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Speaker 1: Money. We are thank take we are the authority. And

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, my name is Tank. This it's the

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Speaker 1: R and B Money Podcast, the authority on all things

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Speaker 1: Huh RB a local today tonight. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: time it is where you watching it? Arms got international,

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Speaker 1: huh just elevated. Yeah, it's not just no American thing. No,

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Speaker 1: it's not just no American thing. I mean there was

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Speaker 1: have a love one in the building, a superstar in

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Speaker 1: the building. She does it all man makes an Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank you. How you doing? I'm doing awesome? Girls, It's great.

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Speaker 1: Just going to the access beginning. Just talk you know

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Speaker 1: the way I normally talk right now, you know, try

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Speaker 1: to make you know, accommodate. Sure he feels what is happening.

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Speaker 1: This guy, you know, he's from the hood, so I

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Speaker 1: but it's just like a boy. Oh my gosh, and

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Speaker 1: it's a new They keep me here and how you doing?

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Speaker 1: I'm here amongst the madness and King George? What are

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Speaker 1: you both good? Great? We are good. We are happy

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Speaker 1: to have you. I love I mean, you know you're dope.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I think you're I think you know, talent

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Speaker 1: thousand percent consistent and on just a godly angelic level

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Speaker 1: really cool and rare. Yeah. Now, you genuinely are a sweetheart.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, I've always felt that every time I'm

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Speaker 1: and it's tough to remain that way. Yeah, Like you

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Speaker 1: may start off, you know what I'm saying, and then

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Speaker 1: you really get into this ship. Yeah, and you really

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Speaker 1: start to go through some things. You start really seeing

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Speaker 1: the colors and the skins on these people, and it

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Speaker 1: can turn you, it can turn you different. Well, I

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Speaker 1: have been there, you know, like, and I always say that,

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Speaker 1: well I've said recently you have to go there to

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Speaker 1: to stay cool, you know, because it's this, this whole world,

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Speaker 1: not just the industry, is designed to make you realize

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Speaker 1: and see and face your shadow side, which is to me,

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Speaker 1: the mean side. You know, once you get cool with it,

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Speaker 1: I choose not to go there frequently, you know, And

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Speaker 1: and I don't take a lot of stuff personal anymore. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, so that helps me stay Yeah, all right, man,

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Speaker 1: you're just probably having a bad day. I might be

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Speaker 1: having a bad day. I'll give myself grace. I think

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Speaker 1: the personal part of it is a tough bar because

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Speaker 1: as an artist, everything feels like an attack on you personally.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's all an attacks that's just not good? What

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Speaker 1: do you mean? It's not good? And you'd be like,

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Speaker 1: you don't know why I went through? How dare you now?

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Speaker 1: that's totally fine. And so then you just start to

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Speaker 1: Who was multiplies and so like, I worry about the

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Speaker 1: and ask a question, would it just take too much

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Speaker 1: and I just want empathy. Yes, So I try my hardest,

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Speaker 1: and their blessing. Like they want to own they want

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00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 1: this us, you know what I'm saying, Like like how

424
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: Callie is or how New York Atlanta is like it's

425
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 1: this very thing where it's like very much, this is

426
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 1: ours Like people in my DMS and mentions all now,

427
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: like when you're coming home and I'm like, I don't

428
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 1: even know you. What do you talk? Like? Why are

429
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 1: you you never met? What are you saying? I missed

430
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: your skinny man? Stop looking at that page? It's like,

431
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: who is this akin? Maybe I know? Maybe I know

432
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 1: he was he was two when I was moving around?

433
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: What are you saying? But I appreciate it? So what

434
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:54,679
Speaker 1: was what was the breakout moment? Do you feel um

435
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,919
Speaker 1: in the world or just from there? Like I mean

436
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 1: it starts there, but then I mean, I guess it'll

437
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 1: translate to the world can do it? And the breakout

438
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 1: moment for the world is or there was tricks to

439
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: the world American boy had to be right? And so

440
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: how do we get flight? Like why are we taking

441
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: this flight from the UK? So tricks that happens. I'm building,

442
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: I'm moving, I'm moving. I go to a label they

443
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 1: say no, eventually end up signing to the same label

444
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: via production company. Um, it's always a matter. It just

445
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: becomes this repeating story of like, hey, I'm really good. Nah,

446
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:40,360
Speaker 1: somebody else brings me in. Oh she's good, right, sign Yeah,

447
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,120
Speaker 1: got that understood. It didn't quite get it the second

448
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:45,639
Speaker 1: time it happened, and this is all in the UK.

449
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 1: Still though this is in the UK. UM I asked

450
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: to be let go from the label because when we

451
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 1: top twenties everything, everything's going great. Nineteen eighties record I

452
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 1: have comes out and they don't believe it's going to

453
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,160
Speaker 1: do so well, but it does better than expected. We recoup.

454
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 1: We're good, right. Second album comes around and I'm like,

455
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 1: John Legend wants to help me work on this album?

456
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: Is that produce it? Do you meet him somewhere in

457
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: this time? So, in this period of time before I

458
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 1: even sign the Steel and get out there, I'm still

459
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 1: working on my mixtapes, doing stuff independently. I'm just convicted.

460
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 1: I'm like, I need to meet this guy, John Legend.

461
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: I heard all his records on this Kanye mixtape. I

462
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: need to meet him. And that's when I go to La. Well,

463
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: I pray God, I need two thousand dollars to get

464
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: to La. I get I get a cool like within

465
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: twenty four or forty eight hours, saying yo, go on

466
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: tour with this girl jam media and do Rad Diggers

467
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: parts on this guest record that she has with rad Digga. Cool.

468
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: How much they pay in two thousand hounds? Right? Cool?

469
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: So two thousands and this is when I'm like, no

470
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 1: one can tell me. Nobody can tell me nothing about God. Okay,

471
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: So go on this tour, get this two thousand pounds,

472
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 1: go to America and I'm in LA and I'm working

473
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: on more demos, and I would on the street. I'm

474
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: just this is I'm playing this mixtape in the hotel

475
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: room to the point my friend that come with me

476
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: just rolling with me. He's like, oh, and I'm just like, nah,

477
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 1: I feel something with this. I feel that I feel it.

478
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: Walked down the street to Rusco's and Kanye's in there.

479
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: I don't see John at all. I just thought Kanye

480
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 1: for John, like, Yo, you're great, you know some of

481
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 1: the same people I know. Listen, listen, listen. Can you

482
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: are John? Yeah? I was like no, because I need

483
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: to meet John. I have this song. I'm prepared. I

484
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 1: have it on my dad tape. Right, I wasn't seeding

485
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 1: the small CDs. It's like two thousand and two, two

486
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: thousand and three, and we go to studio and meet John.

487
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: He just takes you immediately. No, he um like this even.

488
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: He's like, come to studio later. And I was like, okay,

489
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: you've never met this man in your life. No, You're like,

490
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: but we know a couple of the same people. Yeah,

491
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: And then we just started talking like this is this

492
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: is God. He don't play about me, so don't play

493
00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: with so we're taught. Like He's like, comes to you.

494
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: I was like, cool, I don't really think he's gonna.

495
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: I'm thinking this gonna right. Yeah, he's not. He's not.

496
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: It's probably a wrong number. He's like, yeah, come to Recomplant.

497
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: So we'll go to Recomplant and I'm there freezing thinking

498
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: this la. I didn't bring no co weather clothes, so

499
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: it's cold by the time I get to the studio

500
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: and I'm just want to go home. I don't like

501
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: coal weather. And John's in the studio. Met John said hey,

502
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: here's the song. Um, listen to it in your own

503
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: time because I don't even know if it's like the

504
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: snuff right now, and I'm all nervous. He's like cool, cool, cool. Um.

