1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:00,960 Speaker 1: Speaks to the planning. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 2: I go by the name of Charlamagne of God, and 3 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 2: guess what, I can't wait to see y'all at the 4 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:08,319 Speaker 2: third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. That's right, We're coming 5 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 2: back to Atlanta, Georgia, Saturday, April twenty six at Poleman 6 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 2: Yards and it's hosted by none other than Decisions Decisions, 7 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 2: Mandy B and Wheezy. Okay, we got the R and 8 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,319 Speaker 2: B Money podcast with taking Jay Valentine. We got the 9 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 2: Woman of All podcasts with Sarah Jake Roberts. We got 10 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,479 Speaker 2: Good Mom's Bad Choices. 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My name is Tank Valentine 21 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 3: and this is the R and B Money Podcast, the 22 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 3: authority on all things. 23 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 4: R and B. 24 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: Come on, talk to him, talk to him. 25 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 4: I'm sick of your shiit. 26 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:21,959 Speaker 1: What the hell is going on? 27 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 2: I want to hear your vocal if they got them, 28 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 2: I want to hear your train. 29 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 4: Raw fleck footed, turn the machines. 30 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: Off, Darphin though Daulphin. 31 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 3: Vocal. 32 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: They know who are today? 33 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 5: They know yeah, yeah, because I got the same clothes twice. 34 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 5: They I don't do that, only do that when we 35 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 5: gotta double up. 36 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 3: Have not seen a combination of beauty and gift and 37 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 3: intellect ever. 38 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 4: Standing on that. She's in the building. 39 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:29,679 Speaker 3: My my mind, Chante, it's in the building, damn it, Shante. 40 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 3: You can fucking sing and no fucking sing, no question, 41 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 3: no questions. 42 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: Listen. 43 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 3: We're gonna get into the history of it. But we 44 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 3: we were on the show. I think this was the 45 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 3: b T war like to look at her like tumble 46 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 3: as well. But you you're an athlete too. I didn't 47 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 3: know you had that. You put that one hand down 48 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 3: and it's still carrying them and you proceed what was 49 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 3: this twenty twenty two? You proceeded to show us the 50 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 3: difference man. 51 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: That remember is like its yesterday. 52 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 3: I was like, you hear this and it was like 53 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 3: the room was even even the room was confused, like 54 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 3: what the fuck is going on right now? Yeah, that's 55 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 3: what's going on right now. 56 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 4: And it was like, let's do it again. 57 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 6: Because I fell down and listen. 58 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: Cool, cool, no problem, no problem. 59 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 4: Oh you want it again. 60 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: You do this all day. 61 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 4: I can do this all all night because this is 62 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 4: what I do. 63 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I just I You're You're you are, 64 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 3: you are what you are, You're you're a really you're gifted, 65 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 3: of course by immeasurably right. But the work that you 66 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 3: have put into your gift speaks volumes because every time 67 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 3: you open your mouth, it is like see and I listen, 68 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 3: and I've known you for such a long time, you're 69 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 3: like you're like you're like the coolest, nicest person. And 70 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 3: maybe Stephen feels differently, maybe you show him another side, 71 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 3: but maybe you can tell us about the stories. Man, 72 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 3: I'm telling you, bro, he was in the crowd other night. 73 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 3: But it's like that gift, that beauty, that everything that 74 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 3: comes along with you for you to have always been 75 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 3: as gracious and welcoming and awesome of a person that 76 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 3: you are every time that I've come in contact with 77 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 3: you for the last fifteen, twenty years, whatever, it's just incredible, 78 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 3: just incredible. Like I come from a place where, you 79 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, if you got all the tools 80 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 3: as a woman, oh you stuck all the way up? 81 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 4: What you know? 82 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 3: You're hey girl, hey whatever, you're like. 83 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 4: I come I come from. 84 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 3: That, no super turned up and you've just with with 85 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 3: everything that you have, but all the gifts God has 86 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 3: given you, you've never been that and that's I think 87 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,039 Speaker 3: that's that's the other layer that's even more awesome about you. 88 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 4: So I just I just wanted to. 89 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 3: Make sure we throw those flowers at you at the 90 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 3: top of the pod so people can understand who and what. 91 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 4: Is sitting in the. 92 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 3: Hot seat now high school? 93 00:05:58,920 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 4: Where is this? 94 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 3: Like, it's kind of I feel like you've been singing 95 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 3: since you were like one and a half. 96 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 4: That's just my guess. 97 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 3: If I had to guess, I would say she was 98 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 3: holding harmonies it too. 99 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 6: Well. I love to see First of all, thank you 100 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 6: for having me here. 101 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,679 Speaker 1: Course course you're telling people I used to be chasing 102 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: you down. 103 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 5: I wondering I'm just offing to a boulevard I'm like, what's. 104 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 6: Up, and we were like, yes, yes, so thank you 105 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 6: for having me here. I appreciate that singing. I love music, 106 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 6: So it's always been something that I played. It was 107 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 6: on a little phonograph, it was on the little album 108 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,280 Speaker 6: thing my godmother got me, uh to play records on 109 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 6: and I play them and sing and dance. And what 110 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 6: is not commonly known is that my family was all music. 111 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 6: My mother saying. My father's a pianist, he's still living. 112 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 6: My mother's passed on. My sister is the most talented 113 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 6: out of all of us. She sings and plays guitar, 114 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 6: she plays the piano, she can play the drums, She writes, 115 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:16,239 Speaker 6: she draws, she does everything. She told her sister kind. 116 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: Of like that. 117 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 6: It was a lot, and that's what it was when 118 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 6: I was growing up. My brothers was a drummer. He 119 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 6: passed on as well, but he's played with DJ Rogers 120 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 6: and the guys from Crouches, all the Crotches anyway, Yeah, 121 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 6: he was yeah, yeah, And so I was the baby 122 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 6: of the family, and so the it was just you know, 123 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 6: shut up, just shut up, chante because I was always 124 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 6: running with the camera and running. I want to play. 125 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 6: I want to, I'll sing it. They're like, baby, just 126 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 6: bet So. My mother got me a tape recorder when 127 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 6: I was about seven. She was like, this is so 128 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 6: you can hear how bad you sound, baby wow. And 129 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 6: it's okay because I never took offense to any of it. 130 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 6: They were like shout up. I was like, I'll just 131 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 6: go to my room. You got to I don't, I 132 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 6: don't care. And so I went, and there's tapes of 133 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 6: me actually on one of my albums. I have this 134 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 6: thing where I'm talking in the middle. I shot he's 135 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 6: got a man whatever album that is smums Mine and 136 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 6: you've seen said Chantette seven. It was literally me going 137 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 6: so you were the only thing I could talk to 138 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 6: was you, And so I'm just talking into my papercorder. 139 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:26,679 Speaker 3: And I still had that tape. 140 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 6: I still yeah wow. But I wasn't the singer. I 141 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 6: was in the choir. At twelve, they let me be 142 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 6: in the choir, but I was just in the choir. 143 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 6: I wasn't the soloist. My sister was the one who 144 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 6: would sing and slay them. My mom sang before my 145 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 6: dad preached, and she'd slay it. And it was. 146 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 3: Just like, yeah, I didn't know we really followed that 147 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 3: saying all these years, I didn't know that like we 148 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 3: followed that same. 149 00:08:57,480 --> 00:08:57,680 Speaker 6: Either. 150 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 4: I couldn't play my cousin's. 151 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 3: Drum, get off that piano drill like and my cousin Keisha, 152 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 3: my first cousin, she was the soloist. 153 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 4: She was the one that got all the solos. 154 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 3: My mama sang, my grandmama sang all my big cousin, 155 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:16,679 Speaker 3: she has all of them, was saying becausein father, they 156 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 3: was the singers, and I was the kid trying to 157 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 3: just get a little She's get a little peace, like 158 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 3: you could just get here. 159 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 4: I'd sneaking to the what they was saying. 160 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 3: And as you said that that, like here, how bad 161 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 3: you sound? I had a solo one time. I had 162 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 3: fought for this solo. My grandmother fought for this solo 163 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 3: for me, and and I sang this solo, Jesus are 164 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 3: the center of my joy in front of the whole 165 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 3: state Congress, which my grandmother was the diana, and I'm 166 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 3: singing my lead, and the two other older guys singing 167 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 3: lead with me, and and toward toward the middle of 168 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 3: the song, I just felt like I was getting boxed 169 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 3: out from the microphone. You know, ain't know what that was. 170 00:09:57,640 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 3: I was like, well, let me just sing to their 171 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 3: shoulders and maybe they'll get through. And after that, you know, 172 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 3: were walking to the car with my anti Betty got 173 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 3: arrest her soul. She was the one who was teaching 174 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 3: us how to sing Junior Crawle. I was like, anti, baby, 175 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 3: I'll sound. She said, you was off, Baby was real. 176 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:14,199 Speaker 6: Honest, okay. 177 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 4: Didn't deter me when okay, all right, and I went 178 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 4: back and I kept doing. 179 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 3: Until I figured it out. Same thing, the process, the process, it's. 180 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 6: The love for the music. For me, it's not about 181 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 6: I didn't think I was going to become a singer. 182 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 6: Well that wasn't even if it was going to be 183 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 6: a ballerina. And then I thought I was going to 184 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 6: be a gymnast, and then I thought, oh, I'll just draw. 185 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:45,559 Speaker 6: I didn't know. I didn't think singing was an option 186 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 6: at that point. And where you were you from the 187 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 6: baby the family in. 188 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 5: San Francisco, Come on, yeah, come on, okay, so I 189 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 5: see it. 190 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 4: I see man, you know. 191 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: Singers like you know, we got right. That's good stuff. 192 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 6: I love it. And that was the thing that they 193 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 6: didn't deter me from loving the music. I could only 194 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 6: listen to gospel music as a kid because my dad 195 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 6: and mom were like not having it. And then when 196 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 6: my brother turned eighteen, he had a drum set already 197 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 6: in the garage, but when he turned eighteen he could 198 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 6: play other music. So we just started going into the 199 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 6: garage and I can play the drums, which I haven't 200 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:32,679 Speaker 6: done a lot of, but because he said, don't touch 201 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 6: them neither time you left home out So but that 202 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 6: was just where the love came from. And then hearing 203 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 6: Mini Ripperton eventually realizing other people did the thing I 204 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 6: thought was a broken part of my voice. I thought 205 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 6: it was broken me because Tremaine couldn't sing you know 206 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 6: that that, you know, the real and I would try 207 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 6: to do that with Walter and her and Andree Crouch 208 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 6: and all those people. I love singing with singers, and 209 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 6: I couldn't do that full voice. And I didn't have 210 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 6: anybody to ask because they weren't gonna tell me how 211 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 6: to do it, because they were like, you just be caiet. 212 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 6: And one of my aunties used to say, good thing, 213 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:17,439 Speaker 6: you cute because the singing were singing I words now 214 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 6: though I wait, yeah, But my point was what oh, 215 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 6: I would go over the note like if they do 216 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 6: that and they went at full voice, I would just 217 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 6: up on top of that because that was all I knew, 218 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 6: and so I thought that was broken, so I would 219 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 6: I didn't even let anybody know I could do that 220 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 6: because I didn't think it was something to be proud of. 221 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 6: It was just what I did to get through the 222 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 6: song with them. 223 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 4: What. 224 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't know that, so wid discovery. Yeah, just 225 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,319 Speaker 5: to do that, yeah, yeah. 226 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 6: I didn't know. So yeah, that was it. 227 00:12:52,800 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: That's where happened. So that was Anne. 228 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 3: And when do you get a chance at least to 229 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 3: where the film is like, all right, go ahead saying 230 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 3: something me, let me hear what you're doing to me. 231 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 6: I sang background with my sister and my mom, like 232 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 6: as we sang before my dad would preach, we would 233 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 6: do that. I was the alto, but alone. A lady 234 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:27,679 Speaker 6: asked me to be Dorothy in a stage production college production, 235 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 6: and I was Dorothy and she asked me to do it, 236 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 6: and I was like, everybody always mixed me and my 237 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 6: sister up, it's Laton. I'm chante you Laton. She was like, no, no, 238 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 6: I know who I'm asking. I was like you want 239 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 6: me to do. I never scared. I was like, yeah, okay, sure, 240 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 6: So I said yes to being Dorothy and we learned 241 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 6: all the lines and singing in my mother played the 242 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 6: what is Auntie Auntie m? She played auntiem in the beginning, 243 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 6: and my sister was part of the Yellow Brick Road. 244 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 6: And so I'm doing rehearsals and We're all sitting on 245 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:05,839 Speaker 6: the floor in this college whatever replace. We were just 246 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:07,439 Speaker 6: sitting on the floor and the guy's playing the piano 247 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 6: and I'm singing with him, and my sister and my 248 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:12,719 Speaker 6: mother looking me in and it started looking at each 249 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 6: other and I was like, what's what I'm singing? Like 250 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 6: home or whatever the B line. I don't even remember 251 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 6: what the song it was. And they were like, when 252 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 6: did you learn how to sing? I was like, I 253 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 6: can sing? I was sixteen. I was like, I can 254 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 6: do it. I can okay. So that was the moment 255 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 6: I realized that they thought I could sing. And then 256 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 6: performing the end the Home at the end is when 257 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 6: I got bitten with the bug, the performance bug, and 258 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 6: they clapped. I was like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna deal 259 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 6: with that. 260 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 3: I can do it like this And you had just 261 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 3: been in your shed just working on it. 262 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 6: Well, I didn't know I was working on it. 263 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 4: You know, you didn't know you were working on it. 264 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 3: But there's there's maybe this unconscious thing where you know, 265 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 3: you're just waiting for this approval. Like I wanted Auntie 266 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 3: Betty to say I could I could finally sing so bad, 267 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 3: like you know what I mean? Like I loved it, 268 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 3: so that's why I was doing it. But at the 269 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 3: same time we're looking for that. Auntie Betty was the 270 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 3: barn Right and she. 271 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: And your mother and your your for you. 272 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 6: I mean, I thought it was the approval of that 273 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 6: I can carry a note. It still wasn't the I'm 274 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 6: going to do this for a living. 