1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 2: Breakfast Club. 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 3: Morning, Everybody's j n V. Just hilarious, charlamage. The guy 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,319 Speaker 3: we are to Breakfast Club. Jess is still on maternity leave. 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 3: So long the Rose is feeling in. 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 4: And we got a special guest in the building album 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 4: right now. Ladies and gentlemen, Yolanda Adams, welcome, Thank y'all 8 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 4: for having me. 9 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: How are you feeling this morning? 10 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: Absolutely fantastic? 11 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, this is your fourteenth album. 12 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is my fourteenth studio album. 13 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 2: We'll go through your head when you hear. 14 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: That, Wow, gratefulness, appreciation that I'm still doing what I do, 15 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 1: and loving the fact that folks still want to hear 16 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 1: what I'm doing and that is still inspires them and 17 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 1: gets them going and keeps them lifted up, you know. 18 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: So yeah, do you remember I feel? 19 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 3: Do you remember putting out your first album and how 20 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 3: that felt and the fact I don't know if the 21 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 3: industry was ready for gospel music the. 22 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: Way there was, Well, the industry tree wasn't ready for 23 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: me because because I wasn't you know, I wasn't like 24 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: your typical gospel artists. I didn't look like everybody else 25 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: and you know, folks kind of give me flack about 26 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,559 Speaker 1: that because I didn't grow up in a place where 27 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: we couldn't wear makeup or we couldn't wear pants. You know, 28 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: in my house, it was cool to go to the 29 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: skating rink with Jesus. So we went everywhere with God. 30 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: And so there were some people who were like, well, 31 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: you shouldn't wear that lipstick, and you shouldn't do this, 32 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: and you shouldn't do that. And I was like, hmm, okay, 33 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 1: now I'm good. 34 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, I've never understood why religious people, Christians are so judgmental. 35 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 2: When the Bible says outshine, I judge. 36 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: Well, I think it's human nature when people don't understand, 37 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: you know, other folks. Whatever. Again, it's all in the 38 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: way you were raised. Because my parents were real cool, 39 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: so I wasn't raised with limitations. As a matter of fact, 40 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: my mom and dad told us that everything is possible 41 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: for us. And so when I went into the actual 42 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: solo part of gospel music, I was it was. It 43 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: took me aback for a little while because I'm like, oh, oh, 44 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: so y'all can't do all on So in order to 45 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: be a gospel artist, you can't do this, this, this 46 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: and that and the other. And I'm like, no, I'm 47 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: not going to be that kind of gospel artist. But no, 48 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:28,519 Speaker 1: go ahead, no, no, no. 49 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 6: I was gonna say, but whether your mom was the 50 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 6: ministry of music in the church in her church, because 51 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 6: I know when I go to church and my grandmother, 52 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:35,679 Speaker 6: you can't wear pants, you can't do certain things to 53 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 6: this day, and I have to just go with that. 54 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: Your mom's church didn't have those rooms even though we 55 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: were Baptists. Okay, gotcha. You know, the deacons would smoke outside, so. 56 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 2: Watch out. 57 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: And it was still calling the dope back then. No, 58 00:02:57,919 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 1: that's why, No, it was cigarettes. 59 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 2: You know, your faith physical part of your music. 60 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 1: Absolutely. 61 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 5: How is your faith journey shaped not just your music, 62 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 5: but just your life in general? 63 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's everything. It's the basis of everything. 64 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: It's the basis of my businesses, it's the basis of 65 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 1: my parenthood, it's the basis of all I do. You know. 66 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: I wake up joyful every morning because again I'm here 67 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: and we know a lot of people within the last 68 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: couple of weeks you're to us that are just gone, 69 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: you know, And it's like man to be able to 70 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: wake up do what you love to do every single day. 71 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 1: I know y'all know about that is a blessing. And 72 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: so faith has everything to do with everything I do. 73 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 2: When you were doing more on the radio that you 74 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 2: used to wake up. 75 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: Absolutely it was live lib. 76 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 4: Oh okay, okay, did you like did you like it 77 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 4: getting up that early? 78 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: Absolutely? You know there's something that happens when the mic 79 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: comes on and the light comes on, you realize, okay, 80 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: you have a few seconds to inspire somebody's day. You 81 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: have a few seconds to describe this song or describe 82 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: this issue, you know. And so we were like, y'all, 83 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: we had a full show. We talked about sports, we 84 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: talked about relationships and all of that good stuff. So, yeah, 85 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 1: it was three thirty in the morning, wake up, you know, 86 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 1: got to be at the station at fifteen. 87 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 2: How much did you play on music? 88 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 1: Very little. 89 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 4: I wasn't like, you know, the programmer side. 90 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 1: Not even that. It was like, I want to hear 91 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: somebody else, gotcha, because I hear me all the time. 92 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: I've been with me the longest. So and I love 93 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: hearing new artists. I love breaking in new artists. I 94 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 1: love hearing different types of gospel music. And so we 95 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 1: did a lot of that too. Do you miss the 96 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 1: Red Do you miss it? I do miss it at times, 97 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 1: But as you all know, when one door is finished, 98 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: or when one season is finish, the other season begins. 99 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: And if I was still doing radio, I couldn't do 100 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: television and movies and soundtracks and things like that. 101 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 3: So I was going to ask, you know, we're growing 102 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 3: up in the church, how much pressure was that, you know, 103 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 3: because being a kid growing up in the church, everything 104 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 3: seemed perfect, right. They wanted everything to be perfect, and 105 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 3: if it wasn't perfect, it seems like they shamed you 106 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 3: back then. 107 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 1: Well here's the thing, and I'm going to go back 108 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 1: to my upbringing. I don't know what churches y'all went to, 109 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: but we knew at our church we weren't perfect. So 110 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 1: it was not this thing that you have to have 111 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 1: it this way, you got to get it right all 112 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: the time, because you're not going to get it right 113 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 1: all the time. You know, as grown as I am now, 114 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: I don't get it right all the time. And I 115 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 1: think that's one of the misconceptions about faith and religion. 