505
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: A couple days later, he calls and he says, yeah,

506
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: Kanye lights it says I can do it, so let

507
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: me just do it, and then me and John get

508
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: really cool, like he's like, yo, like you just your ballsy,

509
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: like you got guts. I'm just like what we else?

510
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: Like I'm supposed to be scared. I don't that gene

511
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: doesn't exist. I don't know what that means. Um, I'm

512
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: just like, thank you, cool, cool do the He comes

513
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: to London, we build up a report and he sees

514
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 1: me really working. He sees me like putting my money

515
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: where my mouth is, and he says, come on the

516
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: road with me. Because every time he comes on the

517
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: road or goes on the road in the UK, we're

518
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: promoting my album, which has since come out. He's done

519
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: the record, it's come out, his album's gold, and he's

520
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: winning all the Grammy's and doing it staying and he's touring,

521
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: but he's taking me with him, and everybody's like, like,

522
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: who is this? So when I go to the label

523
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: at the end of this and everything's a success on

524
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 1: our end and he's gold and they're like, who's John Legend?

525
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: And I just want to punch a wall because I

526
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: want it. Because he was like I was like, he's

527
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: gonna Zet produce this album for me, which becomes Shine

528
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: and has an American boy in it, and they're like,

529
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: who's he? And I was just like, let me go?

530
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: Can you? Can you drop me? Please? Drop me? This

531
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: is nonsense. I was genuinely like, now, let me go, please,

532
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: please let me go. It took them three years, so

533
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: two thousand and four, five, six seven. It took them

534
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: to two thousand and seven two A sign off Atlantica

535
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: in I'm signed to John's label, the Atlantica Just like,

536
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: what are this label doing? What the heck to the

537
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: point where they were just like, we'll buy you out.

538
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: We're good. Just it's twenty thousand dollars. Just we'll get

539
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: it done right, Yeah yeah, And they buy me out

540
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: the deal and I was like cool, And I come

541
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: to the US. I've already been back and forth so much.

542
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: I'm already pretty much in my deal and I'm moving

543
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: and start from scratch because no one here knows me.

544
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: Yeah whatever. That was weird because you know, I'm already

545
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: me in London, I was Christian Luvertanz before they knew

546
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: what luvertizer look out, look out. Yeah, I come here

547
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: and I'm like, whoa baby if person. This is this

548
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: gonna be just you, says just you John, John John's

549
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: you know, John's coming. So I was, I wait. I

550
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: used to wait for Jamie to give the club on

551
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: the way, so he told me to check out the section.

552
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: I wait, Okay, I wait, I wait. I love that.

553
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: I wait, like whole soul, the same security that used

554
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: to work for me too. So but anyway, another story.

555
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: Look at that the calm of the journey. Yeah yeah,

556
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: so you're brand new in the US. I'm brand new,

557
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: but again I've been moving around with John to a

558
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: degree and building my own relationships, and so time American

559
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: Boy comes around, we record that maybe the first week,

560
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,479
Speaker 1: first few months of being fully for real sign, I mean,

561
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: Miami having a good sign. Come on, come on, come on.

562
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: She stopped, she acted out. No, it was. It was

563
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: beautiful like Miami's one of my Miami's separate from Florida.

564
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: Just this is my personal perception of Miami's separate from Florida. Um.

565
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: But I had a good time, and I was we

566
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: were out there recording with John and I had the

567
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: chance to go with where I am. I'm just all hyped,

568
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: like I ain't worried. That's gonna be good. I thought,

569
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: we care, We're just gonna have fun. My cousin kept

570
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: sending me CDs and I was like, I was bubbling.

571
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: I was listening to all the house, all the soul

572
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: or the garage from home and this is guy with

573
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: super ds and mixtape DJ Okay so cuberd mixtapes, and

574
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: I'm out here like hey said, no, I'm out here bubbling,

575
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: like this is my in my in Miami, right, So

576
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: you know it's similar in the in the energy, having

577
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: a good time in Miami. And we go into studio.

578
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: John's like, what you want to ride about? I was like,

579
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: whoa is? Like what you've been doing? I was like,

580
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: I've been out here outside outside, outside, let's try about

581
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: these boys. And he's like, well, let's try about the

582
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: boys then, and I was like, I don't mean to

583
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: be fair. Outside outside, I wasn't doing too much. I

584
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: was just being time. Everybody's version outside, every different. Some

585
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:08,399
Speaker 1: people in capital letters, okay, mom was I was all

586
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: all small. No, it wasn't a couple of capitals, but

587
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: outside outside caps one outside. I was hard enough to

588
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: write about it. Yes, the outside. I don't know what

589
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: he's talking about. No, it was. It was just fun

590
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: and for me it was just looking at different types

591
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 1: of it was Cuban boys and Spanish man and I

592
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: was just like, what is this, you know, like it's

593
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: my end the UK like that, and so it was fun.

594
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,399
Speaker 1: It was just a different energy. So when I'm thinking

595
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 1: everyone things about American boys, I'm just like, well, technically,

596
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: I don't think. I didn't know the difference really was.

597
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: That's it. I have a cop from there. You know.

598
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: They had a little white cars. Look at you, look

599
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: at you, right back to the play hold up. Um.

600
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 1: So I was just I was just having a good time.

601
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: A couple of my homies are out there. It was

602
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 1: just a fun time and that was it. We wrote

603
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: about it. Didn't think about it. It's an hour, a

604
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: couple of hours in the studio. Um who produced that? Well,

605
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: I am his peeping him in his people wow. And

606
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,799
Speaker 1: they had that beat sitting and they didn't really think

607
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: it was gonna do much. I remember him saying, I

608
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: don't think it's the hit. I said, well, if it's not,

609
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: we're going to I be far and it's gonna be

610
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: a white label. That's how you say it. Yeah, Okay,

611
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: that's how you say it. That's how I said. I

612
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: thought it was, yeah, because when you went you told me, yeah,

613
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: that's what I thought it was. That's what I heard.

614
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: I be for I'm back. Oh god, yeah, don't hate it,

615
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: don't happy? Is it the real? The Hurricanes back? So

616
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: you're like, I'm going there anyway, so it's whatever, It's fine,

617
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:24,760
Speaker 1: like it'll be whatever. And that's literally. I just was like, look, people,

618
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,959
Speaker 1: I love it. I'm dancing to it. I'm happy. Yeah,

619
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: and the label go ahead and they started playing it

620
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: to everyone and it was like I played this to

621
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: my little nephew and I played to my kids and

622
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: I played it to him and everybody was just like

623
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: it was that vibe to me. It's the baseline on

624
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:54,320
Speaker 1: that record. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's happy though, exactly, but

625
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: it's kind of aggressive but it's happy though it's kind

626
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: of blah blah blah. That was on purpose. That was

627
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: on purpose, blah blah, like you on purpose. The frequencies

628
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: are really really like happy. Where were you going for happy?

629
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: You were going for that, you were going for this,

630
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 1: I'm making a happy record. I was no. I was

631
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: like this, I just feel like I'm dancing right, now

632
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: this makes me feel of joyful times. I feel like

633
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: joyful times in London and I was channeling this girl,

634
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: this lady from Heidi High, Um. I think her name

635
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 1: was sup Pollard and she was the dizziest, happiest person

636
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: that ever was. Um, we were singing it. I went

637
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,240
Speaker 1: to Elephant Jerald in my hage, one of my favorite

638
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: jazz musicians. She's the bible for me. Um, and I

639
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: was like, Ella was singing this, where would she go?

