WEBVTT - A Freestyle With Robert Glasper

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<v Speaker 1>Laugh with flame, he laughing with lame. If you watch

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<v Speaker 1>Coffee Time to Baby, you know the name flame, my

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<v Speaker 1>role also known as my role Flame. Come in with

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<v Speaker 1>last and come in with jam love lounds. Baby, you

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<v Speaker 1>better catch it when you can't drop a knowledge from

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<v Speaker 1>fatherhood to polytics shouting now comics just paying homics. What's

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<v Speaker 1>up till? Yeah? You know she raped shot towns on

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<v Speaker 1>speak into the ground. And second we're gonna last cut

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<v Speaker 1>of the kicking and at the end we leave it,

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<v Speaker 1>which is a lift disperence. Think you want to revisit?

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<v Speaker 1>Tell your first take a list at till folks like

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<v Speaker 1>you slip all folks that we dig it. Hain't no

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<v Speaker 1>kids do what you do. Hain't no kiss do what

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<v Speaker 1>you do. I can't no kiss do what I do? No.

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<v Speaker 1>So my hair is so long and blind. Mh, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>hind a drunk drunk or something because this head definitely

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<v Speaker 1>ain't blind. I'm very sober. We're gonna have a great

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<v Speaker 1>show today. We have a very special guest in house today,

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<v Speaker 1>Mr Robert glass Peop will be joining us. But before

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<v Speaker 1>we get to that, Lauren Hogan, Yes, how is your week?

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<v Speaker 1>What is oh reconnecting? Um, My week was good. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>I literally just canceled a work trip because of all

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<v Speaker 1>of what's happening in um Louisiana with Hurricane Ida. So

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<v Speaker 1>we just wanted to be safe. So I'm gonna be

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<v Speaker 1>here for the next two weeks. She's going to be

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<v Speaker 1>in house in studio. Next Monday is Labor Day. Next

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<v Speaker 1>Monday's Labor Day, and we know that. Um, we're not

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<v Speaker 1>going to be having a show obviously because it's Labor Day.

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<v Speaker 1>And more importantly, what's happening on September six? It's Labor Day.

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<v Speaker 1>No aside from that, what else is happening on September six? Chicago?

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<v Speaker 1>Be in Chicago. We're having in the white party with

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<v Speaker 1>a splash of Rainbow the list. So I've been getting

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<v Speaker 1>a bunch of emails. It is a bunch of text message.

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<v Speaker 1>It is not you don't have to wear white. It's

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<v Speaker 1>not mandatory that you wear white, but we are encouraging

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<v Speaker 1>because it's a white party. It's Labor Day weekend, so

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<v Speaker 1>you're not supposed to wear white at the labor tell

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<v Speaker 1>that the white people they waited all the time. So yes,

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<v Speaker 1>we encourage you that you wear white. You get your

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<v Speaker 1>tickets on event Bright we are almost two capacity, So yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>y'all need to get your tickets because we ain't taking

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<v Speaker 1>the money at the door and you'll be outside. Man.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think we need to get people heads up

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<v Speaker 1>to because you are going to be filming this, so

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<v Speaker 1>don't show up looking dusty and broken, because you might

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<v Speaker 1>be a part of something more special. You really might

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<v Speaker 1>be a part. We do have a camera crew coming,

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<v Speaker 1>so if you want to be looking cute on camera,

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<v Speaker 1>then you dress up at home. If you don't want

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<v Speaker 1>to be looking cute on Cranba standing in the shadows,

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<v Speaker 1>because yeah, you might be seen by a hundred and

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<v Speaker 1>ninety countries if I can get Netflix to buy this.

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<v Speaker 1>That's real talk, um, Lauren, what else were talking about?

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<v Speaker 1>We're talking about just so much happening in the world.

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<v Speaker 1>We signed off the show by saying prayers to T. S.

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<v Speaker 1>Madison and her mom, Miss Mary Mackins, because they both

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<v Speaker 1>were fighting with COVID but they are on the other side.

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<v Speaker 1>I saw the may Maddie posted this morning that she

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<v Speaker 1>finally got her negative test results. I don't know if

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<v Speaker 1>Miss Mary get her For prayers to Miss Mary and T. S. Madison.

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<v Speaker 1>COVID is real, y'all. COVID is real. I know. We

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<v Speaker 1>talked a good game on this page, and I talked

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<v Speaker 1>about what I am going to do, what I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>gonna do, and I'm never telling you guys what to do.

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<v Speaker 1>But still wash your hands and wear your masks and

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<v Speaker 1>follow the precautions because COVID is real. Yeah, And shout

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<v Speaker 1>out to Haiti because they're not getting a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>national attention according to the United States News. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what's going on somewhere else, but over here they

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<v Speaker 1>had even talking about it. They're talking about Afghanistan, and

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<v Speaker 1>shout out to them and prayers for them, but mostly

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<v Speaker 1>prayers right now in the United States for um, New

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<v Speaker 1>Orleans and all that had been affected by Hurricane Eida.

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<v Speaker 1>Because i'da did not play with y'all that lady came through.

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<v Speaker 1>She wasn't as bad as Christians, but actually it did.

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<v Speaker 1>In retrospect, it kind of looks like she is. It

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<v Speaker 1>just seems like we as a Yeah, it was like

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<v Speaker 1>lessons swarn this time. But um, we do know that

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<v Speaker 1>they're about a million folks in Louisiana without power. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>I did see on the news this morning that New

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<v Speaker 1>Orleans isn't flooded because the levees really held up. But

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<v Speaker 1>the other surrounding parishes outside um, they are know, the

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<v Speaker 1>water damage is kind of significant. And I think as

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<v Speaker 1>of now, there's one person who's confirmed to have died. UM.

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<v Speaker 1>So we definitely have to keep New Orleans and all

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<v Speaker 1>of Louisiana and our prayers because they're going to be

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<v Speaker 1>without power for about at least three weeks. They said

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<v Speaker 1>that they're going to try and get essential businesses power

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<v Speaker 1>within the next seven to ten days. So that's like

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<v Speaker 1>you know, hospitals, grocery stores, gas stations, those sort of things, um,

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<v Speaker 1>But everybody else who you know, if you just have

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<v Speaker 1>a house and those sort of things, you're just gonna

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<v Speaker 1>be without power for about three weeks. So shout out

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<v Speaker 1>to the people that left and get out and have

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<v Speaker 1>the ability and the finances to get out, because a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of times people say, oh, I'm just gonna writ

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<v Speaker 1>it out, it's because they don't have the money. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>you can't just jump up and go. Sometimes it takes money,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's it's just scary. Yeah, And I think that's

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<v Speaker 1>that's the main thing that people just kind of don't,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, realize they're like, oh, you need to evacuate,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's like we'll evacuate, Where where am I going

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<v Speaker 1>to go? You know, And people don't really take that

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<v Speaker 1>into it, um and count it all. So you definitely

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<v Speaker 1>want to keep everybody in um Louisiana and our prayers

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<v Speaker 1>so you can as we are going to be interviewing Lawrence. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>what is he to you? He's my uncle uncle. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>he's my uncle. I love him dearly. I need I

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<v Speaker 1>need an uncle that's a musician. Yes, yes, he's my

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<v Speaker 1>dear uncle. Um, I love him dearly. Um. Yeah, he's Uh,

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<v Speaker 1>he's quite the talent. I've got to say. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes you forget who you're related to and who you

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<v Speaker 1>know and just you know how great you know some

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<v Speaker 1>people are in your family and truth be told, Rob

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<v Speaker 1>was at my house a couple of weeks ago and

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<v Speaker 1>he made a comment because we were The podcast came

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<v Speaker 1>up and he made a comment like, so, how many

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<v Speaker 1>more Grammys do I have to win before I get

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<v Speaker 1>invited to the podcast? And I was like, I was like, oops,

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<v Speaker 1>I kind of you're right. I kind of forgot about

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<v Speaker 1>you because you know, comment has been on and he

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<v Speaker 1>works with common and so he kind of felt some

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<v Speaker 1>type of way. So I was like, yeah, we gotta

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<v Speaker 1>get you on the show for sure, because it truly

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't me. It was I don't really didn't realize. So

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, my fault. Rob, We're definitely gonna have

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<v Speaker 1>you on the show. Um, he's doing like amazing things.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I sent you some stuff. He's been working

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<v Speaker 1>with Dave Chappelle and just like scored his movie and

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<v Speaker 1>he's one of three musicians actually to have a residency

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<v Speaker 1>at the Blue Note in New York. We're gonna bring

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<v Speaker 1>Rob on in a minute because Rob is big time.

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<v Speaker 1>Whenever you're ready and bring him own and Flame. We

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<v Speaker 1>want you'll have your questions ready because we want you

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<v Speaker 1>guys to come in and talk to Rob. Please be

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<v Speaker 1>respectful because I will block your ass for generations. I

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<v Speaker 1>have no If you think I'm shady with the blocking,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm worse. I take that. I'm worse, way worse than me.

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<v Speaker 1>So Rob, what's up? How are you? What's going down?

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<v Speaker 1>So I gotta introduce you. This is Flame Monroe. This

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<v Speaker 1>is my partner. I also manage her, but this podcast

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<v Speaker 1>is really all about Flame. So Flames is Rob Rob Flame.

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<v Speaker 1>No today, Rob, it's all about you. Blame Flame like fire? Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>did you just say flavor? Flame? Don't make me slaps?

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<v Speaker 1>So you're already signed off? Cut up? I know what

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<v Speaker 1>kind of show this is gonna be. Okay, Flames, I

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<v Speaker 1>got that Flame. Then I'm on Papa duty. At the

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<v Speaker 1>same time, Lola's there. How Lola why she in a

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<v Speaker 1>mini jail that looked like a little for a little

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<v Speaker 1>mini prison for so Rob. I was briefly talking to Flame.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, Yo, you're at my house is a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of weeks ago, and we like the podcast came

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<v Speaker 1>up and you were like, so, how many more Grammys

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<v Speaker 1>do I have to get before I get invited on

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<v Speaker 1>the show? Like, what the hell is going on? And

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, you're right, I'm sorry, I'm very wrong.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm very wrong for this. I forgot it was your niece, Rob.

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<v Speaker 1>I won't me she could be quite funny acting. Let

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<v Speaker 1>me just let you know that I wasn't very familiar

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<v Speaker 1>with you. So I was researching. I was going on

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<v Speaker 1>Google and looking up some stuff. And the song that

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<v Speaker 1>you did with Brandy, that's always good Brandy to me.

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<v Speaker 1>Brandy's voice is it's underrated, but I hate when they

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<v Speaker 1>make her when they say that she's the vocal Bible.

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<v Speaker 1>I do think that she has a great tone, and

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<v Speaker 1>I love Brandy's voice, but I don't know that I

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<v Speaker 1>would consider her to vocal bible. But I love that

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<v Speaker 1>song that you guys do. I love Brandy's voice first

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<v Speaker 1>of all, but I don't know if it's the vocal bible.

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<v Speaker 1>But I'm not a singer. Song I think vocal bible, well,

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's started out. That term started out with

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<v Speaker 1>Brandy because in the studio, when she's making a song,

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<v Speaker 1>she might be the best at it. Okay, yeah, meaning

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<v Speaker 1>like making the song. Like I've never worked with anybody

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<v Speaker 1>as precise as Brandy. And what I mean by that is, um,

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<v Speaker 1>there's the thing when you're doing vocals and you stack

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<v Speaker 1>your vocals, meaning you do one track, you do one

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<v Speaker 1>vocal track, and then they say, hey, do another one,

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<v Speaker 1>and you put that one on top of that one

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<v Speaker 1>and that one on top of that one, so your

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<v Speaker 1>vocal stacking. But she has so much control over her

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<v Speaker 1>voice because you know, if you hold up, if you

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<v Speaker 1>hold a note, your vibe brito may come in at

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<v Speaker 1>a certain time, or your breath, your breath changes. Nobody

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<v Speaker 1>can really sing the same note twice, back to back,

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<v Speaker 1>exactly the same, like technically exactly the same. She's so

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<v Speaker 1>good that she tricks the computer and the computer when

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<v Speaker 1>she sings the song. When she sings one note that

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<v Speaker 1>she's another note on top of that note. Oh, the

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<v Speaker 1>computer thinks Lolo wants some attention. I knew it wants

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<v Speaker 1>the attention. Yeah, she wants to be on the live too,

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<v Speaker 1>Shenna want her whole life, so be ready. Oh she's

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<v Speaker 1>like me to. She she literally tricks the computer and

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<v Speaker 1>the computer that the computer faces it say it phases,

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<v Speaker 1>that it phaces itself out. Because she was so precise,

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<v Speaker 1>they think they they mistakenly just put the same thing

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<v Speaker 1>on top of each other, not her doing another one,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean. From a technical standpoint, I

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<v Speaker 1>think people started calling her that, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 1>And she's an amazingly pleasant woman. I met her at

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<v Speaker 1>Divassembly singing Shirley Ras Big Age benefit, and she was

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<v Speaker 1>just the nicest person. She really was just a nice girl.

