1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: Every day a week ago. Up the Breakfast Club. 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 2: You don't finished for y'all. 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: Done morning. 4 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 3: Everybody is the DJ Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the God. 5 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 3: We are the breakfast Club. Law la Rosa is here. 6 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 3: We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed 7 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 3: you got the brother major Head. 8 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: Welcome man, this is an honor. Thank y'all for having me. Listen. 9 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm on cloud three MILLI morning to you. 10 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 2: I didn't know that Lauren's be you pasted at your church. 11 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: Okay, listen you pastor listen. 12 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 2: I was not you. Why are you lying about that? 13 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 1: No? 14 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 4: No, no, when I saw when I said, I saw 15 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 4: her face and when I started seeing her right, so 16 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 4: I'm like, I've seen her before, and she did indeed 17 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 4: go to the church. I used to be the worship 18 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:51,480 Speaker 4: leader at one church in l a pastor Tory Roberts, and. 19 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 5: That's when they actually used to be at the church preaching. 20 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 5: Like like now they're like all these different places. 21 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 6: But all these different places there at the Potter's House 22 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 6: on Sunday, all the different places. 23 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 5: I know, it's you know what I mean though, like 24 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 5: I mean like they were, it was. 25 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: It was it was. 26 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 5: I mean they still had they said a lot going 27 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 5: on because I remember he did the Gucci's wedding at 28 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 5: that time to and I was like, oh, shoot, that's 29 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 5: a pastor from the church. I just started going. Yeah, 30 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 5: but pastors are rate that he sometimes when you go there. 31 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 5: Now it's other pastors that will step in. 32 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:16,199 Speaker 1: Yeah. 33 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 5: It used to you would never miss him if you 34 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 5: went to church on Sunday. 35 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:21,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there was. There was a time. But it's grown. 36 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 4: So you know, when you build and grow, you gotta 37 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 4: kind of have folks standing there right there. 38 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:28,279 Speaker 2: At the body House every Sunday. 39 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely there. I'm loving seeing what's happening there. Potter's 40 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 4: House has been really supportive of my movement. 41 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 2: So yeah, I ask you, the last. 42 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 6: Time I saw you, you were singing at Macari Seller's wedding. Yes, 43 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,839 Speaker 6: and Bishop Jakes was, uh, what do you call that about? 44 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 6: To say, passed the wedding, he officiated, differ wedding. He 45 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 6: officiated the weding. 46 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 2: What's the relationship. 47 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 4: Uh, Well, Bakari is a brother of mine. That I 48 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 4: he's our mutual well brother. We actually I met years 49 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 4: ago on a panel for the n Double a CP 50 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 4: shout out to the n double A CP. They're still 51 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 4: relevant doing the good work for our people. But we 52 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 4: were on a panel as meet him, Joe Taka Edie 53 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 4: and Brittany Pacneck Cunningham, and we just connected and we 54 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 4: literally just said, you know, we're going to help each 55 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 4: other along the way. 56 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: Uh. He had his vow renewal. He invited me. 57 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 4: I also know Bishop, you know from you know a 58 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 4: lot of the work that I've done. But it was 59 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,639 Speaker 4: a really beautiful time man, and he he pulled out 60 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 4: all the stops shout out to shout out to the family. 61 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 2: He definitely did. I actually we was talk about the 62 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 2: conections between you and Bishop. 63 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 4: Oh Bishop, Yeah, okay, well well Bishop has supported me. 64 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 4: I actually saw you remember at the birthday party. 65 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: It's sixty fifty and did he was there? 66 00:02:59,560 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 2: He was? 67 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: Did he was there? Listen. 68 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 4: I will say this. I will say this. It was 69 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,920 Speaker 4: no funny business. And so it sucks that a picture 70 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 4: can lead to all that crazy, but like I mean, 71 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 4: it was great energy. Did he clearly sees him as 72 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 4: a father and it was you see the respecting real time, 73 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 4: but it was it was wild because I'm like, Lord, 74 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 4: I hope none of those pictures come looking like I 75 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 4: didne did something, But. 76 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: Nah, it's it's love. 77 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 4: Bishop had to sing uh for sisterly Tyson tribute before 78 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 4: she passed away at the Megafest, and Bishop just said, Yo, 79 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 4: there's a there's something on your life. There's an annointing 80 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 4: on your life. Uh, stay locked, I got you. I'll 81 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 4: support you. His family has supported me, and it's just 82 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 4: it's just been consistent. 83 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: So yeah, from a great person, I know. 84 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's he's really a legit good person. And I 85 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 4: think because we've had so many experiences seeing the church 86 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 4: from the humanity side of things, mishandled a lot of things, 87 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 4: we just automatically just assume his success must be a scheme. 88 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 4: But he's really sincere, like he shows up for people, 89 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 4: he respects people. 90 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 1: It's it's it's real. And I think you know that. 91 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 2: Absolutely. I love the Bishop. 92 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:23,799 Speaker 6: I love all of them Bishop, you know, Bishop Jakes, 93 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 6: and Pata Patisara. 94 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 2: Like I call him the first family of Faith. 95 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: Okay, you know what I mean. 96 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 2: I get it. 97 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, absolutely. 98 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 6: You know one thing I like about your music, It 99 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 6: always centers purpose and positivity, how intentional hope exactly. That's 100 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 6: probably hope dealer, How intentional have you had to be 101 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 6: about protecting your spirit and message in an industry that 102 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 6: just seems like it rewards the bullshit. 103 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: For man, it's it's I live in an anomaly. 104 00:04:55,279 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 4: Like I studied music, you know, I've really studied. I've 105 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 4: been to performing art schools. The shout out to the HSPVA. 