640
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: I kept going all these deep notes and like and

641
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: John was just like, you know, like so me and

642
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 1: him sat there and taught music because at this point,

643
00:37:55,920 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: me and I'm like we're musical partners. You know, we

644
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: could just go back and forth about things. And he

645
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: was like, you know, like how back in he was

646
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: just I'd be singing something, he'd be like, you know,

647
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 1: like how back in the day, when go for that,

648
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: I'd be like cool, and you know, translate immediately immediately.

649
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: It's easy with him. Um. And so he was like,

650
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: you know, like how Diana Rust and Supremes where they

651
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: were like take the base out of your voice kind

652
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 1: of thing and just sing like go for that. And

653
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 1: I was like suppllowed Tae just happy when you sing it,

654
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: so and to me, I smiled little way through it,

655
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: and I was like, people are gonna energy people, you know,

656
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: when you're really channeling what you're singing, people feel it.

657
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,280
Speaker 1: And to me, that's just a consistent response to that record.

658
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: People just get happy when they hear it. It's the spirit,

659
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: it's not you know. So that was that and we

660
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: just as left. It didn't take too long in that overthink,

661
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: it just sang it. How long did it take to

662
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 1: come out before you are after you recorded? Full year?

663
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: He said a year, A full year. I say a

664
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 1: full year because the days were it was just like,

665
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: oh my god, you yeah, well yeah, it's feeling you

666
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,280
Speaker 1: get when you got a record. Yeah, and you're ready

667
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: to Man at this point, I'm like, there are some

668
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 1: beautiful heart Fall records on this album. I just want

669
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: to have fun though, you know, this one makes me

670
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: happy and also makes atlantic really happy. Yeah, let's just

671
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:39,359
Speaker 1: go like took Kanye a good eight months to get

672
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 1: to it. Yeah, that happens, but he did it. But

673
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: with without the record is just joy, yes, you know,

674
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 1: and that's I'm happy. So that was the world wide breakout.

675
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 1: It did exactly what we wanted and what I wanted

676
00:39:54,600 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 1: for it to do. I wanted people to feel joy alright,

677
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 1: So we got some other segments to get to right

678
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: before we do um you diverse five, you move into

679
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: other things. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Talk talk

680
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: to me about your progressions. Apple Music. Yeah, and this

681
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: is the blessing of life when I love it there,

682
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: I love it. It's a good time listen. I had

683
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:35,280
Speaker 1: the idea a few years back to like twenty sixteen

684
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,800
Speaker 1: to do a show a podcast, and I was like,

685
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: we should just go to Apple and asome about it.

686
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: At the time, they were switching over and doing some things.

687
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:43,879
Speaker 1: They didn't have the space for it. I was like, cool,

688
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,720
Speaker 1: first for meant to be will come back. Around twenty eighteen,

689
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: we went back to them off of Lover's Drop. One

690
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: of our friends was like, I'm going to stay over

691
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 1: this right, A couple of writers and they were like,

692
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: you should have a show because you just know too

693
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: much music. How all the people that you know come

694
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,839
Speaker 1: on the show. And I was just like, I wasn't

695
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 1: even thinking that. I send them an email. We send

696
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: them an email, I my team, we send them an

697
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 1: email about this years ago. So let's send it again,

698
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: you know, let's just send them an email, knock them

699
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: they got space for They came back and said, it's

700
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: a great idea for a podcast. How about you come

701
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 1: on and do a radio show and be with us

702
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: five days a week. And yeah, yeah. Then I was

703
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: just like, for sure, absolutely, yes, let's do that to

704
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 1: be fun. And then I start going and we can

705
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: have and but they are they are solid partner. They

706
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: support a lot of things we do, and they're like

707
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: very much like, whatever you do, we want to be

708
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 1: a part of it. Whatever you whatever you think is great,

709
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 1: let's be you know. And so it's myself and two

710
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: other main co host angers, Jasen Strombo, and we're the

711
00:41:56,640 --> 00:42:00,439
Speaker 1: main on Apple Music Kids, which is contemporary or urban

712
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: contemporary music. I get to do the R and B

713
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:04,879
Speaker 1: side of it. I get to do the soul side

714
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: of it. I get to do the reggae side, whatever

715
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:08,839
Speaker 1: music on one side of it. And so I play

716
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: a bunch of records. I love to hear it. I

717
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: know people who I messed with personal it really is.

718
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: And I interview all the heroes and greats and you know,

719
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:19,439
Speaker 1: y'a't have to at this point come on the show.

720
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: But it's very like people. I like people. I love

721
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 1: musicians I've grown up with. We've been interviewed Al Green

722
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: and Eddie Laverte and and Jimmy Cliff and you know,

723
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: down to JT from you know, seeing you girls like

724
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 1: I just I love what I love and I talked

725
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 1: to who I love. And again this is the more

726
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: I say, and the more I realize it's God is

727
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: just like, do what you want. You're good. I gave

728
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: you all these things. I gave you all these dreams

729
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:54,479
Speaker 1: to them and I'm to day job, I doing music,

730
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: and or I should said it best right. I was

731
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,919
Speaker 1: interviewing him, Yeah, throw the flows out there. It's fine

732
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: because he's supposed to be there. I was, okay, he

733
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: fixed my posture. But for Your Style show we interviewed

734
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: him and his residency and we were talking and he said,

735
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: I'm doing this if it doesn't mean I can't do

736
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean if I'm doing a residency, but I

737
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:19,800
Speaker 1: can still don't on a roll when I'm ready, and

738
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 1: I can still go make an album and already this

739
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that I'm stuck here. And just reinforce my

740
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: thought process of like you can do what you want.

741
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,240
Speaker 1: You really can't do what you want, and you should

742
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: all just do what we want, like as artists expand

743
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: you're here doing this. You know this. I love this show.

744
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: It's TV show to me, so that it's a weekly watch,

745
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: you know, I watched the show like I'm catching up

746
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: on the older episode. I'm just it's it's a necessary

747
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: platform and it's really the idea of do what you want.

748
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 1: You know, do exactly what you want, don't worry about it.

749
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: If you're in alignment, it will be celebrated that we

750
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: lifted up. Now you're doing you're doing is amazing. That

751
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 1: transition has been amazing. And you you're so knowledgeable. Thank

752
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: you about what we all do. And well, you know

753
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 1: what I mean, like you got it. Thank you guys.

754
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: It just makes sense, you know what I mean, Like

755
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,320
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be where you're at. I believe it.

756
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 1: Thank you, you know what I mean. And the music

757
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: is you know, you're a stale you know, you know,

758
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, music come in, you know,

759
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 1: we have records come in and features and yeah, the

760
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:36,280
Speaker 1: other so again under the due I wanted to top five, Okay,

761
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:43,760
Speaker 1: already you're top five, my top five stales, top five.

762
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: Oh my word, you're top five? Okay, song, oh wow

763
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 1: thing freath Yeah but you know, oh god, but you know,

764
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 1: you know my cheek. Why do I feel like I'm

765
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: watching a movie where like a Midwest team white girl

766
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:35,439
Speaker 1: gets pregnant on that's to your to juggle deal Lord deal,

767
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: old Jesus, hallelujah, hallelujah. Stills topic, I would like to

768
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 1: know the breathe out on the five. Still your top

769
00:45:55,560 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: five R and b artists? How well, this is hard

770
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: because female female, because and it's gonna it's gonna go

771
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: into sub genres. Still nothing, I'm right, okay, so top

772
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,919
Speaker 1: top because this is like first pivotal point in my life.

