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Speaker 1: I'm not only the Queen of Jackson, I'm the Queen

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Speaker 1: the queen. I'm just a queen.

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Speaker 2: Stay tuned.

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Speaker 3: We'll get into my conversation with Mikeisha and give you

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Speaker 3: my opinion on the Lebron James of Housewives right after

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Speaker 3: these quick ass.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Reality with the King. It's me Carlos King,

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Speaker 2: the King of.

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Speaker 3: Reality TV and one of the most sought after executive

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Speaker 3: producers in reality television with over ten years of production experience.

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Speaker 3: Twice a week on Reality with the King, we'll sit

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Speaker 3: down with my friends across the entertainment industry, recap our

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Speaker 3: favorite reality shows, and revisit unforgettable moments that we are

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Speaker 3: still talking and tweeting about.

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Speaker 2: Out Hey, rain drops.

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Speaker 3: So before we get into my conversation with Aikeisha Holly

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Speaker 3: get into Lesarenna referring to herself as the Lebron James

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Speaker 3: of Housewives. Oh boy, see, this is what happens when.

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Speaker 2: You allow people, places, and things come on nowns.

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Speaker 3: To hop you up into believing something that isn't rooted

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Speaker 2: Now, let me first.

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Speaker 3: Start off by saying I actually likely Serena. I know

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Speaker 3: I've been hard on Lisa Renna this season because she's

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Speaker 3: I really enjoyed when Lisaurreana was vulnerable when her mom

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Speaker 3: Lois was very integral in Lisa's storyline and listen, may

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Speaker 3: And we do feel cheated because we also love Lois.

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Speaker 3: But now Lisa Morana is in the hot seat and

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Speaker 3: I mean, listen, girl, you're not even the Rick James

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Speaker 3: I don't know who said that to you. Now you

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Speaker 3: One thing we know about Lisa Renna, she loves a

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Speaker 3: I'm Carlos King. Let's get into my conversation with Aikesha. So,

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Speaker 1: Listen, I hear people out here claiming I don't want

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Speaker 3: I love you so much and your confidence. So before

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Speaker 1: The confidence comes from home, and it comes from my mother,

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Speaker 3: And the beauty of it. This is still Jackson, Mississippi.

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Speaker 2: And there you go.

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Speaker 3: So when people ask me, why did you choose Jackson,

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Speaker 3: You know, people of color, regardless of your status at

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Speaker 2: What made you want to join Bell Collective?

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Speaker 3: But before you answer that, you were almost cast as

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Speaker 2: Is that correct? Yes?

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Speaker 2: How did that come about?

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Speaker 1: saying that they were looking for women in New Jersey

438
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 1: who were I hate that boss women. Shit. I hate

439
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: when we even said it on our show, but like

440
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 1: I do, it's so dumb, but that were doing well,

441
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 1: who were managing their households, they had businesses, they had

442
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: you know, careers, moms just I guess boss women. And

443
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 1: so she said, hey, what do you know, I think

444
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,639
Speaker 1: maybe you should do this, and it did hit me.

445
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,160
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is a New Jersey, because

446
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: I know I do go back and forth between Jersey

447
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:36,679
Speaker 1: and Mississippi because people don't believe. But my husband and

448
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,439
Speaker 1: I were beginning to work on some things that we

449
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,400
Speaker 1: were doing down in Mississippi. So I said, okay, well

450
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: i'll hit them, you know, I hit it up to see.

451
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 1: She was like, oh, well, I already sent your information in,

452
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,200
Speaker 1: so we'll see if somebody hit you know, if they

453
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: say anything back. Literally, I don't even know if it

454
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: was an hour or two. I ended up getting the

455
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: email from a lady out of California, and so we

456
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 1: were talking, just had an amazing conversation talking about things

457
00:25:58,400 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 1: that were going on a Jersey. I was telling her

458
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,879
Speaker 1: about about me going up in Mississippi, our bar, everything

459
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 1: we had happening, and I was I had a baby

460
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: and I was pregnant with my daughter, and she said, well,

461
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: you know what I would like to send your information to.

462
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,880
Speaker 1: I forgot who it was, but do you know what

463
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: this is? Do you know what the show is? And

464
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 1: I said no, I don't and she said it's Real

465
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: Housewives of New Jersey. And of course I wasn't thinking

466
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 1: Real Housewives of New Jersey because shit, I'm black. I

467
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: didn't even know. I had never seen a black housewife.

