WEBVTT - Jill Scott Interview 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:07.960 Real people, real celebrity joined the Breakfast Yep, the world 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:10.399 was dangerous morning show the Breakfast Club. He turned it on. 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:16.040 Jill quietly like to talk to guests before the interview, 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:20.159 you know, I like to wait until the interviewed you 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:24.479 at all and yeah, fake looking at my phone until 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:26.880 the interview started. But we got Jill Scott here. What's 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:29.600 up y'all, Julie from Philly, good to see you. Yes, 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:31.520 it's great to have Jill Scott here. And I will 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:33.960 say Charlotte Magne went to go see you perform in Brooklyn. 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.640 I was surprised because we can't get him to go nowhere. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:40.600 I've seen you perform at least fifteen times because I 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:42.440 used to I told you before. We used to go 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.159 to the Sugar Water Festival all the time when it 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:49.000 was you and Erica Badou and Flower Tree and Queen Latifa. Like, 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.080 I've seen you perform countless about the times, but not 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:58.280 in Brooklyn. Let me tell you something. I had no 0:00:58.360 --> 0:00:59.760 choice too. It was one of those things. My wife 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.080 was like, hey, Joe Scott, is matter of fact you 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:03.920 want to go to the concert in Jersey. But I 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.840 was busy. So it happened in Brooklyn's woman keV Holiday 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.320 made that happen for me, so we went that was monumental. Yes, 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:14.440 congratulations on the new album thank You. I like Cruising. 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:16.759 I think it's my favorite song on there. I also 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.679 like Food's Gold and I like um Closure And I 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.120 want to talk about closure for a second, Okay, because 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.280 I was having a conversation when one of my friends, right, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.160 and that song is really about like having sex with 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.760 somebody for the last time for closure. You really think 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:33.720 that's a good idea, m I think it can work. Hey, 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.480 listen any Portland storms where I'm where I am with it. 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.960 If it could work, it's worked. But do you think 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:42.440 it's possible though, because it's like you do it that 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.000 one last time, you're like, man, I can't let this go. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:45.679 And plus when you do it that last time, you're 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.320 trying to do it like the best you've ever done it, 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.400 so that he feels like, Okay, I don't want to 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.800 maybe maybe not for me. I've had that experience and 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:59.240 that last one was not the best one. I'm trying 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.680 too hard. But my feet were already on my way out, 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:04.400 you know what I mean. I knew this was it. 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.760 It's wrap it's the last time, and making a conscious 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.240 decision and then actually saying all right, I'm gonna give 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.600 my body this one more time. But making that conscious 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.480 decision and the second gas or regret or anything. What's 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:19.400 the point of that? Though? Like why not just why 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.440 can't a phone conversation just the end? Sometimes phone calls 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.040 work with some people, Sometimes they don't, you know what 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.520 I mean? Like I said, any port in a storm, 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:30.679 when you're trying to get away from something that's not 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:35.760 necessarily beneficial to you. If the conversation you had, that conversation, look, 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.360 we're not gonna do this anymore. You know, it was great, 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.320 but you know, I went more for my life and 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:46.919 then here you come again or smelling like that, you know, 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.280 and then all of a sudden you change your mind 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.240 and next thing, you know, you're kind of right back 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:52.960 where you started. And then you got to go through 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:57.359 the whole thing again. When somebody has that that you know, 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:01.120 that thing, it's really challenging to to walk away from it. 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.519 But you know, that same thing that you used to 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:04.880 love when you was in love and now you know 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:06.280 you don't want to be with them anymore, is the 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.079 same thing that would end up, irritating you. Yeah, but 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.959 this was This is not about a love relationship. This 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.480 is about two people that are friends, homely love of friends, 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.320 if you will, and we have a great time. But 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.359 in order to get more and more, in order to 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:27.440 have a well balanced relationship, you know, a participant in 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.000 your life, not just somebody that comes in and makes 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.440 a good real quick and disappears. I'm talking about a partnership. 