1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Calling all my Sweetish to the forefront. I'm your host, Christophine. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 2: Hazel, and this is the Keep It Positive, Sweetish Show. 3 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Keep It Positive, Sweetish Show, the place 4 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 2: where we he'll grow and learn together. Today's guest is 5 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 2: Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Q Parker. Q Parker 6 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 2: is someone many of us know through his music, but 7 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 2: today's conversation is about where he is now, from continuing 8 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 2: to create and release music to prioritizing health and discipline. 9 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 2: This is a chance to hear how C is moving 10 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 2: and what's guiding him today. Kill Simley, please give a 11 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 2: very warm welcome to Q Parker, right right right. 12 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 1: You gotta really know him to call him. Quitnes quick, 13 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: Yes are you? 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 3: I'm well. I'm well. I can't complain. Just enjoying life, family, career, community, 15 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 3: just smiling while doing it all. 16 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: Well you good friend. Life has been good. 17 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 3: Hey, I appreciate it you as well. 18 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. We finally got you on. We 19 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: were talking as you were walking in. We are in 20 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: our tenth season of Keep It Positive sweet and you're like, wow, 21 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: He's like, that's crazy. 22 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 3: Two things. Two things. It's bad that it took ten 23 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 3: seasons to get your brother on. But on the flip 24 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 3: side of that, I'm really proud of you. 25 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 1: Thank you. 26 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 3: I'm really proud of it. I mean, we'll get into 27 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 3: the story, but there's more meat into why I'm proud 28 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 3: of you. 29 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. 30 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, So let's start with that, because a lot of 31 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 2: people don't know that I've known you for almost twenty 32 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 2: years now. That's crazy, crazy twenty years. We met when 33 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 2: I was still living in DC and I up and 34 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 2: decided that I was coming to Atlanta, Georgia, and in 35 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 2: one of the most difficult and transformative years of my life, 36 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 2: you were one of the people that believed in me. 37 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: I was one of your artists. 38 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 2: People don't know that Q took me on and really 39 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 2: like put your money where your mouth was, and you 40 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 2: put your time behind it, and we created some amazing things. 41 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 3: We did, y'all, And some of that music I haven't 42 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 3: heard it in years, but I believe it will still 43 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 3: have a place. And so for y'all that don't know, 44 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 3: every time, every now and then, our head chase and 45 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm like, y'all, what's up with your artistry? 46 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 3: And I love to see you doing all these amazing things. 47 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 3: In television and business and all of that, but you 48 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 3: also have an instrument that's incredible that I think the 49 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 3: world needs to hear. And the stuff that we did, 50 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 3: I mean, we can always re visit those things, but 51 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 3: I think that there's a folder in your sphere where 52 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 3: music plays a huge part too. 53 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 2: So yes, and I'm glad you said that because I 54 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 2: recently when was it, well this, I don't know when 55 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 2: this is gonna air. 56 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 3: But her artists, I called you Chase. 57 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: Let's get Yeah, we need to give a backstory on Chase. 58 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 3: Okay, So. 59 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,839 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is listen, this is real history here. 60 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 3: Listen. We went into the full fold of artist development 61 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 3: and artistry and all of those things. And so her 62 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 3: name being Crystal Hazelt, we was like Chase. So we 63 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 3: took the C and then the H A Y s 64 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 3: of her last name, and that's how we came up 65 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 3: with Chase. And so it's hard for me to call 66 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:24,839 Speaker 3: her Crystal. It's hard for me to call her all 67 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 3: these other character names and all of that, because when 68 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 3: I see you, all I see is Chase Cha Chase face. 69 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that still caused me face to this day. 70 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 3: That's what's up. 71 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: Yes, Oh, I love that. 72 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 2: No, we did, and I remember I was just saying 73 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 2: on stage with Adam Blackstone, which was like a dream 74 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 2: of mine, and in that moment, I was like, oh 75 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 2: my goodness. I was like it's time, like I got 76 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 2: to get back in the studio. I did a live 77 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 2: show in Washington and I was singing other people's songs 78 00:03:57,880 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 2: and I was like, it's time for me to. 79 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: Get on stage and sing my son. 80 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 2: So I'm definitely gonna call you because we need to 81 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 2: get back and do some news. 82 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: Yes, it is. 83 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 3: It's just time to unveil that part of you as well. 84 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: No, that's so true. 85 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 2: That is We're gonna get into your music because you 86 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 2: have a lot of things going on. 87 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: But I want to know what is life looking like 88 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: for you right now? 89 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 3: Wow? So right now, I am a compartmentalizer. My life 90 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 3: is in folders, right and my job every day is 91 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 3: to prioritize and balance those folders. You know, there's the 92 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 3: father folder, there's the grandfather folder, there's the artists folder, 93 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 3: there's the businessman folder. There's a philanthropy folder, there's a 94 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 3: husband folder. And so it's all of those things that 95 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 3: I have to make sure stays in a healthy place 96 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 3: every day, and how do I adequately give the necessary 97 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 3: time for all of those things? And so that's that's 98 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 3: what the typical day is. And so one day this 99 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 3: folder may fall short, so then I know the next 100 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 3: day I gotta maybe give that one a little bit 101 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 3: more time and attention. But the beauty of it is 102 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 3: I am operating in full and total independence. Wow, you know, 103 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,279 Speaker 3: I go at my own pace. I'm an independent artist, 104 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 3: which gives me the freedom to do the things. I'm 105 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 3: an independent businessman. I can do the deals that I 106 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 3: want to do. Now I have the freedom to move 107 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,840 Speaker 3: in certain ways with my grandchildren, with my wife, with 108 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 3: my family. And so it's just I laugh because I 109 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 3: get to almost twenty five thirty years of being a 110 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 3: professional to now being able to really live in the 111 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,839 Speaker 3: freedom of which I feel like all artists and all 112 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 3: creatives should have come into the game with that type 113 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 3: of creative freedom, but to now live in it as 114 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 3: a fully independent artist, self funded. I'm having the time 115 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 3: of my life. This is the most fun I've had 116 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 3: in years. Man, It's just it's just a good season. 