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Speaker 1: R and B Money.

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Speaker 2: Honey, we are.

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Speaker 3: Thanks.

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Speaker 1: Think about a chi. We are the authority on.

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Speaker 4: R and B.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, my name.

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Speaker 2: Is Tank, I'm Jay Valentine, and this, my friends, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: is the R and B Money Podcast.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it is the authority. Boy, you didn't drink your teeth.

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Speaker 5: On All Things Ship seventeen D R and B The

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Speaker 5: Grammy seventeen dpep no sleep.

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Speaker 1: See I got a little paperwork. Yeah, she got hardware.

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Speaker 1: What I'm talking. Tail it, whole bunch of it, Oh,

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Speaker 1: bunch of it. Sing it ye, write it, produce it,

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Speaker 1: write it again, directed, and.

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Speaker 3: Then put it on Broadway. But put it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Broadway.

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Speaker 3: You want my story, don't you.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. My boss is here. She signs my checks. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and I'm writing for for it. This woman needs absolutely

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Speaker 1: no introduction, but I just had to create one. The amazing,

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Speaker 1: the beautiful missus Alicia.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yes that was Hey kg K jesus.

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Speaker 1: I'm so sick of what she's doing.

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Speaker 6: That's the best ever.

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Speaker 1: Put it in your show right for your first of all,

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Speaker 1: thank you, yes, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: When you when you show up, it means something thank you,

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Speaker 1: and we appreciate that whole heartedly.

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Speaker 6: This is amazing, man. It's such a good vibe and

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Speaker 6: you know, we got history and it's such such respect

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Speaker 6: and you know, like the music is so pure. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: You've been dope since day one in Sacramento. I always

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Speaker 1: tell you about that show I don't remember and Jimmy

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Speaker 6: In Sacramento, Sacramento, Wow.

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Speaker 1: And I did my thing, and well Cozy did his thing,

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Speaker 1: and then I did my thing and then and then

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Speaker 1: you were last. And I'm like, well, well why she laughs?

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying this, this this is crazy.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And then you came out

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Speaker 1: and you performed and you said the piano and played this.

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Speaker 1: I said, oh, that's why she's last.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: And seventeen Grammys later, Yeah, that's why she was last.

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Speaker 1: So the respect is, the respect is inmates. I was

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Speaker 3: It's in Jesus Christ, it's insane. It does that.

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Speaker 1: It feels like reading your one sheet, you have to

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Speaker 1: Come on, raight, man. I watched I watch Precision from

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Speaker 1: This is the divine part of it. You have constructed

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Speaker 1: It is everything that my life needs to be right now.

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Speaker 6: Okay, First, let me say I love every single thing

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Speaker 6: you said. If y'all don't know, Tank is coming back

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Speaker 6: to the show November fourteenth, all the way to the

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Speaker 6: Him in this show because let me tell you what happened.

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Speaker 6: This is why I'm so glad you brought that up.

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Speaker 3: This is what brought me to Broadway.

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Speaker 2: And what makes it even funnier is my daughter saw

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Speaker 2: And when I go, and it's funny because I called

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Speaker 2: I'm like, Lulu, what the hell? And he was like, no, brother,

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Speaker 2: he's working his ass off. You know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 3: I would have never went to Broadway. I ain't gonna

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Speaker 6: Happening to go to anything else, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: And her kitchen is like that, it is. It's a thing.

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Speaker 6: You're crying.

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Speaker 9: You can't help but cry, did you like once you

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Speaker 1: And once you finally get this thing like running, like running,

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Speaker 6: You know, there's there's there. It's true. It really does

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Speaker 6: really not playing no games. She plays classical piano. She's

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Speaker 6: And so this woman is you know, she's she's older,

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Speaker 10: Some special which right away just quick.

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Speaker 10: She's like, you are here because the voices of your

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Speaker 11: And we never truly knew how certain liners are gonna land.

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Speaker 6: you know, there are so many of those that happened,

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00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 6: and particularly I would say with Davis and Jersey. So

438
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 6: one of my favorite moments in the show is when

439
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 6: Davis comes comes back, Jersey actually calls her, can you

440
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 6: help me with our daughter? I'm having a hard time.

441
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 6: You know, It's one of those moments everybody'd been through

442
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 6: when they're seventeen, or if they're a parent and their

443
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:48,560
Speaker 6: kids starting to do that thing. Yeah, and they they

444
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:54,120
Speaker 6: together sing Falling, which is literally so crazy because nobody

445
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,679
Speaker 6: expects Davis to lead falling, Like you've never heard a

446
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,439
Speaker 6: guy sing falling. And that was another the thing I

447
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,439
Speaker 6: never realized. I was like, man, never, I never actually

448
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,399
Speaker 6: heard a guy truly own falling.

449
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 12: And so when Davis starts falling, he's like, Davis is

450
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 12: all smooth, and you know, he's he was kind of

451
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 12: based off of Sammy Davis Junior. Each character has a

452
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 12: musical inspiration, and Davis is a Sammy Davis Junior in

453
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 12: my head. That's how I saw. He's kind of got

454
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 12: that finesse, that elegance, and yet.