116 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: It's not that we are perfect people. It's not that 117 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: we're even trying to be perfect people. But what we 118 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: are trying to do is be loving people. Yes, we're 119 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,559 Speaker 1: trying to be carrying people. We're trying to show people 120 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: a different way of existing because I mean, and we 121 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 1: we all know we live in this space now where 122 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: everything is cancel culture. I hate this because you hate this, 123 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 1: or I hate this person because you hate this person. 124 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: It's like, can we all just get back to the 125 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,720 Speaker 1: basis of everything? Because the basis for me is for 126 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,720 Speaker 1: God so loved, so that means I'm supposed to love 127 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: as well. 128 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 4: And what kept you grounded? Because even going to college, 129 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 4: usually the church girls would the wildness. They would have 130 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 4: one that they're no longer going to leave. 131 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: But again, here we go. I didn't. I wasn't restricted 132 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 1: in anything in my life. So I went to the dances, 133 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: you know, I hung out at the house parties and 134 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: stuff like that when I was younger, so I didn't 135 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: have that restriction, and so when I got to college, 136 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: I didn't have to wild out because it's like, I mean, 137 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: I'm doing that odd child, please you know. So I 138 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know why that happens. I think 139 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: it's in a person to try to test the waters 140 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: and then when they find out, oh, it ain't that wonderful, 141 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: then they go back into their little shell. 142 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 6: And it's you know about the church nowadays then, because 143 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,239 Speaker 6: you can't if you test the waters at certain churches 144 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 6: and certain congregations like they almost like condemn people for 145 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 6: certain things. 146 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: Well here, and you did say certain churches, which is 147 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that, because certain churches have this, 148 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: and certain religions have an idea that you're supposed to 149 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:55,239 Speaker 1: be so high up here that And I've never gotten 150 00:07:55,360 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: that whole concept of the super religious kind thing because 151 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 1: I didn't have to be that. All I had to 152 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: do was be myself, and God loved me for being myself, 153 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: not to pretend, Yolanda, because I've never been good at pretending, so, 154 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: you know, except when I'm acting. But I think nowadays 155 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: the view of that comes from people who are outside 156 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:33,439 Speaker 1: looking in, not people inside certain churches, you know, because 157 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: you have to be inside to experience that. And I 158 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: know that there are some people who can make you 159 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: feel like you're not you know, at your best, you're 160 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: not as good as them, and stuff like I get 161 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: that now. I'm like big old sixty three year old 162 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: I get that now, you know, people take me why 163 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: you wear that? Why you doing this? And why are 164 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: you showing up here? And why you Because I'm grown, 165 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: I do not make you feel though, because for so long. 166 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: But but again, I mean, I will never see those people. 167 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,959 Speaker 1: I will never experience them. They will never come to 168 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:12,599 Speaker 1: my house, they will never come to the barbecue. So 169 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:19,959 Speaker 1: you can't get so emotionally attached to negativity that you 170 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: stop being you and you stop living and you stop 171 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: living your life the way you live your life, you know. 172 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: So it's like they gonna be fine because I'm fine. 173 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:32,959 Speaker 5: Why Why do people give you so much smoke for 174 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 5: your office? Like I'm like, what is miss Adams wearing 175 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 5: that looks so gravy? 176 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 2: Well, I don't get. 177 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: The late Great Darryl Coley said something from the stage 178 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 1: one time. He said, y'all, Mackagell can't word that's real. 179 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:56,719 Speaker 1: So I don't you know, And I think because they well, 180 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: you know, she listens to the music. Oh I'm you know, 181 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: I have nothing against her. But it's like when people 182 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: some people are uncomfortable with you being comfortable in your skin, 183 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: and I'm extremely comfortable in my skin and I have 184 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: been for a long long time, which is why I said, 185 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: don't fall for the negativity, don't you know there because 186 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: there will be so many people who applaud you yep, 187 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 1: and are in your corner and want you to make 188 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: it and want you to succeed that the two three 189 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 1: or forty opposed to two million. It's like, I'm gonna 190 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: hang out with the two million, that's right, rather than 191 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: the forty. 192 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 5: You know, you said something it's not as very important. 193 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 5: You said you've always been comfortable in your own skin. 194 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 5: When did you get to that point? Because you know, 195 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 5: just the way you present esthetically, you're tall, you're beautiful. 196 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 5: When you walk in the room, everybody like, oh who 197 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 5: that is? I know that makes people uncomfortable. So when 198 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,319 Speaker 5: did you get comfortable me and making people uncomfortable? 199 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: I think I think because I've always been a tall kid, 200 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: and my parents always talked about how amazing stature and 201 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: grace and elegance is. I think I really got a 202 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: hold to it probably in my twenties, you know, after 203 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: I graduated college and I had some stuff under my belt, 204 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, yeah, I'm going to take on 205 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:36,679 Speaker 1: the world. And when you're taking on the world. You 206 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: can't have that insecurity of well, how will it feel 207 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: and how will they accept me? And how will they 208 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: do this? How will they do them? It's like, nah, 209 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: you got to get out there. So it was yeah, 210 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: in my twenties. 211 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 5: Absolutely the depressions of the music industry exist in gospel music. 212 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 5: Like when you hear these stories of all these the 213 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 5: Botcher's things that happened in the music industry, does that 214 00:11:58,559 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 5: exist in the gospel world. 