106 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 4: That's the same high school as Beyonce, Robert glasper Brian 107 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 4: Michael Cox. I did an intensive at Julliardo did Berkeley 108 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 4: College of Music. So I'm versatile in what I've studied. 109 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 4: But I have found success in the most peculiar ways 110 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 4: because his journey it does celebrate the salacious, it celebrates 111 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 4: the negative. It celebrates like just to disrespectful specific to 112 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 4: our culture, what they allow to thrive in our culture, 113 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 4: which is really wild how that works. But I've just 114 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 4: kind of just been committed to the assignment that I 115 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 4: think on my life is to amplify hope. I define 116 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 4: hope as hope is not the denial of reality. It's 117 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,919 Speaker 4: the commitment to believe greater is on the other side 118 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 4: of it. 119 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: Hope is not. 120 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 4: Pretending struggle and circumstance aren't real. Because one thing life 121 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 4: is going to do is life with or without our permission. 122 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 4: And so what hope does is it keeps us anchored 123 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 4: in this thing called the promise from the promise keeper, 124 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 4: and it delivers every time. And so that's just what 125 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 4: I've been committed to. It's been difficult to stay on 126 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 4: that because people like want to put people against each other. 127 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 4: I remember when Why I Love You my song this 128 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 4: is why I Love you? 129 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: Just in case, oh no, I know the song. 130 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 4: Listen, but that song changed my life and I was 131 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 4: just singing my producer Harmony, we made this love letter 132 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 4: to God. It's a love letter to God, and love 133 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 4: wrote me back to help people really understand how to 134 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:43,919 Speaker 4: do this love thing on earth. But they started saying 135 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 4: I was bringing back classic R and B, and so 136 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 4: then it was like this responsibility to try to keep 137 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,280 Speaker 4: up with R and B. But I don't have the 138 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 4: typical R and B language, choiedboy. I'm a church boy, 139 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 4: you know. So it was it's been interesting, but I've 140 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 4: stayed steady with it, and I'm living better than I've 141 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 4: ever lived before. 142 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 6: So what would you say to people, you know, when 143 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 6: they hear the term hope dealing? It's funny we just had. 144 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 6: You know, Jill Scott here, she has a name on 145 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 6: her album with Too Short. I can't remember the name 146 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 6: of it right now, but it's literally talking about, you know, 147 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 6: all of these people who pimp different sectors of our society, 148 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 6: from church to education to the pharmaceutical companies. So when 149 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 6: they hear the term hope dealer, what do you say 150 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 6: to people who feel like people in the with that 151 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 6: do gospel just peddling hope. 152 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:39,239 Speaker 4: Listen, Hope is powerful. Hope ain't ever canceled. It's necessary. 153 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 4: It's a disruptor, it's an anchor, and I think anybody 154 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 4: that's in the business of doing it, and I love 155 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 4: what the Breakfast Club has evolved into because that's actually 156 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 4: what y'all are doing in just the way that you 157 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 4: do it. Hope does not have to have a three 158 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 4: piece suit and you know, or a big church hat. 159 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 4: Like it's just amplifying that there's better than this. On 160 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 4: the other side, you I just read a quote that 161 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 4: you made. You said, if you're building something that only 162 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 4: benefits you, it's not big enough. That's hope. That's given 163 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 4: hope to the people. That's that's amplifying this thing that 164 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 4: there's room for all of us to win. And so 165 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 4: my thing is if you're locked in that you're doing 166 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 4: a good work, be it the Four Walls or not 167 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 4: of the church, You're doing the work that God put 168 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 4: us on this earth to do. Sometimes you're gonna be 169 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 4: one of the few voices amplifying it. But it's powerful. 170 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 4: One thing you say my name in most rooms, it's 171 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 4: gonna be respected. They're gonna say, yeah, he's a good dude, 172 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 4: because I've just been committed to it. But it sucks 173 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 4: as an independent artist because it's it ain't cheap. So 174 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 4: it's like it's easier if I didn't do the hope, 175 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 4: you know, from a surface level, but I know at 176 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 4: the end of the day, I gotta I gotta deal 177 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 4: with you know, if God says well done, and I'm 178 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 4: trying to get to the to the heaven. 179 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 3: Now, your record is almost ten years old. Ten bro, 180 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 3: did you ever when you recorded that record? Did you 181 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 3: know what it was when I first recorded? So let 182 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 3: me give you there's two two two spaces. I'm on 183 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 3: the web series before it hit for me, before my 184 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,439 Speaker 3: life changed, because Why I Love You changed my life. 185 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 3: It's a low budget web series, The Brother of Kevil 186 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 3: on stage. 187 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: I think he's been here. 188 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 4: Jason Fredericks, who he recently passed away of cancer. 189 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: He yeah, beautiful, beautiful dude. 190 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 4: He They said, we had sandwiches and I've been high, 191 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 4: made this all my life. 192 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: Didn't come from a whole. 193 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 4: Lot of money. Just it's just in me for some reason. 194 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 4: I don't like sandwiches that are just basic, okay. 195 00:09:57,840 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 2: Bo man. 196 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: So they said what what kind of sound? Which do 197 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: you want? Major? 198 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 4: And I said, you know, my guy Joel Quinn is 199 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 4: playing lullaby music on this holding room that we're doing 200 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 4: on the piano, and I. 201 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: Said, chicken salad sandwich. 202 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:19,079 Speaker 4: I want a chicken salad sandwich because I'm hungry. 203 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: And they're filming it. They're filming it and it goes 204 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,439 Speaker 1: viral and at that time viral was about a thousand views. 