455
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,199
Speaker 6: He's flawed like all of us. And so he starts

456
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 6: singing falling, and we Adam, he's actually sitting right over

457
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 6: there musical supervisor, you know what I mean, and orchestrator

458
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 6: and creator and he we did this thing at the top.

459
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 6: We we're like, no, Davis has to take his time.

460
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 6: He has to. He has to finesse that beginning and

461
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 6: he has to go around and the whole and the

462
00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 6: whole audience don't exactly know what's happening because it sounds

463
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 6: so good. And then he hits that beginning note.

464
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 1: Okay, and that's not oh broad Way. They irked up

465
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: right there. And I'm trying to stay a character. But

466
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:16,439
Speaker 1: I'm silly.

467
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 3: You're halfway tacking.

468
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 1: I know what she's thinking. No, bro, I'm trying to

469
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: stay a professionalist.

470
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 3: It's like.

471
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:37,160
Speaker 6: It's crazy.

472
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: It's crazy because it's it's fun. It's funny, it's spiritual,

473
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: it's it's redemptive, like it's it's every it checks every box.

474
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 1: And I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen

475
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: anything like it. Like my mama is her.

476
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 12: Body okay, not here to play.

477
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:17,919
Speaker 1: Church, hard body nodding. And she saw Keisha and Jessica,

478
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: and and when I think she might have prayed with Keisha.

479
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:22,400
Speaker 3: I bet you she did.

480
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: I'm saying she said, she said the rect mm hmm ray,

481
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: this play was phenomenal.

482
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 6: Listen, when you get the phenomenal, don't.

483
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: Know when when she's gonna be mad. I said you

484
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:38,919
Speaker 1: the phenomenal.

485
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 3: She gonna nobody when she gave you phenomenal, ye, don't play.

486
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 1: And and just and just I just want to say this.

487
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: I want people to understand that as we're talking about

488
00:27:55,520 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 1: a thirteen year haul in terms of pursuing a dream

489
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: and getting something like this on its legs, I want

490
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: people to understand or just try to consider the cost

491
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,919
Speaker 1: the business that goes along something like this. The faith

492
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: you have to have in essence putting this kind of

493
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: money where your mouth and heart is.

494
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 12: Oh my god, I told you I was terrified.

495
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 6: Oh man, wait a minute, like cold on now I

496
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 6: need These people are trusting me with.

497
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 10: Everything, and I had to make sure that that trust

498
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 10: was fulfilled. So that we celebrate a year and a

499
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 10: half on Broadway is an amazing accomplishment.

500
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 6: That we just launched the national tour.

501
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: You're a man, which is crazy. So I know. So

502
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: I'm coming back and I guess it's gonna be in

503
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: Chicago and the fourteen So people I think, and no,

504
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:08,479
Speaker 1: I'm no, I'm not.

505
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 3: I'm I'm at the bit.

506
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: You know what, Let me just put.

507
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 3: The super theaters.

508
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: Where I will be. Old men don't travel it stay

509
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: put No. True, but that's that's crazy than itself. And

510
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: now you got the you got to build it. You

511
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,719
Speaker 1: have the destruction of the foundation. How many ninety trucks.

512
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 6: I know that it's over one hundred shows, over over

513
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 6: one hundred shows, and there will be more all across

514
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 6: the country everywhere. Like it said, Chicago is next, amazing,

515
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 6: It's gonna be pretty much every state is getting it.

516
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 6: So you're gonna they're gonna love it. It's amazing.

517
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 11: Launching the touring company was incredible. And what's crazy is

518
00:29:54,960 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 11: these these young actors and dancers and creative people that

519
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 11: are just like in the work.

520
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: You're like at that age, though, why.

521
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 12: Did everybody gets so incredible?

522
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 7: This is crazy?

523
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 3: But it's like, I'm going to study this and it's osmosis.

524
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: Right. Think of the all the things we absorbed as

525
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: kids growing up and what we were able to become

526
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: off of that. Now, think about what our kids are

527
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: absorbing is they're coming up and the multiply that time.

528
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 3: We have a thriller VHS.

529
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 6: Listen and that was pretty good.

530
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: I wildwind that things all. I learned the whole dance.

531
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: And then you watch Purple Ray and then my mom

532
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: wouldn't let me really.

533
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 12: Yeah, I guess maybe I didn't really watch.

534
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 3: You Gurge de Rail. I'm watched everything. I was trying

535
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 3: to wash the scarface at four that.

536
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 6: Might you as.

537
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: I'm a hustling. Yeah, you're production out of control, you're

538
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: staging out of control, costume everything out of control, or.

539
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 3: It's trying to wear the outfit.

540
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 4: He was looking for it any cares, I said, you ready,

541
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 4: David's outfire.

542
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 3: I'm not filming.

