WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: Chanté Moore

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<v Speaker 1>Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio, Ladies and Gentlemen. Uh,

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<v Speaker 1>there's another episode of Quest Love Supreme. I am your

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<v Speaker 1>host Quest Love Quest Loves taking over? How you doing?

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<v Speaker 2>Like like he's got a man at home.

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<v Speaker 1>Doing that would have been a hell of a time

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<v Speaker 1>to have our theme back.

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<v Speaker 3>I know, we just have to change platforms and you know,

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<v Speaker 3>getting six people to change links and things.

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<v Speaker 4>It's a process.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh or yeah, just maybe beat right? Next episode? All right?

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<v Speaker 1>So you got a man like good to know? Anything else?

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<v Speaker 2>He's so good to me?

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<v Speaker 1>Any other? Any other? No, you just got two songs?

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<v Speaker 1>All right? All right?

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<v Speaker 5>I got more?

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<v Speaker 2>This is that's the same song.

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<v Speaker 5>I know?

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<v Speaker 1>This is Steve. How are you? I got no man?

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<v Speaker 1>All right, Well, there's there's always tomorrow, bro, unpaid Bill Man,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm good. Good to see you, Bro. I have to

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<v Speaker 1>congratulate you on your your work on Broadway. I saw

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<v Speaker 1>and Juliette. I highly recommend it. It's stellar work.

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<v Speaker 3>As always, this is a good time to say, we're

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<v Speaker 3>going to be in New York at the end of

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<v Speaker 3>the months.

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<v Speaker 2>So hold those tickets, Bill, hold those.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's do that. We should figure out a date wherever

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<v Speaker 1>we can go and we should do that.

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<v Speaker 5>Good.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, yes, great field trip, field trip for the crew.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh fan Tago, what's.

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<v Speaker 5>That bro, I'm good man, I'm good Man.

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<v Speaker 1>And children sexy lights down there?

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<v Speaker 6>I see yeah, you know, hey, Shante moison Man, I

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<v Speaker 6>had to make no right even you.

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<v Speaker 2>Know, I'm well well out the candle light. I got more.

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<v Speaker 5>Come on, here we go, here you go.

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<v Speaker 1>So I will say that our illustrious guest today, for

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<v Speaker 1>the least the for the last three decades, has been

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<v Speaker 1>blessing us with their angelic. I would assume for octave

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<v Speaker 1>range the ability to break glass, if you will, getting

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<v Speaker 1>high up there. I wish I had that gift. Starting

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<v Speaker 1>with her debut album on MCA, Precious, of course, featured

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<v Speaker 1>in the classic Loves Taken Over, I love that. Wow.

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<v Speaker 1>That's saying that all the time, not to mention album

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<v Speaker 1>after album Love Supreme. You know, a moment's mind exposed

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<v Speaker 1>in a slew of others. She's also literally worked, I'll say,

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<v Speaker 1>with every producer like her collaboration list is almost wow.

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<v Speaker 1>I hope we get a lot of stories out of this,

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<v Speaker 1>from George Duke to B. B. Wins, to jam and

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<v Speaker 1>Lewis to Keith Kraut, to Keiper Jones, to Tricky Stewart,

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<v Speaker 1>Brian Lamren, Rodney Jerkins, Jermaine Upri, Robin Thick, Tim and

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<v Speaker 1>Bob Philly's own James. I'm gonna call him poisoner because

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<v Speaker 1>he hates when I at the letter into his name. Junius,

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<v Speaker 1>Darryl Simmons, Tim, Bob Carvin and Ivan, Fred Hammond, Raphael Sadik,

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<v Speaker 1>Kwame Bryant, Michael Cox. Of course, even work with boys

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<v Speaker 1>de men Elle DeBarge. The Iisley Brothers won a grip

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<v Speaker 1>of awards and plaques, and she's giving us the honor

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<v Speaker 1>today to recap her career and her story and her

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<v Speaker 1>journey on our platform, The Winning Quest Love Supreme. Ladies

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<v Speaker 1>and gentlemen, please welcome to our show. Chante moore, how

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<v Speaker 1>are you?

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<v Speaker 4>I'm doing great? You name people I forgot I worked with?

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<v Speaker 4>That's how long? That and crazy?

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<v Speaker 7>That list was the only thing I will say about

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<v Speaker 7>that is I'm going to start with I have only

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<v Speaker 7>won one award, and I got it this year, no

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<v Speaker 7>excuse me, this past year for Christmas, and it was

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<v Speaker 7>supposed to be in nineteen ninety seven, but my husband

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<v Speaker 7>Steven found the waiting to ex Hell Soundtrack of the

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<v Speaker 7>Year award for the American Music Awards. It was the

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<v Speaker 7>entire album. He gave it to me for Christmas. It's

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<v Speaker 7>the only award I have.

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<v Speaker 1>You're trying to tell me for twenty five years, this

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<v Speaker 1>award's been in I A.

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<v Speaker 7>Yes, no one ever gave it to me. No one

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<v Speaker 7>ever said anything about it. No one ever called me

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<v Speaker 7>and said, hey, congratulations, you want or get up on

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<v Speaker 7>stage and do and be nothing.

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<v Speaker 4>Nothing. Ever, he found it and gave it to me.

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<v Speaker 1>Weird do you say that because we have question of

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<v Speaker 1>Supreme a still waiting for our Webby Award from our

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<v Speaker 1>first day.

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<v Speaker 4>But anyway, twenty years you need, when you need Stephen Hill,

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<v Speaker 4>that's what you need.

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<v Speaker 1>Stephen Hill. Does it? Shout out to brother Stephen. Stephen

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<v Speaker 1>just reminded me that when when his episode was done,

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<v Speaker 1>that was a very dark day in which the forty

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<v Speaker 1>fifth president was just getting ushered into office, and it

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<v Speaker 1>was a very and now here we are. You're here

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<v Speaker 1>on the day that that same person got indicted and arrested.

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<v Speaker 7>So that's very special, very special moment, full social moment.

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<v Speaker 1>You are all right, So my very first question to

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<v Speaker 1>you is, well, what the hell is going on? Tweet

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<v Speaker 1>the sheets at my home playing speaking of Well, first

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<v Speaker 1>of all, where were you born? I want to know

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<v Speaker 1>about your childhood. Where's the city in which I was born?

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<v Speaker 4>In San Franci San Francisco, California.

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<v Speaker 7>I have lived in California my whole life, San Francisco,

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<v Speaker 7>first San Diego, next Sacramento, and then Los Angeles.

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<v Speaker 4>For the last thirty two years or so. I'm only

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<v Speaker 4>eight years old, So you do the calculation.

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<v Speaker 1>I've not heard you use the term hella yet, so

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if I believe that it's the truth.

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<v Speaker 4>Really I am.

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<v Speaker 7>I am a California girl, and I color my roots

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<v Speaker 7>because I will not accept my age yet, even though

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<v Speaker 7>my children are all bigger than me, and my son

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<v Speaker 7>will be twenty on the tenth of April, and my

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<v Speaker 7>daughter will be twenty seven on the twenty seventh of September.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't tell me how old your daughter is because that

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<v Speaker 2>will mess me up.

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<v Speaker 4>But I was eight when I had her, So there.

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<v Speaker 7>You go, right, see okay, see see thirty years in

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<v Speaker 7>the business.

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<v Speaker 4>I was eight, Yes, I was eight. I mean you

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<v Speaker 4>look at so far you say thank you. I you

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<v Speaker 4>know what I feel.

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<v Speaker 7>Good, and I'm really happy to not feel the age

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<v Speaker 7>that the eight keeps telling me.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm going to just keep holding on to what I feel.

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<v Speaker 3>What do you do to keep staying that way? I'm

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<v Speaker 3>just curious what you do to maintain it.

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<v Speaker 1>Rock said that money was the best solution. What is

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<v Speaker 1>what is truly the best solution?

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<v Speaker 4>Joy and peace? Love?

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, because because if you're not at peace, all that

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<v Speaker 7>stuff just makes you frown and makes I don't care

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<v Speaker 7>what kind of botox you got, you still be just

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<v Speaker 7>angry looking. I just feel like the joy of life

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<v Speaker 7>and loving my children and loving love and loving life,

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<v Speaker 7>loving music still and being able to still do that

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<v Speaker 7>for a living is the hugest blessing I've ever the

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<v Speaker 7>fact that I'm on here. I mean, I know you

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<v Speaker 7>guys are saying, like, give me my flowers, but I

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<v Speaker 7>read on Quest Love's podcast, I'm tripping that I'm still

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<v Speaker 7>I was gonna say, here in America, here in the industry,

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<v Speaker 7>and I.

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<v Speaker 4>Get to do what I love to do for a living.

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<v Speaker 4>It is mind blowing. It's mind blowing.

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<v Speaker 7>I still get nervous about it. It's still I feel like,

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<v Speaker 7>calm myself.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm going it's Okay, everything's good.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm good.

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<v Speaker 3>For some of your fans, though, we feel like this

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<v Speaker 3>is where you belong and you should always feel like that,

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<v Speaker 3>like it should be a you know, comfortable place, like

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<v Speaker 3>I said one of the best voices of our time.

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<v Speaker 7>Yes, I'm still trying to just absorb that and accept

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<v Speaker 7>it without going And I was like, Okay.

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<v Speaker 1>Another reluctant receiver. Yeah, now I'm not in that position. Great,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you. Can you tell me what your first musical

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<v Speaker 1>memory was?

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<v Speaker 4>Ha, you know what.

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<v Speaker 7>I don't remember the song, but I remember the time zone.

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<v Speaker 7>What I did every day at home was dance and

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<v Speaker 7>sing to music. I wasn't allowed to listen to anything

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<v Speaker 7>other than gospel music until I was like twelve or thirteen,

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<v Speaker 7>when my brother turned eighteen.

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<v Speaker 1>Right then you started sneaking and listening.

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<v Speaker 7>No, my brother turned eighteen and my parents let him

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<v Speaker 7>listen to music that wasn't gospel in the garage. So

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<v Speaker 7>I heard Prince for the first time, I heard Minnie

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<v Speaker 7>Riperton for the first time, and everything else like that

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<v Speaker 7>had already come before, from the Four Tops to Everybody

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<v Speaker 7>to Spring everyone Stevie Wonder. I never heard any of

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<v Speaker 7>these people before. My brother turned Wait weirteen.

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<v Speaker 1>Wait were you in the seventh Day of Venice household?

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<v Speaker 7>No, I was a Christian, but my dad's a preacher evangelist,

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<v Speaker 7>and my mother was a sing is was She passed

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<v Speaker 7>on when I was nineteen ninety three, two or three

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<v Speaker 7>she passed on. So no, we weren't allowed to listen

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<v Speaker 7>to anything in the house. But I didn't know what

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<v Speaker 7>I was missing because I was listening to Tremaine Hawkins

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<v Speaker 7>and Walter Hawkins and Andre Crouch. And the first lady

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<v Speaker 7>I ever heard to do the high notes was a

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<v Speaker 7>lady named Riba Rambo.

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<v Speaker 4>So I don't know if you ever heard of the Rambos.

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<v Speaker 4>Most people have not.

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<v Speaker 1>Who are theos?

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<v Speaker 7>They are old white gospel music singing family. And she

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<v Speaker 7>sang these notes that I didn't know anybody else did.

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<v Speaker 7>I only did the high notes because I couldn't sing

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<v Speaker 7>it full voice.

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<v Speaker 4>Like Tremaine Hawkins.

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<v Speaker 7>So I was just like, well, I can't do it year,

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<v Speaker 7>so I'll just jump right up to the high one instead.

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<v Speaker 7>So that's how it happened. I thought something was wrong

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<v Speaker 7>with my voice, rather than it being a thing.

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<v Speaker 4>That I should be proud of. Okay, wow, So I

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<v Speaker 4>was dancing around, singing.

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<v Speaker 1>Usually when our guests come on the show. In every

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<v Speaker 1>strict Christian household, there is at least kind of an

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<v Speaker 1>exception for Stevie Wonder. So you're saying that even Stevie

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<v Speaker 1>Wonder was too secular.

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<v Speaker 7>To anything that wasn't talking about Jesus.

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<v Speaker 4>Was not allowed in my house at all. I didn't

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<v Speaker 4>wear pants till I was seven. Wow, I was in dresses.

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<v Speaker 4>So don't skin your knees, but go out in that

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<v Speaker 4>little dress and go play. But don't skin your knees,

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<v Speaker 4>just go play.

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<v Speaker 1>Were they Baptists or they were.

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<v Speaker 7>Church of God in Christ and then we were non denominational,

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<v Speaker 7>and then I ended up growing up and being Apostolic.

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<v Speaker 4>Which is pretty much just a strict with like the

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<v Speaker 4>makeup thing.

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<v Speaker 7>But then they kind of but yeah, so, but I

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<v Speaker 7>didn't know what I was missing because music surrounded me

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<v Speaker 7>all the time. My brother's a drummer. My sister is

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<v Speaker 7>a pianist, She an artist, she writes, she sings. She

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<v Speaker 7>was who I wanted to be like my mother sang.

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<v Speaker 7>My father is a pianist. Music surrounded me all the time,

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<v Speaker 7>and but it was just worship. I didn't know that

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<v Speaker 7>there were other kinds of music that did other things.

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<v Speaker 1>You mentioned the illustrious Hawkins family. Yeah, of course they're

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<v Speaker 1>from the Bay Area. Have you ever gotten to see

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<v Speaker 1>them like in person performing in church in their element?

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<v Speaker 7>It was at Love a live three or four, whichever

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<v Speaker 7>one was. Don't Wait till the Battle is overshout Now I.

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<v Speaker 4>Was there what they recorded it? Oh yeah, I mean

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<v Speaker 4>I lived in San Francisco. That was up in Oakland.

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<v Speaker 4>That was.

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<v Speaker 1>Describe it, Describe it.

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<v Speaker 7>I just remember the songs and being like like the

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<v Speaker 7>like the sound of.

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<v Speaker 4>Screaming and worship. It's such a beautiful like a ringing

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<v Speaker 4>in your I don't know I am. I'm a worshiper

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<v Speaker 4>at heart.

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<v Speaker 7>That that's what I love, like even in my songs,

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<v Speaker 7>like we can talk about it's all right, but it's

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<v Speaker 7>all right. It's turned into this thing between me and God.

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<v Speaker 7>That's that's about him and me that before the sun rises,

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<v Speaker 7>I love you more than anybody else loves you.

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<v Speaker 4>So what I love is that my foundation is.

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<v Speaker 7>That ring that's found, that that feeling of God's presence

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<v Speaker 7>in me surrounding me.

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<v Speaker 4>So that's what I know as home. That's home for me.

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<v Speaker 1>In receiving secular music in a trickle down way and

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<v Speaker 1>sneaking or listen to it or whatever. Who did you well,

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<v Speaker 1>you mentioned Minnie Riperton. Can I assume that's why you

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<v Speaker 1>chose Inside My Love for New York Undercover.

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<v Speaker 4>They actually chose it for me.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.

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<v Speaker 4>Everyone wants me to sing Many all the time because.

