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Speaker 1: Welcome to Naked Sports, the podcast where we live at

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Speaker 1: the intersection of sports, politics, and culture. Our purpose reveal

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Speaker 1: the common threads that bind them all.

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Speaker 2: So what's happening in women's basketball right now is what

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Speaker 2: we've been trying to get to for almost thirty years.

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Speaker 1: From the stadiums where athletes break barriers and set records.

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Speaker 1: Kami part broke the all time single game assist record.

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Speaker 3: This is crazy for rookies to be doing.

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Speaker 1: Our discussions will uncover the vital connections between these realms

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Speaker 1: and the community we create. In each episode, we'll sit

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Speaker 1: down with athletes, political analysts, and culture critics because at

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Speaker 1: the core of it all, how we see one issue

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Speaker 1: shines the light on all others. Welcome to Naked Sports.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Carrie Champion. Hey, family, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for tuning in to Naked Sports. I want to

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Speaker 1: get a little housekeeping out of the way. You all

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Speaker 1: know that we were nominated for an NAACP Award. Let

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Speaker 1: me get that out, an n DOUBACP Award for Best Podcast, Sports,

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Speaker 1: Arts and Entertainment. That's a big category as opposed to

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Speaker 1: just best Sports Podcast. But we did not win. Oh

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Speaker 1: it's so disappointed, but I was really, really, and I

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Speaker 1: mean this from the bottom of my heart, truly honored

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Speaker 1: to be nominated and thought of. And on top of that,

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Speaker 1: I had a beautiful weekend, Awards weekend with the NAACP family.

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Speaker 1: There were so many different beautiful events and it just

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Speaker 1: felt good to be around the culture and honoring the culture.

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Speaker 1: Everybody was moisturized, the melanin was popping. It was a very,

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Speaker 1: very beautiful week. We then did the Essence Awards. No,

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Speaker 1: well that's not true. We went to the Essence Black

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Speaker 1: Women in Hollywood Brunch. I call it awards because you know,

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Speaker 1: the sisters showing up. It wasn't a war though. We

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Speaker 1: were honoring luminaries within the culture and it was just

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Speaker 1: a wonderful week. And then as we wrap up the

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Speaker 1: week of awards and special dresses and gowns, there was

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Speaker 1: this crazy news that came across for everyone. I know

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Speaker 1: you may have heard, and if you haven't, I'm here

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Speaker 1: to tell you about Angie Stone. She was killed in

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Speaker 1: a wreck. Apparently she was returning from a performance and

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Speaker 1: she was heading to Atlanta, that's home for her, and

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Speaker 1: the sprinter that she was in flipped over and was

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Speaker 1: hit by a big rig. I don't know the particulars.

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Speaker 1: It was just a few statements being released. Not much

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Speaker 1: information was available, and you can't trust everything you read

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Speaker 1: on the web, and so I really truly was shocked

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Speaker 1: to hear it. I woke up and I thought, Wow,

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Speaker 1: just another reminder of how precious life is. But it

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Speaker 1: also made me think about the last time we were

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Speaker 1: in conversation with Angie right here on this podcast, and

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Speaker 1: for me, this is a way to honor her memory

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Speaker 1: and really truly appreciate what she gave us in the culture.

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Speaker 1: Some great music, some great stories, some good love songs,

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Speaker 1: you know, some good love songs. And I wanted to

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Speaker 1: say thank you, Angie. I know I am sending nothing

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Speaker 1: but love and healing to your family, and may you

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Speaker 1: please rest in peace. Naked family join me and honoring

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Speaker 1: her memory by listening to this edition of Naked Sports.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you so much, Andie, so thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for joining Naked I really appreciate this. It is

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Speaker 1: a podcast where I get to interview people that I admire,

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Speaker 1: I enjoy, that are doing amazing things. And it just

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Speaker 1: so happens that you have most recently released I believe

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Speaker 1: it's your tenth solo album. I'm making sure it's the tenth.

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Speaker 1: I'm wanting it great. Tell us about your latest project,

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Speaker 1: and more importantly, congratulations.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you first of all guys for having

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Speaker 4: this project is one that I really was not anticipating. However,

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Speaker 4: we did it, turned it around in a two week span,

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Speaker 4: worked very hard, very quick, very hard, and really you

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Speaker 4: know when we were. When I work under that kind

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Speaker 4: out because you have no time to screw it up.

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Speaker 4: You got to get it right or you know. So,

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Speaker 4: I'll say, along with Candice Bathe, more Teak Underdo, Walter

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Speaker 4: Reel Sap, and quite a few other producers, we turned

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Speaker 4: out some really dope songs that make for a very

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Speaker 4: consistent album. So I'm in a good place with this project.

