Speaker 1: My league, But has how the knowledge you wanted? My league?
Speaker 1: But has how the knowledge you need my league? But yeah,
Speaker 1: they have out of books that the whole wild world
Speaker 1: want to read My League. But I knew going into
Speaker 1: this week it was gonna be a long week. Three
Speaker 1: days at the House of BT. I got a chance
Speaker 1: to see Neil and a few other l the bars Um.
Speaker 1: He sounded like he was the same as he sounded
Speaker 1: twenty thirty years ago. It was lit, it was hype,
Speaker 1: and it was all about black excellence, celebrating the our
Speaker 1: culture in the biggest and baddest way possible at the
Speaker 1: b ET Awards ceremony which is this week. So what
Speaker 1: they what they have done was uh, they promoted all week.
Speaker 1: So it was all week event Lee eating up to
Speaker 1: the war ceremony and Malik Books had an opportunity to
Speaker 1: interview people and talked to the audience about culture and
Speaker 1: about you know, blackness, about black excellence. Um, we were
Speaker 1: in an eye spend black booth the BT built as
Speaker 1: a pop up and invited us and actively black and
Speaker 1: the BT store and this other um um fragrance company
Speaker 1: that was black owned, and it was all about celebrating
Speaker 1: being who and what we are and promoting economics. On
Speaker 1: this segment, you're gonna hear some of the people I
Speaker 1: interviewed at the b the House of BT that is,
Speaker 1: and on Sundays the War Ceremony and where they honor
Speaker 1: uh like excellence for their achievements, UM and their endeavors
Speaker 1: in their industries. So that's taking place on Sunday. So
Speaker 1: I knew going into this week it was gonna be
Speaker 1: a long week because um, I was gonna be on
Speaker 1: site president networking, meeting people, greeting people. I mean, I
Speaker 1: met Candy Berg's I met her husband Todd. You know
Speaker 1: Candy is on and Todd is on the Atlantic Housewives,
Speaker 1: Um Housewives of Atlantic that is, and they also have
Speaker 1: their own spinoff called Old Lady Gang. So I gotta
Speaker 1: took some photos, got some sound bites from him. Also,
Speaker 1: I met a young lady named Gail whom is a
Speaker 1: new character on what they called this show called on Stars.
Speaker 1: I believe it's called Pee Valley, so they were president
Speaker 1: of you. Another young lady Brook Valentine. She came through
Speaker 1: brought some books. So I was able to meet some
Speaker 1: celebtran into Lamar Oldham. Um, but I got a chance
Speaker 1: to also attend, you know, some of the concerts where
Speaker 1: I heard Neil, while I heard Elder Bars, while I
Speaker 1: heard some other artists up and coming as well. And
Speaker 1: it was lit. It was it was rocking. They had
Speaker 1: I mean, BT supplied the community with a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: lot of engagement, a lot of you know, free food,
Speaker 1: free drinks. It was lit, it was hype. I had
Speaker 1: a good time. Um, I'm running on gas rooms. I'm
Speaker 1: running on gas rooms. I mean I couldn't. I mean,
Speaker 1: I had to pull out of that event, which it
Speaker 1: was over on Saturday, to get ready for another event
Speaker 1: at the Hollywood Bowl formally called the Playboy Jazz Festival. Well,
Speaker 1: so today Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl, they having a
Speaker 1: beautiful jazz concert and they asked us to participate in
Speaker 1: an exhibit here, a jazz exhibit here at the Hollywood Bowl.
Speaker 1: So we're curated a lot of beautiful books about jazz
Speaker 1: and jazz musicians, coffee table books. So today I had
Speaker 1: to shut up at the jazz festival at the Hollywood
Speaker 1: Bowl and your boy time. But I gotta do what
Speaker 1: I gotta do. When you pray for something, you can't complain.
Speaker 1: When you get it. You You asked for success, you
Speaker 1: asked for to be in the community and be engaged,
Speaker 1: and then these are the kind of things that happened.
Speaker 1: And I'm blessed. I'm I'm surrounded by I mean, black artists.