117 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. 118 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 2: I want to talk about I use tell all these 119 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 2: different folders and I love how you compartmentalize, because a 120 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 2: lot of times we can have so much going on 121 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:13,799 Speaker 2: that we forget. 122 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: Okay, let's focus on what we need to focus on. 123 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: When you wake up in the morning. 124 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 2: What is Q's like, first thing, what it's like your 125 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 2: morning routine and day look like to even be able 126 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:24,919 Speaker 2: to pour into all those folders. 127 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 3: All right, So the first thing is obviously spending the 128 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 3: time with myself, praying, meditating. I get up at four 129 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 3: thirty every morning because what I didn't mention in those 130 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,039 Speaker 3: folders is Q Parker, right, And so I have to 131 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 3: give myself the time and pour into myself so that 132 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 3: I'm at a full capacity to even give to others. Right, 133 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 3: I can't run myself down so much given to others 134 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 3: when I have not given myself the time. And so 135 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,679 Speaker 3: from four point thirty till about seven o'clock seven thirty, 136 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 3: that's all my time. And it's my time because normal 137 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 3: people are sleep, my phone not ringing, it's just that's 138 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 3: just my time. And so during those hours, I work out, 139 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 3: I'm praying, I meditate, I'm sitting in the sauna, I'm 140 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 3: going to the stretch lab, I'm going to yoga, like 141 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 3: I'm doing all of those things for me, yes, and 142 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 3: then I'm able to go upstairs, spend some time with 143 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 3: Shawland and spend some time with my wife. My oldest 144 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 3: grand baby he damn then lives at our home, and 145 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 3: so then I'm spending time with him, getting him dressed, 146 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 3: taking him to school, and then I start my day. 147 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 3: And then that may be meetings and with my partners 148 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 3: of Paramount Collective Ventures, which is my independent label and 149 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 3: managing company, we have our touch points, and then I'm starting. 150 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 3: I'm just kind of I look at what's all in 151 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 3: my day, and then I try to just find some 152 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 3: time within that day to go sneak and get a 153 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 3: massage or something, because at the end of the day, 154 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 3: I have to continue to prioritize quinness. 155 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 2: It's so good, and he talked about this is like 156 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 2: the most freedom you felt the world knows you or 157 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 2: was introduced to you from the prolific R and B 158 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 2: group one twelve, which was like one of the best 159 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 2: R groups of our generation. Like listen, one of the 160 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 2: best R and B groups of our generation. 161 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: Do you hear me? 162 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:20,119 Speaker 3: I remember groups? 163 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 2: Okay, we got one twelve boysmen. I love TLC, SWV 164 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 2: Thinking Groups, Destiny's Child. 165 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:40,959 Speaker 3: A new edition. 166 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, I know that's fine, but yeah 167 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 2: those that yes, I remember, I'm from Martin, Tennessee. You've been, 168 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 2: You've been to my hometown, and you all came. One 169 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 2: twelve performed in Martin, Tennessee. Martin when I was in college. Listen, 170 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 2: it was like the best thing ever. Wow, yes, a 171 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 2: long time ago. 172 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 3: You know what. I loved those times. And you know, 173 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 3: when people ask me about the current Q Parker, it's 174 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 3: hard for me to tell the Q Parker today's story 175 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 3: without giving love to my group members and as well 176 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 3: as the brand one twelve because what you see in 177 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 3: Q Parker now as an artist and all of these 178 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 3: things I learned from one twelve. Yeah, and see one 179 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 3: of the reasons why even today, I'm constantly on the road. 180 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 3: I'm constantly going into the radio stations, I'm doing phoners, 181 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 3: I'm calling them, shaking hands, kissing babies and all of that, 182 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 3: because back then one twelve we were in the major 183 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 3: college to the small college, to a major city to 184 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 3: the small city. If there was a demand for the group, 185 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 3: we were going to be there. And that just kind 186 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 3: of molded me into my philosophy of how I think 187 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 3: about marketing and promotions and presence. 188 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: No, I can see it. 189 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 2: I've got to see you perform a year ago at 190 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 2: an event that I was helping host, and just to 191 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,959 Speaker 2: see your stage present at presence as a group member, 192 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 2: to how you transform solo and let I say, demand 193 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 2: the stage commanded the audience is like at attention, you 194 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 2: just captivate everybody in the room, even come off the 195 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,479 Speaker 2: stage and like you just like you are an entertainer. 196 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: Man. 197 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 3: This is how I was raised. Started as an eighteen 198 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 3: year old Max. Sure, I'll be fifty and so you're 199 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 3: talking about thirty some years just constant working, and I'm 200 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 3: so grace. I'm so grateful that in my era, artist 201 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 3: development was something that was a priority because it molded 202 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 3: us in ways that allowed us to sustain sustainability. And 203 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 3: if we only just continue to tap into those early teachings, 204 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 3: this is why a lot of the nineties artists are 205 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 3: still moving around. You're still make a living and still 206 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 3: they are. The nineties artists are probably the highest grossing 207 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 3: touring acts presently. 208 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 1: Look at Monica. 