275 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 4: Well no, not even with it, just love it. 276 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 6: I was like, oh, I'm on good yeah, all right, 277 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 6: all right, two thumbs up. 278 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 3: I didn't know did you did you? Did you kill it? 279 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 6: You know what? There was a tape of it a 280 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 6: long time ago, and I don't know if I did 281 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 6: or didn't. I think I did good enough? 282 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, good enough? 283 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 6: They did. They clapped, and it was it was the 284 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 6: moment I thought this could be something I could do 285 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 6: for a living. But I thought, you know, one song 286 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 6: don't make an. 287 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 3: Artist, right, because you also like, it's not one of 288 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 3: the million outletsible. 289 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 6: It was not even in my realm, you know, I 290 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 6: didn't even think yeah like that. 291 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 5: The other part about that too, and it may be 292 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 5: a little different for you tank where most people don't 293 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 5: realize how small San Francisco is and the small community 294 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 5: of black people. So we like, we don't even have athletes, 295 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 5: especially when we were coming up that made the NFL 296 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 5: or the NBA or the major like, we don't We 297 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 5: definitely don't know singers. 298 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: We don't have no artists really. 299 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 6: I mean we have a couple, we have gospel artists, yes, but. 300 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 5: We don't have we don't have Marvin gay If you're 301 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 5: from DC or the Maryland area, you're like Marvin. 302 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: Gaye was, you know, he used to be right over 303 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: here doing that. 304 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 5: So it almost seemed and I'll just give my own experience, 305 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 5: it almost seemed impossible when my father would be talking 306 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 5: to us about what we were going to be in 307 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 5: music and how we were going to have careers in 308 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 5: music and were like, I'm probably gonna end up selling. 309 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 6: I didn't make that. 310 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 5: I'm difference when you when you do to use and 311 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 5: take out different type of church. So, but did you 312 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 5: see that for yourself at all, Like you're like, I'm 313 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 5: going to make this a career for myself, like once 314 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 5: you started to do it while you're in San Francisco. 315 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:42,199 Speaker 6: No, I didn't. I didn't. I I I knew I 316 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 6: felt special. I don't think I thought turn it into 317 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 6: this or that. I love to dance and perform, and 318 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 6: you know, whether anybody was paying attention or not, it 319 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,040 Speaker 6: was what my joy was. I acted songs out and 320 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 6: the songs said knocked me down to the ground. I'll 321 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 6: be on the floor and then I like you picked 322 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 6: me up, oh you know, and just whatever I was 323 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 6: singing and doing the song. 324 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 4: Yeah. 325 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: So did you did you have to leave? Leave what 326 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 1: san Francisco? 327 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,239 Speaker 6: Well, we moved to San Diego. We moved to San 328 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 6: Diego when I was twelve, so that was already a change. 329 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 6: So San Diego was when I joined the choir and 330 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 6: middle school, and I don't know, I don't know when 331 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 6: it changed so much. Modeling Key Key Shepherd and her 332 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 6: mother Kekey and von Gretchen was a Miss Black America. 333 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 6: They I don't remember. Oh, I know. I was in 334 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 6: a beauty pageant called MS Bronze and I was fourteen. 335 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 6: I was fourteen and I run one first runner up 336 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 6: and miss Bronze and that's what made me meet Kiki 337 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:06,919 Speaker 6: and Vaughn and they just loved on me. They really 338 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 6: made me feel like family and they said how special 339 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 6: I was. And I started modeling as soon as the 340 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 6: pageant was over. I was in clubs and modeling with 341 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 6: them and doing all that. I don't know, it was 342 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 6: just interesting how that just unfolded into just walking and 343 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 6: performing and clothes and you know, they were like, keep 344 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 6: your head up and just there were certain things that 345 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 6: just came with being around them. Just crazy. I forgot 346 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 6: about them, but yeah, they put me in the mindset 347 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 6: of being in front of a crowd, right, more so 348 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,919 Speaker 6: than just you know, being a goofy kid somewhere. 349 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: But are you singing it still? 350 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 4: At the now? 351 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 6: I'm modeling at this point, I mean in my room, right. 352 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: But you're fully focused on. 353 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 6: I'm in high school and I'm just, yeah, not really 354 00:19:55,280 --> 00:20:00,639 Speaker 6: thinking of what could be. By seventeen eighteen, I started 355 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 6: thinking about, maybe it's what I can do because modeling 356 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 6: is out. I'm only five four, so you know, petite 357 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 6: modeling did not take off like I thought it would. 358 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 6: And so my mother was always thinking out of the box. 359 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:14,919 Speaker 6: So she was like, what do you want to do? 360 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 6: Whatever that is, let's work on that. So modeling was 361 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 6: it for a long time, just going out on catacauls 362 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 6: and trying to make it. I don't know. She always 363 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 6: made me think of any moment could be the moment 364 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:29,919 Speaker 6: for whatever it is. When I would go to the 365 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 6: grocery store, I'd be full on made up, and anywhere 366 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:37,160 Speaker 6: I go it was just makeup and hair and shoes, nails, 367 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 6: and it was just this thing. My mother always was 368 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 6: always about presenting myself a particular way, and it's good. 369 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 6: It was too much, but it was good to at 370 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 6: least have the bar. And then once I realized you 371 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 6: didn't have to work that hard at being pretty, you 372 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 6: know what I mean. It's not like you have to 373 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 6: have on a bunch of makeup. Sometimes natural is good. 374 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 6: My mother was always about just extra stuff, and I 375 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 6: call it. She was so guardy. She always had a 376 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 6: bunch of bracelets, earrings and lips. She was doing a lot, 377 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 6: and I think that makes me not want to do 378 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 6: it as much. And her always feeding me and loving 379 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 6: me so and pumping up and all of that. I 380 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:27,120 Speaker 6: was like, okay, okay, because if I'm not on stage, 381 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,879 Speaker 6: I don't really really I don't need all attention. I 382 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 6: don't need it. And I think there is something in 383 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 6: people who are performers that are that is there's a 384 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,439 Speaker 6: there's a monster that gets fed on stage, and that 385 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 6: what they want to feed that monster all the time. 386 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 6: And I'm just like, can we go home? And I'm 387 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 6: being a bed can I'll watch it on TV? But 388 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 6: I don't know's some and maybe that's from not being 389 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,159 Speaker 6: the center of attention as a kid, or when my 390 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 6: mother did pay attention, it was a whole and it 391 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 6: was like, oh Chante and Chantey is Chante was like yes, Mama, 392 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 6: over here is a Laton and here's Kilvin and here's 393 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 6: the other people. I just I don't know. So I 394 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 6: kind of have a thing that is there when I sing, 395 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,919 Speaker 6: which is what I try to make it about when 396 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:22,679 Speaker 6: I'm in concert is my voice. And I don't know, 397 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 6: I have a thing where I gotta like let myself 398 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 6: go and be able to jump off of the cliff 399 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,120 Speaker 6: a little bit more often sometimes. So yeah, I don't 400 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,160 Speaker 6: even know if I answered your question, But I'm back, no, no, no. 401 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 4: For the journey. 402 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 5: We want people to understand how people get to the 403 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 5: success and the process and the other things, you know 404 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 5: what I mean. Most people probably don't know that you 405 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 5: were a model at fourteen. They don't know that you 406 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So it's like for us, that's 407 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 5: that's a big part of our show. So we would 408 00:22:55,600 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 5: we love those type of answers. 409 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 4: We would have thought you were winning every talent show. 410 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, we thought you were singing in high school. 411 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 6: I did sing in the Beauty Pageant though. I sang brown. 412 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 1: Baby, you got to do It. 413 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 6: I did do that, and I sang to a little 414 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 6: big doll in the Swaddling Clues, and I sang the 415 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 6: brun baby rum Baby. So that was the only time 416 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 6: I had really sang anything that is crazy. 417 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,719 Speaker 3: I was in high school. I was singing my face 418 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 3: off everywhere, and you just. 419 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 6: And I wish I would have youthing's better. But I 420 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 6: think when I when I came out, I wish I'd 421 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:56,239 Speaker 6: had more preliminary work on performing live what to do 422 00:23:56,280 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 6: with my hands because at first this arm here was 423 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 6: like it was like you never watched the Flintstones and 424 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 6: the hands are always down here one hand, just one arm. 425 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:08,679 Speaker 1: It was. 426 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:12,159 Speaker 6: I was one it was and I went, I'd be 427 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,400 Speaker 6: like and lift it and then it would go back. 428 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 6: It's not cute. It's really not cute. 429 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 3: I know the group I'm trying to think of the 430 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 3: group that was before the flints are out of space and. 431 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 6: The one they wouldn't move, the arm that's my it 432 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 6: was paralyzed. And so I wish that I'd had more 433 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 6: work on how to present myself when I watch. And 434 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,199 Speaker 6: the thing about it is, I started. I knew how 435 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 6: to do my hair and my makeup, and so they 436 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 6: were cheap. They were like, oh, you do your hair 437 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 6: and you make up. Once I said I knew how, 438 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,639 Speaker 6: they were like, oh, you're not even gonna have nobody 439 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 6: do that. So you see me looking like me would 440 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 6: me would look, but not like I should have been styled. 441 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 6: I should have been make up and people should have 442 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 6: done those things. And I was doing it. I look 443 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 6: like church girl because that's why I was so my hair. 444 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 6: I just finished doing it and then I'd be on 445 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 6: showtime to the Apollo and the dress topic. That's crazy, 446 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 6: and you know, I just feel like I wish somebody 447 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 6: would have done. 448 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 3: You would do all of those things for sure. But 449 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:33,679 Speaker 3: I'll just tell you outside looking at and we're going 450 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,159 Speaker 3: to go back to finish the story we did. We 451 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 3: did not notice, We didn't know. We just like, right, 452 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:47,360 Speaker 3: she's incredible. That's that's all we So I get it. 453 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, to give me the moment where. 454 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 3: Where you now believe where you know this this you 455 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 3: as a solo artist, singer, like you circle. When you 456 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 3: finally circle back to your both. 457 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 5: Of those, it's like, oh, yeah, you know what, I 458 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 5: can't model. Maybe'll so we never get shun to say more. 459 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 5: If you go to five nine or five. 460 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 6: Ten, No, you probably wouldn't. Probably not. That would have 461 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 6: been nice, would be nice to be taller. 462 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 1: The things that happened your legs stop. 463 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 6: Bro, I thought of it, but that's so painful. 464 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 3: And when it looked like it took him a year 465 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 3: to get his walking back, I said, now I'm. 466 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,919 Speaker 6: Good, Like that's be grateful moment. 467 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 4: Take this five ten and deal with it. 468 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 6: Yeah, five ten, I'm gonna deal with that. Seventeen eighteen eighteen, 469 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 6: I met a guy I was modeling at these clubs. 470 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 6: We had these modeling groups, and we were midling. I 471 00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 6: got the name of the club. But we were modeling 472 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:05,400 Speaker 6: my and this one football player saw me and started 473 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 6: buying all the outfits that I was in, and. 474 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 4: You what do you mean? 475 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 6: And people could auction. We auction the clothes like if 476 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,439 Speaker 6: they go, oh, twenty five dollars, I was, you know, 477 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,640 Speaker 6: through somebody go oh thirty dollars, okay, when I turn 478 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 6: and poth and okay. And then whenever they get the 479 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 6: last bid, you give him the card and they get 480 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 6: that dress. And so he started buying the dresses I 481 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 6: was in. And after the Momming show, this is so bananas. 