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Speaker 4: I recognize that we all have different definitions of success.

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Speaker 4: next guest landed at number seven on the top ten

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Speaker 4: most played urban ac Artists for twenty and eighteen, ranking

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Speaker 4: as the number one independent urban ac artists of the

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Speaker 4: year according to Media Base. While today's social climate has

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Speaker 4: now begun to influence some to get involved for promoting change.

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Speaker 4: His charity of work has been serving as an instrument

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Speaker 4: of hope and empowerment. Since twenty fourteen, he founded the

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Speaker 4: Love Life Foundation, a foundation that focuses on improving live

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Speaker 4: through social, educational and wellness development within as well as

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Speaker 4: outside of Love Life. Raheem believes in fight for causes,

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Speaker 4: dealing with issues related to women's rights, domestic violence, HIV

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Speaker 4: age awareness, among others. He's both a talented artist as

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Speaker 4: well as an inspiration to people across the globe. Please

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Speaker 4: welcome to the money making conversation, my man, Raheem Devon.

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Speaker 5: Did I get it right?

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Speaker 6: Rahimen?

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Speaker 5: Did I get it right for you?

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Speaker 7: You did one stop shot?

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Speaker 4: Well, you know the beautiful part about you right right now?

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Speaker 4: What city are you're in right now during the pandemic?

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Speaker 5: What's city are you?

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Speaker 6: I'm in the GMV area, you know, DC, Maryland area.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely, Well, you know, I'm a fan of what

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Speaker 4: you are, what you represent. Always been a believer of

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Speaker 4: what you do on that stage. Just start on that

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Speaker 4: stage first, man, because your live performances, man, keep you

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Speaker 4: keep your in the chair watching on he hitting every

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Speaker 4: and talk to us about that man because that is

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Speaker 4: always to me been a signature of raheem.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that that's one of the things that

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Speaker 6: It's a connection. You know that that if you if

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Speaker 7: That's cool.

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Speaker 6: You can go find records, you can go create the records,

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Speaker 6: I've always been that guy who's doing like the meet

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Speaker 5: So I that just.

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Speaker 6: Became part of my quote unquote hustle. Like just it

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Speaker 6: just became. It just became law that, Hey, whether it's

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Speaker 6: And it's just that it's just the connection, man, It's

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Speaker 6: it's kind of for me, it's really becomes second nature,

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Speaker 4: Well, I never I never felt that way. And knowing you,

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Speaker 4: you know, I used to run you whenever Steve hard

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Speaker 5: I couldn't get you on the air enough.

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Speaker 4: You know, come on, come on, man it with us

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Speaker 5: A firm believer of you. But you know you. I

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Speaker 4: Incredible live performance skills. I'm speaking to and devon you know,

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Speaker 4: I like to believe the pandemic hit and you know,

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Speaker 5: How did that? How did you how did that?

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Speaker 4: How does that situation played out when it first shut

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Speaker 6: I'll be honest with you, like I kind of you know,

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Speaker 6: like you know, if if if if I couldn't leave

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, you had all these programs are you know, the

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Speaker 4: You know I told all my comedy friends if they

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Speaker 4: because it's what the second quarter was, no income coming.

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Speaker 4: So it's so much uncertainty. And then but you still

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Speaker 4: Really repeat itself right before our eyes and so so

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Speaker 4: so you said you're single?

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Speaker 5: Is is it out now?

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Speaker 6: R It actually drops on the twenty eight for this month.

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Speaker 5: Okay, okay, let's slow down there. Yes, you got to

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Speaker 5: get it. Social media goes out. You know, I got

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Speaker 4: I'll drop it on Friday, you know that Friday PM,

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Speaker 6: That sounds good. That sounds really, So that's what.

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Speaker 5: The independent's got to do.

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Speaker 4: Independences got to gotta stay with the relationships they believe

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Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, no doubt. This is a reconnect you and I. Okay,

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Speaker 5: So let's talk about that single. Let's talk about this single.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely definitely, you shit.

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Speaker 5: Down, Raheem. What comes out of you?

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Speaker 4: What what is the direction of your What message are

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Speaker 6: Man? So you know, of course, like with the Mother

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Speaker 4: When you say that, so you know, we'll talk about

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Speaker 4: twenty fourteen The Love Life Foundation. That's when they started.

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Speaker 4: So when I hear you talk about your love life foundation,

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Speaker 4: domestic violence makes the headline. The sex trafficking kind of

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Speaker 4: kind of gets brushed aside because it's kind of like

437
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Speaker 4: that bad word.

438
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Speaker 3: You know.

439
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we know what's happening, but you know, we don't

440
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Speaker 4: want to talk about it because you know, these are

441
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 4: young girls who disappear.