Speaker 1: These the art is impeccable, incredible, all these beautiful pictures
Speaker 1: of black musicians and artists in the entertainment UM skills,
Speaker 1: mad skills. So I'm gonna interview a few of them.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna interview a few of them, UM about their
Speaker 1: work and about their achievements and greatness and their contribution
Speaker 1: in our culture. So they're playing a little jazz in
Speaker 1: the background. I hope that you're not annoyed by that,
Speaker 1: but it's it's a good play because that's why I'm
Speaker 1: at I'm at the jazz concert here at the Hollywood
Speaker 1: Bowl and my podcast as a podcast that I take
Speaker 1: on a role UM, and I talked about things that
Speaker 1: I think is relevant and right now, our culture is relevant,
Speaker 1: and I think that things we're doing and how we're
Speaker 1: doing is relevant. Like the House of Bat where we're
Speaker 1: given honor to some of our celebrities and stars in
Speaker 1: the community. All I ran into Ray J and his
Speaker 1: wife princess at the House of BT. And now today
Speaker 1: I'm running into all of these black artists, which some
Speaker 1: of these artworks can be found in many, many homes
Speaker 1: all across America. So stay tuned for episode thirty. I'm
Speaker 1: at the House of BT. I'm gonna ask the community
Speaker 1: that thoughts about this experience at Las Lit. We're here
Speaker 1: at the House of B a T. I just rolled
Speaker 1: up on someone. Tell me how you feeling the atmosphere
Speaker 1: and everything, My brother, atmosphere is great, it's wonderful. I
Speaker 1: was just telling my friend over here, BT them out.
Speaker 1: We got all types of shades and colors and just
Speaker 1: beautiful people and just all different forms of black excellence,
Speaker 1: but excellently. That's what this is all about. We surround
Speaker 1: it where black culture lives. Absolutely, where black culture lives,
Speaker 1: where black dreams flourish, where blacks is worldwide, worldwide, world wide.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful rainbow of people here black. It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: We're saying rainbow because somebody just walked by with a
Speaker 1: I was standing outfit that's extremely colorful and he is
Speaker 1: pulling it off right now. Yeah, yeah, I would get
Speaker 1: out of double take two. Thank you, My brother absolutely
Speaker 1: enjoy appreciating black excellence. The House of BT is lit.
Speaker 1: I got another lovely young lady here at the House
Speaker 1: of BET. This is all for Malik's bookshelf, bringing the
Speaker 1: world together with books, culture and community. This is about community.
Speaker 1: So I'm just interviewing people as I see and I
Speaker 1: just want to get you on the record. Hi, my
Speaker 1: name is Nicole. I'm here with Malik's books. We need
Speaker 1: more black bookstores. Literacy is highly important. We know that
Speaker 1: they build school prison beds off of fourth grade literacy rates.
Speaker 1: So big believer in reading and the power of literacy.
Speaker 1: And it's great to have Malik's presence here at the
Speaker 1: BT weekends. So much black excellence, black shine, black joy.
Speaker 1: And yeah, we're doing the damn thing shop black. You
Speaker 1: in the booth call I spend black. Yes, you just
Speaker 1: mentioned something about, uh, some prisoners and bids. Yeah. So um.
Speaker 1: So there's the such thing called the school to prison pipeline,
Speaker 1: meaning that black and brown youth are more likely to
Speaker 1: be funneled into this pipeline. The schools are more likely
Speaker 1: to give black and brown students suspensions, and in some
Speaker 1: states like Florida, instead of getting suspended, they'll actually send
Speaker 1: you to juvenile hall for a day, which once you're
Speaker 1: in the system, it's more likely that show return. And
Speaker 1: literacy rates are often are connected to UH. Basically, prison
Speaker 1: systems use literacy rates to to predict how many folks
Speaker 1: are gonna be in jail in the next and fifteen years,
Speaker 1: and black folks are really um Our literacy rate nationwide
Speaker 1: is very low, and so we as a community needs
Speaker 1: to be reading to our youth, reading to our neighbors,
Speaker 1: to our friends, to our kids, and just making sure
Speaker 1: that um we're all around and have access to books
Speaker 1: and we're growing and increasing our literacy because it matters,
Speaker 1: It matters. I always say books bring a world of opportunity.
Speaker 1: Read to achieve. You got any final thoughts because you
Speaker 1: dropped some bombs on Melik's book showst um No, just
Speaker 1: shop with Malague read and shop from black bookstores. You know,
Speaker 1: when it comes to spending dollars in the black community,
Speaker 1: it's not about convenience. It's about we're going where your
Speaker 1: dollars gonna have the most impact, and your dollars always
Speaker 1: going to have more impact at black owned businesses like
Speaker 1: Malik's bookstore. So shop love the plug, Thank you dropping
Speaker 1: bombs on Melik's book show. Thank you, Here we go,
Speaker 1: Here we go. I got another one. Meliek's bookshelf is
Speaker 1: at the House of BT, and I rolled up on
Speaker 1: a young lady who just visit our booth here and
Speaker 1: so tell me all about this Bet House of BT experience.