209 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,959 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't know when Brandy came out in 210 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 2: the area, like late nineties and early two thousand, but 211 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 2: listen like literally that music. And when people ask them 212 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 2: what kind of news do you want to do, I 213 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 2: was like, I want to do a modernized version of 214 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 2: nineties R and B because I feel like you listen 215 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 2: to it today and it has stood the test of time. 216 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's a great formula. Like even with this 217 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 3: this latest project, I just released Evolution of Romance Volume one, 218 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 3: it's me tapping into who I am and what I know. 219 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 3: I'm a nineties artist, yeah, but I also can incorporate 220 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 3: some of the modern sounds and ways of delivery, certain 221 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 3: terminologies now to just create a great hybrid. And I 222 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 3: think that's one of the reasons why this latest project 223 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 3: has been received so well, because of that nostalgia, but 224 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 3: also so being able to incorporate some modern stuff as well. 225 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 2: I love that saying relevant rebranding. I think people forget 226 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 2: that it's a constant evolution. You're constantly evolving, You're constantly rebranding, 227 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 2: and you have to stay up with the times. 228 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:16,959 Speaker 3: You know, always say if I don't move, it don't groove. 229 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,439 Speaker 2: So true, that is true. I want to know because 230 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 2: you have been in this industry for a long time. 231 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 2: What are some lessons that you've learned, especially navigating from 232 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 2: being in a group to now being a solo and 233 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 2: independent artist running your own label, being ahead of everything 234 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,199 Speaker 2: and making these decisions. What are some lessons that you 235 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 2: learned along the way? 236 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 3: Lessons with I think the main lesson is you have 237 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 3: to be a student of whatever sector you are going 238 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,559 Speaker 3: to spend time in. You got to learn the business, 239 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 3: you know, study those that came before you. Why did 240 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 3: this work, Why didn't this work? What can I use 241 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 3: to incorporate into my system of systems? 242 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 2: Right? 243 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 3: And so the biggest thing, even in this today's this 244 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 3: is really seeing the business, you know, being a part 245 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 3: of the companies and inside the label business buildings. A 246 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 3: lot of the things weren't necessarily available to us. They 247 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 3: probably were if we had asked, but we didn't because 248 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 3: in those times the main focus for the artists was 249 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 3: just be the artist, create the songs, work on your 250 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 3: stage presence so you can go out on the road 251 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 3: and tour, but understanding like the behind the scenes and 252 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 3: peeling the onion back to really see all of the 253 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 3: departments and what really are they doing. You know, I 254 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 3: don't become an overnight success I don't become a success 255 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 3: just because my record is good, because we know, many 256 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 3: good records don't climb the charts. Many good records doesn't 257 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 3: equate to you being you know, a touring at with 258 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 3: the demand. There are these things that are happening in 259 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 3: these buildings that contribute to your success, like a marketing department, 260 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 3: promotion department, video apartment, artists, development, like all of these things. 261 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 3: And so just understanding those details is what I've incorporated 262 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 3: now as an independent artist, because even though I'm independent, 263 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 3: I still need promotions, marketing now, social media. 264 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, now, content creations. 265 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 3: So it's all of those things. And so just understanding 266 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 3: the business and then, you know, for the first time 267 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 3: in my entire career, being the owner of all things 268 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 3: Q Parker, come on, like, that's the game changing. You know, 269 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 3: we were never owners back then. We were selling all 270 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 3: the records and making all the tool money and all 271 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 3: the merchandise money. But in terms of master's ownership, that 272 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 3: went to the labels and the companies. And so it's 273 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 3: a beautiful thing to put out new music and not 274 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 3: only get paid because you are the performer, you are 275 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 3: the writer, you are the publisher, but you are now 276 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 3: the owner too, and that's a totally different ball game 277 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 3: that a lot of us artists rarely get a chance 278 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 3: to live in. And so I'm really enjoying the fact that, man, 279 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 3: I own it all. And you know, if somebody wants 280 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 3: to license Q Parker music, they gotta come and talk. 281 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: Come on, you know, listen for a price. It's I 282 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: guess yesterday's price is not today. It's nice, man. 283 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 2: I love that with ownership comes a lot of responsibility, 284 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 2: and oftentimes we don't talk about the weight of it. 285 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 2: I know, for me, even in my position, with everything 286 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 2: that I have going on, it's a lot to carry. 287 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: How is it for you? How do you handle it? 288 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 3: Have an amazing team? I mean that that can actually 289 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 3: answer the previous question. Something that I've learned. Man, You're 290 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 3: only as strong as your. 291 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: Team and as much as you. 292 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 3: Are capable of on it yourself. It's just not wise. 293 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: It's just not wise. 294 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 3: You're gonna tie yourself out. And so I grew up 295 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 3: playing sports, right, I'm huge in athletics, right, and so 296 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 3: early on I learned the importance of teamwork and camaraderie. 297 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 3: And if I do my job and you do your job, 298 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 3: we get to the end zone and we celebrate. That's 299 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 3: why they dance and all because, man, we worked hard 300 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 3: to get to this touchdown, so I want to celebrate. 301 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 3: But because of that mindset, it's easy for me to say, hey, 302 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 3: you're great at this, You're great at this, I'm great 303 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 3: at this. Let's be great together and now let's go 304 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 3: as opposed to me trying to be great at everything, 305 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 3: all these things, which I can be, but in the 306 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 3: long run for longevity, it's not sustainable. You'll burn yourself 307 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 3: out and it's not sustainable. So, man, having an amazing 308 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 3: team is something that is just so critical and vital. 309 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 2: No, for sure, I love that something else that you 310 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 2: are known for, which is probably a testament to why 311 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 2: you don't look your age like your granddad. 312 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: I can't believe that that's three. 313 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 2: That's crazy here, yo, of three. 