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<v Speaker 1>Super a matter of fact, what we did that song

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<v Speaker 1>she paid for the studio time? Wow, Because because the

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<v Speaker 1>we're trying to get her in the studio. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>doing the black radio albums are very hard when it

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<v Speaker 1>comes to just you know, trying to track down the artist. First,

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<v Speaker 1>she got tracked on the managers and it's the assistance

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<v Speaker 1>to go to go through the management, the labels and

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<v Speaker 1>all these things. And two of the two of the

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<v Speaker 1>sessions got canceled and she called me. She called me personally.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't even know her yet. She called me, texted

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<v Speaker 1>me purpose I mean personally, was like, hey, this is Brandy.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm very sorry. There was a mistake with my team.

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<v Speaker 1>Can I please have another shot at this song and

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<v Speaker 1>I'll pay for this time. I'll do it. And if

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<v Speaker 1>you don't like it, if we don't have to use it.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, man, yeah, always she's been such a

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<v Speaker 1>good person, you know what I mean. And and enjoy

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<v Speaker 1>the work with amazing the work with she does it.

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<v Speaker 1>She does too much in the studio, Like you have

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<v Speaker 1>to tell her we can stop recording now you everything

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<v Speaker 1>you did was amazing. You can walk out of the

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<v Speaker 1>boof now. You know, Rob, I saw that you're an

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<v Speaker 1>accomplished pianist. So which music do you prefer? Do you

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<v Speaker 1>prefer classical jazz? So R and B. What is your favorite?

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<v Speaker 1>Um My, my heart, as far as the piano is concerned,

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<v Speaker 1>my heart is in jazz, you know. But I grew

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<v Speaker 1>up playing gospel music and then from there I'm in

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<v Speaker 1>the order is actually the order of of of of

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<v Speaker 1>of the music I was. I've been playing since I

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<v Speaker 1>was a kid. It's really like R and B music

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<v Speaker 1>I was learning line, I was learning I needed Baker

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<v Speaker 1>songs and Luda Vangel songs by myself off the radio.

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<v Speaker 1>You know. My mom would play that stuff and my

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<v Speaker 1>dad in the house all the time. Look, don't mention

0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.240
<v Speaker 1>that made the same sittence. They had a horrible feud

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<v Speaker 1>all the time. Did they had a tour? I know,

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<v Speaker 1>I heard, I know, But that's so funny. Those are

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<v Speaker 1>the two artists of any artists, Those are the two

0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.000
<v Speaker 1>artists that maybe want to play piano more than anybody,

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<v Speaker 1>because they both used acoustic piano in their music. You

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<v Speaker 1>know what. My mom and my dad played them all

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<v Speaker 1>the time in the house, and I kept hearing the

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<v Speaker 1>acoustic piano, you know, and then I met I met

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<v Speaker 1>Um nat Adalaie Jr. Who's the Luther's piano player. Um

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<v Speaker 1>on all those records you know what I mean, And

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<v Speaker 1>so it was that first, then it was gospel music,

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<v Speaker 1>and then it was jazz and was hip hop after that.

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<v Speaker 1>So I love a lot of it. But my heart,

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<v Speaker 1>I think I speak. I speak the most personal from

0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:11.000
<v Speaker 1>my instrument when I played jazz, you know what I mean. So, Job,

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<v Speaker 1>I know you talked about this great experience as you

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<v Speaker 1>have with Brandy and tell me to like shut up

0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:16.520
<v Speaker 1>if you don't want to talk about this. But like

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<v Speaker 1>I know, one of your most infamous interviews is when

0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.280
<v Speaker 1>you talked about your experience with Lauren Hill. So how

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<v Speaker 1>is that? Can we talk about that? Or do I

0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:28.480
<v Speaker 1>got the glaze over that? Can we talk about what Laura? Yeah?

0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.480
<v Speaker 1>Can we talk about her? I got a glaze over it,

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<v Speaker 1>like you know what, I've literally never talked about it. Again.

0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:38.400
<v Speaker 1>I did that one interview, but it wasn't That interview

0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.520
<v Speaker 1>wasn't supposed to be necessarily about her, you know, but

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<v Speaker 1>it ended up to asking me a question. I answered

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<v Speaker 1>the question, and I was very honest about what happened,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean. I was super honest, And

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<v Speaker 1>you have to realize, like, after I did that, now

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<v Speaker 1>this stuff I've never said in public. After I did

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<v Speaker 1>that interview, so many musicians and artists hit me up,

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<v Speaker 1>thanking me for being honest, for being honest, saying that

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<v Speaker 1>because most musicians don't have the platform that I have

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<v Speaker 1>to speak on the on the level that that I

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<v Speaker 1>can to everybody hears it. You know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 1>If she does something to a guitar player, if you

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<v Speaker 1>know a player that was playing with her, no one's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna hear about it. But but she messed with the

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<v Speaker 1>wrong one time, she heard about it and then you

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<v Speaker 1>saw her rebuttal after. Yeah, but I mean, my my,

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<v Speaker 1>there was no purpose for that. I wasn't trying to,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, put her under the ground or like do

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<v Speaker 1>anything me. It was just like this is happening. And

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<v Speaker 1>that was the worst. They asked me about my worst

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<v Speaker 1>musical experience, and that honestly was the worst one because

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like there's no reason, there's no no accomplishment

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<v Speaker 1>you can make, you can have that would make you

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<v Speaker 1>speak people like they're not okay. So now you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I gotta add because I'm very unaware, like some of

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<v Speaker 1>the flame it, we're very unaware of the situation. So

0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.840
<v Speaker 1>y'all talking in circles around us. So now we need

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<v Speaker 1>to know what the meat is in the soup. So

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<v Speaker 1>now you gotta give us the meat. Rob okay, So

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<v Speaker 1>I played so basically, you know, um Lauren. Lauren has

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<v Speaker 1>been infamous for having for having members and not doing

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<v Speaker 1>right by her band members, not paying them, not telling

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<v Speaker 1>them to having the management tell them, tell the band

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<v Speaker 1>members that you can you you cannot look her in

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<v Speaker 1>the eye when you talk to her. You cannot look

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<v Speaker 1>her in the eye when you talk to her. You

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<v Speaker 1>only call her miss Hill when you talk to you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean. Like all these things which

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not even I don't even have a problem with.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't even have a problem with the miss Hill part,

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<v Speaker 1>Like that's fine, that's what you want to be called.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't. I don't mind that, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 1>But the whole don't look me in the eye, don't

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<v Speaker 1>look her in the eye, don't try to shake her hand,

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<v Speaker 1>which is fine even if don't try to shake her hand. Thing,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not even tripping. We're in COVID now, everybody does it, now,

0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.440
<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean? But the whole on look me,

0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.400
<v Speaker 1>and then I think I couldn't get up, I couldn't

0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.439
<v Speaker 1>grab my head around, you know what I mean. And

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<v Speaker 1>then after that, it was it was the mistreatment of funds,

0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.800
<v Speaker 1>like not paying musicians, not want to pay them with

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<v Speaker 1>they're supposed to be pay coming off of a tour,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, she she would literally feel like people

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<v Speaker 1>should just be happy they went on the road with her,

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<v Speaker 1>like charge it to that, charge it to you got

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<v Speaker 1>to be on the road with me. And I can't

0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.399
<v Speaker 1>pay my eye bills with that. I can't feed my

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<v Speaker 1>kids with that. Oh my god. But it was just

0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.200
<v Speaker 1>disrespect on those kind of levels where it's like repeatedly

0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.560
<v Speaker 1>those things kept happening. And so many musicians I know

0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.520
<v Speaker 1>have gone through that with her, and you know what

0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.879
<v Speaker 1>I mean. And I had never played with her. I

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<v Speaker 1>heard about it, but my friend was the mis director

0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.119
<v Speaker 1>at the time, so it was one gig. It was

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<v Speaker 1>in New York. I live in New York, so I

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<v Speaker 1>was like, you know what, you know, whatever, I'll see

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<v Speaker 1>what see what the deal is. Everything was fine until

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<v Speaker 1>like four days. No, sorry, everything wasn't fine. Started off

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<v Speaker 1>pretty bad. My bad. We did speak worth rehearsal, but

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<v Speaker 1>basically the very last day of the very one week

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<v Speaker 1>of rehearsals for a show that was twenty minutes long

0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.000
<v Speaker 1>and it was for a special thing from mont Blanc

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<v Speaker 1>Jury Corporation. You know. Um. The seventh day rehearsal, she

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<v Speaker 1>come in, she didn't even come in. The management came

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<v Speaker 1>in and say, you know what, Lawrence not happy with

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<v Speaker 1>how you've been rehearsing, how you've been rehearsing. So she

0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.200
<v Speaker 1>wants to cut all your pay in half. The day

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<v Speaker 1>before the show, all you're paying half. First of all,

0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.600
<v Speaker 1>all the musicians are incredible. She changed the show every day,

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<v Speaker 1>so it was like, okay, we're just running, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>And the day before they want to take everybody's paying half.

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<v Speaker 1>They changed they could everybody's paying half. It sept mind

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<v Speaker 1>because I left. I said, well, you know what, you're

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<v Speaker 1>find another piano player and I'm leaving, you know. So

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<v Speaker 1>so I walked out. But then they chased me down

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<v Speaker 1>in the middle of the streets, like what can we do?

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<v Speaker 1>And I was like, pay me all my money now.

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<v Speaker 1>Of fact, now before I walked back in rehearsal, I

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<v Speaker 1>like you. I like you. I will say I did

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<v Speaker 1>have one great moment with her. Um in the rehearsal

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<v Speaker 1>right right before there's a song called uh do yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>the piano, and she had just got through custom. She

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<v Speaker 1>had just got through cussing out the band for some reason.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the one. She had just kept cussing out the

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<v Speaker 1>band for some reason. I forgot what it was cussing

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<v Speaker 1>us out, and instead of playing I played the intro

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<v Speaker 1>of the Joyful Joyful from the movie Yeah Boom boom,

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<v Speaker 1>and she sung it joy for joy for Lord. We

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<v Speaker 1>did a verse in the chorus. Felt so good. So

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<v Speaker 1>she was so she wasn't all bad. Mostly at that

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<v Speaker 1>point that capped into her her real self. I think

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<v Speaker 1>something's up with her, you know what I mean. That's

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<v Speaker 1>why I I haven't talked about it anywhere else. I

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't trying to slam. I didn't put it on my Instagram,

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<v Speaker 1>from my Facebook. I just was honest about my what

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<v Speaker 1>happened with me. But I think she's super talented. I

0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:13.639
<v Speaker 1>think she's a great artist, you know what I mean?

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<v Speaker 1>And I hope she's But I do feel like she

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<v Speaker 1>just needs some help with whatever. That is what I mean.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me ask you a question, who's your favorite jazz

0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:25.080
<v Speaker 1>artists and jazz from from the past, not even now?

0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:27.960
<v Speaker 1>Because you know who I love Cod Porter's Book of Jazz.

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<v Speaker 1>I love music, first of all, and I love called

0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.880
<v Speaker 1>Porteress jazzmin and especially when Ella Fitzgerald sings his music.