773
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,439
Speaker 1: Um eliphate Gerald. Yes, I was thirteen years old sitting

774
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 1: in the bus going, yes, my little woman, like, how

775
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: do you sound like this? Lost my mind. Stole the

776
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 1: tape from my friend Natalie, her granddad's UM tape. I

777
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: stole it from them. It was good times. Um so

778
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,359
Speaker 1: yeah Elephis. Sheerald to another pivotal point for me. Joe

779
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 1: see and just just would you all to see and

780
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: more and I and the more of their more growing

781
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: I get, the more I'm like, give it to Casey

782
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 1: and Jojo because you're not screaming harmonies like that and

783
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: making a sing along under the direction. I knew you're

784
00:46:54,920 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 1: gonna come on tut Okay, okay, he told Okay. Davante

785
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: was a g Remember that Joe, Joe and Ksey were

786
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 1: courtet singers. So all of those harmonies, most of them

787
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,840
Speaker 1: are aggressive until they break it down. You know what

788
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: I'm saying, God call it you you. Yeah, most times

789
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: you are to be its most time? Is that hard? Yeah?

790
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:33,240
Speaker 1: So that combination of them and then intricacy, it's beautiful.

791
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 1: So I love I love Joe to see just down

792
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: down the line, Um, Karen clock Ship and the sisters.

793
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: It's uncle Angel. When I was growing up, and it

794
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 1: was just like it taught me like how to individually sing,

795
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: but also singing the choiet or in a group with

796
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: my sisters and that. So when I realized I could

797
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: do something sing a little bit, I was like, I'm

798
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 1: the group arranged. Okay. Yeah. She was like yeah, yeah,

799
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: this is that's what we're gonna do. And so for me,

800
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 1: it was just like hearing all these different sounds and

801
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 1: all these like singing again, like Josie like just go

802
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 1: in and like you hearing all the notes and then

803
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: like they were singing around sometimes. But Angels for me

804
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: was the one that stuck in my soul, like the words,

805
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: the lyrics that I really felt like I felt Angels like,

806
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 1: you know, like so Karen Clouds, she and the Clouds Sisters,

807
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:43,319
Speaker 1: Misia Paris. She doesn't get taught about it enough. She's

808
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 1: a British She's a British artist. She's one of the

809
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 1: original the ogs, the reasons why I could stand here. Um,

810
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: she's a song called you on My One Temptation and

811
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 1: she was coming off with the back of shade. She

812
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: was brown skin, she's a she was a woman. She

813
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: looked like a woman, you know, like and she just

814
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 1: looked like me, like like if I grew up, I

815
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: could be her. And she was. She was singing though

816
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 1: she wasn't up there like giving Yeah, Mesha Paris, she

817
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 1: wasn't up there giving gentle and just like you know

818
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: an m I a c A Paris, and she she

819
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: was singing. She was up there predecessing all of us.

820
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: No one gets her enough props, you know, so Mesha Paris. Yeah, Okay,

821
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:37,840
Speaker 1: it's a combination. Don't know Lawrence roncan On League and

822
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:42,879
Speaker 1: Daryl Coley. Wow you went there, dear God, dear guy,

823
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:51,359
Speaker 1: because because because I'm a Rocket League, I don't even

824
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: know what a version of gospel people consider him. But

825
00:49:54,560 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: he's highly underrated. And I just feel like, I it's

826
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: not a song of his that I don't know by

827
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:06,359
Speaker 1: memory now still as a whole grown that wasn't singing

828
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: when I was like twelve to fifteen. You know, you're

829
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: just like I bust into it like it's real. Like

830
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 1: I learned about Abraham the Boreal, the world's greatest bass player, um,

831
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 1: and I learned about him from watching runkin Only Live,

832
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 1: you know, And to me it was just like that

833
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 1: moved my childhood in a certain way. You know. I

834
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 1: learned how to again, how to direct, how to move

835
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 1: and you know all that stuff. Don't know Lawrence because

836
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 1: I didn't even and I didn't even know that he'd

837
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: had such a hand in so many different gospel artists

838
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:42,919
Speaker 1: careers until I interviewed him. But just what the hell

839
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 1: you know? Like where you hearing from God? Yes, consistently?

840
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: And then Daryl Coley because it didn't make sense. It

841
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:56,879
Speaker 1: still don't make sense's special. I don't know him, i've

842
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: never met him. I just hear his voice, and I'm

843
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:06,319
Speaker 1: always very much like just a standalone vocal. Just don't

844
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 1: need a capella. I don't want to practice to him.

845
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 1: I just hear it. I listened to him to feel good.

846
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: I don't know where you're going at any given time,

847
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: and I'm fine with that. Just sing and it feels good,

848
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 1: and that's okay, thank you. I'm going to go about

849
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 1: my day and listen to wherever trap music I was

850
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 1: on this week. I just needed to hear this to

851
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 1: make me jump up a little. Yeah. Now I'm back

852
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: to I might learn tomorrow, but you know, like this

853
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 1: is he's one of the ones that change the switch

854
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: for me, as far as in the same vein as

855
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: Elephantz Jerold, you can do anything. Yeah, your voice, our voices,

856
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,879
Speaker 1: our instruments, train it, work with it. He's for sure

857
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 1: the pioneer foundational brick. Yeah, I'm gonna give you your

858
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 1: flowers because I know that's what you do here. But

859
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna tell you this, Um, you've been so

860
00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: you've been moving for I'm changing. I'm saying that this

861
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 1: like this, I don't ways think I'm dating you, but

862
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: like you we know your foundation is your foundation. No,

863
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 1: you know, you know you're still You're good. But it's

864
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: just very much like it's it's a blessing to see

865
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: somebody just get better and just leaps and bows get

866
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 1: But I remember I feel like the first time I

867
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: saw you before and I'm it's gonna make you laugh.

868
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: It was with Jamie in London at Kathy to Parry

869
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 1: and Jamie pulled me on stage, but I was I

870
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 1: was I was front row because i was studying, all right,

871
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: I'm looking at these guys come over and sing R

872
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:36,839
Speaker 1: and B and I'm like, well, this is just great.

873
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: I'm having a time and I'm a still in the

874
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:41,359
Speaker 1: UK at this point. No one knows me here, right

875
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: but I'm studying and he pulls me, but I'm watching

876
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 1: the background singers. I'm watching you sing and I can't

877
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: remember who else was there, but I just remember thinking,

878
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,439
Speaker 1: I was just like that's Tank. Like in my head,

879
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's I feel like I deserve like your

880
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: Americans are out and I'm just like that's Tank, and

881
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: they sounds so like I'm just giving all the like

882
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 1: there's no differentiation of respect. Well it's Jamie Watson. It's like, no,

883
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 1: that's like my whole head is just like at this time.

884
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 1: And I don't know. I wasn't even paying attention when

885
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: he called me up because I didn't think he was

886
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: talking to me. But I was very like, I was

887
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:19,320
Speaker 1: just stunning. I was like just happy and amazed to

888
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: see you know, like singing just period in that period

889
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: of time on stage, you know, and then so like

890
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 1: just watching you just consistently just it's it's it's it's

891
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: a note to longevity, and it's a note to just

892
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 1: somebody said this to me. Bebbie Smith said it to me.

893
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: It gets greater later. You know. With capricorns, we tend

894
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:41,359
Speaker 1: to sit in our skin and it just gets good

895
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:43,840
Speaker 1: when it gets good as we get grown because we

896
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 1: just sit, you know, we get more seasons than the

897
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:48,359
Speaker 1: last stuff. And it's just like watching you here now

898
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: this is what I want to see, you know, this

899
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: is it. So I love I love your journey. It's inspiring,

900
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 1: it's beautiful and just keep me in you man, Wollah,

901
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 1: thank you. That's crazy. That was a compliment. That was

902
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 1: like like to find to to receive a compliment in

903
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: that moment because that was a tough moment for me. Yeah,

904
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:16,480
Speaker 1: that was like, that was not Tank at its height.