314 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: Of three, But you are. 315 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 2: You've taken since I've known you, health and fitness has 316 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 2: been a huge part of your life. Are you still 317 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 2: doing the calendars? Does he does the calendar? You've been 318 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 2: doing calendars? And like, I know that that was a 319 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 2: big part of like your focus. And is that something 320 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 2: that you you still do yoga? You work out, you 321 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,199 Speaker 2: do the sauna. Why and has that always been a 322 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 2: part of your life or when was that switch for you? 323 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 3: So I go back to artist development and the way 324 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 3: that I describe it is kind of kind of funny. 325 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 3: Right the day that we signed to becoming a male 326 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,719 Speaker 3: R and B artist, we agreed to do certain things 327 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 3: and uphold certain things, create great songs. The majority of 328 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 3: our songs we create are two the female demography, which 329 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:06,919 Speaker 3: presents this idea, this image, this fantasy, and we marry 330 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 3: what our presentation is to the songs that we're singing, 331 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 3: and we would just talk early on that presentation is everything, 332 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 3: and that's something that I just I really just grab 333 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 3: hold of that because I guess playing sports, I understood 334 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 3: that if I practice, then it's going to become a 335 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 3: common It's not gonna be something that I'm just having 336 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,199 Speaker 3: to push myself, but it's just a regular occurrence. And 337 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 3: so early on, big shout out to k Wells, Courtney Says, 338 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,640 Speaker 3: and even Puffy who instilled in us like, no, you're 339 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 3: gonna be these R and B guys, you gotta look 340 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 3: to part at all times. And I just always had 341 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 3: this idea that if I'm sing the type of music 342 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 3: that I sing. I want when you see me to 343 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 3: match the type of music that I'm singing. I don't 344 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 3: want to be singing anywhere or pictures and cream from 345 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 3: the one twelve catalog. But I don't look nothing like 346 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 3: that's cute. No, it's not no offense to nobody else. 347 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 3: That's not gonna be a Q Parker. And that's why 348 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 3: I value, you know, the smaller things like getting manicures 349 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 3: and pedicures and facials and my teeth clean, and keeping 350 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 3: chapstick on and making sure you're groomed and smelling good. 351 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 3: And you know, it's great when I walk in the 352 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 3: room and people are like, yo, you smell nice. 353 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: You always gotta like what you're wearing about three different things. 354 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 3: I'm a grown man, and so those are the things 355 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 3: that we're supposed to take pride in. Clean sneakers and 356 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 3: making sure you're dressed to part and making sure you 357 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 3: just look good like all of this stuff is what 358 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 3: we signed up for. And so that's why I prioritize 359 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,159 Speaker 3: health and working out and watching what I eat and 360 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 3: when I eat, and drinking water and no stress, no drama, 361 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 3: getting adequate sleep. All of those things contribute to the 362 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 3: way of life a mental My aunt told me, you say, 363 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 3: when you're born, you look like your parents. When you die, 364 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 3: you look like your choices. So our choices determine what 365 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:11,399 Speaker 3: we're looking like. 366 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 1: They do. 367 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 3: Yeah. 368 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's. 369 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 3: Why, man, I'm very particular in the choices that I'm 370 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 3: making because I want to define what fifty years old 371 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 3: look like. I want to define what sixty years old 372 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 3: look like like. I'm not going to be the average sixty, 373 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 3: seventy eighty ninety year old. I'm just not. 374 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're on to listen your trajectory. Listen. Yes, 375 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 1: I love that. So your new music, the evolution of romance. 376 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,640 Speaker 2: You have been very intentional about bringing romance and how 377 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 2: to love back into the conversation. 378 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: What was really something? What sparked that? 379 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 3: So big shout out to Al Jamal, Elvis Felly, the Voice, 380 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,880 Speaker 3: Antario J. Bush. Those are my partners and Rico Love 381 00:20:55,080 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 3: in this so crazy. Yeah. So they are my production team, 382 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 3: and we set out and had a conversation before the 383 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 3: two week recording time it took to make this record. 384 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: And you know, so you record this in two weeks. 385 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, two weeks. Ten songs in two weeks. But that 386 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,399 Speaker 3: can happen when you are intentional, not just recording just 387 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 3: to be recording. Like, we knew exactly what we wanted 388 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 3: to record, and the nine songs that are on the 389 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 3: album are the only nine we recorded. Wow, that's our 390 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,640 Speaker 3: spot on and laser beam focused. We were on this 391 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 3: and in the past, I may record thirty. 392 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 1: And choose twel right exactly, that's no record. 393 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 3: Twenty and choose eight. But no, we only recorded what 394 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 3: the World Here as volume one. And so in this 395 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 3: initial conversation, I said, man, I could sing anything, right, 396 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,959 Speaker 3: I can. It just flows through my vein. But I 397 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 3: don't like to do things just because I can. I 398 00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 3: like to have a mission and a purpose and a 399 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 3: reason as to why I'm doing what I'm doing. And 400 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:07,439 Speaker 3: we were able to identify that romance is missing. You know, 401 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 3: guys aren't really like it ain't slow cooking stuff no more. 402 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,439 Speaker 3: Everything is just fast and just so direct. Well, what 403 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 3: happened to the wining and dining and then sugars and 404 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 3: being gentlemen, and we just we defined that romance is missing. 405 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 3: And so when we said romance, it was like. 406 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:30,360 Speaker 1: Bam, that's it. 407 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 3: That is Q Parker embodiment. Like anybody knows me know 408 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 3: that I'm all about love songs. Like I grew up 409 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:43,120 Speaker 3: watching the soap operas, and so everything about the soap 410 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 3: opera is soft and passionate and affection and touchy and 411 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 3: hugging and kissing and slow dancing. Like yo, we got 412 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 3: a whole generation that probably don't don't even know what 413 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:01,439 Speaker 3: slow dancing is, probably has never slowed down. And the 414 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,480 Speaker 3: slow dance is in some ways you can look at 415 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 3: it as exploration. It's research because now this is the 416 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 3: first time you may have been this close to whisper, 417 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,639 Speaker 3: to smell the cologne, to say a little nothing's in 418 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 3: the ear, kiss on the neck, you know, waistline, you 419 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 3: can feel his back, like all of those things. It's 420 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 3: like discovery, right, but we're in the world where it's 421 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 3: just hey, what you're doing, so it's no connectivity. And 422 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 3: so we wanted to sing and just bring romance back 423 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,960 Speaker 3: into the marketplace man. And so you know, I committed 424 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 3: to this evolution volume series. This is volume one. I'm 425 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 3: committed to doing at least four to five. 426 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 2: Okay, So, like, what made you want to do volumes 427 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 2: instead of just like one project? 