543
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 1: They wouldn't let me bring it, but I wanted. I

544
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: want to get to a part that I know. I

545
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: know you, I know you dear to your heart because

546
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: it's dear to my heart. I want to get to

547
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: the musicality. You know, I know. We have a guy here.

548
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 6: Yes, there's a guy.

549
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: Who's part of part of the music.

550
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 3: They got it, They got him right.

551
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 6: Does he have to makeup?

552
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: I got hair makeup?

553
00:31:53,240 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 3: Did they get it right? Show some dame bro.

554
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 12: I'm so happy to see Adam this whole thing together.

555
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, deprestrated this.

556
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 6: Moment right here, say and you grab me the Hell's

557
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 6: Kitchen book? Please? Thank you.

558
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 3: Mister Blackstone.

559
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 13: Is the reason why we now film at the legendary Somero.

560
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 6: It's wait, this is happening indefinitely, like this is your spox.

561
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 4: So I am the new creative director of this hotel

562
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 4: and music venue, which we're going to give you a

563
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 4: little torah when you leave here. But one of the last,

564
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 4: one of my first installations is having my brothers here

565
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 4: to do or be mon.

566
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like you have something to do with

567
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: that at least you so baby, maybe charge came up

568
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: with that.

569
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 4: There is the name percentage.

570
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 3: You know this guy.

571
00:32:58,760 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 2: I've been there.

572
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 10: Spelt like you need one of these out today.

573
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 6: This is out today. The Hell's kitchen behind man and

574
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 6: you need to have one of these. You know what

575
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 6: I mean this you have to help.

576
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 3: Cry. It's so specials.

577
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 4: The whole process of what we've been through from the

578
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 4: beginning her day one, yeah, my day one up until

579
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 4: who we are now. So it was very exciting, man

580
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 4: like this. There's a lot of gyms in there too.

581
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 4: It's really not a secrets, a lot of processing.

582
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 6: It was really really and beauty. Just look at you

583
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 6: and you feel like a home. It's gonna get you back.

584
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 6: It's gonna get you back in the zone. Put it

585
00:33:58,400 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 6: in your house.

586
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 7: Looking a here, don't you my role I love coffee

587
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 7: table books.

588
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,879
Speaker 3: Your daughter or she's gonna love it. That would be.

589
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 13: Okay, we gonna look at you so she gets home

590
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 13: from school, so you know, I hung outway to that

591
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 13: she's making the t shoes, why you Why can I

592
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 13: come to set.

593
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: This rebate if I get a little bit of my name,

594
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: the legend tissue.

595
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 3: This game.

596
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 7: Like get under said that this ain't no, that's the

597
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 7: whole thing. Now, this is like like trading, like trading

598
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 7: the music. You know, I remember, no, no, no, no, you

599
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 7: know you stop, you stop, you stop. Gotta tell something

600
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 7: because he's singing falling, because that's a dang.

601
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 1: Because I'm in this I'm in this play, and I'm

602
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 1: watching this play for the first time, and I'm saying

603
00:34:53,480 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: the music, who's being disrespectful? Who's doing that? Because that's disrespectful.

604
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 3: Y'all.

605
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: You guys were breaking rules and like charter but chartering

606
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: new territory to where when other people from other Broadway

607
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: musicals come and say, oh, y'all get to eat over here.

608
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,720
Speaker 3: So I think that one of the things that.

609
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 4: Arranging and orchestrating her incredible music allows us to do

610
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 4: is I wanted it always from a fans perspective, these

611
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 4: are some of my favorite songs not in a play.

612
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 3: I throw on you don't know my name?

613
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 4: I throw on Empire, I throw on grammar Cy, I

614
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 4: throw on Falling.

615
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 3: It's like those.

616
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,280
Speaker 4: Songs move me. So how can I have that same

617
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 4: emotional process by watching it as a musical. I remember

618
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 4: one day being at Jungle Studios and she said, Okay, now,

619
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 4: if I ain't got you, think about it from a

620
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 4: parent's perspective, because I always think that she's a genius

621
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 4: to have had wrote these songs, as if there was

622
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 4: foresight in two thousand and three to get to this place,

623
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 4: because like now, when people hear my mom hears no One,

624
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 4: she's like thinking about her grandchildren.

625
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 3: She's thinking of it.

626
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 4: You know, she's thinking about her her children. When I

627
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 4: see Davis and Ali do, if I ain't got you,

628
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,399
Speaker 4: I'm thinking about my daughter. And that's not necessarily what

629
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 4: I thought about when I first heard you. If I

630
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 4: got you, if I heard every time you touch me,

631
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 4: it's like when I think about it, like and never

632
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 4: see me again, it gives a whole new perspective.

633
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 3: So I wanted it to come from a fans point

634
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 3: of view.

635
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 4: Sonically, she gave me the She gave me to go

636
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 4: ahead to push the ropes, to say we need ato

637
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 4: weights and subs and it's yea, so it's like shout

638
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 4: out to Gareth, oh, and that allow us to do

639
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 4: that and and just like you know, we broke some

640
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 4: rules on Broadway when it came to what the music

641
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 4: sounded like and was able to do that's all because

642
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 4: of how I felt her music already made me feel,

643
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 4: and I wanted people to have that same feeling, whether

644
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 4: they were like used to it or not.