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<v Speaker 7>They love many and they love the high notes, so

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<v Speaker 7>that is why they chose that song. But I was

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<v Speaker 7>happy to do it. What's funny is the only time

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<v Speaker 7>I remember hearing a song that I felt like I.

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<v Speaker 4>Was sneaking was Don't Do Do Do Do Smokey Robinson.

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<v Speaker 7>I was on my because I used to go to

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<v Speaker 7>sleep listening to in la Is kb r T. It

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<v Speaker 7>was just symphony and it was a herd. I'm such

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<v Speaker 7>an energetic person that my mother found this this this

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<v Speaker 7>trigger that if you listen to the symphony music, it

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<v Speaker 7>will help you lay down, like help you just calm yourself.

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<v Speaker 7>So I would listen to that, but you know, sometimes

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<v Speaker 7>I would just like scoot over just a little bit.

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<v Speaker 7>And that song came on, and that was the very

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<v Speaker 7>first song I ever felt like, like, Okay, who is

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<v Speaker 7>this baby tonight?

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<v Speaker 4>What you say you felt it.

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<v Speaker 7>I got like, like, I didn't understand what that meant.

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<v Speaker 7>I was like, I'm not sure why I want to

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<v Speaker 7>fly away and going your way.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know why, but I want to cruise.

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<v Speaker 7>That was the first time I had ever felt like

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<v Speaker 7>the feeling through a music that wasn't about worship. It

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<v Speaker 7>was about that emotional, sexual kind of thing. And I

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<v Speaker 7>was like, oh, but I listened to the whole song

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<v Speaker 7>before I turned it off.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't What was the first album that you remember

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<v Speaker 1>freely purchasing without having to look, you know, three hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and sixty degrees around to see who's in the earshot.

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<v Speaker 4>Purchasing or hearing purchase purchasing.

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<v Speaker 7>Good Lord, I didn't have to purchase it, but it

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<v Speaker 7>was Prince, it was the for You album.

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<v Speaker 4>It was my brothers, so I didn't have to buy it,

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<v Speaker 4>and just hearing the a cappella for.

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<v Speaker 1>You at the beginning, how fuck.

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<v Speaker 4>It over whelmed me. It brought me to tears. I

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<v Speaker 4>remember crying because his voice was so beautiful. The whole

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<v Speaker 4>entire album, it like it went from dunaa, all of it.

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<v Speaker 7>It just it was a journey that I had never

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<v Speaker 7>been on before. It was something I had not experienced

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<v Speaker 7>because he wasn't singing about Jesus, but I felt him

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<v Speaker 7>in the inside of my heart and it was so angelic.

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<v Speaker 4>That is absolutely correct.

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<v Speaker 7>And then the second was Minnie Ripperton when it was

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<v Speaker 7>the album when she passed away and it was just

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<v Speaker 7>her face.

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<v Speaker 1>MANI you mean, yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>When Here we Go was the song and she had

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<v Speaker 4>already gone.

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<v Speaker 7>So I remember crying about that too because it was

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<v Speaker 7>she had already left the earth and I was like, no,

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<v Speaker 7>this force is gone.

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<v Speaker 4>I did know how to handle that.

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<v Speaker 1>To this day, I don't like listening to Here we

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<v Speaker 1>Go that much because I remember when w Das announced

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<v Speaker 1>her death and they played it like that was the

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<v Speaker 1>first That was the first death, like my mom has

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<v Speaker 1>explained it to me, and you know, I was like

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<v Speaker 1>eight years old or whatever, so I still didn't understand

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<v Speaker 1>the concept of why she felt sad and all that stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, yeah, to this day, even though it's

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<v Speaker 1>a somewhat I mean, it's not a sad song, but

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<v Speaker 1>I guess, you know, especially with like people Bryson and

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<v Speaker 1>Roberta singing in the backgrounds like it, it felt very

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<v Speaker 1>like ominous and spooky somewhat, yeah, so you mentioned siblings.

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<v Speaker 1>Are your siblings musically inclined as well?

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<v Speaker 4>Or yes? I was the least talented in my family.

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<v Speaker 1>Who you me?

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<v Speaker 7>I was the one that they hushed. My sister sang

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<v Speaker 7>in the choir and led songs. My dad literally had

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<v Speaker 7>a group called the Larry Moore Singers.

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<v Speaker 4>His name is Larry Moore.

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<v Speaker 7>My mother was the leader of that group. My brother

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<v Speaker 7>was the drummer of that group. They did not allow

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<v Speaker 7>me to sing in any of it.

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<v Speaker 4>Never, They never gave you I guess not. I mean

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<v Speaker 4>only you know you know what I don't know.

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<v Speaker 7>I didn't record anything until I was nineteen twenty when

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<v Speaker 7>I got signed to Warner Brothers Records. Actually, Benny Medina

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<v Speaker 7>signed me to Warner Brothers and then dropped me before

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<v Speaker 7>knew that It's okay because it was the best demo

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<v Speaker 7>ever for MCA Records. So that's how I got signed

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<v Speaker 7>nam J Records. Was my album from Warner Brothers.

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<v Speaker 2>But when did you get the approval from your family

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<v Speaker 2>that you could sing?

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<v Speaker 4>Not until I was like sixteen.

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<v Speaker 7>This lady asked me to be Dorothy in the Whiz,

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<v Speaker 7>and I thought she sticked me from my sister. We're

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<v Speaker 7>three years apart, but we looked alike to people, so

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<v Speaker 7>they were always like Laton, no chante, No, wait, which

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<v Speaker 7>one is which?

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<v Speaker 4>Because I'm taller than my sister.

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<v Speaker 7>She's three years older than me, but she's only four or eleven,

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<v Speaker 7>so they were like, oh, she asked me this lady,

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<v Speaker 7>miss Brown asked me to be Dorothy and the Whiz.

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<v Speaker 7>And I was like you, me and my sister Latan,

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<v Speaker 7>and she was like, no, I know who I'm asking.

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<v Speaker 4>I was like me. So I was never shy. I

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<v Speaker 4>was always the goofball.

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<v Speaker 7>I was always the comedic relief, always the one who

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<v Speaker 7>was just willing to do like whatever to make my

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<v Speaker 7>family happy. So whenever I'd sit around, I was always

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<v Speaker 7>making faces or singing something goofy. But it was always

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<v Speaker 7>them who sang, and them who told me. My mom

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<v Speaker 7>gave me a tape recorder for my birthday, one of

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<v Speaker 7>them and said go in there in your room and

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<v Speaker 7>sing into that and so you can hear how bad

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<v Speaker 7>you sound.

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<v Speaker 4>But I never took it as a negative.

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<v Speaker 7>They didn't say it like oh God, but it was

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<v Speaker 7>just just go over there.

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<v Speaker 4>And I didn't care.

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<v Speaker 7>I don't know why, but I think that's part of

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<v Speaker 7>the preparation for being in this industry is having a

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<v Speaker 7>tough skin on the outside but still staying tender on

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<v Speaker 7>the inside.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you competitive though, I mean not competitive like, but

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<v Speaker 1>like I'll show them. Are you driven?

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<v Speaker 4>I am.

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<v Speaker 7>I was in beauty pageants, yeah, as a young woman

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<v Speaker 7>as well. From thirteen on. I did from like thirteen

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<v Speaker 7>to seventeen, I did beauty pageants. Actually the first beauty

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<v Speaker 7>pageant I did. Kiki Shepherd's mother and Von Shepherd and

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<v Speaker 7>Von Gretchen Shepherd were my teachers of all the like

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<v Speaker 7>little things and making sure you did this, and this

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<v Speaker 7>is where that fork is in that war and you

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<v Speaker 7>walk this way.

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<v Speaker 4>So I modeled before I sang, I'm sorry.

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<v Speaker 2>I just fucked me up real quick. That's why Kiki

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<v Speaker 2>could like that is.

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<v Speaker 7>Who she That is who she is and who she

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<v Speaker 7>taught me to be when I'm model there.

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<v Speaker 4>It was in San Diego where I'm Kiki. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 7>So yeah, So I did the whiz And when I

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<v Speaker 7>was singing in one of.

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<v Speaker 4>The rehearsals back to the original quest, I.

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<v Speaker 7>Was singing home for practice and practicing it with the

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<v Speaker 7>guy on the keyboard.

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<v Speaker 4>As I was.

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<v Speaker 7>Practicing, and my mom and my sister looked at me

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<v Speaker 7>and they were like, when did you learn how to sing?

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<v Speaker 4>And I was like, I can do it. It was hot.

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<v Speaker 4>So I was sixteen when that happened.

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<v Speaker 6>How do you go from there to recording and making

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<v Speaker 6>the demo for Warner Brothers.

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<v Speaker 7>I had a boyfriend at the time, when I was

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<v Speaker 7>eighteen that heard me sing and he was like, you

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<v Speaker 7>have got to sing and I was like, yeah, I'm

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<v Speaker 7>really not that good.

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<v Speaker 4>He was like, yeah, you are.

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<v Speaker 7>You were like the next went in Houston, and I

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<v Speaker 7>was like no, no, no, no, because to me, it

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<v Speaker 7>was she has a different kind of voice than I have.

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<v Speaker 7>So that's why when people say I can sing, oh,

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<v Speaker 7>you're one of the best singers of my brain goes

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<v Speaker 7>to the absolute best to me in my mind, and

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<v Speaker 7>I don't measure up to that. But what I've learned

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<v Speaker 7>with this older age thing that I've thought to be

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<v Speaker 7>me and that's it. That's all I have to be

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<v Speaker 7>is me, and I don't have to have the range

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<v Speaker 7>of Patty LaBelle and Chaka Khan. I don't have to

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<v Speaker 7>have that because Shade is Shada in Shade's lane and

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<v Speaker 7>she is the best Shade they will ever be and She.

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<v Speaker 4>Doesn't even dance.

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<v Speaker 7>She just does these moves that we go, who oh, yeah, you.

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<v Speaker 4>Know, and it's perfect because she knows who she is.

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<v Speaker 4>And that is what I'm learning.

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<v Speaker 7>To appreciate about myself is just be who I am.

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<v Speaker 7>I see other people saying and I'm like.

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<v Speaker 4>Don't even don't don't.

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<v Speaker 7>I literally have to shut my ears and my eyes

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<v Speaker 7>and just embrace my tone and that I don't have

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<v Speaker 7>to do a lot of runs to give you my

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<v Speaker 7>heart through my music, because that's what I want to do,

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<v Speaker 7>is encourage people and give you my heart through my

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<v Speaker 7>music so that women and men, everybody knows they're not alone.

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<v Speaker 4>Because my my heart.

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<v Speaker 7>Has been broken, my heart has been left alone. I've

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<v Speaker 7>been sad, I've been happy, I've been all of these things.

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<v Speaker 7>And the only thing that separates me from you is

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<v Speaker 7>this body.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm just like you. I'm the girl next door that

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<v Speaker 4>you don't think is home, but I'm so home every

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<v Speaker 4>night until I met Stephen.

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<v Speaker 7>And so that's where I thrive, is just being okay

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<v Speaker 7>with me.

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<v Speaker 6>With the Warner Brothers thing, you talk about your transition

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<v Speaker 6>to MCA Records, I want to ask you about Louis

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<v Speaker 6>Silas junior. He was just someone that you know, we

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<v Speaker 6>had people on the show that have kind of talked

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<v Speaker 6>about him, but I just wanted to just talk about him,

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<v Speaker 6>like what was he like with his influence, how he's

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<v Speaker 6>a businessman, because he was just really just a giant

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<v Speaker 6>in the game at that time.

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<v Speaker 7>You know, he was so excited about me, and he

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<v Speaker 7>made me more excited about me than I was.

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<v Speaker 4>The thing about Louiel is that he was like a bulldog.

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<v Speaker 4>And to me, the thing.

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<v Speaker 7>That was his ruin is because he was very jerky,

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<v Speaker 7>very very very jerkly, and so he would like bark

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<v Speaker 7>at everybody, not at me, but everybody else, like he

0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:22.760
<v Speaker 7>was like, ah, like he.

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<v Speaker 4>Had such Yeah, he had such a.

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<v Speaker 7>It's that it's that edgy thing, like he didn't know

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<v Speaker 7>how to bring people in with that sugar and honey

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<v Speaker 7>instead of the anything.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it was just not they call that trauma the kids,

0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:40.480
<v Speaker 3>they call that trauma.

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<v Speaker 7>It really was to me, his his achilles heel because

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<v Speaker 7>had he not had if he learned how to deal

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<v Speaker 7>with people better, people at his office and the people

0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:55.720
<v Speaker 7>who were in charge of the future of Louell because

0:23:55.720 --> 0:23:57.639
<v Speaker 7>he had done so much in the industry and he

0:23:57.760 --> 0:24:01.320
<v Speaker 7>was such a good guy. But in the end, when

0:24:01.359 --> 0:24:05.199
<v Speaker 7>it was time for him to reap the benefits of

0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:09.199
<v Speaker 7>being such a genius musically, because he had been so

0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:12.760
<v Speaker 7>unkind to people, I think or just chopping heads off

0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:16.560
<v Speaker 7>a little too quickly, or just barking too loudly. I

0:24:16.560 --> 0:24:22.320
<v Speaker 7>think people didn't reciprocate enough. And he died a very,

0:24:22.640 --> 0:24:25.639
<v Speaker 7>very sad person because of that.

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<v Speaker 4>It was too soon. It was too soon.

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<v Speaker 1>Was it like cardiac arrest or.

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<v Speaker 7>He had diabetes? I believe it was. And he wasn't

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<v Speaker 7>taking good care of himself, and you know, I had

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<v Speaker 7>to always be like, okay, listen you, you know, and

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<v Speaker 7>tell him to do better at taking care of himself.

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<v Speaker 7>But he made my heart hurt because all the people

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<v Speaker 7>he put on. You would think, like when his MCA

0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:53.600
<v Speaker 7>days were over, that they would have put him on

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<v Speaker 7>like big time. But I think he kind of didn't

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<v Speaker 7>keep the relationships like he could have.

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<v Speaker 4>I should have.

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<v Speaker 1>But you talked about your voice, but I want to

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<v Speaker 1>know what one how did you finally master your whistle tone?

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<v Speaker 1>And what is the process even now? Like if you're

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<v Speaker 1>performing on stage, is it is it a daredevil jump

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<v Speaker 1>every time?

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<v Speaker 4>Like?

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<v Speaker 1>Is it Okay, do I have the voice that am

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<v Speaker 1>I going to make it? Is it going to hit

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<v Speaker 1>the because you if you do it, you have to

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<v Speaker 1>hit the target.

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<v Speaker 2>Spot on about that.

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<v Speaker 1>Are there moments where like like you gotta work your

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<v Speaker 1>way up, work your way up to it, or get

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<v Speaker 1>some tea.

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<v Speaker 7>I always have hot water and honey before saying always

0:25:45.040 --> 0:25:47.720
<v Speaker 7>not tea. Tea is a diuretic and make you have

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<v Speaker 7>to go to the bathroom and I don't want to

0:25:50.160 --> 0:25:52.680
<v Speaker 7>be interrupted during that hour hour and a half of time,

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<v Speaker 7>and tea can also be drying to my throat. So

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<v Speaker 7>I have hot water and honey with me all of

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<v Speaker 7>the time.