428 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 3: Because I knew that I didn't want to have a 429 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:53,639 Speaker 3: triple a triple release with like forty some songs. And 430 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 3: you know, there are different levels of romance. You know, 431 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:01,199 Speaker 3: we talk about the evolution of still being defined, and 432 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 3: it could be defined in so many ways, and so 433 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 3: it was no way that I wanted to try to 434 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 3: force the full embodiment of romance into nine songs. 435 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,200 Speaker 1: That's so true. Yeah, I know that's real. 436 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 2: I love that and I'm excited to see what the 437 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 2: evolution of romance is. 438 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 3: Romance is just it's just so key. And you know, 439 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 3: as I've been on this, on this campaign, Johnny, like, 440 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 3: I've I've coined myself the romance dealer. Yes, just dealing romance, 441 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 3: just campaigning romance and bringing it back into the homes, 442 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 3: the hearts of these relationships. 443 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 2: Now to get in your business, how do you He's like, okay, 444 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 2: how do you show up romantically for CHARLANDA Like? What 445 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 2: are things that qth Parker does? And maybe you could 446 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 2: share and get some fellows some So romance to. 447 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 3: Me is it's deeds, it's things. It's not necessarily a 448 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 3: particular thing, right, but it's the little it's that they 449 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 3: always say, the what's it called it? The something that's 450 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 3: in the details. 451 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: That the devil is in the details. 452 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 3: Well, but the details matter. It's the small things, right, 453 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 3: And so U romantic to me can be gassing her 454 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 3: car up on Sundays. Yes, so it's cold outside. She 455 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 3: don't got to worry about putting gas in the car. Romance. 456 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 3: Romance could be listening. Man, I've had a long day, 457 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,119 Speaker 3: so you get home, don't worry a by dinner to 458 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,880 Speaker 3: day because I just went ahead and order dinner. Listening 459 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,199 Speaker 3: is important, yo, Man, I've been on my feet all day. Man, Man, 460 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 3: my back is Hey, you get our work today, go 461 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 3: to such and such such, or when you get home, 462 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 3: the massage person is here. Like it's all of those 463 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 3: things because I believe, just like my first single was 464 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 3: a song called beg right, and we made it into 465 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 3: an acronym bringing endless gratitude to your partner. And so 466 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 3: in this iteration of the word, it's not because you 467 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 3: thatsed up. We're not begging because I'm sorry that It's 468 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 3: just we're begging for you to keep the relationship in 469 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 3: a good space. And begging becomes deeds, it becomes the 470 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 3: small things. And so if we're constantly begging for each other, 471 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 3: then that too can be romance. 472 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,440 Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I love that. That's good. 473 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,919 Speaker 2: Listen, guys, I know it's a lost art, you know, 474 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 2: and I find myself when I'm dating. 475 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: I'm having to like teach people like music, teach me. 476 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:32,680 Speaker 2: Howl tired trying to teach you. 477 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: It's certain things that come on. 478 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 3: It's not okay, you know, just just being a gentleman. Yeah, 479 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 3: you know, my mama raised us to be respectful. That 480 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 3: can even be romantic. The way you talk to somebody 481 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,879 Speaker 3: like you don't got to be so direct. Put that 482 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 3: shit on. Put that babe. What happened you remember that 483 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 3: Black Dress war? I really like that. I would love 484 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 3: to see you in that. You know what I'm saying, Like, 485 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 3: it's the small things, Yes, it's the small things. And 486 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 3: you know, I think society has just fast paced everything. 487 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 3: The micael wave. They want the quick return, They want 488 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 3: to make an investment. You want to just see it right, 489 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,919 Speaker 3: you want to see the blow up tomorrow. But sometimes 490 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 3: you got to play the long game, man. The long 491 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 3: game will prove way more dividends than something that's just 492 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 3: this overnight. 493 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, and we see it now. Is this something that 494 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 2: you always knew in your marriage or did something. 495 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 3: You had to absolutely not. I had to grow into that. 496 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 3: I had to grow into that. You gotta understand, like, 497 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,239 Speaker 3: I was married at twenty six. Wow, and so at 498 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 3: twenty six that's the height of maybe this is anywhere 499 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 3: or peaches and cream, And so it's just like, man, 500 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 3: I know that I didn't really fully understand the totality 501 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:58,120 Speaker 3: of that type of a commitment. But again, man, you live, 502 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:02,200 Speaker 3: you learn. Kudos to Charlenda and her just having patience 503 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 3: to allow me to grow into that true manhood and 504 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 3: fatherhood and being present and all of those things. So, nah, 505 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 3: I didn't know all of that. But what's crazy, Chase 506 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 3: is when I started to have these revelations, I just 507 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,440 Speaker 3: remember my mom and my dad because my dad always 508 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 3: handled my mom in a gentle way. My dad was 509 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:30,199 Speaker 3: the ultimate provider. He was firm in an extreme disciplinarian. 510 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 3: But I just saw them love on each other in 511 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 3: ways that I think defied what society and how society 512 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,719 Speaker 3: defined what a relationship should really look like, and the 513 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 3: nuances and the balance of work versus nurturing at home, 514 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 3: nurturing at home versus work right, And so I think 515 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 3: those things have always been in me because of my surroundings. 516 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 3: I just had to mature into those spaces to connect 517 00:28:58,520 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 3: with what I knew all along. 518 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, what are those conversations like when you are 519 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 2: having to your learning and maybe charls like quinnis. 