482 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 6: I haven't eve thought it was forever h and uh. 483 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 6: So afterward I was like, oh, you know, here's all 484 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,639 Speaker 6: your cards and you know, outfits go to He was 485 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 6: like you. I'm like, oh, shoot, okay. I don't remember 486 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 6: what happened after that, but after that he wanted me 487 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 6: in those outfits of course, and he heard some of 488 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 6: my songs that I just was doing at home, and 489 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 6: I told him I wanted to sing, and he was like, well, 490 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 6: I'm going to build a place in my house that 491 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:16,439 Speaker 6: you've just come over and sing. So I would go 492 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:20,160 Speaker 6: to his house and sing, and I don't know how 493 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,400 Speaker 6: this happened. This sounds so bizarre because I haven't talked 494 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 6: about this in a long time. This is weird. But 495 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 6: I had a keyboard and a four track which turned 496 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:34,880 Speaker 6: into a six track recording thing, and I started just 497 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 6: trying to create songs. And wow, seventeen eighteen, I wrote 498 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,480 Speaker 6: a song that's on my first album and it was 499 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 6: called Listen to My Song. And Darryl Sutton was in 500 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 6: San Diego, and I don't know how it got connected, 501 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 6: but he had a person who knew had a studio, 502 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 6: and I went in the studio and I sang some 503 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 6: songs and Daryl's and connected me to some girl. Forgot 504 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 6: his name, her name right now, but she was an 505 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 6: assistant to Benny Medina, and somehow that connection happened and 506 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 6: they got my demo and they said yes, and Bennie 507 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 6: Medina signed me to Warner brother Records when I was eighteen, 508 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 6: and I recorded an entire album and after I finished it, 509 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 6: he dropped me, and then. 510 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,960 Speaker 1: You did the whole album, though I did full project. 511 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 6: Full project, and he dropped me. And I met Eldbarche 512 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 6: here in La at a stage production. I forgot where 513 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 6: it was, though it's in Culver City, because when. 514 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: You signed the Warner Brothers, you moved to LA. 515 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 6: I what did I do? I did not move to LA. 516 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 6: I was still in San Diego. I recorded my album 517 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 6: in Sacramento. I got connected to Jay King and they said, 518 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 6: they said, you know, work with him and he'll produce 519 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 6: your record. He's hot right now whatever, and I'm like, okay. 520 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 6: So I did an entire project. And then actually I 521 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 6: met Brian Morgan during that time because he was in 522 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 6: the group Cachet Deuvois and so that was he was 523 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 6: signed to Jay as well. And after I finished, Yeah, 524 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 6: I did a stage production met El DeBarge. Chased El 525 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 6: DeBarge because he was just like the most talented and 526 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,400 Speaker 6: you know, the light skinned thing was really really in 527 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 6: at that time, and so I talked to his manager 528 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 6: more than I talked to him, because l it was 529 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 6: just like everywhere. And his manager was Fred Moultrie, who 530 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 6: was Prince's accountant and so he had all these things 531 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 6: in Lucas said he was representing him. It was a 532 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 6: whole bunch of people on the wall. And I called 533 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 6: him to find out how do I get a manager? 534 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 6: How do I get somebody who actually would take me 535 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:58,719 Speaker 6: where I need to go because I don't know how 536 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 6: to I don't know how to do this. And he 537 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 6: was like, i've heard your demo, I'll represent you. And 538 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 6: I was like, get the heck out, and so we 539 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 6: took the album I made for Warner Brothers, condensed it 540 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 6: and that was my demo. We went to La Face 541 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 6: MCA and it seemed like one other place, but it 542 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 6: was the battle between La Face and MCA Records, and 543 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 6: Tony Braxton had just signed with La Face and Louil 544 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 6: was just so gung ho. Loul called La and Face 545 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 6: and ask him not to sign me because we were 546 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 6: going to go with them because of the songwriting, and 547 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 6: they said okay, And that's how I ended up at 548 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,040 Speaker 6: MCA Records. 549 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 4: Wow. 550 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:50,880 Speaker 1: And this is after stay right week about You? 551 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 6: Yes, that was the time where I was in Takama, 552 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 6: That's where I met him. Yeah. 553 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 1: How did you feel the first time you heard that? 554 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 3: Right? 555 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: Did you even know it was about you at first? 556 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 6: I did? I remember the day. I don't know who's 557 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 6: whose apartment it was it could I think it might 558 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 6: have been Brian's. I'm not really sure, but we were 559 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 6: sitting and he was because I dated Jay King, which 560 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 6: is well known because I rarely mentioned his name, but 561 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 6: nevertheless he said, whenever I see you with him, I 562 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 6: hear this, And he wrote that. He said it was 563 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:37,840 Speaker 6: a circus. And he said, and you when you're not 564 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 6: with him, right, I hear this the little that's the 565 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 6: first I heard. He didn't play the whole thing, but 566 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 6: that was the part. He said, that was what I 567 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 6: make him think of. And then he wrote the song 568 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 6: and did he definitely did play for me. 569 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 3: But that is so great. 570 00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 1: Did you think it was a hit when you heard it? 571 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 6: You know, I like the song, but I like Brian's songs. 572 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 6: He I love what they did well. He had songs 573 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 6: that never came out. It was a song called wrong, 574 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 6: just like five and five just don't make nine. I 575 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 6: was like wrong. So he always had songs that were great. 576 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 6: But I didn't know it to be a hit or 577 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 6: not a hit. I think music is what I love, 578 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,479 Speaker 6: and so I didn't know if it was a hit 579 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 6: or not. 580 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:28,440 Speaker 3: M So you get the little silence, Yeah, yeah, and 581 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 3: he's cracking at this time. Yeah, And you had been 582 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 3: signed to you know, the Bennymdenny thing and all this, 583 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 3: and and now you're here with Louil, what is what 584 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,520 Speaker 3: do you feel like? Is the difference in this opportunity 585 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 3: versus that one. 586 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:48,480 Speaker 6: His excitement, his knowing what he wanted from me. He 587 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,840 Speaker 6: wasn't trying to make me something else. He heard my 588 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,400 Speaker 6: voice and he wanted me to be the next with Houston, 589 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 6: the k next Mariah care You are mine, wouldn't you? 590 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,479 Speaker 6: You are mine, Mariah? You are going to be the 591 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 6: biggest thing better. So I love that he had such 592 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,600 Speaker 6: vision and he was so excited. You can't buy people 593 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:08,200 Speaker 6: being excited about you, especially in the music industry. Everybody's 594 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 6: always thinking of the next something else other than you. 595 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:18,280 Speaker 6: So it was nice to be to have his excitement 596 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:22,399 Speaker 6: about me. I didn't have to hype him up for me. Yeah, 597 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:25,759 Speaker 6: it was just my dreams coming true. And what was 598 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,480 Speaker 6: interesting because he signed me to MCA Records, and that 599 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,319 Speaker 6: was just the Lord protecting me from what was going 600 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:36,160 Speaker 6: to happen, because my career would have been over after 601 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:41,680 Speaker 6: one record. Because he signed me to MCA and then 602 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:45,719 Speaker 6: asked me to be his first release off Silas Records 603 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,400 Speaker 6: and then Silace Records was really a setup for a 604 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 6: little to go down. They were tired of his antics. 605 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,800 Speaker 6: He was a lovely person, but he was a bulldog 606 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,360 Speaker 6: and he always is was cussing and yelling and screaming 607 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,239 Speaker 6: and popping veins at people, and. 608 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,960 Speaker 1: Maybe the record man. He was a record man, he was, but. 609 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 6: He burned some bridges with that attitude he had. He 610 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,359 Speaker 6: made a lot of things wonderful, and his era was 611 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 6: just ending when he met me, when I met him. 612 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,520 Speaker 6: So then they gave him the label to sink him right. 613 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:29,240 Speaker 6: So once that happened, then I was right on the 614 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 6: NCAA Records again after that went away. 615 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,800 Speaker 5: So once once they dissolved Silence Records, then they picked 616 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:37,800 Speaker 5: you back up, though. 617 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,279 Speaker 6: They never let me go. As their point, we want 618 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:41,280 Speaker 6: her what's. 619 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 3: The what's the what's the terms? No, there's there's a 620 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:51,560 Speaker 3: there's a term in the contract where once where all 621 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:52,840 Speaker 3: the artists. 622 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,960 Speaker 5: Revert back to Yeah, I know you're talking about I 623 00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,920 Speaker 5: can't think of the name. It's kind of just a 624 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,840 Speaker 5: absorbing absorb it, but it's in the contract. 625 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,359 Speaker 4: But they move if we don't fuck with that no more, 626 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:06,719 Speaker 4: we still need those. 627 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:10,680 Speaker 5: Back no, because I think, and this is a really 628 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,680 Speaker 5: important part to talk about during the show too, is 629 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:18,880 Speaker 5: that most of these labels aren't actually labels. 630 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:19,839 Speaker 4: You know what I mean. 631 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:24,200 Speaker 5: They're production companies, and they don't have true ownership in 632 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 5: their companies, and their masters are still owned by and 633 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:34,600 Speaker 5: still you know, promoted and licensed and distributed by this 634 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:35,480 Speaker 5: parent company. 635 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,520 Speaker 1: So the artists aren't their actual artists. 636 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,600 Speaker 5: And you young executives and you young brothers who are 637 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,120 Speaker 5: starting your labels and doing your thing, make sure that 638 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,440 Speaker 5: your artists are your artists, not the distributors artists, not 639 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 5: the parent companies artists, because they will sink your company 640 00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:55,560 Speaker 5: and absorb your artists. 641 00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,000 Speaker 6: But I was directly signed first third. I will say 642 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:00,800 Speaker 6: that that is not exact actly how it went, but 643 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,200 Speaker 6: I do understand what you're saying to teach the audience, 644 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,719 Speaker 6: teach artists that that does happen. But I literally was 645 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,640 Speaker 6: signed to because he. 646 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,520 Speaker 1: Was an executive there. First they gave him. 647 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 6: Then the label happened. So then he asked me to 648 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:13,680 Speaker 6: just wait, and I waited. 649 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,680 Speaker 3: So did you drop on your initial did you come 650 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:20,239 Speaker 3: out on your initial deal with MCA? Yeah, when the 651 00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:20,960 Speaker 3: first first. 652 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,000 Speaker 6: Precious came out, Precious was on Silas, So I waited 653 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,440 Speaker 6: because they were building Silas when I got signed in 654 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:28,880 Speaker 6: ninety one. And then he wanted me to wait till 655 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 6: ninety two to come out so that I could be 656 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:35,080 Speaker 6: on his label. And in between that, I did the 657 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,600 Speaker 6: song with eld Barge you know what I Like? And 658 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:44,280 Speaker 6: that was how I met the director. Ant He did 659 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,359 Speaker 6: that you Know What I Like video, which is why 660 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,680 Speaker 6: Antoine Fuquad did Loves taking Over video in Paris, which 661 00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,520 Speaker 6: is why Ntwine Fuqua did It's all Right video. 662 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,560 Speaker 3: And that's just a bar nex suerbar, that's a super. 663 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:57,960 Speaker 1: Bar because now he's doing a Jackson movie. He's doing 664 00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:59,200 Speaker 1: a Michael Jackson movie now too? 665 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,680 Speaker 3: Are you kidding your Jesus Christas? 666 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,640 Speaker 4: Were you thinking that this is Banana's. 667 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,600 Speaker 1: At the time, not that he was. 668 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,000 Speaker 6: I had no idea, but but it was just my 669 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,040 Speaker 6: dreams were coming true. That's for sure. Mind blowing. Going 670 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,040 Speaker 6: to Paris in the first place. I'm like, we're going, 671 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,600 Speaker 6: we get to go. We went in two days and 672 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,360 Speaker 6: shot it. It was just Banana. 673 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,160 Speaker 1: Had you ever been overseas before that? 674 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 6: I went to London, but that was it. 675 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, shooting your video, yeah. 676 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,480 Speaker 6: In Paris used to be first single. 677 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:40,480 Speaker 4: First single, that's disrespect. 678 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:46,440 Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, Now when you look at Louell, that 679 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,240 Speaker 6: was what it was about. Louil was about making epic 680 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,000 Speaker 6: things happen. The stuff he did, I mean, if we 681 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:57,359 Speaker 6: look back at his track record, it's amazing. I mean, 682 00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,560 Speaker 6: just one group, and then how we were talking about 683 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,680 Speaker 6: you as about different artists stemming from those other all 684 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,640 Speaker 6: those groups, and then all the people who came after that, 685 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,080 Speaker 6: and then that producing all the people that came after that. 686 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,879 Speaker 5: I'm a product of Blue gave me my first record 687 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,480 Speaker 5: here as a kid ten years old, no side as junior, Like. 688 00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:19,520 Speaker 1: There's so many the tree. 689 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:25,680 Speaker 5: Of the people that he's worked or worked with, and man, 690 00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,600 Speaker 5: it's vision vision. 691 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:33,600 Speaker 3: As we talk about like a lot of the record 692 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:43,279 Speaker 3: company men and women who were shall we say, boisterous, yes, 693 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:50,239 Speaker 3: and big in personality, I just don't feel like and 694 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,839 Speaker 3: it gets to a point to where, yes, a lot 695 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:58,359 Speaker 3: of these guys end up getting pushed and phased out, 696 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:04,320 Speaker 3: for sure, But I feel like, as you guys say 697 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:11,279 Speaker 3: you're connected to that kind of guy, I'm connected to 698 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:17,520 Speaker 3: that kind of guy who was not shy about telling 699 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:18,960 Speaker 3: the motherfucker. 700 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:22,160 Speaker 5: If you're not doing your job. Try, I mean, because 701 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,960 Speaker 5: that's the other thing. Try sitting in those meetings and 702 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,120 Speaker 5: you got a table full of people who are just 703 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,480 Speaker 5: trying to get a two week check, and you are 704 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:34,080 Speaker 5: a record man. When passion who wants to take his 705 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:38,839 Speaker 5: brand new artist who's never saw a record to Paris, 706 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:38,719 Speaker 5: come on. 707 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:41,000 Speaker 1: You're gonna have to jump on the table. 708 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:42,920 Speaker 5: You're gonna have to You're gonna have to do some 709 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,720 Speaker 5: screaming because you have to make people see the vision 710 00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:50,080 Speaker 5: because everyone is not a visionary, no matter. You may 711 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:51,719 Speaker 5: be in the music business, but that does not make 712 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:57,080 Speaker 5: you a visionary. So being a visionary is really tough because. 