442
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Speaker 6: Yeah, young girls and young men, you know what I mean, Right,

443
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,679
Speaker 6: And it's it's it's uh, you know, it's it's it's

444
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:54,320
Speaker 6: it's quietly a billion dollars business, you know what I mean,

445
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,920
Speaker 6: just just no, no different than slavery or anything else,

446
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 6: you know, And and and it just kind of continues

447
00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:04,120
Speaker 6: to happen and go under the radar, you know, And

448
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 6: so we have to definitely, as you know, as individuals,

449
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Speaker 6: as men, as black men, you know, we have to

450
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Speaker 6: you know, you have to do a better job of

451
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Speaker 6: protecting our women, I children, you know, not only in

452
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Speaker 6: this country but on the planet. Me personally, I feel

453
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 6: like black women is most disrespected on the planet right,

454
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Speaker 6: like period, right, you know, and and you know so

455
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Speaker 6: I've always telling my best to do my part, you know,

456
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 6: lyrically on a record. You know, that's a conscious decision

457
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,120
Speaker 6: to make a recordite woman, you know, when everybody else

458
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Speaker 6: is going against the grain and calling the women all

459
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Speaker 6: different kind of other things in.

460
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Speaker 5: The records, you know, you know, which is really really

461
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Speaker 5: really incredible.

462
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Speaker 4: Now I'm shifting gears because I'm going back to this

463
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Speaker 4: song as you're dropping on August twenty eight yes today,

464
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Speaker 4: alas twenty eight sec. Now are you going to because

465
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Speaker 4: I'm here in all this community involvement, I'm here in

466
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Speaker 4: all this time. I'm sure you got pictures. I'm sure

467
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Speaker 4: you got video. Is that going to be part of

468
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Speaker 4: the video that's gonna drop with it?

469
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Speaker 5: Or you got something else playing? Whatever? Yeah? Yeah, right

470
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Speaker 5: now I.

471
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Speaker 4: See that ro you know, I'm like, handle, if you

472
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Speaker 4: can't do just send me some photos, brothers, I can

473
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Speaker 4: put something together for you.

474
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Speaker 7: Oh no, I got, I got, I got.

475
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Speaker 6: I definitely had some stuff on the way on the

476
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Speaker 6: planning that's begun for that ironically, you know, uh, the

477
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Speaker 6: March on Washington is on the twenty eighth, right, Yeah,

478
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Speaker 6: So I've been on the fence about getting footage and

479
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Speaker 6: then putting out the video you know, in the in

480
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Speaker 6: the weeks to follow, which I may go that route. Ironically.

481
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Speaker 6: I had a photo shoot and some content stuff last

482
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Speaker 6: night that I was doing because I'm also a part

483
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Speaker 6: of our initiative for stopping frisk and some laws that

484
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Speaker 6: are being you know, presented to Congress uh in a

485
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Speaker 6: few weeks, and so I'm excited about that. So we

486
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Speaker 6: kind of killed two birds in one stone and got

487
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Speaker 6: the content and the PSA's for that, and then to

488
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Speaker 6: turn into a photo shoot for the album, which is

489
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Speaker 6: titled What a Time to Be in Love and you know,

490
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Speaker 6: wrapping up mixes and stuff like that. Just recorded a

491
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Speaker 6: record Lord Lord Help Me, which is which is inspired

492
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Speaker 6: by Old Donnie has the Way record that was titled

493
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Speaker 6: the Same and it's kind of like you know, just

494
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Speaker 6: I mean, like some of the.

495
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Speaker 5: Lyrics Lord Help Me sound like that. Yeah to me, brother, yea, Lord,

496
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Speaker 5: help me.

497
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Speaker 7: Come on, I say, I say, I say, I've seen babies.

498
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Speaker 7: I've seen babies gunned down by dropper, another has tack,

499
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Speaker 7: seeing another mama cry. It seems like every since the

500
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Speaker 7: birth of the nation, you've been.

501
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Speaker 6: Treated lesser than denied reparations.

502
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Speaker 7: It makes me want to flip. It's tapping with my voter.

503
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Speaker 6: I call it politics, disrespect them. I writes way to

504
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Speaker 6: stop the fresh and kill the black man in the

505
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Speaker 6: forty six a sign of the times, the market of peace.

506
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Speaker 7: But till that's justice, there'll.

507
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Speaker 9: Be no peace.

508
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Speaker 6: Oh Lord, Oh t help me, Oh Lord, Lord Lord,

509
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Speaker 6: Oh it's not in the water. And pull the clouds.

510
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Speaker 7: For session and depression, undeployments on the right.

511
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Speaker 6: But after your presence. So I'm saying safe.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So that's like the vibe.

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Speaker 5: Whoa, come on, come on.

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Speaker 6: It's like a It's like a conversation with It's like

516
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Speaker 6: a conversation with God, you know what I mean. Like

517
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Speaker 6: because just because you got to have those right now,

518
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Speaker 6: you know.

519
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Speaker 5: You know, there's more importantly the beauty, the genius of you.

520
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna throw that into the conversation because

521
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 4: I've always been a big fan. I sit back and

522
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 4: I know I'm talented. I look at other people that,

523
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 4: but I can.

524
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Speaker 5: Never do you. I can never be raheem you know,

525
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Speaker 5: I can never be a skilled guy.

526
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Speaker 4: Who just just just lyrically just threw it out there.