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Speaker 4: Oh good for you, But I want to make sure

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Speaker 4: I heard you correctly. You turned it around in two weeks.

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Speaker 4: How does that happen?

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Speaker 5: Turn it?

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Speaker 1: And I could imagine you have a bevy of songs,

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Speaker 5: The sound that you hear is what we worked on.

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Speaker 4: Maybe two didn't make the project because we just ran

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Speaker 4: in the studio for upteen hours during one two songs

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's impressive. But you have very much created a

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Speaker 1: name for yourself in terms of who you've worked with

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Speaker 1: in this industry. You've written, you've you've been an actor,

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Speaker 1: You've had your solo projects that you were a part of.

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Speaker 1: From my understanding, the very first hip hop R and

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Speaker 1: B group in Sequence signed to sugar Hill. Tell me,

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Speaker 1: of it all. Tell me about Sequence and how that

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Speaker 4: My Sequence is myself, my partner, Blondie, and Charlott cearl

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Speaker 4: who were all high school friends in neighborhood, sisters that

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Speaker 4: we started to create this stuff because as cheerleaders, we

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Speaker 4: were constantly writing rhymes and you know what was effectually

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Speaker 4: known as cheers back then turned into rap music. I

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Speaker 4: guess New York called it rap. We call it cheers

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Speaker 4: and competition. We won quite a few contests in South Carolina.

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Speaker 5: For having the best hiers. Our cheers were rhyme and

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Speaker 4: Yo was a song that we created that had a hook,

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Speaker 4: raps to it, which coined the phrase. You know, y'all

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Speaker 4: Believe that hip hop grew wings and I went to

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Speaker 4: but I think that everybody had a first moment in

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Speaker 1: You said, It was a cheer, and any black girl

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Speaker 1: I would have never considered a rap. But that's exactly

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Speaker 4: Punk you up was a cheer that we're gonna blow

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Speaker 4: you right on out. We're gonna blow you right on up.

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Speaker 4: Get up, get up, get up, get up back now.

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Speaker 5: It was a cheer. And then we said funk you

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Speaker 4: That channeled to a song calling a delic what's happened

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Speaker 4: falk was wiggie and phone those were the words back.

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Speaker 5: In the day. So we used to follock you up.

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Speaker 1: I love it, I love it all. And then outside

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Speaker 1: of that, that's establishing yourself in a world where you

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Speaker 1: I I'd like to know more about the writing of it,

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Speaker 1: because I've read in my research that you felt like

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was coming that well. You know, as an

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Speaker 4: I think we all did part of what we became

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Speaker 4: that we did at sugar Hill Records. We as a

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Speaker 5: A lot of what you hear from that early days.

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Speaker 4: Of hip hop, a lot of it was written by

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Speaker 4: the sequence Apache Eighth Wonder and West East Mob Less Stands.

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Speaker 4: All those songs were coined by Blondie shrilling myself.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, that's powerful. And you say it so matter

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Speaker 1: of factly, like you like, yeah, just tomorrow, But that

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Speaker 1: you see your influence still?

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Speaker 4: Well, I want to look at the NGSC definitely see

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Speaker 4: our influence. When Lauren Hill came about, that was the

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Speaker 5: Ever made about female ever. And that was following the

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Speaker 1: And shout out to Lauryn Hill, who performed most recently

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Speaker 1: at the Roots Picnic. It was a beautiful reunion. I'm

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Speaker 1: one of the legends of our time in a voice

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Speaker 1: me tell you about Brown Sugar.

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Speaker 3: I want to know.

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Speaker 1: I want to know all that you wrote with DiAngelo,

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Speaker 1: because Brown Sugar I remember it changing by game, you

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Speaker 4: It's folk funder because d' angelo, uh, just just a

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Speaker 4: credit to himself, his brother Luther Archer, and the Angelo

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Speaker 4: was primarily responsible for writing a lot of Brown Sugar.

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Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, when I met D'Angelo, I

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Speaker 4: was infused with that whole vibe because we were excited

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Speaker 4: every Day was a song that I wrote. Die was

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Speaker 4: I did a Great Day in the Morning. I did Africa,

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Speaker 4: I did send it on. You know, these are the

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Speaker 4: songs that I were writing with him when he started

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Speaker 4: to evolve and people started to look for what was next.

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Speaker 4: We grew up Great Day in the Morning. Like I said,

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Speaker 4: We went on to do play for the cartoon soundtrack

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Speaker 4: with Michael Jordan, with Bugs, Buddy and all of them.