645
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 3: It was like this.

646
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 4: That's another reason why when you go there, it's a

647
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 4: different experience than any other show that you may have seen,

648
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 4: because there's a feeling behind that kick drum being in

649
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 4: there from gospel right at the top. Right, there's a

650
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 4: feeling behind a Swiss beat sample snare that's just on there,

651
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 4: that she'll come in for rehearsal and like more snare

652
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 4: and I'm like, yes, I told you all.

653
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go see somebody else's playing. I'm gonna be like, so, y'all,

654
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 2: don't got.

655
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 4: It ain't knocking here, but I'm so thankful. And then

656
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 4: just the musicianship alone, you know, at least you trusted

657
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 4: me and my partner Tom Kit another co orchestrator arranger,

658
00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 4: just to kind of bring it to life. In a

659
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 4: different way, and I threw some crazy ideas at her. Hey,

660
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 4: I'm gonna start falling with the upright bass. She was like,

661
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 4: And Alicia is good for saying, let's just try it

662
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 4: and see what you know what I mean? And you know,

663
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say we got a good eighty five fifteen

664
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 4: ratio and it works, you know what I mean? And

665
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 4: even probably ninety five and just like you know, what

666
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 4: I also am in love with with our musical is that,

667
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 4: you know, when you think about the R and B

668
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 4: album space, when we think about possibly a song not

669
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 4: being a single, there are some songs in this musical

670
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 4: that are more popular when people.

671
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 3: Go see them.

672
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 4: My mom says, I want to go hear Miss Eliza

673
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 4: Jaysing authors And I don't know if you know, when

674
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 4: you think of when my mom puts on she might

675
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 4: want to go straight the fall in on an album.

676
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 3: So there's some songs that allow us.

677
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 4: To know her pen is crazy, allow us to know

678
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 4: the feeling that she has written. It impacts people of

679
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 4: all genres, all ages, all races, and that's a good

680
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 4: thing for me. You almost don't my cousin told me,

681
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 4: I almost didn't realize it was written in all lyrics

682
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,439
Speaker 4: and music by Lisha until you don't know my name,

683
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 4: but you four songs in and we already got you

684
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 4: by then. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, We already

685
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 4: got you River Gospel, you know what I mean, Like

686
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 4: all of them joints at the top, it's just like

687
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 4: goes crazy, so like shout out to just great music,

688
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 4: great lyricism and allows us to tell us story in

689
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 4: that book that Christopher Diaz was able to put together

690
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 4: around that music. And there's some songs that didn't make it.

691
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 4: I was sad in twenty fifteen, you know, you know

692
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 4: what I'm saying that I fought for. But our story,

693
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 4: you know, with our Tony Nams and all of that,

694
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 4: it's it's a world world renown musical.

695
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 3: I'm so excited.

696
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was world renowned is the right word. World

697
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: renown is the right word. Like this, this in London,

698
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 1: this and for China, this Korea.

699
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 6: Yes, you know there's a Korean company being developed.

700
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 3: A yes, it is.

701
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 6: Even for me. Yeah, I'm like the songs will be

702
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 6: translated to Korean.

703
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:24,720
Speaker 3: That's great. We're already over there Korean's kitchen.

704
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:33,439
Speaker 2: You're Black Pink performing BTS, kitchen blood MH.

705
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: I can't imagine, Like I know, you're you're you're in it,

706
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: like you're in it, this is your baby, like you're

707
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: you're one hundred percent connected to it. And sometimes it's

708
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:52,760
Speaker 1: hard to like take a step out of it and float,

709
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: you know, just and just observe all of it and

710
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 1: how it's happening. And do you ever get a chance

711
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:06,240
Speaker 1: to do that and really like take in what you're doing.

712
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 6: I had a moment the other day all that. So

713
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 6: first of all, I go to the theater and I

714
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 6: pray in the theater. Yes, I burnt incense, and I

715
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 6: give thanks for the energy in the space. Is super

716
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 6: important to me that we're creating the right energy in

717
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 6: the space, Like I really want that and I want

718
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 6: that to permeate even when I'm not there. But the

719
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:35,280
Speaker 6: other day I did have a moment, and I'm always

720
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 6: super grateful because it's just we know, we know how

721
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 6: many things don't go. We know how many things don't go.

722
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 6: Don't mean it wasn't great, Don't mean you didn't put

723
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:51,240
Speaker 6: years and energy and time behind. It just wasn't supposed

724
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 6: to whatever is the reason. And so when things do

725
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 6: like I'm just so like, I get to another level

726
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 6: of gratitude because as I just know how it goes.

727
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 13: You know.

728
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 6: But this day talking about the talking about the The

729
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 6: Hell's Kitchen touring cast, and I was it was, you know,

730
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 6: they were just fresh off of their last rehearsal before

731
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 6: they were getting on a plane. We were opening in Cleveland.

