WEBVTT - Truth Hurts

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<v Speaker 1>R and B Money than take vologized. We are the.

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<v Speaker 2>Authorities R and.

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<v Speaker 1>Ladies and gentlemen.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Jay Valentine and this is the R and B

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<v Speaker 2>Money Podcast. And today I got somebody very special that

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<v Speaker 2>pulled up on me, you know, some real singing in

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<v Speaker 2>the building.

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<v Speaker 1>And she gonna talk to us about it today.

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<v Speaker 2>And she, you know, she may even sing for us

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<v Speaker 2>and may get a little addictive to us, but the

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<v Speaker 2>soul is here today, and you know, I don't want

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<v Speaker 2>to talk a lot about it. I want to get

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<v Speaker 2>into it. Today we have a singer, songwriter and actress,

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<v Speaker 2>the amazing fresh from overseas. I think truth hurts. I

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<v Speaker 2>think you know, I love it.

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<v Speaker 1>Be close, you could be far out here. A lot

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<v Speaker 1>of different things, a lot of true things. Today. That's

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<v Speaker 1>what that's what we're gonna stand on. Today. We're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>say how are you doing?

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<v Speaker 3>I'm great, how are you good?

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<v Speaker 1>To see you? Good to see you?

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<v Speaker 3>And meets you. I should have met you by now.

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<v Speaker 2>Actually I'll be hiding sometimes I don't always be going places.

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<v Speaker 2>They I should wear a little thing like on the top,

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<v Speaker 2>like me up a little bit too so a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit it works. Yeah, that's that's that's your thing.

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<v Speaker 3>That's my thing.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, okay, So yeah, so what's what's going on with you? Man?

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<v Speaker 3>So much, so much, so much, I mean.

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<v Speaker 4>Besides being human the truth mother. I'm back in La.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm no longer overseas. I was overseas. I was in

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<v Speaker 4>v in Austria for a while. I was married four

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<v Speaker 4>years and I'm back to La now. So I'm on

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<v Speaker 4>l a time. I'm developing a new project, a rebrand

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<v Speaker 4>that I'm really excited about.

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<v Speaker 3>But we'll talk about that.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because you know here on the R and B

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<v Speaker 2>Money podcast, we like to we like to go through

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<v Speaker 2>the journey.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>We like to go back to you know, where people

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<v Speaker 2>are from. And man, I love what y'all are doing.

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<v Speaker 2>By the way, thank you, thank you great. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>so we want to start in the loop. Oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>that's how you feel about the loop?

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<v Speaker 4>No, you know what I'm saying that because I lost

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<v Speaker 4>my mother last year and I had to go back home.

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<v Speaker 4>I had to do the due diligence of you know,

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<v Speaker 4>losing a parent. It was tough and I and I

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<v Speaker 4>got to attribute that to transformation for me because I

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<v Speaker 4>had to dig real deep for that grief. I hadn't

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<v Speaker 4>had anybody I lost in my life that caused me

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<v Speaker 4>to go that deep with grief. And I know everybody

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<v Speaker 4>knows about it to some degree if they lost somebody

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<v Speaker 4>who was really really close, especially a mother. Yeah, so

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<v Speaker 4>I think the grief was what, like really really was

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<v Speaker 4>the catalyst to transform me into who I believe I

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<v Speaker 4>am now.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, yeah, so let's let's go back to little truth,

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<v Speaker 2>Little truth, Little truth. That's way back Saint Louis. Like,

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<v Speaker 2>so for you, what was your upbringing like as far

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<v Speaker 2>as from a musical standpoint and you getting into this thing.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, my father was probably the first inspiration for that.

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<v Speaker 4>He was a local promoter in Saint Louis. He brought

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<v Speaker 4>a lot of different acts back in the day to

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<v Speaker 4>smaller theaters in Saint Louis, which was people Bryson, the

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<v Speaker 4>Pointer Sisters. I remember growing up Philis Symon. Uh. There

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<v Speaker 4>were so many people and my eyes were just big, like,

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<v Speaker 4>oh my.

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<v Speaker 1>Gosh, look at this. So did he have a venue

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<v Speaker 1>there too, like a club?

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<v Speaker 3>You know, there was always a different venue he was.

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<v Speaker 3>He was just doing promotion.

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<v Speaker 4>Like so if you want to do a show, you

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<v Speaker 4>bring an artist to town, you find the venue for

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<v Speaker 4>that artist.

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<v Speaker 3>That's what he was doing.

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<v Speaker 1>Yea, my dad did a little really a promotion.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, see you know what it is.

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<v Speaker 1>He was trying to clean some things.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, well that's a different conversation.

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<v Speaker 2>But you know, shout out to the dads. Man brought

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<v Speaker 2>them to the baby. Yeah Brown some years before I

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<v Speaker 2>was born, Like yeah, he was.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh man, that's crazy.

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<v Speaker 1>He was moving, wow moving.

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<v Speaker 2>So then you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, but that that brought about the uh influence on

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<v Speaker 4>my life when it comes to music and when it

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<v Speaker 4>comes to performance really, because I feel like I was

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<v Speaker 4>more affected by performance than just music. What I saw

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<v Speaker 4>back then in those theaters and I was just like wow, I.

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<v Speaker 3>Couldn't believe it.

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<v Speaker 4>So I think it kind of catapulted me into wanting

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<v Speaker 4>to know more about what performance, singing, all those things.

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<v Speaker 3>But I feel like I.

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<v Speaker 4>Didn't have the voice that a lot of people grow

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<v Speaker 4>up in the church and they're singing organically.

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<v Speaker 3>I didn't even know. I didn't.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't.

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<v Speaker 3>I decided at some point, maybe like eleven.

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<v Speaker 4>Or twelve, that I was like, yo, this this is

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<v Speaker 4>who I want to be, and I don't know how

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<v Speaker 4>to do it, and so my mother was like, okay,

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<v Speaker 4>well let's let's let's get some lessons. So she got

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<v Speaker 4>me into more operatic and classical training, okay, and that

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<v Speaker 4>was why I learned.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, Yes, I was singing in my head.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm like, that's why.

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<v Speaker 1>That was the start.

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<v Speaker 3>So for me, like, it was more technical from the beginning.

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<v Speaker 2>So was it boring for you as an eleven year

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<v Speaker 2>old learning technique more so than just yes out and

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<v Speaker 2>just you know, listening to the radio and singing out

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<v Speaker 2>for that.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes and no.

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<v Speaker 4>Because I had a private coach who I liked and

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<v Speaker 4>he made it fun, okay. And then from there I

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<v Speaker 4>started doing things in high school like musicals, and so

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<v Speaker 4>I got the the the background of show and opera

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<v Speaker 4>and all of those things that are more technical than

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<v Speaker 4>actual R and B and all of the things that

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<v Speaker 4>we do now in the music industry.

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<v Speaker 3>I got.

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<v Speaker 4>I got the training to do. I know I should

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<v Speaker 4>have done Broadway by now, but but I got that

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<v Speaker 4>kind of training back then.

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<v Speaker 1>So you were you were full high school musical.

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<v Speaker 3>Full high school musical.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you go to a school of the arts.

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<v Speaker 4>I didn't, but the school that I was in supported

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<v Speaker 4>arts heavily. Okay, so that's all I did.

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<v Speaker 2>When you were doing that in school? Did you foresee

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<v Speaker 2>any of this, like, did you look at it like this?

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<v Speaker 2>These are my goals. I'm trying to get to LA

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<v Speaker 2>or Hollywood or New York or these places so that

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<v Speaker 2>I can all right Atlanta at the time.

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<v Speaker 4>Likely, No, Initially I didn't even think about it like that.

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<v Speaker 4>I just I thought about just what I saw. And

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<v Speaker 4>then that's when I became a real deep and chronic

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<v Speaker 4>Prince fan. That was my first concert, and when I

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<v Speaker 4>saw him on stage, I was like, that's it, certified.

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<v Speaker 3>I love performance.

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<v Speaker 1>I grew up in I grew up in the Prince House.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh my gosh, my room was purple. Always my hair

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<v Speaker 4>like his hair.

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<v Speaker 3>I got my ass kicked.

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<v Speaker 2>Outside like my brothers and sisters, like my mama. Didn't

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<v Speaker 2>talk to nobody that wasn't dark skinned really other than

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<v Speaker 2>loving Prince and loving her kids, like.

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<v Speaker 1>If you was, she's like these light skins's school. But

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<v Speaker 1>Prince Prince, I don't know. Prince just wasn't. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what he was to her. He just wasn't.

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<v Speaker 3>Prince was an alien, Yes, he was some even like.

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<v Speaker 1>Light skinned men really only Prince.

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<v Speaker 3>Only Prince makes sense.

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<v Speaker 1>Only Prince.

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<v Speaker 2>So in our household, it was you know, it's funny

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<v Speaker 2>because her two favorite artists were prints in ice cube, which.

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<v Speaker 3>Is complete opposite, complete opposite.

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<v Speaker 2>So all right, so you get through high school, you're

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<v Speaker 2>doing your musical thing.

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<v Speaker 1>When do you get here? Like, what's the what's the

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<v Speaker 1>process of getting to la the bank?

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, A lot of my my family, my extended family

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<v Speaker 4>on my father's side there in the bank, his sister

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<v Speaker 4>and some other relatives. He decided he wanted to, Like

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<v Speaker 4>my father did a short stant in prison for being genius.

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<v Speaker 3>We won't go onto that.

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<v Speaker 4>Hey, no, listen, back in the day, my father was

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<v Speaker 4>the one that was chipping the free phones. Bought one

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<v Speaker 4>from him and look, and the fans wanted him to

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<v Speaker 4>work for him, and he's like no, my father is

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<v Speaker 4>very powered to the people, and so he's.

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<v Speaker 1>Like, no, I had the phone when I was fifteen.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, well then you might you might have had one

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<v Speaker 3>of my dad's more.

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<v Speaker 1>I paid last for three months.

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<v Speaker 3>Listen, listen.

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<v Speaker 4>That's how I met a lot of the rappers back

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<v Speaker 4>in the day. It wasn't because of the music. It

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<v Speaker 4>was because of that but we won't go into that.

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<v Speaker 4>But that was how I ended up in San Jose.

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<v Speaker 4>My dad got out and he was like he spent

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<v Speaker 4>like two years and then he was like, oh, we're

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<v Speaker 4>gonna move to Cali, and so we were. We were

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<v Speaker 4>moving to San Jose and I ended up going to

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<v Speaker 4>college in Sano. I had a full ride to you

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<v Speaker 4>of Chicago music here, but I had to go with

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<v Speaker 4>my parents because I was too young, and they were like, yeah, you,

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<v Speaker 4>we're not going to leave you in the Midwest, and

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<v Speaker 4>we go, you know, to the West. So I ended

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<v Speaker 4>up going with the family and I ended up in

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<v Speaker 4>San Jose State.

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<v Speaker 1>So you a spark to some degree. I mean I.

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<v Speaker 4>Met I met someone there who was as much in

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<v Speaker 4>the music as I was, and we ended up moving

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<v Speaker 4>to l A.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, yeah, okay, so you're moving to LA as singer.

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<v Speaker 3>Singer singer singer.

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<v Speaker 4>At the time, I mean, we wrote what we what

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<v Speaker 4>we were trying to present.

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<v Speaker 3>We were looking for a deal.

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<v Speaker 4>We were a two girl group, rappers, singer, and we

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<v Speaker 4>moved to LA trying to get a deal. We were

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<v Speaker 4>like living from an apartment to apartment. We were really

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<v Speaker 4>young and stupid. It was us too and her sister. Okay,

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<v Speaker 4>and we ended up getting a situation where we were

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<v Speaker 4>able to perform for Cassandra Mills at Giant. So we

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<v Speaker 4>were on top of her desk performing doing the bulls

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<v Speaker 4>like we were.

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<v Speaker 3>We were all over the place. Were just we were

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<v Speaker 3>just trying to win.

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<v Speaker 4>We were trying to get in where were fit in right,

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<v Speaker 4>and so we got we ended up getting the deal.

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<v Speaker 3>So we signed a Giant. We signed a Giant. That

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<v Speaker 3>was around the time that what was the group name?

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<v Speaker 4>It was three Girls. It was three Girl, a three

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<v Speaker 4>girl group back then. That was on the label as well.

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<v Speaker 1>That was on Giant.

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<v Speaker 3>Huh. I want to say, yeah, yeah, this was like

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<v Speaker 3>early nineties.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, so before okay, So so tell me this though,

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<v Speaker 2>because we're jumping to certain things I know, but no, no,

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<v Speaker 2>but I because I liked it for people.

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<v Speaker 1>To understand the process and the journey. When you guys

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<v Speaker 1>get to la are y'all working regular jobs nine to five, Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>just focusing on music.

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<v Speaker 4>But we also have parents sending us money, gave us

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<v Speaker 4>the car to drive down, helped us with the down payment.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, it's the parent you know.

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<v Speaker 4>We had We had the help that we needed because

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<v Speaker 4>our parents were very much, you know, into the whole

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<v Speaker 4>music scene like their their parents their their dad was

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<v Speaker 4>a DJ, and my dad was into the music thing.

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<v Speaker 4>So they were supporting our journey, so to speak. So

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<v Speaker 4>we didn't have to do too much work, but we did.

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<v Speaker 4>We did have like small job.

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<v Speaker 2>How long did it take to get the deal from

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<v Speaker 2>six months?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 3>Like when I tell you we were the desk, we're thirsty.

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<v Speaker 3>We then we had to.

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<v Speaker 1>Do So did that project come out?

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<v Speaker 4>It did, but only a single came out and ironically,

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<v Speaker 4>our first video and only video was directed by Jada

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<v Speaker 4>Pinkett at the time.

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<v Speaker 1>What Yeah, she was directing video?

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<v Speaker 4>She back then, she was she was young and just

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<v Speaker 4>trying to like produce and direct.

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<v Speaker 1>Is this video available because I d you can?

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<v Speaker 3>You can YouTube this?

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<v Speaker 1>And what's the name of the group?

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<v Speaker 3>The name of the group of Sugar Dap.

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<v Speaker 1>Sugar Dap And you were Sugar? You were that?

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<v Speaker 2>I was Sugar, Okay, because you're a singer, So sure, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>sugar name my real name is Sherry Sugar.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, I know I'm trying to make the reference.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, sure, And what type of music were y'all doing?

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<v Speaker 4>She's a rapper, she was a rapper. I was a singer.

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<v Speaker 4>So what was it like? R and B, R and

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<v Speaker 4>B hip hop?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, hip hop?

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<v Speaker 4>More R and B based, I feel. We had a

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<v Speaker 4>We had a song called dark and very sweetish Juice.

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<v Speaker 4>We had a song Just Another Man.

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<v Speaker 3>That was the video. The video was called just Another.

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<v Speaker 1>Just Another Man. Oh yeah, we got to run that up.

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<v Speaker 3>You got listen when you get a chance.

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<v Speaker 1>And did you did you write this record too? Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>so you were already writing.

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<v Speaker 3>I was already writing that music and everything.

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<v Speaker 1>When did that start for you ninety two where you

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<v Speaker 1>started writing your own songs? Yeah, so before when you're

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<v Speaker 1>high school, you're not writing anything.

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<v Speaker 4>No. I had my little poetry book from the time

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<v Speaker 4>I was taught where I was writing, and I thought

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<v Speaker 4>I was writing songs, but it was more poetry than songs.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And.

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<v Speaker 4>I never liked changed them into melody. It was just

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<v Speaker 4>stuff that I was writing.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. So how long were you guys on Giant? You

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<v Speaker 1>said you had a single two years?

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<v Speaker 3>Three years?

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<v Speaker 1>So three years one single?

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<v Speaker 3>Yep.

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<v Speaker 2>See that's the part of music business that nobody really

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<v Speaker 2>talks about, right, especially in this new day, right people

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<v Speaker 2>are just I was I was going over a deal

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<v Speaker 2>the other day and I was looking at the like

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<v Speaker 2>some of the time terms of timeline and when.

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<v Speaker 1>This needs to be released.

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<v Speaker 2>And I get it that people want to come out

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<v Speaker 2>faster and they want to you know, nobody wants to

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<v Speaker 2>sell on the show.

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<v Speaker 1>But the truth for matters sometimes you're not ready.

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<v Speaker 3>Sometimes you're not ready.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes, you know what I mean? In the oven a

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<v Speaker 1>little longer?

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<v Speaker 3>And why do you think you're not ready?

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<v Speaker 1>You said, why do I think?

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<v Speaker 3>So? Why do you believe that people aren't ready?

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes they can't even just sit and have a discussion.

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<v Speaker 2>They're not media trained, they haven't found their sound. Maybe

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<v Speaker 2>the climbing is not right for their music, depending on

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<v Speaker 2>what type of music you're making. So there could be

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<v Speaker 2>a multitude of reasons why.

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<v Speaker 1>But I personally believe that when you know, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>when you're prepared, you know, because.

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<v Speaker 2>Once a record comes out, good or bad, that's your song,

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<v Speaker 2>and now these people want to see you entertain them. Right,

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<v Speaker 2>So if you can't sing without that backing track, you're

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<v Speaker 2>not ready, that's my.

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<v Speaker 1>Opinion, right, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>If you can't perform the same way in front of

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<v Speaker 2>five people, it's five thousand people, you're.

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<v Speaker 1>Not ready right right?

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<v Speaker 2>So you know, you know, when I see these you know,

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<v Speaker 2>like I said, when I see these new terms and

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<v Speaker 2>different things that are in deals now that are oh

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<v Speaker 2>in ninety days after we finished this, the album should

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<v Speaker 2>be dropped, right should it?