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<v Speaker 1>Ella is one of the Ellis. She's the coldest female.

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<v Speaker 1>I would say. My my favorite jazz musician overall. Ever,

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<v Speaker 1>is her be hand cocked. Okay, I thought you. I

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<v Speaker 1>thought you were going to go for the bias, you

0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:52.040
<v Speaker 1>know on that. Okay, that was a little surprising. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>what do you think I was gonna she was gonna

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<v Speaker 1>say monk, but you know, oh no, not gonna mention

0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:02.960
<v Speaker 1>the family member. All Right, that's cool, that's cool. A

0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:06.240
<v Speaker 1>little shady for that, that's cool, all right. No, No,

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<v Speaker 1>I just got up her because the way he brought

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<v Speaker 1>jazz into the modern into the modern day, you know

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<v Speaker 1>what I mean. And he was able to go even

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<v Speaker 1>even Herbie had one of the most popular hip hop songs,

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<v Speaker 1>Um with Rocket, you know what I mean. So he's

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<v Speaker 1>the jazz musician that crossed over, and Myles Avis jab

0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:25.720
<v Speaker 1>musician that crossed over, and and Herbie watched him do it,

0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.040
<v Speaker 1>and Herbie did it and then not because the Herbie,

0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:30.359
<v Speaker 1>I'm able to do it, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 1>So that that whole thing. Now, are you trained classically

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<v Speaker 1>trained or professionally trained as a pianist? Spy, go ahead,

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<v Speaker 1>spit the resume. I no, I mean I went to

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<v Speaker 1>the High School for Performing Arts. In high school, like so,

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<v Speaker 1>I studied jazz there. I didn't really study class I

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<v Speaker 1>studied classical for like six months. You know. I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>have the fucking it's it's you know what I mean?

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<v Speaker 1>And when when you play classical music, for the most part,

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<v Speaker 1>if you if you have a career in classical music,

0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:03.399
<v Speaker 1>you're playing other people's music. That's kind of what it

0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:05.639
<v Speaker 1>is like. To get the big to get the big

0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:07.240
<v Speaker 1>places to play in the big places, you have to

0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:09.000
<v Speaker 1>play back and Mozart and like you have, you spend

0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:12.280
<v Speaker 1>your life playing other people's music. They don't really love

0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:14.920
<v Speaker 1>new compositions in the classical world so much, you know

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<v Speaker 1>what I mean. So I was never like that kind

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<v Speaker 1>of guy where I was like, I want to do that.

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<v Speaker 1>So I always wanted to create and create, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, But I went to high school for a

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<v Speaker 1>first gask and I graduated from there and I went

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<v Speaker 1>to I went to college, the New School and man

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<v Speaker 1>uh Salt the New School Music School, and the jazz

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<v Speaker 1>there for four years, you know what I mean. But

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<v Speaker 1>I took pian lesson here and there. But for the

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<v Speaker 1>most part, I think it's just more so. A guy

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<v Speaker 1>was like, hey, there you go. Yeah, because whatever your

0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:50.520
<v Speaker 1>playing is, God's playing is always different from yours. You

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<v Speaker 1>just absolutely yeah, you know. When I'm a musician as well.

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<v Speaker 1>But I didn't play the piano. I played the oboe.

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<v Speaker 1>But my my favorite classical era is the Baroque around

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<v Speaker 1>because that's my favorite music era. You didn't know. I

0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:06.560
<v Speaker 1>didn't know that. It's a lot of things about me,

0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:10.800
<v Speaker 1>she said, musician. I said where where? And when I gotta?

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<v Speaker 1>I got a scholarship, but don't cook when I graduated,

0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:16.280
<v Speaker 1>but I put on a dress and some hey, and

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, I'm not doing that. So many people,

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<v Speaker 1>there's so many people who don't know classical music. Watching

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<v Speaker 1>they're probably like the Broke era. Girl, I said, broke.

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<v Speaker 1>That was funny. Rob. So Rob, let me ask you

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<v Speaker 1>because I know, I don't know if I've gotten the

0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:40.920
<v Speaker 1>fullback story. But you are a part of a group

0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:45.240
<v Speaker 1>called August Green, which is with Kareem Kareem Riggins excuse me,

0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:47.879
<v Speaker 1>and Common or as Rashid as you would call him. So,

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<v Speaker 1>how did y'all even form that group? Because I actually

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<v Speaker 1>got the privilege to sit in studio while you guys

0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:56.040
<v Speaker 1>were creating your first album, which was so dope to see.

0:23:56.119 --> 0:23:58.080
<v Speaker 1>So how did you guys even form the group? Like?

0:23:58.119 --> 0:24:03.280
<v Speaker 1>How did that happen? Um? I met Rashi Um like

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<v Speaker 1>Common Sorry, it's okay, So you know I met him

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<v Speaker 1>in UM, but I introduced me to him because he

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<v Speaker 1>was blast friend that we meet below common Erica lived

0:24:22.640 --> 0:24:25.800
<v Speaker 1>like a few blocks of each other in Brooklyn, Um,

0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:28.879
<v Speaker 1>and he was like, Yo, my boy, who's a rapper

0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:30.879
<v Speaker 1>and needs a He's trying to learn piano. Can you

0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:32.880
<v Speaker 1>give him piano lessons? I didn't know anything about common

0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:34.840
<v Speaker 1>I know who he was, but I was like all right,

0:24:34.920 --> 0:24:36.920
<v Speaker 1>So I started going over his house giving piano lessons

0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:38.440
<v Speaker 1>because he had a keyboard. He had the Roads a

0:24:38.560 --> 0:24:41.040
<v Speaker 1>Roads keyboard at his crib. So I used to do

0:24:41.200 --> 0:24:44.120
<v Speaker 1>that and then from that we became cool to him.

0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:45.520
<v Speaker 1>A blow would hang out, you know what I mean.

0:24:45.560 --> 0:24:47.760
<v Speaker 1>I would go to studio sessions with them, and I

0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:49.840
<v Speaker 1>watched him make some of the black water for chocolate,

0:24:50.359 --> 0:24:52.200
<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean, and and some other things

0:24:52.280 --> 0:24:54.600
<v Speaker 1>and some other things like that. So I've known Raschi

0:24:54.760 --> 0:24:57.399
<v Speaker 1>for for a long time. Then I started recording. We

0:24:57.480 --> 0:25:02.520
<v Speaker 1>started really recording together, um Um when he can but

0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:05.200
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Two Tops and twelve Black Radio two

0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:08.600
<v Speaker 1>he did I Stand along with me the song I

0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:12.600
<v Speaker 1>Stand Alone. And then from that after that I started

0:25:12.960 --> 0:25:15.560
<v Speaker 1>coming in and producing something something, some songs for his

0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:17.680
<v Speaker 1>record along with Kareem. So he would call me the

0:25:17.760 --> 0:25:20.200
<v Speaker 1>studio and me and Kareem would kind of produced the

0:25:20.280 --> 0:25:23.680
<v Speaker 1>songs together for Commons record that started on his album

0:25:23.760 --> 0:25:28.680
<v Speaker 1>called um Black America Again. Common is these people we

0:25:28.800 --> 0:25:32.240
<v Speaker 1>don't like. Common is Tipty Pattish is our executive producer

0:25:32.320 --> 0:25:34.399
<v Speaker 1>here at the podcast, and you know they're dating and

0:25:34.480 --> 0:25:36.359
<v Speaker 1>so we always played cards. He gave me a birthday

0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:38.360
<v Speaker 1>party in his mane at his house in Beverly Hills

0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:40.919
<v Speaker 1>last year. But then then he can't play in those

0:25:40.960 --> 0:25:43.840
<v Speaker 1>spaces that tears that ass up and space. But we

0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:47.560
<v Speaker 1>have the best time. He's a nice man, really play man.

0:25:47.640 --> 0:25:49.240
<v Speaker 1>But he need a bigger pool. You said that pool.

0:25:51.000 --> 0:25:52.560
<v Speaker 1>I didn't think that was a pool. I thought that

0:25:52.640 --> 0:25:54.760
<v Speaker 1>was just like a little a little wade pond. You

0:25:54.880 --> 0:25:58.360
<v Speaker 1>just walked through. Oh, for something like yeah, like that's

0:25:58.400 --> 0:25:59.920
<v Speaker 1>the ankle pool. He just put your feet into the

0:26:01.480 --> 0:26:05.120
<v Speaker 1>really nice person though, and just very literally, very down

0:26:05.200 --> 0:26:08.720
<v Speaker 1>to earth treated me from day one just like what's

0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:11.879
<v Speaker 1>the flame? Like cool and just just a nice guy overall.

0:26:11.960 --> 0:26:13.920
<v Speaker 1>So I'm glad you worked with him because he good people.

0:26:13.920 --> 0:26:16.240
<v Speaker 1>Good people always should work with good people. I'm sorry

0:26:16.320 --> 0:26:18.040
<v Speaker 1>that you didn't work with that, but he let me.

0:26:18.160 --> 0:26:19.879
<v Speaker 1>Let me go back to Lauren Hill for a second,

0:26:20.240 --> 0:26:23.200
<v Speaker 1>because Lauren Hill is to me was a musical genius

0:26:23.280 --> 0:26:27.280
<v Speaker 1>with the miseducational. That album that would can go in,

0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:31.200
<v Speaker 1>can go into a time capsule for three thousand years

0:26:31.280 --> 0:26:34.400
<v Speaker 1>and still be relevant. Don't have people coming to you, damnself.

0:26:34.480 --> 0:26:38.760
<v Speaker 1>Look at her. She ready get your name. The other peals.

0:26:39.400 --> 0:26:41.280
<v Speaker 1>That was the other piece of the puzzle when we

0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:44.800
<v Speaker 1>was talking about Lurena earlier. The other piece was, Um,

0:26:45.200 --> 0:26:48.200
<v Speaker 1>there are a plethora of musicians writers who wrote on

0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:53.479
<v Speaker 1>that album that didn't get credits for it. There are

0:26:53.480 --> 0:26:55.680
<v Speaker 1>a lot of things that say written by Lauren Hill

0:26:56.240 --> 0:26:59.400
<v Speaker 1>that were not written by Lauren Hill. Um. What I'm

0:26:59.440 --> 0:27:01.880
<v Speaker 1>fine with if you just get the credit where its due,

0:27:02.040 --> 0:27:04.880
<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean? Because musicians and producers eat

0:27:04.880 --> 0:27:07.520
<v Speaker 1>off of that. If they if you if you produced

0:27:07.560 --> 0:27:11.040
<v Speaker 1>a song on the Miseducation album. If you produce a

0:27:11.080 --> 0:27:15.920
<v Speaker 1>song on the Miseducation album, um, you're set to work

0:27:16.720 --> 0:27:18.840
<v Speaker 1>for years to come. It's like somebody who it's like

0:27:18.920 --> 0:27:21.879
<v Speaker 1>somebody who produced a song on Thriller or something, you

0:27:21.920 --> 0:27:24.640
<v Speaker 1>know what I mean. Like you're set. So those credits

0:27:24.720 --> 0:27:28.080
<v Speaker 1>mean something, you know. So if you take credit from someone,

0:27:28.560 --> 0:27:31.320
<v Speaker 1>sometimes that's all they have is the credit, you know

0:27:31.359 --> 0:27:33.440
<v Speaker 1>what I mean. And to be a great artist, you

0:27:33.480 --> 0:27:35.040
<v Speaker 1>don't have to write. You don't have to write and

0:27:35.119 --> 0:27:37.960
<v Speaker 1>produce everything. Michael didn't write and produce everything whenn't Houston

0:27:37.960 --> 0:27:40.080
<v Speaker 1>did write and produce everything, But just give the credit

0:27:40.119 --> 0:27:41.720
<v Speaker 1>where it's dude. That's where I had a problem because

0:27:41.720 --> 0:27:43.879
<v Speaker 1>some of those people were my personal friends. They had

0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:46.760
<v Speaker 1>a lawsuit and she lost. There was a lawsuit. Some

0:27:46.880 --> 0:27:49.800
<v Speaker 1>people actually have to have the balls to sewer, you

0:27:49.840 --> 0:27:51.320
<v Speaker 1>know what I mean. But there are some people who

0:27:51.359 --> 0:27:53.720
<v Speaker 1>I know, we're just friends with her and felt bad

0:27:53.760 --> 0:27:55.720
<v Speaker 1>if they didn't want to sew her. But there are

0:27:55.760 --> 0:27:59.000
<v Speaker 1>people who suit her that these two producer guys did

0:27:59.080 --> 0:28:02.399
<v Speaker 1>it for like like four million. You can literally google it.

