WEBVTT - tmi ultra black Mixdown 2 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:00.840 I'm Tamika D. 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.159 Mallory and the Ship Boy my Son in general. 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.400 We are your host of t M I. 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.000 Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, Motivation and. 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:20.480 Inspiration, New Energy. I'm good, I'm good. I'm a little 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:24.960 you know, it's been it is, oh. 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:28.240 Right, Yeah, I'm Black History. 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.080 I mean, everything we've we've been talking about all month 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.800 is about black people, but we certainly need to kind 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.640 of focus on Black History Month. 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:45.640 And like the I guess the what do we call. 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.280 It, the observance, that's the word. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.200 It's the observance of it all. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.680 So we haven't really been able to get to that 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:58.120 because the country is very, very very different. Interesting, It's 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.560 not so much it is different different. 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:02.160 I don't know. 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.400 I struggle with saying that it's different. I think that 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.640 it is worse. 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.440 So if it's worse, it different. 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.600 Yeah, I guess so, But I still think it was 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.920 pretty bad already. I mean, I just don't I don't know. 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.480 I just feel like we've got to be coming to 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:21.680 a crashing halt because we're in the we're in a 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:26.319 we're in when a woman is across the world in 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:32.720 Pakistan talking about running my money, I. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:37.200 Am I don't know. 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:44.200 But I don't know, but she has now made her 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.520 way to every outlet at least all the blogs are 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:49.040 covering it. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:49.560 I don't know. 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:54.280 I don't think the quote unquote mainstream media is covering it. 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.040 But this woman, it's in my DMS. People send it 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:01.360 to me like what is going on? But somebody sent 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.000 me something which I don't know if it was her, 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.720 because you know, first Ai, second of all, the way 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.800 that it was positioned, because now other people are creating 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:13.000 like parodies to this thing and making skits. But it 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.640 looked like a person who looks like her was counting 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:19.520 money if they paid that late, because it seemed to 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.000 me like there were Pakistani. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:25.040 People. 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:26.160 Know. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:30.360 It's no way that folks don't know that the lady 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:35.720 thought or she met somebody I believe online and he 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:37.640 must have professed his love for her and told her 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.400 he was going to marry her. And then somehow I 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.520 don't know if he invited her or what happened. I'm 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:46.040 sure he found out she had little mental health, and 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.760 then he might have a little mental health too. And 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:53.760 then she traveled from wherever sounds like the USA because 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:57.919 she sound black as black, and took herself over there 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:03.080 to Pakistan and talking about she wants her money and 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.519 she's not leaving until she gets her land, and it's 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:06.280 really a thing. 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.280 But the thing about it is that I said Pakistan Pakistanians. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:10.800 I don't know. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.200 That is something I need to figure out. How do 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:19.239 you say the people versus the place? Is it Pakistanians? 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:20.799 I believe, right? 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:25.000 Okay, so you would just say Pakistanians. Okay, So the 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:29.520 Pakistanian people, some of them seem to be entertaining them. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:36.480 Dave's having press conferences. People must be bored, hilarious, people must. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.720 Be and she is. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.400 Saying now she had to tell people that she's raising 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.080 money so they could send her home. She told people 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:45.960 to send her money. 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.880 Seemed like she had some If it's her that I 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.000 saw in this, she definitely. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.080 Raised money, Ain't no question about that. You know, the 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.320 internet love to just give money to crazy people. 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.200 Well, anyway, by the time people see this sho, there 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:06.840 would have been some updates and I will probably be late, 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:14.760 like this will probably be old give So that's why 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:18.800 I'm saying, like, what like every day the world just 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.000 proves how much crazier it can actually get. So I 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:22.960 guess it's different. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:24.440 It's definitely different. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.159 You're like, I think I was the person, the first 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.120 person to send it to you, because Tiffany Laughton sent 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.200 it to me in the middle of the night. She 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:37.360 sends me like five videos and she's screaming like, this 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.400 is the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:41.440 Then I just kept seeing it and seeing it. 