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<v Speaker 4>It is always a must.

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<v Speaker 7>And you would think it'd be easy for every promoter

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<v Speaker 7>and person to give the hot water honey.

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<v Speaker 4>I only ask for two things, hot water and honey.

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<v Speaker 4>That's it.

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<v Speaker 7>That's all I asked were I'm not ask for flowers

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<v Speaker 7>and a carpet and son that goes this way and

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<v Speaker 7>the scent of the Guardianias. Even though I love Guardenias,

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<v Speaker 7>I don't ask for any of it. It's hot water

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<v Speaker 7>and honey. And one time I ask for a pot

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<v Speaker 7>hot water honey. Literally, I have a picture of a

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<v Speaker 7>mama's grandma's pot like a pot at you, sir, you

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<v Speaker 7>made grips and somebody gave me.

0:26:35.119 --> 0:26:38.840
<v Speaker 4>A pot of I was like, yeah, yeah, y'all, let

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<v Speaker 4>get it.

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<v Speaker 7>There was a time where I had a bruised vocal

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<v Speaker 7>cord when I was singing, and I was just I

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<v Speaker 7>think I was just tired and emotionally tired.

0:26:50.160 --> 0:26:52.360
<v Speaker 4>It was one of the marriages of the.

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<v Speaker 7>People I'm married, and then those other lifetimes and so,

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<v Speaker 7>but now I don't want if the high girl's going

0:27:02.320 --> 0:27:06.919
<v Speaker 7>to be there, She's usually there ninety eight percent of

0:27:06.960 --> 0:27:07.280
<v Speaker 7>the time.

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<v Speaker 4>I learned to have fun.

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<v Speaker 7>With her, and I say her because if she doesn't

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<v Speaker 7>show up, at least chante will show.

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<v Speaker 4>Up like my regular voice.

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<v Speaker 7>If I'm singing the show, I'm going to be able

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<v Speaker 7>to sing.

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<v Speaker 4>Love's taking over.

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<v Speaker 7>It's all right before the high notes and all the

0:27:25.840 --> 0:27:29.240
<v Speaker 7>other songs can come sometimes a high note. If she

0:27:29.359 --> 0:27:31.320
<v Speaker 7>doesn't show up, I'm like, but you still got me.

0:27:31.840 --> 0:27:35.600
<v Speaker 4>I'm still here. Yeah. My friend calls her Crystal because

0:27:35.640 --> 0:27:38.639
<v Speaker 4>she's Crystal Clear. That's just my friend that calls her Cristal.

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<v Speaker 1>So you don't Bobby brown it, y'all say it.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, when I do that. Let me tell you,

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<v Speaker 4>Let me tell you the truth.

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<v Speaker 7>When I do that is I once was aware you are.

0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:52.200
<v Speaker 7>I make them say you are thumb man world the.

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<v Speaker 4>Same, but I'd never.

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<v Speaker 7>I want them proud to sing ho whoa because that

0:28:01.480 --> 0:28:03.480
<v Speaker 7>is hard when I go listen to him.

0:28:04.240 --> 0:28:07.000
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that's the hardest part of the song.

0:28:07.400 --> 0:28:09.360
<v Speaker 7>That is the one part of that song that makes

0:28:09.359 --> 0:28:12.560
<v Speaker 7>me listen to me, the whole part.

0:28:12.800 --> 0:28:14.480
<v Speaker 4>Listen to me girl.

0:28:15.359 --> 0:28:17.159
<v Speaker 3>Because you never when you did it in a studio,

0:28:17.200 --> 0:28:18.879
<v Speaker 3>you did it too separate times.

0:28:19.080 --> 0:28:21.480
<v Speaker 4>H Can I tell you how many times?

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<v Speaker 2>Jimmy, Oh wow, it was Jimmy and Terry, So yeah,

0:28:25.720 --> 0:28:28.440
<v Speaker 2>I forgot. Yeah, we already knew.

0:28:28.440 --> 0:28:29.840
<v Speaker 1>That's about twenty right there.

0:28:30.600 --> 0:28:31.920
<v Speaker 4>No, it was days.

0:28:32.280 --> 0:28:37.640
<v Speaker 7>It was months of days.

0:28:35.720 --> 0:28:36.080
<v Speaker 1>Just for it.

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<v Speaker 5>Got a manager for that one song, just for the

0:28:38.680 --> 0:28:39.400
<v Speaker 5>art work part.

0:28:39.480 --> 0:28:42.760
<v Speaker 7>It was a month, probably about a month that they

0:28:42.760 --> 0:28:45.920
<v Speaker 7>were like. Jimmy, he was so kind but so matter

0:28:45.960 --> 0:28:48.920
<v Speaker 7>of fact about it. He was like, all right, so

0:28:49.000 --> 0:28:50.360
<v Speaker 7>we've done a lot today.

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<v Speaker 4>Uh, you go rest and we'll see you in a week.

0:28:58.480 --> 0:29:01.280
<v Speaker 4>Rest and we'll see in a week because we get

0:29:01.320 --> 0:29:05.480
<v Speaker 4>the check. I was like, and you still you don't

0:29:05.480 --> 0:29:08.520
<v Speaker 4>have it and it's not it's no, no, no, no.

0:29:09.960 --> 0:29:11.880
<v Speaker 2>You can't just cut in and do two separate.

0:29:12.120 --> 0:29:15.400
<v Speaker 7>You have to put the proof and the pudding. You

0:29:17.320 --> 0:29:20.719
<v Speaker 7>gotta make it, give them what they need to. If

0:29:20.760 --> 0:29:23.120
<v Speaker 7>they're gonna chop something up, they have to have some

0:29:23.240 --> 0:29:25.120
<v Speaker 7>meat to chop it up.

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<v Speaker 4>I thankfully they didn't just go, oh, never mind, We'll

0:29:30.800 --> 0:29:34.360
<v Speaker 4>just do listen to the nigga. You know. They were like, no,

0:29:34.800 --> 0:29:35.480
<v Speaker 4>you got.

0:29:35.240 --> 0:29:38.600
<v Speaker 7>To Ni and he was like, listen, act like Mariah

0:29:38.640 --> 0:29:42.200
<v Speaker 7>care is in in the audience. This is the American

0:29:42.280 --> 0:29:44.120
<v Speaker 7>Music Awards, and you're out there.

0:29:44.240 --> 0:29:46.959
<v Speaker 4>Mariah's there. He was like, naming folks. I was like,

0:29:47.320 --> 0:29:48.600
<v Speaker 4>you're making me more nervous.

0:29:50.400 --> 0:29:52.280
<v Speaker 1>No, sometimes people rise to the occasion.

0:29:52.320 --> 0:29:55.320
<v Speaker 4>If they if they say, and I was trying.

0:29:55.640 --> 0:30:00.400
<v Speaker 1>I will say that probably that's a sign. That's a

0:30:00.440 --> 0:30:03.240
<v Speaker 1>really great sign of a producer that cares about you.

0:30:03.760 --> 0:30:07.200
<v Speaker 1>Because I could, you know, in my mind, I think

0:30:07.280 --> 0:30:09.920
<v Speaker 1>I just said I would have told her, look, I'll

0:30:09.960 --> 0:30:12.360
<v Speaker 1>go back to one of those takes and try to

0:30:12.400 --> 0:30:15.560
<v Speaker 1>make it work, or you know, they just usher you in,

0:30:15.800 --> 0:30:19.400
<v Speaker 1>usher you out. But the fact that they're willing to

0:30:19.440 --> 0:30:20.800
<v Speaker 1>go back to it.

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<v Speaker 7>Jimmy and Terry, they are the best of the best

0:30:24.840 --> 0:30:26.120
<v Speaker 7>besides George Duke.

0:30:26.360 --> 0:30:28.160
<v Speaker 4>Truly, there are a couple.

0:30:27.880 --> 0:30:30.960
<v Speaker 7>Of people like a name underneath them, but George Duke

0:30:31.000 --> 0:30:34.440
<v Speaker 7>and them for me was when I learned how to

0:30:34.520 --> 0:30:39.160
<v Speaker 7>record a song, how I learned how to tap into

0:30:39.520 --> 0:30:44.840
<v Speaker 7>who I am behind the microphone in a booth, imagining

0:30:45.120 --> 0:30:48.360
<v Speaker 7>what you're going to do live before it came live.

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<v Speaker 1>Talk about working with George, because I'm a fan of

0:30:53.680 --> 0:30:56.560
<v Speaker 1>George Duke, but probably the era of him that I

0:30:56.600 --> 0:30:59.720
<v Speaker 1>really like is like a lot of the avant garde

0:30:59.760 --> 0:31:03.200
<v Speaker 1>stuff he did with Frank Zappa. Yeah, kind of when

0:31:04.160 --> 0:31:07.560
<v Speaker 1>to a lot of early Duke fans, like when he

0:31:07.680 --> 0:31:11.040
<v Speaker 1>started making the hits and writing songs that are normal

0:31:11.360 --> 0:31:13.600
<v Speaker 1>as opposed to all that avant garde stuff he was doing,

0:31:13.640 --> 0:31:17.280
<v Speaker 1>and you know, we kind of we acknowledged it, and

0:31:17.320 --> 0:31:20.560
<v Speaker 1>we were proud that he was, like, you know, getting

0:31:20.720 --> 0:31:22.880
<v Speaker 1>getting paid for his hard work, but for a lot

0:31:22.920 --> 0:31:25.960
<v Speaker 1>of us, for me at least, like listening to a

0:31:25.960 --> 0:31:28.800
<v Speaker 1>lot of Frank Zappa, and you know, it's nothing for

0:31:28.880 --> 0:31:32.600
<v Speaker 1>George to do these like eleventh you know, diminished chords,

0:31:32.640 --> 0:31:36.160
<v Speaker 1>you know in five four meter you know, like just

0:31:36.280 --> 0:31:40.120
<v Speaker 1>really crazy avant garde stuff. So but I'm also shocked

0:31:40.160 --> 0:31:43.240
<v Speaker 1>that as crazy as he was, he was also there's

0:31:43.280 --> 0:31:46.080
<v Speaker 1>another side to his music where he's very disciplined and whatnot.

0:31:46.160 --> 0:31:48.320
<v Speaker 1>So what was it like working with him?

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<v Speaker 7>I am so happy that he was the first producer

0:31:53.840 --> 0:31:57.840
<v Speaker 7>professionally that I was in the studio with. He had

0:31:57.960 --> 0:32:03.920
<v Speaker 7>a way of making me feel comfortable with myself. I remember,

0:32:04.560 --> 0:32:09.040
<v Speaker 7>in particular Rochelle Farrell. He was he was producing her

0:32:09.040 --> 0:32:12.000
<v Speaker 7>first record at the same time, and he made the

0:32:12.000 --> 0:32:21.160
<v Speaker 7>mistake of playing zel for me. Oh my god, no,

0:32:21.240 --> 0:32:27.000
<v Speaker 7>I just heard all thee I was like, oh, oh god.

0:32:27.920 --> 0:32:31.280
<v Speaker 7>And she started hitting the notes that I wasn't comfortable

0:32:31.320 --> 0:32:34.720
<v Speaker 7>with myself yet doing and hitting and the tricks that

0:32:34.840 --> 0:32:37.400
<v Speaker 7>she had gone to school to learn that I was

0:32:37.440 --> 0:32:40.200
<v Speaker 7>only in my bedroom and there with my family going

0:32:40.240 --> 0:32:40.800
<v Speaker 7>shut up.

0:32:41.480 --> 0:32:46.000
<v Speaker 4>Before that, I didn't know that that you could use

0:32:46.040 --> 0:32:48.959
<v Speaker 4>them like that. I was like, oh wait, she's doing tricks.

0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:51.040
<v Speaker 4>And George said something.

0:32:50.840 --> 0:32:56.320
<v Speaker 7>That that really resonates today. He was like, listen there,

0:32:56.760 --> 0:33:00.240
<v Speaker 7>Rochelle Farrell has her gift and it is her gift.

0:33:00.840 --> 0:33:03.920
<v Speaker 4>Your gift is your gift. You all are two different people,

0:33:04.000 --> 0:33:07.880
<v Speaker 4>and you have different strainths be you just be you.

0:33:08.480 --> 0:33:10.320
<v Speaker 7>There are things that she doesn't have that you have.

0:33:10.400 --> 0:33:12.320
<v Speaker 7>There are things that you have that she doesn't have.

0:33:12.640 --> 0:33:16.720
<v Speaker 7>So it's not a comparison. It's about having a mortgage

0:33:16.720 --> 0:33:19.640
<v Speaker 7>board of music that comes out and you be you

0:33:21.160 --> 0:33:24.400
<v Speaker 7>is the most important part of that. And he was like,

0:33:24.480 --> 0:33:26.320
<v Speaker 7>if you don't tell them, they won't know. If you

0:33:26.360 --> 0:33:29.120
<v Speaker 7>don't make it happen in this studio, it's not going

0:33:29.160 --> 0:33:34.480
<v Speaker 7>to translate to the world. And his ability to be

0:33:35.480 --> 0:33:39.320
<v Speaker 7>that teddy bear to me in the studio is why

0:33:39.360 --> 0:33:42.560
<v Speaker 7>I was able to relax and actually sing Precious and

0:33:42.680 --> 0:33:45.280
<v Speaker 7>Loves Taken Over and all of the music that.

0:33:45.240 --> 0:33:47.440
<v Speaker 4>I made that first record and second record as well.

0:33:49.040 --> 0:33:54.160
<v Speaker 4>He just had a kindness about him that was tangible.

0:33:54.240 --> 0:33:55.880
<v Speaker 4>It was tangible everywhere he went.

0:33:56.400 --> 0:33:59.640
<v Speaker 6>There is a producer you worked with asal Benfort who

0:33:59.680 --> 0:34:00.920
<v Speaker 6>did It's all right?

0:34:01.160 --> 0:34:05.080
<v Speaker 5>He also did don't walk away from Jay did what

0:34:05.240 --> 0:34:05.880
<v Speaker 5>was he like?

0:34:05.920 --> 0:34:07.960
<v Speaker 6>Because we haven't really had people on the show that

0:34:08.040 --> 0:34:10.480
<v Speaker 6>work what was he like in the studio and collaborate with.

0:34:11.280 --> 0:34:15.600
<v Speaker 4>You know, Vassal and Louiel were super close friends. Okay,

0:34:16.040 --> 0:34:19.440
<v Speaker 4>So because this is quest Love, I'm going to tell

0:34:19.480 --> 0:34:22.120
<v Speaker 4>you something that I've never said before allowed to anybody else.

0:34:25.360 --> 0:34:28.600
<v Speaker 4>If you listen to that song. I hope she don't

0:34:28.600 --> 0:34:32.400
<v Speaker 4>come after nobody, but that song is even when.

0:34:32.320 --> 0:34:34.720
<v Speaker 5>I cry, I can't back.

0:34:36.080 --> 0:34:40.720
<v Speaker 4>If you hear that song, that's what it's.

0:34:39.520 --> 0:34:44.000
<v Speaker 5>Like, all right, it's all right, okay, gotcha.