0:28:03.040 --> 0:28:05.760
<v Speaker 1>Calm Calm is something though, because her success has never

0:28:05.920 --> 0:28:09.200
<v Speaker 1>been to the since after. You can't you can't do

0:28:09.320 --> 0:28:11.680
<v Speaker 1>people dirty, especially when they come to money, because money

0:28:11.720 --> 0:28:15.000
<v Speaker 1>come and go absolutely. And then if you think about

0:28:15.040 --> 0:28:17.240
<v Speaker 1>it too, My thing is if you do a record

0:28:17.320 --> 0:28:19.760
<v Speaker 1>like that, and if you did do everything like it, says,

0:28:19.880 --> 0:28:22.280
<v Speaker 1>if you didn't really write all that, where's the next one?

0:28:25.200 --> 0:28:27.200
<v Speaker 1>Where's the next one? Where's the next one? Even close?

0:28:27.640 --> 0:28:30.160
<v Speaker 1>She did the TV un blood thing that wasn't close

0:28:30.240 --> 0:28:32.480
<v Speaker 1>at all, you know what I mean, like, where's the

0:28:32.560 --> 0:28:34.919
<v Speaker 1>next album? If if that's what if if you did

0:28:35.000 --> 0:28:37.680
<v Speaker 1>all that stuff, where's the next one? And that's and

0:28:38.040 --> 0:28:41.240
<v Speaker 1>their lives the problem, you know what I mean? What's

0:28:41.280 --> 0:28:43.440
<v Speaker 1>next for you? But says being daddy, how many babies

0:28:43.480 --> 0:28:50.000
<v Speaker 1>you got? You got? You got a son? You have

0:28:50.080 --> 0:28:52.640
<v Speaker 1>a son and a daughter? Yeah, yeah, I got son

0:28:52.720 --> 0:28:56.200
<v Speaker 1>and daughter. Uh Riley he's twelve, he's about to be thirteen.

0:28:56.640 --> 0:29:00.360
<v Speaker 1>And and Lola she's one. Right, Oh, she's so high,

0:29:02.080 --> 0:29:04.400
<v Speaker 1>she's beautiful. So I have a story, right, I'm gonna

0:29:04.400 --> 0:29:06.320
<v Speaker 1>put myself out there because I know, Robber, you don't

0:29:06.320 --> 0:29:08.600
<v Speaker 1>want to tell it anyone. You know what she's thinking

0:29:08.640 --> 0:29:10.400
<v Speaker 1>in her head? Oh that's a man, I can tell.

0:29:10.480 --> 0:29:12.800
<v Speaker 1>I can hear what she's saying. Oh, I could read

0:29:12.840 --> 0:29:15.520
<v Speaker 1>a man. She said, that's the man that's little. I'll

0:29:15.560 --> 0:29:20.240
<v Speaker 1>fight you, little girl. You better go. So I do

0:29:20.400 --> 0:29:22.200
<v Speaker 1>have a funny story that I will share. Is that

0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:24.640
<v Speaker 1>So I was the first person to ever baby sit Riley,

0:29:24.960 --> 0:29:27.080
<v Speaker 1>my baby cousin. Right, I was the first person to

0:29:27.120 --> 0:29:30.800
<v Speaker 1>every baby. So Riley would cry a lot right while

0:29:30.840 --> 0:29:33.080
<v Speaker 1>I was baby sit him. And the only thing that

0:29:33.120 --> 0:29:35.440
<v Speaker 1>would get him to stop crying as if I saying

0:29:35.560 --> 0:29:38.720
<v Speaker 1>red Light Special by TLC to him. Mind you and

0:29:38.760 --> 0:29:42.640
<v Speaker 1>I can't sing, and I can't say, but it works

0:29:45.680 --> 0:29:47.600
<v Speaker 1>to a newborn. I was seeing red Light Special to

0:29:47.680 --> 0:29:50.160
<v Speaker 1>a newborn. But that's how I got He ever make

0:29:50.240 --> 0:29:52.120
<v Speaker 1>it to a strip club, we'll here about one and

0:29:52.120 --> 0:29:54.120
<v Speaker 1>they put that on. Whoever doing nothing now, But she's

0:29:54.120 --> 0:30:00.320
<v Speaker 1>gonna get all here. It traveled with you over over

0:30:00.400 --> 0:30:02.280
<v Speaker 1>the years. He gonna have all that. Remember who I

0:30:02.360 --> 0:30:12.280
<v Speaker 1>love that? So I remember my Auntie thinking that. So

0:30:13.640 --> 0:30:16.239
<v Speaker 1>Pandemic basically kind of shifted some of what you had

0:30:16.280 --> 0:30:19.080
<v Speaker 1>going on. So you're basically scoring music now like you

0:30:19.160 --> 0:30:21.200
<v Speaker 1>did the photograph which was with Easter Ray, And I

0:30:21.240 --> 0:30:23.880
<v Speaker 1>know you just scored something with Dave's Chapel. So how

0:30:23.920 --> 0:30:26.120
<v Speaker 1>are you liking that? And how is that different kind

0:30:26.160 --> 0:30:31.800
<v Speaker 1>of from what you've been doing? I love it. Yeah.

0:30:33.320 --> 0:30:35.480
<v Speaker 1>It allows me to be home, you know. It's a way,

0:30:36.000 --> 0:30:38.120
<v Speaker 1>it's a way that you know, make money and not

0:30:38.280 --> 0:30:41.520
<v Speaker 1>have to leave the house. But I've always even before

0:30:41.560 --> 0:30:44.880
<v Speaker 1>I started scoring, everyone's always said my whole career, like

0:30:45.000 --> 0:30:47.040
<v Speaker 1>your music is so cinematic, you know what I mean,

0:30:47.040 --> 0:30:50.760
<v Speaker 1>you should you should score movies. So once I got that,

0:30:51.000 --> 0:30:54.000
<v Speaker 1>once I got the opportunity. My first opportunity in the

0:30:54.080 --> 0:30:56.360
<v Speaker 1>real way was with um don c though for that

0:30:56.480 --> 0:31:01.720
<v Speaker 1>Miles David's movie, UM Miles Ahead, and and then from

0:31:01.760 --> 0:31:03.600
<v Speaker 1>there once I moved out here during the past mic

0:31:03.680 --> 0:31:06.080
<v Speaker 1>it kind of started snowballing because I also scored um

0:31:06.920 --> 0:31:13.000
<v Speaker 1>this series car Bro that's on starts and then Run

0:31:13.080 --> 0:31:15.360
<v Speaker 1>the World. Oh that's the new one with is that

0:31:15.440 --> 0:31:21.400
<v Speaker 1>the Vivocado point appreci Yeah? Yeah, yeah, she had a

0:31:21.480 --> 0:31:24.760
<v Speaker 1>pretty girl too, yeah, and um yeah. So it's been

0:31:24.800 --> 0:31:27.880
<v Speaker 1>snowball and into into more things and we got I

0:31:27.960 --> 0:31:30.280
<v Speaker 1>got a movie on the on the on the line happening,

0:31:30.400 --> 0:31:32.760
<v Speaker 1>and a few more, a few more series, you know,

0:31:32.920 --> 0:31:37.320
<v Speaker 1>So it's it's been great. It's been great with Riley.

0:31:37.400 --> 0:31:39.520
<v Speaker 1>I was on the world all the time. Ye remember,

0:31:39.960 --> 0:31:42.640
<v Speaker 1>I missed a little little milestones with Riley. You know,

0:31:42.760 --> 0:31:44.480
<v Speaker 1>I will come back home and be like, oh, yeah,

0:31:44.520 --> 0:31:48.440
<v Speaker 1>he's he's walking, he's running. Do you miss do you

0:31:48.560 --> 0:31:52.600
<v Speaker 1>miss live theater? Do you miss the stage in the audience? Absolutely?

0:31:52.680 --> 0:31:54.920
<v Speaker 1>So I did a few shows. I did a few

0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:57.840
<v Speaker 1>shows like last weekend and and I did some shows

0:31:57.880 --> 0:32:01.040
<v Speaker 1>in New York and June at the who know, and

0:32:01.160 --> 0:32:03.440
<v Speaker 1>it was amazing. But then you really, really, you really

0:32:03.480 --> 0:32:05.680
<v Speaker 1>realize how much you missed the audience, how much you

0:32:05.720 --> 0:32:07.800
<v Speaker 1>missed the people when you play. Because I've been doing

0:32:07.800 --> 0:32:11.080
<v Speaker 1>all this streaming stuff during Quarantine, doing Screaming Show, I

0:32:11.120 --> 0:32:12.800
<v Speaker 1>did a lot with with Common, you know, doing just

0:32:13.520 --> 0:32:15.840
<v Speaker 1>streaming things, and it's not the same at all. That

0:32:16.000 --> 0:32:18.520
<v Speaker 1>energy is gone, it's missing. You know, I'm gonna drop

0:32:18.600 --> 0:32:21.000
<v Speaker 1>a little plug because, um, I know, you're doing a

0:32:21.040 --> 0:32:23.880
<v Speaker 1>residency at the Blue Note in New York City and

0:32:24.000 --> 0:32:26.280
<v Speaker 1>you're like the third artist to ever be able to

0:32:26.360 --> 0:32:28.479
<v Speaker 1>do this. So the dates are like October one through

0:32:28.560 --> 0:32:33.840
<v Speaker 1>November nine, right October one, I think November seven, so

0:32:34.080 --> 0:32:37.920
<v Speaker 1>we're actually about I already already dropped something, saying I'm

0:32:38.000 --> 0:32:40.840
<v Speaker 1>doing it, but now I think later today we're gonna

0:32:41.000 --> 0:32:44.200
<v Speaker 1>drop what I'm doing each week? Right, Who's special guests?

0:32:44.680 --> 0:32:48.160
<v Speaker 1>Get special guests too? Yeah, that's what I do. Yeah,

0:32:48.360 --> 0:32:52.280
<v Speaker 1>that every every time. So that was like different, yes,

0:32:52.720 --> 0:32:56.080
<v Speaker 1>different weeks. Really like every week. I break it up

0:32:56.080 --> 0:33:01.600
<v Speaker 1>in two. What do you want? Wants to be in

0:33:01.680 --> 0:33:08.880
<v Speaker 1>the cameras? Let my cousin in the camera. What's the

0:33:09.000 --> 0:33:14.240
<v Speaker 1>kid network? What's the Kids Network? Baby Nickelodeon? She says

0:33:14.280 --> 0:33:17.840
<v Speaker 1>she needs her part on TV. She ain't playing with you, Rob.

0:33:17.960 --> 0:33:20.200
<v Speaker 1>Let me ask you a question, which which artists would

0:33:20.200 --> 0:33:22.560
<v Speaker 1>you would you be your dream artist to work with?

0:33:22.800 --> 0:33:25.480
<v Speaker 1>Now that's relevant. Now, who haven't you worked with? Is

0:33:25.520 --> 0:33:29.880
<v Speaker 1>a better question? That you would like to actually in

0:33:30.040 --> 0:33:32.040
<v Speaker 1>the studio together. A matter of fact, he just asked

0:33:32.040 --> 0:33:36.400
<v Speaker 1>me personally the other day, Stevie, wonder, wow, that would

0:33:36.440 --> 0:33:38.840
<v Speaker 1>be dope. I think that. I think that cancer benefit

0:33:38.920 --> 0:33:42.480
<v Speaker 1>with Common um stand Up for Cancer a few days ago,

0:33:42.920 --> 0:33:44.840
<v Speaker 1>and Stevie was our specially guest. It's a song I

0:33:44.920 --> 0:33:49.800
<v Speaker 1>wrote um Stevie played harmonica on it on the recording.