713 00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,720 Speaker 1: You got to be able to articulate it. You gotta 714 00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,680 Speaker 1: be able to show it to the people. 715 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:03,160 Speaker 6: Champion, champion. 716 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,840 Speaker 5: But then you gotta gotta be a little boisterous about it. 717 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,800 Speaker 5: You gotta fight tooth and fucking you gotta make it. 718 00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:12,759 Speaker 5: You gotta make somebody feel like if I don't do that, 719 00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:14,560 Speaker 5: I'm fucking up. 720 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:18,640 Speaker 6: Yeah, she do need to go to Paris because you 721 00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:22,400 Speaker 6: put this song, that beautiful artist in his voice. 722 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:24,680 Speaker 1: You gotta put it in parents. 723 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,120 Speaker 5: But the person that's looking at the bottom line, looking 724 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:29,200 Speaker 5: at the P and L, they're like. 725 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,759 Speaker 1: That's it's gonna be a line on that. Well, we're 726 00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:34,000 Speaker 1: gonna make a superstar. 727 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,400 Speaker 6: When you get the person who is in power, who's 728 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,000 Speaker 6: behind you, and that was at that time Louell was 729 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,480 Speaker 6: that person. So he did I'm sure have to have 730 00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,719 Speaker 6: something brewed by a d or whoever it was in 731 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,480 Speaker 6: charge of whatever. But he was mainly the one like, Okay, 732 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,959 Speaker 6: this is our budget, right, let's make this part happen. 733 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,560 Speaker 6: We'll cut back on this and do that, and we'll 734 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,800 Speaker 6: travel here and we'll do so he was making stuff 735 00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,960 Speaker 6: happen that that's what you want to happen. When the 736 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,120 Speaker 6: Special Union. 737 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:04,400 Speaker 3: If you believe, you believe, listen, I spent I spent 738 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:08,799 Speaker 3: five hundred thousand on the first video, seven hundred on 739 00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:15,120 Speaker 3: the second. Like this is like black dar little boutique label. 740 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,840 Speaker 3: Barry Hankinson, Joe will Say. Hankerson said, we are not 741 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:22,680 Speaker 3: gonna fucking lose. We're gonna bet the ranch. He had 742 00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:36,319 Speaker 3: actual and I watched him call everybody all sorts of motherfuckers, sons. 743 00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:44,960 Speaker 4: In my honor, like all those men like that shot up. 744 00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:49,080 Speaker 3: Uh goanna say many, many blessings and prayers to the 745 00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:49,680 Speaker 3: Gotty family. 746 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:51,840 Speaker 4: Earth Gotti, who was another. 747 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:56,480 Speaker 3: Guy like that recordmen who called me out of the 748 00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:01,560 Speaker 3: blue one day, dank, I'm riding my fucking jeep. 749 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,400 Speaker 4: You know it's fucking R and B shit. I like. 750 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:05,960 Speaker 4: I like some of the R and B shit. 751 00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,839 Speaker 3: I like it. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. 752 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,400 Speaker 3: But all that fucking lovey duffy. You know I'm a 753 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:16,080 Speaker 3: streak guy, but that fucking maybe I deserve, not the 754 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:21,719 Speaker 3: fucking record I'm playing it right now, Like that energy 755 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:29,240 Speaker 3: for an artist's. 756 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:27,920 Speaker 4: Everything made me feel like a conquer the world. 757 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:32,600 Speaker 3: When I hear motherfucker saying, motherfucker on my behalf, you 758 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,920 Speaker 3: played this motherfucking record, but we're gonna kill you. 759 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,560 Speaker 1: That's the far they can't say. They can't say that, 760 00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:40,279 Speaker 1: that's that part. 761 00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:47,080 Speaker 5: You gotta omit that we're gonna break you. 762 00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:50,239 Speaker 6: This like, yeah, that's why. 763 00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:55,000 Speaker 3: That's why ninety eight percent of us are here because 764 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:59,920 Speaker 3: of that fight. It wasn't an analytic it was a feeling. 765 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:02,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm. 766 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,440 Speaker 3: Gonna fight for this feeling that I had. This Shante 767 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,799 Speaker 3: More is something fucking special. You better fucking play this 768 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:10,680 Speaker 3: record or I'm coming out there. 769 00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,080 Speaker 6: But you know what also happened in the middle of 770 00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,600 Speaker 6: that time period, right in the middle of my record, 771 00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:22,239 Speaker 6: my first record going up the charts. It was this 772 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:27,160 Speaker 6: shift that happened. It was a Paola first and then 773 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,400 Speaker 6: it began to be what is the thing when they 774 00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:33,000 Speaker 6: had the no it was like or your records were 775 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,680 Speaker 6: here if you played that many of them. There was 776 00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:37,520 Speaker 6: as a word for it, and I can't remember the 777 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:43,640 Speaker 6: name of it. BDS and sound Scan, and so when 778 00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,600 Speaker 6: that happened, it was like the shift happened. And it 779 00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,320 Speaker 6: was interesting as I was paying attention to s WV 780 00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,239 Speaker 6: at the time and because of knowing Brian and him 781 00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,640 Speaker 6: producing them and their first song and mine was here, 782 00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,080 Speaker 6: and then BDS and SoundScan took over and mine ended 783 00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,880 Speaker 6: up there hmmm, because they were getting more airplay being that, 784 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,760 Speaker 6: you know, so you and my song I guess wasn't 785 00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,440 Speaker 6: as much as that, and so it got switched. And 786 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:14,120 Speaker 6: I just saw how it was so hard to quote 787 00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:18,560 Speaker 6: unquote work the charts after that, and not that things 788 00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,160 Speaker 6: didn't do well, it was fine. I just think that 789 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:25,120 Speaker 6: I don't know, I'm the kind of artist everybody's always like, oh, 790 00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,560 Speaker 6: you're so underrated and you should have and you could have, 791 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,440 Speaker 6: and know we hoped you would, and I don't know, 792 00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:34,200 Speaker 6: I just feel like it's always been this almost made 793 00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,759 Speaker 6: it kind of thing, and I'm grateful. Don't let me 794 00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,879 Speaker 6: make it something that I'm thinking that I haven't had 795 00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,600 Speaker 6: a successful career. I have, and I feel like sustaining 796 00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,239 Speaker 6: is even better than being a shooting star and then 797 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,680 Speaker 6: disappearing because a lot of people came out around my 798 00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,560 Speaker 6: time and they're gone and I can't even remember their 799 00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:55,239 Speaker 6: names or their songs. I remember one song and you're like, 800 00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:55,759 Speaker 6: who's sang that? 801 00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:56,080 Speaker 3: Again? 802 00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:57,120 Speaker 6: I forgot what the girl was? 803 00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:58,200 Speaker 4: That what happens? 804 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:02,040 Speaker 6: And so I'm really really grateful to have had this 805 00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:07,319 Speaker 6: almost under the radar career where I've been honing my 806 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:12,279 Speaker 6: craft still and still performing and still trying to get 807 00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:16,480 Speaker 6: better and still paying attention to the audience and feeding 808 00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,440 Speaker 6: them and them feeding me and making me feel loved. 809 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,879 Speaker 6: That's been a roller coaster ride, but it's been good. 810 00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:38,719 Speaker 3: The shooting star thing, I mean, I was that haunted 811 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:43,759 Speaker 3: me for a long time. It's like, I'm better than 812 00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:51,719 Speaker 3: that motherfucker. And I was like, I was like, I 813 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:53,920 Speaker 3: just really want to do this for a really long time, 814 00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:58,880 Speaker 3: and I just kind of got I got settled in. 815 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,040 Speaker 3: I was like, what is what is my reason for 816 00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,440 Speaker 3: being here? What is what is what is my purpose? 817 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:11,319 Speaker 3: What is my design? And it was it was. It 818 00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:13,600 Speaker 3: was a guy by the name of Jamie Fox saying, man, 819 00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,360 Speaker 3: I study you. I love what you're doing. Like, Wow, 820 00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:20,480 Speaker 3: you're you're the blueprint man. Keep doing that. It was 821 00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:22,960 Speaker 3: a guy my name of Chris Brown said, oh my god, 822 00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:25,799 Speaker 3: bro that sex, love and pain. I changed my freaking life. 823 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:31,560 Speaker 3: Oh Trey songs, I can't believe. Like jojoh I singing 824 00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,759 Speaker 3: no for No, it goes and I'm like, h h, 825 00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,640 Speaker 3: That's what I'm here for. And I settled out of 826 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:44,520 Speaker 3: the the wanting the shooting star moment, and I said, 827 00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:48,280 Speaker 3: I just I just want my start to shine constantly. 828 00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:53,680 Speaker 3: And that's what I feel like. You are, like you're 829 00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:58,799 Speaker 3: you're You're You're You're timeless. No matter when or how 830 00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,680 Speaker 3: we see you, you always shine. 831 00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:07,640 Speaker 1: See you guys are like the nurse star. 832 00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,920 Speaker 3: People who can people who can sing right, people are 833 00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:13,160 Speaker 3: musically inclined. 834 00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:14,320 Speaker 1: Are your way to freedom? 835 00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:20,440 Speaker 3: No, who know exactly who in the fun Jane Moore is. 836 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,040 Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely, it's not even a quest. That's not even 837 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:24,520 Speaker 5: the question the question. 838 00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:29,400 Speaker 3: And so some of some of some of our gifts, 839 00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:35,520 Speaker 3: some of us gifted, we are relegated to inspire and 840 00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:39,560 Speaker 3: and push and and help and serve. 841 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:43,880 Speaker 6: The gifted and our audience. I've seen you live and 842 00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,480 Speaker 6: that's when I really really became a fan. I saw 843 00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,879 Speaker 6: you move around that stage. I saw you play and 844 00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:55,719 Speaker 6: sing and move all of the women that were in 845 00:48:55,800 --> 00:49:02,800 Speaker 6: the audience, and no, for real, like really just be 846 00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,479 Speaker 6: sexy and you know it, and and there was like, yeah, 847 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,200 Speaker 6: their minds about you and I you know, you can't 848 00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:15,480 Speaker 6: get that from the album. You can make moments personally 849 00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:19,640 Speaker 6: with your album is very sexy, but you don't know 850 00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:21,960 Speaker 6: who you are as an artist until you see you. 851 00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,480 Speaker 6: Like I feel like it's like seeing Patti LaBelle lives. 852 00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,879 Speaker 6: You can't contain her voice, and I feel like that's 853 00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:31,960 Speaker 6: the thing that you are as well. I feel like 854 00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:35,759 Speaker 6: that's where I can shine and have fun and fall 855 00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:37,799 Speaker 6: down and get back up again, and it's all right 856 00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:42,600 Speaker 6: because because what you're gonna do and a real concert, 857 00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:44,440 Speaker 6: you can't. You fall down and you sing from floor 858 00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:46,640 Speaker 6: or you get back up. Whatever you're gonna do, you 859 00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:49,759 Speaker 6: do it. And that's the mindset that I had already 860 00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:54,600 Speaker 6: figured out, is that I'm not about the perfection. If 861 00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:56,319 Speaker 6: I mess up my own, so I'm like, oh, I 862 00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,799 Speaker 6: messed up the words. Let's get back to it and 863 00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:00,839 Speaker 6: then you know, sing what it comes to mind. 864 00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:03,319 Speaker 3: That's another part of your gift where you're you know, 865 00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,279 Speaker 3: you're just you're resilient in that. 866 00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,680 Speaker 6: That is one of my words that describe myself as resilient, 867 00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:10,719 Speaker 6: resilient in that. 868 00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:11,640 Speaker 1: Now. 869 00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:15,799 Speaker 5: But you bring up also with and I feel like 870 00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:19,319 Speaker 5: with both of you where the whole shooting star thing. 871 00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:23,120 Speaker 5: But you guys did get success out the gate too, 872 00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,960 Speaker 5: though It's not like it was like Okay, well it's 873 00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:28,880 Speaker 5: a sputter a little bit, but like get a gold album. 874 00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:30,799 Speaker 1: You got cracking, you know what. 875 00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:33,279 Speaker 5: I mean, Like you hit records from the beginning, so 876 00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,680 Speaker 5: you know, I think it's now and people having an 877 00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,640 Speaker 5: understanding of that, like now it's maintaining it. 878 00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:42,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, now it's maintaining it. 879 00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,480 Speaker 5: And like the next projects and the you know, the 880 00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:47,920 Speaker 5: label things and all the other things that happened that. 881 00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:50,440 Speaker 1: The public usually does not know. 882 00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:54,600 Speaker 5: The public don't know that the parent company is trying 883 00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,439 Speaker 5: to sink the smaller. 884 00:50:56,160 --> 00:51:00,520 Speaker 1: Label and that you're just kind of collaboral damage. 885 00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,359 Speaker 6: Nobody cared, and that nobody cares about that. What they 886 00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,439 Speaker 6: care about is what they hear on the radio. What's 887 00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:09,200 Speaker 6: interesting is I remember some of the questions you all 888 00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:11,719 Speaker 6: sent us ahead of time. Made me think of a 889 00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:17,840 Speaker 6: situation that puff Daddy was in the studio and I 890 00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:22,040 Speaker 6: had already done a record with Rodney Jerkins, and my 891 00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:25,040 Speaker 6: song was called If I Gave Love. Hers was if 892 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:28,799 Speaker 6: You Had My Life, same song. Puff Daddy heard my 893 00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:32,440 Speaker 6: song and said, I want that song for j Lo. 894 00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:37,160 Speaker 6: And Roddy was like that that Chante's song, and he said, 895 00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:41,839 Speaker 6: I want that song. So powerful people get what they want, 896 00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:46,160 Speaker 6: and so they made their own song that they made 897 00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:50,239 Speaker 6: for me for her same song. And that's a thing 898 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,880 Speaker 6: I wish that I would have been more aggressive and 899 00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:56,040 Speaker 6: been more like, well, let's put them both at the 900 00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:56,480 Speaker 6: same time. 901 00:51:56,520 --> 00:52:00,680 Speaker 3: Then I was all about to say that, and we. 902 00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:03,040 Speaker 6: Did, but we did, and I was like, how can 903 00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:07,960 Speaker 6: I compete with j Lo money? They were coming so 904 00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:12,040 Speaker 6: high and I had already just I just had Jantie's 905 00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,759 Speaker 6: Got a Mantle. That was my one two punch. That 906 00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:17,520 Speaker 6: was the two and I just feel like we just 907 00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:22,640 Speaker 6: like b After that, I'm like, okay, well uh yeah, 908 00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:26,520 Speaker 6: so we'll see you know, it's all good. What's wonderful 909 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:31,680 Speaker 6: is that learning the lessons and understanding which purpose is. 910 00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:38,399 Speaker 6: My purpose is to sing and inspire the audience, not 911 00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:43,560 Speaker 6: necessarily other artist. I think that when you sing for 912 00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,160 Speaker 6: the people who support you, the people who show up, 913 00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:51,440 Speaker 6: especially being a believer, these are the things that move me. 914 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,960 Speaker 6: Is when I move my audience, when I encourage them 915 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:56,799 Speaker 6: and let them know they're not alone, and they get 916 00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:00,520 Speaker 6: into this thing because you know, people see the look 917 00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:03,920 Speaker 6: of things and I'm like, yeah, no, the glitter, lipstick 918 00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:08,160 Speaker 6: and makeup and all this stuff comes off. I'm really 919 00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,960 Speaker 6: just a girl. And it really is true because heartbreak comes, 920 00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:16,000 Speaker 6: sadness comes, depression comes, not knowing my worth, all of 921 00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:20,480 Speaker 6: the things, jealousy, everything comes as a human and then 922 00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:22,960 Speaker 6: being a woman on top of that, and you have 923 00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:26,759 Speaker 6: to deal with it whether or not you sing for 924 00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:34,600 Speaker 6: a living or if you're working at Target. So that 925 00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,279 Speaker 6: is what I realized through the years that I am 926 00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:42,120 Speaker 6: made to do is inspire and talk about who God 927 00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:45,760 Speaker 6: is when I'm on stage and try to encourage somebody 928 00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,960 Speaker 6: to believe when they don't believe. No more. Yeah, that's 929 00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:50,400 Speaker 6: what I'm supposed to do. I love it. 930 00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:55,840 Speaker 3: Give me a moment when you were on stage and 931 00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:59,920 Speaker 3: you realize for the first time you had a hit record. 