215 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 1: The debauchery part of gospel music is not something that 216 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: I know of because I didn't participate in anything if 217 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 1: there was anything going on. But the pressure to outdo 218 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: your last project is always there, you know, and you 219 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 1: know how it is. Come on, you guys are in media, 220 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 1: so you know that every quarter, okay, your numbers were sowing, 221 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: so now you got to beat this or you got 222 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 1: to beat that person in Houston, or you got to 223 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 1: beat this person in San Antonio. I think it's always that, 224 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 1: and you have to surround yourself with management and people 225 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: who are on your side that help you buffer that 226 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 1: because somebody's urgency can be placed on you, so it's 227 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 1: your urgency. But if their urgency is not your emergency, 228 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 1: why are we doing this, you know, because everybody wants 229 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: something different from you. You know, people pull at you 230 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: for different reasons, and some of them are not authentic, 231 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: and some of those reasons are very nefarious. You know. Well, 232 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 1: I just want to get you know, twenty million done this. Yeah, 233 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:23,679 Speaker 1: we're business people in the room, and no matter what, 234 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: even if it you know, let's talk about branding. If 235 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: it goes against your brand, but it's a whole lot 236 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: of money. You know, you have to be strong enough 237 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,719 Speaker 1: to say, nah, I can't do that, you know, and 238 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:37,839 Speaker 1: then you have to tell them, no, we're not doing that. 239 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 3: Well you talking about that or were you talking about 240 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 3: like people trying to take advantage of her coming up 241 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 3: in the industry, stealing publishing and royalties that we hear 242 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 3: from much. 243 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 2: Drugs? 244 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I don't do drugs, so I 245 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: don't I don't get invited to the drug parties if 246 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:01,959 Speaker 1: there are drug parties, And I've never been a an exhibitionist, 247 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: so I don't get invited to the freak offs and 248 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: stuff like there. You know, no, no, no, no no, 249 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: And so I will you know, I will say, from 250 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 1: my purview, I don't know about any of that now, 251 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: as far as publishing and royalties and all of that. Oh, 252 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: you always have somebody posing as a manager or a 253 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: business manager trying to you know, because they see, Okay, 254 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: you're effective. You get the numbers, you know you you know, 255 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: you could be out every single day doing something. So 256 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 1: that's a cash cow right there. 257 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 2: Still from a gospel artist, you've got to be going 258 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 2: to Yeah, there's a lot of them going. 259 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: People are still in in church too, and a lot 260 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: of them going, you know. 261 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 4: So the new album is. 262 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 5: Called Sunny Days. Yes, what is your Linda Adam's definition 263 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 5: of a sunny day? 264 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. My definition of a sunny day is 265 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: is a day where I feel so good about myself, 266 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: about what I'm doing, about my purpose, and also about 267 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: the climate of the world. You know, you have to 268 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 1: be optimistic to really look at where we are right 269 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: now and say, but there's something good that's going to 270 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: come out of this. And so that's what I wanted 271 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: to do with this project. Because it took us four 272 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: years to actually finish the project. We started it in 273 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and then all of a sudden, Jimmy jam 274 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: and Terry Lewis got busy. Donald Lawrence got busy, All 275 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: of the producers got busy. I got busy, and then 276 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: there was the pandemic and so that stopped a lot 277 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: of things. And then Kingdom Business we started filming that. 278 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: You know, we had seasons one and two we had 279 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: to film. Then all of a sudden, I'm like, okay, 280 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: all right, all right, we got to get this album done. 281 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 1: So it finally got done this year, and I'm just 282 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 1: so really excited about that. 283 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 6: So I just schedule the reason why it took like 284 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 6: it was like a thirteen year break in between Becoming 285 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 6: in twenty eleven and then now up. 286 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: It was a thirteen year break between the solo projects. 287 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 6: Yes, So why though, Like, why is that because there 288 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 6: was so much other stuff going on between or is 289 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 6: it just so busy. 290 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: I was so busy. I was going overseas doing a 291 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 1: lot of things. And then I also did several soundtracks 292 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: to movies and television shows. We did the soundtrack and 293 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: the music for SpongeBob on Broadway. We did a song there, 294 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: me and my music director, Rodney East, and so things 295 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: just got busy like that, gotcha. And you know, with 296 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: my projects, I have to like tailor time for them 297 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: because if I don't. It's going to be like, it's 298 00:16:58,360 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: going to be real crazy. 299 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 6: You know, with non gospel artists, they go into a studio, 300 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 6: maybe it's a heartbreak or like you know, they do indulging, smoking, 301 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 6: drink and whatever they get them. For gospel artists, is 302 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 6: it that you're like you're praying, you deep in the spirit? 303 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 1: Like, where does that come from? 304 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:12,640 Speaker 2: For you guys? 305 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:15,640 Speaker 1: Oh, it comes from the same experiences. Of course, we're 306 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: not you know, getting high trying to figure out what 307 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: God's doing. But nobody found that funny but me. From 308 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: the earth. 309 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 6: It is from the earth. Oh, I get what you 310 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:28,439 Speaker 6: did there. We're not getting drunk try to figure out 311 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 6: what God is doing, because what got going on? 312 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 5: Okay? 313 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: Urge you okay, thank you, thank you so much. No, 314 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: it comes from the experiences that we're having in our lives. 