0:33:50.600 --> 0:33:53.120
<v Speaker 1>And then there's another song that I wrote for Common

0:33:53.560 --> 0:33:55.960
<v Speaker 1>called black America. Again, he sung. He sung on the

0:33:56.040 --> 0:33:57.560
<v Speaker 1>end of it, but I wasn't there when he sung,

0:33:58.080 --> 0:34:00.200
<v Speaker 1>so I've never got the chance to really collapse read

0:34:00.240 --> 0:34:02.120
<v Speaker 1>with him, you know what I mean? Like, do you

0:34:02.200 --> 0:34:06.800
<v Speaker 1>wanna come up with something? Definitely that's gonna be let

0:34:06.840 --> 0:34:09.080
<v Speaker 1>me tell you something. Stevie Wonder is. Oh my god,

0:34:09.120 --> 0:34:11.279
<v Speaker 1>it's such a phenomenon. But you know what I love

0:34:11.320 --> 0:34:13.879
<v Speaker 1>about Stevie's music, like, don't you worry about the thing?

0:34:14.320 --> 0:34:17.520
<v Speaker 1>And um at the end when they're doing that jam session,

0:34:17.640 --> 0:34:19.680
<v Speaker 1>it is a jam session that I'm like, I wish

0:34:19.680 --> 0:34:21.400
<v Speaker 1>I could have been sitting in on that because they

0:34:21.520 --> 0:34:23.520
<v Speaker 1>let it fade out, but you know, they went on

0:34:23.719 --> 0:34:27.680
<v Speaker 1>for about twenty more minutes at least for sure. Definitely,

0:34:28.160 --> 0:34:31.160
<v Speaker 1>that's the same thing with you know, um to digress.

0:34:31.440 --> 0:34:35.680
<v Speaker 1>How does it feel? Yeah, you know how it cuts

0:34:35.680 --> 0:34:39.520
<v Speaker 1>off at the end. Yeah, that's because they ran out

0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:42.680
<v Speaker 1>of tape. Well, let me be honest with that video.

0:34:42.760 --> 0:34:45.120
<v Speaker 1>I broke about four TVs trying to look down. I'm

0:34:45.160 --> 0:34:47.960
<v Speaker 1>just gonna be honest. That was Hotel TVs, but they

0:34:48.000 --> 0:34:49.920
<v Speaker 1>were still TVs. I was trying to look down in there.

0:34:49.960 --> 0:34:59.239
<v Speaker 1>I couldn't see and I might as well just ask

0:34:59.280 --> 0:35:01.320
<v Speaker 1>you because somebody in the comments just brought up Maxwell.

0:35:01.520 --> 0:35:03.600
<v Speaker 1>So I actually got to see some of you like

0:35:03.719 --> 0:35:05.879
<v Speaker 1>you were his musical director for a couple of years.

0:35:06.000 --> 0:35:09.440
<v Speaker 1>So how was that experience? It was great. Actually, Derek

0:35:09.480 --> 0:35:13.840
<v Speaker 1>Hives was the music director Maxwell just had. It was

0:35:14.120 --> 0:35:16.279
<v Speaker 1>it was like my band. The band that was my

0:35:16.320 --> 0:35:18.640
<v Speaker 1>experiment band at the time was Chris Dave. Derek had me.

0:35:19.040 --> 0:35:20.640
<v Speaker 1>So I was playing piano, you know what I mean.

0:35:21.080 --> 0:35:25.680
<v Speaker 1>And that was like four years or two thousand nine

0:35:25.800 --> 0:35:29.920
<v Speaker 1>to two thousand, you know what I mean. It was great, amazing,

0:35:30.440 --> 0:35:32.160
<v Speaker 1>that was that was a really good time, you know

0:35:32.160 --> 0:35:33.960
<v Speaker 1>what I mean? Because it was It was great for

0:35:34.080 --> 0:35:36.800
<v Speaker 1>R and B. Maxwell came back, the songs were dope,

0:35:37.280 --> 0:35:40.400
<v Speaker 1>and musicians were excited to see us play with Maxwell. Normally,

0:35:40.440 --> 0:35:42.479
<v Speaker 1>you go to Maxwell shows, it's ninety nine percent woman.

0:35:43.680 --> 0:35:46.759
<v Speaker 1>If that's a guy there, he took a woman. There's

0:35:46.760 --> 0:35:54.040
<v Speaker 1>a guy that he is a woman, all right, right exactly,

0:35:54.320 --> 0:35:56.759
<v Speaker 1>it was still ninety now that you know now the

0:35:56.840 --> 0:35:59.839
<v Speaker 1>other guy. Other people are coming just to see the music,

0:36:00.000 --> 0:36:02.200
<v Speaker 1>aren't like the musicians play. It was still not the

0:36:02.320 --> 0:36:07.759
<v Speaker 1>eight point five All Women, the best tour I've ever

0:36:07.840 --> 0:36:10.080
<v Speaker 1>been on in my life. It was now you said

0:36:10.080 --> 0:36:12.520
<v Speaker 1>you started with gospel. Have you ever worked with a

0:36:12.560 --> 0:36:15.680
<v Speaker 1>gospel artist now that's rather than down to do or

0:36:15.719 --> 0:36:17.080
<v Speaker 1>would you like to go back and work with the

0:36:17.120 --> 0:36:19.359
<v Speaker 1>gospel artists since you was started in gospel music as

0:36:19.360 --> 0:36:24.839
<v Speaker 1>a piano player. Yeah, I mean I'm gonna, I'm i'm um.

0:36:25.040 --> 0:36:28.880
<v Speaker 1>One of my boys, Jonathan McReynolds. You know Jonathan, I

0:36:28.960 --> 0:36:31.440
<v Speaker 1>know Jonathan Butler. I don't know that. I don't know mcgolds. No,

0:36:31.480 --> 0:36:34.920
<v Speaker 1>I know Jonathan Butler. I know Jonathan Butler. Yeah, falling

0:36:34.960 --> 0:36:38.680
<v Speaker 1>in love with Oh, I love that song very sounds. Yeah,

0:36:38.960 --> 0:36:41.120
<v Speaker 1>but I think I'm gonna definitely do something with Jonathan

0:36:41.760 --> 0:36:43.600
<v Speaker 1>mcgrendall's at some point. I mean, there's a lot of

0:36:43.680 --> 0:36:45.680
<v Speaker 1>gospel hours. I would love to work for John p.

0:36:45.800 --> 0:36:52.640
<v Speaker 1>Keys on one of my albums. You can make me

0:36:53.280 --> 0:37:03.720
<v Speaker 1>fair for me Lola one of the fans, one of flamemates.

0:37:03.760 --> 0:37:05.480
<v Speaker 1>Want to know have you ever worked with Sean Patterson

0:37:05.520 --> 0:37:07.879
<v Speaker 1>ras Sean passion has a beautiful voice too. Oh my god,

0:37:07.920 --> 0:37:11.920
<v Speaker 1>he's a big can sing his face on. I never

0:37:11.960 --> 0:37:13.719
<v Speaker 1>worked with him, but I'm sure I will at some point,

0:37:13.800 --> 0:37:19.400
<v Speaker 1>for sure, for sure. Right. Another thing I want to

0:37:19.440 --> 0:37:21.880
<v Speaker 1>ask you to Um, your Emmy that you won with

0:37:22.000 --> 0:37:24.680
<v Speaker 1>Common for doing the Thirteenth with Aba Duferne. How special

0:37:24.800 --> 0:37:27.560
<v Speaker 1>was that to you? And just what was that? Like?

0:37:28.880 --> 0:37:33.160
<v Speaker 1>That was amazing. You know, as a musician, you really

0:37:33.200 --> 0:37:36.680
<v Speaker 1>don't think outside of Grammy kind of thought, like Grammy

0:37:36.760 --> 0:37:38.759
<v Speaker 1>is kind of only what you kind of aimed for

0:37:38.920 --> 0:37:41.480
<v Speaker 1>if you aim for anything as far as the award goes.

0:37:41.960 --> 0:37:43.880
<v Speaker 1>So they get it in me, it kind of opened my.

0:37:44.200 --> 0:37:46.600
<v Speaker 1>It kind of like got me outside of the box, like,

0:37:46.680 --> 0:37:48.680
<v Speaker 1>oh wait a minute, I could do more things, you

0:37:48.719 --> 0:37:51.160
<v Speaker 1>know what I mean? And so that was that was

0:37:51.320 --> 0:37:55.160
<v Speaker 1>That was That was amazing. That was I was. I

0:37:55.320 --> 0:37:59.760
<v Speaker 1>was in Europe um literally about to walk on stage

0:38:00.080 --> 0:38:03.960
<v Speaker 1>for a show, and Eva du Rene texted me congratulations

0:38:04.400 --> 0:38:08.279
<v Speaker 1>on your Emmy nomination and I was like, wow, you

0:38:08.320 --> 0:38:10.239
<v Speaker 1>know what I mean. It's like, oh my gosh, you

0:38:10.280 --> 0:38:12.120
<v Speaker 1>know what I mean. So it was that that that

0:38:12.320 --> 0:38:15.800
<v Speaker 1>was that was That was a good one. And speaking

0:38:15.840 --> 0:38:18.359
<v Speaker 1>of expanding the career, didn't you just do a couple

0:38:18.360 --> 0:38:21.080
<v Speaker 1>of acting debuts and a couple of different things I

0:38:21.200 --> 0:38:27.560
<v Speaker 1>have I'm out on the streets. Um Yeah I did,

0:38:27.680 --> 0:38:29.640
<v Speaker 1>Uh yeah, so I did. I played a little part

0:38:29.680 --> 0:38:32.560
<v Speaker 1>in Nertha documentary in the in the Aretha series with

0:38:33.719 --> 0:38:39.400
<v Speaker 1>the one I played. I played a piano player in

0:38:39.560 --> 0:38:42.799
<v Speaker 1>Art Tatum, who was a blind piano player that used

0:38:42.840 --> 0:38:44.600
<v Speaker 1>to go over to her house and her dad had

0:38:44.680 --> 0:38:47.440
<v Speaker 1>those parties and used to go there and play with

0:38:47.560 --> 0:38:50.759
<v Speaker 1>Dina Washington, all kinds of people Art Tatum is. I mean,

0:38:51.960 --> 0:38:57.239
<v Speaker 1>he's the king. You have class room. You ain't had

0:38:57.280 --> 0:39:04.080
<v Speaker 1>that beard either. Yeah. I looked like Stephen A. Smith

0:39:04.160 --> 0:39:08.399
<v Speaker 1>for a minute. My hairline was all back, and then

0:39:08.440 --> 0:39:10.680
<v Speaker 1>I just did uh. I did a few episodes of

0:39:11.120 --> 0:39:15.319
<v Speaker 1>Black Monday with Don Cheeto. Um. He hit me up like, yeah,

0:39:15.360 --> 0:39:16.880
<v Speaker 1>we got this little party if you wanted, and he's

0:39:16.920 --> 0:39:18.839
<v Speaker 1>trying to do some acting. So I was like, oh,

0:39:18.920 --> 0:39:22.120
<v Speaker 1>I'll do it. You know what I mean, what are

0:39:22.160 --> 0:39:26.839
<v Speaker 1>you saying? She's saying she wants her camera tan camera now,

0:39:26.960 --> 0:39:29.560
<v Speaker 1>as long as you go ahead and can focus. She good. See,

0:39:31.080 --> 0:39:33.440
<v Speaker 1>we see, we see you love the girl. You beautiful.

0:39:33.480 --> 0:39:36.120
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, that hit, Oh my god, the eyes,

0:39:36.239 --> 0:39:40.000
<v Speaker 1>Oh my girl. You better stop it, girl, I see

0:39:40.040 --> 0:39:45.560
<v Speaker 1>it already, the little boys already at the dough. Don't

0:39:45.560 --> 0:39:49.480
<v Speaker 1>say that. I'm trying to read some of these comments too,

0:39:49.480 --> 0:39:51.200
<v Speaker 1>because people have a lot of questions for you Rob, So,

0:39:51.400 --> 0:39:56.920
<v Speaker 1>how was your collaboration on Butterfly between you and Balao? Oh?