468
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 1: My girlfriend was the first one on the Housewives of

469
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 1: New York and.

470
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 3: Williams abny K Williams my brain jobs love her. She

471
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 3: was a guest on the show too, So abidy K

472
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 3: Williams and Ikeisha are longtime girlfriends.

473
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I immediately ended up. I hit her because

474
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: I was just like, oh, okay, so I see what

475
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,160
Speaker 1: they're doing now. They're trying to get a little speck

476
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: of color up and everywhere. And so I reached out

477
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,920
Speaker 1: to her and I told her. She was just like yeah,

478
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: she was telling me, you know, things she'd gone through, whatever, whatever,

479
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: and so I was like, all right, cool. So at

480
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 1: the same time I'm going through this process, I had

481
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 1: reached out to Tamra when I think it was around

482
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: the end of twenty twenty or maybe the top of

483
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, when Bell Collective was coming along or something,

484
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: whenever the show came out.

485
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 3: When I saw the January of twenty twenty one, yeap, yeah.

486
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: I saw this young lady on here standing on Fair

487
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: Street saying, you know something about buying the block back.

488
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, well, not that block because that

489
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:43,199
Speaker 1: one right there, I own that building and then you know,

490
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: I mean, the city didn't even own the block. So

491
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: I was just like, okay, but and I will say this,

492
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: I loved that she was bringing attention to Fair Street.

493
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,360
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh my god, this is amazing because

494
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: I mean, owns an amazing network, you're a great production company,

495
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: and bringing that kind of a to Jackson along with

496
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: my business that I'm bringing to Jackson, it's a win

497
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 1: win for me. So I hit Tamra and I hit

498
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 1: my girlfriend Melanie, who also makes an appearance on our show,

499
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: and I said, Hey, I want you guys to introduce

500
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: me to the young lady who is saying that she

501
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 1: was going to do something on theirs. I want to see,

502
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 1: you know, what she has going on with you know,

503
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: our ideas are what she's going to be doing. I

504
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 1: would love to connect with her. They connected me with Letitia.

505
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,639
Speaker 1: I ended up talking to Latitia. It was around the

506
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:28,959
Speaker 1: same time that the New Jersey stuff was going on,

507
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: so it had to be like spring summer of twenty

508
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: twenty one, and so when she and I talked, I

509
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: thought she had an amazing just energy. I love the

510
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: way she talked. She has a lot of passion, so

511
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: we clicked. We were talking about the show, talking about,

512
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: you know, the things that I had seen. She always

513
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: tells people, you know she was pouring into me. Well,

514
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: I was because I'm watching the show as a viewer,

515
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 1: not a person that was a part of television, so

516
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it. I was like, hey, you know,

517
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: I had seen pictures and scene, had been invited to

518
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: your brunches before. Don't let anybody come in your brunch

519
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: and do like how they you know what's arguing and

520
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: doing all of this stuff at your price. You don't

521
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: need to do that because this is your brand. I mean,

522
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: we're having a great conversation. After the conversation was over,

523
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: Letisha said, listen, I'm not sure what we're gonna be

524
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: doing with the show, but if we come back, I

525
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: would love for you to do a scene with me.

526
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: Because we weren't able to get into any of the

527
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: buildings on Fair Street. I would love for us to

528
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: be able to get in and actually see a building

529
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: on Fair Street. Of course, I'm gonna let you do that.

530
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 2: What does that for me?

531
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: Again? That is a win. That's allowing you to see

532
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: my grandfather's museum, my family lineage. We have a lot

533
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: of things in that building that would give exposure to it,

534
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 1: and is going to give exposure to what I'm about

535
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 1: to do on Fair Street. I said, of course. She

536
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: hangs up. She tells me that she called whoever. I

537
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: don't know if she called you, she called somebody, and

538
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: then she calls me back. She said, they already know

539
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: who you are, and I said, I said okay, and

540
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: she said, they want to meet. They want to talk

541
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: to you. So that was that.

542
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 3: And in terms of knowing who you are, I was

543
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 3: already introduced to you via Instagram, in terms of seeing

544
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 3: you on Instagram because of our mutual friend Satchel Jester,

545
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 3: who is from Atlanta and he does a lot of

546
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 3: great things in publicity marketing and he's just all around

547
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 3: great human being. So when Bill Collector came out, he said, oh, baby,

548
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 3: you need to get Aikeisha on the show. And one

549
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 3: thing about my friends in the industry, they know when

550
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 3: it comes to my production, I take it very seriously,

551
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 3: like I strongly believe in greatness.