0:34:43.800 --> 0:34:49.000
<v Speaker 7>If you listen to it musically, very very close to

0:34:49.320 --> 0:34:53.040
<v Speaker 7>because Louil said I want to Can't Let Go for Shante.

0:34:54.200 --> 0:34:57.000
<v Speaker 7>At that time, I wasn't big on listening to the

0:34:57.120 --> 0:34:59.040
<v Speaker 7>radio and doing all that because I was so busy

0:34:59.360 --> 0:35:03.240
<v Speaker 7>being in my little world and my little narrow world

0:35:03.400 --> 0:35:07.759
<v Speaker 7>of creating music. So I'm glad I didn't know Mariah

0:35:07.840 --> 0:35:12.600
<v Speaker 7>like that yet, but she was rising. I knew vision

0:35:12.640 --> 0:35:15.279
<v Speaker 7>of love because that was that hit everybody we all

0:35:15.320 --> 0:35:17.320
<v Speaker 7>fell down with, like, oh my god, who is this woman?

0:35:18.040 --> 0:35:20.040
<v Speaker 7>But I didn't know Can't Let Go that well. So

0:35:20.160 --> 0:35:22.839
<v Speaker 7>when the music came on, I didn't try to redo

0:35:23.480 --> 0:35:26.640
<v Speaker 7>Mariah carey song, which is really good, but I wrote

0:35:26.680 --> 0:35:29.759
<v Speaker 7>a song from my soul. But that's what that musically

0:35:30.000 --> 0:35:30.399
<v Speaker 7>came from.

0:35:30.440 --> 0:35:34.680
<v Speaker 4>In VISal is funny and.

0:35:36.040 --> 0:35:40.200
<v Speaker 7>Creative, and loul and him both were just goofballs, and

0:35:40.239 --> 0:35:42.760
<v Speaker 7>I think that's really part of why I like Louil

0:35:42.960 --> 0:35:45.120
<v Speaker 7>and I like Vesal as well.

0:35:45.120 --> 0:35:48.640
<v Speaker 4>And I like staved as well, because we are just goofballs.

0:35:48.760 --> 0:35:51.440
<v Speaker 7>I really am okay with the goofy side of myself,

0:35:51.680 --> 0:35:53.640
<v Speaker 7>and anybody who knows me long and like ten minutes

0:35:53.680 --> 0:35:55.440
<v Speaker 7>knows I'm a goofball.

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<v Speaker 1>So for our listeners out there that don't know the

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<v Speaker 1>Rodney Jerkins If I Gave Love story.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, well okay. So I did a song with Rodney Jerkins.

0:36:16.280 --> 0:36:24.920
<v Speaker 4>Called If I Gave Love Gave So we did the song,

0:36:25.680 --> 0:36:26.800
<v Speaker 4>loved it.

0:36:26.920 --> 0:36:31.000
<v Speaker 7>Rodney did warn me, don't mess around, put this song

0:36:31.040 --> 0:36:31.560
<v Speaker 7>out first.

0:36:31.960 --> 0:36:34.279
<v Speaker 4>Well, considering I'm an artist, I am not.

0:36:35.760 --> 0:36:38.080
<v Speaker 7>In charge of what song comes first. At that point,

0:36:39.080 --> 0:36:41.960
<v Speaker 7>I don't decide that. When they heard Chante's Got a Man,

0:36:41.960 --> 0:36:43.839
<v Speaker 7>they're like, oh, Shante's got a Man gotta come first.

0:36:43.880 --> 0:36:45.520
<v Speaker 4>We'll come in back with a song.

0:36:45.320 --> 0:36:49.560
<v Speaker 7>That is unlike you, up tempo, different kind of feeling

0:36:49.680 --> 0:36:53.280
<v Speaker 7>will come with that. That's the one two punch. Before

0:36:53.320 --> 0:36:58.080
<v Speaker 7>I got to the two, j Lo had come out with.

0:36:59.800 --> 0:37:02.600
<v Speaker 4>What Have her song if You Had My If You.

0:37:02.719 --> 0:37:06.440
<v Speaker 7>Had My Love and same song, same song, same song.

0:37:08.520 --> 0:37:11.080
<v Speaker 1>They I hear they play a little dryo there at Sony's,

0:37:11.080 --> 0:37:13.200
<v Speaker 1>But you know, does this happened.

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<v Speaker 2>To you multiple times?

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<v Speaker 7>Just that one time, just that one one good times

0:37:17.320 --> 0:37:18.799
<v Speaker 7>all takes just that one good time.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, because I remember special too, so I never know

0:37:21.360 --> 0:37:22.719
<v Speaker 3>special was the same thing.

0:37:23.960 --> 0:37:26.400
<v Speaker 4>Special is different than precious.

0:37:26.440 --> 0:37:31.120
<v Speaker 7>Special was running was Raphaelsa Dick, So there wasn't anything

0:37:31.160 --> 0:37:34.240
<v Speaker 7>that was He didn't get that song way what's interesting

0:37:34.239 --> 0:37:38.080
<v Speaker 7>and beautiful about the song If I gave love was

0:37:38.640 --> 0:37:39.359
<v Speaker 7>it hurt my heart?

0:37:39.400 --> 0:37:41.760
<v Speaker 4>That was the first thing that wasn't special and interesting.

0:37:41.840 --> 0:37:44.160
<v Speaker 7>But it hurt my heart when it came out, and

0:37:44.200 --> 0:37:46.840
<v Speaker 7>I was like, you just would have told me. And

0:37:46.880 --> 0:37:49.319
<v Speaker 7>that's one of the only regrets I have, like two

0:37:49.400 --> 0:37:51.440
<v Speaker 7>or three that I feel in the industry that I've

0:37:51.640 --> 0:37:53.680
<v Speaker 7>like mistakes, like things that I feel like, dang, I

0:37:53.680 --> 0:37:56.399
<v Speaker 7>wish I would have been more bold or fought for

0:37:56.440 --> 0:37:58.640
<v Speaker 7>it or whatever. I kind of was like when she

0:37:58.800 --> 0:38:03.040
<v Speaker 7>came out. She's such a machine behind her, being Jlo

0:38:04.320 --> 0:38:09.280
<v Speaker 7>with Benny and just all of the right the machine

0:38:09.360 --> 0:38:12.880
<v Speaker 7>she had behind her, and I felt like I couldn't

0:38:13.200 --> 0:38:17.279
<v Speaker 7>compete with that, so I backed up instead of I

0:38:17.320 --> 0:38:19.719
<v Speaker 7>wish I would have just been like raw like it.

0:38:19.760 --> 0:38:22.960
<v Speaker 4>Took, took myself on there and just been like, you

0:38:23.000 --> 0:38:23.319
<v Speaker 4>know what.

0:38:23.840 --> 0:38:26.160
<v Speaker 7>Either way, it's gonna be publicity for my song because

0:38:26.160 --> 0:38:29.319
<v Speaker 7>it's really the same song. And Puff Daddy came in

0:38:29.320 --> 0:38:32.040
<v Speaker 7>the studio and told Rodney that he wanted that song,

0:38:32.080 --> 0:38:34.960
<v Speaker 7>and Rodney said, that's chante song and he said.

0:38:34.840 --> 0:38:39.000
<v Speaker 4>No, I want that song. So Rodney is good at

0:38:39.040 --> 0:38:41.759
<v Speaker 4>recreating songs of himself, Like if you listen to some

0:38:41.800 --> 0:38:44.440
<v Speaker 4>of his own songs, he's recreated himself.

0:38:44.960 --> 0:38:58.040
<v Speaker 1>This could have been an usher, yeah, versus what's old boy.

0:38:55.560 --> 0:38:56.120
<v Speaker 5>Like eight song.

0:38:57.719 --> 0:39:01.600
<v Speaker 1>No, it's the same song as you don't know the rep.

0:39:03.000 --> 0:39:03.960
<v Speaker 4>Frequently.

0:39:04.080 --> 0:39:07.719
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it could have been that, all right.

0:39:07.800 --> 0:39:12.359
<v Speaker 1>So wait, I gotta go back to your beginnings. You're

0:39:12.400 --> 0:39:16.160
<v Speaker 1>from the Bay Area, you're singing. As far as I know,

0:39:16.320 --> 0:39:19.480
<v Speaker 1>there's literally no way that you can do anything without

0:39:19.640 --> 0:39:26.800
<v Speaker 1>having to pass the the kind of stratosphere of of

0:39:27.000 --> 0:39:32.600
<v Speaker 1>Jay King if you're in the Bay Area in the

0:39:32.640 --> 0:39:37.799
<v Speaker 1>eighties and nineties, I think it's literally impossible. So did

0:39:37.840 --> 0:39:40.800
<v Speaker 1>you have anything to do with that organization at the time,

0:39:40.960 --> 0:39:44.120
<v Speaker 1>Like at the time when Jay King is, you know,

0:39:44.120 --> 0:39:47.280
<v Speaker 1>working with Tommy and Denny and by I guess degrees

0:39:47.400 --> 0:39:51.000
<v Speaker 1>Tony Tony Tony and Club Nouveau and time Ax Social

0:39:51.040 --> 0:39:52.040
<v Speaker 1>Club and all that stuff.

0:39:52.560 --> 0:39:58.759
<v Speaker 7>I was sent by Benny Medina to Sacramento to work

0:39:58.760 --> 0:39:59.399
<v Speaker 7>with Jay King.

0:40:01.200 --> 0:40:07.200
<v Speaker 4>He was to produce part of my record. He wasn't

0:40:07.320 --> 0:40:11.480
<v Speaker 4>a producer so much as he was a songwriter.

0:40:12.320 --> 0:40:16.360
<v Speaker 7>But in that time period is when I met Brian Morgan,

0:40:17.480 --> 0:40:20.520
<v Speaker 7>and that's when he wrote Week about me, which we

0:40:20.560 --> 0:40:25.239
<v Speaker 7>didn't date, but he had a craft tell the story.

0:40:26.239 --> 0:40:28.000
<v Speaker 1>I want to know. I want to hear your I

0:40:28.040 --> 0:40:29.560
<v Speaker 1>want to hear your perspective of Week.

0:40:33.080 --> 0:40:36.680
<v Speaker 4>Okay, so to tell the full story, which is interesting.

0:40:36.800 --> 0:40:40.319
<v Speaker 7>Brian and I spoke last week and I told and

0:40:40.360 --> 0:40:42.920
<v Speaker 7>I reminded him of this story that he had forgotten.

0:40:42.920 --> 0:40:45.880
<v Speaker 4>Actually is I was dating someone and he said, and

0:40:45.920 --> 0:40:48.359
<v Speaker 4>you and that guy sound like this, and he's like

0:40:49.920 --> 0:40:54.920
<v Speaker 4>the Circus tune he played that. He said, but when

0:40:54.920 --> 0:40:58.480
<v Speaker 4>you're by yourself, this is what you sound like. And

0:40:58.480 --> 0:41:10.160
<v Speaker 4>he said, that's how it happened. He said, that's what

0:41:10.200 --> 0:41:12.200
<v Speaker 4>you feel like without some smooth ship.

0:41:17.960 --> 0:41:22.120
<v Speaker 1>How is it presented to you? Was it like his

0:41:22.239 --> 0:41:24.680
<v Speaker 1>voice on a demo or hey, I wrote something for you,

0:41:24.920 --> 0:41:27.240
<v Speaker 1>like explained, He.

0:41:27.080 --> 0:41:30.160
<v Speaker 7>Wrote the song and sang all the parts because he

0:41:30.160 --> 0:41:31.000
<v Speaker 7>has a beautiful voice.

0:41:31.000 --> 0:41:34.000
<v Speaker 4>He was in a group called Cachet Duvoir It was he.

0:41:34.000 --> 0:41:37.840
<v Speaker 7>And a girl named Rachella, and they were supposed to

0:41:37.840 --> 0:41:41.360
<v Speaker 7>come out as a duet and actually Jay King dropped

0:41:41.440 --> 0:41:45.720
<v Speaker 7>them soon soon I got dropped from from Warner Brothers,

0:41:45.760 --> 0:41:46.720
<v Speaker 7>but they were dropped first.

0:41:47.400 --> 0:41:51.239
<v Speaker 4>But it was really like the catalyst to press for more.

0:41:51.520 --> 0:41:55.120
<v Speaker 7>But anyway, so Brian can sing great, which is why

0:41:55.120 --> 0:41:57.480
<v Speaker 7>he's on their album.

0:41:58.280 --> 0:42:02.120
<v Speaker 4>But he played the song and I remembered that moment.

0:42:02.040 --> 0:42:05.319
<v Speaker 7>Because it was like, that's what I feel like. I

0:42:05.360 --> 0:42:07.480
<v Speaker 7>can be a whole nother person other than.

0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:12.120
<v Speaker 4>The circus that I'm going through right now. I was like,

0:42:12.360 --> 0:42:16.439
<v Speaker 4>my life, that's like a circus. I'm you right, But the.

0:42:16.440 --> 0:42:20.880
<v Speaker 7>Calmness of those chords and then hearing him sing. But

0:42:20.920 --> 0:42:25.440
<v Speaker 7>he had a song called uh Wrong, just like five

0:42:25.560 --> 0:42:27.760
<v Speaker 7>and five don't make nine, You're wrong.

0:42:28.440 --> 0:42:30.560
<v Speaker 4>That was a song you have to be Brian Morgan

0:42:30.719 --> 0:42:33.080
<v Speaker 4>to play that for you because that's funny. But just

0:42:33.120 --> 0:42:34.600
<v Speaker 4>like five and five don't make nine, he had a

0:42:34.600 --> 0:42:35.760
<v Speaker 4>song called wrong.

0:42:35.960 --> 0:42:39.319
<v Speaker 7>But yeah, he had great music. But those times are

0:42:39.400 --> 0:42:41.719
<v Speaker 7>those are times to learn from. Those are times to

0:42:41.840 --> 0:42:44.840
<v Speaker 7>draw and you figure out that's when the wheat is

0:42:44.880 --> 0:42:49.000
<v Speaker 7>sifted and the fine stuff comes out from underneath. I

0:42:49.000 --> 0:42:51.920
<v Speaker 7>feel like those times happened to make me who I

0:42:51.960 --> 0:42:52.600
<v Speaker 7>am right now.

0:42:53.200 --> 0:42:56.320
<v Speaker 1>So it wasn't like weirdness like wait, this song's about

0:42:56.360 --> 0:42:58.680
<v Speaker 1>me or any of those things like me.

0:42:58.840 --> 0:43:01.800
<v Speaker 7>No, I mean, I I knew he liked me because

0:43:01.960 --> 0:43:07.000
<v Speaker 7>guys blirt and they act like, you know, you know,

0:43:07.120 --> 0:43:09.320
<v Speaker 7>how fin you are a girl, and they do stuff

0:43:09.360 --> 0:43:09.760
<v Speaker 7>like that.

0:43:10.400 --> 0:43:14.600
<v Speaker 4>He wasn't like, well, you know, it wasn't like that.

0:43:14.800 --> 0:43:18.480
<v Speaker 4>It was more he didn't know it, and it wasn't.