932 00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:08,680 Speaker 6: Yeah, well, yeah, well it's funny because I did Soul 933 00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:16,960 Speaker 6: Train and don Cornelius, Cornelius, Cornelius, I'm gonna say, Cornelius asked. 934 00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:19,640 Speaker 6: He asked, Liul, did we pay people in the audience 935 00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,360 Speaker 6: to get excited about that song? And Loul was like, 936 00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:25,759 Speaker 6: who's having done that? He was like, but people are 937 00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,480 Speaker 6: really reacted to that immediately, and he was like, what 938 00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:31,080 Speaker 6: do you want me to do? So that was one 939 00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,000 Speaker 6: moment I was like, people really must like the song. 940 00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:38,360 Speaker 6: And then I did a show, a radio show with 941 00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:44,920 Speaker 6: Destiny's Child, and I remember uh singing on that caliber 942 00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:49,440 Speaker 6: of a show and the people were singing so loud 943 00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:52,799 Speaker 6: I couldn't hear myself and little white girls and that 944 00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,000 Speaker 6: I had never had that before because you know, we're black, 945 00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:58,319 Speaker 6: and they played black music on black radio. Unless you 946 00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:01,200 Speaker 6: cross over, nobody's gonna nobody in another race is going 947 00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:04,560 Speaker 6: to really So that song was doing so well. I 948 00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:07,160 Speaker 6: was on a radio show with Destiny's Child, so I 949 00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:09,120 Speaker 6: was out there and I watched the people sing it back, 950 00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,719 Speaker 6: and it did take me aback, like I was like, 951 00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:14,319 Speaker 6: what y'all, Oh, y'all noticed? Okay, So it was a 952 00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:16,680 Speaker 6: radio show, and then what's interesting is after that show 953 00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:20,760 Speaker 6: is what is even more memorable. Beyonce was like, huh, 954 00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:22,759 Speaker 6: your somethach smaller than mine? You had a baby, yes, 955 00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:27,520 Speaker 6: something smaller than mine. Okay. She was like, I'm gonna 956 00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:33,440 Speaker 6: have to get to work and latch there, Hippa. I 957 00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:35,920 Speaker 6: watched her and I love it. I loved it and 958 00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:37,799 Speaker 6: I hated it at the same time because it was 959 00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:43,680 Speaker 6: just like wow, like how a career can just and 960 00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:48,400 Speaker 6: I and I love it because I love the She 961 00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:51,200 Speaker 6: was a star then, and we you know, in the 962 00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:53,200 Speaker 6: group of all of them, it was beautiful and we're 963 00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:55,760 Speaker 6: all were like group, group, group. We were like our eyes, 964 00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:59,520 Speaker 6: we're not leaving her. I think that's when you see 965 00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:00,880 Speaker 6: the actor in a group. 966 00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:04,080 Speaker 1: But then the work she put. 967 00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:08,960 Speaker 6: In, yeah, to maintain it and still a whole another level. 968 00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:11,879 Speaker 6: But that was one of the moments. And I still, 969 00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:16,400 Speaker 6: honestly every time they say Shanta more ninety five percent 970 00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:18,520 Speaker 6: of the time they say my name backstage when I'm 971 00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:21,400 Speaker 6: about to go on, and I go, shoot, that's me, 972 00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:30,239 Speaker 6: Like it's me because that's my name since a kid. 973 00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:33,879 Speaker 6: I was not like it's another name. I'm not like, yeah, 974 00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:40,680 Speaker 6: that lady. 975 00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:39,839 Speaker 4: I was taking a baby too well. 976 00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:41,160 Speaker 6: But you know it's a weird thing. 977 00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:43,200 Speaker 1: How you mentioned the record. 978 00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,040 Speaker 5: How do y'all come up with that with saying like, Okay, 979 00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:49,880 Speaker 5: this is what we're going to call the song Shantees 980 00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:51,080 Speaker 5: got a man. 981 00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:56,120 Speaker 6: Jimmy and Terry and I were sitting in the studio 982 00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,480 Speaker 6: writing many songs because. 983 00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:01,680 Speaker 4: Still stop there. 984 00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:14,440 Speaker 6: Yeah, it was just a studio in Minneapolis, but it 985 00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:18,040 Speaker 6: was incredible. Honestly, we had been in the studio for 986 00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:20,400 Speaker 6: almost a year and a half. It had taken to 987 00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:22,760 Speaker 6: make this record. It was a long time. Every time 988 00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:25,760 Speaker 6: we came home they were little, was like yeah, no, 989 00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,240 Speaker 6: I mean it's good, but we need we need that song. 990 00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:34,000 Speaker 6: And I remember Jimmy jam said you need a ghetto song, 991 00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:38,360 Speaker 6: like you need John Day's ghetto song, and so we 992 00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,320 Speaker 6: all went huh. And he was like, you know, like 993 00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:44,760 Speaker 6: that Kelly Price kind of thing, you know that thing? 994 00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:48,000 Speaker 6: And I was like, okay, so big jim I rest 995 00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,440 Speaker 6: his soul. He started playing something on the keys and 996 00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:56,080 Speaker 6: I was talking about how my friends all were upset 997 00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:59,160 Speaker 6: in the mad and their boyfriends were cheating and beating 998 00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:02,440 Speaker 6: them up literally uh, And I was like, sorry, I'm 999 00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:04,160 Speaker 6: really happy. I don't know what to say to you. 1000 00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:06,880 Speaker 6: I'm sorry your man ain't home, really feel bad for you, 1001 00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:10,160 Speaker 6: but I was so giddy and happy that I couldn't 1002 00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:15,240 Speaker 6: I could I could uh empathize because everybody's had the heartbroken, 1003 00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,920 Speaker 6: everybody had somebody cheat, everybody's had the man who's not 1004 00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:20,120 Speaker 6: at home with you when you want to be. But 1005 00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:21,880 Speaker 6: I had my man at home. And it was that 1006 00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:25,920 Speaker 6: moment that we were like, huh, Shaanta's gettle song, that's 1007 00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:32,120 Speaker 6: what it was called before Shant's got Yeah, And I 1008 00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:39,520 Speaker 6: have the cassette Jimmy Jam's c G Shahntay's Ghettle song 1009 00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:44,280 Speaker 6: CGS on a cassette with the first music of that song. 1010 00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:52,160 Speaker 3: Happened that great. I'm just jealous. I'm just jealous, everybody said. 1011 00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,120 Speaker 3: And I'm gonna make it a point to work with 1012 00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:54,880 Speaker 3: Jimmy Jam. 1013 00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:56,520 Speaker 1: And I'm about to give you another one. She had 1014 00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:00,840 Speaker 1: some more bart. 1015 00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:04,360 Speaker 5: I don't even know, because I don't think a lot 1016 00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:12,040 Speaker 5: of people talk about You're amazing song, which is a 1017 00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:15,920 Speaker 5: different type of song on the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack. 1018 00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:19,640 Speaker 1: Oh, like that is such a bar. 1019 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:24,160 Speaker 5: Because baby Face decided he's going to write all these 1020 00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:28,360 Speaker 5: songs for all these great women, for this great movie soundtrack. 1021 00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:28,960 Speaker 4: Yeah. 1022 00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:31,800 Speaker 3: Like, but. 1023 00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:35,400 Speaker 1: He sends you a song, or you go to the 1024 00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:37,840 Speaker 1: studio and you talk out the words. 1025 00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:39,640 Speaker 6: No words, scat song. 1026 00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:45,160 Speaker 1: It has no words, man, baby Face, the king of words. 1027 00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:48,800 Speaker 6: Can I tell you how mad little was? I can 1028 00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:50,520 Speaker 6: I tell you how much he does. 1029 00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:51,840 Speaker 4: That's one of the story. 1030 00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:57,800 Speaker 6: So I don't know how it ended up being my song. 1031 00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:03,600 Speaker 6: I think he. I think he genuinely was a fan 1032 01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:05,320 Speaker 6: of my voice and thought. 1033 01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:07,920 Speaker 1: I could pull it off because in it ly they 1034 01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:08,640 Speaker 1: wanted to sign you. 1035 01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:11,520 Speaker 6: They did. I didn't think about that at that moment, 1036 01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:18,479 Speaker 6: but yes, so I was always yes because it's face, 1037 01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:21,760 Speaker 6: you know, and how do you not work with baby Face? 1038 01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:27,800 Speaker 6: So my thing is, you know, be kind and do 1039 01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:32,080 Speaker 6: your best and be grateful, you know for what doors 1040 01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:35,080 Speaker 6: are opened for you, because I know doors don't open 1041 01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:38,919 Speaker 6: for everybody. And being on the album that I knew 1042 01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:43,720 Speaker 6: was produced all by him. I knew Aretha was on it, 1043 01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:46,840 Speaker 6: I knew Whitney was on it, I knew CC Winings, 1044 01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:49,760 Speaker 6: I knew Brandy was on it, I knew Tony Braxton 1045 01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:50,200 Speaker 6: was on it. 1046 01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:55,640 Speaker 1: So my answer was yes, yes, you hear anything. 1047 01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:59,160 Speaker 6: And I sank background. I think on like five of 1048 01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:06,920 Speaker 6: those songs, I think I'm on Shoot, definitely on uh, 1049 01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:12,400 Speaker 6: Tony's definitely on Paddle La Bells. And it seemed like 1050 01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:14,120 Speaker 6: it was a couple of other people. One girl was 1051 01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:17,400 Speaker 6: singing rapping, and I was singing the background. Face was like, 1052 01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:18,840 Speaker 6: just please come plase sing. 1053 01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:19,840 Speaker 3: I love to sing. 1054 01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:21,040 Speaker 6: I love singing background. 1055 01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:25,120 Speaker 1: I loved I say songs on Wait Next Cooking. 1056 01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:28,280 Speaker 6: So I did. And that's just so. 1057 01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:30,600 Speaker 1: When you first heard it, though, what do you what 1058 01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:33,800 Speaker 1: do you come on? Because we hear now it was beautiful. 1059 01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:36,640 Speaker 6: I just thought it's just an extra song. 1060 01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:38,520 Speaker 1: Did you think that? 1061 01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:40,760 Speaker 5: Okay, well, maybe he's just playing me the melody and 1062 01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:42,200 Speaker 5: he's gonna he's gonna feel in work. 1063 01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:47,760 Speaker 6: He told me it was this. I probably have the 1064 01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:51,000 Speaker 6: cassette somewhere, but I don't remember. Oh his version of 1065 01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:52,960 Speaker 6: him singing it, Yeah, I think so, or maybe I 1066 01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:54,760 Speaker 6: don't know. He might have just did it then. I 1067 01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:57,320 Speaker 6: I but yeah, I knew even. 1068 01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:58,320 Speaker 1: When I was young and I heard, I was like, 1069 01:01:58,400 --> 01:01:59,280 Speaker 1: this sounds like jungle. 1070 01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:05,320 Speaker 6: Look, but it's the song that if I'm on an 1071 01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:09,240 Speaker 6: airplane and somebody black says, oh my god, I love you. 1072 01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:11,800 Speaker 6: I love you, Oh my god, blah blah blah. Because 1073 01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:13,720 Speaker 6: black people they love me. They always show me love 1074 01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:17,240 Speaker 6: everywhere I go always, but it's the white person that's 1075 01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:19,440 Speaker 6: next to me that goes, Okay, so I don't know you, 1076 01:02:19,520 --> 01:02:24,520 Speaker 6: and I'm really sorry, but I don't know the excitement 1077 01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:26,200 Speaker 6: and all that, but like, what do you do? And 1078 01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:28,200 Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, I'm singer, you know, oh what, I 1079 01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:30,680 Speaker 6: know your stuff and I don't know how to point 1080 01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:33,480 Speaker 6: them to me. And I say, well, have you ever 1081 01:02:34,080 --> 01:02:36,800 Speaker 6: seen waiting to exhale? And they go, oh, yeah Houston 1082 01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:38,560 Speaker 6: and blah blah. I was like, yeah, So the very 1083 01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:42,000 Speaker 6: first song in Whitney Houston has a convertible first song 1084 01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:43,800 Speaker 6: that's plane when her hair is blown in the wind. 1085 01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:46,000 Speaker 6: That's me, the first voice she hears me. That's how 1086 01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:48,880 Speaker 6: I explain myself to the Caucasian persuit. 1087 01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:52,400 Speaker 1: That's actually a great how do you explain yourself to 1088 01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:52,919 Speaker 1: the white people? 1089 01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:58,960 Speaker 4: I oh, I can't make you love me? Sometimes I 1090 01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:02,520 Speaker 4: use that or I say I say, They're like they 1091 01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:03,240 Speaker 4: so you sing that. 1092 01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:05,320 Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, sing. It's like, well, what I know 1093 01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:08,280 Speaker 3: any of your songs? And I'm like, do you do 1094 01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:09,439 Speaker 3: you like sexy time. 1095 01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:14,080 Speaker 6: What record do you put on? 1096 01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:14,520 Speaker 3: Do you. 1097 01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:16,800 Speaker 5: Like sexy? 1098 01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:19,840 Speaker 4: Do you pro create? Because my music is of the 1099 01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:20,840 Speaker 4: pro creation? 1100 01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:23,520 Speaker 6: That really is that album is? Really? 1101 01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:26,600 Speaker 3: What song would you say? I said, you really want 1102 01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:30,120 Speaker 3: to get nasty? I got a song called when weed 1103 01:03:31,040 --> 01:03:33,000 Speaker 3: it get you pregnant? I'm just throwing it out there. 1104 01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:35,480 Speaker 3: You know, I don't want to put too much on you. 1105 01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:37,920 Speaker 3: But do you want your legs to go up high? 1106 01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:39,600 Speaker 1: That got them? 1107 01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:43,040 Speaker 4: I got them going to it right now? 1108 01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:47,680 Speaker 6: She cuts the pearls. Why are you talking about I 1109 01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:50,360 Speaker 6: would never I remember. 1110 01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:55,880 Speaker 3: I remember I told yes, some white people like almost 1111 01:03:55,960 --> 01:04:00,480 Speaker 3: like a little family or whatever. My husband was saying this, yeah, man, 1112 01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:01,880 Speaker 3: my wife's looking at your chest. 1113 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:02,160 Speaker 6: Man. 1114 01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:08,760 Speaker 4: This is just because it's like, I'm sorry, What can 1115 01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:09,000 Speaker 4: I do? 1116 01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:13,000 Speaker 1: Somebody got to come up with a show explaining black music? 1117 01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:17,800 Speaker 6: How do you connect the dots? 1118 01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:25,320 Speaker 3: So in in all of this, and when we talked 1119 01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:29,840 Speaker 3: about purpose, and we talked about you know, the people 1120 01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:35,560 Speaker 3: and all of these twisting turns, right, what is the 1121 01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:40,800 Speaker 3: thing that you want to be remembered for. 1122 01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:53,480 Speaker 6: Inspiring love and evolving? Like I started here and I 1123 01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:58,080 Speaker 6: think I was pretty good. And then I started looking 1124 01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:01,600 Speaker 6: at what I had done performances and you have to 1125 01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:05,960 Speaker 6: own them differently if you want to make a statement. 1126 01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:11,640 Speaker 6: And I think I know, I was afraid. I still 1127 01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:14,640 Speaker 6: have jitters before I go on stage. But I was 1128 01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:19,120 Speaker 6: afraid because I didn't have enough practice doing what I 1129 01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:22,800 Speaker 6: did for a living. The first time I performed live 1130 01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:25,560 Speaker 6: before our audience, that was my own stuff, and like 1131 01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:27,640 Speaker 6: I sang this place called the moon Glow in San 1132 01:05:27,680 --> 01:05:32,560 Speaker 6: Diego with the Baha strings and we sang top forty. 