552
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 2: And I said, who is she?

553
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 3: He's sending me your Instagram and I'm like, first of all,

554
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 3: she's gorgeous, her husband is super handsome, beautiful kids. I

555
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 3: see wealth, honey. I saw all of that at that

556
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,719
Speaker 3: Instagram Paigety and I said, where does she live in Jackson?

557
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 3: And he said, oh, honey, she could be in Jackson

558
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 3: anytime you want her to. I said, well, if we

559
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 3: get a second season, I will let you know Satchel.

560
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 2: So yes, I was familiar.

561
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: So that transpired. And then when I ended up talking

562
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 1: to your people and production and I was like, oh,

563
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: wait a minute, they want me to be on the

564
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,719
Speaker 1: show as a cast member, not as me coming in

565
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: to do a scene with somebody. So at the time,

566
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: I was pregnant, and I begin to weigh the options.

567
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: Now I had not been confirmed on Housewives of New

568
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: Jersey that was in talks. I was still, you know,

569
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: we were waiting and going back and forth. But I

570
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: sat and I talked to Willie about it, and I

571
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: just really had to do some deep thought and even prayer,

572
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: because I pray over everything before I get ready to

573
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: do something. And so I thought about it and I said,

574
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 1: I know what the goal is and for me, my

575
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 1: family has wanted to do something on Fairish and bring

576
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: Faiish back to what it was for a long time.

577
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: What better place than the Oprah Winfrey Network, who's from Mississippi,

578
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: a production company like Kingdom Reign. I've followed you, I've

579
00:31:55,400 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: watched your come up, I've admired you, and it's like, God,

580
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: come on now, because on this other platform, it could

581
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: be possibly bigger, it could be more money, but they

582
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: are not going to feature and show my story and

583
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: the history of this place the way it needs to

584
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: be shown. And I had to do that for myself

585
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: and my ancestors. And I knew that your platform and

586
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: own was going to do that in a respectful way

587
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: that my grandmother, my grandfather, my great uncle, great aunt

588
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: and great grandmother who started all of this in eighteen

589
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: ninety six, we're gonna say, Akeisha, job, well done. So

590
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: that's how I didn't even think about the other platform anymore.

591
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: I moved forward. I put all of my energy. I

592
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: convinced my husband, you know, he's coming down Tossissippi, he's

593
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: doing whatever, but to be on television with it. He's like, Okay,

594
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: if this is what you want to do, babe, then

595
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: I'll come on. And I told him that I think

596
00:32:58,640 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: this is it. This is it.

597
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 2: No listen.

598
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 3: I'm getting goosebumps right now because what people don't understand

599
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 3: is this it's purpose, yes, and it's not being thirsty.

600
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:14,239
Speaker 3: Because I am the owner of a production company that

601
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 3: produces reality television, I cannot tell you how many famous

602
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 3: and non famous people hit me up in the DMS

603
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 3: or on the streets. They email me girl, they send

604
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 3: me mail like timer mail, okay, begging me.

605
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 2: To either remove them from their current show.

606
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 3: These are the people who's on reality or to put

607
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 3: them on one of my shows because of what you said.

608
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 3: They said, Carlos, one thing about you, You're gonna make

609
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 3: sure that your cast member's business is at the forefront

610
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 3: of any messy conversation or argument or whatever they gonna have.

611
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: Exactly.

612
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 3: I'm down for the shade. But one thing you do

613
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 3: so well is you make sure the business is at

614
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 3: the forefront. And because you could have been, like you

615
00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 3: said earlier, on a much bigger network, on a much

616
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 3: bigger show. What people don't understand is God is the

617
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 3: biggest equation you bet, every single aspect of life. Yes,

618
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,479
Speaker 3: And what bothers me, and I'm gonna be very real,

619
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 3: what bothers me is people who try to chase something

620
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 3: that looks big on the outside.

621
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 2: And it's not about attaching.

622
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 3: Yourself to a situation because the optics look bit. It's

623
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 3: about attaching yourself to a situation because you know that

624
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 3: God is bigger than any situation.