905
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 1: That was Tank, you know, having to completely humble himself

906
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 1: and say, hey, man, I need a job, I need

907
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 1: to kids, I gotta pay for my kids. My career

908
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: is not cracking. Can I come on the road and

909
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,400
Speaker 1: help you with yours? But the blessing in it is

910
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:35,319
Speaker 1: that you blessed me, like you have me out here,

911
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 1: like I'm still up here studying, Like how do they

912
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,319
Speaker 1: sound so good? Yeah? And I got my backgrounds. I'm

913
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: out here like, well, you don't sound good type of

914
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 1: people like that sounds. I learn how to. I learned

915
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:51,359
Speaker 1: how to. I learned how to from watching. I learned

916
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: how to manage, you know, like what I wanted to hear,

917
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:56,839
Speaker 1: what it should sound like, what it should be like. Yeah,

918
00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:01,320
Speaker 1: there's no formal education for this. I you're a prival singer.

919
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:04,279
Speaker 1: You should you should sing, you should. You're good at

920
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: what you do, like you you know, half faster, you

921
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 1: go with it with excellence, you know, and the people

922
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 1: you support and the artists that you big up and

923
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 1: people that you they're excellent. They're out here doing halfway

924
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 1: music or I'm kind of sure about who they are,

925
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:25,040
Speaker 1: like the quality of guests. You know, you guys out here,

926
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: it's R and B. It's real, thank you, So it's fine.

927
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 1: It's good. Man's cool to Johnny, thank you. Come on,

928
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,759
Speaker 1: let's get to that real thing, that real thing. Come

929
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 1: to list for you, man. Top five Okay, Army songs,

930
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 1: Army songs, songs in jams and jams, jam and see

931
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 1: yours can be different because like you your yeah, her

932
00:55:55,239 --> 00:56:01,919
Speaker 1: information is so different. So cool, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay,

933
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 1: because I had a different list, but like we're gonna

934
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: go with this, Okay, Marvin and Tammy pick any um,

935
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:19,880
Speaker 1: you're not living into your loving mm hmm. Yeah, my

936
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 1: mind was blown when I heard that record. Yea words,

937
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 1: the lyrics are true, but my mind was blown when

938
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 1: I heard them sing that. I heard the vinyl of

939
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:34,880
Speaker 1: it first, and and I listened to it as I'm

940
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 1: recording albums that you go through your phases of listening

941
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 1: to different arts, and I had heard it one time

942
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 1: in one frame of mind, and I was just like,

943
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:46,439
Speaker 1: I believe that they hadn't they were they were in love? Yeah,

944
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: I believe there was some form of soulmates to these two,

945
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 1: because you don't sing at each other like that if

946
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:56,280
Speaker 1: you don't believe what you're singing. There's just different energy

947
00:56:56,320 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: and different conviction with them. Nothing. Yeah, and just to me, this,

948
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 1: as much as the technicality with some songs, to me

949
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:07,880
Speaker 1: is the feeling, it's the emotion. And that song to me,

950
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 1: it was just like whoa like, never tell you nothing.

951
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm right, I see why your heart

952
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 1: was broken. So I get it. I understand when she paused,

953
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 1: I get it, you know. So that's one um so

954
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: blessed m and and it's again it's related to the

955
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: period of time I was going through, and she's like

956
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 1: literally detailing her life and why she's so blessed. Wake

957
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 1: up in the morning for them fresh to death. I'm

958
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 1: so blessed, so blessed. You know. We went to sleep,

959
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 1: stress refreshed. I'm so blessed. Yes, yes, she's kind of

960
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:48,800
Speaker 1: rapping on that record, so I kind of like it.

961
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: But it's the intention in the words and it just

962
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: makes it just it's like a It's like Vibratian for me,

963
00:57:56,680 --> 00:58:04,439
Speaker 1: powers me up, you know, Anita Baker give you though.

964
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 1: That's that got baby I can't wait for that tour

965
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 1: my baby face and Anita Baker that you're kidding me, man,

966
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm just gonna breathe out and get

967
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: my singing and shoes ready, get my singing pants on.

968
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: I'm ready. I'm wearing flip flops, the bad time flop.

969
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 1: I need you a Baker best, I go How did

970
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 1: your video? How did you do it? To about his foot?

971
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 1: Go for it? Go for it, Desiree, gotta be Yeah.

972
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 1: I love that song. Yeah, it's good, ain't it. It's

973
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:57,360
Speaker 1: simple in the same way that don't worry be happy,

974
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 1: just the two of us, don't you worry about it.

975
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 1: I think it's simple like that and American Boy just

976
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: to feel good records feels good and the words at

977
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 1: the words are true. I'm a big words and make

978
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 1: it makes sense person two people? All this fair love.

979
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: Stevie wonders, Well we live in Legend wrapping him in bubbles,

980
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 1: So grateful for him another again, John Legend, mha, because goddamn.

981
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: And I heard the very first aeration of that record,

982
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 1: like whatever he did, like I feel like there was

983
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: a version of it, or maybe there was like a

984
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 1: mix is different, something but hearing him play it, it

985
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 1: was just like, who are you showing whose who feelings

986
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:56,320
Speaker 1: and whose hearts and and it's it's I'm not placing

987
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 1: them together at all, but all this fair love Stevie Wonders.

988
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 1: Just man, I we know that comes from God. You're

989
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:17,760
Speaker 1: Annie Boltryn. Okay, I want to know who you're gonna

990
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 1: get the vocal from. Who are you gonna get here? Yeah?

991
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 1: The performance style, from the styling from and the passion

992
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:28,920
Speaker 1: of the artists. Okay, I'm gonna build it who you're

993
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 1: grabbing the vocal from? The vocal shells go. She could

994
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:38,800
Speaker 1: do anything, anything, She could do anything. She's not even

995
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 1: trying effortless. It feels good just to get cush you out.

996
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 1: And I will and I will take it with a smile.

997
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 1: Maybe I deserved. How would you saying, she she's so cold,

998
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 1: just press just standing there, just cold. That's that's tough, okay,

999
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 1: Jill Scott performance style. Yeah, I'm a I'm a new

1000
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 1: renewed pure fan from the Vegas Residency. You've seen the

1001
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 1: first show of the second show, second show, Monster show. Jesus,

1002
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 1: he's in skates, he's skates. I can barely breathe it, like,

1003
01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 1: what are we doing? Like I can't breathe it. I

1004
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:31,960
Speaker 1: can't breathe sing and be on skates like pick one

1005
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:34,800
Speaker 1: or the two. I can normally appreciate a great performance,

1006
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:42,000
Speaker 1: but I can't do that. I can not even close that.