0:43:18.360 --> 0:43:20.480
<v Speaker 2>The first time somebody wrote a song or the last

0:43:20.520 --> 0:43:21.120
<v Speaker 2>time somebody.

0:43:21.880 --> 0:43:23.279
<v Speaker 4>Well I don't know. I don't know if it was

0:43:23.280 --> 0:43:25.279
<v Speaker 4>the last time or not. I'm not really sure.

0:43:25.600 --> 0:43:27.879
<v Speaker 7>But what I know is that the song was beautiful

0:43:28.040 --> 0:43:31.680
<v Speaker 7>and I didn't feel a creepiness about him.

0:43:32.760 --> 0:43:35.640
<v Speaker 1>Well, okay, so what I'm asking is, all right, it's

0:43:35.719 --> 0:43:40.719
<v Speaker 1>ninety two and now every seven songs on R and

0:43:40.760 --> 0:43:45.200
<v Speaker 1>B radio is playing this intro At any point, are

0:43:45.239 --> 0:43:47.920
<v Speaker 1>you like, you know the songs about me? Right?

0:43:48.840 --> 0:43:49.040
<v Speaker 2>No?

0:43:49.160 --> 0:43:52.120
<v Speaker 7>You know why I didn't because we didn't have a relationship,

0:43:52.200 --> 0:43:53.080
<v Speaker 7>like we weren't dating.

0:43:53.120 --> 0:43:55.640
<v Speaker 4>It wasn't like that's my bull hag.

0:43:56.080 --> 0:43:59.360
<v Speaker 3>It'd be different if you say more so you're amuse

0:43:59.600 --> 0:44:00.839
<v Speaker 3>like even more so he don't even.

0:44:00.880 --> 0:44:04.120
<v Speaker 2>He don't even know. No, I didn't even it's the inspiration.

0:44:06.280 --> 0:44:10.520
<v Speaker 7>I didn't take it like that until until recently when

0:44:10.560 --> 0:44:13.640
<v Speaker 7>people are like, oh my gosh, you inspired that song.

0:44:13.840 --> 0:44:17.520
<v Speaker 7>And I honestly, and that's what this whole time of

0:44:17.600 --> 0:44:24.480
<v Speaker 7>my life is. I think about, is me embracing myself.

0:44:25.280 --> 0:44:28.319
<v Speaker 7>I don't I don't know if you if I can

0:44:28.360 --> 0:44:35.480
<v Speaker 7>explain it right, but it is about me becoming or

0:44:35.600 --> 0:44:41.640
<v Speaker 7>understanding my value as an entertainer. It's taken thirty years

0:44:41.680 --> 0:44:45.400
<v Speaker 7>to get there for me to really feel like.

0:44:47.320 --> 0:44:49.880
<v Speaker 4>I'm armed so much worthy.

0:44:49.960 --> 0:44:53.000
<v Speaker 1>You're you can say it, but you're worthy.

0:44:53.040 --> 0:44:56.120
<v Speaker 4>I'm Aquarius. That's us.

0:44:56.360 --> 0:44:57.200
<v Speaker 2>That's what we do.

0:44:58.120 --> 0:45:00.480
<v Speaker 1>Is that it January twenty.

0:45:00.640 --> 0:45:06.200
<v Speaker 2>February seventeen, January twentieth. Oh my gosh, well him too, You.

0:45:06.120 --> 0:45:07.879
<v Speaker 4>Think that's it. I don't know.

0:45:08.320 --> 0:45:10.280
<v Speaker 7>I just thought it was because I was the youngest,

0:45:10.360 --> 0:45:13.400
<v Speaker 7>and that I just didn't quit that lost.

0:45:13.800 --> 0:45:15.799
<v Speaker 1>I think of the last five years, all of us

0:45:15.800 --> 0:45:20.200
<v Speaker 1>have comeing to a place where we're truly seeing ourselves now.

0:45:20.680 --> 0:45:21.880
<v Speaker 1>And you're no exception.

0:45:22.080 --> 0:45:23.680
<v Speaker 4>Like it's bananas.

0:45:23.880 --> 0:45:26.319
<v Speaker 2>That's my first loved boy birthday, and I love that.

0:45:26.719 --> 0:45:29.200
<v Speaker 4>It's Michael Jordan too, it's your first love Michael Jordan.

0:45:29.600 --> 0:45:32.120
<v Speaker 2>No, no, because he don't love me. Let me he

0:45:32.160 --> 0:45:35.080
<v Speaker 2>could love you. I just wanted to ask.

0:45:35.120 --> 0:45:37.080
<v Speaker 3>You know, it's funny we're talking about all your singing,

0:45:37.120 --> 0:45:39.200
<v Speaker 3>but people don't really talk about your.

0:45:39.120 --> 0:45:40.440
<v Speaker 2>Song writing, ma'am.

0:45:40.960 --> 0:45:44.640
<v Speaker 3>And I'm interested about that and interested to when it

0:45:45.440 --> 0:45:48.440
<v Speaker 3>was it instant that you were writing your songs?

0:45:48.480 --> 0:45:50.799
<v Speaker 2>Did it was it gradual? Like you know?

0:45:51.480 --> 0:45:56.959
<v Speaker 7>My journals started when I was twelve. My mom, brother

0:45:57.000 --> 0:46:01.440
<v Speaker 7>and sister gave me a diary for my birthday when

0:46:01.480 --> 0:46:05.400
<v Speaker 7>I turned thirteen, and I just began writing. Those writings

0:46:05.400 --> 0:46:10.720
<v Speaker 7>began to be poetry. That poetry became music eventually. And

0:46:11.600 --> 0:46:15.760
<v Speaker 7>I've written I think I've had maybe eight nine singles,

0:46:15.760 --> 0:46:19.760
<v Speaker 7>maybe ten singles. I've written probably eight up those ten singles.

0:46:20.960 --> 0:46:24.960
<v Speaker 7>I wrote It's all Right, Love's Taken Over and Old School.

0:46:24.640 --> 0:46:27.240
<v Speaker 4>Love, and I've co written so yeah.

0:46:27.840 --> 0:46:29.600
<v Speaker 2>I I mean, nobody who writes Jhonte's got a man,

0:46:29.640 --> 0:46:30.440
<v Speaker 2>but Jonte.

0:46:30.719 --> 0:46:34.320
<v Speaker 7>Well, with Jim and Terry, you can because they're really

0:46:34.320 --> 0:46:42.280
<v Speaker 7>good at pulling and helping to navigate and to cultivate who.

0:46:42.120 --> 0:46:43.000
<v Speaker 4>You are as an artist.

0:46:43.080 --> 0:46:47.160
<v Speaker 7>I think that's what makes them so good at production

0:46:47.480 --> 0:46:50.440
<v Speaker 7>because just like the Janet Jackson story, how she didn't

0:46:50.480 --> 0:46:53.680
<v Speaker 7>know she was writing songs, but she was just talking

0:46:53.719 --> 0:46:56.000
<v Speaker 7>about herself and saying, you know what my dad is.

0:46:56.040 --> 0:46:58.640
<v Speaker 7>You know, he's controlling, and my mother, you know, does that.

0:46:59.239 --> 0:47:01.960
<v Speaker 7>And then they go okay, so so.

0:47:02.000 --> 0:47:05.120
<v Speaker 4>Cadro what you know and you lose your mind because

0:47:05.120 --> 0:47:06.840
<v Speaker 4>they're listening to everything.

0:47:07.320 --> 0:47:10.839
<v Speaker 7>And I just saw Jimmy literally night before last and

0:47:11.640 --> 0:47:15.800
<v Speaker 7>was complimenting how kind he is and how people were saying, oh,

0:47:15.920 --> 0:47:17.560
<v Speaker 7>they told him that he wasn't going to be able

0:47:17.560 --> 0:47:19.680
<v Speaker 7>to get this Michael Jackson clearance, and he said and

0:47:19.719 --> 0:47:21.960
<v Speaker 7>then I met Michael and Michael was like, I heard

0:47:22.400 --> 0:47:27.480
<v Speaker 7>about your kindness. Jimmy Jam was saying, Michael Jackson heard

0:47:27.520 --> 0:47:30.719
<v Speaker 7>about his kindness, and then he was like, yes, yes,

0:47:30.800 --> 0:47:33.680
<v Speaker 7>you could have the sample to that song because of

0:47:33.719 --> 0:47:34.560
<v Speaker 7>his kindness.

0:47:34.680 --> 0:47:36.759
<v Speaker 4>And it really is something that if you meet well,

0:47:36.760 --> 0:47:37.919
<v Speaker 4>you all know Jimmy.

0:47:38.080 --> 0:47:42.200
<v Speaker 7>He's amazing, and he he makes you almost forget that

0:47:42.200 --> 0:47:46.280
<v Speaker 7>he's freaking Jimmy Jam And they're like Jimmy, Jimmy, You're.

0:47:46.160 --> 0:47:48.600
<v Speaker 4>Like, no, you're talk on Jimmy Cham.

0:47:49.239 --> 0:47:51.479
<v Speaker 7>I lose my mind and I turn into a fan

0:47:51.680 --> 0:47:55.280
<v Speaker 7>every time I'm around them, and they actually co wrote

0:47:55.840 --> 0:47:56.200
<v Speaker 7>the song.

0:47:56.239 --> 0:47:59.960
<v Speaker 4>I wrote. I walked down the aisle to Stephen, my husband.

0:48:00.320 --> 0:48:02.759
<v Speaker 7>I wrote, I co wrote that song with Jimmy jam

0:48:02.760 --> 0:48:04.080
<v Speaker 7>and Terry Lewis, and it was a secret. It was

0:48:04.120 --> 0:48:06.000
<v Speaker 7>the only time I've ever lied to my husband. I

0:48:06.040 --> 0:48:08.360
<v Speaker 7>told him I was with a friend, one of my girlfriends,

0:48:08.360 --> 0:48:11.400
<v Speaker 7>and I wasn't. I was like, you can't tell him

0:48:11.520 --> 0:48:14.000
<v Speaker 7>I'm with you tonight because he no. They were like,

0:48:14.440 --> 0:48:16.680
<v Speaker 7>Terry was like, just you're just in the studio. I

0:48:16.719 --> 0:48:18.320
<v Speaker 7>was like, there's no reason I'd be in the studio

0:48:18.640 --> 0:48:22.279
<v Speaker 7>before our wedding unless I'm writing the wedding song.

0:48:22.560 --> 0:48:27.920
<v Speaker 4>So he didn't know. He thought it was an old

0:48:28.040 --> 0:48:29.320
<v Speaker 4>song that he'd forgotten.

0:48:30.040 --> 0:48:31.040
<v Speaker 5>Oh he didn't know.

0:48:31.400 --> 0:48:35.719
<v Speaker 7>He didn't know because Jimmy made sure he put the

0:48:35.760 --> 0:48:40.640
<v Speaker 7>refrains in that sounded for C and D's Janet Sos band.

0:48:41.000 --> 0:48:43.799
<v Speaker 4>You know, he put all that in there, so it

0:48:44.120 --> 0:48:49.160
<v Speaker 4>sounded familiar. But it wasn't an old song. It was

0:48:49.160 --> 0:48:51.239
<v Speaker 4>a new one. So it's coming out soon.

0:48:51.400 --> 0:48:54.759
<v Speaker 7>I am literally the squeaky wheel that keeps going and

0:48:55.680 --> 0:48:56.400
<v Speaker 7>we need to get.

0:48:56.239 --> 0:48:59.800
<v Speaker 4>The song out like immediately. So it's it's a beautiful

0:48:59.800 --> 0:49:00.600
<v Speaker 4>song at.

0:49:00.520 --> 0:49:02.960
<v Speaker 1>What point did he realize, like, oh wait a minute,

0:49:03.200 --> 0:49:05.279
<v Speaker 1>beast spoke song like this is custom made for.

0:49:06.520 --> 0:49:11.799
<v Speaker 7>Honestly, Sadly, after the wedding, I wanted to play that

0:49:11.960 --> 0:49:14.279
<v Speaker 7>song again to slow dance with him.

0:49:14.360 --> 0:49:15.440
<v Speaker 4>On one of our first songs.

0:49:15.560 --> 0:49:17.200
<v Speaker 7>He had a first song to dance to, and I

0:49:17.200 --> 0:49:18.960
<v Speaker 7>was supposed to pick the second song for us to

0:49:19.040 --> 0:49:19.440
<v Speaker 7>dance to.

0:49:20.200 --> 0:49:24.000
<v Speaker 4>And he's gonna hate that. I'm saying this South laugh.

0:49:24.560 --> 0:49:27.359
<v Speaker 4>But he was like, no, no, no, that one song

0:49:27.440 --> 0:49:29.800
<v Speaker 4>was good. Let's just let's just in the Let's just

0:49:29.880 --> 0:49:31.080
<v Speaker 4>let the rest of the thing.

0:49:31.160 --> 0:49:35.560
<v Speaker 7>I was like, I was alone, a little bit hurt

0:49:35.960 --> 0:49:38.280
<v Speaker 7>because I didn't know that he didn't get.

0:49:38.080 --> 0:49:43.799
<v Speaker 4>It, that it was a freshman for him, right.

0:49:44.120 --> 0:49:46.440
<v Speaker 7>He just knew it was a chante song and I

0:49:46.480 --> 0:49:48.920
<v Speaker 7>was singing it and he was like, I was so busy.

0:49:48.719 --> 0:49:52.200
<v Speaker 4>Looking at you that I wasn't listening as much.

0:49:52.800 --> 0:49:58.120
<v Speaker 1>No, he's he's a nice.

0:49:58.360 --> 0:49:59.960
<v Speaker 2>Did y'all slow dance to it in the living room?

0:50:00.080 --> 0:50:03.040
<v Speaker 4>Finally he listened, y'all was a girl, listen. You don't

0:50:03.040 --> 0:50:05.040
<v Speaker 4>even want I can't even say, Okay, that's fine, I

0:50:05.080 --> 0:50:05.400
<v Speaker 4>got it.

0:50:05.400 --> 0:50:06.480
<v Speaker 2>I gotta imagination.

0:50:07.239 --> 0:50:09.560
<v Speaker 4>He's a wonderful person. He really is that?

0:50:10.000 --> 0:50:10.239
<v Speaker 3>He is?

0:50:10.280 --> 0:50:12.480
<v Speaker 1>All Okay, wait, why did you say it? Like Miss

0:50:12.480 --> 0:50:13.680
<v Speaker 1>Speaky from Muppet Babies.

0:50:14.680 --> 0:50:18.120
<v Speaker 2>I need to naciate all of it, and I'm not.

0:50:20.360 --> 0:50:22.960
<v Speaker 5>I had a vertion about particular song you did.

0:50:23.480 --> 0:50:26.440
<v Speaker 6>It's nice, all right, I'm sorry, satisfy you the duet

0:50:26.440 --> 0:50:32.120
<v Speaker 6>with Damian Paul. Yes, the original version, you know, Brian

0:50:32.200 --> 0:50:35.680
<v Speaker 6>Lenrin version. It has Michael Jack He's singing the backs

0:50:35.680 --> 0:50:36.000
<v Speaker 6>on it.