1133 01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:36,000 Speaker 6: I sang everything from part time Lover to shibop whatever. 1134 01:05:36,280 --> 01:05:38,720 Speaker 6: I sang all that stuff. And I wasn't even twenty 1135 01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:43,880 Speaker 6: one yet, but I sang three shows two three shows 1136 01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:46,880 Speaker 6: a night, three nights a week, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, one 1137 01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:51,680 Speaker 6: hundred and fifty dollars a night. But the first time 1138 01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:54,480 Speaker 6: I ever sang my music, I was singing in front 1139 01:05:54,480 --> 01:06:00,200 Speaker 6: of MCA Records, doing the you Know show in my 1140 01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:05,000 Speaker 6: new music before I went to with George Duke over 1141 01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:09,600 Speaker 6: to Montroe Jazz Festival. That was the next time I 1142 01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:14,880 Speaker 6: sang I Know, and I knew where I was going, 1143 01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:19,520 Speaker 6: and I knew it was crazy, and I wasn't prepared. 1144 01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:26,600 Speaker 6: I wish I felt more confident and prepared and practiced, 1145 01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:30,680 Speaker 6: and I think people were so excited about the tone 1146 01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:34,680 Speaker 6: of my voice, and I understand now that that's something special. 1147 01:06:37,280 --> 01:06:44,840 Speaker 6: When Layla Hathaway comes up and goes, girl, your tone, 1148 01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:49,720 Speaker 6: let me tell you that your tongue. I'm serious. 1149 01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:51,920 Speaker 1: That's what she did. And it's like you. 1150 01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:56,120 Speaker 6: She said, you must know you, you must know honey. 1151 01:06:56,480 --> 01:07:00,800 Speaker 6: And I'm like said the woman with the tone, her 1152 01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:07,200 Speaker 6: daddy and herself morphed into one amazing voice. So I 1153 01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:10,520 Speaker 6: kind of go, huh. Some people make you go well, 1154 01:07:10,600 --> 01:07:14,360 Speaker 6: maybe I'm not so bad because of what I think 1155 01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:17,840 Speaker 6: of them. But the thing is, you can't get confused 1156 01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:23,120 Speaker 6: when somebody goes before you and somebody goes singing a 1157 01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:27,040 Speaker 6: different way than I sing. The church vocals can be 1158 01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:32,760 Speaker 6: misleading or your ego starts to jump in and go, 1159 01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:39,320 Speaker 6: well they singing like this, let me and you have 1160 01:07:39,360 --> 01:07:41,640 Speaker 6: to stay in your lane. That's the thing I've learned 1161 01:07:41,800 --> 01:07:44,840 Speaker 6: is stay in your lane. You can only be you 1162 01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:48,840 Speaker 6: and I can only be me. But I am taking 1163 01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:51,200 Speaker 6: voice lessons. I just started taking voice lessons. I've had 1164 01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:53,480 Speaker 6: two and I'm repeating those over and over until you 1165 01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:57,760 Speaker 6: come back to me. But that is what I want 1166 01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:00,600 Speaker 6: to do is get better. There's stuff I want to 1167 01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:02,760 Speaker 6: know how to do. There's stuff when I get sick 1168 01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:05,280 Speaker 6: that I want to be able to just do some technique, 1169 01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:12,080 Speaker 6: make me go and get over it. It's changing the 1170 01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:14,520 Speaker 6: entire you know, melody. 1171 01:08:15,200 --> 01:08:17,519 Speaker 1: That's so cool to hear you say that, though, Man, 1172 01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:19,480 Speaker 1: you're still taking vocalists. 1173 01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:24,360 Speaker 6: No, I've never taken. It was Robert Stevens. He is amazing. 1174 01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:27,240 Speaker 6: I think he's Robert rab in some circles, but he. 1175 01:08:27,760 --> 01:08:30,160 Speaker 6: I was sitting next to him by chance on a 1176 01:08:30,320 --> 01:08:35,960 Speaker 6: flight from Atlanta last month and he noticed me sniffing 1177 01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:38,720 Speaker 6: and put my bag up for me and whatever. So 1178 01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:41,200 Speaker 6: we chatted the whole time, and it was weird that 1179 01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:43,560 Speaker 6: I don't usually talk on the airplane. I'm usually, you know, 1180 01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:45,880 Speaker 6: like hi, good night, okay, and I go to sleep 1181 01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:48,800 Speaker 6: or watch a movie. But somewhere in there we started 1182 01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:51,599 Speaker 6: chatting and and I was like, yeah, and I want 1183 01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:53,760 Speaker 6: to take voice lessons. And he was like, you don't 1184 01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:55,759 Speaker 6: realize that that's what I do. And I know exactly 1185 01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:58,599 Speaker 6: who you are, and blah blah bl and by the end, 1186 01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:00,679 Speaker 6: I was just like this was a I think because 1187 01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:03,439 Speaker 6: I didn't know who he was at all. But usually 1188 01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:05,280 Speaker 6: those people are behind the scenes. 1189 01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:13,160 Speaker 4: Robert, Yes, so that's who I'm gonna start. 1190 01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:14,240 Speaker 3: Taking get out. 1191 01:09:16,520 --> 01:09:19,280 Speaker 6: He is so amazing, Like it's so weird and wonderful 1192 01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:19,960 Speaker 6: at the same time. 1193 01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:26,240 Speaker 1: We just made. 1194 01:09:31,040 --> 01:09:34,479 Speaker 6: I met him with Justin Biber Timberlake. I knew that 1195 01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:43,880 Speaker 6: that's the I think of first. Yes, sorry, the original, Yes, 1196 01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:48,519 Speaker 6: I'm sorry, just keep moving. 1197 01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:53,840 Speaker 4: But I was like I was out there with with 1198 01:09:54,360 --> 01:09:54,840 Speaker 4: with Justin. 1199 01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:58,800 Speaker 3: I'm like, bro, you like Crispy every night He's like 1200 01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:02,400 Speaker 3: brom Ashley, Like, I'm fucked up right now. Like vocally 1201 01:10:02,439 --> 01:10:04,040 Speaker 3: he's like, you know, my guy. He keeps me. I 1202 01:10:04,120 --> 01:10:08,519 Speaker 3: was like, Who's who's the guy? Who's my guy? Big 1203 01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:11,680 Speaker 3: Jason was like, trust me, he's always wants to meet 1204 01:10:11,720 --> 01:10:13,800 Speaker 3: the guy. I want to meet the guy. He's like, 1205 01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:15,519 Speaker 3: you need to you need to work with this nigga. 1206 01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:17,640 Speaker 3: And I was like, and I had been procrastinating on 1207 01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:22,439 Speaker 3: it for I would say years, and then finally not 1208 01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:25,800 Speaker 3: too long. I was like, I need your help. Man. 1209 01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:30,880 Speaker 3: I sing pretty good, but you know, I just want 1210 01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:36,160 Speaker 3: my conditioning. I want my stamina, I want my height back. 1211 01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:38,920 Speaker 3: Like I listened to like a lot of my old 1212 01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:43,920 Speaker 3: songs and I'm like listen to that young vocal. You 1213 01:10:43,960 --> 01:10:46,760 Speaker 3: gotta I gotta get back in the gym. I used 1214 01:10:46,760 --> 01:10:52,720 Speaker 3: to sing every day, every day, all day working at 1215 01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:55,760 Speaker 3: you watch watch this new thing. 1216 01:10:55,840 --> 01:10:57,400 Speaker 4: I can do like every day. 1217 01:10:57,400 --> 01:11:00,920 Speaker 3: And as you get older in his family and and 1218 01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:05,759 Speaker 3: and kids, and you can you just you just can't. 1219 01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:11,000 Speaker 3: And so you just you you You're You're not the 1220 01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:13,720 Speaker 3: same conditioned hooper you used to be when you were 1221 01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:14,599 Speaker 3: jumping every day. 1222 01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:15,560 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. You're not. 1223 01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:19,360 Speaker 3: You're just not the same. And I'm like, I just 1224 01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:21,479 Speaker 3: want to get some of that back. And I know 1225 01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:25,280 Speaker 3: if I do the work with the right person, I 1226 01:11:25,320 --> 01:11:27,080 Speaker 3: can do that. So it's funny that you said his 1227 01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:30,320 Speaker 3: name and I'm like, are you serious? And when you 1228 01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:32,200 Speaker 3: were saying you were on a plane with him to Atlanta, 1229 01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:34,200 Speaker 3: he was probably telling me, yeah, I'm on the way 1230 01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:35,120 Speaker 3: to LA for a few days. 1231 01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:37,840 Speaker 6: Let me know if you want to get Yeah, my 1232 01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:42,720 Speaker 6: first lesson two weeks ago, maybe maybe three, maybe yes, yeah, no, 1233 01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:45,439 Speaker 6: it's amazing. I have never known a warm up or 1234 01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:48,000 Speaker 6: a warm down. I don't even I don't trust it 1235 01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:49,640 Speaker 6: because I'm like, I'm gonna be tired trying to. 1236 01:11:49,640 --> 01:11:50,200 Speaker 3: Do a warm up. 1237 01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:51,960 Speaker 1: What I'm gonna do is wait. 1238 01:11:53,720 --> 01:12:04,000 Speaker 5: And saying when I get on, I'm saying practice pretty much. 1239 01:12:05,400 --> 01:12:07,920 Speaker 6: I can't. I do hot water and honey. It's my 1240 01:12:08,160 --> 01:12:10,720 Speaker 6: doctors like, you have high cholesterol. I was like, that 1241 01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:14,360 Speaker 6: is impossible. You are pre diabetic. Yeah, and I said, 1242 01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:19,360 Speaker 6: how in the world I don't eat if you looked 1243 01:12:19,400 --> 01:12:22,320 Speaker 6: at me and I work out, especially when the first 1244 01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:24,599 Speaker 6: they first said it it's because I have hot water 1245 01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:28,479 Speaker 6: and honey all the time. Honey is just sugar, just sugar, 1246 01:12:28,920 --> 01:12:36,439 Speaker 6: just sugar ate some cakes. No, but yeah, but the 1247 01:12:36,560 --> 01:12:38,240 Speaker 6: hot water and honey is what does it for me? 1248 01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:41,160 Speaker 6: And like during the show, Yeah, it's what I do. 1249 01:12:41,280 --> 01:12:42,400 Speaker 1: They got sugar free honey. 1250 01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:44,599 Speaker 3: I don't know if you can. 1251 01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:48,960 Speaker 4: You know, I don't know if you can. 1252 01:12:50,439 --> 01:12:51,160 Speaker 6: It's smell of funny. 1253 01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:51,479 Speaker 1: I don't know. 1254 01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:58,360 Speaker 6: I think it's just something's turned into shaketh. Yes, but 1255 01:12:58,800 --> 01:12:59,320 Speaker 6: sugar free. 1256 01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:04,960 Speaker 4: Like I'm just it's just interesting how we parallel. 1257 01:13:05,160 --> 01:13:08,000 Speaker 6: Yeah, like just the journey and I have another I 1258 01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:09,880 Speaker 6: have a song I want you to sing. I have 1259 01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:14,040 Speaker 6: a new record coming. And somebody was listening, Actually cook 1260 01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:17,680 Speaker 6: you cook Coo career, you know what, I don't never 1261 01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:19,719 Speaker 6: know his last name. He works with Laney and Tricky. 1262 01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:22,759 Speaker 1: Okay, so coach and producer. 1263 01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:26,640 Speaker 6: I didn't. Yeah, so he was I don't know who 1264 01:13:26,720 --> 01:13:30,439 Speaker 6: he was. I forgot who was named. But Cook was 1265 01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:34,479 Speaker 6: listening and Cook and then did can't Lighten You time 1266 01:13:34,479 --> 01:13:36,560 Speaker 6: ago for so first album for me was Laney and 1267 01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:43,120 Speaker 6: Tricky and and uh Laney and what's his name? Can't 1268 01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:47,000 Speaker 6: think of it right now, it's okay, But AnyWho, he 1269 01:13:47,200 --> 01:13:49,960 Speaker 6: was listening to one of the songs and he said, 1270 01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:52,680 Speaker 6: I love this. This sounded like a Tank song. And 1271 01:13:52,760 --> 01:13:55,439 Speaker 6: I was like, oh my god, it made me like 1272 01:13:55,520 --> 01:13:57,960 Speaker 6: the song even more thinking about you singing and I 1273 01:13:58,040 --> 01:14:02,559 Speaker 6: was like, oh, Tank gotta be oh my, that would 1274 01:14:02,640 --> 01:14:06,320 Speaker 6: make that record even hotter. But anyway, so we'll talk 1275 01:14:06,360 --> 01:14:06,680 Speaker 6: about that. 1276 01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:09,599 Speaker 4: People know how funny you are. 1277 01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:11,559 Speaker 1: This is great. 1278 01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:14,400 Speaker 6: I'm a goofball, That's what I am. But that was 1279 01:14:14,479 --> 01:14:17,000 Speaker 6: the thing I was as a kid is I was 1280 01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:20,840 Speaker 6: the comic relief. I was always trying to make everybody happy, 1281 01:14:21,240 --> 01:14:23,680 Speaker 6: make you smile. If mom and my sister were having 1282 01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:26,760 Speaker 6: problems with it normally, dude, I was trying to go, Mama, listen. 1283 01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:30,320 Speaker 6: She said not to say what's And then I said, listen, Mama, 1284 01:14:30,400 --> 01:14:34,639 Speaker 6: love you and just just don't talk back. That would 1285 01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:39,599 Speaker 6: be good, not to talk back time you lie your eyes. 1286 01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:44,080 Speaker 1: I can imagine doing this at like years old. 1287 01:14:44,280 --> 01:14:47,720 Speaker 4: That's what makes me funny, negotiating. 1288 01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:53,280 Speaker 6: I was just come to Tom and my sister and 1289 01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:57,559 Speaker 6: I are thickest because she knows she can always count 1290 01:14:57,600 --> 01:15:01,040 Speaker 6: on me. I know she is my sister. Like I'm like, 1291 01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:02,840 Speaker 6: You're the closest thing that will ever come to me 1292 01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:05,960 Speaker 6: because we got the same mom and same daddy. You 1293 01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:09,000 Speaker 6: could have been me, I could have been you. I 1294 01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:13,240 Speaker 6: don't know, but we just I just a lover. 1295 01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:16,679 Speaker 1: Speaking of coming together. 1296 01:15:18,040 --> 01:15:18,839 Speaker 3: So every. 1297 01:15:20,320 --> 01:15:22,400 Speaker 5: In Tank this because Tank is part of my family. 1298 01:15:23,800 --> 01:15:27,439 Speaker 5: My family comes together, right and we we we all 1299 01:15:27,520 --> 01:15:30,240 Speaker 5: get together and gather in the kitchen as my sister cooks. 1300 01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:32,680 Speaker 5: And there is a song that we sing as a 1301 01:15:32,800 --> 01:15:35,880 Speaker 5: family at every family event. 1302 01:15:37,160 --> 01:15:41,840 Speaker 1: It is called Contagious. All the men in the family. 1303 01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:44,799 Speaker 3: We take. 1304 01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:49,160 Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am, and all the women wait for. 1305 01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:57,920 Speaker 5: Please please give me the story behind this record, because 1306 01:15:59,040 --> 01:16:01,720 Speaker 5: it was so un expect it for you to pop 1307 01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:02,920 Speaker 5: up on that song. 1308 01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:05,600 Speaker 6: Yes or to the world it was no, no, no. 1309 01:16:05,920 --> 01:16:11,599 Speaker 6: It was to me too. So I knew r Kelly 1310 01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:15,960 Speaker 6: through Cheryl Cobb she's a fan. She's a friend first friend, 1311 01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:18,559 Speaker 6: then fan. Uh and then she always was like trying 1312 01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:20,400 Speaker 6: to push no matter what happened, she was trying to 1313 01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:23,400 Speaker 6: connect me with someone she has always connected me to. 1314 01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:23,760 Speaker 4: Robert. 1315 01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:28,280 Speaker 6: Robert was like, well, r who is really a good guy, 1316 01:16:28,479 --> 01:16:31,920 Speaker 6: like really a nice person, really funny. And so I 1317 01:16:32,040 --> 01:16:35,120 Speaker 6: hung out with him and her and he was like, 1318 01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:37,040 Speaker 6: I'm gonna write you a song. I'm gonna write you 1319 01:16:37,120 --> 01:16:38,639 Speaker 6: a song. He had a song he was gonna call 1320 01:16:39,080 --> 01:16:43,920 Speaker 6: Capital Love Capital l oh the e Capital love was 1321 01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:47,560 Speaker 6: Capital love. You never got to that Capital Love. But 1322 01:16:48,960 --> 01:16:52,920 Speaker 6: one day out of the blue he called and said, 1323 01:16:53,120 --> 01:16:55,200 Speaker 6: I want you to do something for me. Go would 1324 01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:57,240 Speaker 6: you go in the studio and I want you just 1325 01:16:57,320 --> 01:16:58,800 Speaker 6: to sing this party goes, but I want you sing 1326 01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:00,800 Speaker 6: it just like I tell you. And I was like, sure, 1327 01:17:01,120 --> 01:17:05,640 Speaker 6: I'll do it. So Robert, I, mister Issley and I 1328 01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:07,320 Speaker 6: never were in the same place. 1329 01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:12,320 Speaker 1: The way they make records now, uh huh people make 1330 01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:12,960 Speaker 1: records now. 1331 01:17:13,400 --> 01:17:16,840 Speaker 6: Right, yes, But yeah, so he just told me when 1332 01:17:16,920 --> 01:17:22,720 Speaker 6: to sing my part, Frank, So I just had to 1333 01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:23,639 Speaker 6: do my part. 1334 01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:27,000 Speaker 1: Talking. 1335 01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:30,840 Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, I just did what he told me to do. 1336 01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:33,240 Speaker 6: And then all at the end of it. It just 1337 01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:34,519 Speaker 6: was a song. 1338 01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:35,720 Speaker 1: But had you heard it. 1339 01:17:37,479 --> 01:17:41,519 Speaker 6: After it was done he sent it, yeah, probably probably 1340 01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:46,960 Speaker 6: when he mixed it. And then uh we did the 1341 01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:51,880 Speaker 6: video and we had to make out in the video. 1342 01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:59,920 Speaker 6: So Robert was like, we should practice that scene. I 1343 01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:02,760 Speaker 6: was like, I think, I think we'll know how to 1344 01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:03,519 Speaker 6: do it when. 1345 01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:10,760 Speaker 3: I believe that we. 1346 01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:17,960 Speaker 6: Practice. The connection has to be statistic. 1347 01:18:18,320 --> 01:18:20,040 Speaker 3: It's like when you hoop it, like you know, you 1348 01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:22,960 Speaker 3: got to practice, you know first, and then you got 1349 01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:27,800 Speaker 3: then you know, then you played the game, So we 1350 01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:28,799 Speaker 3: need to practice. 1351 01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:36,920 Speaker 6: I didn't need practice. I did not. I did not 1352 01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:42,160 Speaker 6: need practice. Now he can kiss, so I don't know 1353 01:18:42,240 --> 01:18:46,840 Speaker 6: why he don't. He was practice. But what's interesting is 1354 01:18:47,400 --> 01:18:53,439 Speaker 6: after that I can't be around because it was just 1355 01:18:55,320 --> 01:18:55,920 Speaker 6: it was too much. 1356 01:18:56,760 --> 01:18:57,120 Speaker 3: Mhmm. 1357 01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:06,800 Speaker 6: It was too much. They said that out Soria mm hmm. 1358 01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:07,120 Speaker 4: Yep. 1359 01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:10,880 Speaker 6: So no other songs came after that, and I don't 1360 01:19:10,920 --> 01:19:13,240 Speaker 6: think it as often as I probably should. 