520 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 1: This is what I need you know and like because 521 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: a lot. 522 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 2: Of times in relationships, and there's so many couples that 523 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 2: watch this show, I want to show them, like, this 524 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 2: is what it looks like, what marriage looks like over 525 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 2: years and maybe not all having it all together in 526 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 2: the beginning, but through communicating and learning each other, this 527 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 2: is how we got to this side of it. 528 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 3: Absolutely. You know, marriage is it's a partnership. It is 529 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 3: a commitment. Yeah, it is a sacrifice. It is understanding. 530 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 3: Its effectively communicating, it's paying attention, it's listening. It's speaking 531 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 3: delicately to the person that you care about and you love, 532 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 3: Which means I need to choose which words I'm going 533 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,880 Speaker 3: to use in trying to get whatever said point across right, right, 534 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 3: Because if my and it's being results oriented, that means 535 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 3: let's spend as much time as we need here, but 536 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 3: let's spend the bulk of the time on talking about 537 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 3: the solution and the results it's a lot of forgiveness 538 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 3: and understanding. It's patience, and it is committing every day. 539 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 3: It's a daily commit because if I keep bringing in 540 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 3: yesterday and the day before and last week and last 541 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 3: month and last year and ten years ago, like it's 542 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 3: almost like driving like this, right you don't know where 543 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 3: you're going? Who drives like this? 544 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: That is such a good analogy, So you. 545 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 3: Know, keeping keeping here, Hey, today is today. Today is today. 546 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 3: Let's commit today and just having that mindset that I 547 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 3: ain't going nowhere, You're not going nowhere. Divorce is off 548 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 3: the table. So that means it's not an option, So 549 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 3: don't ever, that's not an option. We got to work 550 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 3: through these other things because that's not an option. 551 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 2: Now. 552 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 3: That means maybe I ain't liking you right now. You 553 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 3: may not be liking me right now. You're making respectfully 554 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 3: say hey, give me a minute, has some time, I 555 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 3: need space? Blah blah blah blah blah, and it be 556 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 3: received like I respect that, because I don't think it's 557 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 3: fair when relationships try to live or move their relationship 558 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,520 Speaker 3: the way that society has defined it, or what Mama 559 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 3: and them and Grandmama them did. Because we are us. 560 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 3: We got to define our own relationship and we get 561 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 3: to say what we want to do, what we don't 562 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 3: want to do, what boundaries we want to set, what 563 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,959 Speaker 3: we don't want to do. And that has nothing to 564 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 3: do with nobody but the two individuals that are involved. 565 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 3: And I think if we keep those types of things 566 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 3: as the top lines, we have a better way, a 567 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 3: better goal of it being successful, because that's at the 568 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 3: end of the day. People just want to be happy. 569 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 3: They want companionship, We want to have some fun, we 570 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 3: want to laugh, we want to share some intimacy and 571 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 3: have intimate moments and then be building legacy. Yes, all 572 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 3: that fussing and fighting and yelling and cussing, and. 573 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 1: I don't ever see you like upset raise your voice. 574 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 3: It's very rare because I just I just try to 575 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 3: be controlled in all spaces. And again I'm in control 576 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:47,239 Speaker 3: of my response. I'm accountable for what I do, not 577 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 3: for what you do. You can look like the food, 578 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:55,360 Speaker 3: but I'm not because I know how to and I'm 579 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 3: a word or to chase like I care. I take 580 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,360 Speaker 3: a beat before I speak, and when I need to 581 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 3: say some something that's razor, it's gonna be collected. It's 582 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 3: gonna be well thought. I'm just not lashing out saying 583 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 3: because I might forget something like I got, I gotta 584 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 3: get all over there. So I'm gonna take my beat 585 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 3: to gather all my thoughts because when I let it go, 586 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 3: but it's gonna be it's gonna be delicate. Yeah. It 587 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 3: reminds me of So my son is a senior at Family, right. Wow, 588 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 3: he's a theater major. Right you remember Q Jr. He's 589 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:38,480 Speaker 3: a senior. Yeah, and so he's a theater major. And 590 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 3: so he would come home and I would he would 591 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,720 Speaker 3: have to put itself on tape. Yeah, and so I remember, 592 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 3: I remember when he first started, there was this this 593 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,479 Speaker 3: line that he had to or this passage and the 594 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 3: person had to have be angered, right, And so the 595 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,560 Speaker 3: first past he was he just went yelling and screaming 596 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:02,000 Speaker 3: and he delivered it so big as my mom. And 597 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 3: so I set them down and then I was like, yo, 598 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 3: that there's another approach that you can. You can show 599 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,759 Speaker 3: anger through frustration, you can show anger through disappointment. And 600 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,800 Speaker 3: so I'm never gonna be this guy right here because 601 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 3: I can. I can sit down and be like Chase, 602 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 3: that was really messed up, and all the things that 603 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:25,160 Speaker 3: you've done, like I can, I can deliver the same message. 604 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:29,719 Speaker 2: Calm and those always they always work. 605 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:31,799 Speaker 1: Like when people do that on screen, it's like. 606 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:36,440 Speaker 3: Oh my god, exactly. So that's that's how I approach. 607 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,480 Speaker 3: And then you know, lastly about that, I have to 608 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 3: protect my blood pressure. I gotta protect my stress level. 609 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 3: And nothing hit me out. Nothing is worth me stressing 610 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:56,200 Speaker 3: over nothing. I don't care how big it is. There's 611 00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:00,480 Speaker 3: a solution and we can work through everything. I don't 612 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,440 Speaker 3: care how big, how grand, how Oh my god, the world. 613 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:04,719 Speaker 3: The world ain't. 614 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 1: Ending, right, it's not. No. 615 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 3: So that's why you probably would rarely ever see me 616 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 3: like just and if you ever see me losing my 617 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:17,000 Speaker 3: mind or some you got to know somebody went to 618 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 3: the ends of the earth to really just get me 619 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:20,279 Speaker 3: off my. 620 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:24,279 Speaker 2: Square right, right, and so true, So you did what 621 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,760 Speaker 2: you called the Manuel. Yeah, so was that a collection 622 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,440 Speaker 2: of all the lesson that you learned to teach me? 623 00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,880 Speaker 3: And how pretty much that? So I just always believe, 624 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:37,360 Speaker 3: you know, as a musician and as an orator, a speaker, 625 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 3: a deliverer of messaging, you have a responsibility. I don't 626 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:48,440 Speaker 3: want to just create songs and music just for no reason. 