Speaker 1: The House of BT experience is awesome. It's amazing. The
Speaker 1: commodity here, the people, the energy, it's amazing. Emiliek's got
Speaker 1: some really great books. So if you'd like to read,
Speaker 1: you really need to go buy Melik's bookstore because he's
Speaker 1: got some great reading materials. It's all about black excellence.
Speaker 1: What you got to say, my brother, I was just
Speaker 1: here to support the culture and my people. So gay
Speaker 1: pride and um black pride as well. You know, it's
Speaker 1: it's our month and it's our time, so I just
Speaker 1: came to celebrate. It was awesome, wonderful, wonderful. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you for both of your kind world. We appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Malik's bookshow, bringing the world together with books, culture and community.
Speaker 1: That's what this is about. Just a community, right, this
Speaker 1: is all about the community. Thank you, thank you. I'm
Speaker 1: just getting a few sound bites. I'm in the community
Speaker 1: that I'm up with Rocky Millieue books. But this is
Speaker 1: the community and BT is bringing us out and droves
Speaker 1: out here. It's a lively atmosphere and I just want
Speaker 1: to get your thoughts about the whole experience right now
Speaker 1: at the House of BT. Absolutely, I came here for
Speaker 1: the Black Excellence. I came here specifically to see earn
Speaker 1: your leisure because I'm all about building my wealth. So
Speaker 1: I love how Beef he's bringing us all together, teaching us,
Speaker 1: entertaining us, giving us inspiration. So I think it's just good,
Speaker 1: a good event, a good even a good weekend. I'm
Speaker 1: happy to be here, and I'm happy you're here too.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. I appreciate you. Enjoy the show.
Speaker 1: Black Excellence, Ladies, lady ladies. I just need some comments.
Speaker 1: Were in the House of BT, and I just want
Speaker 1: to get some comments anybody would like to say about
Speaker 1: the experience here, just for my my podcast called Melik's
Speaker 1: Bookshow Bringing the World Together with Books Coaching Community. I'm
Speaker 1: just going out to the community now. I haven't been here,
Speaker 1: though you've been here. Somebody tell us what's going on. No,
Speaker 1: I think it's really cute. I feel like the set
Speaker 1: up and like everything that they're you know, trying to do,
Speaker 1: it's coming across assistance and flation. The Martin said, Um,
Speaker 1: I think it's like really tapped into the culture and
Speaker 1: like giving us exactly kind of what we would want
Speaker 1: if you wanted to be immersed in the culture. And
Speaker 1: so it's really cute black Actually, anybody else you got
Speaker 1: any comments? What about you? My sister. Um, it's a
Speaker 1: great time. I'm actually working the events, so it's good
Speaker 1: to kind of see the back end of all the productions. Um,
Speaker 1: the music is now coming alive. I'm excited about that
Speaker 1: because it right on time. Um. But yeah, I just
Speaker 1: love to be in the in the ambiance of black
Speaker 1: excellence and black people tonight. So yeah, well, thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Just gonna be on my podcast, Meliek's
Speaker 1: Books Show. Thank you, thank you, thank you. My brother,
Speaker 1: my brother. You can't you rolled up at Malik Books
Speaker 1: and you said you're author. You always have to bet
Speaker 1: event And I'm just you know, I'm talking to the community.
Speaker 1: It's all about community. Yes, sir, we are alive and direct.
Speaker 1: I pulled up surround about a bunch of beautiful black people,
Speaker 1: a bunch of beautiful black books, the whole nine yards.
Speaker 1: I am where I need to be right now, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. It ain't no coincidence. Brother, you got a
Speaker 1: book were Malik Books. I'm Malik himself. I'm doing a podcast.
Speaker 1: This is for Malik's book show, and you're gonna be
Speaker 1: part of it. My brother. I'll tell you what, Malik,
Speaker 1: you were doing the good work out here. Man. It's
Speaker 1: not a lot of black of us out here in
Speaker 1: the book space too much, whether it's the authors, the
Speaker 1: book sellers, the retailers, whatever you had, it's not too
Speaker 1: many black people in this space. So I appreciate what
Speaker 1: you're doing, giving all these black authors, black beautiful people
Speaker 1: their stories of platform and the whole nine yards. Keep
Speaker 1: doing what you're doing. Thank you. That's black excellence. You
Speaker 1: heard it at the House of b E T. Thank you,
Speaker 1: my brother. How's your experience out here at the b
Speaker 1: T House of bt UM? I work here and I
Speaker 1: planned that, so it's good to see it. But you
Speaker 1: ain't in the black you know, everybody had to actively
Speaker 1: black ool that our brand. Okay, okay, well I'm part
Speaker 1: of that. I ain't spend black. I'm in there Malik
Speaker 1: Books and this for my podcast, Malik's Bookshelf, bringing the
Speaker 1: world together with books coach your community. And I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to get information, you know, from the community about
Speaker 1: this wonderful experience. We got anything to say here, my sister, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not good with all that when you heard it
Speaker 1: live here at the House of bach So, I just
Speaker 1: pulled up on one of the renowned community artists. It's
Speaker 1: been an artist for how many years? My brother about
Speaker 1: two weeks now. Don't listen to that, you know, it's
Speaker 1: some decades. This, you know, this brother's rooted in the community.
