my brother, Look
Speaker 1: you caught me ten years ago.
Speaker 2: It wasn't even like. I don't know why.
Speaker 3: Why he was out quieter everybody, come on out. You
Speaker 3: had you to Late night DJ boye on now you
Speaker 3: like got it? I liked you're good man and bringing
Speaker 3: in and we sold some books.
Speaker 1: Man sold some books.
Speaker 3: We had some books right now. So I'll tell you
Speaker 3: if you got a book out, come talk to Malik.
Speaker 3: Even if you got a small magazine or pamphlet.
Speaker 2: Come out. If you want it hyped up. All you
Speaker 2: gotta do it is call it for me. I take care.
Speaker 2: I get it hype. You like in sales. I get
Speaker 2: it hype. You know I'm the late night self person
Speaker 2: for books. Man. I was hyped when they called me
Speaker 2: and gave me the call.
Speaker 1: They said, Central did say he come into my late books,
Speaker 1: my first content.
Speaker 2: Guess who come into the neighborhood. Yeah, I love that, man.
Speaker 1: You know what I saw you?
Speaker 3: You did, You did my h you were at at
Speaker 3: the wine spot and you did my other brother's book.
Speaker 1: And that's why I was like.
Speaker 3: Yes, I said, I gotta cut on my man. He
Speaker 3: was like serious about books right there.
Speaker 5: Yeah you remember yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: exactly ramon Herbie's book.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's good man. So that's what that's what That's
Speaker 3: what anybody understand. And like you're a business person, you
Speaker 3: never know where it's gonna happen next. And the fact
Speaker 3: that you was in there so passionate about books when
Speaker 3: they came in and they didn't have this on my list,
Speaker 3: and I say, oh no, man, we got to go
Speaker 3: to my main book store.
Speaker 1: You heard it, you hurt.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 1: That's the blueprint for all the authors out there. If
Speaker 1: you black and you author and they sticking you all
Speaker 1: the mainStreet store, you gotta support the independent black store.
Speaker 2: Look. Sedric made sure he came to the neighborhood. He
Speaker 2: came to miliit Bo. He told his brother, Hey, I
Speaker 2: got to show up at Milie.
Speaker 1: That's what it takes, you know what I'm saying, a
Speaker 1: little puss.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, you know what I mean. And it's the
Speaker 3: one that wins it. You know, I feel like you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. You saw, coach, You showed up
Speaker 3: the neighborhood, showed up. People really inspired by it. And
Speaker 3: that's who I wrote the book for. So I mean,
Speaker 3: of course I want everybody to read it, but it
Speaker 3: was that energy, that energy you brought to day that
Speaker 3: made it good. I mean, I got carpet tunnel. That's
Speaker 3: hold what I signy.
Speaker 1: With one hand. I'm right handed.
Speaker 3: I'm right left handed right now?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, Well they showed up and showed out,
Speaker 1: and they showed cudrigentitey some love today, you know, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna post, they gonna tag, and that's what it's
Speaker 1: all about.
Speaker 2: Let the streets know. You know that. Hey, this was live,
Speaker 2: it was lit. It was about you tonight, my brother,
Speaker 2: it was all about you.
Speaker 3: No, this was awesome, man, And I appreciate the love man.
Speaker 3: You know, your lovely wife holding it down. She did
Speaker 3: so many jobs. I mean, you the king of height.
Speaker 3: But somebody in here is really doing all the work.
Speaker 3: I ain't going and.
Speaker 2: I said, I said, secret wiping. I'm gonna linked boat.
Speaker 1: She is. And so we work night and day together,
Speaker 1: and so hey, you know, literally wake up together, go
Speaker 1: to bed together, work together.
Speaker 2: Do everything together. You know, you know family that stay together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pray together, stay together all that. Man, work hard
Speaker 3: and stell a lot of books.
Speaker 1: Sell a lot of book That's what this is all about.
Speaker 1: Selling bull Look, we got autograph cop cedric. Listen, if
Speaker 1: you want an autograph copy, what tell to get it at?
Speaker 1: And Malik Book, y'all come get it.
Speaker 3: Man. You got books for days, and not just my books.
Speaker 3: We got all kinds of books. But both pay me
Speaker 3: come here to get my book. Okay, so buy my
Speaker 3: book and then gonna get other people's books because it's
Speaker 3: all kinds of books in But get my book.
Speaker 1: Slipping box car, flipping box card. You heard it live
Speaker 1: right here at Malik Books. Saturate the end a tighter.
Speaker 1: Thank you, my brother. All right, so we're gonna sign
Speaker 1: some buds.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: We should appreciate this, hey man. This book is was
Speaker 1: a labor of love. It was my first novel.
Speaker 3: I wrote it about my grandfather, who I didn't get
Speaker 3: a chance to meet, but I heard these stories and
Speaker 3: then I started to imagine his life and that's how
Speaker 3: I got into this story. And I'm really proud of it,
Speaker 3: and so I hope y'all enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: And then for those who don't read, it's an audio book.
Speaker 2: Going to school, like.
Speaker 3: We're gonna tell me, yo, you told me, y'all got
Speaker 3: DNA spilled out right, because I didn't want nobody walking alright,
Speaker 3: let's rock y'all.
Speaker 1: Y'all said it. Until you read, you gotta go to
Speaker 1: the link books.
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