315 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 1: Because you figure, we got eight plus billion people in 316 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: the world, so at least a million got to be 317 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: going through what you're going through. And so if you're 318 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 1: making a business decision, if you're making a relationship decision, 319 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: if you're making a a moving you know, geographical moving decision, 320 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 1: all decisions for us, you know, we have to ask 321 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: God Okay, is this really? Is this me? 322 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 4: Or is this you? 323 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 1: Or do I just want this for me? And you 324 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: know a lot of times God said, Okay, if you 325 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:13,120 Speaker 1: want it for you, let's do it. You know, God 326 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:19,920 Speaker 1: is not yeah, because because God is not trying to 327 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 1: keep you stuck. As a matter of fact, he wants 328 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 1: the best for you always. And I think people have 329 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: fashioned God in so many ways that it's confusing two 330 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,680 Speaker 1: people when they see someone, you know, like me, who 331 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: has this relationship with God where it's like, real cool, Hey, God, 332 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: we're doing We're doing the breakfast club this morning. Yeah, 333 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: I know, I'll be there with you, you know that 334 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 1: kind of thing. And I believe if we would give 335 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: people room to grow with God, that they'll find God 336 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: on their own, and they'll find God is so loving 337 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:03,879 Speaker 1: and so kind on their own that they don't have 338 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 1: to be pushed into Yeah, go on and do this, 339 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: Go do that. You won't have to be pushed to 340 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: do anything. You'll want to from the bottom of your heart. 341 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: You want to love people, you want to share his goodness, 342 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: you want to share a smile, you know that kind 343 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: of thing. 344 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 5: That's interesting cause when I pray to God, I pray 345 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 5: to God to give me direction right, absolutely, and God 346 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 5: my steps absolutely. And I guess I always say I 347 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 5: want to do what God wants me to do. What 348 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 5: if I want to do something, yeah, it's like God, 349 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 5: you're gonna come with me. God might just be like, yeah, 350 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 5: go do that, Yeah, and let me and let me 351 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 5: figure it out. 352 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 2: I'm own whatever happens. I'm gonna be with you regardless, absolutely, 353 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 2: because you can. 354 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: You can. Just like you cannot separate your breathing from 355 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: you unless you're you know, on a ventilator or something 356 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: like that, you can't separate God from you. Because God 357 00:19:55,800 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 1: lives inside. We always try to make him upstage, you know, 358 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 1: and we say the man upstairs. We know that's you know, 359 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 1: proverbial kind of talk. But God is inside. And if 360 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: God is inside, he's walking with me. If he's inside, 361 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 1: he's talking with me. If he's inside, he really is 362 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 1: concerned about whether I you know, I make it or not, 363 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: you know, whether I reach my goals or not. And 364 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: so the one thing that I have found in my 365 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 1: life that has served me so well is when there's 366 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:38,360 Speaker 1: a piece that I have with any decision, then that's 367 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:44,680 Speaker 1: a stamp, all right. You know, when there's turmoil. I 368 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: have to go back and be silent because I got 369 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 1: to listen to make sure. Okay, now you're either protecting 370 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: me from something or someone, and sometimes it's myself because 371 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: I want to rush things. You know, I'm a fixer, 372 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: the oldest of six kids. I'm a fixer. And Guy's like, 373 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: slow down, land No, slow slow down, slow down. I'm 374 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,159 Speaker 1: gonna give you that, but I'm gonna give it to 375 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: you when you're ready. And so, yeah, you got out 376 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: here preaching. 377 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 3: You were trending about a week ago, two weeks ago. Uh, yes, 378 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 3: She's like, what happened when you were trending? When people 379 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 3: were calling you? Did you know what it was right away? 380 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 4: And did not? You did not? So what was your 381 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 4: mind thoughts when you seen what he mclein doing. 382 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:36,159 Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing about the video. We actually did 383 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: the video together. We were there on set together, and 384 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 1: you know what is Woody? I mean that's Bobby Brown 385 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: right right right right, So you know we know he's 386 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:52,440 Speaker 1: a great artist and just all around great guy. But 387 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: people were talking as though. 388 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:56,919 Speaker 6: It was. 389 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: The power Woody. Why is it that you, Londa is 390 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,520 Speaker 1: you know? Because people are mad at him and you 391 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 1: know characters. Yeah, they're mad at him, so they yeah. 392 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: And that's the thing, how do you forget that this 393 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 1: man is acting. He's not the same character in that 394 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 1: video that he is on Power. 395 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 2: So what is that? 396 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: I didn't get that, And so my children and my 397 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 1: daughter had to explain to me, well, you know, he's 398 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 1: kind of a bad character on Power. I'm like, yeah, 399 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:39,880 Speaker 1: but that's just his job, you know. He as a person, 400 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: he's a man of faith. And when they told when 401 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: the record company said we have Woody for the video, 402 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 1: I was like, yes, because I remember the Bobby Brown Woody. 403 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: I haven't watched Power enough to know that character. I'm like, 404 00:22:58,080 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: Season one. 405 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 2: Our Bobby Power, Bobby was a wild boy? 406 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 1: Did he freestyle that? 407 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:10,640 Speaker 2: Or was that queer rat? 408 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: And he kind of freestyled that? And then and I guess, uh, 409 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: I guess they all said, Okay, we like that? Do that? 410 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 5: You know? 411 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: So the video captures a lot of dancing. I love 412 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,919 Speaker 1: to dance, so it captures a lot of different types 413 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:33,440 Speaker 1: of dancing. Because I personally believe that God loves variety, 414 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: because if he did not love variety, all of us 415 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 1: would look the same. And so we all have our 416 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 1: different things and we all have those, you know, those 417 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 1: little quirks that that make us amazing. 418 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 4: Did you speak to Mathter did you speak? 419 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 1: It was like, just thank you so much, Missatles for 420 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: a lot of me to I'm like, what you are 421 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 1: making me cool? You are making me a cool woman 422 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: right now. So I appreciate it. 423 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,440 Speaker 2: Why there are three different versions of Church Doors. 