Speaker 1: Mirrors all over the place. This is Mohammed Bark And
Speaker 1: I tell my artists on release Bookshelf, my brother your
Speaker 1: journey as an artist? Oh well, you know I started.
Speaker 1: I've been drawing on my life and I started painting.
Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy. I hooked up with David Moseley, who
Speaker 1: was is my mentor. David Moseley is the uncle of
Speaker 1: Sugar Saint Moseley, world champion fighter, and I met him
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy when I was eighteen. He is one
Speaker 1: of the most greatest artists in this town. Unsung hero
Speaker 1: from Watch that was your inspiration, my mentor mentor, and uh,
Speaker 1: I hung around David after I left it Black Panther
Speaker 1: Party in nineteen seventy, and you know, start learning a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff. And then I had he going on
Speaker 1: one vacation at the club fit and it was why
Speaker 1: I was on my vacation that I really developed it
Speaker 1: to where I can make something out of it. Once
Speaker 1: I came home and I noticed that a lot of
Speaker 1: your paintings and drawings are all characters, you know, black
Speaker 1: cultural figures, incredible mirrors and so forth. Why why did
Speaker 1: you target those types of figure so as black as beautiful? Hello?
Speaker 1: And you know with me, it's a black thing, black
Speaker 1: art from a black artist of black people. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, people can see what they want to say,
Speaker 1: but if if it ain't done by a black artist,
Speaker 1: it's not black art. Hello. We'll talk a lot of people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, for example, there's a group of
Speaker 1: black girls who on a man, I want a dispensary
Speaker 1: on Crenshall b the world. That's right, that's right, and
Speaker 1: right on the corner of Crenshaw with a seven eleven
Speaker 1: is they got a wall in the parking lot that
Speaker 1: they had some white folks and some Mexicans paying a
Speaker 1: mural to advertise their business. Why not called Mohammed or
Speaker 1: Kenny Gatewood in quantity or Mike Norris Because black artists
Speaker 1: not as short. You know, we have many, We got
Speaker 1: too many people that look like us. They got talent
Speaker 1: and ability that are not tapped into that. You know,
Speaker 1: that's a conscious thing, isn't it. Yeah, to me, it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, uh, they can say what they
Speaker 1: want to say, but if it ain't done by black people,
Speaker 1: it's not black art. Black real talk, Real talk, Real talks.
Speaker 1: Nineteen seven. I've been artists all my life, but I've
Speaker 1: been painting since nineteen seventy. Yeah, that set the record straight.
Speaker 1: I've been drawing all my life, but I started painting
Speaker 1: using colors and mixing paint together, you know, to do
Speaker 1: what I do since nineteen seventies. Your work, your paintings
Speaker 1: look so real, lifelike. Will I try to make it
Speaker 1: like that, you know, because a out of great artists
Speaker 1: and mirrors around the city. At I got a couple
Speaker 1: of man I got especially downtown Compton, at the Compton
Speaker 1: City Hall, on the outside of the city Council chambers
Speaker 1: and on the inside of the lobby of the chambers.
Speaker 1: The city commissioned me to do murrors that the landmarks
Speaker 1: of the city and the history of the city of Compton. Uh.
Speaker 1: Go to the A. C. Bill Brew Library on El
Speaker 1: Segundo and Maine l a County library. Inside there. My
Speaker 1: works are in there. Oh and thanks my good friend
Speaker 1: Mark Billy Thomas, who's going through a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: right now. Well, I tell you you you you know, paintings,
Speaker 1: these things last for hundreds and hundreds of years if
Speaker 1: preserved correctly, So you just preserve your legacy for centuries
Speaker 1: to come. Yeah. Well, I want to leave my mark
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of young people that are gonna
Speaker 1: come after me. They don't want to be like me.