205 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: I was killing me. 206 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 4: And so my producer, Harmony Samuels hits me and says, yo, 207 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 4: where'd you get that song? 208 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: And I said it just came to me. Man. He 209 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:32,679 Speaker 1: said it's a hit. 210 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 4: I said, I know, right, We're gonna pitch it like 211 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 4: the Chick fil A or something like. I think that 212 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 4: would be crazy. And he said, no, take it down 213 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 4: and come to the studio. There's a love song in that, 214 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 4: and I at this time didn't have like a real 215 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 4: love experience to write about. I had my heart broken, 216 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:53,439 Speaker 4: but I didn't have nothing that was just solid, and 217 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:56,079 Speaker 4: so I was like, I mean, my Mama and God 218 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 4: have been the most consistent, and he says, write about God, 219 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 4: and so literally the download was like, I have a 220 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 4: bunch of stuff to talk about that and the what 221 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 4: I understand about love agape, that love that still chooses 222 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 4: you anyway, regardless of the crazy, is the understanding that 223 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 4: I think we all need to take in. 224 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: Our experiences of love. 225 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 4: And so when I wrote that song, I literally was 226 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 4: hoping that it would succeed because I'm like, yo, if 227 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 4: this gets marketed, it it can make some noise. And 228 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:33,199 Speaker 4: sure enough, it took off. We first million on YouTube 229 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 4: streams for the video, and it literally goes viral every 230 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 4: other month. It's one hundred and seventy five million on YouTube. 231 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 4: Along Stevie Wonders said, you know, I believe this will 232 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:50,559 Speaker 4: be the wedding love song for years to come. I'm like, yo, 233 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 4: it's Stevie's saad. You know we got sound. 234 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: You feel me? 235 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 6: I tell you one thing, man, This is why you 236 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 6: can never ever let people demonize chicken when a black 237 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 6: man hungry and want some goddamn chickens happen, not letting 238 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 6: them make chicken and negative stereotype for us. 239 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you know, chickens out sandwich? 240 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: Did you ever get that sandwich? I actually wasn't. Let 241 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 1: it hits different. 242 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 4: So when like I go places and they have like food, 243 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:18,839 Speaker 4: like if they cater and chicken salad, I'm like, I. 244 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: See you got I see what you. Army's. 245 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 4: Army's had it on the menu one day and that 246 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 4: that was the one thing I got from Arby's. 247 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: Armies. Do better. 248 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 4: Listen, but listen, I got so high bos like I 249 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 4: see you, I see you guys, you're coming through. But yeah, 250 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 4: it's uh that song alone. You see the weddings you're 251 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 4: you know, DJing. We've done a couple of weddings that 252 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 4: you play that. It's like it's so much love and 253 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 4: you know this love week right now. So I'm about to, 254 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 4: you know, go to chick fil a and get all 255 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 4: the chicken nuggets. 256 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: I won't not because I'm hungry. 257 00:12:55,400 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 5: Because I can afford it, you know, So yeah, when 258 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 5: you recorded the song like so, because I never knew 259 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 5: that it was a gospel like a song for God. 260 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 4: It was a love letter to God, and Love wrote 261 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 4: me back to help people understand how to do this 262 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 4: love thing on earth at t Heaven. So it wasn't 263 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:17,079 Speaker 4: necessarily intended to just be gospel. It was like, it's inspirational. 264 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 4: I believe that life is meant to be shared. These 265 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,839 Speaker 4: intersections that we exist weren't meant to be divided like that. 266 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 4: And I want to give people healthy perspective on this 267 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 4: love thing to not run in another direction thinking that 268 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 4: this function is proper. 269 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:38,959 Speaker 1: Love got because that's not what it is. 270 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 5: Because I realized in the lyrics. I went and looked 271 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 5: once you said that, and I'm like, you don't ever 272 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 5: say the word God. 273 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: Love is God. 274 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 4: And so I'm helping people understand that, and it's it's wild. 275 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 4: It's wild, like there's babies that were made from that song. 276 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: I ain't never thought I had songs. 277 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 4: That people would be like this, you made this, and 278 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 4: I'm like, nah, that that ain't mine. But you know, 279 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,079 Speaker 4: me and the wife for trying, but then we ain't 280 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 4: had one yet and so so yeah, but it's it's 281 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 4: it's it's really dope. 282 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: Yeah. 283 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:13,200 Speaker 2: I love your name Major, and that's that's actually your name. 284 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: That's my real name. My mama named me Major. Uh. 285 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 4: She prayed that I make a major impact on the world. 286 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 4: And I hated it growing up. I hated it because 287 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 4: it was different. H major major, minor, major, pain major, 288 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 4: like every single joke. Yeah, so they'll say, right, it's 289 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 4: you can. We can say that now because we're mature. 290 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 4: But colonel, you know, you know, listen, listen. I hated it. 291 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 4: I was like, yo, but I get to college. I 292 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 4: had this dream, no pun Doctor Martin Luther King told 293 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 4: me what I did for love, peace and civil rights, 294 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 4: you will do for love and hope. I woke up 295 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 4: and literally it was like own it, lean in. This 296 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 4: is the assignment. So I'm doing it one song at 297 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 4: a time. I got my new one for the Wind 298 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 4: to encourage people that it all works together for the wind. 299 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: You saw that happen for you. 300 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 4: You know, one minute you're doing this and then guy said, no, 301 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 4: stay ready because I got you. I heard the prayers, 302 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 4: I heard the promise, I caught the tears. 303 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: So yeah, and you. 304 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 6: Said Major, the reminder of a death in you. I 305 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 6: heard you say that before, that your name is a 306 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 6: reminder of your destiny. 