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.400 In order to have that, you gotta make way. You 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.839 gotta make room. And and that's my opinion. I really 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.440 feel like you got to you gotta clear some stuff out, 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:45.960 you know that in order to let that in. That's 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.400 the reason for the closure, because other than that, you 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.640 still got this other thing that can hold you back 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.600 from where you really want to go. You know, I 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:55.920 was watching the documentary on Central. I don't know if 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:57.960 the Docmunity is like you perform a live woman. Yeah, 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:02.360 and you seem like you're in a great space with love, 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.880 like you was talking about love and it's like your 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.440 eyes will water and I'm like, well, who is banging 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:12.920 jails back out? That got hurt feeling? Well, I can 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:17.240 say this, it's more than it's more than sex way 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:21.320 way way way more than that, And that's that's that's 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.840 the goal, that's the that's the the game, that's the 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:29.440 end game. You know, more than just my physicality being 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.720 appeased or pleased or stimulated or titillated. It's more than that, 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.400 you know, it's the rest of it. To have a 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:41.400 partner that's on your team, that will hold up their 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.320 end plus yours if you need it. That's what I'm 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.080 talking about. There's a difference, and you're willing to hold 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.920 up their end if they need it. Absolutely, It's it's 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.040 a beautiful giving take. No, you was talking like this 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.120 person that killed somebody for you before, like you like 0:04:56.279 --> 0:05:00.480 you love this individual you was talking about. I'm sitting 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.919 on the couch like that. I really don't recall talking 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.960 about anyone though. You was talking in general about love. 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.640 You was like, you know, and love when you find 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:14.120 that one you because that is a part of observation 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.080 as well. I'm a voyeur. I watch people like for instance, 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.160 I met I met a musician the other day. I 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:25.640 loved watching him talk to his wife. I love looking 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.200 at her when she when he wasn't looking right. I 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.320 love watching her look at him. I was like, this 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.839 is what I'm talking about, right, you know, it's it's 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.200 I'm just paying attention to what I see, and I'm 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:44.320 seeing a beautiful resurrection of relationships, people that genuinely are 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:48.040 about that life for each other, and they have their 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.040 stuff with them, but it's their stuff, right, you know 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.080 what I mean? What kind of space? Where are you 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.640 in doing this album? Um? What kind of place was 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.560 I in? I was in a couple of places. Yeah, 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:05.440 because I hear different thing. Yeah. Well, the album is 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.120 like a journal, you know. So you if you've ever 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.560 kept a journal, I have since I was twelve. But 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.920 when you look through it, you've got sometimes you you're 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.640 every page, every day you're writing in your journal, and 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.600 then sometimes you're you miss months, right, you know. So 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.800 I'm strolling through the journal, looking through and I see 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.520 this part of myself, and I see this part of myself, 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.880 and that's kind of how the album really worked. Different 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.839 parts of your life, different pieces, and it's not necessarily 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.360 my life. Like I said, I'm a voyeur. I listened 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.920 to a lot of women. I listened to older women, 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.599 I listen to younger women. I listen and I listen 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:42.760 to men too. People talk to me for whatever reason 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:44.800 I let them, Oh, I think you'd make an amazing 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:49.200 life coach, thanks an amazing like psychiatrist type person you 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.040 would go to to tell your problems and then you 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.760 would give advice to Well, I play. That was one 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.600 of the plans before music. Yeah, or you would just 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.640 go psychology. I was about to really change the last 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:04.120 one minute and decided to teach English. Really, yeah, what 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.240 made you? What made you want to be a psychiatrist 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:11.040 to begin with? Well, I enjoyed listening, and I thought 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.120 that I could help, you know, if I, you know, 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:19.720 have a balanced perspective on stuff, that I might be 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.360 able to help somebody. That's interesting. I went to school 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.640 and I took psychology and it was too hard, and 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:26.880 I dropped that as the only class average job because 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:28.560 it was way harder than I thought it was gonna be. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.680 And then I ended up being an English major. Right 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.280 after that, I did that, I didn't go to college. 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.440 When I tried to go to college, psychology and I 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.800 bought the book, but I never went to class. I 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.160 just ended up reading the book. Those books. Yeah, that 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.160 psychology book was like this thing. Yeah, I was like, 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.440 I don't know if this classes for me. Those books 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.920 are really expensive, which is one of the reasons why 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:51.800 I know, I know you guys are, But I ended 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.640 up starting Blues Baby Foundation because I wanted to pay 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.720 for people's books. Right, Like I couldn't afford my books. 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.560 I could afford school. I could get to school. Was 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.880 I wearing the same clothes a couple of times a week? Yeah, 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.720 you know, I'm trying to second hand books like I 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.360 got the second hand so I could get right right, 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:17.440 that was a lot. That was a lot. No, I 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:23.880 clean toilets now now, um, you said something very interesting 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.280 in the Huffington Post I read. You said, being being 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.760 an artist you're talking about Bill Cobby. You said being 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.720 an artist and a black man that is beloved is 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.240 one of the most dangerous positions that you can be in. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:40.520 Can you elaborate on that. Well. I remember the day 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:45.600 when I was in New Jersey and I saw every 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:51.599 kid with an Allen iverson Jersey, on every kid everywhere, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.480 and I thought to myself, he's in trouble, right, He's 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.439 in trouble. When you are looked past your skin and 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.599 at your talent, When you look past your skin and 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.000 at what you bring to something that people love, that 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.280 means You're beloved beyond the color of your skin or 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.840 your race and all of that. And it was maybe 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.480 a month later that he was on the cover of 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:20.319 the Daily News in Philadelphia with his braids out, and 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:24.320 he was about maybe two shades darker on the cover, 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.920 and then he was It was like they had vilified him, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:33.480 you know that quick. Bringing a lot of light and 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:39.400 attention to the prospect of a human being simply being 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.480 a human being, coming from a black man is dangerous 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.480 in my opinion. Look at what happened to Michael Jackson, 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.320 look at what happened to Kevin Clash. I'm talking about Elmo, 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:59.319 how he was so beloved by everyone. I'm not trying 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.240 to dismiss the fact that people that folks have done 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:10.480 some terrible foul things. With the understanding that men all 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:17.160 have proclivities, rich ones, smart ones, dumb ones, backwoods ones, 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.720 all men have proclivities. That just means something that's natural 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.800 to you, that you like, that's probably really bad. Yea. 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.839 So we forget our heroes are human, forget that they're human. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:33.520 But what I see is at our heroes and and 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:37.840 please understand, I'm from North Philly, but Cosby is from 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:42.040 North Philly. That man was like a father to me. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.439 He showed me everything about life that I did not 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.920 see in North Philadelphia, not just because I watched the 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.640 television shows, but I did watch them. I watched the 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.959 Cosby Show. I mean, I watched the Cosby Show. I 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.199 watched that Albert Different world made me want to go 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.600 to college. College. Ain't nobody around my way going into college. 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:10.120 I appreciate and respect that legacy. Still, that's a man. Still, 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.040 that's a man. And I've always been about that with 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.800 fame and famous people, but I I felt the need 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:21.760 to remember the Kevin clashes and the Michael Jackson's and 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:26.520 how people were really trying to destroy that legacy. What's 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:31.720 the dude's name, Phil Spector. He killed a woman, tried 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.800 and convicted, but he's still in the Rock and roll 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:39.240 Hall of Fame. If I'm not mistaken, Elvis like them young, 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.880 I'm I'm not saying that this is right. I'm saying 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.439 that all men have proclivities, and I really feel that 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:51.000 whatever is done to some do to all, don't decimate 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.599 the legacy of the good. You're trying to tell me, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.160 You're trying to tell me they're regardless of how much 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.480 good I do in the world. If I do something bad, 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:06.640 just something terrible, everything else gets pushed away. You forget 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.240 and you think this is something that happens with black man. 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.520 And then you look particular a Phil Specter who still 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.320 is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame even 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:19.480 though he murdered someone and another Harrilson has had sex 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.400 with his um step daughter or whatever whatever. She was 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:30.720 adopted not white men can't jump my bad. Yes, they 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.840 had an adopted daughter and he ended up marrying her. Yes, 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.360 And what was it great Balls of Fire? Wasn't that movie? 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.400 Um Jim, who was it? Buddy Holly? I mean it happened. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.600 It has happened in Latin history. And now they're saying 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.280 with Bill Cosby, get all his TV shows up the air, 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.199 Spellming no longer one. I think that's why scholarship program 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.480 they took down his statue. I think that's why. The 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.240 reason I think that's why is because like what Jill 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:54.959 just said about a different world inspired her to want 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:56.880 to go to college, and my homegirl, jazz Fly, she 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.079 has just saying what she says, we have to learn 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.560 to separate the art from the artists. The art helped 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.520 and benefited a lot. The artists may be flawed, but 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.280 the art made you want to go to college. Wagner 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:15.360 a notorious racist, but incredible musician and composer. I mean 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.839 the history and list of men with dirty, terrible things. 