1007
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 1: It made me do more push ups. I'm saying, yeah,

1008
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:51,840
Speaker 1: the next thing, but you gotta like sing the very doing. Yeah,

1009
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 1: that would be you can do that something the Agelo

1010
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 1: did that, you could do it. I gotta he did it,

1011
01:01:57,560 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 1: all right, he did damn that in Lon do pull ups? Well,

1012
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 1: I'm saying, easy muscle ups. You know what I do

1013
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 1: a muscle up to the mic. People, y'all gonna start this, okay,

1014
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:13,560
Speaker 1: all right? Who we got? We got vocal Jill Scott,

1015
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 1: performance style ussure um, the drip, the styling of okay,

1016
01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 1: okay now because okay, I can't see myself, no joking,

1017
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 1: yea in my bag, I see myself. But like, also,

1018
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:37,480
Speaker 1: you know another artist, I appreciate their style and people

1019
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:40,680
Speaker 1: like and she pops out, she pops out, and she

1020
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:45,600
Speaker 1: looks good every time. Santi Gold flies here, Lie, she

1021
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:49,040
Speaker 1: flies here. Lie on a lot of people's vision boards, yeah,

1022
01:02:49,160 --> 01:02:53,160
Speaker 1: a lot of people's boys they're taken. They're taking taking

1023
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:55,760
Speaker 1: from that. Santi Gold. She's one of the ones people

1024
01:02:55,840 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: need to stop watch her um passion, the heart of

1025
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:09,440
Speaker 1: the artist, the soul any A Baker down, I might

1026
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 1: cry Anya Baker. It was gonna be an A Baker,

1027
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:16,720
Speaker 1: always gonna be Marvin and Temmy. It's either I heard

1028
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:20,800
Speaker 1: a need to sing a piece of Happy Birthday? How

1029
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 1: did you feel? That gave me chills, And he called

1030
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 1: me about her singing Happy Birthday. It's just a piece.

1031
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:30,280
Speaker 1: It ran to do my soul. Yeah, I didn't know

1032
01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:33,400
Speaker 1: what to do with myself. Yeah, it's about right. Yeah.

1033
01:03:33,480 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 1: And I was like, I don't know what I'm gonna

1034
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:37,120
Speaker 1: do at a full concert. No, I know what I'm

1035
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:39,520
Speaker 1: gonna do. I just want you to film yourself and

1036
01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:42,920
Speaker 1: I'll feel myself too. He definitely gonna be feeling Okay,

1037
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 1: look at this punk Ye gods, that's a dope bull man.

1038
01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 1: You kidding me? Yeah, Passion, that's how that's that. That

1039
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 1: her music, that's that's what taught me R and B music.

1040
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:05,320
Speaker 1: And I love you know what I love about her?

1041
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:07,360
Speaker 1: What I relate the most, Like you don't have to

1042
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 1: go it's hard all the time. Her tone is her

1043
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 1: tone like she floats. Betty White said that to me too.

1044
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:17,160
Speaker 1: She's like, you don't have to holler. She did. She

1045
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:20,840
Speaker 1: told me I could just bet Ever tell you anything nothing. Wow.

1046
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 1: So Betty White tell Betty right, no, right, very right.

1047
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:28,800
Speaker 1: She said to me. She was like, we did a

1048
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:30,320
Speaker 1: Black Girls talking and the next day she's like, I

1049
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 1: saw you singing Conqueror and your voice is your tone

1050
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 1: is beautiful? Just you know. She didn't say like as much.

1051
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:38,200
Speaker 1: She's like you. I love that you don't like have

1052
01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 1: to holler. You can just give and that's that's your

1053
01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:46,800
Speaker 1: superpower essentially within your Sean told me that one day,

1054
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 1: me and me and Sean were doing We're doing that record.

1055
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:52,160
Speaker 1: She's both y'all flexing on me at the point, what

1056
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:59,560
Speaker 1: Sean are you talking about? Stanos Menka, Honey, let's get out.

1057
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:02,480
Speaker 1: This is Capricorn and he was he was talking about that.

1058
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 1: He was he was doing it my Michael Jackson. You

1059
01:05:06,520 --> 01:05:18,200
Speaker 1: know what, Yeah, there's the big space. But he was like,

1060
01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, think I don't sing Cloud. I was like,

1061
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:22,800
Speaker 1: what do you mean? I just this is how I sing,

1062
01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 1: how I talk? Are you that's how I think? And

1063
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:29,480
Speaker 1: I just sing like that. I was like, uh, it works, Okay,

1064
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:31,880
Speaker 1: got you. And then I was having a conversation with

1065
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:34,439
Speaker 1: my kid, kid the kid Darryl Walls from Walls Group,

1066
01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 1: and he was like, he's like, I gotta get out

1067
01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:40,280
Speaker 1: of screaming, man. I was like, I'm trying to figure

1068
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:42,400
Speaker 1: out how to get out of it too. Yeah, because

1069
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 1: I just have this the space of aggression that I

1070
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:48,160
Speaker 1: love to go to and and and that's always been

1071
01:05:48,280 --> 01:05:52,320
Speaker 1: me emulating John p Key. Yeah, it's always been me

1072
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:54,960
Speaker 1: trying to live in that heavy space when I'm naturally

1073
01:05:55,640 --> 01:06:00,360
Speaker 1: a cross between baby Face and Brian Knight. That's where

1074
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 1: I naturally live. Yeah. Right, It's just like how do

1075
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:06,200
Speaker 1: I how do I dial it back? What I mean,

1076
01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:09,880
Speaker 1: get present and just and even explore more of my

1077
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:12,520
Speaker 1: lower register which I never use, Like I can sign

1078
01:06:12,640 --> 01:06:18,720
Speaker 1: down here. I'm saying, who's very white right now? Can we?

1079
01:06:19,240 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 1: You'll never find we need more? No, Barry White is listen,

1080
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 1: Barry White is underrated. That's brilliant. He's he was a monster,

1081
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 1: but brilliant. He used to take his time and and

1082
01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:35,920
Speaker 1: spawned so many groups and just musical album like Understand

1083
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:47,000
Speaker 1: for Fun. Yeah, hey, listen, the most urgent. He sound

1084
01:06:47,200 --> 01:06:52,720
Speaker 1: was like, what's the world? Boom boom boom boom boom

1085
01:06:52,760 --> 01:07:01,560
Speaker 1: boom boom. What's that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love you

1086
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:11,160
Speaker 1: just a little bit more, Yeah, exactly, singing hard my

1087
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:18,640
Speaker 1: first everything everything, Yeah, given, give me Yeah, exploring that

1088
01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:24,440
Speaker 1: that that balance, that's just graceful space in your register

1089
01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:27,280
Speaker 1: and in your tone, like it's a love internal Yeah,

1090
01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:30,520
Speaker 1: like calming it down, it's it's got to be. It's

1091
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 1: really got to be on purpose for me because I

1092
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 1: get hype. Just you got it. I want to hear more.

1093
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:50,880
Speaker 1: I want to hear it there. Okay, I'm saying no

1094
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:57,000
Speaker 1: names name. Ain't saying no names, no name, who you with,

1095
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:04,760
Speaker 1: where you was, what you did? Who your friend? No name?

1096
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:21,840
Speaker 1: Not say no name. Yeah, I like that, like that movie. Yeah,

1097
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 1: so you know we had that, We had that part

1098
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:29,599
Speaker 1: of the show. We're here, you know, you know little

1099
01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:40,880
Speaker 1: see more from Yeah, leave me shop my hearts. So

1100
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:44,160
Speaker 1: this segment of the show, it's caught. I ain't saying

1101
01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:49,479
Speaker 1: on that. Will you tell us your story? God? Funnier

1102
01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:53,559
Speaker 1: fucked up and the Travels of a Stale and Steale

1103
01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:56,600
Speaker 1: is from you know, she's from across the water. So

1104
01:08:56,680 --> 01:08:58,320
Speaker 1: it could be a story from across the Waters if

1105
01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 1: you want to, you know, pond the river, our pondi

1106
01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:08,519
Speaker 1: river if you want to, Yeah, only ruling the story.