307 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, when it's spoken like it's a wild thing. My 308 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 4: guy himI Uh from He's Uh. He's a jeweler with 309 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 4: Jason of Beverly Hills. He actually reminded me, he says, 310 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 4: your mama, your mom knew because she actually let me 311 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 4: tell you, like she considered abortion when she got pregnant 312 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 4: with me, because she got pregnant with me in college. 313 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: She was embarrassed he had already had my brother out 314 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: of wedlock. 315 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 4: And on her way to the abortion clinic, the tire 316 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 4: went flat, and so she goes back, and at that time, 317 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 4: you had to get appointments. It's not as easy as 318 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 4: it is now, which I still think is necessary. Don't 319 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 4: make it so easy that people can flagrantly live. But 320 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 4: I do think the option should be left to the people. 321 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 4: But she ends up coming back on her way back 322 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 4: because she was just feeling judged her own internal and 323 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 4: the tire busted in nearly the same spot. A different 324 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 4: tire busted in nearly the same spot, and so she 325 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 4: was like, God, if I have this kid, and if 326 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 4: I name a major, I pray to he makes a 327 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 4: major impact. 328 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: So it's this is a prayer in real time. Yeah, wow, Yeah, what's. 329 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 6: The moment in your career where you truly felt yourself 330 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 6: stepping into that knee. 331 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 4: Right now on the breakfast club? Like you said, gentleman, 332 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 4: it's major on the breakfast club. I've been praying for 333 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 4: this moment to sit with y'all. I admire y'all so much, 334 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 4: but no, I think from I've always been major. I 335 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 4: shift spaces that I'm in, and I think we all 336 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 4: have that ability when we lean into our authentic self. I, 337 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:12,719 Speaker 4: you know, used to just be like, why am I 338 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 4: so different? 339 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: And it's just like, yo, that's the superpower, you know. 340 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 4: So I'm just showing up as me man like I 341 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 4: could follow the models that have already been done. But 342 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 4: at the end of the day, I think we were 343 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 4: each created to be an answer to a specific need 344 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,679 Speaker 4: in the earth. So if we're chasing down trends and 345 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,680 Speaker 4: chasing down the stuff that's already been done, we're chasing 346 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 4: down already answered needs, leaving the one we were. 347 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: Assigned to unanswered. 348 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,679 Speaker 4: And that's why most a lot of folks feel unfulfilled 349 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 4: in life because we're chasing down stuff that's already been handled. 350 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,959 Speaker 4: It's like lock into what you do, Hey, nobody do 351 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 4: radio like y'all. There's only one Charlemagne, is only one 352 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 4: dj MV, there's only one law, and there's only one jests. 353 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:07,160 Speaker 4: There's only one lock into that, and the way will 354 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 4: be made. It ain't gonna be easy all the time, 355 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:11,880 Speaker 4: but it'll be made now. 356 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 2: You also wrote open letters to the Grammys. 357 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:20,360 Speaker 1: Did why? Why was that important? Uh? I'll say this first. 358 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: I'm very active. 359 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 4: With the Recording Academy, which is the institution that houses 360 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 4: the Grammys. 361 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:27,160 Speaker 2: Yep. 362 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 4: I have a lot of respect and love for the 363 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 4: Recording Academy, But while it has made a lot of progress, 364 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 4: it still has a lot of work to do. There's 365 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:40,679 Speaker 4: an issue with the screening committees that has impacted me 366 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 4: and artists like me that kind of sit in these 367 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:45,120 Speaker 4: margins like what we. 368 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:46,680 Speaker 3: Talk break it down because a lot of people don't 369 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 3: know how yeah, so they got to put they don't 370 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 3: know what category to put you. 371 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, So when you submit, which is called artist's intent, 372 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 4: when you submit to a particular category. So my situation 373 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:01,360 Speaker 4: to what you were saying, envy, is I admitted my categories, 374 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 4: my song, I Prayed for You, which had tremendous success 375 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 4: last year in gospel, specifically from Billboard to so much success. 376 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 4: I submitted it to gospel because that's where it was celebrated. 377 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 4: I submitted my new EP, the Hope Dealer Sessions, available 378 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:26,679 Speaker 4: everywhere zoom Man, Hope Dealer Sessions motivational mixtape, right right 379 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:28,360 Speaker 4: right capture that that's good. 380 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 1: But I submitted that. 381 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 4: To Spoken Word, and the screening committees moved them out 382 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 4: of both gospel to and put it in CCM, which 383 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 4: is more of a white facing genre of Christian music, 384 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 4: And they moved my project, My Hope Dealers, to R 385 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 4: and B. I know the difference, ain't crazy. Artists intent 386 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 4: should be respected and should be the dominating determinant, and 387 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 4: I just wanted to challenge the system. 388 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:00,360 Speaker 1: I talked to executive leaders. 389 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 4: I respect Harvey, I respect everybody in the space, but 390 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,119 Speaker 4: it left me out of disadvantage. I didn't have a 391 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:12,359 Speaker 4: shot at getting, you know, even considered anymore because people 392 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 4: aren't looking for me in the categories I don't belong in. 393 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 5: You said that it left you at a financial and 394 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:21,199 Speaker 5: a creative disadvantage. Creative, but what's the financial disadvantage? That 395 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:21,920 Speaker 5: you could talk about. 396 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 4: So they so for many people, and this, this needs 397 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 4: this will help a lot of folks that think it's 398 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 4: just simple you put something out and it works. 399 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,879 Speaker 1: You actually have to market your stuff. 400 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 4: You have to promote it, and it costs a lot 401 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 4: of money to promote and be competitive. And so as 402 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 4: an independent artist who has I've gone platinum, that's not 403 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 4: normal for independent artists that have never been. 404 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: Signed to a major label. 