527
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 4: Just open your soul on this show and expose those

528
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 4: raw nerves that drive you, that that they emote from

529
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 4: your spirit to say, you know, can bring us to

530
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 4: tea years because you're telling the truth. But then it's

531
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Speaker 4: the business side. Now you got a new position as

532
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 4: an ar and director, correct at the label, talk about that.

533
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 4: Let's let's let's close out on the business side because

534
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 4: it just was a nice journey.

535
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: Man.

536
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Speaker 5: You know, I'm to tell you something, right, we're back

537
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 5: in the saddle, man, don't.

538
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 4: You don't you don't you let this be no ten

539
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 4: years brother me and you're gonna fight.

540
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 5: You're gonna fight fight.

541
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 6: No no, now, now, I won't. I'm promised. I won't.

542
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 6: I promise I won't. I'm excited that we connect with you,

543
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 6: you know, yeah, so so so Uh it's crazy, man,

544
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 6: because because it's come full circle, and I think that

545
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 6: that's something that people got to understand in business that

546
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 6: things do come from full circle. And it's like you

547
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 6: got to remain humble, you gotta you gotta take every

548
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 6: experience as a learning experience so that it's because it's

549
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 6: preparing you for something. Now. Ironically, in two thousand and five,

550
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,159
Speaker 6: the first tour that I ever did was with New

551
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 6: Audition thirty Cities, Rhymic Night, God Bless his Soul. Joy

552
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 6: Lebert was on a few days as well. And and

553
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 6: now and now I'm head of A and R that

554
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:03,199
Speaker 6: label which is a G I LSU How to Connect

555
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,360
Speaker 6: based out of Connecticut. Back then, you know, we're back

556
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 6: by Universal and they took an interest in me just

557
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 6: as an artist and started out on that on that vibe,

558
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 6: and it quickly kind of more organically into other things,

559
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 6: you know, be being ambitious and wanting to have artists

560
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 6: and careers and you know, artists that I was involved in,

561
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 6: whether it was from a man a managing standpoint or

562
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 6: a mentorship standpoint, I've always had had an interest in

563
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 6: and and being like behind the scenes on the music

564
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 6: scene for the for with with the intention of like

565
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 6: preserving the culture for the type of music that I'm

566
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 6: making out and the like that I enjoyed or that

567
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 6: we enjoyed, you know what I mean. So I've always

568
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 6: fought for that, and I figured, like what better way

569
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 6: to do that? You know, sometimes you can't just pour

570
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 6: into yourself. The blessing just comes from actually like pouring

571
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 6: into other people and being part of other projects and

572
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 6: you know, given and having an opinion, you know. And

573
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 6: uh so you know they brought me on board, you know,

574
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 6: shout out to my label mates, Brian McKnight, Uh, Ralph

575
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,239
Speaker 6: trans Van, Uh we got we just signed Ralph over there,

576
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 6: got a new single out just doing extremely well. We

577
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 6: got Johnny Gill over there, who's on Ralph's new new

578
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 6: new single.

579
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 3: Uh.

580
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 6: And it's crazy again because when I talk about new audition,

581
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 6: like I said, these guys, you know, being on tour

582
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 6: with somebody for thirty cities, you become like family, that

583
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 6: become like mentors. You learn, you learn a lot. You know,

584
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 6: Van is over there as well, Vivian Green Kwame. Uh,

585
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 6: we got a lot of great music you know, coming

586
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 6: coming out. Gen Overnelli is over there as well. So

587
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 6: you know, somebody like him, somebody like him to have

588
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 6: like to be able to talk on you know, chump

589
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 6: on the horn or is on any given day we're

590
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 6: we're in a text, a chain text of messages where

591
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 6: it's like over Nelly, you know that the owner of

592
00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 6: the label, you know, see I the Bride, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

593
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 6: so dope, yeah, dope, dope, you know dope producers Tim

594
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 6: Kelly like, you know. So it's it's, it's it's very

595
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 6: surreal for me. You know, it's a very new situation.

596
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 6: I'm learning, you know, it's it's and it's about building

597
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 6: this company up and knowing that you know, I have

598
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 6: some long term equity in it, you know, and that

599
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 6: you know, prayerfully we look back ten fifteen years from

600
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 6: now and say, wow, I was part of something that

601
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 6: was like it was dope. I learned, you know.

602
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Speaker 7: It's retirement.

603
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 6: Got to think about retirement, you know what I mean.

604
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 6: So and I never started making music, but it's just,

605
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 6: you know, just just a different mindset.

606
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Speaker 5: I appreciate you.

607
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Speaker 4: I'm talking to the number one male independent Urban AC

608
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Speaker 4: artist of the year in twenty and eighteen, according to

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Speaker 4: Media Base, Raheem devon My Friend August twenty eight that's

610
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Speaker 4: when the single drops. You got to get that stuff

611
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Speaker 4: to me before then. And guess work on it. This relationship.

612
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Speaker 4: Man just got reunited. Man, were about to make some

613
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Speaker 4: all right, yeah, man, be safe now bye bye.

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