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Speaker 4: It was just a plethora of opportunities to do stuff,

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Speaker 4: and it was hard to do Vertical Hole, which was

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Speaker 5: If that makes it assist, it has to be a

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Speaker 4: It's almost virtually impossible to take a good track and

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Speaker 4: Well, when you become the artist, you become an anime,

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Speaker 5: You lose yourself and your gift.

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Speaker 4: And when you do that, you kind of just explode

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Speaker 1: That is so true for anybody who's performing, whether you're

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Speaker 1: Angie Stone.

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Speaker 2: Every champion and Kerry champions to be a champion, a champion,

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Speaker 3: Greats and entertainment can make it work.

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Speaker 1: Angie Stone's still here with us talking to me about

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Speaker 4: the song that you have to I'm like, I don't

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Speaker 5: I done my album. I'm done.

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Speaker 5: Just do that. And I said, all right. It was

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Speaker 4: Everybody was going bananas over kiss you, kiss you, kish you?

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Speaker 5: It moves that when I say it's a bad record,

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Speaker 1: I can't process that because I would think as an artist,

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Speaker 5: Sometimes, yes, I probably didn't. I don't like a record

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Speaker 4: It just means that you might want to give it

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Speaker 1: Probably, Oh that is That really is funny. The irony

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Speaker 5: And you ask anybody and I can't. They will tell.

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Speaker 1: You it's something to being maybe I don't even know

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, I am that.

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Speaker 5: I hate it every vocal on this album.

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Speaker 4: I knit it was about the cry didn't want to

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Speaker 4: crab And I'm like, I'm just not there anymore?

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Speaker 5: Why do I? And now I can't.

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Speaker 4: I'm laying it over and over because I'm like, you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it takes a while, but I will say that

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Speaker 5: In the studio?

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Speaker 4: See, he was in the studio, took wing over there

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Speaker 4: and my manner and Mike can he put a verse

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Speaker 4: on this for me? And he wrote it and did

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Speaker 4: it and wanted to take didn't he ask me? And

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Speaker 4: one that made it up for me? He was already

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Speaker 4: on it out like okay.

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Speaker 1: I love that. Well, congratulations for your artists. That is special.

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Speaker 1: That is really special. And it's always nice to see

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Speaker 1: that it's in the DNA, right and it finds in

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Speaker 1: different ways. That is an accomplished I know you must

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Speaker 1: be proud.

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Speaker 3: Are you?

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Speaker 1: Can I talk to you about acting because you spend

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Speaker 1: some time on Broadway, which I feel is and I

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Speaker 1: go back and forth between New York and LA and

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Speaker 1: every time I go to Broadway or I watch a play,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, that is so difficult. I could not imagine.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything difference between acting and singing? For you?

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Speaker 1: Which one is more difficult.

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Speaker 5: Well, it all depends on the script. The role.

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Speaker 4: Singing is obviously easier because I've had a whole lot

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Speaker 4: more experience with that, and each time where you add

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Speaker 4: a melody to a lyric, the memory is lot and loaded. Acting,

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Speaker 4: on the other hand, is all memory. You have got

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Speaker 4: to really put your mind to work. I did uh

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Speaker 4: the uh what's the play women of Color?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 4: God, I can't think of the Oprah Winfrey colored wind Color. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I did that now, it was Missus Purple. And it

466
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Speaker 4: was written so difficult. I honestly didn't think.

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Speaker 5: I could pull it off.

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Speaker 4: And when I pulled that off, I knew I was

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Speaker 4: ready for the same. It was so intricate and difficult.

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Speaker 4: It was almost like something I never seen, like Shakespeare,

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Speaker 4: and I had to actually memorize like these all these lines.

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Speaker 4: I just finished a series called Whole Things H T

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Speaker 4: A U X that's on True TV. That's actually good.

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Speaker 4: And of course you've seen me on in the cut.

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Speaker 5: Of Girl Friends. I've done quite a few movies.

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Speaker 4: So it's kind of fun when you have to create

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Speaker 4: a new character that is not you. Most of the

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Speaker 4: characters lady, if people want me to add my sense

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Speaker 4: of humor.

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Speaker 5: To it, which is easy.

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Speaker 4: But you know, uh, try getting a character that does

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Speaker 4: not embody your sense of humor and you've got to

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Speaker 4: really create a role for this person.

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Speaker 1: It's difficult, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: But it's because if you can master that that.

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Speaker 2: Every champion and Kerry champions to be a champion, a

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Speaker 2: champion and Kerry Champion and carry chat be out a

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Speaker 2: champion and carry Champion and carry.