405 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 4: Shout out to Empiring Ghazi for supporting supporting me from 406 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 4: the jump. But I'm completely independent. So every dollar that 407 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 4: I spend, I feel it in real time. It's not 408 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 4: in advance, and I get something back, you know. And 409 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 4: I got worked that out later. So when we did 410 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:08,199 Speaker 4: the campaign, I'm on promo tours, I'm on radio, tammeron 411 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 4: Hall had me on twice. 412 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 1: You know, I'm putting it work. 413 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 4: And then only to find out on the first day 414 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,359 Speaker 4: of voting, when it's too late to move anything, that 415 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 4: I'm in the wrong category or in a category I 416 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 4: didn't submit to. That hurts because now I got to 417 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 4: try to backtrack or rebound to get people to move 418 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 4: and change, but they're not thinking about that's so that's 419 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 4: what I'm speaking to as far as the finance, and 420 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 4: it's expensive. Just the energy, the bandwidth of trying to 421 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 4: show up every single time when systems, machines are hard 422 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 4: to fight up against. 423 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: That's that's tough work. 424 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 2: Did you receive any pushbacks speaking of the machine and 425 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 2: the system. 426 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 4: Well, I noticed some folks went silent on me that 427 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 4: I thought would be loud. I got, you know, certain 428 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:03,640 Speaker 4: messages personally where you know, some significant voices were like, 429 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 4: I'm proud of you for using your voice, and I'm like, yeah, 430 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 4: you say that. You don't if you say it, I 431 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 4: won't look like I'm always crying by myself. But a 432 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 4: bunch of other artists came to me and said it. 433 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:21,439 Speaker 4: But I've reached out. I have a meeting, a follow 434 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 4: up meeting with the head of awards, just to because 435 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,639 Speaker 4: I'm advocating for a lot of people that are in 436 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 4: these margins. It's We're not black, people are not a monolith. 437 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 4: It's not just R and B, gospel, jazz and rap. 438 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 4: Like we literally are the blueprint, the golden print of 439 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 4: what American music in all of its facets exists, rock 440 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 4: and roll, all that. So when we show up in 441 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,159 Speaker 4: those spaces. Just know that we're showing up in the 442 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 4: spaces and we're qualified. We don't have to keep trying 443 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 4: to convince you to accept us in something that we 444 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:58,959 Speaker 4: helped inspire. And so I think what has happened is 445 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 4: we are else as a culture has kind of accepted 446 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 4: that just as what it is, and we don't always 447 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 4: fight against it when we have an opportunity to be 448 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 4: the difference. Se Lo Green is not your average hip 449 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,679 Speaker 4: hop artist or R and B singer. You get what 450 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 4: I'm saying, Gary Clark Jr. John Baptiste, These are folks 451 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 4: that exist different spaces. Beyonce when she wanted to go country, 452 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 4: we see what it was. So my thing is, I'm 453 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 4: advocating for everybody. It's not just me, but I feel it. 454 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 4: So I'm gonna speak up, and you know, y'all pray 455 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 4: for me, just you know, support me. You didn't go 456 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 4: to high school with be No no No, She's a 457 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 4: few years ahead of me. I went to the same 458 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 4: middle and high school, Wels middle school, uh and and 459 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 4: high school LaToya Luckett shout out to tall of them. 460 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 4: But yeah, they're they're they're a little older than me, 461 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:59,439 Speaker 4: but killing it. Nonetheless, Beyonce remember major from six Flags Astroworld, 462 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 4: I'm a saying on air. I went to the Grammys 463 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 4: and it was two Grammys ago, and I told it 464 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 4: took a lot for me to go up to say 465 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 4: hey to her because everybody, even Meryl Street, was trying 466 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 4: to get her attention. 467 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 1: I'm like, Beyonce is literally Beyonce. 468 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 4: I went up to her and shout out to Johnny 469 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 4: Nunia as he was gonna take pictures of the moment, 470 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 4: and uh, you know those in between the segments, they're quick, 471 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 4: so you got to talk fast. So I'm like, hey, Beyonce, 472 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,440 Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember a major from Houston. 473 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 4: And She's like looking at me, okay, and I'm like, okay, 474 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 4: so I got the song. This is why everybody the 475 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,120 Speaker 4: places I didn't even get to finish a song. 476 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,880 Speaker 1: Like okay. And so I go back and sit down. 477 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 4: I'm sitting with Stevie Wonder his wife Tamika, and she's like, 478 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 4: how did it go? I said, Beyonce don't know me, 479 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 4: And so I called Angie BN saying, I'm like, Hotel B, 480 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,719 Speaker 4: I'm not crazy. I'm the same. I'm a little major 481 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 4: from you know that I know Angie, Mama, Tina. I 482 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 4: know all of them. I just haven't seen Beyonce in 483 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 4: person since then, so maybe this moment. 484 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 2: Why did you just say Houston. 485 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 1: And I forgot? 486 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:19,400 Speaker 2: You forgot? 487 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 1: What's going Listen? Listen, listen, listen, It's Beyonce, Beyonce. I would, 488 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 1: I would. 489 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 4: I'm good with starting with the song I should have started, 490 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 4: should would have done different, but it was it was, bro. 491 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 4: My mind was like, I got to say the right things. 492 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 4: So I'm like, you know, I'm a major from from Houston. 493 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,119 Speaker 4: I'm thinking Houston. 494 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: Major, like your major host a major exactly. And man, man, you. 495 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 2: Probably think she met memes trying. 496 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: To pieces together. 497 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 2: This is why I'm hot. 498 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 4: And she was like, okay to play everybody, and I'm like, 499 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 4: I'll be back Johnny over somewhere else. You know how 500 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 4: fast Johnny will He like, he'll call your name and 501 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:08,479 Speaker 4: I'm like, Johnny, nowhere to be found. 502 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 1: And so but he made a picture. What Bro? 503 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 4: I didn't even get the picture, but bro, how about this. 504 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,640 Speaker 4: I did get an optic that looked like we were 505 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 4: really talking. Somebody, some stand posted the footage between us 506 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 4: as we were talking, and it looks like she's having 507 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 4: a serious conversation about three seconds long, and it looked 508 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 4: like we're having a deep conversation. People like I see 509 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:35,159 Speaker 4: you major and I'm like yeah, but they don't know. 510 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,880 Speaker 2: They don't know she was looking for Julie. 