732
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 6: The one the young woman who was cast as Tiny,

733
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 6: literally came off on an open call. She didn't have

734
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 6: an agent or anything or anything. She came in off

735
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 6: of an open call and she was phenomenal. And we

736
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 6: were like, whoa, whoa, who is this girl? She had

737
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:47,320
Speaker 6: never been on a plane ride until she was going

738
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 6: to Cleveland.

739
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 3: What crazy?

740
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 6: And I was like, And then we finished watching the

741
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,879
Speaker 6: whole rehearsal, and everybody's just at the top the top.

742
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 6: These young actors, this is their chance. They're dreaming, they're

743
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 6: living it, they're giving it, they're breathing it, they're shining

744
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 6: you know, other you know, more experienced actors who have

745
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 6: been a part of so many different things. Booon, this

746
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 6: is their chance. They're in the lead of this, they're

747
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:17,760
Speaker 6: doing that and all of this. Twenty thirty different people

748
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 6: from the crew and musicians and things, and I'm watching

749
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 6: this room and this room is full of bodies, and

750
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 6: I had this moment and I almost lost it. I

751
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 6: almost started crying. I was like, look at all of

752
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 6: these dreams, Like all of these people have a dream

753
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 6: for themselves, and this gets to be the conduit for

754
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,280
Speaker 6: an opportunity for them for the rest of their life

755
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:46,479
Speaker 6: that they're gonna be able to take this and say

756
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 6: I was a part of this and I'm great and

757
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 6: I succeeded and I did it and now I can

758
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 6: do anything else. And I was like, yo, you get

759
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 6: so caught up and you know, making it all run

760
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 6: and making all go and make it a and all

761
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 6: the things that you know you got to like with life.

762
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 6: You get into the like I gotta get it all.

763
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 6: Hell has to work, it all has to get going

764
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 6: and be done. And for a second I just sat

765
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 6: back and I was like, wait, if you take this

766
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 6: group of people, which is about fifty bodies, sixty bodies,

767
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 6: and you put it with the Broadway group of people,

768
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 6: which is another ninety bodies, we get to be a

769
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 6: part of creating a life for the families of all

770
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 6: these people by this beautiful story that they get to

771
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 6: shine through. I was like, this is bigger than so much.

772
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:39,760
Speaker 3: That's awesome.

773
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 6: Really, Nah, I had a mole meant so in that way,

774
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 6: I was like, could step back and just be like,

775
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 6: this is I'm so like the gratitude goes way way deep.

776
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:53,839
Speaker 3: So and we are grateful for her.

777
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 4: I gotta say, because, like Jay was saying, a lot

778
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,320
Speaker 4: of us don't get to Broadway to either see it,

779
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 4: let alone in something right.

780
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:03,479
Speaker 3: And so one of the things that I.

781
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 4: Love about it is when my children come, and her

782
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 4: children and other people's kids, we see ourselves up on

783
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 4: that stage.

784
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 3: There's not even though Broadway.

785
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 4: Has transformed a little bit in the last couple of years,

786
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 4: I think we got a lot to do with that.

787
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 6: And it's going to be more, you know what I mean,

788
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 6: But it is we still need to make sure that

789
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:24,720
Speaker 6: these diverse stories are told.

790
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,359
Speaker 4: A lot of black and brown people, a lot of

791
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:31,720
Speaker 4: women in the band, a lot of powerful women on stage.

792
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:32,720
Speaker 3: I know when we went.

793
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 4: Through our casting call for our band, it was imperative

794
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 4: that we kept the ratio what it was and to

795
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 4: have I have a woman bass player, I have a

796
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,839
Speaker 4: woman musical director, we have a woman guitar player, and

797
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:49,720
Speaker 4: that permeates throughout all of our cast and touring cast,

798
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 4: on Broadway cast. Those are things that I know that

799
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 4: I haven't seen before. So I'm thankful to her to

800
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 4: be able to walk in a theater see somebody that

801
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 4: looks like me, somebody that sings like us, somebody that,

802
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 4: and then it creates that space for that new Alley,

803
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 4: for that new Davis, for that up and coming And

804
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 4: then I must also say it's super Cybor I have

805
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 4: demo Whitest. So when we had when we had Malia

806
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 4: Joymon who also won the Tony for.

807
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, in my head, I'm like, where

808
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,359
Speaker 3: we find this girl? But then we have.

809
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 4: From our understudies to our new Alley and Miss Amanda

810
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 4: rid to our touring alley. There are so many talented Mayadrake,

811
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 4: so many talented, beautiful black sisters that are playing this

812
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 4: role that elevate themselves and elevate our story in a

813
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:47,439
Speaker 4: whole nother way. So we are it's insane where people

814
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 4: are like really waiting to see this on tour and

815
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 4: on Broadway for them to be inspired to be the

816
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 4: next Alley.