1107
01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:13,480
Speaker 1: Oh God. In the segment, you can't say the names,

1108
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:20,559
Speaker 1: no names, all right? Can I say what they do? Yes? Yes, yes,

1109
01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:23,360
Speaker 1: yes you can. You can. You can explain the things

1110
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:28,479
Speaker 1: around it. You can't explain the characteristics. You can't say

1111
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:35,040
Speaker 1: their name? Are they aliases? He can't say none of

1112
01:09:35,120 --> 01:09:38,360
Speaker 1: that's all right? I have one Oh yeah, and I'm

1113
01:09:38,400 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 1: gonna presee this with this person's like hold on, hold on,

1114
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:46,559
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, because right now today are tonight,

1115
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:52,880
Speaker 1: if it's overseas, we are going to a stale. I

1116
01:09:52,880 --> 01:09:58,280
Speaker 1: ain't saying no name. Ain't saying no names, all right?

1117
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:02,479
Speaker 1: This person is like we love to say that, you know,

1118
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:05,760
Speaker 1: like Wayne Brady was in Dave Chappelle's like he just

1119
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:09,760
Speaker 1: pops up and the weirdest shit. Okay, A person's like

1120
01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:15,320
Speaker 1: that to me, very smooth R and B singer, really cool.

1121
01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:20,200
Speaker 1: So we have this show for a really well known publication,

1122
01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:25,480
Speaker 1: and we're in the middle of like, oh my Hartebraska

1123
01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:31,400
Speaker 1: something like that, Like somewhere we're literally in cornfields and

1124
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:34,920
Speaker 1: I fly in and I'm just like, they give me

1125
01:10:35,040 --> 01:10:39,840
Speaker 1: this like really small like backstage eariot, like a little

1126
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:44,800
Speaker 1: the Winnebagoes yeah, and I'm like, oh, I'm thinking it's

1127
01:10:44,840 --> 01:10:46,720
Speaker 1: just whatever, and I'm not really looking around when I

1128
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 1: go to do my shows. I going to do my

1129
01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:51,080
Speaker 1: thing and leave. I go in and I'm like, okay,

1130
01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:52,680
Speaker 1: well this is I had to quick. We're only here

1131
01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:54,880
Speaker 1: for a couple of hours. It is I don't even

1132
01:10:54,960 --> 01:10:57,240
Speaker 1: know what this thing is. I step in, I look

1133
01:10:57,320 --> 01:10:59,559
Speaker 1: at I step outside and it was like, well, I'll

1134
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:02,360
Speaker 1: just wait out here. This is not cute at all.

1135
01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:06,760
Speaker 1: This is not cute. Put put my shoes in the bag,

1136
01:11:07,080 --> 01:11:10,680
Speaker 1: in the trunk, changing the truck, it'd be fine. Um.

1137
01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:14,479
Speaker 1: And we're standing outside. It's me, my DJ, my role manager,

1138
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:18,479
Speaker 1: and it's quiet. But I looked to my left and

1139
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:22,759
Speaker 1: it's beautiful Winnebagol. This thing is like four yard blocks.

1140
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:25,880
Speaker 1: This thing is just big Winnebago is going for like

1141
01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 1: half the field and I'm here like who is this for?

1142
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:32,320
Speaker 1: And I'm really not paying any mind. Didn't look at

1143
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:35,360
Speaker 1: the set list or nothing, and it's the artists. When

1144
01:11:35,439 --> 01:11:37,880
Speaker 1: a baby go I'm not fast. I don't go in there.

1145
01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:40,120
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be respect for Oh it's cute. They

1146
01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:42,320
Speaker 1: probably never gonna use it, but it's probably like mad

1147
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:47,720
Speaker 1: things in there, but whatever, mad like cool war like

1148
01:11:48,160 --> 01:11:51,479
Speaker 1: I had like a trade like with a with a

1149
01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:54,639
Speaker 1: water and a croak. Okay, It's like it was terrible.

1150
01:11:54,680 --> 01:11:58,280
Speaker 1: It's just very opposite. We're standing there and we're just

1151
01:11:58,360 --> 01:12:00,840
Speaker 1: out here talking me my DJ I'm a manager, and

1152
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:05,679
Speaker 1: we're just standing there. All of a sudden, hear down

1153
01:12:05,720 --> 01:12:11,559
Speaker 1: the field a out it just ain't and they ain't

1154
01:12:11,600 --> 01:12:16,640
Speaker 1: saying that Abby's in't that track blaring. This suv is

1155
01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:21,639
Speaker 1: like moving down this cornfield and I'm like having the time, like, who,

1156
01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:24,519
Speaker 1: what is happening? What is what's going on? Because it's

1157
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:29,600
Speaker 1: very it's very quiet, it's very chill. And then the

1158
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:32,519
Speaker 1: arm recing pops up and he's like hey, he's like

1159
01:12:32,880 --> 01:12:35,920
Speaker 1: shirts and whoever, and he's going for it, and I'm

1160
01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:39,120
Speaker 1: just like my head is doing the whole swivel, like

1161
01:12:39,360 --> 01:12:44,680
Speaker 1: what is going on now? I'm I am just consistently

1162
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:48,759
Speaker 1: just what is happening. He's like pulls up with the skirt,

1163
01:12:49,439 --> 01:12:51,599
Speaker 1: his driver pulls up with the skirt and he pops

1164
01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:54,240
Speaker 1: out and he's like barely got a shot. And he's like, hey, yo,

1165
01:12:54,400 --> 01:12:56,280
Speaker 1: just come come in, come in the trailer, and so

1166
01:12:56,479 --> 01:12:59,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm already just mind blowing that he's wrapping

1167
01:12:59,240 --> 01:13:03,719
Speaker 1: NICKI minar. I'm realistic bees in the track, I'm realistic

1168
01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:10,519
Speaker 1: deserbels pulling through this cornfield. And I'm just like, oh okay.

1169
01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:13,880
Speaker 1: So then we go into we all go into the

1170
01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:17,479
Speaker 1: mansion of this Winnebago. It's beautiful Winnebago, and I'm just

1171
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:21,839
Speaker 1: looking at my Winnebegel going this is whole soul store confused,

1172
01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:25,840
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, how are you getting back to

1173
01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:27,120
Speaker 1: how you get back to New York. I's living in

1174
01:13:27,120 --> 01:13:29,160
Speaker 1: New York at the time, hanging back to New York. Oh,

1175
01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:31,720
Speaker 1: fly back tomorrow. Just come to me on the jet.

1176
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:34,479
Speaker 1: My whole soul is just having a time because you guys,

1177
01:13:34,479 --> 01:13:37,040
Speaker 1: this beautiful Winnebago, they flay you here on the jet like,

1178
01:13:37,400 --> 01:13:38,880
Speaker 1: and he's just like, just come to me on the jet,

1179
01:13:38,920 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, I have people with me, Oh okay,

1180
01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: And he's just very much like it's just like it is.

1181
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:48,280
Speaker 1: He's living a completely different reality than me, and it's

1182
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:51,040
Speaker 1: it's same music. It's all turned. It's just vibes up

1183
01:13:51,080 --> 01:13:54,040
Speaker 1: in this in this Winnebago, and when I tell you,

1184
01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:56,960
Speaker 1: he sings the smoothest of music. So it's just blowing

1185
01:13:57,080 --> 01:13:59,200
Speaker 1: my mind that this is all the way turned up.

1186
01:14:00,280 --> 01:14:03,080
Speaker 1: And so I go and I perform, and then I

1187
01:14:03,160 --> 01:14:04,439
Speaker 1: get off and I'm just like, I don't want to go,

1188
01:14:04,479 --> 01:14:06,880
Speaker 1: and I was like, wait and see what this artist does.

1189
01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:11,719
Speaker 1: It's dusk, and he damn near turns into Marvin Gay

1190
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:15,799
Speaker 1: on stage and he's just it's just our and beer.