511 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: Juliet. You'll see him in the picture looking at. 512 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 4: Me, like. 513 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: Make it funny. He did the same thing when he 514 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 1: met Prince the same exact day. It stutters, you know, 515 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 1: it's I love too, But Prince is different for. 516 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 4: You because of the because of what let me he said, Prince. 517 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 1: What you say the Prince? 518 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 2: Well, first of all, let me tell you this. 519 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 4: To say. 520 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 2: First of all, when we were at the old. 521 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 6: Radio station, yes you know, we were doing radio and 522 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 6: somebody just randomly you mind you was six o'clock and 523 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,399 Speaker 6: somebody's like princes in the building were like Prince yeah, 524 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 6: like Prince, Prince yeah. Why would There's no way princes 525 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 6: up here. So we put this, put everything in automation, 526 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 6: and as soon as we opened the door to go 527 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 6: walk in the hall, he walks by with two random 528 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 6: white women, old white women like yo. He was the 529 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,119 Speaker 6: nicest guy. He came over and shake everybody's hand. But 530 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 6: I was just like I grew up Jehovah witness too. 531 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,360 Speaker 6: That's what he said, he what's up? 532 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 1: How you doing? I grew up Jehovah? Like that wasn't that. 533 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: I'm telling you. 534 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:45,360 Speaker 4: People think I can't stand these these these couch and and. 535 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: Keyboard pulleys, say, well, if I was, I would do this. 536 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 1: You don't know what you're doing. Prince was like what 537 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: because you know what your prince didn't. 538 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 2: He really didn't seem real. 539 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 1: It's very surreal. 540 00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,679 Speaker 4: The first time I met met Oprah, shout out to 541 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 4: open who, by the way, ended up calling me on 542 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 4: my phone. 543 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: It's wild. 544 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 4: Just stay ready, beautiful people, Just stay ready because life 545 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,199 Speaker 4: just comes at you and literally the opportunity you've been 546 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 4: praying for will unfold in the way God chooses. But 547 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 4: like I remember meeting Oprah and there h Arnold, the 548 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 4: photographer was like, Oprah, me Grammy nominated major, and she's 549 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 4: like she comes up to me and she wasn't doing 550 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 4: any more interviews, but she was willing to, you know, 551 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 4: at the moment with me and she she stands there 552 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 4: and the only thing I could say, I said you're 553 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 4: Oprah and she said I am. I said I'm major, 554 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 4: and she said you are So I just flipped it 555 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 4: and said Oprah said you are major. So when you 556 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 4: see that quote, it just know that's how I really went. 557 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 4: But fast forward, you just you get stumped, stump acting 558 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 4: like you you don't get nervous in front of like that, 559 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 4: like what have you gotten it? 560 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 1: Who have nobody? 561 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 5: There's only been that literally just happened with me and 562 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 5: just got well. 563 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: Jill has an aura. Yes, that will leave you stuck. 564 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 5: She because I was going to be like, Hi, nice 565 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 5: to meet you, Lauren. Before I can say thing, she 566 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 5: was like Lauren, I was like, yeah, that's me. 567 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 4: Hi. 568 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 2: It caught me up guard, like, oh, my wife had 569 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 2: a cause that's my wife's favorite wife is dope. 570 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: By the way, my white. 571 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 2: Favorite artist is Jill's gotten there. 572 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 6: The first time we ever met Jill, she was like, 573 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 6: oh my god, that's jills got And when you know, 574 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 6: when they're they're talking and my wife is telling her 575 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 6: what her music means to her, told my wife. 576 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 2: Cried, right, But that's that's different than strugg you know 577 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 2: what I mean. 578 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 4: It's it's both. It is star struck, it's it's it's 579 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 4: both of it. It's like you meet your heroes in 580 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 4: real time and y'all are now like, is that Chadwick. 581 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 1: That I'm about? 582 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's really dope. But you meet your heroes like 583 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 4: in real time. When you step do the work, you 584 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 4: eventually become a part of the company. And the thing 585 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 4: is it's dope to revere them and to honor them 586 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 4: and respect them, but also know that you're occupying the 587 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 4: space too, because that section of the Grammarys. 588 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 1: That wasn't just you know you y'all been right? Have 589 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: you been before? Oh? 590 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 2: We you know what? 591 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 4: No? 592 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 6: I went once, but I was sitting like up in 593 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 6: a suite and the second time I gave my tickets 594 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 6: to get. 595 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 1: Your sweets suck. They're so freaking far away. 596 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 4: You get all the good food, but it's like you're 597 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 4: so far away from the feeling. 598 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 1: But that section is a special section. 599 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 4: I was, you know Stevie's Stevie's wife had me at 600 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 4: her table and it's just it's like, we just got 601 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 4: to understand occupy the space life puts you in, you 602 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 4: know what I mean? 603 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: Right, that's it. 604 00:30:55,040 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 4: Thank you for making I I'm like occupied in space. Life, 605 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,480 Speaker 4: Life settled given you. 606 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 1: Yes, God has put you, Nigga, you belong word up. 607 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 6: What was the last text that Chadwick Bides SENTDS because 608 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 6: I saw you say that, a text that he sent 609 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 6: before he died, inspired the whole project. 