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<v Speaker 3>No, it shouldn't.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean the excitement is there for the artists because

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<v Speaker 4>you have a dream, right, you have a dream, and

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<v Speaker 4>you feel like your dream is more important than anything

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<v Speaker 4>else that matters the scheme of things, and not realizing

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<v Speaker 4>it's a business. And my father taught me really that

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<v Speaker 4>if I wanted to get into music, I need to

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<v Speaker 4>get into business, and he gave me the book to read,

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<v Speaker 4>This Business of Music. Of course I didn't fully read

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<v Speaker 4>that book. Who does, because when you're creative, you're just

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<v Speaker 4>a creative. But when I tell you, I was a

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<v Speaker 4>year ago, years old when it occurred to me that

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<v Speaker 4>I had not found my voice until most recently. And

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<v Speaker 4>that's why people tell you to relax and wait and

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<v Speaker 4>figure out who you are before you decide to be

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<v Speaker 4>an artist, because that's why we have so much of

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<v Speaker 4>what we have out there today. And there are no

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<v Speaker 4>more prints, no more Michael, no more of the essential

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<v Speaker 4>thing that it takes to change people's lives where people

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<v Speaker 4>look up to that artist that understands so much who

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<v Speaker 4>they are and so in tune to who they are musically,

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<v Speaker 4>creatively as a human being, what their purpose is. When

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<v Speaker 4>you understand all of those things, then you can really

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<v Speaker 4>relate to an audience. Then you can really give to

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<v Speaker 4>an audience who you essentially are so that they can

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<v Speaker 4>buy into it, because until then they really don't understand

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<v Speaker 4>who you are. Like I have a single, I have

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<v Speaker 4>one of the most powerful singles in the world that

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<v Speaker 4>to this day is still rotating to this day like

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<v Speaker 4>it came out yesterday. Problem is, you could have a

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<v Speaker 4>single that does all of that, you have to attach

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<v Speaker 4>it to a situation where you are so one thousand

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<v Speaker 4>percent you as an artist. You have something to give

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<v Speaker 4>with that single and persona and belief system and purpose

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<v Speaker 4>and destiny and because you carry a message with that.

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<v Speaker 3>And back before.

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<v Speaker 4>I met Dre, my god sister used to say to

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<v Speaker 4>me all the time, she quoted a scripture to me

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<v Speaker 4>all the time that I didn't really understand until recently.

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<v Speaker 4>I didn't understand the full brunt of it till till recently.

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<v Speaker 4>She used to say, And you probably know the scripture.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm trying to get scripture right because he grew up

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<v Speaker 3>in church.

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<v Speaker 4>No, but it's one of those It's one of those

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<v Speaker 4>that's just so loud because.

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<v Speaker 1>I just know that the people that watch.

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<v Speaker 4>Show seek you first, the Kingdom of God and all

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<v Speaker 4>this righteousness, and this shall be added onto you.

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<v Speaker 1>And I've heard it.

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<v Speaker 3>You've heard it.

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<v Speaker 1>Heard, yes, I've heard.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, you're like me.

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<v Speaker 4>I went through several years like or what does she

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<v Speaker 4>mean by what does that mean? In other terminology that

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<v Speaker 4>may not understand the church and understand the scripture?

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<v Speaker 1>And what is the scripture? Again?

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<v Speaker 4>You said, seek you first, the Kingdom of God and

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<v Speaker 4>all this righteousness and all these things should be added

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<v Speaker 4>on to you.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, a lot of people don't know what that means.

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<v Speaker 4>I didn't know what it meant like as it pertained

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<v Speaker 4>to me until recently. I was like, at the end

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<v Speaker 4>of the day, what that is is what is your purpose?

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<v Speaker 1>Who are you?

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<v Speaker 3>What is your destiny?

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<v Speaker 4>What are you doing on this earth that God gave

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<v Speaker 4>you a gift to do besides sing and perform and entertain.

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<v Speaker 3>What is it that you have to offer.

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<v Speaker 4>People in need of something to make them feel like

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<v Speaker 4>whatever feel like living longer, feel like pursuing a dream,

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<v Speaker 4>feel inspired, feel encouraged, feel like getting up in the

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<v Speaker 4>morning when they feel like dying. What is it about

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<v Speaker 4>you and what you do that offers people that in

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<v Speaker 4>your art and whatever it is that you're doing. And

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<v Speaker 4>when I tell you that changed the whole trajectory and

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<v Speaker 4>meaning of who I was when I finally woke up

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<v Speaker 4>to it, and who I wanted to be and what

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<v Speaker 4>I found out about myself. And it only takes a

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<v Speaker 4>little quiet time. It only takes like really just kind

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<v Speaker 4>of stealing away from everybody and everything, the industry, the

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<v Speaker 4>thoughts of other people, the opinions of other people, all

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<v Speaker 4>of the noise that happens in Hollywood. It only takes

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<v Speaker 4>a moment for you to go and sit down with

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<v Speaker 4>yourself and your own thoughts and find out who you are.

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<v Speaker 4>And I didn't actually do that, and you start that

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<v Speaker 4>until well after I got divorced, after certain life shit

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<v Speaker 4>happened to me.

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<v Speaker 3>It didn't it didn't register. So I had all these things.

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<v Speaker 4>I had, you know, had a song, I had, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>the relationship with all the dynamic people in the industry,

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<v Speaker 4>all of the things. But I really wasn't prepared to

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<v Speaker 4>deal with any of that. And so to go back

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<v Speaker 4>to what you were saying, when you say an artist

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<v Speaker 4>is not ready or a project is not ready, that's

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<v Speaker 4>what that really means. A lot of these artists out here,

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<v Speaker 4>they're just they're doing music, and it's great music, and

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<v Speaker 4>it's it's a lot of stuff floating around, But how

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<v Speaker 4>memorable is it, how penetrating is it?

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<v Speaker 3>We remember Prince and Michael because of that.

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<v Speaker 1>What I've found lately is that it's becoming, in my opinion,

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<v Speaker 1>for a nice portion of our artists, it's becoming just

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<v Speaker 1>more of a hustle. Right, It's becoming more of a

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<v Speaker 1>hustle because the steps are just a lot different than

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<v Speaker 1>it used to be.

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<v Speaker 2>Like you said, y'all had to go in an office,

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<v Speaker 2>jump on a table, like really, get nobody saying.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a video of Bobby s murder years ago.

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<v Speaker 2>He went into the office and day were like that

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<v Speaker 2>looks crazy, and I'm like, yeah, I've seen.

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<v Speaker 1>So many artists do that.

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<v Speaker 2>It just wasn't on video because they just wanted it

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<v Speaker 2>so bad. Now it's like, I'm extra cool.

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<v Speaker 1>I caught it called a little wave, I got a

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<v Speaker 1>song and now I'm popping. Yeah, I'm not ready, and

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<v Speaker 1>I don't even know if I can give you another one,

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<v Speaker 1>or if I even.

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<v Speaker 3>If I care, if I care to.

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<v Speaker 2>So I think that is something that I've just noticed,

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<v Speaker 2>and I just I feel like as I talk to

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<v Speaker 2>more and more artists, I get excited when someone is

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<v Speaker 2>actually well studied, when someone starts to tell me, like

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<v Speaker 2>I watch videos.

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<v Speaker 1>Of such and such and such and such.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I still read credits, like I find I

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<v Speaker 2>find a way to know who wrote the songs, because

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<v Speaker 2>it's not like you just buy.

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<v Speaker 1>The album anymore and can open it up.

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<v Speaker 2>So someone who actually cares to that point other than

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<v Speaker 2>just you know, skip skip skip and going through the

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<v Speaker 2>songs and whatever. When an artist tells me that, and

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<v Speaker 2>then I can start finding I start for myself. I

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<v Speaker 2>can start finding their inspirations and hearing them and I'm.

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<v Speaker 4>Like, oh, you've been listening to Yeah, yeah, I get it.

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<v Speaker 3>Now that makes sense.

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<v Speaker 2>That you're creating You're trying to create this, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>this super artist of yourself. Yeah, I would think, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>yeah you are. So okay, let's get back to the

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<v Speaker 2>music part. Let's get back to the music part. So

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<v Speaker 2>you you guys that deal doesn't work out, do you

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<v Speaker 2>do you stay together or do you immediately like, ah,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna go.

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<v Speaker 1>Do my thing. I got pregnant, Okay, now we're having babies.

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<v Speaker 2>I had a baby, which I would like you to

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<v Speaker 2>talk about too in this business because.

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<v Speaker 3>Said which grew me up.

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<v Speaker 1>It's very different.

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<v Speaker 2>From a man having a baby in the industry as

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<v Speaker 2>an artist and a woman having a baby in the

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<v Speaker 2>industry and what you can do, the things you don't.

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<v Speaker 1>Have time to do anymore.

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<v Speaker 4>Everything shifts, man, that just shifted recently. I always say

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<v Speaker 4>when I when I talk to people, you know, when

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<v Speaker 4>I see CARTI having multiple babies when songs at the

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<v Speaker 4>same time, that was just like unheard of back and

0:24:04.080 --> 0:24:06.680
<v Speaker 4>the day I couldn't do that, right, No, go get

0:24:06.680 --> 0:24:07.159
<v Speaker 4>an abortion.

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<v Speaker 2>We come fing a time where people didn't even say

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<v Speaker 2>they had the kid or the baby was like you

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<v Speaker 2>just didn't.

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<v Speaker 4>Know, just to know, yeah you just didn't know, or

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<v Speaker 4>it just wasn't allowed, or just yeah, don't do that period,

0:24:20.400 --> 0:24:21.360
<v Speaker 4>it was just forbidden.

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<v Speaker 2>We were actually in the industry at a time where

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<v Speaker 2>you can't even say you had a boyfriend, our girlfriend

0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:28.679
<v Speaker 2>and our wife, like.

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<v Speaker 4>You're unavailable yes, yes, it really used to be resume.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that was really a part of the music business

0:24:41.320 --> 0:24:42.679
<v Speaker 2>at one point.

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<v Speaker 3>And now because it's all about drama. Yeah, there's that,

0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:49.400
<v Speaker 3>there's that.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So so you you get pregnant.

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<v Speaker 3>I got pregnant. Yeah, So do you.

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<v Speaker 1>Keep recording, you keep trying? Do you start writing more?

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<v Speaker 3>I was writing more, but that just that changed my

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<v Speaker 3>entire destiny. One thing I always say about God in

0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:11.480
<v Speaker 3>my life is whenever I am doing something that is

0:25:11.560 --> 0:25:16.760
<v Speaker 3>not in line in alignment with where I'm supposed to

0:25:16.800 --> 0:25:21.800
<v Speaker 3>be going, God'll be like, cut that next next lesson.

0:25:22.240 --> 0:25:24.199
<v Speaker 3>And so I was onto my next lesson.

0:25:24.600 --> 0:25:30.879
<v Speaker 4>My next lesson was I ended up pregnant, had a

0:25:30.960 --> 0:25:33.960
<v Speaker 4>child with my my best one of my best friends

0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:35.639
<v Speaker 4>at the time and he's still my best friend to

0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:40.359
<v Speaker 4>this day. My daughter's father, but we kind of weren't

0:25:40.400 --> 0:25:43.639
<v Speaker 4>like meshing as a couple. So my daughter was like

0:25:43.680 --> 0:25:48.280
<v Speaker 4>maybe one. I was going through really bad phase of postpartum.

0:25:48.800 --> 0:25:50.480
<v Speaker 4>So I ended up. I don't know if you know

0:25:50.600 --> 0:25:53.040
<v Speaker 4>my cousin at the time, well she's my cousin, but

0:25:53.080 --> 0:25:55.879
<v Speaker 4>at the time she was signed to Sylvia Rohane. Her

0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:58.720
<v Speaker 4>name is Billy Lawrence. Oh yeah, I didn't know that

0:25:58.800 --> 0:26:03.000
<v Speaker 4>was your cousin, and yeah, I went to see her.

0:26:03.160 --> 0:26:05.480
<v Speaker 4>And at the time, she was working on writing records

0:26:05.480 --> 0:26:07.520
<v Speaker 4>for Mary and you know a lot of the people.

0:26:07.520 --> 0:26:08.840
<v Speaker 4>She's living in New York and I was still in

0:26:08.960 --> 0:26:11.399
<v Speaker 4>LA and I just kind of felt like the Libra

0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:13.639
<v Speaker 4>and me was like trying to just get out of

0:26:13.640 --> 0:26:16.399
<v Speaker 4>my skin because I was going through postpartum and I

0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:19.800
<v Speaker 4>was like, yeah, baby, new baby, and I still wanted

0:26:19.840 --> 0:26:20.399
<v Speaker 4>to just be me.

0:26:21.359 --> 0:26:23.360
<v Speaker 3>So I ran out to New York stay with her.

0:26:24.119 --> 0:26:25.680
<v Speaker 4>One of the people she was working with at the time,

0:26:25.720 --> 0:26:27.920
<v Speaker 4>and a good friend of her became a good friend

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<v Speaker 4>of me. His name is Delight. He was a producer.

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<v Speaker 1>I absolutely know who Delight is.

0:26:33.320 --> 0:26:34.359
<v Speaker 3>I ended up marrying Delight.

0:26:34.680 --> 0:26:36.879
<v Speaker 1>Okay, didn't know that, but I know who Delight is.

0:26:37.560 --> 0:26:41.960
<v Speaker 4>I buried him and started, you know, doing music with

0:26:42.040 --> 0:26:45.240
<v Speaker 4>him as well, writing songs, and he was submitting songs

0:26:45.280 --> 0:26:50.240
<v Speaker 4>to Diddy Andre at the time for projects. At the time,

0:26:50.720 --> 0:26:53.560
<v Speaker 4>Drey was working on his first lady Aftermath, which was

0:26:53.680 --> 0:26:57.520
<v Speaker 4>a young lady named Kim Summerson. I had submitted some

0:26:57.600 --> 0:27:01.600
<v Speaker 4>records with Delight to him, and there was one record

0:27:01.640 --> 0:27:04.960
<v Speaker 4>called Turn Me Out that Dre just went absolutely bananas

0:27:05.000 --> 0:27:08.040
<v Speaker 4>for He was like, who wrote this record? And I

0:27:08.119 --> 0:27:10.360
<v Speaker 4>was like, oh, my wife wrote it. And he was like, okay,

0:27:10.880 --> 0:27:13.720
<v Speaker 4>we want this record for Kim. And I don't know

0:27:13.720 --> 0:27:17.159
<v Speaker 4>how many other records they took, but they flew me

0:27:17.200 --> 0:27:19.200
<v Speaker 4>out to do the vocals with her and stuff. And

0:27:19.400 --> 0:27:23.320
<v Speaker 4>you know, because the way that I demoed songs back then,

0:27:23.359 --> 0:27:26.040
<v Speaker 4>it was kind of like more of an artsy thing.

0:27:26.080 --> 0:27:28.800
<v Speaker 4>It was what I learned about being a fan of Prince.

0:27:30.080 --> 0:27:34.160
<v Speaker 4>It was more, you know, it was it was more

0:27:34.280 --> 0:27:37.320
<v Speaker 4>that it was more artistic than it was just singing

0:27:37.480 --> 0:27:39.320
<v Speaker 4>the song straight down like a demo.

0:27:39.480 --> 0:27:41.120
<v Speaker 3>Like if you were submitting the.

0:27:41.600 --> 0:27:42.840
<v Speaker 1>Now, you were making the songs for you.

0:27:43.480 --> 0:27:46.600
<v Speaker 2>That's what what Dre used to say.

0:27:46.800 --> 0:27:49.080
<v Speaker 3>Okay, so I guess.

0:27:49.320 --> 0:27:52.160
<v Speaker 4>But when I submitted the song, you know, he was like, okay,

0:27:52.200 --> 0:27:54.000
<v Speaker 4>well we need you to help her with the little

0:27:54.000 --> 0:27:57.840
<v Speaker 4>inflections of little things, little pieces. Okay came out and

0:27:57.880 --> 0:27:59.480
<v Speaker 4>then I started writing for some of the artists that

0:27:59.520 --> 0:28:02.520
<v Speaker 4>he had time yet. He was working with Eve and

0:28:03.160 --> 0:28:05.760
<v Speaker 4>uh Dawn from in Vogue, yeah, a few other people,

0:28:06.040 --> 0:28:07.560
<v Speaker 4>and so I was just writing records.

0:28:08.320 --> 0:28:12.200
<v Speaker 1>As you're just writing records, this is a song that

0:28:12.359 --> 0:28:14.880
<v Speaker 1>you wrote. That is one of my favorite songs.

0:28:14.760 --> 0:28:18.080
<v Speaker 3>Which one Wilson Yesterday. Yes, that was before them.

0:28:18.920 --> 0:28:22.480
<v Speaker 1>I loved that. No no, no, no, I love it.

0:28:23.520 --> 0:28:25.719
<v Speaker 1>And I didn't know you wrote that record. Yeah, and

0:28:25.760 --> 0:28:28.560
<v Speaker 1>I found I was like, oh, this is special because

0:28:28.560 --> 0:28:30.240
<v Speaker 1>I always loved the record. I love Chinese.

0:28:30.280 --> 0:28:32.240
<v Speaker 4>Well, actually it wasn't before then. I wrote that about

0:28:32.280 --> 0:28:34.639
<v Speaker 4>the divorce. It was about the divorce from him from

0:28:34.720 --> 0:28:38.320
<v Speaker 4>the light. Okay, yeah, that's about because I was I

0:28:38.360 --> 0:28:39.560
<v Speaker 4>was married for maybe six months.

0:28:39.560 --> 0:28:43.840
<v Speaker 1>Listen, we're gonna put it in. That's what's gonna happen.

0:28:44.080 --> 0:28:45.560
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we just put it in a song.

0:28:45.600 --> 0:28:47.200
<v Speaker 4>I mean, if you don't have nothing to write about,

0:28:47.360 --> 0:28:49.800
<v Speaker 4>just Godeo live, yeah, live.

0:28:49.640 --> 0:28:52.160
<v Speaker 1>A little bit. Yeah. So you had that placement already.

0:28:53.400 --> 0:28:57.840
<v Speaker 4>I had, well, I was Jamie Jazz okay, okay, and

0:28:58.640 --> 0:29:01.240
<v Speaker 4>he was working with Chinese and so I was writing

0:29:01.240 --> 0:29:03.640
<v Speaker 4>with him and then he was like, yes, I needs

0:29:03.680 --> 0:29:06.960
<v Speaker 4>another record for this album, and so I went in

0:29:07.000 --> 0:29:10.640
<v Speaker 4>to work with him and we came up with Yesterday.

0:29:11.280 --> 0:29:15.200
<v Speaker 2>And now you're are you just kind of on staff

0:29:15.800 --> 0:29:17.280
<v Speaker 2>at Aftermath as a writer.

0:29:17.120 --> 0:29:19.640
<v Speaker 1>Off and on yes, So no artist stuff at all

0:29:19.640 --> 0:29:20.080
<v Speaker 1>at first.