0:50:36.400 --> 0:50:39.040
<v Speaker 5>Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, there's a version.

0:50:39.160 --> 0:50:42.239
<v Speaker 6>The original version is Brian singing lead and Mike is

0:50:42.480 --> 0:50:43.080
<v Speaker 6>doing the hook.

0:50:43.920 --> 0:50:44.040
<v Speaker 4>Uh.

0:50:44.880 --> 0:50:47.319
<v Speaker 5>Do you remember anything about that session or recording that?

0:50:47.320 --> 0:50:48.040
<v Speaker 4>That's crazy?

0:50:49.400 --> 0:50:52.480
<v Speaker 7>It sounds familiar now that you say that, But I

0:50:52.520 --> 0:50:56.839
<v Speaker 7>don't remember that happening. But I I understand why it

0:50:56.880 --> 0:50:59.200
<v Speaker 7>didn't happen that way, that they would have Michael on it.

0:50:59.320 --> 0:51:02.680
<v Speaker 7>So I get that part. But I do remember there

0:51:02.760 --> 0:51:07.040
<v Speaker 7>being a big push on Damien and that song, and

0:51:07.160 --> 0:51:10.680
<v Speaker 7>I didn't How can I say that I didn't.

0:51:10.520 --> 0:51:12.400
<v Speaker 4>Get why the song was so special?

0:51:13.520 --> 0:51:16.000
<v Speaker 5>Really, I didn't get it.

0:51:16.640 --> 0:51:17.120
<v Speaker 1>I love it.

0:51:17.160 --> 0:51:21.040
<v Speaker 7>I think it's a pretty song, but I didn't understand

0:51:21.160 --> 0:51:25.560
<v Speaker 7>it to be that, so I didn't get it.

0:51:26.080 --> 0:51:28.680
<v Speaker 5>So there you go, man, Well you sound great.

0:51:28.719 --> 0:51:29.799
<v Speaker 4>On it, well, thank you.

0:51:30.320 --> 0:51:32.160
<v Speaker 7>I love singing background. It's one of my very very

0:51:32.160 --> 0:51:34.840
<v Speaker 7>favorite things. It's what I love to do. And I

0:51:34.920 --> 0:51:38.160
<v Speaker 7>tell people all the time, you need background, call me.

0:51:38.840 --> 0:51:40.640
<v Speaker 4>When I was going to quit the business, I was like,

0:51:40.719 --> 0:51:44.120
<v Speaker 4>I could sing for Janet and Katie Lang.

0:51:44.920 --> 0:51:46.480
<v Speaker 2>Favorite background session, come on.

0:51:46.320 --> 0:51:51.279
<v Speaker 7>On my own, shoot all of them, every single song.

0:51:51.440 --> 0:51:58.840
<v Speaker 7>I love harmonizing with myself. I love yourself blending and

0:51:58.840 --> 0:52:01.879
<v Speaker 7>and there's a there's a first tone, and then there's

0:52:01.880 --> 0:52:06.080
<v Speaker 7>a second one that makes it ring true that it's exact,

0:52:06.239 --> 0:52:08.680
<v Speaker 7>and then there's a softer tone I use, and then

0:52:08.719 --> 0:52:11.120
<v Speaker 7>I figure out what frequency is missing, so I do

0:52:11.239 --> 0:52:14.719
<v Speaker 7>the third tone, and then the fourth one is the

0:52:14.800 --> 0:52:17.840
<v Speaker 7>base the uh and it's all the same note.

0:52:18.080 --> 0:52:20.560
<v Speaker 4>But it's just an approach to the note, whether it be.

0:52:21.160 --> 0:52:26.680
<v Speaker 7>Only wishious and then holysious, mysious, you know what I.

0:52:26.560 --> 0:52:28.120
<v Speaker 1>Mean, and no softer tune.

0:52:29.080 --> 0:52:31.600
<v Speaker 7>Whatever it is that it is that that it does this,

0:52:31.920 --> 0:52:35.480
<v Speaker 7>because that's what background should do, is support.

0:52:35.880 --> 0:52:38.719
<v Speaker 4>They should all connect like weaving, like together.

0:52:38.800 --> 0:52:39.279
<v Speaker 2>Never do this.

0:52:39.320 --> 0:52:41.360
<v Speaker 3>But I'm like, y'allant, y'all should do something together. I

0:52:41.360 --> 0:52:42.640
<v Speaker 3>don't know why I see that in my hand or

0:52:42.680 --> 0:52:44.640
<v Speaker 3>in my mind it's like something I don't know.

0:52:44.760 --> 0:52:47.680
<v Speaker 6>Yes, I love you, I love your background. They always

0:52:47.680 --> 0:52:50.759
<v Speaker 6>sound like really lush and warm and full and not

0:52:51.480 --> 0:52:52.040
<v Speaker 6>straight up.

0:52:51.960 --> 0:52:54.479
<v Speaker 4>And well let's do that. Let's not let that pass.

0:52:54.880 --> 0:52:55.160
<v Speaker 5>Gotcha.

0:52:55.840 --> 0:52:59.000
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So you talked about your influences as far as

0:52:59.040 --> 0:53:03.400
<v Speaker 1>like uh as you grew up idolizing, But are there

0:53:03.440 --> 0:53:08.080
<v Speaker 1>any contemporaries that you really respect their game as far

0:53:08.120 --> 0:53:12.719
<v Speaker 1>as like they're because it's weird. I think vocalists listen

0:53:12.800 --> 0:53:15.960
<v Speaker 1>to music like as a musician, I listened for other elements,

0:53:16.000 --> 0:53:19.680
<v Speaker 1>and I would probably say that I'm, you know, committing

0:53:19.680 --> 0:53:22.759
<v Speaker 1>the ultimate sin that it's almost like the vocalist is

0:53:23.120 --> 0:53:27.160
<v Speaker 1>the condiment on the on the burger, like I'm so

0:53:27.320 --> 0:53:30.239
<v Speaker 1>busy listening to all the musical elements. Yeah, but I

0:53:30.280 --> 0:53:33.600
<v Speaker 1>know that singers. There's some songwriters that just listen to

0:53:33.600 --> 0:53:35.920
<v Speaker 1>the words and whatnot and how things are phrased, and

0:53:35.920 --> 0:53:39.400
<v Speaker 1>then singers listen to tone. So who of your contemporaries do

0:53:39.440 --> 0:53:40.520
<v Speaker 1>you respect?

0:53:41.560 --> 0:53:44.239
<v Speaker 7>There's like people came out of my time or people

0:53:44.280 --> 0:53:44.840
<v Speaker 7>who are out.

0:53:44.680 --> 0:53:45.640
<v Speaker 4>Now for me.

0:53:45.760 --> 0:53:49.200
<v Speaker 1>That's like on the spot question, like like right now,

0:53:49.239 --> 0:53:52.160
<v Speaker 1>and you're like, oh god, okay, you know whatever.

0:53:52.200 --> 0:53:56.360
<v Speaker 4>But can you see that I wrote stuff down. I

0:53:56.400 --> 0:53:59.960
<v Speaker 4>am over thirty five, and I know people.

0:53:59.680 --> 0:54:02.160
<v Speaker 1>Ask slightly fly, you're thirty four.

0:54:02.560 --> 0:54:06.320
<v Speaker 4>Okay and a half. But what I love.

0:54:07.080 --> 0:54:11.280
<v Speaker 7>The first person that came to mind was Shaka because

0:54:11.320 --> 0:54:15.560
<v Speaker 7>the first time I heard her, I was at my

0:54:15.680 --> 0:54:19.360
<v Speaker 7>church picnic and I was walking through somebody else's camp

0:54:20.080 --> 0:54:21.720
<v Speaker 7>and here comes a drink.

0:54:21.800 --> 0:54:24.600
<v Speaker 4>I'm into Hollywood and went in the Hollywood. I was like,

0:54:24.719 --> 0:54:25.920
<v Speaker 4>what who?

0:54:26.520 --> 0:54:30.719
<v Speaker 7>And I literally sat down on somebody else's blanket, which

0:54:30.719 --> 0:54:32.799
<v Speaker 7>you're not allowed to do really, but I was like,

0:54:32.920 --> 0:54:35.000
<v Speaker 7>if I leave this camp, I'm never going to hear

0:54:35.040 --> 0:54:37.319
<v Speaker 7>the rest of this song. So I sat down and

0:54:37.360 --> 0:54:43.400
<v Speaker 7>I heard the harmonies that I dreamed of. So Shaka

0:54:43.600 --> 0:54:47.040
<v Speaker 7>was the first influence from the outside world that I

0:54:47.480 --> 0:54:49.879
<v Speaker 7>was like, oh my god, wait, I have to know

0:54:49.920 --> 0:54:52.399
<v Speaker 7>who that person is. And eventually I figured out who

0:54:52.400 --> 0:54:56.520
<v Speaker 7>that is. I love Bruno Mars because of his showmanship

0:54:56.680 --> 0:55:03.160
<v Speaker 7>and his ability to sing live and the way it's

0:55:03.160 --> 0:55:06.400
<v Speaker 7>a complete show. I love him and Anderson Packt the

0:55:06.400 --> 0:55:11.280
<v Speaker 7>way they have combined forces and brought different worlds together

0:55:11.600 --> 0:55:14.960
<v Speaker 7>inside of his show, and how they've honored each other's

0:55:15.080 --> 0:55:19.000
<v Speaker 7>talent with one another's talent Mariah Carey.

0:55:19.080 --> 0:55:19.440
<v Speaker 4>I don't know.

0:55:19.680 --> 0:55:22.440
<v Speaker 7>I mean, I get why people can why people compare us,

0:55:22.840 --> 0:55:24.000
<v Speaker 7>But I love Mariah.

0:55:24.080 --> 0:55:26.480
<v Speaker 4>I love the way her head voice.

0:55:26.600 --> 0:55:28.960
<v Speaker 7>And that's the thing. I've never had vocal training, but

0:55:29.040 --> 0:55:31.120
<v Speaker 7>I want vocal training. And I'm saying it out loud

0:55:31.360 --> 0:55:34.880
<v Speaker 7>Stevie Nacky that I want vocal training because there's a

0:55:34.960 --> 0:55:38.680
<v Speaker 7>part of my voice that I absolutely want to train

0:55:39.200 --> 0:55:43.200
<v Speaker 7>to be able to reach. Like just that Mariah carry

0:55:43.239 --> 0:55:45.359
<v Speaker 7>things and there's a lot of range of sechings in

0:55:45.400 --> 0:55:49.560
<v Speaker 7>her full it's called head voice that she has that

0:55:49.640 --> 0:55:51.880
<v Speaker 7>I really I want to master.

0:55:52.080 --> 0:55:57.400
<v Speaker 1>Sometimes as of lately she's been like and that's a

0:55:57.440 --> 0:55:59.000
<v Speaker 1>new voice that I'm not used to.

0:55:59.320 --> 0:56:03.160
<v Speaker 7>So no, it's the one when she says, uh, the

0:56:03.200 --> 0:56:06.000
<v Speaker 7>friendship song, do do do do do?

0:56:08.440 --> 0:56:12.760
<v Speaker 4>When you lonely need a friend? Yeah, you need a friend?

0:56:13.040 --> 0:56:16.280
<v Speaker 7>Or she just ah, well, well she's way up there because.

0:56:16.040 --> 0:56:18.160
<v Speaker 4>I'm probably not in that key. But when she sees

0:56:18.200 --> 0:56:18.440
<v Speaker 4>that a.

0:56:18.719 --> 0:56:22.040
<v Speaker 2>She go gospel, when she goes to gospel, oh my god.

0:56:22.800 --> 0:56:28.520
<v Speaker 7>Okay, that's that's the that's the place I need to train.

0:56:28.800 --> 0:56:33.640
<v Speaker 7>Like I am so okay with learning more about my

0:56:33.760 --> 0:56:35.920
<v Speaker 7>voice than I know already. It's been thirty years, but

0:56:36.000 --> 0:56:39.600
<v Speaker 7>I still know there's better, there's more. I'm better now

0:56:39.719 --> 0:56:42.200
<v Speaker 7>than I was in nineteen ninety two. I had a

0:56:42.320 --> 0:56:45.719
<v Speaker 7>very small, very airy voice when I first came out,

0:56:46.120 --> 0:56:48.719
<v Speaker 7>and it has like you know, sometimes people's voice, they

0:56:48.760 --> 0:56:51.879
<v Speaker 7>get lower and deeper and they sound like a man

0:56:52.000 --> 0:56:54.600
<v Speaker 7>or something like that. But my voice was so high

0:56:54.800 --> 0:56:58.759
<v Speaker 7>and so airy that now it's deepened and it's it's

0:56:58.800 --> 0:57:01.520
<v Speaker 7>more rich than her husband. And I've learned how to

0:57:02.239 --> 0:57:05.120
<v Speaker 7>do more with it than I knew how to do before.

0:57:05.200 --> 0:57:08.319
<v Speaker 7>So I'm really grateful to be an older person with

0:57:08.400 --> 0:57:11.520
<v Speaker 7>this voice and with the knowledge that I have of myself.

0:57:11.640 --> 0:57:13.080
<v Speaker 4>So Mariah, I love her.

0:57:13.400 --> 0:57:16.240
<v Speaker 7>Jojah Cat nothing to do with me, different kind of song,

0:57:17.200 --> 0:57:20.160
<v Speaker 7>but I love her. I love Gibon, I love India

0:57:20.240 --> 0:57:24.560
<v Speaker 7>Sean beautiful. I love her as a person and as

0:57:24.600 --> 0:57:25.240
<v Speaker 7>a musician.

0:57:26.880 --> 0:57:27.600
<v Speaker 4>I love her.

0:57:28.680 --> 0:57:29.560
<v Speaker 1>I don't play with my heart.

0:57:31.560 --> 0:57:33.560
<v Speaker 7>There's a new one she has. I don forgot what

0:57:33.600 --> 0:57:36.000
<v Speaker 7>it's called, but it's sexy. I forgot what it was called.

0:57:36.080 --> 0:57:39.400
<v Speaker 7>But get her new record. Robert Glasper I want to

0:57:39.400 --> 0:57:41.360
<v Speaker 7>work with him. I've seen him a couple of times.

0:57:42.000 --> 0:57:50.680
<v Speaker 7>I love him. Ramah, Well, you know it's funny it

0:57:50.680 --> 0:57:54.560
<v Speaker 7>would be easy, except I don't meet people until recently.

0:57:54.840 --> 0:57:57.520
<v Speaker 7>Like there's a lot of people that Stephen says, oh, oh,

0:57:57.520 --> 0:57:58.560
<v Speaker 7>they would love to work with you.

0:57:58.680 --> 0:58:01.040
<v Speaker 4>I just don't know it because I've been home, so

0:58:01.280 --> 0:58:01.760
<v Speaker 4>I don't know.

0:58:02.520 --> 0:58:04.680
<v Speaker 2>You never had singing talk with Mariah. You and Mariah

0:58:04.680 --> 0:58:05.600
<v Speaker 2>never talked boys stuff.