625
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 2: And if you follow the path where.

626
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 3: In twenty years you can say, you know what, I've

627
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 3: accomplished everything I wanted to do by making this decision,

628
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 3: He is going to uplift you and take you on

629
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 3: a journey that's going to blow your mind. And that's

630
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 3: exactly what you are doing Aikeisha on this show.

631
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 2: This season.

632
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: You hit it on the head and that's why you know,

633
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring a little shade up in here, even

634
00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: though we're talking about the Lord. No, because when people

635
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:05,240
Speaker 1: say I gave you a seat at the table, I laugh.

636
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 2: You really did.

637
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: Every a time I hear, baby, you didn't give me

638
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: a thing. Now, I am appreciative. I do not want

639
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: anybody to get me wrong or say, oh, she you know, listen,

640
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 1: she brought this production to you, She brought the idea

641
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: to you, and I am grateful for that. But at

642
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:33,280
Speaker 1: the same time, I believe what God has and had

643
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: for me. If it wouldn't have been through bail Collect

644
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 1: if your path and mind would have met somewhere, if

645
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 1: it was for me to work with Carlos King or

646
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 1: for me to work with own. So I am grateful.

647
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: I thank you for the introduction. But honey, that table

648
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: that you said, I'm gonna leave that right there because

649
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: you don't need to be invite girl. We're gonna leave

650
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: that right there. But thank you.

651
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 3: No, I want to say thank you because I'm know

652
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 3: if you know this, we interviewed over ten women to

653
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:08,399
Speaker 3: join the show that's airing right now, and you are

654
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 3: the first tape I saw. And I said to Angela,

655
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 3: who's my VP of development and the casting producer Keia,

656
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 3: I said, oh, baby, I don't care who else follows this.

657
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,240
Speaker 2: I know I want two bells.

658
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 3: She is going to be one, and I'm going to

659
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 3: be very surprised if anyone can top this casting tape.

660
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 3: What Aikesha's casting tape look like is evident in the scenes.

661
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 3: She's in this phenomenon that was gracing through the screen.

662
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 3: And as you're on this show this season, yes, you

663
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 3: are budding heads with Letitia Pearson, who also is involved

664
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 3: in Feri Street. Were you surprised that you two all

665
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,800
Speaker 3: butt hit, because I'm getting the sense that you thought, like, Okay,

666
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, I know that she

667
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 3: and I have the same goal and more than likely

668
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 3: we're going to be good.

669
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: That's exactly it. I'm familiar with reality TV enough and

670
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: I've been in this industry a while to know that

671
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be bumping hands with somebody. Hell, I thought

672
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: it was gonna be Guccie, you know, because I just

673
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: couldn't get past the name, and you know, at the time,

674
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: and now, Guccie is my fave. I love her and

675
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: we talked daily. So I did not think that it

676
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 1: was going to be Letitia because she was the intro

677
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: to the show. And then when I realized that they

678
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: were using Tamor because I went to high school with

679
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 1: Tamra and I knew tamar from you know, from Jackson,

680
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: and so I just said, oh, okay. But I had

681
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 1: no clue that I would be going toe to toe

682
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: with Letitia. And when that scene at the brunch happened

683
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: and she snapped at me, I was thinking like, oh

684
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 1: wait a minute, them, hold on now, wait. I had

685
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: to really like get myself together because I was just like,

686
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: all right, so is this the direction we were going in?

687
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: But I'll say this, Carlos, I still was thinking, like,

688
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: all right, this is what you signed up for. We

689
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: can still go toe to toe and throw shade, but

690
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: we know what the goal is. We know we want

691
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: to do this project on Fairs Well, I know I

692
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: want to do the project on Fair Street. Let me

693
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: go back and let me clear this up right now

694
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: on your show, Letitia and I do not and have

695
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: not had a project on Fair Street together. What we

696
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: were coming together to do was talk about what she

697
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: wanted to do on Fairs Street and what I am

698
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: doing on Fair Street, what I have already done on

699
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: Fair Street. So when she says you're still in my ideas, girl,

700
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: I still have not even heard your idea. And that's

701
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: the truth. I don't know what Letitia wanted to do

702
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 1: on Fair Street. I just saw a scene from the

703
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: first episode when they told her how much it was

704
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: gonna be to get that building even up the code.