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Speaker 3: Champion entertainment and naked weirder.

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Speaker 2: Kerry Champion and carry champions to be a champion, a

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Speaker 2: champion and carry champion Champion and carry Champion and carry Champion.

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Speaker 3: Entertainment, get naked word.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever done a project you talk about Shakespeare?

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Speaker 1: I listen in college, I too was an English major,

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Speaker 1: and they used to try to make us recite Shakespeare.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I don't have it. I didn't do

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Speaker 1: well in that class barely c C class linus whatever

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Speaker 1: it was I had. But have you ever done something

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Speaker 1: in terms of your acting career and said this is

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Speaker 1: this is excellent because it's hard for people who are

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Speaker 1: very creative and very talented and ambitious to step outside

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Speaker 1: of what they did and said that I did that.

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Speaker 1: Is there a project that you worked on and was like,

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Speaker 1: I did that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I thought I did.

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Speaker 4: When I did Show Girlfriends, I was I played a

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Speaker 4: character called Dalla Mason. I think that I nailed it

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Speaker 4: right on the edge. I thought it was brilliant. I

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Speaker 4: think the one that I did for Color Girls Is

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Speaker 4: was phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: It was just.

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Speaker 4: And a very art see piece of work that you know,

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Speaker 4: everybody had to be on the point. I worked with

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Speaker 4: Robin Gibbons, and you know it was just an intense

516
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Speaker 4: script and you really had to be focused to pull

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Speaker 4: it off. And I studied real hard and maybe it

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Speaker 4: happen so good for you? I mean first person though,

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Speaker 4: if I feel like a script demanding thing that unable

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Speaker 4: to give out, yeah, yeah, like I'm anna say I

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Speaker 4: don't like something I really want to do, but like

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Speaker 4: a blue dropped the ball, I want audition for it.

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Speaker 1: Good for you?

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Speaker 4: Now, what Tavia Spencer used to read for when I

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Speaker 4: lived in California, She and I used to be neck

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Speaker 4: and neck at all of our auditions. It was myself,

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Speaker 4: Olivia and it was someone else's. So the minute I

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Speaker 4: left California uh and moved back South O, Niviya got

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Speaker 4: the best role of her life, and that was the

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Speaker 4: one she played with. She had the pie uh huh,

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Speaker 4: and she had arrived her her or break came and

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Speaker 4: I'm like.

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Speaker 5: That point role, you know.

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Speaker 4: But I mean it was good to see her get

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Speaker 4: there because every time I went to audition, I was like,

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Speaker 4: oh wow, I gotta go up against Octavia Spencer. Oh

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Speaker 4: god again again again. It was that kind of thing,

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Speaker 4: you know. So it was one of those tactics where

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Speaker 4: I was in great company and I used to get

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Speaker 4: called to read for stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: How amazing is that? And by the way, that is true,

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Speaker 1: they bring the same person out. You're like, now you again?

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Speaker 1: Do I have to keep seeing you everywhere?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Was it like that? Well, I I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: No, I was gonna say, was it like that when

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Speaker 1: you ran into her an audition room?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Because I knew anything that she was anytime she was there,

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Speaker 4: we were both reading for.

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Speaker 5: The same part.

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Speaker 1: I hate Hollywood, so I'd be.

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Speaker 4: Like, but it makes me that if I staying, I

553
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Speaker 4: probably would have wound up with her luck. I probably

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Speaker 4: eventually got a role that she no longer had an

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Speaker 4: audition for that they would have needed a new face

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Speaker 4: for and they were to see it. Let's try Andy

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Speaker 4: Ston that far. I was actually supposed to get a.

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Speaker 3: Role that.

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Speaker 4: Played a woman from Ghana that Iris Elba was in.

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Speaker 4: Jill Scott ended up getting the role, and I remember

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Speaker 4: it was coming to me and saying, you need to

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Speaker 4: check your team because Anthony, the guy that ended up

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Speaker 4: passing away the producer, uh, he let me know that

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Speaker 4: the role was yours. He had told him he really

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Speaker 4: wanted me to have the role. And Jill ended up

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Speaker 4: getting it because her team was just a little bit

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Speaker 4: more aggressive than mine and they fought. Whereas I had

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Speaker 4: very limited team players, she had a bunch of people

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Speaker 4: that were red in her corner. Shout out in Jill Scott. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: a lot of people that were in her corner and

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Speaker 4: they just charity that great is it?

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Speaker 5: So as a result, she ended up getting that role.