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.160 Then that's why I said, let me send it to you, 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.479 and you know whoever else is in our little group. 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.159 Then I sent it to Linda and she just is 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:49.880 like this this world. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.400 Then the lady she has his job on. 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.200 She was wearing a hi job, but she had it 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:00.360 tied like some kind of bothing on this. So I 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.800 just have never seen them wear they're jobs like this. 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:04.960 It's just it's different. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.159 It's different. It's different. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:11.840 It's very very very much. It is extremely different. 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.000 It is black history, mom, and was She's a part 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:17.039 of black history. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.880 And there people listen, this is the last thing I'll 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:20.480 say about this. 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.880 I've also watched the commentary of a few people who 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.920 are like, bruh, I don't you know. I would never 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:33.360 do it. It's comical. But the lady is on business. 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.680 She over there, like I needy't to round me my 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.080 land and my money, and if you want me to leave, 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:41.720 you gotta pay for me to leave, because I came 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.039 over here to marry my husband. And by the way, 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.800 the husband would have been like nineteen years old and 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.360 she's thirty three. Like if that lady, don't go somewhere 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:53.640 and sit her ass down anyway, what else is up 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.080 her history? 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.440 So look, there's a meme that's been going around for 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.720 a couple of years, and I know I seen it 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:06.159 yesterday again and it's a reporter talking to I believe 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:10.000 it's Morgan Freeman, and they talking about black history mon 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:14.000 and Morgan Freeman says to him, I don't want black history. 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:14.200 Man. 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:19.920 He's like, why should my history be relegated to one month? 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.279 Your history is not relegated to one month, So I 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.480 don't want it. Don't give me no one month of 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.919 my history. And when I thought about it, I understood 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.400 his point of view. But then I was like, but 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.680 we live in America, right in the reality of America 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.400 is that they don't celebrate black. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.239 History, they don't talk about our history. 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.920 They don't give us the opportunity to actually hone in 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:48.560 on the great you know, accomplishes, accomplishments and feats that 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:49.800 our ancestors have made. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.360 And I kind of. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.560 Enjoyed Black history one. Look, I get to throw on 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:54.080 my stuff. 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.320 I get to get yeah, I. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:57.800 Mean I get I need to get I get to 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.640 get into it. And you know, I was thinking, what 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.120 do you think about it? Do you think that it's 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.919 a bad thing that they give us black heresy is? 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.640 It doesn't make it seem like our history is less because. 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.200 Of or I mean, we do get the short this month, 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.520 and you know, and I do understand people who say that, 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:19.560 but I also feel like observances are exactly what they are. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:20.880 They're observances. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.880 So you know, you don't have President's Day being celebrated 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:25.920 every day. 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:27.760 You have a day that. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:33.320 Is specified for you to focus on presidents, veterans, people you. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.520 Know who who what do you call it? Memorial? 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.880 Memorial Day is for people who have died in war 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.800 and what have you and you know, and also other 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.040 I think they have kind of expanded it. I know 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:49.720 we have expanded it to also acknowledging people who are service. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:53.200 Workers, people who are you know, who take care of folks. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:58.520 And so I mean, I you know, everything has its 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:03.760 time and I think that that one entire month we 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.120 should really take as much advantage of it as possible, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:13.400 especially now when we see there is a attack on 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.960 our history, there's an attack on anything that has to 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.920 do with you know, forcing the world to sit still 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.760 and have to look at, as you said, the accomplishments 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.760 and the fights that we have fought and won. You know, 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.800 there's been a lot that we've contributed to society, and 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.839 if it were not for the fact that there is 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.880 this time that's been set aside, you know, people probably 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.640 wouldn't hear much about us at all. So I see, 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.200 you know, I see, I'm not saying that I don't 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.840 understand how once they put it in February, which happens 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.080 to be the shortest month of the year, then after 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:48.760 that they may say, well, they don't want to hear 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.120 about it again. But then that's not true because the 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.319 next thing, you know, you got doctor King. Well before 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.480 then you have you know, doctor King's birthday that comes up, 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.160 and I feel like people celebrate doctor King's birthday for 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.400 the entire month January. You know, I hear at least 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.760 at least beginning around the fifteenth, when his actual birthday 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.320 takes place, then they go all the way and then it. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.439 Goes all the accomplishments. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.320 Yeah, so you know, well, I mean. 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.920 I just I pretty much agree with what you're saying. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.439 I just when I heard it again, it made me think. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.000 And it's just the time that we end, you know, 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.520 it's just every time I think about, like you said, 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.520 the d and what we're going through with this. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.400 Government and diversity, equity and inclusion. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.480 Diversity, equity and inclusion, you know, and what we're going through, 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.280 you know, like you said, how they're trying to pretty 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:43.480 much erase our history and to have this month is 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:45.600 very much important at this time. 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.199 Yeah, I think before they're getting rid of shit left and. 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.000 Right, and they still don't want this even they don't. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:56.160 Even want the government right, Like it's it's. 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.520 An education, which is the other big So they. 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.280 Don't want kids we must celebrated within education either. 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.880 They don't want like remember critical race theory and all 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.520 of that. They want they don't want you to isolate 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:15.320 and celebrate any particular holidays except for things that have 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.080 to do with white men. I mean seriously, like it's 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.880 just that's what it is. They're saying that they are 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.360 going to especially, as you said, for the federal government, 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.760 which the Department of Education is a part of the 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:37.000 federal government. Right, they want to end the celebration of 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:38.000 any particular group. 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:40.079 It's pretty. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.040 I think the only way to describe it is just 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:49.319 to look at the fact that, like the shrides that 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:51.960 people have made, that's not just black folks. Like I 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.880 think about the Muslim community and how in New York 0:10:55.160 --> 0:11:01.120 the Muslims didn't even have certain days observances for public schools, 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.199 and they fought and fought and fought, and I remember 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.320 when they won, and it was under Deblasio that these 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:10.640 days became law, like they became chartered in New York 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.040 State and in New York City, I know for sure, 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.560 I don't know about the state. And now there's like 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.400 two or three dates on the calendar that that everybody, 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.480 not just Muslim students of course, but everybody is off 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.720 because they are observing these particular days. So, you know, 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.720 I say all of that to say a lot of 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.520 people have fought to ensure that we live in an 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:37.520 inclusive society where everybody can be celebrated, and these. 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.200 Folks just don't want to do it anymore. But you 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.440 know it, You have to do it. Well. I don't 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:43.199 know if it's strange. 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:47.600 I think that they're actually sticking true to their uh, 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.000 their their their existence. 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.920 Their beginning to me is this, how do you think 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:57.000 that that is going to work? Right, because you've people 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:01.520 have gotten used to celebrating and being acknowledged and seeing 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.760 themselves and being themselves and coming. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.080 To you know, I think what they're saying is you 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.680 can celebrate it all you want, but it won't be 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:12.840 But that's paid. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.920 That's the first step of it, right, because what you 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.880 do is you take you pretty much take the. 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:23.160 Knowledge president in February to so President's Day. 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.640 So they still going to take some of our stuff 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.840 too in the month in the same Black History Month. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.120 That's interesting. I never put that in the contest. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:33.560 So that's what I'm saying, Like, if you look at 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.559 if you look at most of the holidays that they're 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.320 a black I mean they are white holidays that celebrate, Yeah, 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.560 they celebrate their their accomplishments. 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.600 They still celebrate in that Columbus Day. 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.679 Yeah, So these are these are things that I'm saying. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.200 So so they think that's just gonna work. You just 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.120 gonna erase the rest of the people here. You're gonna 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:53.120 take back the Hollids and. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:13:01.520 You're gonna do That's all I want to say. 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.240 Let me tell you what my thought of the day. 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:05.679 What Actually, it's not my thought of the day, but 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.600 I could make it my thought of the day for today, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.800 since we are short for time before we have our guests, 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.880 our Black History Month guest, because we focused on Black 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.480 History Month today and not these people politics. Let me 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.560 tell you that we are all, every single one of 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:27.400 us hypocritical beings. I was listening to Angela Rode talking 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:32.400 about this on their podcast, Native Lamp Pod, and it's true. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:36.640 She was talking about Snoop and his performance at the 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:41.240 Crypto Ball, and she was, you know, literally saying like, 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.480 I'd rather call my brother on the phone to tell 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.040 him how I feel directly, And she was acknowledging that, 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.920 you know, there are people who probably will feel like, oh, 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.400 you're being hypocritical, because if it was somebody that you 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.319 don't really have a relationship with or whatever, you would 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.360 just say whatever. And I think that's true. I would 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.480 hope that if you're brother sister did something that you 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.840 wouldn't go to the Internet to tell the world about it. 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:04.520 I would hope. 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.200 But you know, hey, some people say what's good for 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.160 the goose is good for again if they if they 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:14.079 don't like whoever on the internet, and they don't like 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.959 they mama and they sister, they brothers and cousins, they 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.960 go right on to the Facebook and write it up 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.400 there too. I mean, I guess that's but I understand 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.600 both sides. But I wanted to say that we certainly 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:29.160 are and we live in contradiction all the time. Like 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:34.200 hypocritical is probably a negative connotation to that word, so 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.960 I wouldn't necessarily use it, but I just want to, 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.200 you know, state it in a way that most people 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:44.400 can understand. But I think the the conflicts, right, you know, 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:48.960 and the complications of life, because I was somewhere a 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:53.400 couple of evenings ago, and you know, I am, and 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.920 I think you are like this too, which it took 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.800 you some time to get there. So let me put 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.160 your business in the street. But I just don't want 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:01.960 to hear r Kelly. 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:03.960 I just don't. That's not on my car. 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.520 My family members know not to play it at holidays, 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.400 and in fact, it is starting to become something that 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.880 I see less and less and less and less that's 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.480 just I don't. I'm it's at the point now where 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.800 no one has to tell the DJ at a. 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.920 Family event or whatever. They just they're just not doing 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:24.560 it anymore. 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:29.720 But the other day, I was wherever I was, somewhere anyway, 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:34.600 restaurant at night, late at night, and they started playing 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:36.400 some good old R Kelly songs. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.320 I mean, and I'm just so sorry, like I didn't. 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:39.800 I forgot. 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:45.000 I totally forgot. I wasn't even drinking. I totally forgot. 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:46.640 And the next thing you know, I was just sitting 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:52.000 up there man in here wish and I was just 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.560 all into it. And I was sitting there thinking to myself, Wow, 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.600 we have to have a lot of grace for one another. 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:02.520 We have to have a lot of grace for one another, because. 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.920 It's not it's very hard, you know, for people to 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:10.200 ignore the music and contributions that R Kelly has made. 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:14.560 Like my whole childhood can be marked by al Kelly songs, 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:16.800 Like I could tell you every year of my life 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.720 based on R. Kelly song and what I was doing, 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.360 the girl I liked, and the party we went to 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.280 in the song and the first slow jam that you 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.080 got you rubbed the little rub you got like R 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.680 Kelly was that for us in the late eighties early 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:32.560 wise he was. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:33.960 It's just like he was. 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:38.120 But but I would say that, you know, and and 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.120 I was having this conversation with someone else and they'd 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.120 be like, yeah, but the parents, the parents took their 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.040 kids there and whatever. 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:46.440 And that's fine. 