Speaker 1: And uh, this is the best way that I can,
Speaker 1: you know, pass it on to them by leaving the
Speaker 1: works that I do. And and I want to appreciate you, brother,
Speaker 1: taking the time out to share with the Lease's book
Speaker 1: shelf audience. You know your passion, your craft, your artistry,
Speaker 1: and your genius. Brother. Thank you, brother, very much, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. May a laws, peace and blessing be
Speaker 1: upon you and maybe you have continued success in what
Speaker 1: you do. Thank you. My brother appreciate it. And this
Speaker 1: is a quite a surprise. Um, just my brother just
Speaker 1: wrote up on me and asked me, and you maleague
Speaker 1: I said yeah, And he started talking to me about
Speaker 1: me having his book in his store. So I let him.
Speaker 1: I'll let him tell you. Because his name is Lee
Speaker 1: Walker R. Walker pH D. I don't want to forget
Speaker 1: about that, but so I want him to tell you
Speaker 1: this story. I thought it was very you know, unique,
Speaker 1: and and and get one of my podcasts. They're here
Speaker 1: because not often I hear somebody they remember me twenty
Speaker 1: years ago or more. Yeah, but Leka is very very
Speaker 1: nice to see you. Man. It's for a long time
Speaker 1: when I did my first books because pepper Rick Conversions
Speaker 1: of Wisdom, you know, you helped me out with that.
Speaker 1: And so he's getting your books, sir. I can't say
Speaker 1: you really was getting started, but you really you had
Speaker 1: a starting book story that everybody respected back in the
Speaker 1: day and everything. So now I'm did a new book
Speaker 1: called Shorty Blue and so that's it in five books
Speaker 1: and sin. But in the meantime, I like, I always
Speaker 1: remember you're what you got right now, that pleasant personality
Speaker 1: and one of innovation, and that entrepreneurship and for me
Speaker 1: to see you here still going on, still promoting. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know what else you do, but I do
Speaker 1: know about your book side, and the book side always
Speaker 1: been something I've always enjoyed, and I enjoyed seeing you
Speaker 1: here right now looking healthy and also meeting your lovely wife.
Speaker 1: And so I wish you the best, young man, and
Speaker 1: you continue on to do what you're doing. And after
Speaker 1: twenty years, I see you. You're still looking good. Bro.
Speaker 1: It's not always often that is that I run it
Speaker 1: up someone that has supported me, because I consider authors,
Speaker 1: you know, very important and significant, and you supported me,
Speaker 1: and I supported you. And you remember me going decades
Speaker 1: ago in the mission that we've been doing and how
Speaker 1: we've been serving the community and in fact just protecting
Speaker 1: a segment that I'm doing. It's about the community everything.
Speaker 1: I've been talking to the community here at the Jazz Festival,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be tending the Jazz Festival and listening
Speaker 1: to some good music, and so I've just got the
Speaker 1: opportunity to talk with you, and you remember all the
Speaker 1: work that we did that case ago. So I had
Speaker 1: to get you on my podcast. I would like to
Speaker 1: say one more thing, just for a second, not to
Speaker 1: go over extended. And now I'm gonna leave you guys
Speaker 1: and this podcast for one thing. And something somebody said,
Speaker 1: you never forget kindness. You never forget kind for years
Speaker 1: down the road. But if somebody was nice and kind,
Speaker 1: that will always resonate with you. And I remember you
Speaker 1: because you're kind and you're still kind. You got that spirit,
Speaker 1: young man, and I wish you the best. Thank you,
Speaker 1: my brother, thank you. And you heard it. You heard
Speaker 1: her from pH D Dr Walker. Let me tell you
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Speaker 1: Tory Roberts called Balance, Positioning Yourself to do all Things well. Now,
Speaker 1: for those who don't know anything about Tori Roberts, he's
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Speaker 1: She's the daughter of T. D. Jake's, you know, the
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Speaker 1: Tory Roberts wife is Sarah Jack who's also an author.
Speaker 1: So anyway, back to Tory Rocks, who wrote the book Balance.
Speaker 1: He's this you know, a national bestseller. Um, we get
Speaker 1: you know wis and Watt selected this book because I
Speaker 1: just like books that position yourself to do all things well,
Speaker 1: which is the subtitle of his book. Um. This particular
Speaker 1: book has game changing chapters. The Power of Note, which
Speaker 1: unpacks why no is the most powerful work in your
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Speaker 1: being imbalanced. You know, you gotta be imbalanced because when
Speaker 1: you're out of balance, you know, you're waving from one
Speaker 1: side to the next side, and you're rocking back and
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