705
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard Letitia say anything else about Fair Street

706
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 1: till I came along. Listen close. Now, one thing about

707
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: me you're gonna learn because you are not gonna be

708
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,240
Speaker 1: working together long time.

709
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 2: You better say it.

710
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: I don't lie now, I don't lie. My truth has

711
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: got me in trouble a lot. I got my butt

712
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: whipped a whole bunch of times when I was young

713
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 1: because I couldn't lie. So let's get that straight. But

714
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 1: our projects, we don't have a project together. My project

715
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 1: was never her project. I don't even know what her

716
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 1: project was. And at this point I do not care.

717
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: And you guys have been watching the season, so you

718
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: know why I do not care.

719
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 3: Oh no, they definitely know, and they definitely have seen you.

720
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 3: Like you said, you are very upfront, and that was

721
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 3: one of the reasons why we enjoyed you. Because one

722
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 3: thing about some, not all, some of the women in

723
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 3: Jack's Mississippi. A lot of them are Southern belles. And

724
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 3: what I mean by that is they aren't upfront. It's

725
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 3: like this southern shade to where it's very meek and mild,

726
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 3: but it's not in your face. And that was a

727
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 3: hard part in casting this show, because you know, a

728
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 3: lot of the women from Jackson or even in Mississippi,

729
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 3: I should say, they're born to, of course, be a

730
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 3: certain way to the public. And then behind the scenes, honey,

731
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 3: all bets are off.

732
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you are taught to act a certain way

733
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: in public, You're you're taught to talk a certain way

734
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 1: in public, and not saying that I'm not those things.

735
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: But I'm also not going to sugarcoat things and beat

736
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: around the bush. And that's Southern as well. I mean

737
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 1: the women that I'm around and that raised me are

738
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 1: from Mississippi and they don't sugarcoat things. So it's a

739
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: difference in being Southern, but also being truthful like that

740
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,840
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you have to lie or pretend to be

741
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 1: something that you're not just because you're Southern. And that

742
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that I'm not Southern because I call you

743
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 1: on your shit? Does it make sense?

744
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:48,240
Speaker 2: It makes you honest.

745
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 3: We saw this season that yes, you and tamber went

746
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 3: to high school together, and Tambra has always come across

747
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 3: on the show as like the peacemaker, the one who

748
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 3: wants everyone to get along. And then in these past

749
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 3: couple of episodes, we've seen that allegedly Tambra has said

750
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:11,760
Speaker 3: some things about you behind your back, and you looked

751
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 3: so surprised to discover that. Were you surprised that you

752
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 3: and Tambra would be at odds and that the odd

753
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 3: thing was the fact that allegedly you were saying things

754
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 3: about the bells to Tambra that she took back.

755
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: To the group. Well, it wasn't saying things. She took

756
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: back one thing because I never talked or discussed the

757
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,800
Speaker 1: bills with Tama from the first conversation that we had

758
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: when I first called her. I'll say this, remember at

759
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 1: the reunion, and I'm not giving any of the reunion away.

760
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:45,280
Speaker 1: When she explained exactly what the conversation was, I said, Okay,

761
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: now that sounds like something I may have said. So yes,

762
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: going back to Tama and I had a conversation. I

763
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: called her one I think, probably to congratulate her on

764
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 1: the show. I honestly do not remember exactly what it was,

765
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: but I do know it was before or the show

766
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 1: ever came out. It may have been when you guys

767
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: first started advertising the show, because it seems like it

768
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 1: was around Thanksgiving. To me, it may have been like

769
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: before thanks.

770
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 3: It was because we premiered in January, so we did

771
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 3: around the holidays, y'ap.

772
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: Okay, So I know it was before Thanksgiving because I

773
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: remember I came down to Jackson like after that. I'm

774
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 1: in Jackson every thanks again. I spend the holidays there,

775
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: but I was here and I came to Jackson. So anyway,

776
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: it was twenty twenty and I was pregnant. I had

777
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: my son, but I was pregnant. I saw the advertisement

778
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: whatever she posted up on social media, and one none

779
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 1: of the girls looked like themselves in that picture. I

780
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell y'all did. I don't know

781
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: if y'all had to hire somebody else to do some

782
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 1: new coloring or something, but they did not like after

783
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: I ended up meeting them. So she said that in

784
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 1: that conversation when I was telling her, you know, congratulation

785
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: on the show, where's the show going to be about whatever?