0:58:06.880 --> 0:58:10.760
<v Speaker 7>I've only seen Mariah in passing where I've hugged her

0:58:10.760 --> 0:58:11.240
<v Speaker 7>and said.

0:58:11.080 --> 0:58:12.480
<v Speaker 4>Oh my god, I'm such a fan, and she was like,

0:58:12.480 --> 0:58:13.200
<v Speaker 4>I love you too.

0:58:14.040 --> 0:58:16.560
<v Speaker 7>And then we walked past each other. We've not been

0:58:16.560 --> 0:58:20.640
<v Speaker 7>in a place where we're like sitting and hey, hey,

0:58:20.960 --> 0:58:24.280
<v Speaker 7>you know that's never It's never happened.

0:58:24.680 --> 0:58:25.640
<v Speaker 1>We should make that happen.

0:58:26.120 --> 0:58:28.200
<v Speaker 4>I love her like, I truly love her. Like people

0:58:28.240 --> 0:58:30.680
<v Speaker 4>talk about her, they'll be like saying, she, I'm.

0:58:30.520 --> 0:58:40.280
<v Speaker 1>Like, you mentioned Steve Mackie. I believe Steve m So

0:58:40.680 --> 0:58:43.120
<v Speaker 1>is he then new seth Riggs? Like is he now

0:58:43.240 --> 0:58:45.880
<v Speaker 1>the go to trainer? God?

0:58:47.080 --> 0:58:51.800
<v Speaker 7>Well, if you know the story as well. I don't

0:58:51.800 --> 0:58:54.040
<v Speaker 7>think I've ever said this out loud to people. Okay,

0:58:54.120 --> 0:58:58.080
<v Speaker 7>so I'm saying it out loud. I went to seth Riggs.

0:58:57.360 --> 0:59:01.360
<v Speaker 4>Before my record came out, and he he literally turned

0:59:01.720 --> 0:59:02.360
<v Speaker 4>me down.

0:59:03.240 --> 0:59:03.520
<v Speaker 1>Wow.

0:59:04.800 --> 0:59:09.320
<v Speaker 7>He said, no, you'll never and he actually said you'll

0:59:09.320 --> 0:59:11.320
<v Speaker 7>never do the Mariah Carey notes.

0:59:11.600 --> 0:59:15.880
<v Speaker 4>And I was like, oh oh sorry. He literally he

0:59:15.920 --> 0:59:17.360
<v Speaker 4>was like, go to someone else, so I'm sure you

0:59:17.360 --> 0:59:17.960
<v Speaker 4>can get training.

0:59:18.200 --> 0:59:21.000
<v Speaker 1>Wait is there a history of people just saying like, no,

0:59:21.040 --> 0:59:22.480
<v Speaker 1>it is no matter of fact to you, and then

0:59:22.560 --> 0:59:25.160
<v Speaker 1>you're just like, okay, whatever I.

0:59:25.080 --> 0:59:28.120
<v Speaker 7>Am to me one of the words other than love,

0:59:28.200 --> 0:59:30.160
<v Speaker 7>because I am a lover at heart.

0:59:30.440 --> 0:59:31.640
<v Speaker 4>I am resilient.

0:59:32.600 --> 0:59:34.520
<v Speaker 7>If I was a cusser, I will say resilient as

0:59:35.240 --> 0:59:37.480
<v Speaker 7>but I'm not a really cuss so I.

0:59:37.400 --> 0:59:37.880
<v Speaker 4>Don't say that.

0:59:38.240 --> 0:59:41.760
<v Speaker 7>But I am extremely resilient. I may fall on my

0:59:41.840 --> 0:59:45.240
<v Speaker 7>face and scan all this up like bloody, but I'm

0:59:45.280 --> 0:59:48.960
<v Speaker 7>getting back up. That's just part of my nature is

0:59:49.040 --> 0:59:52.440
<v Speaker 7>to just like go really, let's see if that's true

0:59:53.000 --> 0:59:53.520
<v Speaker 7>and do it.

0:59:53.920 --> 0:59:59.360
<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, okay, yeah, because I was about to say.

0:59:59.200 --> 1:00:01.479
<v Speaker 4>Like, I've had some pretty harsh nose.

1:00:02.640 --> 1:00:07.440
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well okay, speaking of which, like I skip it,

1:00:07.520 --> 1:00:10.480
<v Speaker 1>but I got it. I have to figure out the

1:00:10.880 --> 1:00:16.240
<v Speaker 1>whole Warner Brothers situation and how that fell apart.

1:00:17.120 --> 1:00:21.560
<v Speaker 7>Well, you know, I turned the record in and Benny

1:00:21.720 --> 1:00:25.240
<v Speaker 7>was like, you are more interesting than your record is.

1:00:27.680 --> 1:00:30.920
<v Speaker 1>But isn't he also, like, I think it's his job

1:00:30.960 --> 1:00:33.360
<v Speaker 1>to make sure that you choose the right material.

1:00:33.000 --> 1:00:36.600
<v Speaker 7>And I don't think happy time.

1:00:37.880 --> 1:00:39.120
<v Speaker 4>Or inclination to do that.

1:00:39.480 --> 1:00:40.960
<v Speaker 2>What else was going on at the same.

1:00:40.760 --> 1:00:43.680
<v Speaker 4>Time, Prince Sign of the Times.

1:00:47.120 --> 1:00:54.160
<v Speaker 7>Karen White, Okay, I'll be sure. Okay, I wasn't quite there,

1:00:54.200 --> 1:00:56.080
<v Speaker 7>and I'm okay with that, And I think maybe that's

1:00:56.280 --> 1:01:00.760
<v Speaker 7>from my history as in the More Family. I'm not sure,

1:01:00.960 --> 1:01:05.320
<v Speaker 7>but I can handle no. I can't handle never, but

1:01:05.400 --> 1:01:08.320
<v Speaker 7>I can handle no. Not right now.

1:01:09.560 --> 1:01:13.840
<v Speaker 4>Because it's been thirty years.

1:01:14.280 --> 1:01:18.560
<v Speaker 7>No, but it's been. It's miraculous and wonderful at the

1:01:18.560 --> 1:01:21.560
<v Speaker 7>same time. And I've given up a couple of times

1:01:21.800 --> 1:01:24.920
<v Speaker 7>and then gone okay, So seriously, what.

1:01:24.800 --> 1:01:27.320
<v Speaker 4>Are you going to do instead of singing? I'm sorry, Chante,

1:01:27.400 --> 1:01:27.680
<v Speaker 4>what is it?

1:01:27.880 --> 1:01:29.400
<v Speaker 2>What are you going to do? What were you going

1:01:29.480 --> 1:01:29.720
<v Speaker 2>to do?

1:01:29.840 --> 1:01:33.680
<v Speaker 7>I was gonna go to some Beverly Hills hotel or

1:01:33.720 --> 1:01:37.440
<v Speaker 7>something and get every night gig or something.

1:01:37.560 --> 1:01:38.439
<v Speaker 4>It was just gonna be singing.

1:01:38.560 --> 1:01:40.040
<v Speaker 2>You was always gonna be a singer from the jump.

1:01:40.080 --> 1:01:40.560
<v Speaker 2>There was nothing.

1:01:40.600 --> 1:01:43.040
<v Speaker 4>There are voiceovers. I thought before I was going to

1:01:43.080 --> 1:01:44.800
<v Speaker 4>be a model, but I only drew to five four,

1:01:44.920 --> 1:01:48.200
<v Speaker 4>so that was over. I don't know, I don't know.

1:01:48.680 --> 1:01:51.880
<v Speaker 3>Guess who I saw today. I cannot remember what project

1:01:51.880 --> 1:01:54.600
<v Speaker 3>that was for. And literally like one of my favorite

1:01:54.640 --> 1:01:56.680
<v Speaker 3>Nancy Wilson songs, but like I would have never thought,

1:01:57.000 --> 1:01:57.920
<v Speaker 3>Chante Moore.

1:01:58.360 --> 1:01:58.960
<v Speaker 4>What's crazy?

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<v Speaker 7>I was on Warner Brothers when I first heard that song,

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<v Speaker 7>and I thought to myself when I was nineteen twenty

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<v Speaker 7>when I first heard that song in Warner Brothers. As

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<v Speaker 7>a matter of fact, I thought, one day I'm going

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<v Speaker 7>to sing that song. And then when More is More

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<v Speaker 7>came along and they were asking for me to do

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<v Speaker 7>a more of a jazz album, I went to George

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<v Speaker 7>Duke and asked him if he produce it. And Nancy

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<v Speaker 7>herself heard the song and actually gave me the head.

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<v Speaker 4>Nod on it, and.

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<v Speaker 7>That was one of my favorite things. And I was

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<v Speaker 7>actually able to sing that song to her at a.

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<v Speaker 4>Tribute to her one day. But yeah, yeah, that's pretty awesome.

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<v Speaker 6>I wanted to ask about Ken Light and you would

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<v Speaker 6>keep watching it. We all go together, and y'all did that?

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<v Speaker 5>Or was that you know?

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<v Speaker 4>We were together as we saying it.

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<v Speaker 7>Lany Stewart and Tony Haynes and I wrote that song

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<v Speaker 7>and kissing you would already come out and Little loved

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<v Speaker 7>Keith Washington and he thought we'd be the new Tammy

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<v Speaker 7>Terrell and Marvin Gaye and we all did.

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<v Speaker 4>We we asked.

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<v Speaker 7>Him to sing it and thankfully he came and did

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<v Speaker 7>and we it just it just spit. He has a

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<v Speaker 7>very masculine voice and I have a very gally.

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<v Speaker 4>Kind of sound, and it just made sense.

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<v Speaker 7>And yeah, that was It was in Chicago with Lady

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<v Speaker 7>Stewart and Tony Haynes.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, where are two?

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<v Speaker 2>Keith Washington Salter just one?

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<v Speaker 7>I Love You was the second one we did on

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<v Speaker 7>another record, but Shawnie Wilson wrote that song with Somebody,

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<v Speaker 7>But yeah, that was the other song we did.

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<v Speaker 1>Really, of all the producers you worked with, who would

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<v Speaker 1>you say is your top five in terms of like nurturing,

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<v Speaker 1>really caring about the product.

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<v Speaker 4>First? In mind?

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<v Speaker 7>Of course is George Duke second? Only because of timing,

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<v Speaker 7>because I didn't meet Jimmy and Terry until my third album.

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<v Speaker 4>It was the top three. Yeah, that's it. I was like, wait,

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<v Speaker 4>it was the third one.

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<v Speaker 7>That was when I first met them and we did

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<v Speaker 7>Mood together, so I didn't I didn't really know all

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<v Speaker 7>of all of who they were, and as I met

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<v Speaker 7>them and as I heard more songs. I love that

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<v Speaker 7>part of it is that it's an unfolding as I meet.

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<v Speaker 4>As I met the producers, I started going, oh my god,

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<v Speaker 4>that was you, that was you. Oh my god, dan It,

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<v Speaker 4>oh my god. Some stuff I didn't know. And it

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<v Speaker 4>was like it was like a.

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<v Speaker 7>Waterfall deluge of information happening so quickly. But I I

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<v Speaker 7>they're at the top two. I'm trying to think, who gosh,

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<v Speaker 7>who pushed me like crazy? I love Simon Law who

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<v Speaker 7>did Loves taking over with me and we did songs.

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<v Speaker 4>On the second album.

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<v Speaker 7>Actually, Ronnie Jackson, who did a lot of who did

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<v Speaker 7>produce all of the songs on this independent album I

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<v Speaker 7>did called Rise of the Phoenix. He's one of my

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<v Speaker 7>favorite producer writers. I just I think each each writer

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<v Speaker 7>and producer has their own unique lane. And I think

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<v Speaker 7>that's part of being a chameleon as an artist, is

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<v Speaker 7>to be able to conform and do your best in

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<v Speaker 7>all the circumstances.

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<v Speaker 4>It's like people who are like, well, I.

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<v Speaker 7>Don't sing in the range, or I don't sing when

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<v Speaker 7>the sons are or I don't sing when it's a

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<v Speaker 7>cloudy day, and I don't sing when it's I'm like,

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<v Speaker 7>I'll sing different all the blassing. That's the thing everywhere,

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<v Speaker 7>and that's what I think it's about. To be a

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<v Speaker 7>person who lasts through time is being able to morph

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<v Speaker 7>and and be able to continue to grow a Just

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<v Speaker 7>grow that, gane it. You haven't arrived given a ride.

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<v Speaker 1>I say that. I say that to singers who still

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<v Speaker 1>give me the whole air conditioning thing.

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<v Speaker 4>But no, let me say.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll believe it when I hear it.

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<v Speaker 4>No, no, no, no, no no no no, I know.

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<v Speaker 1>I know.

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<v Speaker 3>No.

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<v Speaker 7>If you turn on the air conditioner, if I start

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<v Speaker 7>a show and I feel the air conditioner after I

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<v Speaker 7>started sweating, it's.

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<v Speaker 4>The free on in the air. It isn't if you

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<v Speaker 4>want me to finish the show, turn off the air.

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<v Speaker 4>I want to sing for hours.

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<v Speaker 7>I sing as long as you want me to. I

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<v Speaker 7>sing an hour if you want me to. But if

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<v Speaker 7>the air comes on, you got about three minutes before

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<v Speaker 7>she's gone and I can't help it. Damn, Okay, it's

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<v Speaker 7>the free on. I don't know how people sing under

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<v Speaker 7>fans period.

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<v Speaker 1>Besides saying Luke, I am your father. He's the most jokes,

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<v Speaker 1>the worst jokes I've ever told any given episode I want.

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<v Speaker 5>Are you so?

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<v Speaker 6>Reportedly you're on the You're an uncredited guest on Jay

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<v Speaker 6>Z's Girls Girls Girls Remix?

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<v Speaker 1>Is that true or not?

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<v Speaker 5>The one with Mike Michael Jackson on it?

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<v Speaker 4>Amma, somebody need to pay me. I don't know, Emma,

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<v Speaker 4>I don't even know.

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<v Speaker 2>She's probably saying some shit inter session, you.

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<v Speaker 4>Know what. Maybe so it could be somebody asked Stephen.

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<v Speaker 4>He might know better than I. Is that if I am.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm happy to be right, p sked the song I

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<v Speaker 3>was talking about special, You're right, you had it first,

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<v Speaker 3>but then Sarah Devine did it next, and it was.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh, I ain't even know.

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<v Speaker 7>I know Sarah Raphaelsa.

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<v Speaker 4>Dek wrote it anyway, so you know he did it.

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<v Speaker 4>It wasn't then it was him.

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<v Speaker 1>I gotta ask this question.

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<v Speaker 4>Go ahead and ask go ahead.

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<v Speaker 1>So when you're getting the treatment mm hmmm for.

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<v Speaker 3>The contagious video, Okay, yeah, yes, let's Cool's cool?