0:29:20.280 --> 0:29:23.760
<v Speaker 4>No, no, no, I had given that up. I had

0:29:23.800 --> 0:29:26.320
<v Speaker 4>given that up. I was done with that. After Sugar Dap,

0:29:27.080 --> 0:29:32.720
<v Speaker 4>I had kind of resigned to just writing. And I

0:29:32.920 --> 0:29:36.600
<v Speaker 4>really had gone through so much at that point, you know,

0:29:36.960 --> 0:29:40.000
<v Speaker 4>having a baby, getting married, getting divorced.

0:29:40.760 --> 0:29:41.440
<v Speaker 3>It was a lot.

0:29:41.640 --> 0:29:44.200
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, you know, so I didn't know what I wanted,

0:29:44.240 --> 0:29:46.160
<v Speaker 4>going through an additional heartbreak before that.

0:29:46.360 --> 0:29:49.000
<v Speaker 3>It was just a lot going on.

0:29:49.120 --> 0:29:51.160
<v Speaker 4>So I just kind of sat back and I said,

0:29:51.960 --> 0:29:54.680
<v Speaker 4>I'm going to just write and figure out what I

0:29:54.680 --> 0:29:55.560
<v Speaker 4>want to do with my life.

0:29:56.040 --> 0:29:59.520
<v Speaker 2>So at what point does it turn into Okay, you're

0:29:59.520 --> 0:30:01.800
<v Speaker 2>writing these great songs for the other artists that are

0:30:01.840 --> 0:30:02.880
<v Speaker 2>part of the label.

0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:04.680
<v Speaker 3>Right, actually you should single.

0:30:05.440 --> 0:30:07.200
<v Speaker 2>Well, you're doing it on purpose because you sound like

0:30:07.240 --> 0:30:09.680
<v Speaker 2>you said you was singing the demos very prince like

0:30:10.240 --> 0:30:10.680
<v Speaker 2>I did.

0:30:11.000 --> 0:30:12.280
<v Speaker 3>I swear to you, I didn't.

0:30:13.320 --> 0:30:19.880
<v Speaker 4>It was nineteen ninety eight. I had moved back home

0:30:20.200 --> 0:30:25.600
<v Speaker 4>with my mother after all the disaster and my brother,

0:30:25.640 --> 0:30:27.640
<v Speaker 4>because my brother was living in San Jose with his

0:30:27.920 --> 0:30:31.880
<v Speaker 4>new wife. Moved back with my baby and said, I'm

0:30:31.880 --> 0:30:34.600
<v Speaker 4>going to go back to school. I'm going to get

0:30:34.600 --> 0:30:37.959
<v Speaker 4>into interior design because I love all things creative.

0:30:38.040 --> 0:30:39.720
<v Speaker 3>So I got a.

0:30:39.640 --> 0:30:45.959
<v Speaker 4>Call Christmas ninety eight, Dre Mike Linn on the phone.

0:30:46.120 --> 0:30:48.760
<v Speaker 4>They're like, Yo, we need you to come down here.

0:30:50.040 --> 0:30:53.520
<v Speaker 4>We want you to try some records for yourself. We're

0:30:53.560 --> 0:30:56.560
<v Speaker 4>sitting here listening to these demos and you sound like

0:30:56.600 --> 0:30:58.760
<v Speaker 4>you need to be a solo artist. I was like,

0:30:58.800 --> 0:31:02.280
<v Speaker 4>oh no, oh no, I'm going a different direction of

0:31:02.320 --> 0:31:02.720
<v Speaker 4>my life.

0:31:03.520 --> 0:31:05.960
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to go back to school. Tree was like,

0:31:06.000 --> 0:31:07.240
<v Speaker 3>what the fuck are you talking about?

0:31:07.640 --> 0:31:09.840
<v Speaker 1>Are you? Are you still writing to No.

0:31:09.960 --> 0:31:11.520
<v Speaker 3>At that point, I gave up everything.

0:31:11.560 --> 0:31:12.160
<v Speaker 1>I was done.

0:31:13.200 --> 0:31:15.000
<v Speaker 4>Yes, they were listening to all the demos that had

0:31:15.000 --> 0:31:17.440
<v Speaker 4>submitted for all the artists and everything that I had

0:31:17.440 --> 0:31:21.280
<v Speaker 4>done for after myth at that point, and I was frustrated.

0:31:21.280 --> 0:31:23.240
<v Speaker 4>I was done. I said, no, I'm done. I don't

0:31:23.280 --> 0:31:26.000
<v Speaker 4>want to do this no more. Fuck the music industry for.

0:31:26.120 --> 0:31:27.520
<v Speaker 1>All this shit. And then you get the call.

0:31:27.960 --> 0:31:30.960
<v Speaker 4>They called me and was like please just just come down,

0:31:31.280 --> 0:31:33.880
<v Speaker 4>and then he put Dre on the phone exclusively, like

0:31:33.960 --> 0:31:36.360
<v Speaker 4>offspeaker phone. Drake gets on the phone and says, listen,

0:31:36.640 --> 0:31:41.560
<v Speaker 4>let's try. You don't have to, you know, do anything

0:31:41.560 --> 0:31:43.720
<v Speaker 4>you don't want to do. Let's try, and if it

0:31:43.720 --> 0:31:46.880
<v Speaker 4>doesn't work, nobody will hear it. I was like, you promise.

0:31:48.920 --> 0:31:49.840
<v Speaker 3>I was like, you promised.

0:31:49.840 --> 0:31:52.920
<v Speaker 4>I said, okay, all right, let's let's let's let's try.

0:31:53.960 --> 0:31:56.320
<v Speaker 4>I was on a plane right after Christmas back to

0:31:56.480 --> 0:31:58.840
<v Speaker 4>La moving into a place. I think I lived in

0:31:58.840 --> 0:32:02.600
<v Speaker 4>Oakwood at the time, because I was stationed in Sands again.

0:32:03.000 --> 0:32:06.080
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, he had to go to the Oakwood.

0:32:06.200 --> 0:32:09.880
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, the oak Woods. Worked on all these records. Man,

0:32:10.120 --> 0:32:12.440
<v Speaker 4>I did over. I told Terry, I said, I did

0:32:12.440 --> 0:32:17.520
<v Speaker 4>one hundred records. One hundred. Danny decided, oh, we're going

0:32:17.560 --> 0:32:20.640
<v Speaker 4>on tour. We're going over Smoke, and I want you

0:32:20.680 --> 0:32:22.360
<v Speaker 4>to sing on the tour. You're gonna come out with us,

0:32:22.360 --> 0:32:24.640
<v Speaker 4>and then you're going to continue to work on the bus.

0:32:24.240 --> 0:32:27.280
<v Speaker 1>Before any of the project has come up. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

0:32:27.320 --> 0:32:28.680
<v Speaker 4>He was like, You're going to continue to work on

0:32:28.720 --> 0:32:31.920
<v Speaker 4>the bus on the album, and I'm like, okay, after

0:32:31.960 --> 0:32:36.840
<v Speaker 4>one hundred songs, I'm still going. So I'm still working

0:32:37.280 --> 0:32:41.400
<v Speaker 4>on the bus, doing the tour, doing some more ridiculous

0:32:41.400 --> 0:32:44.400
<v Speaker 4>songs with Mailman. At the time, I was on the

0:32:44.400 --> 0:32:48.000
<v Speaker 4>same bus as time and we were pumping out some heat.

0:32:48.400 --> 0:32:50.840
<v Speaker 4>A lot of the songs that I did people will

0:32:50.880 --> 0:32:51.560
<v Speaker 4>never hear.

0:32:52.600 --> 0:32:53.959
<v Speaker 3>Crazy, I'm sure.

0:32:54.600 --> 0:32:59.080
<v Speaker 4>If you know doctor Dre you know, a lot of

0:32:59.120 --> 0:33:01.720
<v Speaker 4>the songs will never be heard, they'll never see the

0:33:01.760 --> 0:33:03.800
<v Speaker 4>light of day. But man, those are some of the

0:33:03.880 --> 0:33:06.120
<v Speaker 4>songs that people should hurt.

0:33:06.480 --> 0:33:08.040
<v Speaker 3>So I did like three albums essentially.

0:33:08.240 --> 0:33:10.120
<v Speaker 2>So why are you on the bus and on tour?

0:33:11.360 --> 0:33:13.520
<v Speaker 2>Is that when you do break your neck with Buffy?

0:33:13.640 --> 0:33:14.680
<v Speaker 3>No, that was when we got back.

0:33:15.160 --> 0:33:18.840
<v Speaker 4>That was after we released Addictive, or we're about to

0:33:19.080 --> 0:33:19.760
<v Speaker 4>release Addictive.

0:33:19.760 --> 0:33:21.360
<v Speaker 2>I'm about to say, because it's not the same time, Yeah,

0:33:21.680 --> 0:33:23.080
<v Speaker 2>the same okay round the same time.

0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:25.200
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, that was in the studio at home.

0:33:25.280 --> 0:33:26.600
<v Speaker 1>So how is that for you?

0:33:27.600 --> 0:33:30.920
<v Speaker 2>In that process of Okay, I got this record with

0:33:31.280 --> 0:33:32.880
<v Speaker 2>Buster the rhymes out.

0:33:33.440 --> 0:33:33.640
<v Speaker 1>You know.

0:33:34.000 --> 0:33:37.760
<v Speaker 4>Well, let's rewind a bit because during those days, Dre

0:33:37.840 --> 0:33:39.240
<v Speaker 4>will call me in the middle night and I remember

0:33:39.280 --> 0:33:41.000
<v Speaker 4>I saw a baby girl. I had to get her

0:33:41.000 --> 0:33:44.680
<v Speaker 4>to school in the morning. All praise to my mother.

0:33:45.520 --> 0:33:48.000
<v Speaker 4>My mother was the reason. She was the anchor that

0:33:48.280 --> 0:33:50.760
<v Speaker 4>allowed me to work back then, because if I couldn't

0:33:50.760 --> 0:33:52.040
<v Speaker 4>take my daughter to school because I was in the

0:33:52.040 --> 0:33:55.920
<v Speaker 4>studio till five o'clock and I was sleepless in Seattle,

0:33:56.320 --> 0:33:59.080
<v Speaker 4>my mom would take my daughter to school and then

0:33:59.320 --> 0:34:00.800
<v Speaker 4>I have to be back in the studio about one

0:34:00.800 --> 0:34:05.640
<v Speaker 4>o'clock around the clock. So sometimes I would go home

0:34:05.640 --> 0:34:07.400
<v Speaker 4>early from the studio, go home and go to sleep

0:34:07.480 --> 0:34:08.959
<v Speaker 4>so I could get back to the studio next day.

0:34:09.200 --> 0:34:10.920
<v Speaker 4>Andre would call me at two o'clock in the morning,

0:34:11.120 --> 0:34:12.479
<v Speaker 4>bust it here, we need this hook.

0:34:12.719 --> 0:34:17.080
<v Speaker 3>Get back up here, and I.

0:34:15.840 --> 0:34:17.560
<v Speaker 4>Go to the studio in the middle of the night

0:34:18.760 --> 0:34:20.080
<v Speaker 4>write a hook, sing it.

0:34:20.320 --> 0:34:22.520
<v Speaker 1>Or you missed that opportunity, yeah, or you.

0:34:22.480 --> 0:34:25.279
<v Speaker 4>Missed the opportunity. Oh, I really didn't have a choice. Really,

0:34:25.320 --> 0:34:26.680
<v Speaker 4>I had to get my ass up and just go

0:34:26.760 --> 0:34:29.000
<v Speaker 4>do it. But it is an opportunity.

0:34:29.000 --> 0:34:32.600
<v Speaker 3>You're right. There was no saying no. I would get

0:34:32.640 --> 0:34:34.279
<v Speaker 3>up and just go right. That's it. That's what I

0:34:34.320 --> 0:34:34.839
<v Speaker 3>was there to do.

0:34:35.560 --> 0:34:37.920
<v Speaker 1>Period. So you're writing, you're writing all that stuff.

0:34:38.640 --> 0:34:39.680
<v Speaker 3>I'm writing that stuff too.

0:34:40.040 --> 0:34:41.839
<v Speaker 1>Oh that's dope. Yeah, that's dope.

0:34:41.880 --> 0:34:44.560
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, So go back home, go to sleep.

0:34:44.719 --> 0:34:49.080
<v Speaker 2>Did you were your intentions now to move where you're

0:34:49.120 --> 0:34:51.799
<v Speaker 2>moving into your artistry? Were your intentions to be a

0:34:51.880 --> 0:34:53.560
<v Speaker 2>part of a lot of hip hop stuff or was

0:34:53.600 --> 0:34:54.879
<v Speaker 2>that just kind of thrown at you?

0:34:55.800 --> 0:34:57.799
<v Speaker 4>Okay, yeah, I mean it just was a part of

0:34:57.960 --> 0:35:02.880
<v Speaker 4>where I was, right, That was is aftermath. So I

0:35:02.960 --> 0:35:05.880
<v Speaker 4>fit in there the way that I could fit, of course,

0:35:05.960 --> 0:35:08.279
<v Speaker 4>and so the side of me that that that was

0:35:08.360 --> 0:35:11.440
<v Speaker 4>rebellious at the time, that did have something on my

0:35:11.640 --> 0:35:14.520
<v Speaker 4>chest that I wanted to say, that side of me

0:35:15.120 --> 0:35:18.319
<v Speaker 4>that worked in that era of what we were.

0:35:18.239 --> 0:35:19.479
<v Speaker 3>Writing and what we were doing.

0:35:20.200 --> 0:35:22.920
<v Speaker 4>So still trying to figure out who I wanted to

0:35:22.920 --> 0:35:26.960
<v Speaker 4>be as an artist, because I didn't know if I

0:35:26.960 --> 0:35:31.120
<v Speaker 4>wanted to be an artist, remember, So that's why you

0:35:31.160 --> 0:35:33.480
<v Speaker 4>get in there and you're you're you're, you're muddling around

0:35:33.480 --> 0:35:34.719
<v Speaker 4>and figuring out what you want to do.

0:35:34.840 --> 0:35:38.680
<v Speaker 3>But then it wasn't my idea at the time. So

0:35:38.800 --> 0:35:40.040
<v Speaker 3>let's go into that idea.

0:35:40.239 --> 0:35:45.480
<v Speaker 1>Let's go into addictive. Where does that even come from?

0:35:46.400 --> 0:35:50.240
<v Speaker 3>Quick? DJ Quick, DJ motherfucking Quick.

0:35:50.040 --> 0:35:56.440
<v Speaker 1>The incredible, incomparable amazing, Yeah, yeah, DJ motherfucking Quick.

0:35:56.640 --> 0:36:02.319
<v Speaker 4>My brother and I initially after Wine met Quick through

0:36:02.320 --> 0:36:08.680
<v Speaker 4>the phone business with my dad nother way, go figure.

0:36:08.480 --> 0:36:16.080
<v Speaker 1>He bought one of the burners there you go. Hell yeah,

0:36:16.440 --> 0:36:17.320
<v Speaker 1>Quick as a name.

0:36:19.400 --> 0:36:21.799
<v Speaker 4>Quick in G One. I dated g One back in

0:36:21.840 --> 0:36:26.479
<v Speaker 4>the day when oh my god, you remember the North

0:36:26.520 --> 0:36:27.080
<v Speaker 4>rich earthquake.

0:36:27.160 --> 0:36:27.920
<v Speaker 3>I remember Northwind?

0:36:29.200 --> 0:36:31.920
<v Speaker 4>Back then, I was I was dating G One and

0:36:32.000 --> 0:36:34.520
<v Speaker 4>I was selling the phones for my dad going back

0:36:34.520 --> 0:36:38.919
<v Speaker 4>and forth to San Jose living in North Hollywood, got

0:36:38.920 --> 0:36:41.920
<v Speaker 4>caught in the middle of that quake. But during that time,

0:36:42.320 --> 0:36:44.359
<v Speaker 4>my dad was still up in the bay, and I

0:36:44.400 --> 0:36:47.600
<v Speaker 4>was like, oh, g one, said quick, one of you know.

0:36:48.400 --> 0:36:52.760
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, up to up to the up to the bay.

0:36:53.160 --> 0:36:57.240
<v Speaker 4>Sorted that out. Him and my dad got close quickly,

0:36:57.360 --> 0:37:02.560
<v Speaker 4>love my dad. George loved my dad. So this was

0:37:02.680 --> 0:37:06.120
<v Speaker 4>long before addictive. So you know, they say everything is

0:37:06.120 --> 0:37:08.560
<v Speaker 4>three hundred and sixty degrees. You end up meeting people

0:37:08.600 --> 0:37:12.800
<v Speaker 4>back where you met them. And so Quick was already

0:37:12.800 --> 0:37:14.279
<v Speaker 4>a brother to me. That's why people don't know. And

0:37:14.320 --> 0:37:18.040
<v Speaker 4>that was how this whole thing was effortless with him

0:37:18.040 --> 0:37:20.000
<v Speaker 4>and Dre because at the time him and Dre weren't

0:37:20.000 --> 0:37:22.719
<v Speaker 4>speaking because of whatever happened with Sugar and all the

0:37:22.840 --> 0:37:23.840
<v Speaker 4>back story.

0:37:24.640 --> 0:37:28.120
<v Speaker 3>They hadn't spoken. Oh, so that record brought them back

0:37:28.120 --> 0:37:31.239
<v Speaker 3>to gain Hello. Truth bought them.

0:37:33.080 --> 0:37:36.520
<v Speaker 2>You know what, like we said, well, we say we

0:37:36.560 --> 0:37:38.239
<v Speaker 2>standing on the truth, we stand true, we stand in

0:37:38.280 --> 0:37:40.640
<v Speaker 2>truth on truth today and.

0:37:40.440 --> 0:37:41.800
<v Speaker 1>So y'all go do that record.

0:37:43.200 --> 0:37:46.040
<v Speaker 4>He did the record. No, that was all Quick. So

0:37:47.239 --> 0:37:49.120
<v Speaker 4>Quick gave me that record for my birthday. We were

0:37:49.160 --> 0:37:51.319
<v Speaker 4>supposed to be working on something else, gave me some

0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:58.400
<v Speaker 4>other stuffs. It was crazy because No, it was crazy

0:37:58.440 --> 0:38:02.000
<v Speaker 4>because at the time, right we had done all the

0:38:02.040 --> 0:38:04.439
<v Speaker 4>records we could do and we were looking for a single.