627 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,360 Speaker 3: I like to always have a message behind it, and again, 628 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,680 Speaker 3: like I said previously, I like to have an objective 629 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,719 Speaker 3: as to why I'm recording. And that first album, which 630 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,319 Speaker 3: was in twenty twelve, was the very first time of 631 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,920 Speaker 3: me branching out on my own, and I needed to 632 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,080 Speaker 3: show you know, just how I've grown and how I've matured, 633 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,160 Speaker 3: and how and what type of lessons I've learned in 634 00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 3: my young adulthood and in my young marriagehood and fatherhood 635 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,680 Speaker 3: and parenthood and all those things. And so I was 636 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:23,760 Speaker 3: very intentional about capitalizing m an location the ul because 637 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,440 Speaker 3: I wanted the listeners to understand that this was a 638 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:30,080 Speaker 3: man coming into his own. But then also using what 639 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:35,239 Speaker 3: I've experienced as a manual how to God on, how 640 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,480 Speaker 3: to love, how to forgive, how to be present, how 641 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,800 Speaker 3: to get a do over, like all of those things. 642 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,960 Speaker 1: I love that. Didn't You also have like a men's community? 643 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, Brothers United of Atlanta We're still going strong and 644 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:52,520 Speaker 3: I founded it in twenty sixteen. This upcoming year would 645 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:57,400 Speaker 3: be our ten year anniversary and it's just Brothers United 646 00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:02,640 Speaker 3: is probably one of my most proud art is creations 647 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:07,000 Speaker 3: because we know all over the world. Men just need 648 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:14,000 Speaker 3: safe places to be vulnerable, to be our true optimal selves. 649 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,959 Speaker 3: You know, we possess all that's needed, but we only 650 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,160 Speaker 3: probably using fifty or less percent of all the qualities 651 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,880 Speaker 3: and traits that we have because of the stereotypes, because 652 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 3: of the social climate and status. And you know, men 653 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,120 Speaker 3: can't do this, and men should do this, and you're 654 00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,600 Speaker 3: not this if you don't and you should be. All 655 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,799 Speaker 3: that stuff is just tearing this down even and we 656 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,839 Speaker 3: even getting into the systemic stuff and the history of 657 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,520 Speaker 3: stuff and ancestrals. Right, it's a lot that men are carrying. 658 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:49,120 Speaker 3: And so to be able to create an atmosphere in 659 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,319 Speaker 3: an environment for God to just come and be loved on, 660 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:58,839 Speaker 3: be motivated, encouraged, championed, cheered on, man hugged, that's just 661 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,080 Speaker 3: something that I get so proud. And so every Monday 662 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,920 Speaker 3: we do a prayer and meditation call via zoom and 663 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 3: then once a month we do an in person meeting 664 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 3: where we have like a speaker that'll come. But it's 665 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,080 Speaker 3: also just giving guys a voice. 666 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,000 Speaker 2: Yes, and they need that, they need it. I love 667 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:21,040 Speaker 2: that and I'm proud of you. Ten years congratulations. Yeah, 668 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:25,440 Speaker 2: that is amazing. I love that you wear so many hats. 669 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:29,560 Speaker 2: You also act you've done place TV and film. What 670 00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,359 Speaker 2: is something that you haven't done yet or something that 671 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,400 Speaker 2: you really want to tap into more in this season 672 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:36,000 Speaker 2: of your life. 673 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:40,040 Speaker 3: I want to do a fitness competition. 674 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,200 Speaker 2: Really, like what's that show that we used to watch 675 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:44,080 Speaker 2: on Saturday mornings? 676 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:45,200 Speaker 1: Like Gladiator kind of thing? 677 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:49,239 Speaker 3: Really so so that type of like like I would 678 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,640 Speaker 3: love to do Special Forces a Fox get at your 679 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,799 Speaker 3: boy listen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would love to do 680 00:38:55,840 --> 00:39:00,319 Speaker 3: stuff like Special Forces or like the competition type of 681 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:04,400 Speaker 3: reality shows, but also like a real life fitness competition, 682 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,360 Speaker 3: like a male physique or something like. I'm not I 683 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:11,440 Speaker 3: don't really believe in all too too muscular, but yeah, 684 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:15,600 Speaker 3: like a male physique, like a fitness type of competition. 685 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,680 Speaker 3: I would like to do that, And so I may 686 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,920 Speaker 3: do it. I may do it next sure, my fifty 687 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,120 Speaker 3: fifty years, you may do it next year. 688 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:24,480 Speaker 1: You should. That's gonna be crazy. 689 00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,120 Speaker 2: I have someone who just did special for us, so 690 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,960 Speaker 2: I'll see if they have a connect. 691 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:34,320 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, see, it's good to know people, man in 692 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:36,960 Speaker 3: big places. 693 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,920 Speaker 1: I know a few people I love that. 694 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:44,440 Speaker 2: Is there anything that we can look out for? You 695 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,640 Speaker 2: have your album the well the beginning. 696 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,680 Speaker 3: Of Yes, this is the volume series, so we just 697 00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:53,480 Speaker 3: released Volume one. Things that are on the horizon is 698 00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:58,200 Speaker 3: obviously competing completing the volume series. I do have a 699 00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,880 Speaker 3: couple of acting opportunities that are have already been filmed 700 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:06,880 Speaker 3: that are slated to come out next year. Philanthropy, continuing 701 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:12,560 Speaker 3: to support the children by way of our music developmental 702 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,880 Speaker 3: summer camps, and then also the senior citizens. We do 703 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:21,600 Speaker 3: annual programming for the senior citizens. And then just kind 704 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:25,520 Speaker 3: of and then building a model for peers of mind 705 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,799 Speaker 3: to be able to still have a voice, but also 706 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,879 Speaker 3: know that there's a home where they could go where 707 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:34,279 Speaker 3: they can still release new music, have ownership and not 708 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,480 Speaker 3: just have to rest on what they've done in the past, 709 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:42,400 Speaker 3: but now can put out current music, have a direct 710 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:46,719 Speaker 3: connection to your fans, be directly to the consumers, and 711 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,600 Speaker 3: just still have a voice. So many of my artists 712 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:53,400 Speaker 3: from my from my peers from my era can still sing, 713 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,520 Speaker 3: they still look good, still have the energy to get 714 00:40:55,560 --> 00:41:00,880 Speaker 3: out here. Yeah, So just trying to create a blueprint 715 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,759 Speaker 3: for for artists to be able to still put out 716 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:04,279 Speaker 3: music there. 717 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,200 Speaker 1: I love that. I love that and have ownership, ownership listen. 