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Speaker 1: has been affected my life for over twenty six years.

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Speaker 1: Um say twenty six years, because twenty team marks his

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Speaker 1: twenty six year music. I remember when he released a

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Speaker 1: single call While We Sing, that changed the landscape of

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Speaker 1: gospel music. His little story about that, I remember Steve harveing,

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Speaker 1: and I played two songs. Steve said, why do you

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Speaker 1: just I gotta play this song. This is my song.

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Speaker 1: This song had affected me in a way that opened

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Speaker 1: my eyes because I was I was in transition with

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Speaker 1: young man out of the four worth of Dallas area,

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Speaker 1: just changed the landscape. His album remained at number one

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Speaker 1: on Billboard Top Gospel for four to two weeks. He

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Speaker 1: was the first Gospel of Music artists an album to

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Speaker 1: choir director, and arthur. He's known for leading urban contemporary

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Speaker 1: gospel choirs such as The Family, God's Property and One

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Speaker 1: Variety dubbed him as the reigning king of urban gospel.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversations, my man, Kurt Franklin.

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Family? You know? The thing that I

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Speaker 1: like about you is that I figured like I love

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Speaker 1: because I've been able to watch you grow as a husband,

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Speaker 1: a friend, uh, uh, an ambassador, UH, spokesperson. I've seen

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Speaker 1: know that UH with Steve and I. Steve is the

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Speaker 1: produce it. So for thirteen years I got that. I

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Speaker 1: And in that thirteen years because that that show helped

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Speaker 1: transform the landscape of gospel music. At Steve Harvey, which

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Speaker 1: And then you guys did your theme from a uh.

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Speaker 1: It was like it was like the Grammys version of

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Speaker 1: And you know, if it was transformed, if it changed

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Speaker 1: and that you were transformative, and that Steve was transformative

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Speaker 1: the genre. But we can say that about Celebration of Gospel,

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Speaker 1: but you started it way back then with why we

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Speaker 1: Now tell the truth? Because you know, you know, Irban

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Speaker 1: you're talking about somebody that does gospel music, have been

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Speaker 1: And I can't say. You know, people out said that

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Speaker 1: make no sin. It makes sense. It makes sense because

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Speaker 1: you make me, you make me emotional, you make me

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Speaker 1: just an amazing combination of styles. Uh. I've asked him

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Speaker 1: you know? Because because I remember I thinking, I went

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Speaker 1: to Kirk. I said, Kirk, I said, could you could

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Speaker 1: the host is the one and only Kurk frank They

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Speaker 1: what Steve, it brings up another audience to you. You

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Speaker 1: My man Grant Aldrich, Hi, rasha thank you for having me. Well,

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Speaker 1: What we'll thank you for saying that. I really do

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Speaker 1: you know, I think I took a pretty typical path,

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Speaker 1: you know, I had students were you know, I taught

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00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:42,319
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854
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Speaker 1: up to me and try to touch my my skin

855
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:47,399
Speaker 1: and if they're rubbed off, you know, and they called

856
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Speaker 1: me Mr Chaka Lee, you know. Um. And then I

857
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: had people there who just straight up didn't believe that

858
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Speaker 1: I came from America because they're from what they understood

859
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: of the world, and they don't they didn't get a

860
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Speaker 1: lot of they don't get a lot of the media

861
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Speaker 1: and the images that everybody else gets America is white

862
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Speaker 1: people in America is the land of white people in

863
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Speaker 1: blond hair and blue eyes. Um. And so they just

864
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Speaker 1: didn't even believe that there were black people there, let

865
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Speaker 1: alone all of the intricacies of like, you know, the

866
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Speaker 1: history of African Americans in in America. So um. You know,

867
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Speaker 1: people tended to think I was either from you know,

868
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Speaker 1: Africa or you know, or or India or something like that.

869
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Speaker 1: And then they had certain you know, they had certain perceptions, um,

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Speaker 1: of of those countries, um, which weren't always so good right,

871
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Speaker 1: they think they think America is the land of the white,

872
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: then you you also have to think that that that

873
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:53,399
Speaker 1: there was a backwards view of Africa, you know, very

874
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Speaker 1: backwards ignorance, slavery, poverty, violence, you know, exactly need to

875
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Speaker 1: be also they're I'm sure they're aware of the slave

876
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: slavery too. So so all those negative things dominated Joe present.

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Speaker 1: So you are you are a torch bearer there? Um, yeah,

878
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 1: I mean it was it was you know, it definitely

879
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 1: felt very you know, pioneering to be out there. That

880
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: was hardly as I said, hardly any other foreigners there was.

881
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: You know, there was about three or four other black

882
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 1: people that I met when I was out there, you know,

883
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: in the city of four million people, and we all

884
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,400
Speaker 1: abandoned together and there was two or three. How did

885
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 1: you find them? Now? Well, you know, there would be

886
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Speaker 1: certain places in the city where only you know, only

887
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Speaker 1: were like foreigners would go to these barns, restaurants or

888
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Speaker 1: whatever we're foreigners would convene so they could you know,

889
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Speaker 1: um and you know, they would just be a random

890
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: black person in there and we were just connect and

891
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:58,919
Speaker 1: be like, hey, you go, what are you doing here?

892
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Speaker 1: You know? So UM. Yeah, it was crazy. It was crazy,

893
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Speaker 1: but it was you know, it ended up being one

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895
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 1: You know, I learned a lot about myself. I learned

896
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897
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Speaker 1: I learned a lot about you know, it put into

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899
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:32,279
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900
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Speaker 1: and that America wasn't the center of the world UM

901
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: and uh. And I grew tremendously from that, and it

902
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903
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 1: from which all of my my business and entrepreneurial endeavors

904
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:53,839
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905
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: um you know, and and also learned how to navigate

906
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907
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Speaker 1: hundreds of factories UM figured out you know, the first

908
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909
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Speaker 1: to make some money were like sneakers, And so I

910
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 1: saw they had sneakers out there, and I started buying

911
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:21,360
Speaker 1: them and sending them back home, and through that process

912
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:24,800
Speaker 1: learned all about you know, shipping from from China and

913
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914
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:34,600
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915
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:39,960
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916
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917
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918
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919
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Speaker 1: I'll just just sales for you and can other people

921
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935
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