0:38:04.480 --> 0:38:06.000
<v Speaker 3>Still we were working on a single. Single.

0:38:06.040 --> 0:38:07.719
<v Speaker 4>We were like, Dre's like, we don't have a single.

0:38:07.760 --> 0:38:09.200
<v Speaker 4>We don't have a single, we don't have a single.

0:38:10.640 --> 0:38:13.600
<v Speaker 4>When I started talking Quick Quick was giving me other tracks.

0:38:14.040 --> 0:38:16.680
<v Speaker 4>I don't know what made him call me with this one,

0:38:17.080 --> 0:38:18.879
<v Speaker 4>but he had done this track with MC light.

0:38:20.160 --> 0:38:24.879
<v Speaker 3>Initially he put it on her. No, it never came out.

0:38:25.480 --> 0:38:26.120
<v Speaker 3>They just did it.

0:38:26.320 --> 0:38:29.719
<v Speaker 4>She put the vocals on. It never came out. He

0:38:29.840 --> 0:38:32.399
<v Speaker 4>was like, listen, see what Dre feel about this track.

0:38:32.440 --> 0:38:34.880
<v Speaker 4>He sent it to me. Dre is in the hospital

0:38:34.920 --> 0:38:38.000
<v Speaker 4>at the time with his wife, having his daughter with

0:38:38.080 --> 0:38:42.000
<v Speaker 4>his wife, and I'm like, I don't want to disturb y'all,

0:38:42.000 --> 0:38:42.719
<v Speaker 4>but you got to hit this.

0:38:44.680 --> 0:38:46.840
<v Speaker 3>I know.

0:38:47.280 --> 0:38:50.880
<v Speaker 1>I said it to him.

0:38:50.400 --> 0:38:52.759
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna send it to you and you tell me

0:38:52.800 --> 0:38:53.520
<v Speaker 3>what you did.

0:38:53.920 --> 0:38:54.080
<v Speaker 4>Yo.

0:38:54.640 --> 0:38:59.880
<v Speaker 3>Drey was like, what the fuckest He's like, what is this?

0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:03.200
<v Speaker 1>Had you cut your vocals yet? No? I tried to.

0:39:03.120 --> 0:39:04.600
<v Speaker 3>Write to this ship. It was killing me.

0:39:04.640 --> 0:39:07.320
<v Speaker 4>I couldn't write to it. It was driving me crazy.

0:39:08.160 --> 0:39:10.080
<v Speaker 4>I had to call in Static.

0:39:10.520 --> 0:39:14.759
<v Speaker 3>Rest in peace, my brother mine as well.

0:39:15.600 --> 0:39:15.840
<v Speaker 1>I have.

0:39:16.120 --> 0:39:19.560
<v Speaker 4>So I've lived so many lives in this business. I

0:39:19.560 --> 0:39:22.920
<v Speaker 4>feel like I'm skipping over so much. Because Static and

0:39:22.960 --> 0:39:25.360
<v Speaker 4>I had worked on some other stuff back in the

0:39:25.440 --> 0:39:28.879
<v Speaker 4>day for Leah with timbling. That's how much my pen

0:39:29.040 --> 0:39:33.279
<v Speaker 4>was just going, going, going, going before I even got

0:39:33.280 --> 0:39:34.080
<v Speaker 4>into this thing with Dre.

0:39:34.880 --> 0:39:38.719
<v Speaker 1>Now, he would call me at like six in the

0:39:38.719 --> 0:39:46.440
<v Speaker 1>morning California time. Why why it's very early in California.

0:39:46.640 --> 0:39:49.520
<v Speaker 3>Right light, My god, such a bright light.

0:39:49.560 --> 0:39:51.239
<v Speaker 1>He's trying to get me to come to Louisville.

0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:54.480
<v Speaker 3>See, like Louisville, Louisville.

0:39:54.080 --> 0:39:56.000
<v Speaker 1>You gotta come down here with you. You got you got,

0:39:56.120 --> 0:39:58.920
<v Speaker 1>you gotta come down to the derby. You got barbecue,

0:39:58.960 --> 0:40:01.319
<v Speaker 1>we got weeds. I don't, but.

0:40:03.239 --> 0:40:05.240
<v Speaker 4>You know, I know about it because I'm from Blue

0:40:05.600 --> 0:40:07.200
<v Speaker 4>It's not far from Louisville.

0:40:07.480 --> 0:40:08.600
<v Speaker 1>I love that brother, man.

0:40:08.719 --> 0:40:12.319
<v Speaker 4>But man, you know the whole group was was they

0:40:12.360 --> 0:40:14.680
<v Speaker 4>stole my heart. They stole my heart back in the day.

0:40:15.440 --> 0:40:17.080
<v Speaker 1>So you sent it to Status.

0:40:17.440 --> 0:40:18.360
<v Speaker 3>I didn't send it to Static.

0:40:18.400 --> 0:40:20.480
<v Speaker 4>I called him in, okay, because at first, when I

0:40:20.520 --> 0:40:22.120
<v Speaker 4>wanted Static to come in to write because I was like, Dre,

0:40:22.280 --> 0:40:23.960
<v Speaker 4>I'm look, I've written a hundred songs.

0:40:24.000 --> 0:40:24.879
<v Speaker 3>I can't write no more.

0:40:25.040 --> 0:40:32.120
<v Speaker 4>When I originally wanted to get static, I I ran

0:40:32.200 --> 0:40:34.200
<v Speaker 4>it by Dre and he was like, who who? I said,

0:40:34.239 --> 0:40:37.160
<v Speaker 4>I said, you don't know, player, You don't know because

0:40:37.200 --> 0:40:40.120
<v Speaker 4>you know my writing history hit long already, and he

0:40:40.120 --> 0:40:42.840
<v Speaker 4>didn't really Yeah, yeah, he had his own world, he

0:40:42.880 --> 0:40:46.359
<v Speaker 4>had his own genius, he had his own crew. I

0:40:46.360 --> 0:40:48.400
<v Speaker 4>was like, please let me bring him in. Initially the

0:40:48.440 --> 0:40:53.000
<v Speaker 4>answer was no, not for Addictive. This was earlier songs

0:40:53.040 --> 0:40:55.080
<v Speaker 4>because I couldn't write no more. I was like, yo,

0:40:55.120 --> 0:40:55.560
<v Speaker 4>I'm stuck.

0:40:55.560 --> 0:40:56.520
<v Speaker 3>Now stuck, that's it.

0:40:56.800 --> 0:41:01.080
<v Speaker 4>A hundred songs. He said, yes, for when I tell

0:41:01.120 --> 0:41:06.240
<v Speaker 4>you that man came in and wrote Addictive in five minutes,

0:41:07.880 --> 0:41:12.200
<v Speaker 4>Praise God, five minutes. Five minutes. He walked in, he

0:41:12.280 --> 0:41:14.320
<v Speaker 4>sang down the melody, he walked out. He listened to

0:41:14.360 --> 0:41:16.799
<v Speaker 4>the melody, he walked in, he put the lyrics to it,

0:41:17.000 --> 0:41:17.640
<v Speaker 4>he walked out.

0:41:18.200 --> 0:41:18.960
<v Speaker 3>I said, I know you.

0:41:19.520 --> 0:41:20.839
<v Speaker 1>Oh so you didn't write on a dick.

0:41:21.040 --> 0:41:25.600
<v Speaker 3>No, I wrote whatever the other song, put the r

0:41:25.680 --> 0:41:26.800
<v Speaker 3>Kelly song in a tic.

0:41:26.760 --> 0:41:44.960
<v Speaker 1>It one other thing. Artist, if someone gives you a smash.

0:41:44.160 --> 0:41:47.920
<v Speaker 2>Sing it please and thank you, thank.

0:41:47.800 --> 0:41:53.400
<v Speaker 4>You, because my new project is only that get out

0:41:53.440 --> 0:41:54.120
<v Speaker 4>of your own way.

0:41:54.320 --> 0:41:58.840
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, today today.

0:41:59.120 --> 0:42:02.879
<v Speaker 4>Because until you do that, you really don't you really

0:42:02.880 --> 0:42:05.640
<v Speaker 4>don't understand the essence of your genius, your own genius.

0:42:05.880 --> 0:42:08.240
<v Speaker 3>You have to do that sometimes. And if Michael Jackson

0:42:08.239 --> 0:42:09.040
<v Speaker 3>did it, who are you?

0:42:12.040 --> 0:42:13.719
<v Speaker 1>One more thing that I think.

0:42:15.880 --> 0:42:20.120
<v Speaker 2>Printing all of his genius, he had a lot of

0:42:20.200 --> 0:42:21.960
<v Speaker 2>people thinking they could do it bout himself.

0:42:22.400 --> 0:42:27.279
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you're not. Prince, You're not, You're

0:42:27.280 --> 0:42:30.319
<v Speaker 4>not prince. Prince played several instruments. Let's let's let's not

0:42:30.960 --> 0:42:33.200
<v Speaker 4>let's not forget that.

0:42:33.160 --> 0:42:34.200
<v Speaker 1>Part he was.

0:42:34.280 --> 0:42:36.399
<v Speaker 3>He was a lot several instruments.

0:42:36.680 --> 0:42:41.920
<v Speaker 1>But you know, I think as artists semi listen.

0:42:42.760 --> 0:42:46.560
<v Speaker 2>You know, I'm surrounded by Gemini, so I know. But

0:42:46.760 --> 0:42:49.680
<v Speaker 2>I think that that happens with, you know, with a

0:42:49.680 --> 0:42:51.600
<v Speaker 2>lot of artists sometimes where he's like, oh.

0:42:51.520 --> 0:42:52.520
<v Speaker 3>You know, get stuck.

0:42:52.719 --> 0:42:54.560
<v Speaker 1>It didn't come from me, and I, you know, I.

0:42:54.560 --> 0:42:57.920
<v Speaker 4>Just write, it's got to come from me. It's almost

0:42:57.960 --> 0:42:59.239
<v Speaker 4>like that's the rule, and it's not.

0:43:00.440 --> 0:43:01.600
<v Speaker 1>The rule is to get to hit.

0:43:02.800 --> 0:43:05.680
<v Speaker 4>I'm gonna tell you this last project, God said, what

0:43:05.760 --> 0:43:14.359
<v Speaker 4>have you not done yet that you could do that

0:43:14.480 --> 0:43:17.640
<v Speaker 4>might serve you and show you who you actually are.

0:43:18.440 --> 0:43:20.200
<v Speaker 3>And I said, what you know?

0:43:20.320 --> 0:43:22.400
<v Speaker 4>You get those downloads and you'd be like, what you

0:43:22.520 --> 0:43:24.040
<v Speaker 4>be confused by your own downloads?

0:43:24.040 --> 0:43:25.359
<v Speaker 3>And you'd be like, Lord, what are you saying?

0:43:25.360 --> 0:43:26.640
<v Speaker 1>What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What?

0:43:26.640 --> 0:43:27.520
<v Speaker 3>What does this mean?

0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:30.640
<v Speaker 4>And and and and and if you don't believe in God,

0:43:30.840 --> 0:43:32.840
<v Speaker 4>the universe will tell you something and you'll be like,

0:43:32.880 --> 0:43:33.480
<v Speaker 4>what does this mean?

0:43:33.680 --> 0:43:33.879
<v Speaker 1>Why?

0:43:33.960 --> 0:43:35.960
<v Speaker 3>Why do I keep thinking this? The only thing that

0:43:36.000 --> 0:43:37.360
<v Speaker 3>I had not done.

0:43:38.680 --> 0:43:44.200
<v Speaker 4>Is be a muse for other people to write and

0:43:44.280 --> 0:43:47.640
<v Speaker 4>tell me who they believe I am. After all of this,

0:43:48.440 --> 0:43:52.080
<v Speaker 4>after all of this, and when I tell you, the

0:43:52.120 --> 0:43:57.040
<v Speaker 4>magic on this new record is uncanny. Because of that,

0:43:57.280 --> 0:43:59.520
<v Speaker 4>this man wrote this record for me that don't know

0:43:59.560 --> 0:44:03.960
<v Speaker 4>me from Adam. The record was so some synonymous with

0:44:04.040 --> 0:44:06.719
<v Speaker 4>my journey in life. I called my sister that got

0:44:06.800 --> 0:44:09.000
<v Speaker 4>him to do it. This god, this new writer named

0:44:09.040 --> 0:44:12.600
<v Speaker 4>bug shout out the book. My sister lex I said,

0:44:12.600 --> 0:44:16.520
<v Speaker 4>did you tell this man my business? She said no, no, nothing.

0:44:17.120 --> 0:44:19.120
<v Speaker 4>And when my dad heard the song, my dad said,

0:44:19.160 --> 0:44:21.319
<v Speaker 4>you didn't write that. I said, I swear for God,

0:44:21.360 --> 0:44:24.840
<v Speaker 4>I didn't write it. This man wrote the song he

0:44:24.840 --> 0:44:28.560
<v Speaker 4>don't know Me from Adam or eve mm hmm. That's

0:44:28.600 --> 0:44:32.560
<v Speaker 4>what inspired him and then and then, but it more

0:44:32.600 --> 0:44:33.360
<v Speaker 4>than spoke to me.

0:44:33.400 --> 0:44:36.239
<v Speaker 3>It is me. It is me.

0:44:36.360 --> 0:44:39.399
<v Speaker 4>If you let anybody hear that song, they're like, you

0:44:39.440 --> 0:44:43.239
<v Speaker 4>wrote that. I'm like, no, I didn't write it. And

0:44:43.280 --> 0:44:46.640
<v Speaker 4>when you understand how God inspired somebody else to write

0:44:46.640 --> 0:44:49.240
<v Speaker 4>about you, that's a whole new level of the game,

0:44:49.800 --> 0:44:51.759
<v Speaker 4>because that means you've made a statement for real.

0:44:52.239 --> 0:44:56.160
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely, if somebody, if you've if you've put enough

0:44:56.160 --> 0:44:58.840
<v Speaker 1>out there for somebody to be able to pull from

0:44:59.120 --> 0:45:01.400
<v Speaker 1>and create and really.

0:45:01.200 --> 0:45:03.839
<v Speaker 2>Like you said, lock in like that. No, that means

0:45:03.880 --> 0:45:05.880
<v Speaker 2>you've done something. Because sometimes it's spiritual.

0:45:06.200 --> 0:45:07.600
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I means you've done something real.

0:45:08.239 --> 0:45:10.680
<v Speaker 4>Sometimes it's spiritual. It doesn't it doesn't have to come

0:45:10.680 --> 0:45:14.880
<v Speaker 4>from what they see. It may come from something that

0:45:14.920 --> 0:45:17.640
<v Speaker 4>they get. They get downloads too, and they just happened

0:45:17.640 --> 0:45:19.839
<v Speaker 4>to know where you're going next. And when I tell you,

0:45:19.880 --> 0:45:22.799
<v Speaker 4>this man told part of my story with his pen

0:45:22.880 --> 0:45:25.319
<v Speaker 4>about my divorce and everything that I had gone through

0:45:25.320 --> 0:45:28.839
<v Speaker 4>in those last years, I said, this is crazy. I said,

0:45:28.880 --> 0:45:30.719
<v Speaker 4>I know you told this man something about me. I

0:45:30.760 --> 0:45:34.640
<v Speaker 4>know you took because I never trusted anybody to write

0:45:34.640 --> 0:45:35.160
<v Speaker 4>anything for.

0:45:35.160 --> 0:45:36.560
<v Speaker 3>Me until now.

0:45:37.000 --> 0:45:40.839
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, and so other than static, well that had to

0:45:40.880 --> 0:45:43.239
<v Speaker 4>happen because you know, I had written all little songs.

0:45:43.239 --> 0:45:45.120
<v Speaker 4>So I was like, yeah, I gotta do it, I

0:45:45.120 --> 0:45:48.040
<v Speaker 4>gotta I gotta release this now because but that was

0:45:48.160 --> 0:45:49.920
<v Speaker 4>that was the other time that the magic happened.

0:45:50.360 --> 0:45:53.800
<v Speaker 3>So I was like, let's let's let's try it again. Yeah.

0:45:53.840 --> 0:46:00.520
<v Speaker 1>So when the record drops and it literally he sets

0:46:00.560 --> 0:46:02.440
<v Speaker 1>the world on fire. I remember the first time I

0:46:02.480 --> 0:46:05.520
<v Speaker 1>heard it, I was like, where were you? What the fuck?

0:46:07.080 --> 0:46:09.480
<v Speaker 1>I was in the base still really yeah, I was

0:46:09.480 --> 0:46:11.240
<v Speaker 1>in the base. I was going back and forth.

0:46:11.600 --> 0:46:14.040
<v Speaker 2>I was going back and forth between LA and the bay,

0:46:14.719 --> 0:46:17.440
<v Speaker 2>and I was already out here moving around.

0:46:17.480 --> 0:46:20.040
<v Speaker 1>But I was when I heard the record though I was.

0:46:20.000 --> 0:46:21.319
<v Speaker 3>In the bay.

0:46:21.960 --> 0:46:24.239
<v Speaker 1>I heard it the first time on Camel.

0:46:25.280 --> 0:46:28.000
<v Speaker 4>Addictives was so ignorant that it had people arguing about

0:46:28.000 --> 0:46:31.000
<v Speaker 4>whether it was dope or not. Yes, like radios, which

0:46:31.040 --> 0:46:32.480
<v Speaker 4>is great, which is.

0:46:32.400 --> 0:46:34.400
<v Speaker 1>Great, actually a great thing, which is great.

0:46:34.840 --> 0:46:37.520
<v Speaker 4>And it got out accidentally because Jimmy Ivan didn't believe

0:46:37.520 --> 0:46:39.320
<v Speaker 4>in the record. He didn't he was like, no, we

0:46:39.760 --> 0:46:42.920
<v Speaker 4>need to release the r Kelly record. And so I

0:46:42.920 --> 0:46:45.760
<v Speaker 4>don't even know how Addictive got out. It wasn't released,

0:46:46.480 --> 0:46:50.080
<v Speaker 4>it was leaked, okay, and I don't know who did

0:46:50.080 --> 0:46:52.760
<v Speaker 4>that to this day. It wasn't me, it wasn't Dreh,

0:46:53.920 --> 0:46:56.440
<v Speaker 4>but somebody. Jimmy said that wasn't the record. He was like,

0:46:56.520 --> 0:46:58.320
<v Speaker 4>that's not it. He was like, that's not the record.