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.520 I'm not because I believe that that is true, that 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.760 there was some parents that literally took their children to 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:58.920 him knowing that he something wasn't right. Like I'm never ever, ever, 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.680 ever ever take get my granddaughter and I never did 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:05.639 it with my son, to take them to somebody and 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.679 a man, woman, whomever else it is, that's not a 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:10.919 family member or somebody that I trust. And even in 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:13.800 those situations, we were always taught you don't even trust 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:18.359 everybody in your family and just leaving my child there 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:23.040 for days and whatever and not like, no, I'm just 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.320 not ever doing that. So I understand people who say, 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.639 but what about the parents, And I think that those 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.919 parents have to deal with their children, They're gonna have 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:33.680 to deal with different things. But guess what, I don't 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.080 know them. I don't buy their albums, I don't buy 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.320 their shoes, clothes, don't I don't support them in any way. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:40.080 With R. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.560 Kelly, this is a grown ass man. You're a grown 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.760 ass man. And if a person brings you their child 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:52.679 and you allegedly allegedly do whatever to them, which you 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:58.040 know whatever, allegedly do whatever things to them, and. 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.080 You know, then someth's wrong with you. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.680 You also so the parents and you it doesn't It's 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:08.760 not like because of the parents then you somehow are 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:13.000 exampt Yet No, no, no, you also have an issue. 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:17.760 And I'm not finna be buying maybe, but I know 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.320 I'm not finna be buying the music. I'm not finna 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.720 be two step in. I'm not gonna do none of that. 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:24.680 I did get me a little twist in the chair 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:31.520 on a from then eventually I said no, I didn't 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.440 even do that. I just said I'm gonna be very vulnerable. 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:35.840 I just, you know, I was like, I'm gonna be 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.240 vulnerable and talk about this because you know, I don't want. 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:41.480 I hate for people to be walking around in the 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.560 world feeling like everything is a zero sum. That's what 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.679 this world makes you believe. It makes you believe that 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:53.119 if you don't do everything exactly perfectly as they say, 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:57.520 whoever they is then, or whoever they are, then you 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:00.600 just have failed. And I don't think that that's right. 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.159 I think we all come short, come up short in 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.560 terms of how we live and the things that we 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:06.280 do every day. 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:07.800 And I just wanted to say that, you. 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.360 Know what, I had a moment, but I put myself 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:12.080 back together. 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.040 I mean, sometimes you have a moment, you snapped out. 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:15.639 Of it, you know. 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:17.760 And then there was people in the restaurant and I 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.199 was like, damn, they musn't paying me no attention. But 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.359 I was just thinking to myself, Wow, I really don't 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:28.320 do our like at all, but today the paparazzi people 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.399 could have caught me, and I look like I'm just 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:31.600 a hypocrite because. 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:31.760 I need to. 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:39.240 Doing the doing it. So yeah, a nission whatever, ANISSI 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:43.359 let's not give it an. 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.800 I don't do too much, don't do too much. But 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:48.520 that's it. That's what happened. 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:52.000 Listen, everybody got our own cross and sins the bed. 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:58.120 You know, let he who was without sin through the first. 0:19:57.920 --> 0:19:59.440 Yeah, you sound really. 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:01.400 Religious. 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.560 No, anyway, I'm just gonna let it go. 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:12.679 So today is another one of our friends. 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.480 We have a guest. It's like a brother of mine's. 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:20.680 You know, he is a world renowned publisher. He has 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:24.360 published over one hundred and thirty books in thirteen years. 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:28.040 He is He has published books from Everybody to our 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:31.880 friend Yandy to styles p you know, so the list 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:32.719 goes on and on. 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:34.960 And he does children's books. This is his specialty. 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:39.840 He's the publisher of all three of my books, Raising Kings. 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:43.800 We have I Know My Rights and we have Echoes 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:48.000 in the Streets. Which is my last book, and currently. 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.080 It's not your last. It is your latest, okay, it 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:55.080 is my latest last, and your latest. 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:55.840 It is my latest. 0:20:56.000 --> 0:21:00.359 And he is none other than Hedred McBride, the owner 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:04.120 of McBride's Stories. How are you doing today, month? 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:07.760 Brother peace? Brother. We know each other for so long 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:09.480 and you still say my name. 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.240 I always because I always just call you McBride. That 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:16.359 was up. 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:22.639