0:39:57.040 --> 0:40:01.280
<v Speaker 1>That was dope. That that actually, um, yeah, the Butterfly

0:40:01.480 --> 0:40:06.120
<v Speaker 1>song before we played it, because if you listen to

0:40:06.239 --> 0:40:10.680
<v Speaker 1>the song, there's a lot of outside like ambience, like

0:40:11.000 --> 0:40:12.960
<v Speaker 1>artists going and buying this this. So we took a

0:40:13.040 --> 0:40:20.239
<v Speaker 1>microphone from the studio and walked around the block just

0:40:20.360 --> 0:40:24.040
<v Speaker 1>to pick up the sounds of the city. And we

0:40:24.120 --> 0:40:25.400
<v Speaker 1>do we do you want to do one? I know

0:40:25.520 --> 0:40:26.800
<v Speaker 1>you can go and you can get it. You know,

0:40:26.920 --> 0:40:29.320
<v Speaker 1>you can go on. You can get sounds of the

0:40:29.360 --> 0:40:30.960
<v Speaker 1>city from anywhere. You can download them, you know what

0:40:30.960 --> 0:40:32.560
<v Speaker 1>I mean. But we wanted to have a real sound

0:40:32.600 --> 0:40:35.560
<v Speaker 1>of the city where we were, so we walked them.

0:40:40.360 --> 0:40:43.480
<v Speaker 1>I can't wait, I can't wait. We walked around with

0:40:43.520 --> 0:40:45.840
<v Speaker 1>a microphone and then we recorded on top of that,

0:40:46.200 --> 0:40:47.759
<v Speaker 1>on top of the sounds of the city, you know

0:40:47.800 --> 0:40:49.920
<v Speaker 1>what I mean. So, and I believe it was like

0:40:50.040 --> 0:40:52.640
<v Speaker 1>one one take this one time round, you know what

0:40:52.719 --> 0:40:56.359
<v Speaker 1>I mean. So it was special, a lot of a lot.

0:40:56.800 --> 0:40:59.480
<v Speaker 1>He's my favorite artist in general, like to work with

0:40:59.760 --> 0:41:02.640
<v Speaker 1>and just as talent and how Dobe is you know,

0:41:02.719 --> 0:41:08.400
<v Speaker 1>And I've been collaborative without you since we got to college,

0:41:08.520 --> 0:41:10.920
<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean. So he's definitely one of

0:41:11.000 --> 0:41:16.920
<v Speaker 1>the most underrated and dopest artists. That's a great compliment.

0:41:17.239 --> 0:41:20.480
<v Speaker 1>See this forever since Rob literally changes the energy in

0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:23.000
<v Speaker 1>every room. Love it, Bro. They love you. Love it Bro,

0:41:23.200 --> 0:41:25.600
<v Speaker 1>Love it Bro. They want to know about the collaboration

0:41:25.680 --> 0:41:31.319
<v Speaker 1>with you and Esperanza Spalding. Oh um on her Oh

0:41:31.800 --> 0:41:34.480
<v Speaker 1>I did something over with her on her seven. She

0:41:34.560 --> 0:41:37.719
<v Speaker 1>has a project seven seven seven that was like she

0:41:37.880 --> 0:41:41.840
<v Speaker 1>did like a whole album on Facebook Live and it

0:41:42.040 --> 0:41:46.480
<v Speaker 1>was like literally three days straight and you got to

0:41:46.600 --> 0:41:49.600
<v Speaker 1>watch her collaborate with these people and watch her write

0:41:49.640 --> 0:41:55.000
<v Speaker 1>the songs in real time. Longen, you have such a

0:41:55.080 --> 0:41:58.320
<v Speaker 1>talented family. I didn't know. I was just all this talent.

0:41:58.640 --> 0:42:01.279
<v Speaker 1>I'm bringing the mom um. It's town that dad is.

0:42:01.360 --> 0:42:04.920
<v Speaker 1>Oh my God, so many towns people. You know what, Rob,

0:42:05.000 --> 0:42:06.920
<v Speaker 1>you know what I know. I'm going back to gospel

0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:08.680
<v Speaker 1>because you said you started off with God. You know

0:42:08.800 --> 0:42:10.839
<v Speaker 1>who I would love to see you collaborate and bring

0:42:10.920 --> 0:42:12.800
<v Speaker 1>her out of retirement. Who is one of my favorite

0:42:12.840 --> 0:42:16.920
<v Speaker 1>gospels is Tremaine Hawkins. Let me tell Tremaine came in

0:42:17.239 --> 0:42:21.200
<v Speaker 1>right before um yellin the Adams became this superstar, but

0:42:21.280 --> 0:42:26.000
<v Speaker 1>Tremaine set it up for for l Adams, Tremaine was

0:42:26.440 --> 0:42:29.640
<v Speaker 1>dynamite and still is probably dynamite. I would love to

0:42:29.680 --> 0:42:32.760
<v Speaker 1>see somebody do something with her. The whole Hawkings family

0:42:32.840 --> 0:42:37.600
<v Speaker 1>is yeah, yeah, it's it's just it's crazy. No, but

0:42:37.680 --> 0:42:41.279
<v Speaker 1>she's amaze a matter of fact, Am I wrong? I

0:42:41.480 --> 0:42:44.640
<v Speaker 1>feel like, tell me if I'm wrong? Didn't she sing that?

0:42:46.680 --> 0:42:48.720
<v Speaker 1>I might be wrong? I think that was Vanessa bell Armstrong.

0:42:49.080 --> 0:42:54.279
<v Speaker 1>Who's something the amen? Oh the I don't know who's

0:42:54.280 --> 0:42:55.840
<v Speaker 1>saying I'm a heathen. I'm not a good person to

0:42:55.880 --> 0:43:01.600
<v Speaker 1>ask that what that was? That was Vanessa Bael? That

0:43:01.719 --> 0:43:07.080
<v Speaker 1>was That was Vael. That wasn't Tremaine. But no, but

0:43:08.800 --> 0:43:13.840
<v Speaker 1>she's from my hometown. I absolutely adore Landa. But before

0:43:13.960 --> 0:43:17.680
<v Speaker 1>Yolanda hit a lot of people forget about Tremaine, Tremaine

0:43:18.040 --> 0:43:21.000
<v Speaker 1>was the gospel for her. Shirley c I still love

0:43:21.040 --> 0:43:25.399
<v Speaker 1>Shirley Seesar too, But it looked like Yolanda got all

0:43:25.480 --> 0:43:27.879
<v Speaker 1>the sham, all the start them, all the big fame

0:43:28.080 --> 0:43:32.560
<v Speaker 1>for the name. But before her was child Tremaye Hankers,

0:43:32.600 --> 0:43:36.960
<v Speaker 1>Trema Hankers was everywhere. Shirley like she never ages. She

0:43:37.160 --> 0:43:43.520
<v Speaker 1>just she was old when she first started. And one

0:43:43.760 --> 0:43:50.040
<v Speaker 1>is she about too, honey? I know he we look

0:43:50.080 --> 0:43:53.000
<v Speaker 1>at the early showy season videos, she looks like she

0:43:53.080 --> 0:43:58.479
<v Speaker 1>does now. That is funny, as he were just joking, girl,

0:43:59.080 --> 0:44:01.719
<v Speaker 1>I love you. It's amazing. It's amazing. Like she just

0:44:01.800 --> 0:44:03.320
<v Speaker 1>don't she don't age. She's just like, I mean, you

0:44:03.360 --> 0:44:04.800
<v Speaker 1>know what I'm gonna I'm gonna start off at this

0:44:04.920 --> 0:44:07.200
<v Speaker 1>age and I'm gonna stay there. So let me ask

0:44:07.239 --> 0:44:08.640
<v Speaker 1>you too. I know you kind of like talked about

0:44:08.680 --> 0:44:10.440
<v Speaker 1>it a little bit before when you and I were together,

0:44:10.640 --> 0:44:15.160
<v Speaker 1>but Dave Chappelle like just literally Dave came to the

0:44:15.200 --> 0:44:17.600
<v Speaker 1>Blue Note, you had Chris Rock come out and like

0:44:17.760 --> 0:44:20.600
<v Speaker 1>he basically emceed your show for you, and you were

0:44:20.680 --> 0:44:23.160
<v Speaker 1>just talking about how it was interesting to look at

0:44:23.200 --> 0:44:26.120
<v Speaker 1>their creative processes in real time. So can you like

0:44:26.200 --> 0:44:27.440
<v Speaker 1>kind of touch on that a little bit because I

0:44:27.480 --> 0:44:29.919
<v Speaker 1>thought it was amazing to hear you talk about Yeah,

0:44:30.000 --> 0:44:33.560
<v Speaker 1>So Dave behind backstage of the Roots show, I was

0:44:33.600 --> 0:44:36.120
<v Speaker 1>playing with the Roots, I don't know, probably like old

0:44:36.480 --> 0:44:39.840
<v Speaker 1>something oh five or something, and Dave was there and

0:44:40.040 --> 0:44:42.719
<v Speaker 1>he asked me to help him play around Midnight The

0:44:42.800 --> 0:44:46.080
<v Speaker 1>Lonest month too, So I gave him to less play

0:44:46.120 --> 0:44:48.040
<v Speaker 1>round midnight. That's how we started. Every time I was

0:44:48.080 --> 0:44:51.480
<v Speaker 1>seeing they were happily at Agano somewhere backstage, I would

0:44:51.520 --> 0:44:54.200
<v Speaker 1>help you to figure some stuff around midnight, and we

0:44:54.280 --> 0:44:57.800
<v Speaker 1>just became cool. So now everything after my residency is

0:44:57.840 --> 0:44:59.560
<v Speaker 1>like the last time I didn't Regency, he came out,

0:44:59.600 --> 0:45:05.560
<v Speaker 1>he brought to Yeah, he brought. Now he brought, I mean,

0:45:05.600 --> 0:45:09.799
<v Speaker 1>he brought Sarah Silverman. Now he brought. I mean everybody came.

0:45:10.480 --> 0:45:12.480
<v Speaker 1>You know. It was right after he won that award,

0:45:12.640 --> 0:45:19.040
<v Speaker 1>the the Tom Sawyer Uh Comedy Award. UM. But anyway,

0:45:19.680 --> 0:45:23.480
<v Speaker 1>so uh yeah, now man, it's just a thing. Man.

0:45:23.520 --> 0:45:26.520
<v Speaker 1>He just loves the music and and we have such

0:45:26.560 --> 0:45:28.680
<v Speaker 1>a good a good report. You know. That's my bro.

0:45:28.840 --> 0:45:31.120
<v Speaker 1>So now whenever I play, you know, and in the

0:45:31.239 --> 0:45:34.400
<v Speaker 1>Vicinity or not even the just making his business to

0:45:34.480 --> 0:45:37.680
<v Speaker 1>fly out. Wait, you gotta you want to say how

0:45:37.719 --> 0:45:40.360
<v Speaker 1>he showed up to your show with Susan Surrandon, just

0:45:40.640 --> 0:45:46.920
<v Speaker 1>just casually. That's now. Yeah. In June. In June, UM

0:45:47.280 --> 0:45:52.320
<v Speaker 1>the UM they debuted the documentary Dave's Documentary, UM that

0:45:52.440 --> 0:45:55.959
<v Speaker 1>I just scored it. Um. It closed the Tribeca Film

0:45:56.000 --> 0:45:59.040
<v Speaker 1>festival and and they did that Radio City Music Hall,

0:46:00.880 --> 0:46:04.319
<v Speaker 1>the radio scene. He's gonna open back up so Dad

0:46:04.400 --> 0:46:09.080
<v Speaker 1>could do to show his film there. And um so

0:46:09.320 --> 0:46:11.680
<v Speaker 1>that week was trying to make a film festival. The

0:46:11.800 --> 0:46:14.160
<v Speaker 1>same week I was in New York. So Dave came

0:46:14.239 --> 0:46:16.520
<v Speaker 1>by like a few nights and like yeah, like you said,

0:46:16.600 --> 0:46:19.319
<v Speaker 1>you know, Chris came by with him a few times.