0:46:58.320 --> 0:47:02.800
<v Speaker 4>It's the Truth record. But Kelly's going through his stuff.

0:47:03.080 --> 0:47:08.280
<v Speaker 2>But even in looking at that right, thinking about that record,

0:47:08.680 --> 0:47:12.120
<v Speaker 2>because Truth is a good record too, but thinking about Okay,

0:47:12.320 --> 0:47:15.680
<v Speaker 2>her name is Truth herds, it's Truth, it's R.

0:47:15.800 --> 0:47:21.080
<v Speaker 1>Kelly. It feels like a layup, yeah, from an executive stance.

0:47:20.960 --> 0:47:23.600
<v Speaker 4>From executive because Jimmy didn't understand what Dray was trying

0:47:23.600 --> 0:47:24.000
<v Speaker 4>to do with it.

0:47:24.200 --> 0:47:26.440
<v Speaker 3>He didn't really understand from the beginning. He was like,

0:47:26.560 --> 0:47:32.080
<v Speaker 3>what is this That sounds like Jimmy.

0:47:32.320 --> 0:47:34.880
<v Speaker 4>I'm not going to go into the Jimmy tails. But

0:47:36.040 --> 0:47:38.359
<v Speaker 4>he didn't really understand the project. He didn't understand where

0:47:38.360 --> 0:47:42.120
<v Speaker 4>were going with it, and all he knew was that

0:47:42.239 --> 0:47:45.240
<v Speaker 4>the R. Kelly thing was a layup because he was like, Okay,

0:47:45.280 --> 0:47:48.040
<v Speaker 4>well it's it's it's a little hood, okay, y'all, y'all,

0:47:48.120 --> 0:47:49.560
<v Speaker 4>y'all talking like real shit.

0:47:50.320 --> 0:47:50.840
<v Speaker 3>It's hood.

0:47:51.120 --> 0:47:54.279
<v Speaker 4>It's almost like a rapper, but a singer. You gotta

0:47:54.320 --> 0:47:56.480
<v Speaker 4>do the r Kelly thing first, because and I think.

0:47:56.320 --> 0:47:58.200
<v Speaker 2>Did he have he had rock Land at that time

0:47:58.320 --> 0:48:01.360
<v Speaker 2>on through Interscope. I think around that same time, I

0:48:01.360 --> 0:48:02.319
<v Speaker 2>think he has still there.

0:48:02.360 --> 0:48:03.840
<v Speaker 4>I think so, And I think that's what Jimmy was

0:48:03.840 --> 0:48:05.480
<v Speaker 4>trying to do. He was trying to merge those worlds.

0:48:05.760 --> 0:48:09.239
<v Speaker 4>But but Robert was going through his stuff then he

0:48:09.320 --> 0:48:11.600
<v Speaker 4>was starting to go through, you know, the drama of

0:48:12.800 --> 0:48:14.080
<v Speaker 4>whatever was happening in his life.

0:48:14.400 --> 0:48:19.879
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. So now when your record pops though, it.

0:48:19.880 --> 0:48:26.920
<v Speaker 2>Leaks, it leaks at least people are arguing, even us.

0:48:26.960 --> 0:48:30.960
<v Speaker 2>How do you how do you feel like, what's the

0:48:31.000 --> 0:48:36.160
<v Speaker 2>feeling of the years you've put in? Yeah, the times

0:48:36.200 --> 0:48:40.920
<v Speaker 2>you've quit are are pivoted. I like to say, he's

0:48:40.920 --> 0:48:43.719
<v Speaker 2>gonna be an interior designer, you know what I mean?

0:48:44.080 --> 0:48:46.520
<v Speaker 1>It just you went back to the Bay.

0:48:46.600 --> 0:48:48.719
<v Speaker 2>Now you back in LA You've got a record deal,

0:48:48.800 --> 0:48:50.200
<v Speaker 2>and now you have a smash.

0:48:51.040 --> 0:48:54.759
<v Speaker 1>It's finally here. What does that feeling feel like?

0:48:55.440 --> 0:48:55.960
<v Speaker 3>Amazing?

0:48:56.480 --> 0:48:59.160
<v Speaker 4>Because I didn't even when I heard it on the radio.

0:48:59.400 --> 0:49:04.120
<v Speaker 4>I was doing my daughter's hair at my house on

0:49:04.239 --> 0:49:06.439
<v Speaker 4>Valley Circle and with the nails and I was like, wait,

0:49:07.680 --> 0:49:08.320
<v Speaker 4>that's addictive.

0:49:08.960 --> 0:49:13.720
<v Speaker 3>It was just blue. Me and my mother started because

0:49:13.719 --> 0:49:14.760
<v Speaker 3>nobody knew it was released.

0:49:14.880 --> 0:49:17.000
<v Speaker 4>Me and my mother started screaming, and my daughter was

0:49:17.000 --> 0:49:19.880
<v Speaker 4>still young, she was like, money, is that you. I

0:49:19.920 --> 0:49:22.200
<v Speaker 4>was like, yeah, that's crazy. I don't know how I

0:49:22.239 --> 0:49:23.400
<v Speaker 4>got on the radio, but it's me.

0:49:24.320 --> 0:49:26.200
<v Speaker 3>It was. It was wild. The whole thing was wild.

0:49:26.280 --> 0:49:28.200
<v Speaker 3>It just it mistakenly happened.

0:49:28.239 --> 0:49:30.960
<v Speaker 1>So it was just so, do you immediately start doing shows?

0:49:31.400 --> 0:49:35.040
<v Speaker 4>No, no, we immediately try to find a second.

0:49:34.760 --> 0:49:37.200
<v Speaker 1>Single before you even start moving.

0:49:37.960 --> 0:49:42.240
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, huh, because we were It was an accident, but.

0:49:42.120 --> 0:49:43.200
<v Speaker 1>You don't start working it.

0:49:43.239 --> 0:49:44.960
<v Speaker 4>Listen, it had it been up to Dre, that song

0:49:45.000 --> 0:49:48.879
<v Speaker 4>probably would have seen the light of day. Okay, So

0:49:49.760 --> 0:49:50.640
<v Speaker 4>we weren't ready.

0:49:50.719 --> 0:49:53.840
<v Speaker 1>So as much as going they're already trying to.

0:49:53.800 --> 0:49:56.200
<v Speaker 4>Get off it, they weren't trying to get off it.

0:49:56.360 --> 0:49:59.480
<v Speaker 4>We were trying to prepare to continue with the album.

0:50:00.600 --> 0:50:02.560
<v Speaker 4>It wasn't it wasn't a matter of not getting out

0:50:02.600 --> 0:50:04.799
<v Speaker 4>on the road, because I ended up getting out on

0:50:04.800 --> 0:50:08.040
<v Speaker 4>the road. It was a matter of making sure we

0:50:08.120 --> 0:50:10.759
<v Speaker 4>had something to follow follow to keep the momentum up.

0:50:10.880 --> 0:50:14.680
<v Speaker 4>But man, we weren't expecting that momentum to take off

0:50:14.680 --> 0:50:18.040
<v Speaker 4>the way that it did, and because it was so

0:50:18.120 --> 0:50:20.440
<v Speaker 4>different and I have anything else on.

0:50:20.360 --> 0:50:24.200
<v Speaker 1>The album, I was like, gotch you?

0:50:24.239 --> 0:50:24.960
<v Speaker 3>That was the test.

0:50:25.200 --> 0:50:30.920
<v Speaker 1>So in a sense, it was your thong song. Okay,

0:50:32.440 --> 0:50:33.759
<v Speaker 1>do you get what I say when I when I

0:50:33.760 --> 0:50:44.440
<v Speaker 1>say that, though, explain so Cisco amazing singer. Yeah, great records.

0:50:44.040 --> 0:50:45.680
<v Speaker 3>You mean coming out of his group to that.

0:50:46.120 --> 0:50:48.640
<v Speaker 2>Yes, and and but just even not even just coming

0:50:48.640 --> 0:50:51.040
<v Speaker 2>out of his group to that, but also what the

0:50:51.080 --> 0:50:52.719
<v Speaker 2>rest of his album sounded like.

0:50:52.680 --> 0:50:53.440
<v Speaker 3>Oh, it's different.

0:50:53.960 --> 0:50:56.520
<v Speaker 2>Nothing on that album sounds like throng song. It's like

0:50:56.760 --> 0:50:58.960
<v Speaker 2>because to me that's also ushers.

0:50:59.040 --> 0:51:05.680
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, nothing on Nothing, but nothing on Confession sounds like.

0:51:05.680 --> 0:51:08.680
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, true, it's you know what I mean, And it's

0:51:08.719 --> 0:51:12.200
<v Speaker 2>this thing that you can you can but He's seg though,

0:51:13.560 --> 0:51:15.600
<v Speaker 2>but you can't get caught up in that. You can

0:51:15.680 --> 0:51:19.840
<v Speaker 2>get caught up in this massive thing that it's a

0:51:19.960 --> 0:51:26.280
<v Speaker 2>distinct sound that maybe isn't what your full artistry is about.

0:51:26.760 --> 0:51:27.359
<v Speaker 1>That's what I mean.

0:51:27.400 --> 0:51:29.400
<v Speaker 4>So it goes back to what we originally spoke about

0:51:29.560 --> 0:51:32.879
<v Speaker 4>the artistry and who you are, what you're delivering through

0:51:32.880 --> 0:51:36.960
<v Speaker 4>your artistry, what kind of truth you're delivering through your artistry,

0:51:37.640 --> 0:51:38.839
<v Speaker 4>because you have to know what that is.

0:51:38.920 --> 0:51:40.799
<v Speaker 2>So did you have moments where you're like, Okay, well

0:51:40.800 --> 0:51:43.680
<v Speaker 2>we have this, you know, East Asian sample, and I

0:51:43.680 --> 0:51:45.560
<v Speaker 2>gotta I gotta be in this space.

0:51:45.600 --> 0:51:52.640
<v Speaker 1>I gotta I gotta look like the part. No, you

0:51:52.719 --> 0:51:54.400
<v Speaker 1>never went there though, where you're just like all, I

0:51:54.440 --> 0:51:55.360
<v Speaker 1>gotta put on the costume.

0:51:55.640 --> 0:51:57.560
<v Speaker 4>I at least knew that much about who I am.

0:51:58.520 --> 0:52:01.760
<v Speaker 4>I'm from Saint Louis. I'm not to listen.

0:52:03.920 --> 0:52:06.400
<v Speaker 3>No, it wasn't so much that it was it was more.

0:52:09.280 --> 0:52:12.799
<v Speaker 4>What do you do visually? But I think we delivered that. Yeah,

0:52:12.840 --> 0:52:16.320
<v Speaker 4>absolutely did we delivered that. We got Fatima, and Fatima

0:52:16.640 --> 0:52:18.959
<v Speaker 4>she knows how to She knows how to cross over

0:52:19.040 --> 0:52:21.640
<v Speaker 4>those those boundaries and and and mesh them and make

0:52:21.680 --> 0:52:22.680
<v Speaker 4>them sexy.

0:52:23.000 --> 0:52:25.600
<v Speaker 3>And I think that's what's crazy about the record is.

0:52:26.360 --> 0:52:30.160
<v Speaker 4>Even the people in India who thought it was disrespectful

0:52:31.040 --> 0:52:35.360
<v Speaker 4>to do the record with a lot of mangoshka sample,

0:52:36.080 --> 0:52:39.359
<v Speaker 4>I think they still love how sexy the merge is

0:52:40.239 --> 0:52:42.960
<v Speaker 4>and even what Fatima did to merge it, you know,

0:52:43.120 --> 0:52:46.000
<v Speaker 4>with the dancing with with with the dancers she got.

0:52:46.040 --> 0:52:47.760
<v Speaker 3>She made me take belly dancing classes.

0:52:47.880 --> 0:52:52.080
<v Speaker 4>We we really tried to tap into the culture.

0:52:52.440 --> 0:52:55.080
<v Speaker 1>Well why would Why did they feel like it was disrespectful?

0:52:55.160 --> 0:52:56.480
<v Speaker 1>Is it is this song or is a.

0:52:57.040 --> 0:52:59.000
<v Speaker 3>Because it's India.

0:52:59.040 --> 0:53:01.520
<v Speaker 4>I don't think there was anyarticular reason, Okay, I think

0:53:01.560 --> 0:53:04.480
<v Speaker 4>it was just the fact that it's there's a difference.

0:53:04.600 --> 0:53:07.360
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, don't stand for our records.

0:53:07.400 --> 0:53:12.000
<v Speaker 3>Simple And it was without permission. And that's what I

0:53:12.000 --> 0:53:14.200
<v Speaker 3>was about to ask you about. I know, yeah, this

0:53:14.360 --> 0:53:14.880
<v Speaker 3>what's next.

0:53:15.200 --> 0:53:17.960
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, let's clear that up for everybody now, because I

0:53:17.960 --> 0:53:20.839
<v Speaker 4>know your show, You and Tank show is big enough

0:53:20.840 --> 0:53:23.880
<v Speaker 4>to clear up a lot of bullshit. Let's clear up

0:53:23.920 --> 0:53:27.640
<v Speaker 4>all the bullshit right now about what happened with the

0:53:27.680 --> 0:53:30.120
<v Speaker 4>lawsuit and the result of the lawsuit, because a lot

0:53:30.160 --> 0:53:31.800
<v Speaker 4>of people believe that there.

0:53:31.680 --> 0:53:33.440
<v Speaker 3>Was millions and millions and millions and.

0:53:33.360 --> 0:53:37.399
<v Speaker 4>Millions paid Out's not a lot of millions paid out.

0:53:37.800 --> 0:53:41.680
<v Speaker 3>That's number one. The lawsuit did happen.

0:53:41.880 --> 0:53:46.160
<v Speaker 4>They saw a chance to get somebody that is as

0:53:46.239 --> 0:53:50.880
<v Speaker 4>large as doctor Dre and go after him. Sample was

0:53:51.000 --> 0:53:56.520
<v Speaker 4>accidentally not cleared because the way that the sample was

0:53:56.560 --> 0:53:58.839
<v Speaker 4>procured by quick.

0:54:00.920 --> 0:54:04.759
<v Speaker 3>And you're gonna think this is funny. He's sampled.

0:54:05.000 --> 0:54:07.040
<v Speaker 4>He was in the shower, he said so this is

0:54:07.080 --> 0:54:10.400
<v Speaker 4>this is this is all quicks account. He was in

0:54:10.440 --> 0:54:14.640
<v Speaker 4>the shower and he heard he had his his, his, his, his.

0:54:14.520 --> 0:54:17.480
<v Speaker 3>TV playing some foreign station.

0:54:18.880 --> 0:54:22.359
<v Speaker 4>This is quick Ship, quick Ship. I'm surprised y'alln't ask

0:54:22.440 --> 0:54:24.440
<v Speaker 4>him this when he was on. But this was some

0:54:24.520 --> 0:54:27.560
<v Speaker 4>ship that that that only quick could do. He's in

0:54:27.680 --> 0:54:31.600
<v Speaker 4>the shower, he hears the song playing. He runs out

0:54:31.640 --> 0:54:34.600
<v Speaker 4>of the shower wet. He's wet, had to tell and

0:54:34.600 --> 0:54:36.480
<v Speaker 4>he's like, what the fuck is that. He starts taping it,

0:54:36.960 --> 0:54:41.960
<v Speaker 4>like what is this? It is a foreign channel playing

0:54:42.000 --> 0:54:46.080
<v Speaker 4>the original song. Latta on the video is a woman

0:54:46.200 --> 0:54:50.520
<v Speaker 4>dancing around the room for Men's Vine, for Men's Affection,

0:54:51.360 --> 0:54:54.040
<v Speaker 4>and she's belly dancing and he's like on a stole

0:54:54.920 --> 0:54:56.239
<v Speaker 4>and he he sampled it.

0:54:56.280 --> 0:54:56.759
<v Speaker 3>He taped it.

0:54:56.760 --> 0:54:58.359
<v Speaker 4>I don't know what he put it on, but he

0:54:58.800 --> 0:55:02.000
<v Speaker 4>taped it. But I think it went from the shower,

0:55:02.800 --> 0:55:07.319
<v Speaker 4>got the sample and was like, yo, I'm sampling this

0:55:07.320 --> 0:55:10.200
<v Speaker 4>shit because he didn't think, you know, it's across the world.

0:55:10.280 --> 0:55:14.640
<v Speaker 4>It's not going to make a difference, right, And in

0:55:14.680 --> 0:55:18.359
<v Speaker 4>the midst of that, we're thinking, because producers back then

0:55:18.719 --> 0:55:22.480
<v Speaker 4>it's their job to clear samples that they use between

0:55:22.480 --> 0:55:24.880
<v Speaker 4>them and their attorneys. It's not the artists or the label,

0:55:25.160 --> 0:55:27.960
<v Speaker 4>it's the producer. So we didn't think about any of that.

0:55:28.480 --> 0:55:33.040
<v Speaker 4>We thought it was done. It was not clear, and

0:55:33.080 --> 0:55:35.920
<v Speaker 4>so they came after Dre and what they tried to

0:55:35.920 --> 0:55:40.480
<v Speaker 4>come after him with. The argument they had was they

0:55:40.560 --> 0:55:42.760
<v Speaker 4>said that it was spiritual. It was it was something

0:55:43.280 --> 0:55:46.120
<v Speaker 4>that they used for their religion, and that it was

0:55:46.160 --> 0:55:48.799
<v Speaker 4>a violation of their religion. That was the way they

0:55:48.840 --> 0:55:55.759
<v Speaker 4>wanted to confirm that they would, you know, win the settlement. Yeah,

0:55:56.080 --> 0:56:00.000
<v Speaker 4>come to find out, that was the reason they didn't win,

0:56:00.480 --> 0:56:03.120
<v Speaker 4>because the investigation was done on the whole thing and

0:56:03.200 --> 0:56:04.280
<v Speaker 4>it was not spiritual.

0:56:04.360 --> 0:56:10.480
<v Speaker 3>It was very much a formal process of prostitution.