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.040 And guess what, the more money you get, the more 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.920 easily and more apt you are to do the worst things, 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.760 because they've always been in you. There it is. If 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.880 nobody's helped you or or guided you or stopped you 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.880 from being the worst you could be, and they're lifting 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.160 you up and just you know, allowing you to do 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.719 the worst things, you're gonna do it. Probably, So what 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.959 do you think should happen then? In that case, in 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:52.360 a Belle Cosby situation? Ah, what do I think should 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.079 happen to him? Yeah? Like what should happen? What should 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.480 the repercussions be? I mean a lot of these crimes, 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.760 alleged crimes, were committed so long ago it's passed statute 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.160 of limitation. I think the best thing for mister Cozle 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.960 to do right now is pass away because the slander 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.839 turned to simplathy. Just like that, they did the same 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.200 thing to Michael. They vilified Michael. Then when Michael passed. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:15.839 He was the hero again, that's what they say, though 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.560 they say you either died a hero or a live 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.480 long enough to become a villain. I was told, I 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.120 don't know if it's true or not that the first 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:26.840 person to accuse Michael Jackson of their father committee suicide. 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.760 I mean, I don't know. I don't know either. I 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:31.320 just heard that. I don't know if it's true or not. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.920 All that's this is a show that's not based on facts. Yeah, 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:39.360 I mean, all I'm saying is that looking at the 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:45.720 big picture was the reason that I could not could 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:53.280 not make any real decisions other than love. If it's 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:58.360 your father, if it's your dad, and fifty, let's say sixty, 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.360 let's say a hundred people say so something terrible about 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.400 your father, the one that's raised you, the one that's 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.760 been there, the one that took care of your skin, knees. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.320 And I'm not saying this because I saw the man 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:13.800 on television. Bill Cosby has been good to me, officially 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:17.200 good to me. North Philly girl, doing well, reaching out, 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.680 how you're doing? You need anything? Let me give you 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.640 some advice, let me share something you know, a cappuccino 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.120 with you, no, but he had his daughter drive to 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.320 New York to get something from my throat and I 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:33.760 toured up. I drank it every day. It's it's hard, 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:37.640 you know what I'm saying. And plus he hasn't said yes, 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:45.160 I've done. But even in the demosition, you did you 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.000 you came out and said you had to stop defriending 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.640 him though, because it doesn't look good. I mean, my 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.800 mind is present. My heart did not want to believe 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.000 anything negative about someone I love and admire and respect 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.640 so much, but my mind is still. President was like, 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.840 damn it, there's no way around this. This is just 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.080 looks bad. It smells bad, it tastes bad. This this 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.560 is bad. You got a lot of backlash from social media. 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.800 I was like, this is Jill Scott y'all trying to slay. 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.680 But listen, people make mistakes. Sometimes we misspeak. We can 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.880 change our mind, we can change your view on something. 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.800 I can get more information. Are you sure? You can 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:25.600 get more information and more facts and be like, you 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:29.240 know what, maybe there's more to this than I originally knew. 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.000 It happens every day, right, it happens all the time. 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.000 You don't you don't know something, and then you find 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.200 something out, and you find out some more. All I 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:45.000 know is that, um, I'm a human being and my 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:50.280 love ain't watery. H and just because it got hot, 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.440 you know what I'm saying, It didn't just jump and 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:59.920 dissipate or evaporate. People ain'tn't understand it. You don't understand. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:04.040 And I'm a real I'm a person, and this man. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.000 If I could explain how many people die in North Philly, 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.919 especially when I was growing up, if I could explain 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:17.800 the differences between myself and I felt like so many 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.480 other people, I felt very alone, and I saw someone 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:27.119 just making strides knocking down doors, it was inspiring to me. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.200 And I would hope that if the shoe was ever 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.760 on the other foot, that something was being said about 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:38.440 me that was terrible, horrible, vile and disgusting. I would 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:42.720 hope that somebody who's ever claimed to appreciate love and 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.880 respect me would at least be like, let wait, wait, wait, 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.160 wait wait, I'm not jumping up anything. I'm a whole 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:57.080 tight a of Twitter followers, you know. I would hope 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.919 that I could be treated the way I would want 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:01.920 that I treat other people. How do you deal with 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:03.800 social media? Do you ever feel like you want to disconnect, 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:05.520 because when you know, when you just seeing music and 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:06.800 you hear you talk, I don't feel like you're a 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:08.560 social media present. But I see you going back and 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:15.239 forth sometimes with these trolls. Sometimes sometimes I sometimes, I mean, 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.199 it baffles me because I was just saying this out there. 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.000 I was like, I don't see how somebody cannot like 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:23.119 Jail Scott, I just don't get it. Like amazing singer, 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:27.760 great songs, fifteen years in the game, always minding your business, 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:29.760 You're not. It's not like you be in the middle 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:34.959 of Typically I try, I try. If somebody message your man, 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:37.240 Y'll walk over there and snap. I mean, you are 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.920 what women we go through the same things you go through. 