0:46:19.400 --> 0:46:26.480
<v Speaker 1>They opened up like just one night. One night they

0:46:26.719 --> 0:46:29.840
<v Speaker 1>at the garden as Square Garden with the food fighters.

0:46:30.560 --> 0:46:33.520
<v Speaker 1>Brought them to my show after you know what I mean,

0:46:33.640 --> 0:46:37.320
<v Speaker 1>went to the brand and that was that night. You

0:46:37.440 --> 0:46:39.680
<v Speaker 1>never know who's gonna be for days. Anybody loves it.

0:46:40.280 --> 0:46:42.480
<v Speaker 1>I am so looking forward to working with him and

0:46:42.560 --> 0:46:45.239
<v Speaker 1>meeting him one day very soon. He knows who he's

0:46:45.239 --> 0:46:47.200
<v Speaker 1>been talking to Ida Aboutrikas about me, So I'm hoping

0:46:47.239 --> 0:46:50.880
<v Speaker 1>that he Dave called me. I'm ready, ready, I'm ready,

0:46:51.320 --> 0:46:54.400
<v Speaker 1>trust me, I'm ready. And he's such a nice, just

0:46:54.560 --> 0:46:57.880
<v Speaker 1>a dope dude man. Like for Mother's Day. Look, it

0:46:58.000 --> 0:47:01.320
<v Speaker 1>was Mother's Day was Sunday in May. We were here Friday,

0:47:01.640 --> 0:47:03.960
<v Speaker 1>and he I talked today Friday night and he was like,

0:47:04.040 --> 0:47:05.560
<v Speaker 1>what a y'all doing Mother's Day? I was like, oh,

0:47:05.640 --> 0:47:07.319
<v Speaker 1>we're just here. We probably go up the street half

0:47:07.360 --> 0:47:10.680
<v Speaker 1>some food, Like no, you're gonna come, no how and

0:47:10.719 --> 0:47:13.640
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna private jet and pick me a little ung

0:47:13.680 --> 0:47:17.319
<v Speaker 1>gg up. And lewis to Ohio to have Mother's Day

0:47:17.360 --> 0:47:21.279
<v Speaker 1>dinner at his crazy and a mother's day. This is

0:47:21.320 --> 0:47:28.759
<v Speaker 1>a awful don't happen, you know? And and uh and

0:47:29.760 --> 0:47:32.000
<v Speaker 1>in in in that documentary, like I was saying, I

0:47:32.160 --> 0:47:34.759
<v Speaker 1>was telling Lauren, like, you got a chance to see

0:47:34.960 --> 0:47:41.120
<v Speaker 1>so many artists, including stand up comedians and everything kind

0:47:41.160 --> 0:47:44.560
<v Speaker 1>of struggle to get their flitting because they haven't performed

0:47:44.600 --> 0:47:47.640
<v Speaker 1>it so long because of COVID, you know, and if

0:47:47.960 --> 0:47:54.520
<v Speaker 1>so inspiring these amazing people like do that, like you know,

0:47:55.040 --> 0:47:57.440
<v Speaker 1>just like get up there, Like even Chris Rock was

0:47:57.520 --> 0:48:00.000
<v Speaker 1>up there like this. And the dope thing is about

0:48:00.000 --> 0:48:02.560
<v Speaker 1>all these people. They're super fearless and some of it

0:48:02.719 --> 0:48:04.840
<v Speaker 1>wasn't funny, and some of it started to be funny.

0:48:04.840 --> 0:48:06.879
<v Speaker 1>But you can even see the comedians like, man, I'm sorry,

0:48:06.880 --> 0:48:08.560
<v Speaker 1>I'm working it out, you know what I mean. It

0:48:08.719 --> 0:48:11.279
<v Speaker 1>was inspiring to see people at that level still have

0:48:11.360 --> 0:48:13.600
<v Speaker 1>to work stuff out. You know. Let me let me

0:48:13.680 --> 0:48:15.400
<v Speaker 1>ask you a question, right because you're to me like,

0:48:15.560 --> 0:48:17.600
<v Speaker 1>right in the middle of the old school and the

0:48:17.680 --> 0:48:21.800
<v Speaker 1>new school, which which music, John Brod, do you like

0:48:21.960 --> 0:48:24.160
<v Speaker 1>the best? Not? And I'm not talking about jazz alb.

0:48:24.239 --> 0:48:27.399
<v Speaker 1>I'm talking about the old school music versus the newer

0:48:27.480 --> 0:48:29.880
<v Speaker 1>stuff that's out now, because I think the newer stuff

0:48:29.920 --> 0:48:33.719
<v Speaker 1>that's out now, this is my opinion, is promoting not

0:48:34.040 --> 0:48:37.640
<v Speaker 1>love and affection. And it's kind of grab about a hair,

0:48:37.760 --> 0:48:40.320
<v Speaker 1>throw it down the stairs, put up on the airplane.

0:48:40.400 --> 0:48:42.160
<v Speaker 1>You know that. Don't do nothing to me. That's not

0:48:42.200 --> 0:48:49.200
<v Speaker 1>a turn on. Um No, I think I think, you know.

0:48:49.880 --> 0:48:52.319
<v Speaker 1>I think it's the it's the it's the it's it's

0:48:52.480 --> 0:48:55.879
<v Speaker 1>it's history. It's what history is supposed to do. Music

0:48:56.000 --> 0:48:58.920
<v Speaker 1>comes around, your parents are playing their music. You're like,

0:48:59.040 --> 0:49:01.480
<v Speaker 1>oh that's for old You start playing your music and

0:49:01.520 --> 0:49:03.359
<v Speaker 1>they're like, oh, you don't know none about music back

0:49:03.400 --> 0:49:06.279
<v Speaker 1>in my day, you know. So I respect that the

0:49:06.400 --> 0:49:09.879
<v Speaker 1>music is changing, and I know that I'm not gonna

0:49:09.960 --> 0:49:12.160
<v Speaker 1>like all of it. But I'm not supposed I'm not

0:49:12.239 --> 0:49:16.400
<v Speaker 1>supposed to be the messages in the music. Sometimes the messages,

0:49:17.360 --> 0:49:20.560
<v Speaker 1>the messages, most of the messages are missing about are

0:49:20.760 --> 0:49:23.080
<v Speaker 1>are missing loves? You know what I mean? They aren't

0:49:23.080 --> 0:49:25.560
<v Speaker 1>missing the positive things about it, you know what I mean?

0:49:25.640 --> 0:49:29.560
<v Speaker 1>For sure? For sure, Also because I feel like, you know,

0:49:30.200 --> 0:49:33.840
<v Speaker 1>after you know, after a certain era, live musicians in

0:49:33.920 --> 0:49:37.000
<v Speaker 1>the studio stop being a thing. People started making music

0:49:37.120 --> 0:49:39.759
<v Speaker 1>on their iPhone, you know what I mean. So when

0:49:39.800 --> 0:49:41.880
<v Speaker 1>you stop, when you don't have when you can make

0:49:42.000 --> 0:49:44.800
<v Speaker 1>music that fast on your iPhone, it stops being about

0:49:44.960 --> 0:49:48.320
<v Speaker 1>it stops being most of the time, not everyone, but

0:49:48.440 --> 0:49:50.560
<v Speaker 1>most of the time, it stops being about the music.

0:49:50.960 --> 0:49:54.480
<v Speaker 1>And it's kind of just about what idea cannot put

0:49:54.520 --> 0:49:56.799
<v Speaker 1>out there that everybody else is gonna grab onto and love.

0:49:56.880 --> 0:49:59.439
<v Speaker 1>So everybody's kind of pickyback. Not everybody else. What's cool.

0:49:59.480 --> 0:50:01.400
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do what everybody else

0:50:01.480 --> 0:50:04.080
<v Speaker 1>is doing. Nobody's being an artist because they really want

0:50:04.080 --> 0:50:06.719
<v Speaker 1>to be an artist. Not nobody. Some people are, but

0:50:06.960 --> 0:50:09.040
<v Speaker 1>most of them, what I see, they're not. You're not

0:50:09.120 --> 0:50:11.800
<v Speaker 1>gonna remember them next year, like you know, it's like

0:50:11.920 --> 0:50:14.840
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't matter for a lot of people. But but again,

0:50:15.280 --> 0:50:17.879
<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying all your music is like terrible because

0:50:17.880 --> 0:50:19.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm an older guy, you know what I mean, So

0:50:19.640 --> 0:50:22.680
<v Speaker 1>I respect that that's what it is now, you know

0:50:22.719 --> 0:50:24.440
<v Speaker 1>what I mean something, but I like, you know what

0:50:24.440 --> 0:50:27.920
<v Speaker 1>I mean, but a lot of it I don't so

0:50:28.800 --> 0:50:31.000
<v Speaker 1>really quick because we're almost at our hour. What are

0:50:31.120 --> 0:50:33.320
<v Speaker 1>some upcoming projects that you can talk about? I know

0:50:33.400 --> 0:50:35.920
<v Speaker 1>you said that, like Stevie Wonders like personally reached out

0:50:35.960 --> 0:50:37.879
<v Speaker 1>to you to work on some things. And what other

0:50:37.960 --> 0:50:40.120
<v Speaker 1>projects do you have coming up? Because people are in

0:50:40.120 --> 0:50:42.480
<v Speaker 1>the comments impressed by Black Radio three. Just just letting

0:50:42.520 --> 0:50:46.720
<v Speaker 1>you know, so that's happening, that's definitely happening. I've already

0:50:47.239 --> 0:50:53.120
<v Speaker 1>I've argue I'm done with Black Radio three. Yeah alright,

0:50:53.160 --> 0:50:56.240
<v Speaker 1>I can't. I can't say who's on it yet because

0:50:56.440 --> 0:51:00.879
<v Speaker 1>I don't have all the t's crossing eyes dot it yet.

0:51:01.160 --> 0:51:04.320
<v Speaker 1>You know what I mean. She wants to be honest.

0:51:04.360 --> 0:51:06.919
<v Speaker 1>She she needs the part of that. She just your daughter.

0:51:07.040 --> 0:51:08.839
<v Speaker 1>She just don't you hear talk And that's what she's saying,

0:51:08.840 --> 0:51:15.600
<v Speaker 1>the baby talk don't forget about me on the album?

0:51:16.120 --> 0:51:19.360
<v Speaker 1>How How was it working with um with Don Cheetah?

0:51:19.560 --> 0:51:21.640
<v Speaker 1>I love Don Cheeto. I've never met him, but my

0:51:21.719 --> 0:51:23.600
<v Speaker 1>favorite movie he ever did was talk to Me. Oh

0:51:23.680 --> 0:51:25.360
<v Speaker 1>my god, I love him and talk to me. That

0:51:25.560 --> 0:51:28.759
<v Speaker 1>is that's me to me. I'm Pete Green. I'm Pete

0:51:28.840 --> 0:51:31.440
<v Speaker 1>Green with titties, but I love him and talk to

0:51:31.520 --> 0:51:35.200
<v Speaker 1>me look with most We did a whole with most

0:51:35.280 --> 0:51:37.560
<v Speaker 1>depths back in when you talk to Me came out.

0:51:38.040 --> 0:51:42.000
<v Speaker 1>We did a whole like concert based on Pete Green

0:51:42.080 --> 0:51:45.400
<v Speaker 1>with most depth and using that down Cheeto movie and

0:51:45.560 --> 0:51:48.719
<v Speaker 1>using some clips from that, and we called it the Watermelon.