424 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:08,200 Speaker 1: There are three different churches, three different churches, three different versions, 425 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:14,880 Speaker 1: because we had the version for the gospel gospel audience, 426 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: then the audience who's like me, who loves you know, 427 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: to hear different versions and dance and stuff like that, 428 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: and I I just thought, man, what a great song 429 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: to kind of hype up and give the message to 430 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 1: people that may not walk into the church doors and 431 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 1: hear this. And so that was that was our That 432 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 1: was our goal because technically church doors can be your heart. 433 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 1: When you let me make it to the church doors, 434 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,399 Speaker 1: I'll tell them what you've done for me. So you 435 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,880 Speaker 1: open your heart to give your testimony about how good 436 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: God has been. And so again there are people who 437 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 1: will get this on the dance floor and it'll hit them, 438 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: Oh God is good, you know. So yeah, do you. 439 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 6: Feel like Jermaine Depre recently had sometime as we have 440 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 6: the audience if you want to hear, but he recently 441 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,159 Speaker 6: said that because the younger artists aren't walking. 442 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: Through those church doors. 443 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 6: Yeah, do you feel like that is affecting music the 444 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 6: fact that you like, like you said, people may not 445 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 6: ever walk through those church doors, but it can still 446 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 6: hit them in their heart. 447 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 1: Is that possible or you feel like these artists need 448 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: to get back in church. Well, I think what he 449 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 1: meant is that the producers who are doing the producing 450 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: have to have that background to know how to bring 451 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: in the tenors, how to bring in your altes, you know, 452 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 1: to make that full effective sound. We all know the 453 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: difference between church musicians and regular musicians who did not 454 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 1: get that training. Because here's the thing about church. Church 455 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: trained you because you have a uh, an audience that 456 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 1: can't go nowhere for like two three hours, and so 457 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: you get that on the job training that you wouldn't 458 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,680 Speaker 1: get just you know in your basement, you know, mixing 459 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: and trying to do your thing, so you you learn 460 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 1: how to capture an audience. And I think that is 461 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 1: what's missing as well, because these kids don't have that 462 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:29,920 Speaker 1: type of experience until they get in front of audiences, 463 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 1: and most of them don't know what to do. Uh. 464 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:37,920 Speaker 1: I watched Saturday Night Live the young lady who uh 465 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 1: had this huge song during the pandemic about you know, 466 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,679 Speaker 1: driving down the street and stuff like that, and uh 467 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,159 Speaker 1: and and and my daughter's gonna get me because I 468 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 1: don't Huh. I'm sorry not to not share right. No, 469 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 1: it was it was another young lady. No, no, no, no, 470 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: I mean during the pandemic, white artist. She had on 471 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: some baggy clothes and things like that. Now she made 472 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:09,600 Speaker 1: a song on her computer in her room and it 473 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: blew up. It went viral like a billion times. They 474 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 1: immediately put her on Saturday Night Live, and it was 475 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 1: obvious that she had not had the train work. And 476 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: if we go back even to the Motown days and 477 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 1: the Stacks days, there was artist development. 478 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 4: I don't have that anymore. 479 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,640 Speaker 1: And that's the thing that I believe Jermaine was talking 480 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: about as well. They do not have artist development and 481 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:49,119 Speaker 1: artist development for us as people who attended church and 482 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: grew up in the church, we grew up in the 483 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: choir or either the band or something like that. You 484 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,879 Speaker 1: had that every Sunday, every Thursday when you had rehearsals, 485 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: you had the chance to you know, be corrected and 486 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 1: you know, and and make it right. 487 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 2: And so I. 488 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: Definitely know we got to bring that artist development back. Uh. 489 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 1: And then the other thing that you miss is that 490 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 1: that heart and soul, right, you can only get that 491 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 1: heart and soul when you're connected, you know. And if 492 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: you're not connected to your source, you will miss you know, 493 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: you may sound amazing, but there will be this emptiness 494 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 1: that is very obvious that you know. It's like maybe 495 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: you need to, you know, get a little quiet, get 496 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: get some peace, or you know, do some yoga or 497 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: whatever you do. 498 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 5: Now we talked about that this one. I said the 499 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,040 Speaker 5: same thing like everything you said, but that that that 500 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 5: that soul. I think the church is so rooted, especially 501 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 5: the Black church. It's just so rooted in community and 502 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 5: Black people fellowsh and fellow fellowshipping with each other. It's 503 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 5: just a certain soul that comes from that that I 504 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 5: think people are just missing nowadays because of the fact 505 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 5: we don't fellowship as much like I don't read social 506 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 5: media as real fellowship. 507 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 1: But no, because and those you know, I'm gonna get 508 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 1: a little technical here. We're in this room. I could 509 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: have done this on zoom, but it wouldn't feel the same. 510 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 1: It's because all of us have these energy blocks that 511 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: you know, we we have. It's just it's just amazing 512 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 1: how we're fearfully and wonderfully made. But trying to get 513 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 1: that same feeling on a zoom call or on uh, 514 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: whatever yard it is and stuff like that, it's it's 515 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard because there's no authenticity there. You know, 516 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: when you respond to me and you smile, I'm like, yeah, 517 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 1: I'm on the right track. When you respond to me 518 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 1: and you shake your head, like on the right track. 