786
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,240
Speaker 1: That I said, Oh, y'all can find no cute girls

787
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: in Jackson. She said that I was joking, and I

788
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: probably now that sounds like something I probably said, just

789
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 1: throwing some shade. Ugly has never come out of my mouth.

790
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: I don't even really use the word ugly. So that's

791
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: why when we got to that sistervention and they threw

792
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: that out, I'm like, Taraa's a fucking lie. I never

793
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: said that. I didn't even remember the conversation until she

794
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 1: said it on the reunion when she brought back exactly

795
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 1: what happened. Then I said, oh okay, But my question was,

796
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 1: if you knew that I was even joking when I

797
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: said that, what was that for you to bring back?

798
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: What was that for you to come back to these

799
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: ladies and say, oh, well, she said that y'all talking

800
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: about some cute girls or whatever. For them to think

801
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 1: or perceive or just interpret that I was calling them

802
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: ugly in the episode when they just showed this last

803
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: week and the next scene with Melanie, she says, I

804
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 1: never said that they were ugly, and that was Letitia's interpretation.

805
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 1: That is so messy to me. It just had me

806
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: looking at her so different because when Tisha told me that,

807
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: she told them they need to watch everything that I say,

808
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: not to be like I was shady. Don't trust me.

809
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 1: That's the question I ask again when we were face

810
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 1: to face, even if I was, when have I ever

811
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: shaded you? When does anyone ever come to you Tamor

812
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: and said a Keisha said this and that about you.

813
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: Never So whatever your intentions were for telling these ladies

814
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 1: these things, that was something within her. So what I

815
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 1: would tell to Latitia Tamara Latrese and whoever else that

816
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 1: she thought they thought I was talking about them. You

817
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: should have been questioning Tamra's intentions. Why does she feel

818
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: the need to tell you those could be her feelings

819
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: because I had never said anything to tamor about like never,

820
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: She's never known me to shade her or anybody around her.

821
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 2: And like you said, we won't rebuild too much in

822
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:33,800
Speaker 2: the reunion.

823
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 3: By the way, guys, this two part reunion is time

824
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 3: of the best reunions I have ever produced in my

825
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 3: entire life.

826
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 2: It is man d stick girl. So we won't give

827
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 2: much away.

828
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 3: But like you said earlier, it does come up at

829
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 3: the reunion, and I have to say this. I'm not

830
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:57,919
Speaker 3: gonna give too much of way, but I'm gonna say

831
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 3: this because I've been again and a part of reality

832
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,280
Speaker 3: for years and I've seen I've seen women going reunion

833
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 3: shows and backpedal, lie, blame the producers, blame editing. It's

834
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 3: been a blame game. I Keisha Holly Cologne stood two toes,

835
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 3: ten toes, twenty toes down and everything she said, and

836
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 3: I was shocked.

837
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 2: So you know what, I'm gonna be real. I'm gonna

838
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 2: be real. I'm be real. I was shocked that when

839
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 2: the heat was on you, you.

840
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 3: Were able to answer every question and to the point

841
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 3: where I sat back and was marveling in your honesty.

842
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 2: Because I've been doing this shit.

843
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 3: For a long time, and I've seen reunion shows of

844
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 3: shows I worked on where women just lie because they

845
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 3: want to please the audience on social media, and we

846
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 3: live in the world right now where people truly do

847
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 3: cater to social media. And one thing I always to

848
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 3: my reality stars and I said this to you too,

849
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:01,280
Speaker 3: and Tagucci, don't feed into that.

850
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 2: That's not real.

851
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,399
Speaker 3: That's people who are just trying to attack you because

852
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 3: they want.

853
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 2: A moment, and the moment you engage in them, they

854
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 2: felt like they got you. You stood up for yourself.

855
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 3: You were by yourself, stood up for yourself, and I

856
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 3: was so impressed by it that I look at you

857
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 3: and it's a woman named Ashley Silva a Love and

858
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 3: Marriage DC.

859
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: Oh, I love how long baby, Ashley and.

860
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 3: You are the same in terms of I said what

861
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 3: I said. If I hurt your feelings, I'm sorry, but

862
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 3: this is why I said it, and let's move the

863
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 3: fuck on. But I'm not going to say I didn't

864
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 3: say it and I love that about you on this season.