1361 01:19:13,400 --> 01:19:14,599 Speaker 1: So it's not in your show. 1362 01:19:15,160 --> 01:19:18,080 Speaker 6: It was for a little while, and I think it's 1363 01:19:18,160 --> 01:19:21,720 Speaker 6: harder when it comes back up and he's in the 1364 01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:24,040 Speaker 6: news again and all that stuff. It's just a lot. 1365 01:19:24,320 --> 01:19:28,320 Speaker 6: But I mean when it comes on, I just do doom, doom, doom, 1366 01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:31,880 Speaker 6: and then what the hell is doing that comes on? 1367 01:19:32,439 --> 01:19:34,160 Speaker 6: And then everybody and I start doing what you and 1368 01:19:34,240 --> 01:19:39,280 Speaker 6: your family do. So yeah, then they go, right, that 1369 01:19:39,479 --> 01:19:40,000 Speaker 6: was shotting. 1370 01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:45,639 Speaker 3: So you've been part of some really dope, really dope moments. 1371 01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:50,400 Speaker 3: I'm bad, some really dope moment And I think it's 1372 01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:55,759 Speaker 3: like the power of those moments and how you showed 1373 01:19:55,840 --> 01:20:00,600 Speaker 3: up in those moments that that is what has sustain you. 1374 01:20:01,120 --> 01:20:07,800 Speaker 3: And like people people like like let's say hit records, right, 1375 01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:13,040 Speaker 3: like hit like life changing records. Right. I don't have 1376 01:20:13,160 --> 01:20:19,240 Speaker 3: that many, but the few that I have, oh, I. 1377 01:20:19,439 --> 01:20:24,920 Speaker 6: Know, I need to learn how to do that more. 1378 01:20:25,400 --> 01:20:29,760 Speaker 3: I get the milk, Yeah, I get the milk, all 1379 01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:33,800 Speaker 3: the milk. Like people like this, oh you, you. 1380 01:20:39,439 --> 01:20:49,080 Speaker 6: And the fing some crazy people get to have the 1381 01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:49,599 Speaker 6: most fun. 1382 01:20:50,720 --> 01:20:55,880 Speaker 3: And it's it's it's it's using those great moments, you 1383 01:20:55,960 --> 01:20:59,160 Speaker 3: know what I mean, and and and letting them carry 1384 01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:02,280 Speaker 3: you through because of how you showed up in those moments. 1385 01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:04,760 Speaker 6: But you have to know that they are and I 1386 01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:09,599 Speaker 6: think that's something that being the underdog of the family 1387 01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:12,000 Speaker 6: or you know, the baby and the grunt, you know, 1388 01:21:12,240 --> 01:21:15,240 Speaker 6: just like you know the one that it's I'm used 1389 01:21:15,280 --> 01:21:22,439 Speaker 6: to minimalizing some things, and so I didn't get it 1390 01:21:22,600 --> 01:21:29,480 Speaker 6: when some of those fantastic moments happened that they were significant. 1391 01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:35,920 Speaker 6: I when I sing some songs like Way You and 1392 01:21:36,040 --> 01:21:38,439 Speaker 6: My Show, but I was thinking because of our because 1393 01:21:38,439 --> 01:21:40,400 Speaker 6: the way loul was like, ah, I can't believe you 1394 01:21:40,439 --> 01:21:42,880 Speaker 6: did that. And it didn't even my norminal lyrics on it. 1395 01:21:43,160 --> 01:21:46,960 Speaker 1: So I never say it you sing it at first. 1396 01:21:47,240 --> 01:21:50,840 Speaker 6: No, lately I have because of Stephen, not because well. 1397 01:21:51,280 --> 01:21:54,800 Speaker 1: Way way way wait wait, this was not part of 1398 01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:55,679 Speaker 1: you show. 1399 01:21:55,840 --> 01:22:00,519 Speaker 6: Always no, no, mm hmm. It was like a thumb. 1400 01:22:00,880 --> 01:22:03,880 Speaker 6: It was the thing that baby Face said he would 1401 01:22:03,880 --> 01:22:05,600 Speaker 6: do a song because I had done so much for 1402 01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:09,400 Speaker 6: that album and you know, I'm gonna and it never happened. 1403 01:22:09,840 --> 01:22:12,560 Speaker 6: And that's why you got to keep relationships though and 1404 01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:15,880 Speaker 6: not be bitter, you know, because it really is about 1405 01:22:17,439 --> 01:22:19,880 Speaker 6: the rhythm of life. It is life that has to 1406 01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:26,000 Speaker 6: continue to happen, relationships that connect old to the new. 1407 01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:30,920 Speaker 6: And this is a perfect setup for the new album. 1408 01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:34,439 Speaker 6: I have a record with Lady and Tricky and and 1409 01:22:34,800 --> 01:22:40,880 Speaker 6: uh Babyface and it's about to be We're Taken and 1410 01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:44,840 Speaker 6: Jim and Terry and you know, it's a it's a 1411 01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:46,800 Speaker 6: body of work, and it's called evolved because that's what 1412 01:22:46,880 --> 01:22:48,960 Speaker 6: I really feel like I've been doing is just evolving. 1413 01:22:49,320 --> 01:22:51,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I love it. 1414 01:22:51,920 --> 01:23:00,360 Speaker 6: I love it. I have a song with Bennett and 1415 01:23:00,439 --> 01:23:02,479 Speaker 6: it's pretty good. And that's the thing is, I don't 1416 01:23:02,520 --> 01:23:03,200 Speaker 6: watch the charts. 1417 01:23:03,240 --> 01:23:03,640 Speaker 4: I don't know. 1418 01:23:03,960 --> 01:23:05,680 Speaker 6: I don't even watch where it's going because it is 1419 01:23:05,720 --> 01:23:07,680 Speaker 6: what it is or it isn't. My life has not 1420 01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:11,519 Speaker 6: been based on charts. It's been based on people showing 1421 01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:13,960 Speaker 6: up to my shows. That's how I make a living. 1422 01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:20,720 Speaker 3: I'm happy that you are making new music because you 1423 01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:25,479 Speaker 3: should make new music. Your voice should be heard on 1424 01:23:25,720 --> 01:23:26,200 Speaker 3: new shit. 1425 01:23:27,439 --> 01:23:27,840 Speaker 1: I love that. 1426 01:23:28,120 --> 01:23:28,960 Speaker 4: Why the fuck not? 1427 01:23:30,120 --> 01:23:30,479 Speaker 3: How many? 1428 01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:34,200 Speaker 1: How many shows do you do a year? Even do 1429 01:23:34,280 --> 01:23:35,719 Speaker 1: you try to keep it to a certain number? 1430 01:23:35,880 --> 01:23:40,880 Speaker 6: Oh no, last year I worked a lot. Year before 1431 01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:43,200 Speaker 6: I worked a whole I worked a whole lot in America, 1432 01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:47,280 Speaker 6: and I spoke this that I want to be, you know, overseas. 1433 01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:49,599 Speaker 6: I think there's a market for me overseas, and there 1434 01:23:49,640 --> 01:23:52,200 Speaker 6: still is. I believe there's more things that I need 1435 01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:54,640 Speaker 6: to work, places I need to go. I've been in 1436 01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:59,519 Speaker 6: America and Aii, I've been around America. Last year I 1437 01:23:59,560 --> 01:24:03,800 Speaker 6: went to China and just spent three months there and 1438 01:24:04,280 --> 01:24:07,439 Speaker 6: say three months, three months, you do. I was in 1439 01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:11,880 Speaker 6: a singing competition, Chinese singing competition called Singer twenty twenty four. 1440 01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:15,400 Speaker 6: I didn't know was that at first, and they said 1441 01:24:15,400 --> 01:24:17,160 Speaker 6: will you go there? And I said yes, and they 1442 01:24:17,200 --> 01:24:20,800 Speaker 6: said okay, And it's a competition, singer competition with other 1443 01:24:21,120 --> 01:24:24,080 Speaker 6: Chinese artists. So these other people have been in the industry. 1444 01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:29,440 Speaker 6: They're not like noviced novices, uh, but they are really entertainers. 1445 01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:35,200 Speaker 6: And so we battled ere free week what yeah, wait, 1446 01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:38,800 Speaker 6: wait for thirty fourteen fifteen fifteen week. 1447 01:24:40,320 --> 01:24:40,479 Speaker 3: Huh? 1448 01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:42,240 Speaker 4: But mind you. 1449 01:24:44,160 --> 01:24:49,479 Speaker 6: The first day I was no, but the but it 1450 01:24:49,640 --> 01:24:52,040 Speaker 6: was different because the movie. 1451 01:24:52,640 --> 01:24:55,880 Speaker 5: You know as a movie, because you're getting off the 1452 01:24:55,920 --> 01:24:58,000 Speaker 5: place niggas getting knocked out by vocals. 1453 01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:04,120 Speaker 6: Thinking what it was a great opportunity. I got there 1454 01:25:04,360 --> 01:25:06,720 Speaker 6: and I didn't know what cause I found out about 1455 01:25:06,720 --> 01:25:08,519 Speaker 6: it when I was on tom Join a cruise and 1456 01:25:09,240 --> 01:25:12,400 Speaker 6: I was not singing that week, and they called and 1457 01:25:13,479 --> 01:25:16,559 Speaker 6: Joey Fleming, Joseph Fleming, I think they call Joey now, 1458 01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:20,519 Speaker 6: but he called and said that somebody I sang Happy 1459 01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:26,240 Speaker 6: Birthday at his birthday party. Last year, and then he 1460 01:25:26,400 --> 01:25:29,839 Speaker 6: said this lady Chinese lady came up to me afterward 1461 01:25:29,880 --> 01:25:31,640 Speaker 6: and she was like I would like to. She was 1462 01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:33,720 Speaker 6: all close and all in my space. I was like, 1463 01:25:33,960 --> 01:25:36,160 Speaker 6: she's weird. I don't think i'm and so I gave 1464 01:25:36,200 --> 01:25:37,920 Speaker 6: her my other phone number because I was like, this 1465 01:25:38,120 --> 01:25:40,759 Speaker 6: is a business call and I didn't even pay attention. 1466 01:25:40,840 --> 01:25:43,080 Speaker 6: And then Joey called and was like, hey, you know 1467 01:25:43,200 --> 01:25:46,160 Speaker 6: this lady. Her name is Tay and she wants you 1468 01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:47,519 Speaker 6: to do La bla that. I was like, Oh, this 1469 01:25:47,600 --> 01:25:50,840 Speaker 6: is for real, real, So I said yes and I 1470 01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:55,639 Speaker 6: went and a week later I landed. Then that night 1471 01:25:55,680 --> 01:25:58,639 Speaker 6: I did a sound check and the stage was incredible. 1472 01:25:58,720 --> 01:26:01,559 Speaker 6: The sound was incredible, the band was incredible, the orchestra 1473 01:26:02,680 --> 01:26:06,080 Speaker 6: was incredible, the lights, everything was amazing. And then the 1474 01:26:06,200 --> 01:26:09,040 Speaker 6: next day I got I put my clothes on and 1475 01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:11,600 Speaker 6: that night I sang and I won first prize. That 1476 01:26:11,720 --> 01:26:14,880 Speaker 6: first night, I sang Alicia Keys if I Ain't Got You, 1477 01:26:15,720 --> 01:26:19,639 Speaker 6: and two hundred and fifty million people watched in China. 1478 01:26:20,320 --> 01:26:24,719 Speaker 6: What two hundred and fifty million people? 1479 01:26:24,840 --> 01:26:26,200 Speaker 3: Oh, we dropping this outum in China. 1480 01:26:27,560 --> 01:26:30,880 Speaker 5: No, I'm about to figure out how to put your assarate. 1481 01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:35,040 Speaker 4: We need to put this single out in China. 1482 01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:38,920 Speaker 1: And it's not racist that I said that. So I 1483 01:26:39,080 --> 01:26:40,000 Speaker 1: missed me with that bullshit. 1484 01:26:41,320 --> 01:26:44,120 Speaker 4: I need to get I have not been and I'm 1485 01:26:44,280 --> 01:26:45,719 Speaker 4: going with you. I'm gonna say. 1486 01:26:45,560 --> 01:26:46,000 Speaker 1: I'm with you. 1487 01:26:47,080 --> 01:26:53,559 Speaker 6: You know, no, it's it's it was. It was life changing. 1488 01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:58,200 Speaker 6: Days later, I was walking on the street with Steven, 1489 01:26:58,400 --> 01:27:03,479 Speaker 6: my husband, and people going the trip them all, and 1490 01:27:03,520 --> 01:27:06,200 Speaker 6: they started calling me Momo. Now I am Momo in 1491 01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:11,479 Speaker 6: China fifteen weeks, singing everybody else's song from Wrecking Ball 1492 01:27:11,600 --> 01:27:14,000 Speaker 6: to Alicia Too. Everybody, I am Momo. 1493 01:27:16,280 --> 01:27:18,240 Speaker 3: If you don't get back over, I'm going. I went. 1494 01:27:18,320 --> 01:27:20,040 Speaker 6: I went a few times last year, which is what 1495 01:27:20,080 --> 01:27:22,920 Speaker 6: we were talking about. But I I'm singing a lot, 1496 01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:25,519 Speaker 6: but I'm gonna go back. We don't have the times 1497 01:27:25,760 --> 01:27:30,000 Speaker 6: set right now. I did the Chinese version of Tiny Desk, 1498 01:27:30,040 --> 01:27:32,200 Speaker 6: which I haven't doing American. I haven't done American yet, 1499 01:27:32,479 --> 01:27:34,040 Speaker 6: but I don't want to until the record comes out. 1500 01:27:34,200 --> 01:27:39,160 Speaker 3: But AnyWho, uh, Yeah, your album has to be released, 1501 01:27:39,439 --> 01:27:42,400 Speaker 3: and it has to be a thing. It has to 1502 01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:46,080 Speaker 3: be you present to release your album. Momo has to 1503 01:27:46,200 --> 01:27:49,240 Speaker 3: be in China to release her album. 1504 01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:53,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, because you have you performed your records over there 1505 01:27:53,120 --> 01:27:54,200 Speaker 5: too at this point or not yet. 1506 01:27:54,280 --> 01:28:00,240 Speaker 6: I only have done one. One concert I did was 1507 01:28:00,320 --> 01:28:05,720 Speaker 6: one of a few, but it was a stadium of people. Yeah, no, 1508 01:28:06,080 --> 01:28:07,320 Speaker 6: it was. It's mind blowing. 1509 01:28:08,520 --> 01:28:10,120 Speaker 1: But I don't know. 1510 01:28:10,720 --> 01:28:14,760 Speaker 6: But I uh, I've done their TV show there and 1511 01:28:14,880 --> 01:28:18,360 Speaker 6: I've done two concerts there, but I intend to go 1512 01:28:18,479 --> 01:28:20,880 Speaker 6: back because yeah, because momos. 1513 01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:24,920 Speaker 3: Got I'm going to say this before I had the 1514 01:28:25,160 --> 01:28:32,640 Speaker 3: honor the honor of standing next to you singing backgrounds with. 1515 01:28:33,040 --> 01:28:36,759 Speaker 4: You know, with mister talk about it, talking about. 1516 01:28:36,640 --> 01:28:39,880 Speaker 3: Me and you Avery Wilson, and I will I will 1517 01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:47,000 Speaker 3: say we might be the coldest background unit of all times, 1518 01:28:48,640 --> 01:28:52,360 Speaker 3: all times. Anybody want to challenge that? We do want smoke. 1519 01:28:53,200 --> 01:28:56,080 Speaker 3: That's a lot of smoke, super smoke. 1520 01:28:57,760 --> 01:29:00,479 Speaker 5: As a fan, as a fan, I'm saying it as 1521 01:29:00,479 --> 01:29:03,560 Speaker 5: a fan. Y'all were all their cooking. 1522 01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:06,200 Speaker 3: And and I say this because I just want to 1523 01:29:06,240 --> 01:29:09,840 Speaker 3: speak this, you know, this this piece to other artists 1524 01:29:09,880 --> 01:29:14,400 Speaker 3: out there. For me, I'm not too big for any 1525 01:29:14,479 --> 01:29:20,920 Speaker 3: moment in music. Like when I came to rehearsal and 1526 01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:26,560 Speaker 3: I saw you with your iPad and your like you 1527 01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:34,320 Speaker 3: were you were background singer. I locked and low and 1528 01:29:34,400 --> 01:29:41,720 Speaker 3: I was like, I fuck what, Like, I am of 1529 01:29:41,920 --> 01:29:46,439 Speaker 3: the mind of whatever. Wherever I'm at, I'm going to 1530 01:29:46,600 --> 01:29:49,720 Speaker 3: go crazy in my spot. I'm going to live and 1531 01:29:50,040 --> 01:29:53,360 Speaker 3: enjoy my and and we were having the time of 1532 01:29:53,479 --> 01:29:58,600 Speaker 3: our lives being background singers, as elite lead singers. We 1533 01:29:58,680 --> 01:30:02,320 Speaker 3: were having the time of our life being background singers 1534 01:30:02,479 --> 01:30:06,639 Speaker 3: and and that type of thing, that type of love 1535 01:30:06,800 --> 01:30:09,800 Speaker 3: for the sport. Yeah, like. 1536 01:30:12,000 --> 01:30:13,960 Speaker 4: I appreciated. 1537 01:30:14,560 --> 01:30:18,720 Speaker 3: I appreciated having that camaraderie with you and Avery and 1538 01:30:19,320 --> 01:30:20,320 Speaker 3: and sharing. 1539 01:30:20,040 --> 01:30:22,080 Speaker 4: That because that was it was a team. 1540 01:30:22,560 --> 01:30:24,479 Speaker 6: We were in the car, we were like we. 1541 01:30:34,120 --> 01:30:35,519 Speaker 4: Was like and I was like, you wrote that. 1542 01:30:35,840 --> 01:30:39,000 Speaker 6: Oh my god. All the songs. We could not say 1543 01:30:39,960 --> 01:30:40,439 Speaker 6: his hits. 1544 01:30:41,280 --> 01:30:43,880 Speaker 4: Oh man, we had jakes. He was cutting sounds. 1545 01:30:43,880 --> 01:30:52,800 Speaker 3: We were like, no, no, But I really appreciate it 1546 01:30:52,880 --> 01:30:57,000 Speaker 3: and have fun standing beside you songs like you You're 1547 01:30:57,479 --> 01:30:58,040 Speaker 3: You're the ship. 1548 01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:00,600 Speaker 4: You're the ship, and so are you. 1549 01:31:00,960 --> 01:31:02,920 Speaker 6: And that's one of the most watched things that I've 1550 01:31:02,920 --> 01:31:06,479 Speaker 6: ever done, is that Tiny Desk and the Soul Trade. 1551 01:31:06,520 --> 01:31:09,240 Speaker 6: Those are the two biggest things that I think have 1552 01:31:09,360 --> 01:31:10,600 Speaker 6: gone like viral. 1553 01:31:10,560 --> 01:31:16,679 Speaker 3: Because because because you're really good, God damn it. Ship 1554 01:31:17,920 --> 01:31:22,280 Speaker 3: your top five R and B singers. 1555 01:31:22,720 --> 01:31:28,600 Speaker 6: Singers. First, let me say one thing first, is that 1556 01:31:31,960 --> 01:31:35,920 Speaker 6: two of the sexiest albums ever Marvin Gaye Tank. I 1557 01:31:36,040 --> 01:31:38,960 Speaker 6: just want to say that out now we're going, that's 1558 01:31:39,000 --> 01:31:41,720 Speaker 6: what the first thing. I just want to say, sexiest, 1559 01:31:41,840 --> 01:31:44,200 Speaker 6: like full on sexy and you knew and sexy what 1560 01:31:45,840 --> 01:31:47,519 Speaker 6: So just saying that, I'm just looking at. 1561 01:31:47,439 --> 01:31:50,759 Speaker 3: The cameras so they can so they know I'm standing 1562 01:31:50,800 --> 01:31:51,559 Speaker 3: on what you said. 1563 01:31:52,320 --> 01:31:57,519 Speaker 1: Here is the truth. It really is like the whole Yeah, 1564 01:31:57,520 --> 01:31:59,120 Speaker 1: that's what we got you Now you're done. 1565 01:32:00,120 --> 01:32:01,120 Speaker 4: Okay, you are. 1566 01:32:03,960 --> 01:32:08,679 Speaker 1: Saying got okay, okay. 1567 01:32:09,240 --> 01:32:09,360 Speaker 3: Uh. 1568 01:32:10,840 --> 01:32:15,840 Speaker 6: Favorite artist period, it's got to be Prince. Just love him, 1569 01:32:16,240 --> 01:32:21,240 Speaker 6: Just love his style, his versatility, his ability to sing 1570 01:32:21,520 --> 01:32:29,639 Speaker 6: everything that sounded like rock and roll or UH or Elvis, 1571 01:32:29,760 --> 01:32:32,320 Speaker 6: it didn't matter, you know it. Just I loved just 1572 01:32:32,479 --> 01:32:39,600 Speaker 6: growing up having him musically. Michael Jackson, I think is 1573 01:32:39,640 --> 01:32:41,599 Speaker 6: a given for everybody, So I kind of stuck him 1574 01:32:41,600 --> 01:32:45,040 Speaker 6: in there because he is Michael Jackson. Tina Marie is 1575 01:32:45,080 --> 01:32:47,960 Speaker 6: one of the people that I grew up listening to. 1576 01:32:48,439 --> 01:32:50,680 Speaker 6: My mom used to go, you think she seemed better 1577 01:32:50,680 --> 01:32:52,640 Speaker 6: than you when she was on Then once they told me, 1578 01:32:52,680 --> 01:32:55,559 Speaker 6: I was saying she was really pumping, and so she said, 1579 01:32:56,040 --> 01:32:57,840 Speaker 6: you think Tina sing better than you? And I was like, 1580 01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:00,719 Speaker 6: well yeah, She was like she it's just more daring 1581 01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:07,120 Speaker 6: than you, and I was like you So anyway, Uh, 1582 01:33:08,320 --> 01:33:14,479 Speaker 6: the system, I absolutely love them. I love them and 1583 01:33:14,520 --> 01:33:16,320 Speaker 6: I'm just gonna say it real fast as if it's 1584 01:33:16,400 --> 01:33:18,719 Speaker 6: more than five. It's really just just moves them together. 1585 01:33:19,320 --> 01:33:22,640 Speaker 6: So shock up Marvin voiceing me a new edition. So 1586 01:33:24,320 --> 01:33:28,919 Speaker 6: just in there because Shaka's voice is just like a trumpet. 1587 01:33:29,720 --> 01:33:32,880 Speaker 6: That's the stuff I want to learn how to do that. 1588 01:33:33,200 --> 01:33:36,439 Speaker 6: That full mouth wide just she just got. 1589 01:33:36,400 --> 01:33:39,320 Speaker 3: A different throat. She is afferent throat. 1590 01:33:40,479 --> 01:33:40,719 Speaker 1: Yeah. 1591 01:33:41,080 --> 01:33:43,639 Speaker 6: Tremaine Hawkins was the other person that I was listening 1592 01:33:43,680 --> 01:33:45,800 Speaker 6: to that I was trying to do what she did 1593 01:33:45,840 --> 01:33:47,760 Speaker 6: and that's how I got But see, all things work 1594 01:33:47,800 --> 01:33:49,720 Speaker 6: together for my good because if I could do that, 1595 01:33:49,840 --> 01:33:52,320 Speaker 6: I wouldn't do the high stuff. 1596 01:33:52,479 --> 01:33:55,400 Speaker 3: You know, as you say that, because you know God 1597 01:33:55,479 --> 01:33:59,280 Speaker 3: by the name of Sean Stockman. He told me one day, 1598 01:33:59,320 --> 01:34:04,320 Speaker 3: He's like, he's Tank, I don't sing hard. I was like, 1599 01:34:04,360 --> 01:34:06,439 Speaker 3: what do you mean? He said, I don't sing hard 1600 01:34:06,479 --> 01:34:09,760 Speaker 3: and I don't try to. Why you do that? Yeah? 1601 01:34:10,280 --> 01:34:14,240 Speaker 3: I do what I do and I stay there, and 1602 01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:20,639 Speaker 3: I was like, you do you do? And as you said, 1603 01:34:20,840 --> 01:34:25,920 Speaker 3: like chasing all those other things when you are you 1604 01:34:26,080 --> 01:34:28,000 Speaker 3: have your own uniqueness. It's right there. 1605 01:34:28,160 --> 01:34:31,720 Speaker 6: Yeah, So we don't always appreciate ourselves. And I think 1606 01:34:31,920 --> 01:34:35,080 Speaker 6: that's a thing that even the Night of Soul Train 1607 01:34:37,800 --> 01:34:40,240 Speaker 6: Escape went before me and I thought they did a 1608 01:34:40,280 --> 01:34:42,320 Speaker 6: really good job. And I was listening to them and 1609 01:34:42,400 --> 01:34:44,519 Speaker 6: I was like, oh, this girl's a saying yeah. And 1610 01:34:44,640 --> 01:34:48,519 Speaker 6: I had to go, excuse me, ma'am. Do you don't 1611 01:34:48,560 --> 01:34:51,479 Speaker 6: listen to them and try to change how you approach 1612 01:34:52,439 --> 01:34:56,200 Speaker 6: your songs tonight? So I literally had to pull myself 1613 01:34:56,280 --> 01:35:00,160 Speaker 6: back and put me back in my own pocket. You 1614 01:35:00,280 --> 01:35:03,679 Speaker 6: can get, you get lost because there's so many different voices. 1615 01:35:03,720 --> 01:35:06,400 Speaker 6: And what's beautiful about boys to men is you have Sean, 1616 01:35:06,479 --> 01:35:08,720 Speaker 6: you have wan Ye, you have all all they have 1617 01:35:08,880 --> 01:35:11,120 Speaker 6: all the voices that when you can't do something, you 1618 01:35:11,240 --> 01:35:14,400 Speaker 6: just say you And you can't do that with yourself 1619 01:35:14,720 --> 01:35:17,040 Speaker 6: unless you have some other tools, which is what we 1620 01:35:17,120 --> 01:35:20,640 Speaker 6: would both be learning. So that was my list of 1621 01:35:21,600 --> 01:35:22,639 Speaker 6: top nine. 1622 01:35:23,160 --> 01:35:27,040 Speaker 3: Okay, that's your top five R and B songs. 