610 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: Chadwick is a special soul. Was a special soul. 611 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 4: UH. On April fourth, twenty twenty, in the middle of 612 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,280 Speaker 4: the pandemic, Chad sent a text message to a group 613 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 4: of us asking us to pray for the hope of 614 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 4: the world. He says, this pandemic has basically thrown people 615 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 4: into a sea of hopelessness, where like people are going 616 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 4: through they don't know if they're gonna make it more. 617 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 4: More of the issue is the anxiety of how we're 618 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:55,040 Speaker 4: going to get out versus the actual situation at hand. 619 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 4: And he's saying that's what's crippling people. He said this bar, 620 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,320 Speaker 4: and I'm gonna say it because it's poetic, but there's 621 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 4: a bar, he says. The plague was asked why it 622 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 4: had killed so many. The plague responded, I only killed 623 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 4: one hundred. The thousands that died died from the fear 624 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 4: of me. Wow, it's hope that makes a difference. Most 625 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 4: of the time, our sickness lingers on because we're plagued 626 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,280 Speaker 4: by wondering when. 627 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 1: We gonna get better, not I am gonna get better. 628 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:29,480 Speaker 4: The mindset, the whole mindset that immediately I started writing 629 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 4: from that thing started happening. 630 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 1: You know. 631 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 4: I did a song called I Prayed for You, which 632 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 4: I ended up releasing. A few years later, I did 633 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 4: a major hope project with Motivations. He passes away four 634 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 4: months later. I didn't realize. I knew he was sick, 635 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 4: but I didn't know to what degree. I'm a part 636 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 4: of the circle that, you know, thanks to his best friend, 637 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 4: Logan Coles and Siman and all of them, but I'm 638 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 4: not knowing that he's dealing with cancer. This man could 639 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 4: have focused only on himself with what he had, and 640 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,320 Speaker 4: it would have made sense. But he literally had the 641 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 4: audacity to hope for the world. And that's when it 642 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 4: reminded me, you got work to do, bro, while you 643 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 4: can breathe on your own, while you can do this thing, 644 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 4: lock in this hope work is real. 645 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:22,560 Speaker 1: And so that's what. 646 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 4: Inspired the Hope Dealer sessions out. Now, hold your card up, 647 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 4: Hold your card up. 648 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 2: I got okay, got you. 649 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 1: A lot of people to get that right, right, right, 650 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 1: right right. But that's what inspired it. But Chadwick. 651 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:48,480 Speaker 4: Literally was a you y'all interviewed him like you know, 652 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:53,320 Speaker 4: his aura, it's like a grounded aura of like. 653 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 1: I belong and and this moment is not going to 654 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 1: be a wasted moment. That's what he taught me. 655 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 4: Don't waste the moments, like if you're gonna get called 656 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,960 Speaker 4: up on the stage, don't waste the moments. I should 657 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 4: have took that advice when you know, I saw Beyonce, 658 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,320 Speaker 4: I should have started with HSBA to high school. 659 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 2: But was very he had a very regal, royal presence. 660 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,359 Speaker 6: And you know, even when you think about him now, 661 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 6: it's just like you know he you know, God, everything 662 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,319 Speaker 6: happened why he's supposed to happen. But that is one 663 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,080 Speaker 6: that really feels like it got cut short, like we 664 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:30,880 Speaker 6: didn't see. 665 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 4: But he for What's what's wild is we say that 666 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:40,200 Speaker 4: because of age and because of potential that we see. 667 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,640 Speaker 4: But if you think about it, he did some of 668 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 4: the biggest work in a short amount of time. That 669 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 4: is iconic work. It's not stuff you forget about. Forty two, 670 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:55,759 Speaker 4: Jackie Robinson, Black Panther, all this stuff. We had a 671 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,440 Speaker 4: funny moment I remember when he was prepared for Black Panther. 672 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:04,160 Speaker 4: We were watching a documentary about the Black Panthers, and 673 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,399 Speaker 4: he was just and he's real quiet. He's like, yeah, 674 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:12,400 Speaker 4: I'm studying for you know, the Black Panthers. And I'm like, okay, 675 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 4: so you're doing another one of those movies. And he's 676 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 4: like he's like, yeah, I had no idea. That's how 677 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,880 Speaker 4: grounded he was that the Black Panther he was talking 678 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 4: about was this big Marvel movie. 679 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's about the Black Panthers because he was Thurgod. 680 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,720 Speaker 4: Marshall, you know, all this other stuff, and he lived 681 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:36,960 Speaker 4: this huge life in a span of forty two years. 682 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,920 Speaker 2: I agree with you, but what I mean is not 683 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,799 Speaker 2: the work him, the person, like the wisdom that he would, 684 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:45,160 Speaker 2: you know. 685 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,400 Speaker 4: I think I think it's still it still needs to 686 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,439 Speaker 4: be said, like it's not a guarantee that our years 687 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,719 Speaker 4: will be two one hundred. It's not a guarantee that 688 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,160 Speaker 4: our years will be the sixty. There are some kids 689 00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:03,560 Speaker 4: that have died it five and the impact that they made. 690 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,560 Speaker 4: We live for assignment feeling. 691 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,960 Speaker 1: Envy. You are literally living out assignment. 692 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:16,000 Speaker 4: Your experience with your wife, what y'all overcame is assignment 693 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:22,319 Speaker 4: to show people how you rebound in integrity, the work 694 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,359 Speaker 4: that y'all have done. You flipping this from just being 695 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:29,960 Speaker 4: about gossip or whatever to really being a platform of responsibility. 696 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:31,080 Speaker 1: That's assignment. 697 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:37,560 Speaker 4: You may go tomorrow, God forbid, you may go tomorrow, 698 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:43,800 Speaker 4: but what you've done is twenty lifetimes worth of stuff, 699 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:48,560 Speaker 4: what y'all have done. And so when it sucks because 700 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,680 Speaker 4: you take a friend away, you take a big brother away. 701 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 1: But the man lived, He lived well. He didn't wait. 702 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 1: I tried to joke with him. 703 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,960 Speaker 4: He would He'll be like, that's funny, and I'm like, 704 00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:08,120 Speaker 4: but everybody else is dying hysterically, and he's exacted. He 705 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,560 Speaker 4: helped me with my James Brown moves for one of 706 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:15,359 Speaker 4: my shows, and it usually we can see think back 707 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,880 Speaker 4: like if you had time with him, you're like, this 708 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:18,720 Speaker 4: man lived. 