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Speaker 1: secrets to success. My next guest is on the Phone.

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Speaker 1: It's about music, y'all. He's reaching fans across R and B,

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Speaker 1: Welcome the money making Conversations for the very first time,

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Speaker 1: three times Grammy nominated artists songwriter and musician Molly Music,

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Speaker 1: Hey mother, they got I have to set you up. Man.

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Speaker 1: but I never saw it. I always would see people

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Speaker 1: take the responsibility to dress God up. They would take

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Speaker 1: they would think that He would be not good, so

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Speaker 1: they would put a tie on it or or put

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Speaker 1: a wash rag on the things that I would want

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Speaker 1: to see on them to be able to identify with them,

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Speaker 1: which would give God more glory. So instead of going

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Speaker 1: forward and living a double life, they categorize me as

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Speaker 1: slash neo gospel somebody, not just gospel. Just because I

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Speaker 1: will not succumb to leading mebons of people to believe

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Speaker 1: that I live a life that I do not, or

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Speaker 1: or that I'm interested in things that I am not,

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Speaker 1: or are not interested in things. So it's not about that.

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Speaker 1: To God be the glory. And I trust that God

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Speaker 1: is big enough to get the glory, and he doesn't

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Speaker 1: need me lying to get bolt. So his goodness, if

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Speaker 1: it works on me, then it can work on other people.

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Speaker 1: And his goodness, it's gonna work on my bad He's

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Speaker 1: gonna fix my my, my hurt. He's gonna he's gonna

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Speaker 1: bring um, he's gonna heal my my pains, He's gonna

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Speaker 1: heal my mind. In order for him to be the

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Speaker 1: same instrumental guard that he is in everyone else's life,

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Speaker 1: I need to have my own version of anxiety, my

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Speaker 1: own versions of fears, my own versions of hesitations. And

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Speaker 1: once I bring them to him, and he can not

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Speaker 1: only be a good guy in my mouth, but a

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Speaker 1: good guy in my life. I can have receipts from

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Speaker 1: the time for me yielding to him recently, like I

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Speaker 1: just got off my knees about this and he answered it.

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Speaker 1: That couple with wealth and success is unstoppable. Love it,

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Speaker 1: a man. He's influenced by Sam Cook and Oders Reading.

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Speaker 1: He's three time Grammy nominated artists, songwriting musician. And now

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the because we kind of dipped it in

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Speaker 1: James Brown was doing, and Sam Cook was down and

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Speaker 1: Rachel and many other artists use the CEO of your

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Speaker 1: own business or cares enterprises. Tell me why you started that,

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Speaker 1: what is the focus of your business. Well, I'm really

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Speaker 1: excited about Gave Food because it's a dream come true

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Speaker 1: for me. I was the young boy getting in trouble

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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be taking spelling class notes or something.

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Speaker 1: So I always was anticipating being a house that could

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Speaker 1: deliver a specific type of content to the world. As

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Speaker 1: I was coming up, I had to recognize that I

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Speaker 1: was willing to partner and move and negotiate things, and

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Speaker 1: you know where, I would be lending portions of percentages

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Speaker 1: of myself two partners and companies in order to get

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to advance. But if you offer a good portion,

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Speaker 1: it could be very difficult to get off of that

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Speaker 1: so um. I never intended on being an artist, but

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Speaker 1: I was glad to open up my mouth to be

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Speaker 1: able to show my colleagues and other artists who were

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Speaker 1: scared that it could actually happen. So I just kind

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Speaker 1: of was the brave one when the more talented people

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Speaker 1: were just more afraid. So I'm like, man, if you

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Speaker 1: just do this, and I would do it and it'll happen.

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Speaker 1: So that so bravery and or just confidence you know

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Speaker 1: big deal as well. But artists like my sister and

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Speaker 1: KP and people who are come in contact with Kristen Mason,

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Speaker 1: Angelina Shari, Artists like Travis Green who who would be

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Speaker 1: coming up under the tutelage of mentoring of what we

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Speaker 1: would be doing in Savannah, Georgia, as well, John Den

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Speaker 1: mc reynolds as we would be touring in Chicago, Tasha

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Speaker 1: Cobbs who would be connected with us in the certain

497
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Speaker 1: of what we were doing. Dion Kipping, who would be

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Speaker 1: connected inside of the surge of for what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: He was the first person that traveled me from Savannah,

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Speaker 1: Georgia and my full band up to his surprise birthday

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Speaker 1: party in Connecticut, where I met youthful praise and and

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Speaker 1: those guys, and I just started to trickle up to

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Speaker 1: Hezekaya Walker, Donna Lawrence. My life just completely changed, you know,

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Speaker 1: just from this honesty and this walk. So I'm excited

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Speaker 1: about all of it and just really want to encourage

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Speaker 1: everybody to get to that point of openness and forwardness

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Speaker 1: inside of what they're doing. But there was only so

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Speaker 1: much that I could do because I did not earn

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Speaker 1: enough to be able to impact my own life to

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Speaker 1: be able to help anyone else. So I had to

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Speaker 1: find out where the money was going, Why was I

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Speaker 1: valuable to companies, How did I accumulate wealth? And could

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Speaker 1: I apply that to my own self. Once I recognized

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Speaker 1: that I could, I needed to attain ownership a game

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Speaker 1: of what it was that was achieving. Lending was for

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Speaker 1: me clear the name, you know. Now, I put it

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Speaker 1: inside of a house that houses k approved. I will

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Speaker 1: be flagshipping as money music. But it's not about me.

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Speaker 1: It's proof that we can do it. And there's a

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Speaker 1: way that my colleagues and partners and artists and creators

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Speaker 1: can come that we can kind of shortcut a lot

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Speaker 1: of the roundabout ways of searching for the right place.

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Speaker 1: If it's have been beautiful, inspired by God, spirit breathed,

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Speaker 1: and you have a plan, we can do something with it.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I built k Approved to be able

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Speaker 1: to to create another developmental area where people could be

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Speaker 1: UH recorded, put out, have an opportunity to make mistakes

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Speaker 1: in the community of people of love that loved them,

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Speaker 1: and we can create successful UH artists that do different

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Speaker 1: types of music, creators that do different types of visuals,

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Speaker 1: and photographers who shoot different types of pictures. I can't

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Speaker 1: change the culture if I can't influence it, and I

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Speaker 1: needed to influence it from my house that I owned. Awesome.

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Speaker 1: All I know is this my friend. You're special. I

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Speaker 1: like you, said ra Sean got I gotta do my homework.

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Speaker 1: I gotta go back to Molly Is. I gotta listen

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Speaker 1: to Beautiful, Gotta listen to Heavy Love, Gotta listen to

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Speaker 1: Walking Shoes, gotta listen to A Gotta listened to Johnny

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Speaker 1: and Donna. I gotta listen to I Believe because what

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Speaker 1: you will not do to me? Molly, Mr Molly Music,

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Speaker 1: It's come on my show next time, and I can't

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Speaker 1: break down some lyrics to you during the end, if

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Speaker 1: let you know how much I believe in you. I

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Speaker 1: Let go is out all the digital streams, Molly music,

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Speaker 1: my man, Uh call you my nephew, young and nephew.

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Speaker 1: Whenever you need man, you come on my show because

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