817
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: And it's the other part that you said in terms

818
00:46:56,280 --> 00:47:00,840
Speaker 1: of like the changing of lives in the feeding of

819
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 1: it all. Like I have real relationships, you know what

820
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: I mean, Like Jade is on my.

821
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 6: Album first of all, Literally.

822
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: I said you are coming when I did my last

823
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:15,919
Speaker 1: line and I said, I gotta go to but we're

824
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 1: gonna be in l a writing And I did that

825
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: in the play. I said what she thought I was playing?

826
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,760
Speaker 1: I said, no, no, no, I'm flying you out and we're working.

827
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 6: That's sick.

828
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: Phil came out like Phil was moving around and I

829
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 1: was like, you get in here and get some of this.

830
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:29,760
Speaker 1: We're right over here, and they've been to the house.

831
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: Like I just just talked to Jessica, like I talked

832
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: to a man like you. I have relationships that I

833
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: will have for life and beautiful. They're incredible.

834
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 6: So that's really real. This is a real thing. You

835
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 6: kill me and this is a beautiful thing.

836
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 1: You you this man?

837
00:47:56,680 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 3: Okay, that's the one.

838
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: Yeah.

839
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 6: As a member, you said, I love every said, I

840
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 6: really appreciate all of the beautiful energy.

841
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:14,840
Speaker 3: There you go.

842
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:21,359
Speaker 2: There you go, ladies and gentlemen, Adam, where's your base man?

843
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:27,439
Speaker 3: Listen to get lay along to the top five.

844
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: Here we go. As you notice, I don't use a

845
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: sustained pedal with this cassi on like that is that

846
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: a flex?

847
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 6: That is yesterday? But where's the where's the sustain coming from?

848
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: Now? From on high?

849
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 13: Hey?

850
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:56,359
Speaker 2: Kay?

851
00:48:56,520 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 1: People want some information from you, oh man. They know

852
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:06,760
Speaker 1: that you are a product of a lot of amazing music,

853
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 1: a lot of great artists. You you are well studied,

854
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,840
Speaker 1: and the people want to hear it from you.

855
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 3: What they ask him? What they want to know? What

856
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 3: they want to know, They want to know your he

857
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 3: really is an actor?

858
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 1: Like top five, yes, sir, your top five? Yeah, top five?

859
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 1: Let's know your top five? Harry easing us a song?

860
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, we got to know how you go

861
00:49:53,719 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 1: here on the show that everybody know. Yes, your.

862
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 6: Top Hey, let's go, man, let's go.

863
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:22,799
Speaker 5: Man.

864
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 4: Make sure you'll catch you, make sure you'll catch him

865
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 4: on Broadway and he was catching what that was?

866
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 3: That's ah, that's different.

867
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,319
Speaker 6: That's not easy what you just did. This is a

868
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 6: real small piano. It's not easy to get that much

869
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:45,240
Speaker 6: color of that thing.

870
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 2: I dinna catching on Broadway and in the subway doing that.

871
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:53,759
Speaker 1: He takes.

872
00:50:57,239 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 3: Wow.

873
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 6: First of all, five is so hard. Who can do

874
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 6: Top five.

875
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 1: Singers? You can actually do what that's true.

876
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:11,839
Speaker 6: True, it's really hard for me. It's really hard for me.

877
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 6: So for sure, for sure, I'm gonna go.

878
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 2: It's crazy almost that would have been why, that would

879
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 2: have been great anybody, Jay, He's tripping.

880
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 3: Relaxed, bro.

881
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,840
Speaker 6: So that's I mean, she just I just love people

882
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 6: that you can never duplicate no matter how much you try,

883
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 6: you can't. You cannot catch her energy and her swag.

884
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 6: I mean, for sure, no question about it. Everybody who

885
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 6: knows me knows nine. Everybody knows that Nina someone to

886
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 6: me with the with the the classical, the way she

887
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:05,520
Speaker 6: can classical and jazz and just create like that unlimitedness

888
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 6: that we were talking about her. For sure, gonna have

889
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 6: to say, Prince, no question about it. Again, that's like

890
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,320
Speaker 6: that part with the way that you can just be undefinable,

891
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:26,319
Speaker 6: like you know, just cross all the lines and do

892
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 6: anything ones. This is what to me, this is what

893
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 6: this is it. I'm gonna also go for I feel

894
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 6: like she's highly underrated. But if you know, you know

895
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 6: Patrise Russian Yeah now.

896
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, yeah yeah.

897
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 6: The keys, those like copyrights, the things that you didn't

898
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 6: even know you were singing when my deep sampled Patrice Russian.

899
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 6: I was it was like whoa, that changed my whole thing.

900
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 6: Like that that was big for me. Is that four?

901
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:09,399
Speaker 6: That's four and the fifth one? Once you said Michael Jackson,

902
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 6: I said, I can't leave Michael Jackson off. But I

903
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 6: decided although we don't even you don't even need to

904
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 6: be on the.

905
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 12: List and we know.