0:56:11.280 --> 0:56:13.920
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, when you're dancing around the room vying, I'm like,

0:56:13.920 --> 0:56:16.160
<v Speaker 4>this is this is not spiritual, this is not religious,

0:56:16.440 --> 0:56:21.239
<v Speaker 4>this is not So that was what lost them the

0:56:21.280 --> 0:56:25.200
<v Speaker 4>actual lawsuit. So what they indeed won. Everybody out there

0:56:25.239 --> 0:56:28.399
<v Speaker 4>who think they know, and you know, when y'all posting, oh,

0:56:28.640 --> 0:56:31.880
<v Speaker 4>they she's walked up because she five hundred million, that

0:56:32.320 --> 0:56:37.319
<v Speaker 4>shut up and listen. It's crazy because they didn't get that.

0:56:37.800 --> 0:56:40.080
<v Speaker 4>None of that happened. None of that happened, it didn't happen.

0:56:40.440 --> 0:56:45.319
<v Speaker 4>What they got was the right to properly credit the record.

0:56:45.400 --> 0:56:49.839
<v Speaker 4>So they made inner scope, pull everything off shelves, pull

0:56:49.880 --> 0:56:53.040
<v Speaker 4>it off Internet, whatever wherever it was. They had to

0:56:53.160 --> 0:56:57.479
<v Speaker 4>properly credit it and then they could put it back.

0:56:58.840 --> 0:57:03.080
<v Speaker 4>So basically the it had to be done properly, proper splits.

0:57:03.840 --> 0:57:08.520
<v Speaker 4>But because at the time I got scared during the

0:57:08.600 --> 0:57:14.720
<v Speaker 4>lawsuit and was trying to leave the label, we thought,

0:57:14.800 --> 0:57:16.800
<v Speaker 4>you know, nothing was going to work at this point

0:57:16.840 --> 0:57:19.000
<v Speaker 4>with that, with that level of a lawsuit, I got

0:57:19.000 --> 0:57:21.000
<v Speaker 4>scared of the way people get scared when they hear

0:57:21.000 --> 0:57:22.120
<v Speaker 4>the number five hundred million.

0:57:22.200 --> 0:57:22.920
<v Speaker 3>I got scared too.

0:57:23.000 --> 0:57:25.680
<v Speaker 4>I was like, yeah, maybe we should shut this down

0:57:25.800 --> 0:57:27.520
<v Speaker 4>and I should just kind of go on my way.

0:57:28.200 --> 0:57:31.080
<v Speaker 4>So I kind of ran from the process, which is

0:57:32.200 --> 0:57:35.000
<v Speaker 4>my long history of a lot of things being a runner.

0:57:36.000 --> 0:57:38.480
<v Speaker 4>Until the last five years of my life, I've been

0:57:38.520 --> 0:57:41.520
<v Speaker 4>a runner. I was like, oh my god, this is

0:57:41.520 --> 0:57:43.360
<v Speaker 4>gonna this is gonna fuck me up. I'm not gonna

0:57:43.360 --> 0:57:44.880
<v Speaker 4>be able to put out any more singles and the

0:57:44.920 --> 0:57:47.560
<v Speaker 4>record is done. And I listened to a lot of

0:57:47.560 --> 0:57:51.240
<v Speaker 4>what other people had to say, and I shouldn't have,

0:57:52.120 --> 0:57:55.760
<v Speaker 4>and that's the bottom line and got scared and fled

0:57:55.800 --> 0:57:58.640
<v Speaker 4>the situation, asked Jimmy for a release, asked Dray for

0:57:58.720 --> 0:57:59.840
<v Speaker 4>a release, and they did.

0:57:59.840 --> 0:58:02.880
<v Speaker 3>They released me. They were like, you can get out

0:58:02.920 --> 0:58:03.400
<v Speaker 3>of the deal.

0:58:05.480 --> 0:58:09.400
<v Speaker 4>You know. I had a lawyer and a manager at

0:58:09.400 --> 0:58:12.080
<v Speaker 4>the time, powerful manager at the time, which was Troy Carter,

0:58:13.280 --> 0:58:15.400
<v Speaker 4>and we figured out a way to just kind of

0:58:15.560 --> 0:58:18.440
<v Speaker 4>exit the situation that unscathed.

0:58:18.680 --> 0:58:21.600
<v Speaker 1>I say, this is all during the first person.

0:58:21.440 --> 0:58:25.040
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, because you know, it was a lot. It was overwhelming.

0:58:25.400 --> 0:58:27.040
<v Speaker 1>So were you not performing either?

0:58:27.200 --> 0:58:27.800
<v Speaker 4>I was. I was.

0:58:27.840 --> 0:58:29.439
<v Speaker 3>I was on the road. I was on the road.

0:58:29.880 --> 0:58:32.880
<v Speaker 4>But still when this came down the pipeline, it was

0:58:32.960 --> 0:58:35.000
<v Speaker 4>kind of after the song was fizzling out and I

0:58:35.040 --> 0:58:39.440
<v Speaker 4>needed a new single and the only other single we

0:58:39.440 --> 0:58:40.320
<v Speaker 4>were thinking about.

0:58:40.280 --> 0:58:43.280
<v Speaker 1>Was the one with R Kelly and then yeah, that was.

0:58:43.240 --> 0:58:46.400
<v Speaker 3>Happening with his legal issues. So when I tell you so.

0:58:46.360 --> 0:58:51.040
<v Speaker 2>For you, these are signs at that time, because because

0:58:51.120 --> 0:58:54.920
<v Speaker 2>I you know, I'm going back to also the truth.

0:58:54.920 --> 0:58:58.560
<v Speaker 2>Who's telling me I was never trying to come back

0:58:58.600 --> 0:58:59.880
<v Speaker 2>to this and.

0:59:00.800 --> 0:59:03.240
<v Speaker 3>Seek you first, the cadom of God in his rights.

0:59:03.960 --> 0:59:05.400
<v Speaker 1>I was like, oh my god, what is going on?

0:59:06.280 --> 0:59:08.880
<v Speaker 3>My head was filled with so much. I didn't know

0:59:08.920 --> 0:59:09.439
<v Speaker 3>what to do.

0:59:09.920 --> 0:59:12.160
<v Speaker 2>I was like, because in hindsight, it's like, oh, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>you just keep pushing forward and you put it this

0:59:13.760 --> 0:59:15.040
<v Speaker 2>and you do this, and we get to the next.

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<v Speaker 1>This why you're going through it?

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<v Speaker 2>And like you said, you hearing these numbers and it's

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<v Speaker 2>five hundred million trillion.

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<v Speaker 1>Dollars, that's all I understand. You Like, I got to

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<v Speaker 1>get out of this because at some point maybe they

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<v Speaker 1>want me to pay this. I ain't got five hundred million.

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<v Speaker 4>Well I thought they would put it against against against

0:59:31.480 --> 0:59:34.520
<v Speaker 4>my account, so they ended up putting a million and

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<v Speaker 4>some change against my account.

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<v Speaker 3>So really, but it wasn't because of that.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you probably just.

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<v Speaker 2>Playing litigation and paying you know, whatever the budget was.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, yes, wow, yes, so all of that happened.

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<v Speaker 1>And now you're free. You're off the label.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm off the label. But I am still working out

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<v Speaker 4>the details of exiting the contract fully and the amount O.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm still exiting that as we speak. We're still in

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<v Speaker 4>discussion about that. Wait to this day, to this day, Yes,

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<v Speaker 4>to this day, R and B money ship.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't think that. I didn't think you're going to

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<v Speaker 1>say that that is.

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<v Speaker 3>The truth, that didn't think the truth?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but you.

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<v Speaker 4>Were one point seven million and I think fifty five dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>Man, how do we get it down to fifty four? S? Yes?

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<v Speaker 2>Well then the Watcher two comes out too, though, which you.

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<v Speaker 3>That has nothing to do did you.

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<v Speaker 1>But but I'm saying, like these things are happening.

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<v Speaker 4>But all of those were things that they were already doing.

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<v Speaker 4>Night calls, those are just those those were my writers,

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<v Speaker 4>those those weren't They had nothing to do with the

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<v Speaker 4>truth Truth hurt.

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<v Speaker 1>But then.

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<v Speaker 2>The actress just still has nothing to do with my album.

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<v Speaker 1>So none of these things crossing at all.

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<v Speaker 3>No, that doesn't pay off.

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<v Speaker 1>Nothing about paying off. No, no, no, I'm just saying as

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<v Speaker 1>far as.

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<v Speaker 4>Just the work that just made me actor, that didn't

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<v Speaker 4>that didn't you know, do anything with interscope as far

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<v Speaker 4>as you know, recruitment.

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<v Speaker 3>So I just they were.

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<v Speaker 1>Also still in business, That's what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 4>No, no, no, because because Jimmy just helped me procure

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<v Speaker 4>those things to promote the album, those things were external,

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<v Speaker 4>like Ali, all those extra opportunities were you know, of course,

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<v Speaker 4>you know you Jimmy Ivan, you can call anybody and

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<v Speaker 4>get anything to happen.

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<v Speaker 2>So you're the new artist. We're trying to get cracking exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>How was that experience with Ali?

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<v Speaker 4>Oh? My got amazing, amazing. Those were the.

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<v Speaker 1>Because Ali came before the Wash.

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<v Speaker 3>No, I want to say yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

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<v Speaker 1>So this is your first time acting, yes, in a

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<v Speaker 1>major movie, a major film.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, yes, And most of what I did had been

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<v Speaker 4>on stage.

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<v Speaker 1>But you were you were ready, You were prepared.

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<v Speaker 4>I was prepared because I did, you know, the musical acting,

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<v Speaker 4>and for me, you know, once you do Broadway Agent Broway.

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<v Speaker 4>But I'm saying, once you do that type of acting

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<v Speaker 4>and you're ready for it, yeah, yeah, it's a different preparation.

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<v Speaker 2>So so you do Ali soul singer in Ali, and

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<v Speaker 2>then you do the Watch.

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<v Speaker 4>Actually auditioned for the actually auditioned, auditioned for the Watch.

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<v Speaker 1>You didn't audition for.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes and No because it wasn't it wasn't a part

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<v Speaker 4>where you know I had to yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,

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<v Speaker 4>So they had to see me first, right, there were.

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<v Speaker 3>Other people up for the part.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm sure Jimmy's word took precedence, but I had to

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<v Speaker 4>actually audition for DJ.

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<v Speaker 1>Pooh I had.

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<v Speaker 4>I went in the same room that everybody else auditioned

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<v Speaker 4>for Vicky. I went in the same room with DJ

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<v Speaker 4>Pooh to audition for that part, and I got it

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<v Speaker 4>because I went an audition.

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<v Speaker 1>Well that's how I became a video audition on accident.

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<v Speaker 4>I made okay, you know, audition to hey, listen, do

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<v Speaker 4>you find find your voice?

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<v Speaker 3>Find your voice?

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<v Speaker 1>Find your really finding my voice? I thought I was

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<v Speaker 1>doing the Actually I thought I was doing a favor

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<v Speaker 1>for the homie, and somehow I still end up having

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<v Speaker 1>to audition. They tricked me.

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<v Speaker 4>That's what they do, because I didn't think i'd have

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<v Speaker 4>the audition either, but I did.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm like, this snoop.

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<v Speaker 2>But they didn't even but they didn't even tell me though.

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<v Speaker 2>Really I walked in. It was a camera and they

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<v Speaker 2>were like, oh, well, can you just read this? And

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, you know, okay, I'm here now.

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<v Speaker 1>And then I realized that's all walk and I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>did they pick me audition? And then I called Kesha

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, kesh Nigga, did I just said audition

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<v Speaker 1>for your video? And She's like, no, you in my video?

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<v Speaker 1>I said no, no, no, no, no, I just auditioned for

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<v Speaker 1>your video. Damn off the favor you asked.

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<v Speaker 3>People crazy, that's crazy work.

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<v Speaker 2>But what and I've said this before, what makes it

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<v Speaker 2>even crazier is the fact that the director didn't know

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<v Speaker 2>that I was the friend that Keisha wanted in the

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<v Speaker 2>video when she saw my when she saw my tape

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<v Speaker 2>and she picked me.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like some ship.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, Wow, that's wild.

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<v Speaker 1>I was made to be a video. No, you stop that,

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<v Speaker 1>have a little time. I didn't want to have two videos.

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<v Speaker 1>It's still be in these streets, you know, every couple

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<v Speaker 1>of months or two and it pop up like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't believe j Valentine.

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<v Speaker 4>No lies you tell LIGI tell Lige, you tell it

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<v Speaker 4>is what it is. Now look at you. You're out

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<v Speaker 4>here saving lies. I'm telling them the R and B truth.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying. I'm trying. That's it. That is the ultimate

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<v Speaker 1>goal for our show.

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<v Speaker 4>You're ACCOMPLI to this platform, accomplishing it because when I

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<v Speaker 4>tell you, I haven't done any interviews, and that's my

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<v Speaker 4>plan to not do any because I hate useless talking.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm glad you pulled up on me like this is

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<v Speaker 1>this is amazing.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm glad we were all lying as well. I'm glad

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<v Speaker 4>we were aligned as well, because the R and B

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<v Speaker 4>conversation is extremely important at such a time.

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<v Speaker 2>And you're important to this conversation, and your story is

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<v Speaker 2>important because this is how this goes. And this is

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<v Speaker 2>not just only your story. This is part of the business.

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<v Speaker 2>There are things that are that you've went through that

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<v Speaker 2>people are going through, are going to go through, or

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<v Speaker 2>need to go through, or need to go through, and

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<v Speaker 2>maybe you know they can learn from.

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<v Speaker 4>This because the truth is a light in that situation.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, you really don't understand who you are, and

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<v Speaker 4>toil you grind it through certain things and been affected

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<v Speaker 4>by certain things. You more understand who you are through

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<v Speaker 4>those conflicts. And when I tell you, some people it

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<v Speaker 4>takes longer than others. Some people just kind of catch

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<v Speaker 4>on and they get it. I had to go through

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<v Speaker 4>certain I'm hardheaded. I had to go through certain conflicts

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<v Speaker 4>to understand the importance of what I can. Some people

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<v Speaker 4>just they snap into it and they understand. Like for me,

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<v Speaker 4>people like Jill Scott and she she understands her assignment.

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<v Speaker 4>Some people have to figure out the assignment, but it's

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<v Speaker 4>a personal assignment.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, did you.

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<v Speaker 2>Did you lean toward acting more once she when she

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<v Speaker 2>really got you know, those opportunities.

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<v Speaker 4>No, No, I decided that performance was the goal, in

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<v Speaker 4>whatever shape form, performance was the goal. I just decided

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<v Speaker 4>to use all the skills that I picked up along

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<v Speaker 4>the way coming up as a young girl, and said

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<v Speaker 4>to myself, you know, all of these play an important

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<v Speaker 4>role in my life.

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<v Speaker 3>So why should there just be one?

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<v Speaker 4>Why why should I stick to one role if all

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<v Speaker 4>of it plays a position in my story. So no,

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<v Speaker 4>I didn't say, oh, you know a lot of people

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<v Speaker 4>were like, oh, I'm gonna act.

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<v Speaker 3>It's faster.

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<v Speaker 4>Money, ain't nothing faster. A journey is a journey. I

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<v Speaker 4>decided to stop forcing things and I decided to just

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<v Speaker 4>start living my story the way it is who I

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<v Speaker 4>am and what I have to offer from it. Because

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<v Speaker 4>the story is important. It is what really gives you

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<v Speaker 4>the capacity to do any of this creatively, to give

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<v Speaker 4>it raw realness. It's the story. And when I decided that,

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<v Speaker 4>then I understood the assignment.

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<v Speaker 3>I get it, Yeah, absolutely.

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<v Speaker 4>Because it's all in assignment, birth to death. It's an assignment.

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<v Speaker 4>It may be shorter if you decide you don't want this. Signman,

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<v Speaker 4>a lot of people wake up and decide they don't

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<v Speaker 4>want it, and they do frivolous shit with their life,

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<v Speaker 4>and they do bullshit and die because you don't want

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<v Speaker 4>the assignment. But when you have a voice, especially in

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<v Speaker 4>this hour, this hour, you have to be responsible with

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<v Speaker 4>that voice. You have to understand what side you choose

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<v Speaker 4>with that voice. I agree, and so that's why a

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<v Speaker 4>lot of people get frustrated with the whole music thing

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<v Speaker 4>and they say, oh, music is dead. No, music ain't

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<v Speaker 4>never dying. Music is here to muse the sick until

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<v Speaker 4>we die. No matter who you are, industry standard is dead,

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<v Speaker 4>not music. Music will never die because people are still affected,

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<v Speaker 4>very affected by music on the levels of living or dying.

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<v Speaker 3>You can hear a song that makes you fall in love,

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<v Speaker 3>makes you.

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<v Speaker 4>Feel sick, that makes you feel like dying, that makes

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<v Speaker 4>you feel like wanting to do something, every emotion, and

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<v Speaker 4>as long as that stands true, since the beginning of time,

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<v Speaker 4>nothing different is happening with music. It is how you

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<v Speaker 4>handle music. It is the business of music that's changing,

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<v Speaker 4>not the music.

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<v Speaker 2>So you moving forward with your music? How are you

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<v Speaker 2>doing your business with it now?

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<v Speaker 4>Well, that's interesting, that's a good question because I am

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<v Speaker 4>in the rebranding part I am doing that solely so

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<v Speaker 4>that that part can't be tampered with.

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<v Speaker 3>The business part hasn't taken off yet.

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<v Speaker 4>The part that is very much me and my solitude

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<v Speaker 4>and me deciding who I want to be, what I

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<v Speaker 4>want to give the world.

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<v Speaker 3>That part is happening.

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<v Speaker 4>Business can't take place until you do that, and that

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<v Speaker 4>part is what is most important. If you ask focus

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<v Speaker 4>in this in this juncture, Yes, that's my main focus.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm almost finished with that part. And then the business, yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>will have to put its hands all over it. But

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<v Speaker 4>that's necessary. And that's that's the part I never took

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<v Speaker 4>time to do. And because I didn't, I was always

1:11:26.120 --> 1:11:30.280
<v Speaker 4>overcome by Dre's audience. Are Kelly's audience? This one?

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<v Speaker 1>That one? That one?

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<v Speaker 4>Who you stand next to? You know, I'm sure you

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<v Speaker 4>you see this A lot people be like, oh, oh,

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<v Speaker 4>I got so and so right here. Oh oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>me and so and so. Drake is here, Drake is here?