519 00:29:58,080 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: When you respond to me and I see that smile, 520 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, so but you know, and 521 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: then I give it back. 522 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 4: And so. 523 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 1: For me, and I can only speak for me, I 524 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 1: like the call and response that we've grown up with. 525 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 1: I also love being able to see if the message 526 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: is affecting the person or the congregation or you know, 527 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: like we're going to be at the Barclay Center, so 528 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,560 Speaker 1: that's a whole bunch of people, but you still hone 529 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 1: in on those folk that you see are getting it, 530 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the whole place just 531 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 1: gets electrified. But it starts with me and you and 532 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 1: you and you, and then everybody you know comes in. 533 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 1: So yeah, I think the other thing that church does 534 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 1: as well, because we didn't have the counselors and the 535 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 1: therapists and all this stuff. You know, like you're doing 536 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 1: your program. It was our therapy growing up because you know, 537 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 1: you could shout it out, you can cry it out, 538 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: you can yes, sir it out. You know, you could 539 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: sing it out, you can usher it out, you know. 540 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:27,720 Speaker 1: But we don't have that like that anymore. And we've advanced, 541 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 1: and I'm glad we've advanced because now we can see, Okay, 542 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: this is one of the problems that we need to 543 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 1: work on in our community. What better place to start 544 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 1: it than in a place that cares about people. So 545 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: when you have a counselor or a therapist on staff 546 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 1: at your church, it makes it so much better for 547 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 1: people who want to come in and just talk and 548 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: you know, get stuff out. I believe in God ain't therapy, 549 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. I mean you think about if you read 550 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 1: the Bible, there are so many times where everyone that 551 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 1: did anything huge for God had to go into that 552 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 1: place and like, okay, who do I talk to? Who 553 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 1: do I counsel with and I just want people to 554 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:30,080 Speaker 1: get back to the basics of fellowship with God, because 555 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 1: if you get back to the basics, you realize all 556 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: of the stuff that people are majoring on has nothing 557 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,480 Speaker 1: to do with the real love of God. 558 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 2: So how do you feel about bedside Baptists at Mountain 559 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 2: Design zoom A. 560 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. There's a place for all of that, 561 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 1: and that is why churches have to advance and make 562 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 1: sure that they have those things available. Now, as I 563 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 1: said before, just like I didn't come, you know, like 564 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 1: I didn't zoom with you guys, is because I wanted 565 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,640 Speaker 1: to be physically in the room. There's just something you're 566 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 1: going to get inside the buildings that you cannot get 567 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,440 Speaker 1: just on zoom. And and I'm going to have to 568 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: confess because my job takes me out most of the 569 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: time where I can't get back to my physical church. 570 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,560 Speaker 1: And so as soon as I am off the road, oh, 571 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 1: I'm going to my church. But I again, I will 572 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: say thank God for the zoom, thank God for the streaming, 573 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 1: but when you can get in there, because it makes 574 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 1: a huge difference. 575 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 5: I ain't caught the Holy spirit of zoom yet. I 576 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 5: watched The Podic House every Sunday. 577 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 2: Yes, but it's different when you're actually in the part. Yes, 578 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 2: you do. Yes, when you're watching it on I like 579 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 2: it is good, yes, But when you dead it's different. 580 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 2: You can feel good, you can. 581 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,959 Speaker 4: I wanted to know do you look at music how 582 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 4: you look at acting? 583 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 2: Right? 584 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 3: So there's certain music you're not going to sing because 585 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,239 Speaker 3: you don't you don't stay it. But do you look 586 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 3: at that as acting as well? 587 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: Like? 588 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 3: Is there parts that you say that doesn't fit my 589 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 3: quote unquote persona? But it is acting, so you're really 590 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,080 Speaker 3: taking yourself out of your person and being somebody else? 591 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,200 Speaker 3: Like would Landa Adams ever be like a drug king 592 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:16,360 Speaker 3: queen like Mary J. 593 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 2: Blige and Power? 594 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:18,239 Speaker 4: Would you play that part? 595 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 3: Would you play certain parts that don't necessarily sit you 596 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:22,120 Speaker 3: fit your persona? 597 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:27,040 Speaker 1: Now I wouldn't be a drug dealer or a queen pen, 598 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 1: but I would I like Meaty Rolls. That's why I 599 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:39,440 Speaker 1: took on Danita Jordan because although we're gospel artists and 600 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:44,560 Speaker 1: family women, she's she's cutthroat and I'm the total opposite. 601 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: You know, I let people live because I think God 602 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: can get you better than I can't right, you know so, 603 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:57,839 Speaker 1: But I would and this is this is gonna sound 604 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,080 Speaker 1: really crazy. I would like to to do a role 605 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:05,640 Speaker 1: like murder, she wrote. I'd like to be a detective 606 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,759 Speaker 1: and see that that involves gore and that's still a 607 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:11,439 Speaker 1: positive side. 608 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,000 Speaker 4: Would you be on the other side of that? Would you. 609 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,919 Speaker 1: Know what? I don't know. No one is ever asking 610 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:22,480 Speaker 1: me that question. 611 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,120 Speaker 5: What if he was killing people who were possessed by 612 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 5: the devil. There's this movie called Is about that, but 613 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,359 Speaker 5: this guy was. They thought he was a serial killer, 614 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,560 Speaker 5: but literally God was giving him visions and the people 615 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 5: he was killing, Oh yes, people that are killing mom 616 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:40,439 Speaker 5: are terrible people, oh wow. 617 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 2: And it was all rooted in his faith for God. 618 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,719 Speaker 1: I'm going to have to research that. I'm gonna have 619 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,279 Speaker 1: to research that because I don't know if God just 620 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:50,440 Speaker 1: wants you to kill people. 621 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,600 Speaker 6: So people don't even come to you with those typers 622 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:54,760 Speaker 6: like you don't have to turn down that stuff. 623 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,759 Speaker 1: They don't even come to Yeah, yeah, I don't have 624 00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,919 Speaker 1: to turn down those. But I did have to turn 625 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:04,840 Speaker 1: down a record deal when I was making the transition 626 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:09,720 Speaker 1: from one gospel label to you know, a secular label. 627 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:13,760 Speaker 1: This guy was like, yeah, we have this thing. We're 628 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 1: gonna turn you into this you know this, this mega 629 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,719 Speaker 1: this and I'm like, okay, so how is that going 630 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,640 Speaker 1: to be possible? Well, the first thing you're gonna have 631 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,440 Speaker 1: to do, you're gonna have to learn how to butterfly. 