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<v Speaker 1>Did you even realize, like I'm almost certain, there was

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<v Speaker 1>a point in your life where you were only referred

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<v Speaker 1>to by a certain generation as just like, oh, that's

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<v Speaker 1>mister Biggs's wife, and you know, and I'm certain for

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<v Speaker 1>a generation that the Isisley brothers were the two guys

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<v Speaker 1>that's saying contagious and nothing else.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeap, yes, fun.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>And plus there was a period. It was a period

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<v Speaker 1>in the late nineties in which like these gazillion dollar

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<v Speaker 1>videos were getting made left and right, these epic budgets

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<v Speaker 1>and whatnot. Yeah, what was that entire process? Like, like

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<v Speaker 1>who's selling you on the concept and everything?

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<v Speaker 7>Well, the first thing is when you talked about being

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<v Speaker 7>in the same place at the same time singing, right,

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<v Speaker 7>R Kelly, ron Eisley and I were never.

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<v Speaker 4>In the same place singing anything. That's first thing.

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<v Speaker 5>Okay.

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<v Speaker 4>R Kelly is a musical genius. He's a lot of

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<v Speaker 4>other things, but he is a musical genius.

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<v Speaker 7>And so he called and was like, listen, so I

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<v Speaker 7>want you to sing Greig.

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<v Speaker 1>He piecemealed it.

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<v Speaker 4>He was like, I'm gonna go and then you.

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<v Speaker 6>Go no, no, he give us some drama, non no, none.

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<v Speaker 7>So I'm singing it, but I'm doing it in a

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<v Speaker 7>studio by myself here in la He's in Chicago. I

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<v Speaker 7>don't know where Ron Issley was.

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<v Speaker 4>And then when we got the I got the treatment

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<v Speaker 4>for the video.

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<v Speaker 1>What it happened was, yes, he is.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, I am in the bed in the video. That's right,

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<v Speaker 4>I am in the video.

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<v Speaker 7>What's interesting about that is that Robert was yeah, no, Robert,

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<v Speaker 7>it was very specific about that. We had to be caught.

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<v Speaker 4>In the act. So he was like, we need to

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<v Speaker 4>practice the kissing part. I was like, no, no, we

1:10:09.560 --> 1:10:11.840
<v Speaker 4>don't need to practice the kissing. We don't need to

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<v Speaker 4>practice it.

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<v Speaker 7>So he wanted to practice all the parts that we

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<v Speaker 7>were going to do, and I was like, no, we're

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<v Speaker 7>I'm sure we'll kiss just fine. Whenever it happens, it'll

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<v Speaker 7>be fine. And so many bads I got.

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<v Speaker 3>I just I know, it's okay.

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<v Speaker 5>I know.

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<v Speaker 1>But even then, well I remember more or less at

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<v Speaker 1>the height of the success and the sort of the

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<v Speaker 1>just the fast pace of it just becoming beyond just

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<v Speaker 1>like a hit song or whatever. Yeah, Like I'm certain

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<v Speaker 1>by that point they were like, we got to do more,

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<v Speaker 1>we got to do more.

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<v Speaker 7>Like I don't think they well, they didn't come for more.

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<v Speaker 7>They didn't ask me to do other songs. It was

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<v Speaker 7>a phenomenon, for sure, But I think the Isley Brothers

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<v Speaker 7>ran with the mister Big more than it ran with

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<v Speaker 7>who was the girl?

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<v Speaker 4>Who was mister BIG's girl? And then once r Kelly

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<v Speaker 4>got in trouble, it was like.

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<v Speaker 7>Oh, I'm not even I'm not even singing that song

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<v Speaker 7>in that piece in my show because I used to.

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<v Speaker 4>Be like doom doom, doom boom and then it would

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<v Speaker 4>be going on and.

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<v Speaker 7>So it was really fun to bring that into my

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<v Speaker 7>show because it was so different. They were like, oh

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<v Speaker 7>my god, people forget really get that that was me

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<v Speaker 7>because it didn't necessarily say shante more on it. It

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<v Speaker 7>was just like, oh, mister Big and our Wait, you

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<v Speaker 7>have to read the small print to see that it

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<v Speaker 7>was me.

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<v Speaker 1>So Steve just hit me and said, you got to

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<v Speaker 1>ask her about tell the story. The Soul Train Awards

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<v Speaker 1>performance this year.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, wow, you got people was happy to see you.

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<v Speaker 7>It's been the catalyst for so much after that that it.

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<v Speaker 4>Has blown my mind. I I beforehand, you know, Stephen

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<v Speaker 4>is really he's a great supporter.

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<v Speaker 7>He's a he's good at That's what he does for

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<v Speaker 7>a living is put people on, you know, whether it

1:12:23.760 --> 1:12:26.960
<v Speaker 7>be you being the host of a show or on

1:12:27.000 --> 1:12:30.800
<v Speaker 7>the show, or the music or the person singing or the.

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<v Speaker 4>Lighter the lighting guy, whatever it is.

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<v Speaker 7>He is that guy. But I don't think he had

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<v Speaker 7>anything to do with that show. People like you scooed

1:12:37.960 --> 1:12:39.760
<v Speaker 7>you married him because you put you on that show.

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<v Speaker 4>Steven loves me for me. So, but that show happened.

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<v Speaker 7>And I'll have to give props to Jesse Collins and

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<v Speaker 7>Dioncle and Dion she I've.

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<v Speaker 1>Got a last name, Kim soon to be Collins that.

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<v Speaker 7>I believe it's I believe it is common knowledge.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes they did.

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<v Speaker 4>So they asked me to do the show and I

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<v Speaker 4>and I really I was like, oh, that's so, that's

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<v Speaker 4>so cool. Who am I tricketing? And they were like you.

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<v Speaker 2>Poor little gerald LeVert.

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<v Speaker 4>No, I was gonna be singing some singing somebody else's.

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<v Speaker 4>So I'm like doing Tonia doing. What are we doing?

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<v Speaker 4>And I wasn't saying that.

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<v Speaker 7>I'm like, I'm humble. I just had no idea, and

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<v Speaker 7>so they were like you and I was like, holy MACARONI.

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<v Speaker 7>So I'm still the girl who gets nervous before the shows.

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<v Speaker 7>I'm still the person who has butterflies until I land

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<v Speaker 7>on stage and then I let them go on the audience.

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<v Speaker 7>So I wanted to give a show a performance that

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<v Speaker 7>showed all the different sides of who I am.

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<v Speaker 4>And it was.

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<v Speaker 7>Wonderful to be able to dance a little bit and

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<v Speaker 7>be calm a little bit and then singing Chanta's Got

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<v Speaker 7>a Man a little bit, and.

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<v Speaker 4>It was scary.

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<v Speaker 7>But Adam Blackstone, oh my god, the band is amazing.

1:14:12.080 --> 1:14:14.720
<v Speaker 4>Every band he puts together is amazing. Though he is

1:14:16.520 --> 1:14:20.560
<v Speaker 4>such a great musician that I didn't.

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<v Speaker 7>Sometimes some stuff happens, and I think it's a good

1:14:24.040 --> 1:14:29.800
<v Speaker 7>thing that I'm naives some stuff because it makes even

1:14:29.840 --> 1:14:31.599
<v Speaker 7>though I'm nervous, it makes me less nervous.

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<v Speaker 4>When I find out effort, I'm like.

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<v Speaker 7>Oh shoot, they were watching, Oh my god, like it

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<v Speaker 7>becomes something else. For what I will say about that

1:14:39.040 --> 1:14:45.719
<v Speaker 7>show that very few people know is that between It's

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<v Speaker 7>all Right and Chanta's Got a Man the first time

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<v Speaker 7>I sang it, because I sign me twice, I was

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<v Speaker 7>supposed to be helped down the stairs. And I was

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<v Speaker 7>being helped down the stairs. As I stepped down the stairs,

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<v Speaker 7>and that last stair, the guy was suposed hold my

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<v Speaker 7>hand and keep my hand until I got on level ground.

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<v Speaker 7>The gentleman let go on my hand. Either he let

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<v Speaker 7>go on my hand or I was like either way.

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<v Speaker 7>On that last step, my heel got caught on the

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<v Speaker 7>last stair and I literally fell to my knees and

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<v Speaker 7>I was like, it felt like thirty seconds between hitting

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<v Speaker 7>my knees and me understanding that that really did.

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<v Speaker 4>That just happen?

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<v Speaker 7>Because this happened to other people I've I've never gone

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<v Speaker 7>on stage before because anybody there's TV cameras everywhere, there's.

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<v Speaker 4>An audience of thousands of people. This is going to

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<v Speaker 4>be on YouTube. Literally, my brain was like going and

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<v Speaker 4>I was like, get off.

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<v Speaker 2>I ain't even hear about that.

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<v Speaker 7>There are people who were there who couldn't see it

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<v Speaker 7>because of the way the audience set. I didn't even

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<v Speaker 7>think about it. I was just like get up and finished.

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<v Speaker 7>Because I'm alive entertainer. I've done very little TV in

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<v Speaker 7>the last twenty years. Maybe the first ten years was

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<v Speaker 7>a lot of stuff, but in the last twenty years

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<v Speaker 7>I haven't been on TV a lot.

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<v Speaker 4>And it's cool. Most of my life I've been performing live.

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<v Speaker 7>People go, oh you still saying, I'm like listen, I

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<v Speaker 7>think you think I'm playing the bills mama singing. So anyway,

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<v Speaker 7>I get up, I sing Chante's got a man because

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<v Speaker 7>Dion knows me.

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<v Speaker 4>Girlfriend came over. She was like, okay, so baby, do

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<v Speaker 4>you want to rub on my back? Baby?

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<v Speaker 7>Do you want to just sing from from the start?

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<v Speaker 7>I just wanted to go back from which park Just

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<v Speaker 7>tell me the part you want. So she's rubbing my

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<v Speaker 7>back and I'm like, because I'm happy to be here.

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<v Speaker 4>I am just happy to be here. It sounds like

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<v Speaker 4>an Aquarius god, so I so mean it.

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<v Speaker 1>Dion's like, mom, I love the We actually have to

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<v Speaker 1>get both of them both, Jesse Collins in love you.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that would be dope.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh my god, that would be great.

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<v Speaker 1>They run everything.

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<v Speaker 7>They run the world, girl, the world.

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<v Speaker 4>They're amazing.

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<v Speaker 7>So I got up and I resang, it's all right,

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<v Speaker 7>and did chants got a man, which is why they

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<v Speaker 7>have that particular walking down the stair. That's why I'm

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<v Speaker 7>looking at the dude on each step. If you see

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<v Speaker 7>me go down watching the dude, I'm like, you ain't

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<v Speaker 7>dropping my booty giggings.

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<v Speaker 4>That's why I'm stepping on the steps like I'm stepping

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<v Speaker 4>on the steps. And that's why I didn't look over

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<v Speaker 4>at Steven.

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<v Speaker 7>That's why I went like that because I was like,

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<v Speaker 7>I'm not even looking at you because I was so

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<v Speaker 7>self conscious at that point.

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<v Speaker 4>But I knew, get to the end, get to the end,

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<v Speaker 4>keep singing. That's the whole point is to be resilient.

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<v Speaker 7>And I think that's what God was trying to tell

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<v Speaker 7>me in the moment, is that no matter how many

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<v Speaker 7>times you fall down, it doesn't matter. It's that you

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<v Speaker 7>get back up again. And that's the story of my

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<v Speaker 7>life is that I may be down, but I'm never

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<v Speaker 7>counted out. I never count myself out. I am fifty

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<v Speaker 7>six years old, and this is.

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<v Speaker 4>Thirty years in this business, and I am blessed in

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<v Speaker 4>honor to be right where I am on an uptick.

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<v Speaker 4>The fact that I'm here on your show, the fact

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<v Speaker 4>that there are.

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<v Speaker 7>Things that are coming that I can't even tell you

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<v Speaker 7>about yet, that I am so beyond blessed and so

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<v Speaker 7>beyond thrilled to still be here.

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<v Speaker 4>And I feel like I'm prepared for my future and

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<v Speaker 4>not like going, oh my god, oh my God, we

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<v Speaker 4>hope I can do it. I'm like sure about it,

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<v Speaker 4>even though it makes me nervous.

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<v Speaker 7>I got bats in my stomach rather than butterflies, because

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<v Speaker 7>it's a whole nother.

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<v Speaker 1>Level of what like nervousness.

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<v Speaker 4>No, for real, people get butterflies. I've even got bats

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<v Speaker 4>in there. They're like, I'm afraid before every show.

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<v Speaker 7>I say afraid, I'm nervous before every show as soon

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<v Speaker 7>as I step on the stage and I see each face.

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<v Speaker 4>You talk about.

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<v Speaker 7>Award winning, and I say it all the time, and

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<v Speaker 7>I meet it with all my soul every time I

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<v Speaker 7>step on the stage, each face, each person in every seat.

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<v Speaker 4>That paid to see this girl thing, this one. They're

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<v Speaker 4>my Grammys.

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<v Speaker 7>They are my American Music Awards, they are my honors,

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<v Speaker 7>they are my whatever you want.

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<v Speaker 4>To call it. I have a million Grammys. If those

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<v Speaker 4>people that come back and say, hey, you are the

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<v Speaker 4>reason why I didn't kill myself.

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<v Speaker 7>I listened to Chantez Gotta Man, or Loves Taking Over

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<v Speaker 7>or It's all Right, and for my mother when she

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<v Speaker 7>was dying, and it brought her peace. You are the

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<v Speaker 7>reason why I still am here.

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<v Speaker 4>Those things.

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<v Speaker 7>That's the reason why I get back up and I

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<v Speaker 7>sing over and over and over the same songs over

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<v Speaker 7>and over again.

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<v Speaker 4>But I'm putting new music out this year. But that's

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<v Speaker 4>why I do what I do.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm just glad you ain't stick of them yet because

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<v Speaker 3>we not so I'm not I'm not finished yet.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm really not finished.

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<v Speaker 7>I'm really I'm not done, and I'm happy to still

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<v Speaker 7>just be here.

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<v Speaker 4>I really am.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm so happy for your union to one of my

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<v Speaker 1>favorite music nerds of all time. You know, it couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>have happened to a better person. I regret. I know

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<v Speaker 1>there was a period in which I was sort of

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<v Speaker 1>on the short list to DJ to DJ the wedding,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know I couldn't do it at the time

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<v Speaker 1>because I had a few jobs going.

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<v Speaker 2>So I think they did just fine. I think he

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<v Speaker 2>did just fine.

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<v Speaker 4>We missed your presence there.

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<v Speaker 7>Both of us respected, love you very much, and we're

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<v Speaker 7>very happy. Both of us respect and love you very

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<v Speaker 7>much for.

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<v Speaker 1>Just that beautiful, beautiful You know we're big fans of

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<v Speaker 1>you on the show, and we thank you for coming

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<v Speaker 1>on and talking.

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<v Speaker 2>To lapping you with these flowers.

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<v Speaker 4>Thank you. I appreciate you.

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<v Speaker 1>Was on mute. You might want to take it off

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<v Speaker 1>mute and do it again.

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<v Speaker 6>No, I do like a silent clap because it's on zoom,

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<v Speaker 6>so it's like I don't want to cut cut the audio,

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<v Speaker 6>all right.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, on behalf of Silent Steve and Hilo, and like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you very much Sean for coming on the show,

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<v Speaker 1>and thank you guys for listening to Quest Supreme. And

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<v Speaker 1>we will see you next week on the next go round.

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