865
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 3: And when y'all see the reunion, baby Keisha, let the

866
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 3: girls have it.

867
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to meet Ashley in person. We've spoken

868
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: on social media, but her castmates told me the exact

869
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: same thing, Irana and Jamie. It was something I was

870
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:53,719
Speaker 1: saying and doing, and Irana hit me in the DM

871
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: she said, you are Ashley and Ashley is you like?

872
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:00,800
Speaker 2: And I was like, I gotta Ashley.

873
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: She's just like you remind me. So it was some

874
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: one of the shows or something. She was like, you

875
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: remind me so much of Ashley and I said, oh

876
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: my goodness. That means she's absolutely amazing and real recognize real,

877
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: and so I need I have to be Ashley in person.

878
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 1: You have to.

879
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,320
Speaker 3: And Ashley is a fan of Bell Collector. She tweets

880
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 3: me all the time and dns me like, bitch, this

881
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 3: show is good. So before I let you go, talk

882
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 3: to my listeners who are also fans of yours about

883
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 3: what they can expect for the rest of the season

884
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:37,240
Speaker 3: of Bell Collective in addition to this explosive two part reunion.

885
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 1: So you can expect to get what you've been getting,

886
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: and that's just me being real, standing in my truth

887
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: and my honesty, and I try to look over the

888
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: things that they have said. That Tamra said about me

889
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 1: because of our history. Our grandparents were friends, and so

890
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,000
Speaker 1: I try to move past that. One thing you'll see

891
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 1: about me and you'll learn that through this show is

892
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 1: that I'm a very loyal person. I am loyal to

893
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 1: a fault, and I'm still gonna do the right thing

894
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 1: what I feel is the right thing. But after the

895
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 1: reunion and watching how the reunion played out, and like

896
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:22,799
Speaker 1: what you just said, I had no one to defend me.

897
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: I had no one to back me up, to take

898
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: my side, to even say well, yeah, akesha, yeah you

899
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: know that did happen. My feelings have definitely changed from

900
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:39,359
Speaker 1: what you're going to see ending this show to how

901
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: I feel after that reunion because I tried. I thought

902
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 1: that I could move past it and I could get

903
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 1: over it. But I cannot. And so I'm gonna let

904
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: Tamra keep peddling up in behind Latitia, kissing Latitia's ass,

905
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: that's what you do, and let her defend you, let

906
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: her have your back again. It's the woman that she

907
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,919
Speaker 1: brought on the show saying was with your man. That's

908
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 1: what you do.

909
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 2: Okay, there's nothing to ask after that, So I mean

910
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 2: you're the reality king.

911
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:17,360
Speaker 3: Let's starv No, I listen my rain drops.

912
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 2: No, I don't bag normally because I, like I said,

913
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:24,240
Speaker 2: I've been doing this for so long. Nothing surprises me. Baby,

914
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 2: that surprised me.

915
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 3: I don't have anything to say except oh baby, I

916
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 3: got my entire life of those six hours. And I

917
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 3: love you. Thank you so much for doing the show.

918
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me.

919
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:39,399
Speaker 2: We've had the best time.

920
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 3: Thank you to Willie Willie Ohans himself, who is a

921
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 3: star in his own right.

922
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 2: I think he just brings.

923
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 3: That East Coast vibe to the South and it's just

924
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 3: fun to watch. And you two are just amazing people,

925
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:58,240
Speaker 3: not just as personalities on the show, but behind the scenes,

926
00:49:58,280 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 3: like I want your to know before I keep.

927
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 2: It was even on the show. She and I would

928
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 2: deem each other and.

929
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,839
Speaker 3: She would invite me to like places like I got

930
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 3: this going on, you want to come or whatever, and

931
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 3: she knows me I'm always working. I'm like, thank you, sis,

932
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 3: but you know I'm trying to build this company, honey.

933
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 2: Then she gets it. But she is such a.

934
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:18,720
Speaker 3: Beautiful human being with a beautiful spirit. And the reason

935
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 3: why you have been able to withstand everything coming at

936
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 3: you is because you have the favor of God.

937
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 2: And the fans are seeing that.

938
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 3: I promise you, when they see this reunion, they are

939
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 3: going to say, that's freaking Iikeisha Baby is the one

940
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:37,240
Speaker 3: to watch.

941
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:38,839
Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you.

942
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 2: I got to give you flowers.