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:42.400 I mean, I don't think we live in the era 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.200 of you getting back what you give out no more. 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:50.320 I don't. I don't believe I get it back. I 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.240 get it back. I get it back. I get it back. 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.560 When somebody yells from across the street or somebody behind 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:01.560 me is like, appreciate you, thanks to because they're not 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:06.040 stopping my life, you know what I mean. Fanaticism is 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:10.760 different from respect. Fanaticism goes hard and it's it's what 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.800 they need, not not what will make this a real moment. 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.600 It's like, ah, you know, And I experience that occasionally 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:22.359 more than more than I want to. But then I 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:26.760 have these moments where somebody is telling me what this 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:31.199 song did or how it affected something in their lives. 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.480 I gave birth to this song, I made my child 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:38.040 to this song. When my father died, we played this song. 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.639 He loved this. And I have those kind of moments 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:46.440 where I'm great, I'm so grateful to have any impact 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.760 on someone's life. I'm like, Wow, I get to do this. 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:52.280 That's in music. It's supposed to be for I would think, 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:57.479 I would think, and I appreciate those moments. Why did 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:00.960 you tight of this album? Woman? I've been waiting to 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:04.800 get here for a long time as a as a female, 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.480 I've been waiting to get to this point where I'm 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.959 I'm grown. I'm going to say what I feel. I'm 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.080 gonna say what I believe. I'm going to use my 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:17.560 wisdom um that I've had enough life experiences that I 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:21.040 feel like, I could, you know, really impact somebody younger 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.560 than me, or maybe somebody at the same age. I 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:28.200 associate myself with elder women because they've got great stories, 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:32.000 they've got great advice. They call me on my stuff. 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:42.119 Oh they call me, oh boy, Not that I'm not 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:44.960 talking about real life. Like what what what I got 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:48.320 from my elder sister about the Bill Cosby situation, She said, 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:51.800 I don't agree with you, but you have the right 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.960 to feel the way you do. Now, what the rest 0:20:57.040 --> 0:20:59.680 of the world didn't know is, at the same time, 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:04.200 my father has dementia. So I'm losing my dad right 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:10.120 and I'm losing my dad at the same time. I'm 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:11.840 not talking about like I don't I'm not looking for 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.040 anybody feel sorry for me. I'm just saying I am 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:16.920 a person. There's stuff that happens in the course of 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:22.399 a life that somebody else doesn't understand, and it is 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:25.640 what it is. What about relationships? Do you have elder 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:27.320 women that call you out on things that you do 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:31.600 in relationships that you need to do differently. Absolutely, they'll 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:33.280 don't stop me. I'm like, well, this is what I'm 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:38.520 going to do. I don't do that quick. I used to. 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:42.080 I used to you should never fall in love. When 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:43.720 you fall, you get hurt. You're supposed to grow in 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.560 love with people. I agree. I agree. It takes time. 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:50.680 It takes time, but you kind of. My grandmother told 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:54.280 me that the man is the stem and the woman 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:56.719 is the flower, and he must always be looking up 0:21:56.760 --> 0:22:00.480 at her, and the stem gets stuck in the flower 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:06.000 too exactly. Hey, yeah, yeah, you feel me. But he's 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:09.320 the root and she's the blossom. From that. From that 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:13.520 and I she always told me that the men know 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:17.200 before we do. You guys know, at some point, tell me, 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:22.199 did you look at your wife and say that's my wife? Yes, 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:24.960 that's what Apparently that's why I know exactly when that happened, 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:27.359 was shot at me too. When did he tell you? 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:30.120 He was laying it here on the floor, almost dead 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:34.240 from de hijason and exhaustion, running around doing whatever he 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:38.960 was doing and calling me job. He goes like this, 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:41.720 I gotta get my girl back. I'm getting married, so 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:48.680 I've done. I remember that bottom growls that was in 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:51.520 the collub drinking your bottles. They don't care about you, 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:53.000 But when you was, when you was laying on me, 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:57.760 and he didn't even care, We didn't care. We were 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:01.439 you coming to work tomorrow way to keep it real, okay, 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:04.920 And that's how he true. You know, those men know, 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:07.440 we just know we know who the one is now 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:10.040 even if we and it's your job to convince us 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:14.760 that absolutely convince convince me that you're different, that you're different, 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:16.879 and that this is sincere and that you mean what 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:20.119 you say. And that's a part of the beautiful you know, 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:24.760 the whole Oh that I love that part. Convince me, 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:27.520