632 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:38,880 Speaker 1: And I'm like, wait, can you imagine me doing the 633 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,360 Speaker 1: butter as long as I am serious? He was serious 634 00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,719 Speaker 1: now we were in London. He was serious to the 635 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,960 Speaker 1: praise and worship. It's going to be like you know, 636 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:54,000 Speaker 1: it's gonna be yea kind of crossover infusion whatever. I'm like, 637 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,719 Speaker 1: we never found out is. 638 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:02,319 Speaker 5: Any hip hop records you ever turned down? Like somebody 639 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:03,680 Speaker 5: want to want you to sing a hook of something? 640 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:08,640 Speaker 1: Well, you know I've done, uh the hook with Bone 641 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,960 Speaker 1: Stuck's Harmony. They did Order My Steps, they redid that. 642 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,880 Speaker 1: Let me see who else? You know? I've been sampled 643 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:28,640 Speaker 1: several times. Nick Cannon has done a samples when he 644 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:34,560 Speaker 1: was a Nickelodeon and Disney kid. So it was you 645 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:42,960 Speaker 1: are crazy and so I've done that, but I don't 646 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,560 Speaker 1: know it's according to you know, did I? 647 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:46,120 Speaker 4: Yeah? 648 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:49,000 Speaker 1: I've done some stuff with Trade the Truth, done some 649 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:54,520 Speaker 1: stuff with Common and who else is one more? Oh? Uh? 650 00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,760 Speaker 1: I think the truth from Philly. 651 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:00,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. 652 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,640 Speaker 1: So, yeah, so I've done some out of the box 653 00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,200 Speaker 1: stuff I'm kind of proud of. 654 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:06,920 Speaker 5: Like what you said earlier, you said you feel like 655 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:08,680 Speaker 5: God can handle people better than you can. 656 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,239 Speaker 2: Absolutely, So can you share time with like your faith 657 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:12,319 Speaker 2: might have been tested. 658 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,720 Speaker 1: All the time? Well yeah, because again I'm the oldest 659 00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 1: of six kids, so I'm that protector. And for someone 660 00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:28,279 Speaker 1: to think that they had an advantage or could take 661 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:35,360 Speaker 1: advantage of my kindness and and try to like, you know, 662 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,680 Speaker 1: and try to play me as y'all would say. You know, 663 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,800 Speaker 1: it's like bruh me and God got this. So you 664 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:45,439 Speaker 1: don't think God's gonna tell me first before you try 665 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,160 Speaker 1: to do something. And people are really surprised when you 666 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,680 Speaker 1: don't come at them the way they would come at 667 00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:55,839 Speaker 1: you when you don't match energy, because it's like naw, 668 00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,880 Speaker 1: I've learned long time ago. If you want to just 669 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,719 Speaker 1: sit back and watch God do it, sit back and 670 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:05,879 Speaker 1: watch God do it, because as soon as you put 671 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,600 Speaker 1: your hand in it and try to fix something, it's 672 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,040 Speaker 1: gonna mess up. And then you're gonna mess up your purpose, 673 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,399 Speaker 1: you're gonna mess up your journey. And I would rather 674 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,040 Speaker 1: God say you know what. I'm so proud of you. 675 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,759 Speaker 1: Yeah you held on. Now I may go home and 676 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:27,439 Speaker 1: just yell and screen, but it's like, nah, how. 677 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,760 Speaker 2: Are you so tapped in? Because like you, I Reverend 678 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,960 Speaker 2: sexy Red. You know who sexy Red is. You know power? 679 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,040 Speaker 5: Like you know how you so tapped into everything that's 680 00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:35,960 Speaker 5: going on. You know you made the pre statement. 681 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,520 Speaker 1: Well, I have known do priest since he was a 682 00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:40,200 Speaker 1: little kid. 683 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,280 Speaker 6: I feel like a lot of gods, but you're not traditionally, 684 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,560 Speaker 6: like you're not the traditional gods artist. A lot of 685 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:55,120 Speaker 6: gospel artists and people in the world of God they 686 00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,239 Speaker 6: tap out of stuff, they remove it, or they act 687 00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:58,680 Speaker 6: likely they don't see it even though it's in front 688 00:39:58,680 --> 00:39:58,920 Speaker 6: of them. 689 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,719 Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I get a chance, thankfully to be 690 00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:06,160 Speaker 1: in a lot of places like the BET Awards, the 691 00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:08,800 Speaker 1: Grammy Awards, places like that. And I mean, and you 692 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,280 Speaker 1: have to live in a box not to know current music. 693 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:17,120 Speaker 1: I'm a music lover, so I listen to all types 694 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,120 Speaker 1: of music because again, I have a daughter, Right, you 695 00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,759 Speaker 1: listen to sexy Right? No, not at all. I know 696 00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:25,680 Speaker 1: I'm saying. I listen to a lot, but I know 697 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:29,839 Speaker 1: who she is because she's been on the BET Awards 698 00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:36,680 Speaker 1: and things like that. And and for me, I listened 699 00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:41,120 Speaker 1: to beats, I listen to words, and I love sincerity 700 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:42,520 Speaker 1: and music, you. 701 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:43,239 Speaker 2: Know, And so. 702 00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:50,840 Speaker 1: I yeah, And my daughter keeps me pretty cool. You know, 703 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,120 Speaker 1: she's twenty three, so she keeps me real cool. 704 00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:55,320 Speaker 2: I've got two more questions for you. 705 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:57,399 Speaker 5: Do do you feel because of your faith and because 706 00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,359 Speaker 5: you do gospel music that you get put in a box? 707 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,439 Speaker 1: Oh, they tried years ago. I mean, they really tried 708 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,440 Speaker 1: years ago. Okay, so we're gonna put you in this 709 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,200 Speaker 1: little comfortable space and blah blah blah. And I'm like, ah, 710 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:15,080 Speaker 1: I think we're bigger than that, because God is bigger 711 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:19,760 Speaker 1: than that, you know. I mean there's so many things 712 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,000 Speaker 1: that we could talk about God being bigger than I mean, 713 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:29,560 Speaker 1: He is ultimate. So if God is everywhere at the 714 00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:34,960 Speaker 1: same time, blessing everyone and you know, holding the world together, 715 00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:40,000 Speaker 1: why would I allow someone who has a small view 716 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:44,959 Speaker 1: of God to crush my big view of God? Knowing 717 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:49,239 Speaker 1: that I've lived long enough to see the bigness and 718 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:54,280 Speaker 1: the hugeness of God. So I'm telling you it started 719 00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,160 Speaker 1: when I was a teenager because I started singing and 720 00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:01,240 Speaker 1: a choir we were going all over the country and stuff. 721 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:06,400 Speaker 1: And then I had my first billboard song at seventeen, 722 00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:11,480 Speaker 1: and I realized at that time, wow, I like this. 723 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,200 Speaker 1: I like doing this. And then I would see Tremaine 724 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:18,040 Speaker 1: Hawkins and Shirley Caesar and people like that doing it 725 00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,680 Speaker 1: for a living. I'm like, Okay, God, well, however, you 726 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:28,520 Speaker 1: got to do that, let's do that. And and I 727 00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,040 Speaker 1: saw the kind of box they tried to put Tremaine 728 00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:38,440 Speaker 1: in when she started singing solo aside from the Hawkins family, 729 00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,600 Speaker 1: she had this amazing song. You guys are probably too 730 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,319 Speaker 1: young to remember. She had this amazing song called fall 731 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,400 Speaker 1: Down on Me and it was talking about the Holy Spirit. 