Speaker 1: Hello, Faith, Well, welcome to a Move the Chains episode
Speaker 1: of the forty nine Ers First and ten podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Rihanna McDonald and it's Game Day today. I'm
Speaker 1: here with Grammy Award winning artist who's been a part
Speaker 1: of a legendary group such as Cool In the Gang
Speaker 1: and the Dazz Band, Mister Skip Martin. Skip, how are
Speaker 1: you feeling?
Speaker 2: Feeling great? Honored to be here, just gonna have so
Speaker 2: much fun. I feel like a kid. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: So Skip, you're originally from San Francisco. Tell me your
Speaker 1: earliest memories of the San Francisco for here.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Montana, Jerry Rice, the stadium over there
Speaker 2: by the water, the original stadium, Candlestate Park, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: and just you know that time, you know, my family
Speaker 2: getting up and cheering. I had other family members that
Speaker 2: worked with the organization for the forty nine ers organizations
Speaker 2: and Dwayne Board and all these different people that were
Speaker 2: my family members. So it was really it's been a
Speaker 2: story for me, you know, really a story.
Speaker 1: Well, you just had your pregame rehearsals. What do you
Speaker 1: think of Levi's Stadium?
Speaker 2: I love it. Yeah, it's beautiful, especially when they put
Speaker 2: my name up there. I was like, ooh, this is
Speaker 2: so cool. Yeah, you know, but I having a great time.
Speaker 2: I want to thank Levi's for giving me a little
Speaker 2: stuff to wear what have you, because it's so hot
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas that I had to have some kind
Speaker 2: of a jacket when I got here to this area
Speaker 2: because eighty degrees is a little bit nippy for a
Speaker 2: guy from Vegas. So so thank you Levi's for the
Speaker 2: jacket's lovely.
Speaker 1: Well, you look great. Levi's always looks amazing on our
Speaker 1: halftime performers. You're performing halftime today. How excited are you
Speaker 1: to light up levi Stadium?
Speaker 2: I am so excited. I mean, it's such an honor
Speaker 2: and the privilege to be here and to do this.
Speaker 2: And like I say, I'm going to try to conserve
Speaker 2: and control my enthusiasm just a little bit so I
Speaker 2: won't mess up. But I'm really excited on the inside.
Speaker 2: I just don't look it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So originally growing up in the Bay Area, how
Speaker 1: did the city of San Francisco influence your style and
Speaker 1: your music career?
Speaker 2: Well, it actually helped me to get started because this
Speaker 2: is where my dreams were formulated. In a Bay area,
Speaker 2: and I had to learn the Sea words for success,
Speaker 2: and it was formulated here in the Bay Area. But
Speaker 2: the first leave Sea word for success is courage. You
Speaker 2: have to have the courage to go to an environment
Speaker 2: that's less familiar, less comfortable and convenient to make your way.
Speaker 2: So I left from my comfort zone and went out
Speaker 2: to Ohio where I knew nothing about it and knew
Speaker 2: nothing about the snow and the cold, and I started
Speaker 2: pursuing my real achievements into music. So this is the
Speaker 2: foundation of my dreams.
Speaker 1: Well, you've built an amazing dream. You're now a Grammy
Speaker 1: and a Emmy Award winning artist. If you had to
Speaker 1: pick one of your songs out of your entire iconic
Speaker 1: music career to represent the spirit of this year's forty
Speaker 1: nine ers team, which would it be?
Speaker 2: Leoded, whipped Absolutely, whip, Let's whipping bank, wet it on
Speaker 2: all night. That's gonna be our thing for today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, faithful forty nine Ers Chiefs is up next,
Speaker 1: airing at one twenty five pm on Fox. Thanks for
Speaker 1: tuning in, and thank you Sogod for joining us.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me