709 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:19,800 Speaker 1: He didn't wasted. 710 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,279 Speaker 4: It wasn't like man, if only he had a few 711 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,560 Speaker 4: more years, he would have been this that man lived. 712 00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,960 Speaker 4: What's crazy is April fourth when he sent the text 713 00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:30,560 Speaker 4: is this is a parallel. 714 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:34,400 Speaker 1: That's crazy. April fourth, when he sent the text to me. 715 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,359 Speaker 4: That was this. That's the same day that doctor King 716 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:45,320 Speaker 4: passed away April fourth. In history, he passed away on 717 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:49,839 Speaker 4: August twenty eighth. Chadwick passed away on August twenty eighth. 718 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,360 Speaker 4: That's the same day that Doctor King gave the I 719 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:58,400 Speaker 4: Have a Dream speech. It's these parallels where that's not 720 00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:03,719 Speaker 4: just happenstance, that's the vine orchestration. It's the vine that 721 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,919 Speaker 4: I would be included in this group text. This dude 722 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,960 Speaker 4: does not text, and he sexting from an android. I 723 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:14,640 Speaker 4: hate group text with androids, but I answered and responded 724 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,080 Speaker 4: to a group text with androids, and I'm gonna tell 725 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:18,880 Speaker 4: you it shout out to all of you with an android. 726 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,680 Speaker 4: But it's disrespectful that you cannot leave the conversation when 727 00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:25,399 Speaker 4: it gets out of hand because androids mess up. 728 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:26,680 Speaker 1: You know. You know what I'm saying. 729 00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,120 Speaker 5: It's the family groupes too, and they talk about just 730 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:31,200 Speaker 5: saying random stuff. 731 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,080 Speaker 4: My wife is an androider, but I still love her. 732 00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,240 Speaker 4: But I don't know why I went off on that tangent. 733 00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,319 Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, he lived, like. 734 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:45,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, just live exactly what happened with Beyonce. Your words 735 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:49,040 Speaker 5: be yeah yeah, just be yeah yeah yeah. 736 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:53,760 Speaker 1: Chadwick lived. No androids, Chadwick. 737 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,800 Speaker 4: Had an Android, and he still was the greatest to 738 00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,400 Speaker 4: do what he does. And and I think y'all for 739 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,799 Speaker 4: honoring him the way that y'all have and have and you. 740 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,480 Speaker 2: Did South Carolina all day many. 741 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:12,760 Speaker 4: That too, just literally, you're doing it too, just literally 742 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,719 Speaker 4: of course, correcting the narrative of what comes out of 743 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,440 Speaker 4: the South, what comes out of the country. 744 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Like we belong to and 745 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,759 Speaker 1: it's and it's it's a it's a beautiful thing. 746 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:28,040 Speaker 4: Man. 747 00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 1: I've lived an interesting life. 748 00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:34,160 Speaker 4: I'm I've lived an interesting life. I'm still at it. 749 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:38,880 Speaker 4: But his life inspired me to be intentional with every 750 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:39,800 Speaker 4: bit of it. 751 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,239 Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you a question. It's my final question. 752 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:46,760 Speaker 6: Right when you look forward, not just musically but personally, 753 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,600 Speaker 6: what kind of man do you want the next chapter 754 00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:50,600 Speaker 6: of Major to represent. 755 00:39:52,560 --> 00:40:02,720 Speaker 1: I want my legacy to be he gives what he lives. 756 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:05,840 Speaker 1: He lives what he gives. 757 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:11,240 Speaker 4: It's enough of just talking and saying all this stuff 758 00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,400 Speaker 4: for the clicks and all this stuff. 759 00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:16,520 Speaker 1: Live it. 760 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:22,160 Speaker 4: If you're about it, be about it. I want to 761 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,960 Speaker 4: help as many people as I can. That's why when 762 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,640 Speaker 4: you said, if what you're building only benefits you, it's 763 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,959 Speaker 4: not big enough. I want to help as many people 764 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,440 Speaker 4: as I can. I have you'd be surprised how many 765 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:40,839 Speaker 4: careers I've supported. I've helped so many people. I would 766 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:43,239 Speaker 4: love for people to give back. So when you kept 767 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:47,880 Speaker 4: your word on I got you. That meant everything to me. 768 00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:50,520 Speaker 1: I'm just. 769 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:57,239 Speaker 4: I'm not perfect. I'm a good hearted person. I love everybody, 770 00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:00,960 Speaker 4: and I want everybody to know hope he ever canceled. 771 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,239 Speaker 4: I'm seeing the visual now. I spent some time with 772 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,520 Speaker 4: Reverend Jackson, and I'm saying this now in the event 773 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:13,920 Speaker 4: that I just feel that his days are you know, 774 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,000 Speaker 4: I was blessed to have some time with Reverend Jackson 775 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:23,759 Speaker 4: a couple months ago, and I was holding his hand 776 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:29,200 Speaker 4: in the hospital room and he wasn't saying much, but 777 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:34,439 Speaker 4: I said, Rev, I'm keeping this hope alive. I'm locked 778 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,480 Speaker 4: in on this whole thing. And the first words that 779 00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:44,760 Speaker 4: he said, NonStop and he stood up, keep hope alive, 780 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,759 Speaker 4: Keep hope alive. And he's saying is gasping over and 781 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,040 Speaker 4: over and over. Gigi Dixon was there, his wife was there, 782 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,759 Speaker 4: and I'm like, God, this moment, you set this up 783 00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,440 Speaker 4: because this work is not in vain, man, this work. 784 00:41:59,360 --> 00:41:59,920 Speaker 1: Is not in vain. 785 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,800 Speaker 4: And I know sometimes I'm by myself trying to amplify 786 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,920 Speaker 4: this hope, looking like the corn ball that wants to 787 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,200 Speaker 4: push this thing, but I know it works. People are hurting. 788 00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:15,200 Speaker 4: I'm an impath. Too many people need this stuff, and 789 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,000 Speaker 4: so I'm gonna give it and I'm gonna live it 790 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,080 Speaker 4: to the best of my ability. Thank y'all for making 791 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:20,600 Speaker 4: time for me. 792 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:21,040 Speaker 1: Thank you. 793 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,000 Speaker 6: Go get the whole sessions, man, The sessions are out 794 00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:26,759 Speaker 6: right now by my side, major man. 795 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,279 Speaker 2: Follow him at now that's major, and go to now 796 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:31,359 Speaker 2: that'smajor dot Com. 797 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,759 Speaker 1: Yes, sir, it's major. Thank you. Breakfast Club, Good morning 798 00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,879 Speaker 1: every day a week ago up Breakfast Club. 799 00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:40,719 Speaker 4: Finish. 800 00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:41,440 Speaker 2: Y'all done it.