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Speaker 5: Do you think that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what else there is in terms of

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Speaker 1: for you to do, But when you get to a

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Speaker 1: point of your career where you've had success and you

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Speaker 1: maintain and you have established yourself, what would it be

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Speaker 1: a next I'd like to try that? Or what would

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Speaker 1: be the next get that you want? Would you want

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Speaker 1: to come back to La and really go hard at acting.

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Speaker 1: Is there something that's out there in the ether that

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Speaker 1: you're waiting to grab?

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Speaker 4: Well, my next is you know, if I had my way,

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Speaker 4: I would want to be like Harol Burnett because I

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Speaker 4: think that fascinating. She's probably one of the most creative

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Speaker 4: women in the game. I love the fact that she

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Speaker 4: ran her own ship, she had her own show, she

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Speaker 4: trusted her own jokes, and I just feel like I'm

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Speaker 4: a leader like that. I want to be in a

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Speaker 4: position where I can drive the car. I think being

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Speaker 4: a visionary is key. Of course, I would love to

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Speaker 4: come back to LA, but I would love to push

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Speaker 4: my own show, and I'd like to see other people

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Speaker 4: when I don't necessarily have to be in it for

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Speaker 4: a part of it, but I really would like to see,

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Speaker 4: you know, other people come up because I know it's

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Speaker 4: a lot of child with people just don't sure.

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Speaker 5: They don't get the break.

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Speaker 1: It's a tough it's a tough game. It's a tough

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Speaker 1: game out here in LA. It's a tough game. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So for everyone who wants to go out and support

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Speaker 1: your latest project, how do they find it? You can

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Speaker 1: get it on Apple.

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Speaker 4: One, Yeah, all platform b and the right one is

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Speaker 4: me with the black hat, you know. And then I

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Speaker 4: got one with my hands like this on my face.

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Speaker 4: That is the Instagram poster. That is the real angistone.

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Speaker 4: All the old ones connected to old labels of people

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Speaker 4: that won't give up the hamph so they're confusing the issue.

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Speaker 5: But the latest ones up one.

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, with your hand.

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Speaker 5: B A N G, I E.

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Speaker 4: S C O and the the Angie stone all platforsts

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Speaker 4: hands are your face let me know, okay, got it?

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Speaker 4: I want to make sure because my producer, Jacqueses will

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Speaker 4: make sure that we put all that out there. Is

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Speaker 4: there anything else we should be promoting. I want to

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Speaker 4: thank you for your time. I know you have had

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Speaker 4: a day, so I wanted to.

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Speaker 5: Get you in Ho's okay, I got I got a

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Speaker 5: few more to go.

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Speaker 4: But all I just want to make sure that everybody

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Speaker 4: knows is that I'm working on my foundation which is

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Speaker 4: called Angel Stripes.

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Speaker 5: And what I do is I.

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Speaker 4: Help cultiveately people, infants, homeless families and infants. I make

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Speaker 4: a gift care packages. Our team of people be going

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Speaker 4: around to the senior citizens, volunteering our time, making sure

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Speaker 4: I also have a hot sauce that's coming out for

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Speaker 4: brother Man Tacos that I'm doing with young man by

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Speaker 4: the name of Randy.

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Speaker 5: I'm excited about it. The hot sauce.

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Speaker 4: It's called four hundred degrees and that's how four hundred

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Speaker 4: years we've been over Africa. So the hot sauce is

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Speaker 4: a blekay. And now the last thing that I'm working

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Speaker 4: on is a television show or a streaming network called

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Speaker 4: House of Flay that I'm co hosting with a music

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Speaker 4: soul Child, where we gicking young and upcoming artists the

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Speaker 4: opportunity to get out there and be seen and uh,

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Speaker 4: you know, hopefully get their gifts acknowledge by the world

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Speaker 4: and correct me.

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Speaker 1: If I'm wrong. Give music so Chi'll work on this latest.

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Speaker 5: Album with you. Music so Child worked on the single

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Speaker 5: The Gem with me.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I love him. I saw him performed in my

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Speaker 1: friend's wedding.

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Speaker 5: All incredible, incredible, incredible.

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Speaker 1: I love this Andree Stone, You're a legend. You are

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Speaker 1: a trailblazer and you are soul so I appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, and you look amazing, don't you

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Speaker 1: ever forget that either.

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Speaker 5: Oh wow, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a pleasure. Thank you.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate you guys so much. You're welcome, so pretty.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Naked Sports written and executive produced by me Carrie Champion,

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Speaker 1: produced by Jock Pece Thomas, sound designed and mastered by

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