1191
01:14:16,880 --> 01:14:20,280
Speaker 1: And I'm just like looking at him going forty five

1192
01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:26,160
Speaker 1: minutes ago. You was bes in the track what is going?

1193
01:14:27,439 --> 01:14:29,560
Speaker 1: So like it just lets me know. And and this

1194
01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:32,720
Speaker 1: just keeps happening. Every time I see him in random circumstances,

1195
01:14:32,800 --> 01:14:36,840
Speaker 1: it'd be some very wild like I'm standing there going okay, well,

1196
01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:39,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what's about to happen.

1197
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:42,439
Speaker 1: This is nuts. We might another time we ended up

1198
01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:46,800
Speaker 1: he ended up wrapping Rick Ross outside of a walk

1199
01:14:46,840 --> 01:14:50,639
Speaker 1: through and I sat there like this one is joining,

1200
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:53,479
Speaker 1: but just sat still because I wasn't sure. I didn't

1201
01:14:53,479 --> 01:14:56,360
Speaker 1: know what was going to happen. Man, I just didn't know.

1202
01:14:56,479 --> 01:14:58,479
Speaker 1: It was just and he's just the very the exact

1203
01:14:58,600 --> 01:15:00,680
Speaker 1: opposite of all of this as a person, as an

1204
01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:03,320
Speaker 1: artist that we know him to be in real life.

1205
01:15:03,360 --> 01:15:08,080
Speaker 1: It's very don't more than more than more than me

1206
01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:12,000
Speaker 1: when I'm in my vibe, it's quite interesting. So it's

1207
01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:14,639
Speaker 1: very it's just a very like what the hell is happening?

1208
01:15:15,280 --> 01:15:18,880
Speaker 1: R and B will surprise you. We will surprise you, man.

1209
01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:23,000
Speaker 1: And you know you feel like the artist follows, you know,

1210
01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:26,800
Speaker 1: their personals follow their outside na never this R and

1211
01:15:26,880 --> 01:15:30,679
Speaker 1: B thing. It's differ it's very very strange. It's different. Yeah,

1212
01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:33,000
Speaker 1: it was very weird. So that's that's my like, what

1213
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:37,200
Speaker 1: the hell? People people crazy? And they have beautiful Winne

1214
01:15:37,240 --> 01:15:41,080
Speaker 1: bagels and jets and window bagos and jets and jets.

1215
01:15:41,120 --> 01:15:42,400
Speaker 1: I was tired though, because I was just like, the

1216
01:15:42,479 --> 01:15:45,320
Speaker 1: thing is beautiful, Look it's clean, look at the floors,

1217
01:15:45,479 --> 01:15:51,840
Speaker 1: like I've been some of those not so nice tidy winnebagels,

1218
01:15:52,200 --> 01:15:53,760
Speaker 1: and you just have to hold it kind of thing

1219
01:15:53,960 --> 01:15:56,080
Speaker 1: to a degree. You're just like, you know, what, it'll

1220
01:15:56,120 --> 01:16:01,000
Speaker 1: be fun today, you know, for two hours, I'll just

1221
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 1: sit in the cart sitting. We'll just go from the spring.

1222
01:16:06,040 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 1: What I'm saying will be But I think it's so

1223
01:16:08,360 --> 01:16:12,439
Speaker 1: different for for for female artists. I think, you know,

1224
01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:15,680
Speaker 1: even though you know when females are on the come up,

1225
01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:17,760
Speaker 1: I get it, you know what I'm saying. The accommodations

1226
01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:19,960
Speaker 1: aren't always going to be the greatest for new artists,

1227
01:16:20,320 --> 01:16:22,639
Speaker 1: but a female has to get ready a different kind

1228
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:25,880
Speaker 1: of way. Yeah, and I wish, I wish, I wish

1229
01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:31,120
Speaker 1: promoters would be more mindful of that. It comes to

1230
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:33,320
Speaker 1: your boundary so too. You have to tell them from

1231
01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:36,200
Speaker 1: the rip, I don't do that. It's not how I move.

1232
01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:38,240
Speaker 1: You have to get the thing. It's like, oh yeah,

1233
01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:41,599
Speaker 1: we got it, get and then you and then then

1234
01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:43,120
Speaker 1: it's also up to you as an artist to know

1235
01:16:43,200 --> 01:16:46,040
Speaker 1: what you're walking into sometimes like uh no, you don't

1236
01:16:46,160 --> 01:16:47,880
Speaker 1: like you got it. I'm going to change the hotel.

1237
01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:50,360
Speaker 1: I'll be there when I'll bet I'm there. There's a

1238
01:16:50,560 --> 01:16:53,320
Speaker 1: there's a certain fee, a certain fee in the rider.

1239
01:16:54,520 --> 01:16:57,000
Speaker 1: You know, if you don't meet the need to require

1240
01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:01,040
Speaker 1: it's gonna cost you because because if you miss out

1241
01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:05,960
Speaker 1: on the food, yeah right there with that, that so

1242
01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:09,360
Speaker 1: twelve hundred, Yeah, you miss out do this wrong. It

1243
01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:22,240
Speaker 1: is tears of wrongdoing. It's gonna cost James two times,

1244
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:29,360
Speaker 1: um stale, thank you so much for just giving us

1245
01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:33,600
Speaker 1: your time, you know, giving us good energy, blessing us.

1246
01:17:33,640 --> 01:17:35,479
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, like blessing us, Like you're

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Speaker 1: always you're always dope to be around. Thank you, And

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Speaker 1: I hope you know that. You know your name is

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Speaker 1: associated with all good things, all good energy, all good vibes.

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Speaker 1: There's nobody in this world I know. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I know that somebody, but like, because you probably get

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Speaker 1: to the ship if you're going, you want look about. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure doing your outside outside day, you know, saying

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Speaker 1: we're good. Nobody, I really, I really don't like I

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Speaker 1: try and standing up on my stuff, somebody walking up.

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Speaker 1: You seen it there, let me know you see it.

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Speaker 1: You see that. I try to stand in my world

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Speaker 1: as much as I can. And if you have beef

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Speaker 1: with me, um say it. And if you don't think

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Speaker 1: you don't know me, well, yeah we're good. And if

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Speaker 1: you do, it's harmony. Sorry, but your name is good

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Speaker 1: on every month. Luther can't have been so you loved here, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you love And I promise I would start running up

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Speaker 1: on you coming on the podcast. And now you've come,

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Speaker 1: I'm walking out of places. So you coming. I know

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Speaker 1: you're trying to enjoy yourself in here and I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to leave, but I just want to make sure you're

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Speaker 1: gonna pull up. Everybody was looking forward to you to come.

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Speaker 1: My daughters. I was like this this stell here, yeah

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Speaker 1: listening still Zion has everybody Yo, what beautiful family so

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Speaker 1: out for them like they my kids. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I was last I see yeah concert. I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, I tell you, I see her. I see her.

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Speaker 1: She would probably be we good, okay, But we are

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Speaker 1: appreciative of your energy. I'm appreciative of your contributions. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for having just to the universe overall. Nice personale.

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Speaker 1: This is developed by me in the COVID and I'm

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Speaker 1: just continuing the vibe roses. Keep the vibes going. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: We like roses. I'm on entrepreneurship. What's the name of it?

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Speaker 1: I do comfey clothing and you know, stuff to make

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Speaker 1: you feel good and comfortable in your skin. Um, I'm

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Speaker 1: taking im Jay Valentine and this has been the RMB

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Speaker 1: Royalty Field just the greatest energy ever. That's it. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna continue to vibes, but I love one to step Yeah.

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