1623 01:35:28,520 --> 01:35:31,240 Speaker 6: Hm, oh wait, let me do what I want to 1624 01:35:31,240 --> 01:35:35,400 Speaker 6: say to uh new artists, newish artists love money long, 1625 01:35:35,920 --> 01:35:40,439 Speaker 6: love money long. So love her style, her voice, the 1626 01:35:40,479 --> 01:35:46,200 Speaker 6: way she executes just mic is on. I love it, Uh, Vienna, 1627 01:35:46,360 --> 01:35:48,519 Speaker 6: she just knows who she is, and I love the 1628 01:35:48,560 --> 01:35:51,920 Speaker 6: way her voice is mixed. She's always mixed on the top. 1629 01:35:52,040 --> 01:35:54,800 Speaker 6: I always refer to her whenever anybody's doing any songs 1630 01:35:54,840 --> 01:35:57,559 Speaker 6: for me, I'm like, mix me where they put Rihanna. 1631 01:35:57,560 --> 01:35:59,320 Speaker 6: I don't care what song it is. It could be 1632 01:35:59,360 --> 01:36:01,280 Speaker 6: a song that you bouncing to or a song that 1633 01:36:01,400 --> 01:36:04,640 Speaker 6: you're like rocking to. She's right here, right there, and 1634 01:36:04,720 --> 01:36:07,160 Speaker 6: then the music and that's better for my voice. So 1635 01:36:07,200 --> 01:36:12,640 Speaker 6: I love her usher killing it already, Bruno Mars, we 1636 01:36:12,720 --> 01:36:15,800 Speaker 6: already know that wonderful Beyonce. I love. I love how 1637 01:36:15,840 --> 01:36:19,439 Speaker 6: she's evolved, and it's just she's trying to preach anything 1638 01:36:19,600 --> 01:36:24,840 Speaker 6: I did in Perison. How about that the first night 1639 01:36:24,920 --> 01:36:29,000 Speaker 6: that Homegirl her daughter was dancing, we were there, We're like, 1640 01:36:29,160 --> 01:36:36,120 Speaker 6: oh my god, we were laughing. I know that's only 1641 01:36:36,160 --> 01:36:38,559 Speaker 6: because with Stephen, it's not because of me. I would 1642 01:36:38,600 --> 01:36:41,280 Speaker 6: have been at home literally shout out. 1643 01:36:41,200 --> 01:36:41,760 Speaker 3: To Steve and. 1644 01:36:43,280 --> 01:36:44,880 Speaker 4: To turn up himself. 1645 01:36:46,240 --> 01:36:46,360 Speaker 1: Uh. 1646 01:36:46,640 --> 01:36:48,840 Speaker 6: And actually I believe r Kelly should be in that 1647 01:36:48,960 --> 01:36:51,479 Speaker 6: list no matter what he has come R and B 1648 01:36:52,000 --> 01:36:54,720 Speaker 6: straight right in the middle of the eyes. So he 1649 01:36:54,720 --> 01:36:57,200 Speaker 6: shouldn't did what he did. But that's not nothing to 1650 01:36:57,240 --> 01:37:00,800 Speaker 6: do with the music, all right, what else do your Okay? 1651 01:37:01,360 --> 01:37:03,040 Speaker 6: I had to put Shanta's Got a Man at home 1652 01:37:03,080 --> 01:37:06,240 Speaker 6: because I wouldn't have a real long career without that. 1653 01:37:06,360 --> 01:37:10,120 Speaker 6: I don't think I put while we're here, That's what 1654 01:37:10,200 --> 01:37:13,320 Speaker 6: I'm saying. Still love it in my system one of 1655 01:37:13,400 --> 01:37:18,360 Speaker 6: my favorite songs. I love that, Prince, I love everything. 1656 01:37:19,240 --> 01:37:20,880 Speaker 6: These are songs that I think make me want to 1657 01:37:20,880 --> 01:37:22,720 Speaker 6: get up and dances, which is what I think what 1658 01:37:22,920 --> 01:37:23,760 Speaker 6: made me think of them. 1659 01:37:24,000 --> 01:37:24,519 Speaker 3: D M S R. 1660 01:37:24,560 --> 01:37:28,360 Speaker 6: I love Prince, D M s R dance music. Okay, 1661 01:37:28,600 --> 01:37:29,160 Speaker 6: just making sure you. 1662 01:37:29,200 --> 01:37:32,240 Speaker 4: Knew, Uh, don't do this here at the R and B, 1663 01:37:32,880 --> 01:37:35,639 Speaker 4: R and B and early. 1664 01:37:35,479 --> 01:37:40,559 Speaker 6: In the morning. I love it. Uh? How does it feel? 1665 01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:42,400 Speaker 6: I love that? 1666 01:37:43,320 --> 01:37:43,439 Speaker 3: Uh? 1667 01:37:43,560 --> 01:37:45,040 Speaker 6: And then I put on airs where I put not 1668 01:37:45,120 --> 01:37:47,840 Speaker 6: to make sexiest CD Tank and Marvel Gato where I 1669 01:37:47,880 --> 01:37:49,719 Speaker 6: put up there, but I did the other one first. 1670 01:37:52,120 --> 01:37:53,800 Speaker 6: And wait, let me tell you how gigantic they. 1671 01:37:53,960 --> 01:37:58,320 Speaker 3: Know you got fought, you got, you got big because these. 1672 01:37:58,240 --> 01:38:02,200 Speaker 6: Eyes, I mean they eight I am. I'm not even talking. 1673 01:38:02,040 --> 01:38:08,560 Speaker 3: About it big, fun, big, and it was old. It 1674 01:38:08,720 --> 01:38:09,759 Speaker 3: was thick letters. 1675 01:38:10,960 --> 01:38:13,479 Speaker 6: I like when they go smaller. But if you keep 1676 01:38:13,560 --> 01:38:15,519 Speaker 6: saying in the one, it makes like a thing in 1677 01:38:15,600 --> 01:38:18,599 Speaker 6: the top. If you keep texting in this regular bread 1678 01:38:18,720 --> 01:38:19,559 Speaker 6: and then there's brio. 1679 01:38:20,000 --> 01:38:21,960 Speaker 4: So you got you got that. 1680 01:38:28,439 --> 01:38:31,000 Speaker 6: It's true. I've embraced my eyeballs can't see, so I 1681 01:38:31,040 --> 01:38:32,000 Speaker 6: have glasses everywhere. 1682 01:38:32,320 --> 01:38:36,439 Speaker 3: Miss Shante Moore, Let's build a voltron. You're super R 1683 01:38:36,520 --> 01:38:39,280 Speaker 3: and B artists. Who are you going to get the 1684 01:38:39,479 --> 01:38:43,160 Speaker 3: vocal from the performance style, the styling of the artists, 1685 01:38:43,200 --> 01:38:45,200 Speaker 3: the passion of the artist. And since you just you 1686 01:38:45,400 --> 01:38:47,759 Speaker 3: like to write songs with Jimmy jam and Terry Lewis, 1687 01:38:48,040 --> 01:38:52,040 Speaker 3: who's gonna write the write, Let's start with the vocal. 1688 01:38:52,120 --> 01:38:54,040 Speaker 4: One vocal for your super R and B artist. 1689 01:38:57,840 --> 01:39:02,680 Speaker 6: I'm gonna say, shakak she can do it all is 1690 01:39:03,080 --> 01:39:04,560 Speaker 6: pretty awesome, amazing. 1691 01:39:04,760 --> 01:39:08,600 Speaker 5: Range off the chart in the chest on here and 1692 01:39:10,040 --> 01:39:12,599 Speaker 5: you tell Miss Shaka Khan to come to the podcast. 1693 01:39:12,680 --> 01:39:13,280 Speaker 1: Can you call it? 1694 01:39:13,560 --> 01:39:13,760 Speaker 6: Yeah? 1695 01:39:14,680 --> 01:39:19,120 Speaker 3: You know that's that is, you know because be thinking, 1696 01:39:19,200 --> 01:39:26,080 Speaker 3: you know people I do that. I know she kicked 1697 01:39:26,080 --> 01:39:29,040 Speaker 3: me out of the section one time. Try to see 1698 01:39:29,120 --> 01:39:32,880 Speaker 3: and we and we've been coating cool after that, that's 1699 01:39:32,880 --> 01:39:36,320 Speaker 3: the way you gotta kick me out. I do that. 1700 01:39:36,560 --> 01:39:38,599 Speaker 4: She needed a place to sit. Tell lem niggas to move. 1701 01:39:42,120 --> 01:39:43,040 Speaker 6: Everybody had a moment. 1702 01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:52,120 Speaker 4: I'm a move but playing talk to me nice. The 1703 01:39:52,200 --> 01:39:53,280 Speaker 4: performance style. 1704 01:39:55,200 --> 01:39:56,920 Speaker 6: In my dream, this is a dream. 1705 01:39:57,000 --> 01:39:58,719 Speaker 4: This is your super R and b R is yours. 1706 01:39:58,880 --> 01:39:59,600 Speaker 4: However you want it. 1707 01:40:05,640 --> 01:40:09,240 Speaker 6: Sink like Shaka, dance like Beyon m hmm. 1708 01:40:10,720 --> 01:40:15,439 Speaker 3: Yeah, and beyones be cutting up on stage, cutting up, 1709 01:40:16,640 --> 01:40:22,160 Speaker 3: hard work, dedication, all of it, all night with the fan. 1710 01:40:22,400 --> 01:40:26,960 Speaker 4: With the fans. Yeah do that. Oh my god, our 1711 01:40:27,000 --> 01:40:35,599 Speaker 4: conditioning is graz night tonight. Styling mm hmm. 1712 01:40:37,720 --> 01:40:37,960 Speaker 5: Wow. 1713 01:40:39,080 --> 01:40:44,679 Speaker 6: I'm gonna say my style work it working really nobody 1714 01:40:44,760 --> 01:40:48,560 Speaker 6: but always always class. If I could sing like that 1715 01:40:48,640 --> 01:40:49,280 Speaker 6: and still be me. 1716 01:40:49,960 --> 01:40:54,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well done. They knew, they knew earlier. You 1717 01:40:54,240 --> 01:40:58,679 Speaker 3: could style yourself. Hit your own care, hit your will 1718 01:40:58,720 --> 01:41:07,439 Speaker 3: give you know. But listen, st figured out what I 1719 01:41:07,560 --> 01:41:10,720 Speaker 3: need the budget for shan, grab yourself some if you 1720 01:41:10,800 --> 01:41:14,200 Speaker 3: will go back to grab yourself something. 1721 01:41:16,439 --> 01:41:19,040 Speaker 6: Just see my little church haircut and let's go back 1722 01:41:19,080 --> 01:41:20,439 Speaker 6: to the showtime with the Apollo. 1723 01:41:21,160 --> 01:41:22,519 Speaker 4: I'm sure it's just me. 1724 01:41:22,840 --> 01:41:27,680 Speaker 3: Just pull up a picture the little screen shot the 1725 01:41:27,760 --> 01:41:29,960 Speaker 3: passion of the artist, the heart of the artists. Who 1726 01:41:30,080 --> 01:41:30,320 Speaker 3: means it? 1727 01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:34,759 Speaker 6: Mm hmm, passion and heart. 1728 01:41:36,760 --> 01:41:36,880 Speaker 3: Uh. 1729 01:41:40,000 --> 01:41:47,400 Speaker 6: Tina Turner ship yes sing anime. Yeah, because she sang 1730 01:41:47,520 --> 01:41:51,479 Speaker 6: everything from the from the guts of guts. I wouldn't 1731 01:41:51,479 --> 01:41:53,960 Speaker 6: want every single song, but everythingle song to be that 1732 01:41:54,080 --> 01:41:56,080 Speaker 6: guts because sometimes you got to relax a little bit. 1733 01:41:56,200 --> 01:41:59,040 Speaker 6: But still, if you have the option be in shockup, 1734 01:41:59,080 --> 01:41:59,760 Speaker 6: you can do what you do. 1735 01:42:01,800 --> 01:42:06,320 Speaker 3: I love that that's worked. There's Tina and then there's 1736 01:42:06,400 --> 01:42:10,280 Speaker 3: b Yes, that is why that, that's why that is. 1737 01:42:11,600 --> 01:42:16,479 Speaker 3: And who's writing for this artist? Yeah, that's a hot 1738 01:42:16,560 --> 01:42:21,439 Speaker 3: see question. And you friends and every single everybody. 1739 01:42:22,360 --> 01:42:23,040 Speaker 4: Great song. 1740 01:42:23,160 --> 01:42:24,400 Speaker 1: He's written a song for you. 1741 01:42:26,600 --> 01:42:28,240 Speaker 6: Man, don't get mistarted. 1742 01:42:28,840 --> 01:42:28,960 Speaker 3: Uh. 1743 01:42:29,400 --> 01:42:36,920 Speaker 6: The thing, the hardest song the song I was pressed 1744 01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:43,800 Speaker 6: more to work past my own limits that song. I 1745 01:42:43,840 --> 01:42:45,960 Speaker 6: think it took me over a couple of months to 1746 01:42:46,080 --> 01:42:51,120 Speaker 6: sing Shanta's got a man, I got horse and got tired. 1747 01:42:51,200 --> 01:42:53,599 Speaker 6: Jimmy and Terry were like, go home, baby, we'll see 1748 01:42:53,600 --> 01:42:55,680 Speaker 6: it today. You think you need a couple of go 1749 01:42:55,800 --> 01:42:59,120 Speaker 6: home and go rest and then come back because we 1750 01:42:59,200 --> 01:43:01,760 Speaker 6: didn't get the vocal and I'm singing and they're going 1751 01:43:02,240 --> 01:43:06,519 Speaker 6: imagine Mariah Carey is in the audience. You are at 1752 01:43:06,600 --> 01:43:09,519 Speaker 6: the award show and you're singing some of the year go. 1753 01:43:11,080 --> 01:43:11,280 Speaker 3: Oh. 1754 01:43:12,760 --> 01:43:14,840 Speaker 6: I was like, I don't want to sing during that 1755 01:43:14,960 --> 01:43:18,200 Speaker 6: kind of pressure. So I would say Jimmy and Terry 1756 01:43:18,400 --> 01:43:28,840 Speaker 6: because they worked me the singing hard, melodic, soft, the backgrounds, harmonies. 1757 01:43:29,479 --> 01:43:35,240 Speaker 6: They want it all. Some are some producers get stuck 1758 01:43:35,360 --> 01:43:40,400 Speaker 6: on the tone and they don't press for go singing, 1759 01:43:40,479 --> 01:43:46,040 Speaker 6: go try harder ye, and then some just want that 1760 01:43:46,280 --> 01:43:48,839 Speaker 6: and they don't understand there has to be a finesse 1761 01:43:48,920 --> 01:43:51,240 Speaker 6: to get to So Jimmy and. 1762 01:43:51,280 --> 01:43:57,960 Speaker 3: Terry, Yeah, you don't pick somebody. Some of the greatest 1763 01:43:58,200 --> 01:44:01,360 Speaker 3: songwriters and producers of all time and they are so 1764 01:44:01,920 --> 01:44:03,519 Speaker 3: friends they are. 1765 01:44:06,000 --> 01:44:11,519 Speaker 6: Isn't that awesome? That's awesome. So I of course married 1766 01:44:11,640 --> 01:44:19,519 Speaker 6: Stephen Hill, and I know Stephen absolutely loves Jimmy and Terry. 1767 01:44:19,800 --> 01:44:22,719 Speaker 6: He loves music period, but he especially has an affinity 1768 01:44:22,840 --> 01:44:28,040 Speaker 6: for Jimy and Terry. So I asked them to co 1769 01:44:28,280 --> 01:44:30,720 Speaker 6: write the song I walked down the aisle to him 1770 01:44:31,240 --> 01:44:36,160 Speaker 6: on so they did. So that was the song that 1771 01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:38,680 Speaker 6: is on my record that it's going to be on 1772 01:44:38,800 --> 01:44:39,360 Speaker 6: the new record. 1773 01:44:40,120 --> 01:44:44,280 Speaker 1: You've got it Forever in love, we are pouring champagne. 1774 01:44:50,640 --> 01:44:55,160 Speaker 6: What's funny is he is the most supportive, Like he 1775 01:44:55,479 --> 01:44:57,960 Speaker 6: just gets overwhelmed with the love and the joy and 1776 01:44:58,080 --> 01:45:00,760 Speaker 6: I'm like, cry more about it than I do. It's 1777 01:45:00,840 --> 01:45:06,680 Speaker 6: just He's like, it's just swarm up, yes, baby, it is. 1778 01:45:07,040 --> 01:45:07,360 Speaker 1: It is. 1779 01:45:07,840 --> 01:45:10,280 Speaker 6: But I am. I am so grateful to have some 1780 01:45:11,160 --> 01:45:17,760 Speaker 6: someone who who does appreciate and value absolutely not just 1781 01:45:18,360 --> 01:45:21,720 Speaker 6: chant on stage, but me at home for real, literally. 1782 01:45:22,520 --> 01:45:25,559 Speaker 3: At home about my god. 1783 01:45:27,640 --> 01:45:27,760 Speaker 4: Bro. 1784 01:45:29,200 --> 01:45:32,400 Speaker 5: So we're here now at the very important part of 1785 01:45:32,439 --> 01:45:35,960 Speaker 5: the show. Will you tell us a story? Funnyer fucked up? 1786 01:45:36,520 --> 01:45:39,479 Speaker 5: A funny and fucked up? The only rule to the 1787 01:45:39,640 --> 01:45:41,960 Speaker 5: game is shante. 1788 01:45:42,320 --> 01:45:43,400 Speaker 3: Can you say no? No. 1789 01:45:45,400 --> 01:45:48,160 Speaker 6: I have two stories that come to my One is 1790 01:45:49,160 --> 01:45:53,160 Speaker 6: I was on this show and I had this full 1791 01:45:53,240 --> 01:45:56,040 Speaker 6: length mink coat on and I was supposed to come 1792 01:45:56,120 --> 01:45:59,320 Speaker 6: down the stairs and then start talking to the host. 1793 01:45:59,760 --> 01:46:01,920 Speaker 6: And I was coming down the stairs and I stepped 1794 01:46:01,960 --> 01:46:05,200 Speaker 6: on my own coat, and so I just rolled up 1795 01:46:05,360 --> 01:46:08,960 Speaker 6: into the coat and I couldn't get up because every 1796 01:46:09,080 --> 01:46:12,360 Speaker 6: step I made was on the coat that was on me. 1797 01:46:13,120 --> 01:46:15,920 Speaker 6: And I sat there and everyone the guys came and 1798 01:46:16,000 --> 01:46:19,200 Speaker 6: they lifted me up, and this particular person which is 1799 01:46:19,320 --> 01:46:21,519 Speaker 6: really not like a bad thing. But she was like, oh, 1800 01:46:21,600 --> 01:46:23,240 Speaker 6: so you're just gonna lay there like a diva and 1801 01:46:23,360 --> 01:46:24,800 Speaker 6: late till they pick you up. And I was like, 1802 01:46:25,360 --> 01:46:28,680 Speaker 6: I didn't mean to, but I couldn't get up so 1803 01:46:28,840 --> 01:46:34,519 Speaker 6: that a funny story couldn't get it. I couldn't get 1804 01:46:34,600 --> 01:46:44,519 Speaker 6: my arm. So that's one. The one is another is uh, 1805 01:46:44,840 --> 01:46:49,479 Speaker 6: somebody I worked with said I couldn't get a record 1806 01:46:49,760 --> 01:46:53,360 Speaker 6: unless I slept with them, and so I said no, 1807 01:46:53,760 --> 01:46:58,080 Speaker 6: and that was the end. I never got the record. 1808 01:47:00,160 --> 01:47:02,880 Speaker 6: H Are there any others? There's probably a bunch of them. 1809 01:47:04,000 --> 01:47:04,760 Speaker 1: You really tell the. 1810 01:47:07,479 --> 01:47:07,759 Speaker 4: Ship. 1811 01:47:09,160 --> 01:47:12,040 Speaker 3: Mm uh. 1812 01:47:12,200 --> 01:47:14,400 Speaker 6: Someone who's gonna sign me before I got signed and 1813 01:47:14,600 --> 01:47:18,519 Speaker 6: they said, uh, we'll take your songs, but not you. 1814 01:47:19,320 --> 01:47:22,840 Speaker 6: You're not that special, but we'll take your songs. Though 1815 01:47:22,920 --> 01:47:24,840 Speaker 6: I was like, well they come with me, so no. 1816 01:47:26,120 --> 01:47:27,479 Speaker 6: That was long before I signed. 1817 01:47:27,640 --> 01:47:29,000 Speaker 1: Will take your song? 1818 01:47:29,840 --> 01:47:36,160 Speaker 6: Mh. They were like, you want to be a writer, Jesus. 1819 01:47:37,720 --> 01:47:40,640 Speaker 3: It's tough this businesses. 1820 01:47:41,920 --> 01:47:44,480 Speaker 6: And keep a soft inside. 1821 01:47:44,800 --> 01:47:48,880 Speaker 3: That's the problem because because because you're going to get judged. 1822 01:47:50,040 --> 01:47:50,679 Speaker 4: Both ways. 1823 01:47:52,560 --> 01:47:57,040 Speaker 3: You're going to be judged for giving in and you're 1824 01:47:57,160 --> 01:48:01,280 Speaker 3: also going to be judged or standing firm on your morals, 1825 01:48:02,920 --> 01:48:08,320 Speaker 3: and so even in your nose, you have to figure 1826 01:48:08,360 --> 01:48:11,759 Speaker 3: out a way to make your no pleasant. 1827 01:48:12,600 --> 01:48:13,439 Speaker 6: It doesn't matter. 1828 01:48:13,360 --> 01:48:15,840 Speaker 4: Which is no, which I mean, I'm just saying to. 1829 01:48:15,920 --> 01:48:18,800 Speaker 6: People that are in power, no is no. They don't 1830 01:48:18,800 --> 01:48:19,280 Speaker 6: get what they. 1831 01:48:19,200 --> 01:48:22,560 Speaker 3: Want so exactly, but just just giving the nuance of 1832 01:48:22,720 --> 01:48:27,240 Speaker 3: how it works a lot in entertainment for women, that 1833 01:48:27,479 --> 01:48:33,639 Speaker 3: balance of saying no and still being able to get 1834 01:48:33,680 --> 01:48:34,480 Speaker 3: an opportunity. 1835 01:48:34,760 --> 01:48:36,680 Speaker 6: I would have a different career if I said yes 1836 01:48:37,360 --> 01:48:42,599 Speaker 6: for four or five times, I'd have a completely different group, 1837 01:48:43,680 --> 01:48:46,519 Speaker 6: completely different And I'm okay with not having that. 1838 01:48:48,280 --> 01:48:53,599 Speaker 3: I mean, listen the the chante more you are, uh, 1839 01:48:54,280 --> 01:48:59,960 Speaker 3: we love and revere understanding that, and we appreciate those choices. 1840 01:49:00,920 --> 01:49:02,160 Speaker 3: That is why you are who you are. 1841 01:49:05,120 --> 01:49:08,240 Speaker 6: Yes, getting proud of yourself. Nobody else gonna be proud 1842 01:49:08,240 --> 01:49:12,200 Speaker 6: of you. That part I have to stand in. 1843 01:49:12,280 --> 01:49:24,560 Speaker 4: My shoes, stroll up, talk about it. 1844 01:49:26,040 --> 01:49:31,800 Speaker 3: You do. I think we are just, you know, we 1845 01:49:31,920 --> 01:49:35,720 Speaker 3: are just fans. We are just I mean, I feel 1846 01:49:35,720 --> 01:49:37,960 Speaker 3: like we're family members, so that goes without saying. But 1847 01:49:38,840 --> 01:49:42,000 Speaker 3: you know, I think we're we're We're always of the 1848 01:49:42,160 --> 01:49:48,320 Speaker 3: mind of understanding and appreciating the value of the people 1849 01:49:48,439 --> 01:49:52,080 Speaker 3: that we rock with and never letting, never taking that 1850 01:49:52,240 --> 01:49:56,680 Speaker 3: for granted, and never losing that that respect for it. 1851 01:49:56,800 --> 01:49:59,519 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like seeing you here, you 1852 01:49:59,680 --> 01:50:02,960 Speaker 3: being here with us means something to us, because to 1853 01:50:03,240 --> 01:50:09,240 Speaker 3: us you are chante more. Like that name means something 1854 01:50:09,280 --> 01:50:11,840 Speaker 3: that mother But listen, my great grandfather to say Paul 1855 01:50:11,920 --> 01:50:16,080 Speaker 3: lewis home now, it's a big motherfucking difference. And when 1856 01:50:16,120 --> 01:50:23,320 Speaker 3: you say chante more, it just gets different because chante more. 1857 01:50:25,720 --> 01:50:29,680 Speaker 3: And that'll never change for us. This will always be 1858 01:50:29,760 --> 01:50:34,080 Speaker 3: a place where if you lose a little bit of 1859 01:50:34,200 --> 01:50:38,240 Speaker 3: self esteem, self esteem, you come onto the R and 1860 01:50:38,320 --> 01:50:41,040 Speaker 3: V Money Pod, you call one of us. We're gonna 1861 01:50:41,120 --> 01:50:44,599 Speaker 3: let you know exactly who and what you are, how 1862 01:50:44,680 --> 01:50:47,640 Speaker 3: important and how powerful and how impactful you are, and 1863 01:50:47,760 --> 01:50:53,280 Speaker 3: how needed you are. Your voice, your stories, your courage, 1864 01:50:53,280 --> 01:50:56,760 Speaker 3: your willingness to stand ten toes down on who you are, 1865 01:50:58,360 --> 01:51:01,960 Speaker 3: your comedy on now come on now. 1866 01:51:03,880 --> 01:51:07,640 Speaker 4: Like incredible. 1867 01:51:08,000 --> 01:51:09,720 Speaker 6: I feel the same way about both of you. Thank 1868 01:51:09,760 --> 01:51:11,800 Speaker 6: you for doing this. I'm just so proud of you 1869 01:51:11,880 --> 01:51:14,160 Speaker 6: all from moving out of what's your comfort zone as 1870 01:51:14,200 --> 01:51:17,519 Speaker 6: well and doing something completely it's outside of that, it's 1871 01:51:17,600 --> 01:51:19,880 Speaker 6: inside R and B. But it's still different. 1872 01:51:19,680 --> 01:51:19,920 Speaker 4: Than what. 1873 01:51:23,800 --> 01:51:24,160 Speaker 6: Amazing. 1874 01:51:24,320 --> 01:51:28,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's like and it's it's it's it's how 1875 01:51:28,200 --> 01:51:31,000 Speaker 4: can we be of service? Yeah? How can we? 1876 01:51:31,680 --> 01:51:32,400 Speaker 3: How can we help? 1877 01:51:33,280 --> 01:51:33,439 Speaker 2: You know? 1878 01:51:33,680 --> 01:51:36,200 Speaker 3: And in the universe will take care of the rest. 1879 01:51:37,040 --> 01:51:38,680 Speaker 3: We'll take care of the rest. But how can we 1880 01:51:39,439 --> 01:51:42,320 Speaker 3: how can we have something that that we all can 1881 01:51:42,439 --> 01:51:45,519 Speaker 3: stand on, that we all can be proud of, that 1882 01:51:45,640 --> 01:51:49,000 Speaker 3: we all can say, hey, we we all collectively because 1883 01:51:49,040 --> 01:51:50,439 Speaker 3: I mean me and him can sit there and talk 1884 01:51:51,000 --> 01:51:55,760 Speaker 3: by hours, but we we need special people in this 1885 01:51:55,840 --> 01:51:56,400 Speaker 3: seat right here. 1886 01:51:56,760 --> 01:51:58,439 Speaker 6: Well, maybe R and B money has to be the 1887 01:51:58,520 --> 01:52:04,240 Speaker 6: new Yar City your hall. I'm just saying, we got 1888 01:52:05,600 --> 01:52:06,519 Speaker 6: married to the guy. 1889 01:52:06,400 --> 01:52:07,640 Speaker 1: That you're married to. 1890 01:52:07,720 --> 01:52:10,640 Speaker 4: The guy can consult us all the way you need 1891 01:52:10,720 --> 01:52:12,559 Speaker 4: to go see. 1892 01:52:13,520 --> 01:52:18,479 Speaker 3: You know your wife, you heard your wife always. 1893 01:52:21,360 --> 01:52:23,719 Speaker 6: But the thing is, I remember on b T before 1894 01:52:24,479 --> 01:52:28,320 Speaker 6: he was there, I was the first person to sing 1895 01:52:28,479 --> 01:52:32,160 Speaker 6: live on b E T tabot a live singing like 1896 01:52:32,400 --> 01:52:36,559 Speaker 6: doud camera first time. That's all. 1897 01:52:37,439 --> 01:52:40,600 Speaker 3: As as we continue to talk, you're just you're just 1898 01:52:40,760 --> 01:52:44,439 Speaker 3: more core, more more, which. 1899 01:52:44,560 --> 01:52:46,759 Speaker 4: Which speaks to why you are. 1900 01:52:48,520 --> 01:52:48,720 Speaker 3: More. 1901 01:52:49,840 --> 01:52:54,200 Speaker 4: Thank you incredible. My name is Tank Valentin. 1902 01:52:57,680 --> 01:53:01,960 Speaker 3: This the Everybody Podcast, the authority of all things R 1903 01:53:02,040 --> 01:53:08,120 Speaker 3: and B and apparently stand up as well. And you know, 1904 01:53:08,320 --> 01:53:11,519 Speaker 3: this has just been for us a special episode with 1905 01:53:11,640 --> 01:53:16,640 Speaker 3: a very incredible, special gifted, beautiful, amazing human being. And 1906 01:53:16,840 --> 01:53:26,240 Speaker 3: she goes by the name of Chante more discre