906
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 6: So it was the name you said earlier. That to me,

907
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:29,840
Speaker 6: I feel like and Nesby, like that voice, that that energy,

908
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:35,240
Speaker 6: that classicness, like like just being able to hear music

909
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 6: that just pulls you right from that heart. So that's

910
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 6: gonna be my top five today yesterday. That's my top

911
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 6: five today. Hard choice.

912
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 1: That was tough. Nina Simons. I was late to the

913
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 1: Nina Simon train. I didn't. I didn't learn about Nina

914
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: Simon until I was out of high school.

915
00:53:56,480 --> 00:53:57,839
Speaker 6: Yeah, but once you once I.

916
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: Did, locked in, I was locked like what nobody, like

917
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: nobody into a different place. Give me your top five

918
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 1: R and B song.

919
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 6: Okay, that's really hard to it's just not right.

920
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 1: You can do it.

921
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 3: You can do it's just you have that catalog right there.

922
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 1: I get on out of here.

923
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:31,240
Speaker 6: Well, I'll definitely you know, Adore's one of my favorite

924
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:35,919
Speaker 6: all times. I wish I wrote it. I will say

925
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:42,280
Speaker 6: they won't go where I go. Stevie wonder this song.

926
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:51,320
Speaker 6: You can't even believe how that sounds. Gosh, I'm gonna

927
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 6: say cherished today because we got his shirt on and

928
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:55,280
Speaker 6: like I could.

929
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 7: Just play everything.

930
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 6: I can play it one hundred.

931
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 3: Hours writing music.

932
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 6: Man, like just you drive, you just drive with it.

933
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 3: Makes it very easy to get wherever you gotta go.

934
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:15,720
Speaker 6: I'm going to say, fine, I got you.

935
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:22,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, yes, I sing that song.

936
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 3: You trying at quite.

937
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 6: Like you ain't never heard those runs like that.

938
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,400
Speaker 1: Man find a space learning it and didn't find a space.

939
00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 6: I think that was for So I just want the

940
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:48,880
Speaker 6: last one to be like I'm going to go for

941
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 6: I'm going to go for all night long married Jane girls.

942
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,880
Speaker 6: Oh that's what I'm going to do.

943
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 3: That's amazing. That's amazing when you.

944
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 6: Play that song, Oh yeah, you can't even help it.

945
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 6: So that's not that's not you are.

946
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 1: Wow, that's not the one that is a wild card.

947
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 6: That's nothing.

948
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:11,279
Speaker 1: It is incredible.

949
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:12,800
Speaker 6: That's my fifth.

950
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 2: One that was very unexpected to Yeah no I haven't no,

951
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 2: I've never heard that.

952
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 3: That's a good one. But this is the first time

953
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 3: that's been put in the top five.

954
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 1: I'm dancing, I'm dancing though it's happening.

955
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 3: Baseline going crazy, Yeah.

956
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that those vocals they're killing it, sit in

957
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:32,320
Speaker 6: the pocket.

958
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:34,839
Speaker 1: It just it takes me back to ninety seven being

959
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 1: on tour with Mary and sing her rocker Mary Songs

960
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: Damn married.

961
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 6: Then Mary got to go back into my top five

962
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 6: artists list. Squeeze.

963
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: Mary took us to school.

964
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:53,480
Speaker 6: Too many great artists too.

965
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 1: Let's make a bowl tron. Let's make your super R

966
00:56:57,120 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: and B artists. Okay, we're gonna pull characteristics from any

967
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:06,440
Speaker 1: artists from since the beginning of time. Now we want

968
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:08,319
Speaker 1: to know who you're going to get the vocal from,

969
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 1: the performance style, from the styling, the passion of the artists,

970
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:15,720
Speaker 1: and who's going to write and produce for this artist.

971
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: Let's start with the vocal. Find one vocal, one vocal

972
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 1: of the history of the vocal.

973
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 6: The vocal of the vultron artist is going to be.

974
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 6: It's going to be Whitney Houston. Yes, it's going to

975
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 6: be as well, but I feel like I'm gonna go

976
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 6: Whitney Houston.

977
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 1: The performance style, the performance.

978
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 6: Style it's going to be a vultron itself.

979
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:55,480
Speaker 3: Okay, the vultron going on her yes, yes.

980
00:57:55,520 --> 00:58:00,120
Speaker 6: And Andre three thousand that's cool. That's the perform and

981
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 6: style okay, okay with the Whitney Houston, the.

982
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:11,400
Speaker 2: Whitney Houston voice from I know from Earth, it's like ankey.

983
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 3: Can they have the D three thousand pounds?

984
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 1: Goouitarrman style styling, styling.

985
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 6: Styling, I'm gonna go for Tana Taylor. That's the styling.

986
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 3: She'd be.

987
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:42,320
Speaker 1: Everything.

988
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:47,200
Speaker 6: I never seen as like that before.

989
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:51,120
Speaker 1: It's every day she put it on beautiful things. I

990
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: got to know how many bags she carrying with her

991
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 1: because they don't make no sense. And then the passion

992
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 1: of the artist.