718 00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,200 Speaker 1: That's one thing Tyler taught me ownership. 719 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:10,960 Speaker 3: Owners ownerships. 720 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:12,279 Speaker 1: You don't want to look up. 721 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,000 Speaker 2: You've done all this work. You work so hard and 722 00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:16,960 Speaker 2: there's nothing to show for it. And that comes to ownership. 723 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:21,040 Speaker 3: You got to own it, man, and especially now in 724 00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:24,759 Speaker 3: the world of independence, because the reality is everybody's not 725 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,680 Speaker 3: going to get a record deal. Everybody's not going to 726 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:32,160 Speaker 3: be you know, supported by lions Gate and MGM and 727 00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,960 Speaker 3: Columbia Pictures and all of that. And so, you know, 728 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,080 Speaker 3: how can you gain interest from somebody else if they 729 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,600 Speaker 3: don't see that you have the interest in your own self, 730 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:46,200 Speaker 3: you know, creating that value so you can have people 731 00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,280 Speaker 3: coming to the table. But then you're in a position 732 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,200 Speaker 3: of power because by the time they get to you, 733 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:52,200 Speaker 3: you may not even need them. 734 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,799 Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, that's weird because you've done the work. 735 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,000 Speaker 3: Because you've done the work. 736 00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:01,120 Speaker 2: Yes, I love that this season's theme is unapologetic. I 737 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,960 Speaker 2: want to ask you, Q Parker, what are you unapologetic 738 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,880 Speaker 2: about in this season of your life? 739 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:15,240 Speaker 3: I am unapologetic about just being Q Parker and all 740 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:21,600 Speaker 3: that means, and that is bottling up what was, but 741 00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:27,279 Speaker 3: most importantly what is. And there are no limits I 742 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,839 Speaker 3: wake up every day. If I have an idea, I 743 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:34,320 Speaker 3: can really do the things that that idea can become 744 00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,480 Speaker 3: a real thing. And when I tell you that kind 745 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:41,560 Speaker 3: of freedom, everybody needs to experience that type of freedom 746 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,479 Speaker 3: where you don't you don't have deadlines that you didn't 747 00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:48,279 Speaker 3: give yourself. You don't have the pressures of somebody else 748 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,600 Speaker 3: telling you I need it by tomorrow. That brings on stress, 749 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:55,160 Speaker 3: that brings on all these other stuff, right, but you 750 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,760 Speaker 3: are in control of setting the deadlines and the barometers 751 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:05,080 Speaker 3: and all that. And so I'm unapologetically proud that I 752 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:09,920 Speaker 3: can show up every day as Quinnis Damon Parker Senior 753 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:14,360 Speaker 3: Q Parker the romance deal of Baby, I love it. 754 00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,399 Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, and hold on before I get 755 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,120 Speaker 3: out of here, let me just give you something real quickly. 756 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:27,000 Speaker 3: When I met you, you had these big dreams and 757 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,760 Speaker 3: I don't remember if you remember, me and my partners, 758 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,440 Speaker 3: we would have these conversations with you and you would say, man, 759 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,879 Speaker 3: I want to do this, I want to do this, 760 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,520 Speaker 3: I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this. 761 00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,239 Speaker 3: You had a list of things. We were just in 762 00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,480 Speaker 3: position to help you kind of get into these spaces 763 00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:48,080 Speaker 3: and so when I fast forward to the present, I've 764 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:53,640 Speaker 3: watched all of your ascension and for somebody who witnessed 765 00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:57,160 Speaker 3: it in the beginning phases, and to see where you 766 00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,759 Speaker 3: are and where you're going as your brother the man, 767 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,279 Speaker 3: I'm really really proud of you. I want to tell 768 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:05,719 Speaker 3: you that I love you. I'm super proud of you. 769 00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:10,200 Speaker 3: And this is the true testament of having a vision 770 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,600 Speaker 3: putting in the work right. I live by model that 771 00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:19,600 Speaker 3: says regimen plus consistency equals results. You had a regimen, 772 00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,680 Speaker 3: you were consistent in that, and now you're living in 773 00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:24,880 Speaker 3: the results. And so I'm proud of you. 774 00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:29,680 Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you so much. I love you. Thank you. 775 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:39,160 Speaker 2: Wow, you're gonna try to make the cry. So every 776 00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:42,080 Speaker 2: week a listener writes in and we give them advice. 777 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:46,359 Speaker 2: So this week for positive Outcomes, Chambria Brown writes, what 778 00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:48,319 Speaker 2: advice do you have for someone who is trying to 779 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:53,080 Speaker 2: rebuild their relationship with God? Trying to rebuild that's been 780 00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:59,320 Speaker 2: like the story of my last few years. My advice 781 00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:03,759 Speaker 2: would be to be very intentional about your relationship with 782 00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:09,240 Speaker 2: Christ and also understand that the walk will not be perfect. 783 00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:12,840 Speaker 2: I think a lot of times we see what looks 784 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,000 Speaker 2: like this is just perfect path for everyone who is 785 00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:19,480 Speaker 2: following Christ right, but people don't show their shortcomings. And 786 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:23,480 Speaker 2: I talked about it earlier, is that when you're on 787 00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:26,640 Speaker 2: this path and you're trying to do what's right, even 788 00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:28,759 Speaker 2: if you fall down, get up, don't give up. 789 00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:30,240 Speaker 1: That would be my advice. 790 00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:37,440 Speaker 3: I would say, first and foremost, God understands who we 791 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:41,280 Speaker 3: are way more than we do, and your small effort 792 00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:45,080 Speaker 3: is just you really tap into who He already know 793 00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:49,640 Speaker 3: you are. And so it's just like riding the bike. 794 00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:52,400 Speaker 3: You gotta get on the bike every day until you 795 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:57,320 Speaker 3: become better at it. Again, regimen and consistency builds results. 796 00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:02,320 Speaker 3: And so if I start giving time time today and 797 00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,680 Speaker 3: I come back tomorrow and the next day, I'm gonna 798 00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:08,239 Speaker 3: look up and the week has gone by, and now 799 00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,960 Speaker 3: I'm getting more and more confident, the relationship is becoming 800 00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,799 Speaker 3: more and more solid. So again, I don't know if 801 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:15,800 Speaker 3: I'm gonna make the shot. If I don't shoot the shot, 802 00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:17,759 Speaker 3: come on, So that's real. 803 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:18,319 Speaker 1: I love that. 804 00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:25,719 Speaker 2: Thank you Schmbria for writing, Oh my goodness, that was 805 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,240 Speaker 2: such a great conversation and a reminder that growth doesn't 806 00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,400 Speaker 2: stop when you stay consistent with yourself and your purpose. 807 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,160 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode 808 00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:38,080 Speaker 2: of the Keep It Positive Sweetie Show. 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