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<v Speaker 3>Who are you?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 3>Who are you? I know, Drake?

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<v Speaker 1>Who are you?

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<v Speaker 4>What does that mean? What do you have to offer me?

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<v Speaker 4>If I'm a fan, why should I buy into who

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<v Speaker 4>you are and what you're doing. I'm going through all

1:11:57.560 --> 1:11:59.599
<v Speaker 4>kinds I'm going through hell right now in this life.

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<v Speaker 4>Why should I buy into anything that you're doing. What

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<v Speaker 4>should it mean to me? Especially with the R and

1:12:05.360 --> 1:12:08.080
<v Speaker 4>B because R and B rhythm and blues. Let's get

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<v Speaker 4>back to the essence of what that is. It touched lives,

1:12:11.080 --> 1:12:14.200
<v Speaker 4>it changed lives. It is soul. It is the bottom

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<v Speaker 4>of soul, like when you think of real R and

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<v Speaker 4>B and the essence of.

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<v Speaker 2>It, I think that's It's also it's a promotional tool, right,

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<v Speaker 2>and I think you know, some people get too caught

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<v Speaker 2>up in the promotional tool and the promotional thing. There

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<v Speaker 2>is a balance to that for sure, but you know

1:12:34.720 --> 1:12:36.599
<v Speaker 2>it can put more eyeballs on you. So I think

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes people are just like, I gotta be next to

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<v Speaker 2>whatever and to introduce.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, you can do that, of course, because you have

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<v Speaker 4>to collaborate. Collaboration is very important. I didn't say that

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<v Speaker 4>that isn't important. It's important. I'm saying you have to

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<v Speaker 4>know who you are before you can collaborate with anything,

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<v Speaker 4>Like you have to have an identity or you get

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<v Speaker 4>whup in that situation with the identity of the person

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<v Speaker 4>that's standing next to you.

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<v Speaker 2>So what's for you? What's you said? You gotta do

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<v Speaker 2>music that you're working on. What's the timeline for.

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<v Speaker 3>It's done? Okay, it's done, Okay, pretty much done. I'm

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<v Speaker 3>still going through some mixing stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>So this side of the year, we're gonna hear Oh yes, absolutely,

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<v Speaker 2>just sam Absolutely.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm going through a reveal on ten ten.

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<v Speaker 4>Which is my actual birthday, okay, And I'm calling the

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<v Speaker 4>rebirth because I decided to just kind of lay down

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<v Speaker 4>this whole addictive grind and the past, and because the

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<v Speaker 4>past is no longer me.

1:13:47.320 --> 1:13:49.120
<v Speaker 3>I don't live there anymore. That's not who I am.

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<v Speaker 4>So a lot of the shows that want to book

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<v Speaker 4>me to just do the one off addictive, I can't

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<v Speaker 4>do it anymore.

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<v Speaker 3>I stopped.

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<v Speaker 1>So you ain't perform the record, Moore.

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<v Speaker 4>Not just as it is. No, I will perform the record.

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<v Speaker 4>I'll perform it within what I'm doing now.

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<v Speaker 1>But I got you.

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<v Speaker 4>I want to go and do these one off you

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<v Speaker 4>know the track date I want it.

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<v Speaker 1>So what does the show look like?

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<v Speaker 3>It's a band even you haven't even asked me what

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<v Speaker 3>it is.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm leading. I'm leading and leading.

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<v Speaker 3>I like that.

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<v Speaker 4>My rebrand is called THAC Truth Hurts Collective and it's

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<v Speaker 4>a band experience and the music is phenomenal. I already

1:14:40.040 --> 1:14:42.599
<v Speaker 4>told you earlier that I didn't write most of it.

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<v Speaker 4>The team of people around me.

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<v Speaker 2>Now it's like, oh my, so it's a full collective

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<v Speaker 2>that it's a it's a collective.

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<v Speaker 1>Everyone that's in it.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a band. Okay, yep, yep, yep ye.

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<v Speaker 1>Can we can you introduce them? Can you? Just so

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<v Speaker 1>there are no people you know.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, the main I won't.

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<v Speaker 4>I won't introduce the band, but I'll say this, the

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<v Speaker 4>main two people that are our partners with me, and

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<v Speaker 4>this is my girl, Alexis. Her name is Alexis Nicole.

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<v Speaker 4>I call her Alex.

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<v Speaker 3>She is man. She's phenomenal. She works.

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<v Speaker 4>Alongside Mike Karen. Right now she's doing some stuff with APG.

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<v Speaker 4>But she is ridiculous, like the family of writers and

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<v Speaker 4>producers and what she has going on in her camp

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<v Speaker 4>alone is just crazy. So I partnered with her and

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<v Speaker 4>had her help me produce jac Okay. So when I

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<v Speaker 4>tell you these records is crazy, I'm gonna tell you

1:15:45.640 --> 1:15:48.600
<v Speaker 4>how crazy. One of the records is the intro to

1:15:48.640 --> 1:15:52.720
<v Speaker 4>the album. It's so crazy that the dream came in

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<v Speaker 4>and he loved it so much. He just put put

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<v Speaker 4>down a vocal on it.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh so the dream is on the project too, Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>nice is.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm gonna let you hear it once we get out

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<v Speaker 4>of here. But crazy, So I'm excited again. It's it's

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<v Speaker 4>a rebirth and a rebrand and it is where I

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<v Speaker 4>feel that I've always supposed to be in this music

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<v Speaker 4>life of mine, that I should have just shut up

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<v Speaker 4>until now, But no, addictive, addictive is a very integral

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<v Speaker 4>part of mine.

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<v Speaker 2>But I could, I could just see how what what

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<v Speaker 2>makes me happy about it? And even before I even

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<v Speaker 2>hear it is just seeing you light up.

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<v Speaker 1>You saw me light up absolutely like when you when

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<v Speaker 1>you spoke about you let up.

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<v Speaker 3>It's everything, And that's why we do this. That's why

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<v Speaker 3>we do this. That's why we do this.

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<v Speaker 1>Like the other stuff that comes along with that's cool,

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<v Speaker 1>and it would make you feel good.

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<v Speaker 4>Doesn't make you feel like you're doing what you're supposed

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<v Speaker 4>to do with your life, does it? Does it send

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<v Speaker 4>a message that can just kind of help somebody feel

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<v Speaker 4>better about life. And I very much am integrating how

1:17:00.000 --> 1:17:03.040
<v Speaker 4>both and wellness in this journey because that's what got

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<v Speaker 4>me where I am now. So I'm getting my uh

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<v Speaker 4>my pilate certification, my health and wellness certification, all of

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<v Speaker 4>that sound bath and everything. Well, no, no, sound bad

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<v Speaker 4>and I don't know sound no, no, no, no, no, no,

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<v Speaker 4>no no no.

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<v Speaker 1>I went to asleep.

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<v Speaker 4>Sleep is important. Sleep is important. You know you know

1:17:26.320 --> 1:17:30.320
<v Speaker 4>how many people can't sleep? Do you know how many

1:17:30.320 --> 1:17:38.280
<v Speaker 4>people can? Health and wellness is the biggest business right

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<v Speaker 4>now and for the future because pharmaceuticals have let us down,

1:17:42.840 --> 1:17:46.559
<v Speaker 4>so and everything else has let us down. Music, all

1:17:46.640 --> 1:17:48.280
<v Speaker 4>kinds of things have let us down. So people are

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<v Speaker 4>just trying to get well and and find the right

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<v Speaker 4>way to get well. So that's what helped me get

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<v Speaker 4>to this point.

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<v Speaker 1>You got to start teaching pilate. Still last with the

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<v Speaker 1>music playing.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm allowed to be flying through the sky, And is

1:18:03.320 --> 1:18:05.800
<v Speaker 3>it you're doing the turn up wings? You ready?

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<v Speaker 1>Which one you're doing? No, I'm not ready. That's ship hard.

1:18:09.120 --> 1:18:14.479
<v Speaker 4>I do the Reformer, I do the Matt and I'm

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<v Speaker 4>trying to graduate to the Cadillac, the one where you.

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<v Speaker 3>Suspended. Yeah, all of that, No, not me.

1:18:23.640 --> 1:18:27.960
<v Speaker 4>I'm a watch watching this good yeah, watch watching this

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<v Speaker 4>good little stress.

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<v Speaker 1>It absolutely is that's my a. You go do the

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<v Speaker 1>turn that you got the you got like.

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<v Speaker 3>D X playing or you got what No, no, no,

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<v Speaker 3>I got T playing.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, all right, it's more chill.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, it's chill. It's well, it's R and B

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<v Speaker 3>T c's R and B.

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<v Speaker 1>I gotta hear this.

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<v Speaker 3>You gotta hear it.

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<v Speaker 1>I gotta hear this.

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<v Speaker 4>You like it?

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<v Speaker 1>I do too, some real I don't want to.

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<v Speaker 3>Tank to hear too. I think I think both of

1:18:56.400 --> 1:18:56.960
<v Speaker 3>y'all don't.

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<v Speaker 1>Like it a lot.

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<v Speaker 2>So in all these you know, amazing health and wellness

1:19:09.520 --> 1:19:13.080
<v Speaker 2>things that you're doing, you brought something today.

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<v Speaker 1>I did.

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<v Speaker 3>I did? You know a lot of my family have

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<v Speaker 3>an a k for me. I'm also known as water.

1:19:22.040 --> 1:19:24.120
<v Speaker 4>I'm the water Queen, not not for reasons that a

1:19:24.160 --> 1:19:26.360
<v Speaker 4>lot of these rappers talk about water. That's not the

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<v Speaker 4>water we're talking about.

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<v Speaker 3>I love water.

1:19:28.760 --> 1:19:33.880
<v Speaker 4>I'm a water connoisseur and red wine connoisseur. Wow, but

1:19:34.080 --> 1:19:37.080
<v Speaker 4>water is my my thing since when I was in

1:19:37.160 --> 1:19:40.479
<v Speaker 4>high school. I carried jugs of water around with me then.

1:19:42.880 --> 1:19:44.519
<v Speaker 4>So now I'm just like gotten deeper.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, the big you know, the.

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<v Speaker 1>Big gallon Stanley cup.

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<v Speaker 4>I didn't have a Stanley cup. I had a gallon

1:19:50.479 --> 1:19:54.080
<v Speaker 4>back then. I have my Stanley's now. But yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>I was on some athletic I was. I was a

1:19:56.160 --> 1:19:58.800
<v Speaker 4>head cheerleader. I did all of that stuff back then.

1:19:58.880 --> 1:20:00.599
<v Speaker 4>So I always had like a big thing of water.

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<v Speaker 4>So he was like, Yo, why you got all this

1:20:02.040 --> 1:20:04.920
<v Speaker 4>water with you at school? I always have water. And

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<v Speaker 4>so I met a good friend of mine and we

1:20:07.880 --> 1:20:11.519
<v Speaker 4>and we got together because this is this is very healing.

1:20:11.600 --> 1:20:16.880
<v Speaker 4>I've come through a journey of being botched from having

1:20:16.920 --> 1:20:21.960
<v Speaker 4>breasting plants, and so I had to heal myself through that.

1:20:22.200 --> 1:20:27.680
<v Speaker 4>And what I found healed me the best was hydronated

1:20:27.760 --> 1:20:33.599
<v Speaker 4>water peptides that I'm taking now. A lot of little things,

1:20:34.160 --> 1:20:35.560
<v Speaker 4>but that's why I say I want a health and

1:20:35.640 --> 1:20:38.360
<v Speaker 4>wellness journey as well, which is what got me to

1:20:38.640 --> 1:20:41.160
<v Speaker 4>the point where I decided what I want to offer

1:20:41.800 --> 1:20:43.360
<v Speaker 4>an artistry because.

1:20:44.160 --> 1:20:46.200
<v Speaker 3>I finally know who I am and what I want

1:20:46.240 --> 1:20:46.360
<v Speaker 3>to do.

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<v Speaker 1>You want to teach, I.

1:20:48.360 --> 1:20:50.559
<v Speaker 3>Want to give people through living.

1:20:50.720 --> 1:20:54.320
<v Speaker 4>Though I think when you teach, it's kind of like preaching,

1:20:54.400 --> 1:20:56.320
<v Speaker 4>and I think the old school way of preaching is

1:20:56.720 --> 1:21:01.840
<v Speaker 4>dying and the traditional way of like, people want to

1:21:01.920 --> 1:21:05.280
<v Speaker 4>see you live your truth in order for them to

1:21:05.360 --> 1:21:09.519
<v Speaker 4>believe it. Yeah, you can talk talk to I found

1:21:09.560 --> 1:21:11.400
<v Speaker 4>this with my children. You can talk to you blue

1:21:11.439 --> 1:21:15.040
<v Speaker 4>in the face, but they won't hear you until they

1:21:15.280 --> 1:21:19.680
<v Speaker 4>see in you what you're trying to tell them. And

1:21:19.800 --> 1:21:22.519
<v Speaker 4>so I figured that I really can't give people what

1:21:22.800 --> 1:21:27.479
<v Speaker 4>I'm not living myself, especially at my age after I've

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<v Speaker 4>gone through everything that I've gone through.

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<v Speaker 1>So this so this is.

1:21:30.439 --> 1:21:34.320
<v Speaker 4>Hydrogen rich, hydrogen rich water, which is good for people

1:21:34.400 --> 1:21:40.400
<v Speaker 4>if you've had any type of disease from cancer to anything,

1:21:41.160 --> 1:21:43.320
<v Speaker 4>anything that you've gone through in your body that's taking

1:21:43.360 --> 1:21:43.920
<v Speaker 4>your body down.

1:21:44.760 --> 1:21:48.840
<v Speaker 3>Water is a natural healer. Yes, yes, it's so.

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<v Speaker 1>Where is it available online? So it's already.

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<v Speaker 4>This is colony online. Just look Upmindbodymatrix dot com.

1:21:56.040 --> 1:21:58.600
<v Speaker 1>And this is this is your is your product.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm partnered with. Yeah, so but I am the ambassador

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<v Speaker 3>and were.

1:22:03.400 --> 1:22:07.720
<v Speaker 1>All about it business. Yes, is there is there a

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<v Speaker 1>certain place online?

1:22:08.920 --> 1:22:13.519
<v Speaker 2>Is there a this is mind body Matrix, Mind body

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<v Speaker 2>matrix dot com.

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<v Speaker 3>This is get your get your body right, get your

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<v Speaker 3>mind right.

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<v Speaker 1>Let that flow through.

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<v Speaker 3>But I will have some of those products coming.

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<v Speaker 1>So all right, you know we want to feel good.

1:22:32.520 --> 1:22:35.160
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, whatever whatever actually helps the body, that's what we're doing.

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<v Speaker 3>We're doing.

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<v Speaker 1>That's great.

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<v Speaker 3>Pharmaceuticals.

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<v Speaker 1>No, no, we need to we need some orders to

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<v Speaker 1>go up. So yeah, yeah, I'll get to that.

1:22:42.280 --> 1:22:42.840
<v Speaker 3>I'll get to it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, get to that.

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<v Speaker 3>But it's the same, it's the same one Instagram as well,

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<v Speaker 3>mind body Matrix.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, some other things you want to get to. We

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<v Speaker 1>want to know.

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<v Speaker 2>Some of the stuff that the truth about the things

1:22:54.479 --> 1:22:56.920
<v Speaker 2>that you really loved, that you really like, the things

1:22:57.000 --> 1:22:57.680
<v Speaker 2>you came up on.

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<v Speaker 1>So you know, we got this, We got this segment,

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<v Speaker 1>and and let me take let me take on saying

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<v Speaker 1>something for us mm hmm, top fun. Yeah, I got

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<v Speaker 1>my notes, you're on top fun. I'm on top my notes.

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<v Speaker 3>Fun, your top f.

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<v Speaker 1>R beasing us.

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<v Speaker 3>All and me songs.

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<v Speaker 1>We've got to know what they thought you Okay, hitting

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<v Speaker 1>his home pay shut top you top f.

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<v Speaker 3>You sang saying saying thank.

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<v Speaker 1>You know my brother didn't Hell's kischen. Yeah he was

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<v Speaker 1>on Broadway. Oh my gosh, she's doing eight shows a week,

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<v Speaker 1>shows a week.

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<v Speaker 3>That's real work.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>I always say that this is real work.

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<v Speaker 2>So as tanks so eloquently saying, yes, we want to

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<v Speaker 2>know your top five, your top five R and B singers, first,

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<v Speaker 2>and then your top five R and B songs.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, my top five R and B singers first, Okay,

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<v Speaker 4>start with them, saying Prince Minnie Ribardson, Tina, Marie Phillis, Hyman,

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<v Speaker 4>Anita Baker shot Joe Scott.

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<v Speaker 3>That was seven. Okay, sorry you.

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<v Speaker 1>Got any more? She said so quick too, like I

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't gonna keep counting.

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<v Speaker 4>That's why I said quick. And I have this, I

1:25:05.640 --> 1:25:08.280
<v Speaker 4>have this thought that you guys need to who we

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<v Speaker 4>need to do. Help me, you guys, he changed this

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<v Speaker 4>a little bit. Okay, So this is what y'all need

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<v Speaker 4>to do. Y'all need to do it by era. So

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<v Speaker 4>top five songs because it's like cheating the system, right,

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<v Speaker 4>It's like cheating the system because if you say top

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<v Speaker 4>five songs of all time R and B is so

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<v Speaker 4>much mastery out there. You're cheating yourself, right, And I

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<v Speaker 4>feel like I'm cheating all the people that I love.

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<v Speaker 3>So I don't think hang with me, Hang with me,

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<v Speaker 3>Hang with me, okay, hang with me.

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<v Speaker 4>I feel like y'all need to do the top five

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<v Speaker 4>oh G List and the Top five New School List

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<v Speaker 4>because there's some people out here that's really making a

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<v Speaker 4>difference and You know why I say this because I

1:25:46.120 --> 1:25:49.439
<v Speaker 4>heard statements like Jermaine do Pre recently saying all music

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<v Speaker 4>ain't no, you need to dig deeper. There's some shit

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<v Speaker 4>out here that's really masterful, right, and it doesn't get

1:25:59.680 --> 1:26:02.759
<v Speaker 4>enough acknowledgement because sometimes it's not from.

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<v Speaker 3>The States, like they come here and still like Grammys.