732 00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:56,640 Speaker 1: But she had a couple of dancers and Kevin Bond, 733 00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:00,520 Speaker 1: who was amazing, was on one of the little piano 734 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,960 Speaker 1: guitar things running around, you know. And it was a 735 00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:09,600 Speaker 1: joyful song, nothing disrespectful. And they gave her grief about that, 736 00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,840 Speaker 1: and I'm like, wow, So I've seen that happen to 737 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,600 Speaker 1: other people, and I refuse to let it happen to me. 738 00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:23,720 Speaker 1: And I love God's timing in my life. It's always 739 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:30,240 Speaker 1: been about his timing and me wanting his time. Because 740 00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:35,320 Speaker 1: years later, I'm sitting here with the Breakfast Club discussing 741 00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:42,640 Speaker 1: my fourteenth project, you know, But think about it, though, 742 00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:48,200 Speaker 1: if I had gotten mad at the producer who says, oh, 743 00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:52,520 Speaker 1: you'll never sell more than this guy. You'll never sell 744 00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:56,520 Speaker 1: more than that guy because there was a whole bunch 745 00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:03,240 Speaker 1: of chauvinism in gospel music way back then. And instead 746 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,480 Speaker 1: of getting like upset, you know, fighting back, I just like, 747 00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:12,200 Speaker 1: I've taken my hands off of it and I've outsold 748 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,160 Speaker 1: those men. Some of them are gone home to be 749 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:21,920 Speaker 1: with the Lord and I'm still here. So I know 750 00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,800 Speaker 1: what that feels like. But I also know what it 751 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:28,840 Speaker 1: feels like to tell young people like a Leandria, like 752 00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:33,400 Speaker 1: Atasha and like Kei Key Sheared and all of the 753 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:37,560 Speaker 1: young people who I've mentored over the years, is that 754 00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,040 Speaker 1: you don't have to be anybody but you, and you 755 00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,279 Speaker 1: stand your ground. If you want to sing a song 756 00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:48,040 Speaker 1: that somebody may not agree with, you sing that song 757 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,319 Speaker 1: because somebody out there is gonna be touched by that song. 758 00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:54,400 Speaker 1: I mean, Open my Heart is one of those songs 759 00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:58,880 Speaker 1: that you guys have played for years, and we just 760 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,840 Speaker 1: celebrated what twenty five, twenty six years of Opened My 761 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:07,200 Speaker 1: heart and I can't go anywhere in the world and 762 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:08,239 Speaker 1: not sing that song. 763 00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:08,799 Speaker 2: Wow. 764 00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:11,120 Speaker 1: So yeah. 765 00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:15,239 Speaker 5: My last question is what do you see as your 766 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,600 Speaker 5: legacy in the world of gospel music, but just in 767 00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,680 Speaker 5: the world period, like when when your line Audam no 768 00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:22,640 Speaker 5: longer sees to exist. 769 00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:25,160 Speaker 2: What do you want people to say about Miss Adams? 770 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:30,280 Speaker 1: Well, I hope that people say that I inspired, encourage, 771 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:37,040 Speaker 1: uplifted and educated them in many aspects, not just gospel music, 772 00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:43,120 Speaker 1: not just business, but in life, you know, because that's huge, 773 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,080 Speaker 1: And that I represented God in such a way that 774 00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:54,000 Speaker 1: I made him so cool and so livable that there 775 00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,480 Speaker 1: were no restrictions with God. Because I don't see God 776 00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,400 Speaker 1: as restricted, you know, and I try to pass that 777 00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:04,880 Speaker 1: on to everybody that I meet, you know, as you 778 00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:10,080 Speaker 1: said before, because we are His eyes and ears and 779 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,800 Speaker 1: His body on earth. There are just certain things that 780 00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:17,080 Speaker 1: we have to make priority. We've got to make love 781 00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:21,920 Speaker 1: a priority. Have to Now, do I agree with everything 782 00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,520 Speaker 1: that someone is doing. No, I don't agree with everything 783 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:29,600 Speaker 1: my family members do, but that doesn't keep me from 784 00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:34,080 Speaker 1: loving them. It keeps me wanting the best for them. 785 00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:38,640 Speaker 1: And then, you know, you don't have to respond to everything. 786 00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:41,960 Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you just got to let go and 787 00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:48,040 Speaker 1: let God. And I hope that when people say, hey, 788 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:53,920 Speaker 1: you know Yolanda Adams, you know she's gone like, wow, 789 00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:56,520 Speaker 1: that woman helped me through so and so and so 790 00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:01,000 Speaker 1: on and so that woman helped my father get through 791 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,040 Speaker 1: cancer or so and so that those are the things 792 00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:06,880 Speaker 1: that I want said about myself. 793 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:11,480 Speaker 2: You know, we love value and appreciate you, Miss Adams. Oh, 794 00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:11,759 Speaker 2: I know. 795 00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:14,279 Speaker 4: What song do you want to play? 796 00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:21,879 Speaker 1: Oh? My gosh, h play on God on God number one, 797 00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:22,799 Speaker 1: day number one. 798 00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:24,840 Speaker 4: And before we leave, we just add, like, you know, 799 00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:26,600 Speaker 4: can you give us a prayer before we leave? 800 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:28,719 Speaker 1: I would love that. 801 00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:29,279 Speaker 5: Lord. 802 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:32,759 Speaker 1: We are just so grateful and thankful that you have 803 00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,120 Speaker 1: allowed us this time to spend together. It's been so 804 00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:40,440 Speaker 1: amazing to be with these wonderful young people who are 805 00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,399 Speaker 1: doing your work on a daily basis. They make us laugh, 806 00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,960 Speaker 1: they make us think, they make us want to be 807 00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:50,200 Speaker 1: better people. And so God, I ask right now that 808 00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,000 Speaker 1: you give them the desires of their heart, whatever those 809 00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:56,960 Speaker 1: secret desires are that they haven't told anybody, give them 810 00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,640 Speaker 1: to them, and just bless their socks off God, and 811 00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:02,000 Speaker 1: give them more years, as many years as they want, 812 00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,640 Speaker 1: but more than anything, make them grateful for this platform 813 00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:11,400 Speaker 1: that you've given them because it changes the world. Amen. 814 00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,239 Speaker 3: Amen, Amen Elanda Adams, Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for 815 00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:15,000 Speaker 3: joining us so much. 816 00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,080 Speaker 4: No problem, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning. Wake that 817 00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:19,719 Speaker 4: ass up in the morning. 818 00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:20,880 Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club.