993
00:58:57,480 --> 00:59:00,200
Speaker 6: All right, the heart of the artist, the passion of

994
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 6: the artists. I'm gonna go for Sissa. I'm because I

995
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 6: feel like she's super honest, that she truly lives in

996
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 6: her moment like she's I feel like she speaks like

997
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 6: her truly really I feel like that, and I think

998
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 6: she's like real special like that.

999
00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go for where is it? Yeah, Like I'll.

1000
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 6: Kill you either way, whichever version, I'm going to kill

1001
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 6: you very honesty.

1002
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,200
Speaker 1: I might have to kill my ex. I'm gonna I'm.

1003
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 2: Going to kill in a very chill way, which is craziest, vulnerable,

1004
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 2: very It's scary.

1005
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:49,600
Speaker 1: And then, last, but not least, who's going to write

1006
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 1: and produce for this artist?

1007
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 3: Yeah? Why not?

1008
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 6: That's fun? I like the Bulltrons. That's really good.

1009
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 1: Adam, you know. I love you, brother, I love you.

1010
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 1: You are You're you say special human being man, and

1011
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 1: your gift.

1012
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 3: Is out of this world incredible.

1013
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:18,320
Speaker 1: I love how you do it.

1014
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 3: Thank you.

1015
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 6: And his own music is amazing. Thank you very much,

1016
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 6: Grammys and all the things.

1017
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 3: You gotta he got yet how close are you too? Away?

1018
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:30,920
Speaker 1: Okay, get him?

1019
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:34,560
Speaker 3: Hell's kitching the movie twenty thirty two.

1020
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:46,880
Speaker 6: An.

1021
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 4: We're going it's I thank y'all man. I feel blessed

1022
01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:58,600
Speaker 4: to do music has the power to heal, has the

1023
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 4: power to unite, you know. Being with artists like you

1024
01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 4: and Alicia and Jay always allow me to be vulnerable

1025
01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 4: in the music. I text y'all all random types of night.

1026
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:12,600
Speaker 4: She don't sleep, so we text four or five, six

1027
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:15,120
Speaker 4: in the morning with an idea. But also it's like

1028
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 4: very thought out because her vision is so just so wide,

1029
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 4: and when you execute it be you may not understand it.

1030
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:27,640
Speaker 4: Sometimes we talking about setlist the other day and I'm like,

1031
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:28,439
Speaker 4: what about this song?

1032
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:32,240
Speaker 3: She like, nah, this song. I'm like, oh yeah, that song.

1033
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:38,360
Speaker 4: You're right about yourself, you know, you know you and

1034
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 4: so I just you know, it has taught me. This

1035
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 4: whole Broadway process even has just taught me to be

1036
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 4: open to new things too, but also still push boundaries

1037
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 4: and trust yourself, trust your own creativity. And it helps

1038
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 4: to have somebody that trusts you with her. So it's

1039
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 4: my partner in crime, and I'm I'm excited.

1040
01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:58,440
Speaker 3: Man. Music means so much to me. So thank you

1041
01:01:58,520 --> 01:01:59,200
Speaker 3: all for having us.

1042
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:07,240
Speaker 2: Man, thank you you are so good. You're showing us

1043
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 2: that things are possible. Everything is possible, things are possible.

1044
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 2: Whatever we come up with, all these crazy ideas is

1045
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 2: artists that we have in our.

1046
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 6: Mind that can happen.

1047
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 3: You're you're bringing it to the world. Thank you, Thank you.

1048
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:25,200
Speaker 1: And what you're doing for you know, for little girls

1049
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,400
Speaker 1: all the way to the women I like, you know,

1050
01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:35,640
Speaker 1: showing them that beauty is is not always in the

1051
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:42,200
Speaker 1: extras mm hmm. It's just it's what's in you showing them,

1052
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:45,480
Speaker 1: showing them a leader m hmmm, a prayer.

1053
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:47,919
Speaker 3: God.

1054
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:51,600
Speaker 4: First, she's gonna pray you down. I'm sorry, we're going

1055
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 4: before we hit that stage. We're gonna talk to the

1056
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 4: most hog for sure, Like that is a mother, a wife.

1057
01:03:01,200 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 1: You're you're, you're, you're. You're pretty awesome.

1058
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 6: Thanks man, you're pretty awesome.

1059
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 1: Thank you.

1060
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 6: Thanks you really good. That has so much fun. I'm

1061
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:11,880
Speaker 6: so glad we did this.

1062
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:15,640
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Tank and this is

1063
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 1: the R and B Money Podcast, the authority on all

1064
01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:24,439
Speaker 1: things R and B. This is Adam Blackstone. This is him,

1065
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:32,840
Speaker 1: and sitting just two more feet away, it's me. Yeah.

1066
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 6: This is how we say.

1067
01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:35,640
Speaker 2: This is how they say that Broadway, and this is

1068
01:03:35,680 --> 01:03:37,120
Speaker 2: how we wanted to see that Broadway.