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<v Speaker 3>But sometimes it's not from the States.

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<v Speaker 1>They just come and steal Grammys and leave. That's what happens.

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<v Speaker 4>I shouldn't say still still is a harsh word. They

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<v Speaker 4>deserve the Grammys that they get. But I'm saying that

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<v Speaker 4>to say they come and get up, they come and

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<v Speaker 4>get them in, then they go back to their country.

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<v Speaker 1>Right.

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<v Speaker 4>So I say that to say that we should definitely

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<v Speaker 4>applaud what happened from because the nineties was a different era,

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<v Speaker 4>and before the nineties is a different even different era.

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<v Speaker 4>So then till up through the nineties is one era.

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<v Speaker 4>Then pass the two thousands, different era, right, just as important,

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<v Speaker 4>but different. I can't say you're wrong, Okay, so I'm

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<v Speaker 4>gonna say. I'm gonna say, my O G, that's.

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<v Speaker 1>What you said, added this out. I said all that,

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<v Speaker 1>so you could do some other type of ship.

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<v Speaker 3>Go ahead, Yeah, because I believe. I believe, I believe

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<v Speaker 3>I could fly.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, so listen, Okay, five R and B songs true

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<v Speaker 4>old school, oh G?

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<v Speaker 1>Not old school?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh G?

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<v Speaker 1>Is it a crime?

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<v Speaker 4>Chic at Last? I am free, golden time of Day.

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<v Speaker 4>I can't get over you, Cranky Beverly. I couldn't pick Casanova,

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<v Speaker 4>Brown Tina, Marie Prince, Beautiful Ones. If I was your girlfriend,

1:27:20.800 --> 1:27:24.920
<v Speaker 4>condition of the Heart, you picked Stevie wondered whole inn

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<v Speaker 4>Vision's album, but Yes, specifically visions of Golden Lady, Top

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<v Speaker 4>five News School.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you gonna stick to five new School?

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<v Speaker 3>I'm a stick to five hard. I have a healthy background.

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<v Speaker 1>I love it.

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<v Speaker 4>I love it yesterday I wrote that for Shand because

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<v Speaker 4>I love that record too. Addictive nigga addictive. If I

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<v Speaker 4>could say five times addictive, I would say addictive. Okay,

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<v Speaker 4>he loves me, Joe, Say yes, Floyd. I was one

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<v Speaker 4>of the first people that acknowledge say yes, so much

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<v Speaker 4>so that Marsha got tired of me saying how much

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<v Speaker 4>I love a song. She called me out in the

1:28:09.520 --> 1:28:12.360
<v Speaker 4>audiences every time because she was like, truth, we know

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<v Speaker 4>you love say yes, Say yes. It's shout out to

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<v Speaker 4>Marsha shout out to Marsha Anniversary long version. Tony Tony

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<v Speaker 4>Tony k One is a new artist. I'm really into.

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<v Speaker 4>She's on my playlist. Love her, do what I Say

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<v Speaker 4>Klanie the song she got Old and Folded at a Bond,

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<v Speaker 4>Love Me Up.

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<v Speaker 3>She's from London, Sasha Keeble, Why I know I should stop?

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<v Speaker 4>Let me stop the Dream. The New Joint is Crazy.

1:28:41.160 --> 1:28:44.000
<v Speaker 4>Blow my Mind is my favorite on the New Dream album.

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<v Speaker 3>That's my shit. Yeah, I'm gonna stop. I know, I know,

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<v Speaker 3>I break all the rules. My name is true. Hi,

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<v Speaker 3>nice to meet you.

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<v Speaker 1>It's been a pleasure.

1:28:55.920 --> 1:28:56.599
<v Speaker 3>Pleasure is mine.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, so we got another segment, and I would like

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<v Speaker 2>you to kind of stay into the confines.

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<v Speaker 1>Of what it is. I try please with you. Where

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<v Speaker 1>you build your votron, you build your super r and

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<v Speaker 1>b artists. Okay, okay, you're with me.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm with you.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay. You got the voice, you got the stage performance,

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<v Speaker 1>you got the drip, you know what I mean, because

1:29:28.040 --> 1:29:30.600
<v Speaker 1>they gotta have that fly shit on. And then you

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<v Speaker 1>got the passion of the artists.

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<v Speaker 3>All right.

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<v Speaker 4>The Genesee Kwa songstress attitude of Lauren Heil Showday Okay,

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<v Speaker 4>so you got you got a hybrid, yes, okay. Performance

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<v Speaker 4>style Prince all right, styling somewhere between Grace Johnson, Michael Jack.

1:30:01.680 --> 1:30:06.240
<v Speaker 4>I love Grace Jones, passionate Michael and Tina Marie.

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<v Speaker 1>You're creating. Yeah, I mean it's amazing, but it's looks

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<v Speaker 1>like the production team.

1:30:15.280 --> 1:30:15.760
<v Speaker 4>I would have.

1:30:17.760 --> 1:30:22.800
<v Speaker 3>The dream Quincy Jones Kelly's pen for real, and I

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<v Speaker 3>would be in there too.

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<v Speaker 1>Hollows a writing camp camp.

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<v Speaker 3>It's noon time. Listen, it's a writing camp. No noon time?

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<v Speaker 1>Did that was so legendary? I was there, legendary. I

1:30:41.560 --> 1:30:42.519
<v Speaker 1>was there. Okay.

1:30:42.640 --> 1:30:47.960
<v Speaker 2>So just so people know the voice, the lead singers

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<v Speaker 2>are esque are Lauren Hell and Shot It's a mixture, Okay, okay,

1:30:54.960 --> 1:30:56.000
<v Speaker 2>okay they shared.

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<v Speaker 4>It's a mixture because for me, it's a whole. Like

1:30:59.439 --> 1:31:02.800
<v Speaker 4>I said, Jenn and say Quah of delivery. You know,

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<v Speaker 4>Lauren got that raspiness, she got that because we don't

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<v Speaker 4>really you could sing up and down the scale a

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<v Speaker 4>million times. You could be the best singer out there.

1:31:12.520 --> 1:31:13.600
<v Speaker 3>Can you feel it?

1:31:14.200 --> 1:31:17.519
<v Speaker 1>I gotta feel you gotta feel it. Everything that's something you.

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<v Speaker 4>Offer, is that it's that gravel, is that that shit

1:31:21.040 --> 1:31:23.000
<v Speaker 4>in the throat that everybody can't get. But then you

1:31:23.080 --> 1:31:28.080
<v Speaker 4>want the calm of the calm because delivers without movement,

1:31:28.240 --> 1:31:35.880
<v Speaker 4>like she gives fire and smoke about that life. So

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<v Speaker 4>it's it's it's it's all those things.

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<v Speaker 1>And then who do we have as the performance?

1:31:39.720 --> 1:31:44.519
<v Speaker 2>We had Prince performance Prince Purple Rain, Purple Rain Prince,

1:31:44.760 --> 1:31:47.840
<v Speaker 2>so not under the cherry Moon Prince, but purple Rain Prince.

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<v Speaker 4>Because I don't know if you remember when he got

1:31:49.360 --> 1:31:51.040
<v Speaker 4>on that stage and he was trying to prove to

1:31:51.479 --> 1:31:54.760
<v Speaker 4>appolonia debt, she made the wrong choice.

1:31:54.800 --> 1:31:59.040
<v Speaker 1>If there's algae out there, sometimes you get beside yourself.

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<v Speaker 4>You know.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean he went in that performance, he went in him.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm trying to tell you, listen, let love be the reason, okay,

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<v Speaker 4>and love is the reason you're.

1:32:13.520 --> 1:32:16.760
<v Speaker 3>Gonna perform every time. It's all about love.

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<v Speaker 4>That's what R and B is to me. It's all

1:32:19.960 --> 1:32:25.559
<v Speaker 4>about love. It's not about love. We lose some things, absolutely,

1:32:25.640 --> 1:32:27.439
<v Speaker 4>they lose some things along the way, so you know.

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<v Speaker 1>And then we had Michael Jackson.

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<v Speaker 3>The passion of.

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<v Speaker 4>Our Drip Drip, because the calm of what Mike did

1:32:41.240 --> 1:32:43.160
<v Speaker 4>you know with with with the shirt and the pants

1:32:43.200 --> 1:32:45.880
<v Speaker 4>like he gave you drip, but he gave you calm drip.

1:32:47.000 --> 1:32:49.840
<v Speaker 3>It was like a affusion.

1:32:50.840 --> 1:32:53.960
<v Speaker 4>Yes, you could see Mike with just them Penny Loaf

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<v Speaker 4>his own, but he got them them gleaming some right,

1:32:58.000 --> 1:33:00.920
<v Speaker 4>and he lets you know what the star because of

1:33:01.000 --> 1:33:03.240
<v Speaker 4>the glean but it was still played down so it

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<v Speaker 4>was relatable.

1:33:04.840 --> 1:33:07.599
<v Speaker 3>But then Grace, she gives you show. It's show time

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<v Speaker 3>with Grace and.

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<v Speaker 4>Boomerang because there's a little bit of that element that

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<v Speaker 4>has to happen when people come see a show. That's

1:33:18.360 --> 1:33:20.599
<v Speaker 4>why they go see circ That's why they go see

1:33:20.600 --> 1:33:22.599
<v Speaker 4>those type of shows, because they want to see a show,

1:33:22.760 --> 1:33:25.280
<v Speaker 4>and that that element has been missing recently.

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<v Speaker 3>So after no, man can't deny this.

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<v Speaker 1>That part and our passion was who.

1:33:39.000 --> 1:33:39.280
<v Speaker 3>Tina?

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<v Speaker 1>Our passion turn.

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<v Speaker 4>Tina, Tina, Marie, Tina Marie, I should say Tina Turner,

1:33:43.640 --> 1:33:44.400
<v Speaker 4>God damned.

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<v Speaker 1>So looking healthy, trying to be helpful out.

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<v Speaker 3>Here because it's all about the Tina.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I love the team. I do too, I

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<v Speaker 1>love And then the writing came.

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<v Speaker 3>The riding camp is colorful? Can I explain writing camp?

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, you know, back in the day they used to

1:34:07.840 --> 1:34:12.599
<v Speaker 4>say that that Quincy Jones could be in the room

1:34:12.640 --> 1:34:20.439
<v Speaker 4>with Bootsy or Raphael's a decor, like five different greats

1:34:20.479 --> 1:34:22.840
<v Speaker 4>could be in one room, right of course, and create

1:34:23.400 --> 1:34:24.559
<v Speaker 4>can't do that anymore?

1:34:24.840 --> 1:34:25.120
<v Speaker 1>Why not?

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<v Speaker 4>People arrogant? I'm saying that to say it doesn't happen

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<v Speaker 4>like it used to happen.

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<v Speaker 3>So I brought that bag. Yeah, I brought that back,

1:34:36.200 --> 1:34:38.680
<v Speaker 3>and in my votron, I bought that bag.

1:34:38.760 --> 1:34:39.120
<v Speaker 1>You brought that.

1:34:39.400 --> 1:34:39.960
<v Speaker 3>I bought that back.

1:34:40.479 --> 1:34:41.719
<v Speaker 1>And I respect that all those.

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<v Speaker 4>Greats in one room, masteries coming out of that room.

1:34:44.360 --> 1:34:46.920
<v Speaker 4>You mean, mastery is coming out that room.

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<v Speaker 1>All right. I got one more thing for you, Colub.

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<v Speaker 1>What we got nature name what you did?

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<v Speaker 3>Don't say? She oh, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>Very important part of the show, is it, very very

1:35:25.120 --> 1:35:28.280
<v Speaker 2>very ver part of this show? What will you tell

1:35:28.400 --> 1:35:28.960
<v Speaker 2>us the story?

1:35:30.560 --> 1:35:30.920
<v Speaker 1>Funny?

1:35:31.040 --> 1:35:36.080
<v Speaker 2>Are fucked up? Are funny and fucked up? The only

1:35:36.160 --> 1:35:38.719
<v Speaker 2>rule to the game is you can't say no names.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't have no stories like that.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he got a funny story. You don't got to

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<v Speaker 1>be it, don't have to be fucked up.

1:35:44.320 --> 1:35:46.559
<v Speaker 4>No, I don't have stories where you wouldn't know who

1:35:46.640 --> 1:35:48.200
<v Speaker 4>I was talking about if I said the story.

1:35:49.640 --> 1:35:50.679
<v Speaker 3>I got too many.

1:35:50.520 --> 1:35:51.360
<v Speaker 1>Stories I know.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm sure I'll tell the shortest one.

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<v Speaker 1>Listen is show Danny true hurts. I ain't saying no names.

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<v Speaker 3>This is gonna be a little edgy, is that okay?

1:36:05.160 --> 1:36:05.360
<v Speaker 1>Job?

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<v Speaker 4>So there was a basketball player who decided that this

1:36:17.200 --> 1:36:21.439
<v Speaker 4>is short the sweet who decided that he wanted to

1:36:21.520 --> 1:36:23.920
<v Speaker 4>put my name in the Hall of fame, a bitch

1:36:23.960 --> 1:36:27.360
<v Speaker 4>as he slept with. But I never slept with him, okay.

1:36:27.800 --> 1:36:31.040
<v Speaker 4>And I was like, I thought lying on your d

1:36:31.680 --> 1:36:37.040
<v Speaker 4>was played out and was back in in in the eighties, like.

1:36:38.640 --> 1:36:39.320
<v Speaker 3>Who does that?

1:36:40.160 --> 1:36:42.200
<v Speaker 4>Like my mother used to always say, who does that?

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<v Speaker 4>So I couldn't believe. And at the time I didn't

1:36:46.479 --> 1:36:48.760
<v Speaker 4>know this person right or you even know them? No,

1:36:49.439 --> 1:36:56.639
<v Speaker 4>seven foot fulies at the time, huge basketball player, y'all

1:36:56.680 --> 1:37:00.439
<v Speaker 4>know what I'm talking about. Anyway, I ain't saying names.

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<v Speaker 4>I was so disturbed by this because I knew that

1:37:04.320 --> 1:37:05.679
<v Speaker 4>I hadn't done anything with this person.

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<v Speaker 3>I went to Dre, I said, we gotta write a song.

1:37:12.560 --> 1:37:13.879
<v Speaker 3>We gotta write a song.

1:37:14.360 --> 1:37:21.840
<v Speaker 4>Because I feel disrespected, I feel bamboozled, I feel lit on,

1:37:22.439 --> 1:37:23.879
<v Speaker 4>I feel I don't.

1:37:23.720 --> 1:37:25.040
<v Speaker 3>Know what the fuck I feel. I feel like I

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<v Speaker 3>want to write about it.

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<v Speaker 4>So we wrote this song. When I tell you, this

1:37:28.680 --> 1:37:31.320
<v Speaker 4>song so fucking high, it's called lying. It's called lying

1:37:31.439 --> 1:37:35.760
<v Speaker 4>on yo. Blank space right. It doesn't say it just

1:37:35.760 --> 1:37:36.680
<v Speaker 4>says lying on. Yo.

1:37:37.040 --> 1:37:40.360
<v Speaker 3>I tell you this song is so crazy it never made.

1:37:40.200 --> 1:37:40.880
<v Speaker 1>The light of day.

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<v Speaker 3>But the song is ignorant, did you I.

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<v Speaker 4>Didn't say it, just I just I just I just

1:37:48.880 --> 1:37:53.360
<v Speaker 4>wrote about the fact that we the people shouldn't be

1:37:53.479 --> 1:37:56.040
<v Speaker 4>doing that that day and age, or we shouldn't be

1:37:56.040 --> 1:37:58.479
<v Speaker 4>talking to Yeah, come on, why would you do that?

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<v Speaker 3>Because it came back to me through several reliable sources.

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<v Speaker 3>We dated, but we didn't, and so I was like, Yo,

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<v Speaker 3>we gotta write a song.

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<v Speaker 1>We gotta write a song.

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<v Speaker 3>I wrote the song. We never released the song.

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<v Speaker 4>The irony of the entire thing is, four years later,

1:38:16.320 --> 1:38:19.000
<v Speaker 4>me and this person became friends, and now we're the

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<v Speaker 4>best of friends.

1:38:20.000 --> 1:38:24.080
<v Speaker 3>Oh wow, I told him to his face, you a liar,

1:38:24.120 --> 1:38:25.040
<v Speaker 3>and the truth faint in you.

1:38:26.200 --> 1:38:27.479
<v Speaker 4>And that's how ever, came right.

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<v Speaker 1>But the truth can become your friend.

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<v Speaker 4>And we became the best of friends. And to this

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<v Speaker 4>day we are the best of friends. And he is,

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<v Speaker 4>when I tell you, he is iconic in the game.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know how the discussion when he never explained.

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<v Speaker 3>He laughed.

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<v Speaker 4>I feel like, yeah, I feel like the the discussion

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<v Speaker 4>came from an innocent place.

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<v Speaker 3>And he just didn't correct the situation.

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<v Speaker 4>But I called him on bullshit and from that point

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<v Speaker 4>the story ended as a happy ending.

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<v Speaker 3>And now we're homies. I love that we've been homies.

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<v Speaker 1>Faye. Now that that's that's that's a good story. I

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<v Speaker 1>like that. Yeah, I like I like absolutely absolutely well,

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<v Speaker 1>Miss truth Hurts.

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<v Speaker 2>This has been amazing. You're an amazing person. Your spirit

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<v Speaker 2>is great. I'm so happy that you came and said

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<v Speaker 2>with me like this is important. You're important. Thank you,

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<v Speaker 2>and I want more people to know your story. And

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<v Speaker 2>that's why I love that you've come and hung out.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you so much. Thank you for having me, and

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<v Speaker 3>thank you for doing what you're doing.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm trying.

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<v Speaker 3>No, you're not trying. You're doing and I'm doing.

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<v Speaker 1>And we we also were selling water.

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<v Speaker 3>Mind buying matrix Matrix rich water.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, is on the way, and uh, you know, you

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<v Speaker 2>know Valentine has Valentine candles. Definitely giving it's Truth Hurts

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<v Speaker 2>a candle.

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<v Speaker 3>Where's my candle?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>You are not leaving with that one. Got you, I

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<v Speaker 2>got you so you know. I'm Jay Valentine. This is truth, hurts,

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<v Speaker 2>and this has been R and B money.

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<v Speaker 1>Peace,