943
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 3: Now about that, So where can my listeners follow you

944
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 3: on social media? And how can it support you in

945
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 3: Farr Street and Jackson and let us know how's it

946
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 3: going with the water crisis as well.

947
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: So as far as following me, I am on Facebook,

948
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:59,239
Speaker 1: I am on Twitter, and I am on Instagram. Everything

949
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: is at IQI Holly and that is a I K

950
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,319
Speaker 1: I S H A H O L L Y. So

951
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: you can find me on any of those platforms. Fair Street,

952
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 1: all of my prayer warriors out there, I am asking

953
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 1: for your prayers. So our group we have submitted a

954
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: proposal to the City of Jackson to do the two

955
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 1: hundred and three hundred block of Fair Street right now,

956
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: the proposal we're currently working on is to redevelop and

957
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: revitalize the two hundred block. Well, a lot of people

958
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: don't know about the buildings on Fair Street when they

959
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 1: keep saying why does they look the way? And all

960
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:32,880
Speaker 1: of this just short history. The jack City of Jackson

961
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: just acquired those buildings back. They did not have ownership

962
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 1: of those buildings as of twenty nineteen. Now that they

963
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 1: have the buildings, they have done the work that needs

964
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: to be done on them, and they have put them

965
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: up for lease and for sale. And the Holly Cologne

966
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 1: Group is going in trying to buy the four buildings

967
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: that they have up for sell now in order for

968
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: us to redevelop, revitalize, and get new businesses that in

969
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 1: those buildings. There are a lot of people who are

970
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: sending in proposals. So the prayers I'm asking for is

971
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 1: that my proposal is best, it is the only option,

972
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: and that I will be the first woman developer on

973
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: this Fair Street project. So that's what I'm asking for now.

974
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 1: As far as the water crisis in Jackson, we have

975
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:15,359
Speaker 1: received very good news from the mayor. The boardwater order

976
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: is over. There is clean water running through that plant

977
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: and so yes, so I'm very grateful and I'm very

978
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: thankful for that. I am not one to say, you know,

979
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: what I've done and what I'm doing, especially when it

980
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:32,760
Speaker 1: comes to those things. But my family and my business

981
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: and foundation, we've been doing things privately with organizations and

982
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 1: also with the school with Jackson State University, so we

983
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: are very They are still needing things. If you would

984
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: like to reach out to me or to the Willy

985
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: Cologne Foundation, you can hit me on the Willie Cologne

986
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 1: Foundation Instagram page and just I can let you know

987
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: what I've been told and people who are still in

988
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 1: need for other things beside water.

989
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Aikeisha, Holly Cologne, and tonight we

990
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 3: got the season finale of Bell Collective and the week

991
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 3: after that is part one of the two.

992
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:10,360
Speaker 2: Part reunion where you don't want to miss it.

993
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 3: I love that conversation with Akesha. I mean to hear

994
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:24,320
Speaker 3: about her background being born in Jackson, Mississippi, how her mother,

995
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 3: her birth mother writing, her biological mother, and her biological dad,

996
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 3: who was married at the time, had a situationship that

997
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 3: birth Aikeisha, and to know about this legacy that she's

998
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 3: a part of was just so beautiful to hear, especially

999
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 3: when you think about Jackson, Mississippi, which of course is.

1000
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:48,280
Speaker 2: A predominantly black town.

1001
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 3: So to be able to have this legacy and this

1002
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 3: wealth and this access as a little girl. I hope

1003
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 3: it allowed you to have a grand understanding of who

1004
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 3: Aikesha really is.

1005
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 2: She's a good girl, She's funny, and one thing I.

1006
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 3: Like about Akisha is she's super deeper, honest, and as

1007
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:11,720
Speaker 3: a reality TV producer who has seen it all child,

1008
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 3: I can appreciate that. Don't forget Tonight we have the

1009
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 3: season finale of The Collective. Get into this special clip

1010
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 3: that I provided for you, and don't forget to tune

1011
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 3: in at nine o'clock a Central on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

1012
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna shock everybody. This is not the time nor

1013
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: the place. A rink is on the way. We have

1014
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: a communication issue. If Glenn cheeks again, we don't have

1015
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 1: to go ahead and sign the papers on site.

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00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 3: Bell Collective season finale Friday at ninety eight Central. Thank

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00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 3: you for listening to Reality with the King. New episodes

1018
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