0:51:48.800 --> 0:51:51.359
<v Speaker 1>We called it, though I forget, like the watermelon something

0:51:51.400 --> 0:51:54.560
<v Speaker 1>something about the watermelon. Pete Green was describing how you

0:51:54.600 --> 0:51:59.279
<v Speaker 1>put a little salt on the water and the whole thing. So, yeah,

0:51:59.400 --> 0:52:01.960
<v Speaker 1>but do dot amazing. He's one of my favorite actors

0:52:02.719 --> 0:52:10.919
<v Speaker 1>and a good friend, good dude. Question musician too. Yeah,

0:52:10.920 --> 0:52:13.080
<v Speaker 1>he got a full scholarship to college for like vocal

0:52:13.160 --> 0:52:18.000
<v Speaker 1>jazz and and saxophone. Ask that question. So we're gonna

0:52:18.040 --> 0:52:21.120
<v Speaker 1>take this last question from the comments whout people. Someone asked,

0:52:21.160 --> 0:52:22.800
<v Speaker 1>how do you pick a band when there are so

0:52:22.960 --> 0:52:29.800
<v Speaker 1>many great musicians that you know? Um, Well, the bands

0:52:29.840 --> 0:52:33.239
<v Speaker 1>I have I kind of just let the sorry, I

0:52:33.360 --> 0:52:35.360
<v Speaker 1>kind of I let the universe kind of do what

0:52:35.480 --> 0:52:38.800
<v Speaker 1>it does. You know what I mean? Um, the guys

0:52:38.840 --> 0:52:41.440
<v Speaker 1>that the guys that I can sit are in my

0:52:41.640 --> 0:52:45.760
<v Speaker 1>band are people that I have kind of been around

0:52:45.800 --> 0:52:49.640
<v Speaker 1>for years somehow, So like, for instance, Derek Hodges, my

0:52:49.640 --> 0:52:51.359
<v Speaker 1>bass player, I met him in two thousand and six.

0:52:52.160 --> 0:52:54.080
<v Speaker 1>Once you meet somebody and they played the way they

0:52:54.120 --> 0:52:56.480
<v Speaker 1>do and the musicality at a certain level and their

0:52:57.040 --> 0:52:59.279
<v Speaker 1>person is a certain level. I hold on to those

0:52:59.320 --> 0:53:02.080
<v Speaker 1>people and as much as I can, if I work

0:53:02.200 --> 0:53:03.959
<v Speaker 1>enough to where you don't have to work with anybody else, cool,

0:53:04.239 --> 0:53:05.719
<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean. But then it's like even

0:53:05.760 --> 0:53:07.880
<v Speaker 1>and Chris Dave one of those guys too, you know

0:53:07.880 --> 0:53:09.840
<v Speaker 1>what I'm saying. And then it's like they get to

0:53:09.880 --> 0:53:11.719
<v Speaker 1>a certain platform and out there off on their own

0:53:11.800 --> 0:53:13.920
<v Speaker 1>with their own bands, which is amazing. So then it's

0:53:13.960 --> 0:53:17.319
<v Speaker 1>like we get to play in spots when we can. Yeah,

0:53:17.920 --> 0:53:22.600
<v Speaker 1>And then I love the loyalty. I like that too.

0:53:22.680 --> 0:53:25.080
<v Speaker 1>I like when I get familiar. I'm stuck with a person.

0:53:25.160 --> 0:53:27.040
<v Speaker 1>You know me, We know each other, you know, even

0:53:27.080 --> 0:53:28.800
<v Speaker 1>if it's a riff, we already know each other, so

0:53:28.920 --> 0:53:30.680
<v Speaker 1>we know we can fix it. Well. I will say,

0:53:32.400 --> 0:53:35.640
<v Speaker 1>part of the music is what's off the stage for me,

0:53:35.920 --> 0:53:37.319
<v Speaker 1>you know what I mean. If I have a good

0:53:37.320 --> 0:53:39.839
<v Speaker 1>report with you off the stage, it feats the music

0:53:39.880 --> 0:53:42.000
<v Speaker 1>and it makes it that much better. Well, what I

0:53:42.040 --> 0:53:43.759
<v Speaker 1>will say to the add to that is what Rob,

0:53:43.840 --> 0:53:45.440
<v Speaker 1>But I think it's so like special about you, is

0:53:45.520 --> 0:53:47.800
<v Speaker 1>you really want your people to catapult and to like

0:53:48.000 --> 0:53:49.759
<v Speaker 1>step away from you at one point and do their

0:53:49.800 --> 0:53:52.200
<v Speaker 1>own thing, like you encourage that, you know. I remember

0:53:52.280 --> 0:53:54.160
<v Speaker 1>you had somebody that was like your lead singer, and

0:53:54.239 --> 0:53:56.800
<v Speaker 1>you're like, why aren't you doing your own things? Like

0:53:57.560 --> 0:53:59.440
<v Speaker 1>this is like get out of my band, go do

0:53:59.560 --> 0:54:01.759
<v Speaker 1>something else, you know what I mean. So I think

0:54:02.200 --> 0:54:04.080
<v Speaker 1>I think that that's just so special about you because

0:54:04.080 --> 0:54:05.960
<v Speaker 1>everybody doesn't feel that way. People don't want, you know,

0:54:06.320 --> 0:54:10.120
<v Speaker 1>others to succeed, and you do, you know, So that's

0:54:10.120 --> 0:54:13.640
<v Speaker 1>just why you're so special. Yeah, I think it's important.

0:54:13.680 --> 0:54:15.160
<v Speaker 1>I think it's important to do that, you know what

0:54:15.239 --> 0:54:18.799
<v Speaker 1>I mean. It keeps the music alive. You know, we'll Rob.

0:54:18.880 --> 0:54:20.879
<v Speaker 1>I want to say this because Lord's gonna close out

0:54:20.880 --> 0:54:22.400
<v Speaker 1>the show. I got a two o'clock zoom meaning that

0:54:22.440 --> 0:54:24.840
<v Speaker 1>I have to make. It was a pleasure talking with you.

0:54:25.400 --> 0:54:26.920
<v Speaker 1>Let me tell you something, if you weren't a musician,

0:54:26.960 --> 0:54:28.759
<v Speaker 1>you could damn show be a comedian because you're funny

0:54:28.800 --> 0:54:31.600
<v Speaker 1>as hell. Oh, you know what you gotta do before

0:54:31.680 --> 0:54:34.040
<v Speaker 1>we close out? Rob, you gotta do a quick freestyle.

0:54:34.160 --> 0:54:35.879
<v Speaker 1>People in the comments that that when we first started

0:54:35.920 --> 0:54:37.560
<v Speaker 1>the show, So come on, hit one, you need to

0:54:37.640 --> 0:54:42.640
<v Speaker 1>beat what come on? We gotta Oh damn okay boom

0:54:43.280 --> 0:54:52.800
<v Speaker 1>boom Wait wait, wait a minute, I had went way back. Okay,

0:54:52.840 --> 0:55:02.240
<v Speaker 1>ready boom bump boomp, bump bump bump. Yeah, boom boomp.

0:55:03.200 --> 0:55:08.359
<v Speaker 1>Look I take freestyle than free uh because you got

0:55:08.480 --> 0:55:13.840
<v Speaker 1>to pay me boom. My name the E R T.

0:55:14.840 --> 0:55:27.360
<v Speaker 1>And I'm wrapping you feel me. I just wanted to

0:55:27.640 --> 0:55:33.279
<v Speaker 1>take this last because I'm laughing at lower lamping. I

0:55:33.440 --> 0:55:36.239
<v Speaker 1>love you so much, Rob, Thank you on the show.

0:55:36.760 --> 0:55:39.640
<v Speaker 1>Thank you. We're gonna hang out. We're gonna hang and

0:55:39.680 --> 0:55:42.000
<v Speaker 1>make sure we hang out long for sure. For sure,

0:55:42.040 --> 0:55:43.680
<v Speaker 1>I'm looking forward to me to you and thank you

0:55:43.760 --> 0:55:45.680
<v Speaker 1>for doing the show for with us today you and

0:55:45.880 --> 0:55:48.000
<v Speaker 1>Loland on us. Forget LOLd of Sheep at the time,

0:55:49.280 --> 0:55:51.080
<v Speaker 1>Lolo might be in the title of the show, to

0:55:51.160 --> 0:55:56.000
<v Speaker 1>be honest. Where can they follow Rob it? Oh? So

0:55:56.120 --> 0:55:58.880
<v Speaker 1>you can follow Rob obviously at Robert Glassfer on Instagram.

0:55:58.960 --> 0:56:01.640
<v Speaker 1>Like y'all heard Rob said he's black Radio three is

0:56:02.239 --> 0:56:04.560
<v Speaker 1>and done any other thing out you want to promote

0:56:04.600 --> 0:56:10.920
<v Speaker 1>Rob before we ring Off jects nothing. I can actually

0:56:11.000 --> 0:56:14.160
<v Speaker 1>say everything else like I know that would tell me

0:56:14.239 --> 0:56:16.359
<v Speaker 1>that again because my big man fans always telling something.

0:56:16.440 --> 0:56:19.480
<v Speaker 1>She yes, flamed us talk a lot, so yeah, but

0:56:19.719 --> 0:56:21.480
<v Speaker 1>just be on the lookout to say the least. You know.

0:56:21.600 --> 0:56:23.600
<v Speaker 1>Robert's got a lot of projects coming up. So thank you.

0:56:23.800 --> 0:56:27.120
<v Speaker 1>I love you so much. Thank you, and thank you

0:56:27.200 --> 0:56:29.759
<v Speaker 1>for being such our hands on dad. I appreciate that

0:56:29.840 --> 0:56:35.680
<v Speaker 1>more than anything else. We need great black fathers in

0:56:35.760 --> 0:56:38.239
<v Speaker 1>this world. We need to see more black representation of

0:56:38.320 --> 0:56:41.440
<v Speaker 1>black dads that love their children unconditionally different ways. But

0:56:41.520 --> 0:56:47.080
<v Speaker 1>thank you for that. I'm looking. I'm already late for me.

0:56:47.200 --> 0:56:48.920
<v Speaker 1>Before we close our way, Lauren, before we close out,

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0:57:16.280 --> 0:57:18.480
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<v Speaker 1>We thank you. Next weekend is Labor Day weekend. Next Monday.

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<v Speaker 1>We will not go coming right because we will be

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0:57:35.880 --> 0:57:38.720
<v Speaker 1>and Lauren be eating barbecue and Kimda will be somewhere

0:57:38.720 --> 0:57:40.960
<v Speaker 1>of beating up people and stuff, you know it, kind

0:57:41.000 --> 0:57:42.920
<v Speaker 1>of real violence. He pulls my wig off right at

0:57:42.920 --> 0:57:45.360
<v Speaker 1>the show him. Oh my god, y'all have no idea. No.

0:57:45.800 --> 0:57:47.960
<v Speaker 1>Thank you Robert Glas for for joining us, for laugh

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<v Speaker 1>and learned today, and thank you famous for joining us.

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<v Speaker 1>We came in on Lauren our money h page. We're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna hoping to save and we appreciate you guys again

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<v Speaker 1>at laft and learn. What is it, Lauren? We're not

0:57:57.000 --> 0:57:59.360
<v Speaker 1>trying to get anybody to usually to I'm sorry what

0:57:59.480 --> 0:58:01.479
<v Speaker 1>is it. We're not trying to get anybody to change

0:58:01.560 --> 0:58:03.440
<v Speaker 1>their mind. We are simply trying to get you to

0:58:03.600 --> 0:58:06.360
<v Speaker 1>use your mind, because why critical thinking belongs to you.

0:58:06.520 --> 0:58:07.920
<v Speaker 1>You need to look in the mirror and like the

0:58:08.000 --> 0:58:10.000
<v Speaker 1>decisions that you made. So go look in the mirror

0:58:10.040 --> 0:58:11.720
<v Speaker 1>and ask the person that's looking back at you, are

0:58:11.760 --> 0:58:13.840
<v Speaker 1>you happy with the decisions that you make? Now they

0:58:13.880 --> 0:58:16.000
<v Speaker 1>reach out the reflection, reach out and slap the ship

0:58:16.040 --> 0:58:17.840
<v Speaker 1>out of you. That means they're not happy, But right

0:58:17.880 --> 0:58:19.600
<v Speaker 1>now I'm happy. I love you guys, Thank you so

0:58:19.720 --> 0:58:23.640
<v Speaker 1>much for joining us today. Laugh and Learn is a

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