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Speaker 1: R and B Money.

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Speaker 2: Thanks take valoti. We are the authority on all R

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Speaker 2: and B ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: Money is tank and this is the R and B

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Speaker 1: Money Podcast.

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Speaker 3: Man be a thorty, be authority. You don't take no

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Speaker 3: short walks around here on all things, all things.

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Speaker 2: R and B, and nothing short about what we do.

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Speaker 2: Even if we walk in it ain't short.

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Speaker 3: It's gotta be long.

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Speaker 2: The walks got long.

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Speaker 3: Walk Come on, come on, come on, because you can't

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Speaker 3: get nothing done on no short walk.

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Speaker 1: Kate, you can't get knocked to know, nobody, to nobody, Oh,

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Speaker 1: no short walk anybody worth getting to.

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Speaker 2: See.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you're telling in your gifts I want dimension them,

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Speaker 1: and there's nothing wrong with that. But now we're about to

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Speaker 1: talk about the avenger of gifts.

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Speaker 2: Sing it.

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Speaker 3: The other people just getting in the way.

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Speaker 1: I like what you're doing there, singing it, writing it,

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Speaker 1: all of it, producing it, spoken, wording it.

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Speaker 2: Is that a way to say that if you want

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Speaker 2: to say it?

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Speaker 3: Huh living the life?

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Speaker 2: Not did it? Yeah? Face on a stamp, man sights

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Speaker 2: on a god damp stamped?

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Speaker 3: How do you pull that up?

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Speaker 2: I'm not just pull it off. She did it.

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Speaker 1: It's the only person. I know they never do it

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Speaker 1: outside Harry Tumpman. Thanks, and gentlemen, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: this woman does all the things she does. And it's

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Speaker 1: still so amazingly graceful and beautiful. And the smile lights

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Speaker 1: up a room, smile like something universe. Excuse me, looks

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Speaker 1: golden to me. Looks golden to me, Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: Without further ado a word, I know, Jill, Miss.

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Speaker 2: Jills got.

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Speaker 4: Finally, we've been.

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Speaker 1: Waiting, missiless because you you do stuff, you be busy.

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Speaker 3: I'll be bothering you know.

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Speaker 2: What I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: Get out of here. He didn't tell me?

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Speaker 3: Did you not tell me?

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Speaker 1: We've been we've been waiting on this. Hi, We've been

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Speaker 1: waiting on this. We've we've been waiting to have the

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Speaker 1: grace and the elegance and the smile, you know, just

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Speaker 1: sitting right there, you know, look.

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Speaker 2: At the smalls and at the internet.

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Speaker 1: Say something differ about that smile. I'm gonna we're gonna start.

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Speaker 1: It's just a wholesome smile to me.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna start the Internet.

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Speaker 2: That's the Lord's smiles at the end of.

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Speaker 3: Mine, as well as they.

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Speaker 2: Say, minus, let me something.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, as a.

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Speaker 1: As a I'm gonna say this with as much humility

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Speaker 1: as I can as a fellow sex symbol.

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Speaker 4: Here we go, Here we go, let's go.

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Speaker 1: How do you how do you receive receive that conversation?

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Speaker 4: How do I receive that conversation?

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Speaker 1: How do you receive like being being seen and viewed?

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Speaker 1: And and do you do you accept your space in

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Speaker 1: this sexy conversation?

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Speaker 4: I don't think I have a choice but to accept it.

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Speaker 4: I come from a family of amazon women.

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Speaker 2: Oh my mama, and yeah.

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Speaker 6: I'm the runt of my family. My mother six to one,

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Speaker 6: my grandmother was five eleven. Then like, oh my aunts.

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Speaker 6: Everybody's like buxom and sauce.

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Speaker 5: Good, do you want to hold them?

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Speaker 3: I still remember it. I still remember the.

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Speaker 4: I feel like.

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Speaker 6: If I felt that way about those women, then I

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Speaker 6: can understand why people will feel that way about me.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's okay, I'm all right, I'm right, But.

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's effortless because it's it's just in

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Speaker 1: the DNA translation so hard.

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Speaker 3: It's in me. It ain't on me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what I don't know if.

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Speaker 7: You're paying attention because it was a pipt Now just

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Speaker 7: happened real quick.

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Speaker 2: This is you know what.

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Speaker 7: The last Philly artists came on here with two music,

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Speaker 7: So y'all came on here.

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Speaker 2: You know what?

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Speaker 3: That that Philadelphia is something different.

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Speaker 4: That was a great interview. I enjoyed that very much.

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Speaker 4: I love music.

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Speaker 6: Ye when when he first started, I was I watched

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Speaker 6: your interview with him and he said something about, you know,

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Speaker 6: being so confident.

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Speaker 4: And honestly know this, y'all, I love you, But I

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Speaker 4: don't remember that.

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Speaker 6: I remember him being very nervous about being on stage,

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Speaker 6: and sometimes I would like hold him from the back

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Speaker 6: and guide him to the mic, you know, because that's

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Speaker 6: what the space was for. Excuse me, that's what the

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Speaker 6: space was for. We had Black Lily and we had

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Speaker 6: the Roots Jam sessions in Philly, so we all got

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Speaker 6: together and musicians were playing and singers were singing. MC's

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Speaker 6: were MC in and we had people that came and

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Speaker 6: paid eight dollars to see a show. And that's where

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Speaker 6: we sharpened our tools. We figured it out. Audiences enjoy this,

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Speaker 6: Audiences like this, they feel good about that. They don't

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Speaker 6: like this, you know, you got to see it from yourself,

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Speaker 6: your own perspective, and then you got a chance to

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Speaker 6: see it from other people as well, you know, watching

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Speaker 6: them perform, like, oh, don't do that, that's not.

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Speaker 4: Jazzy. Fat Nasty's were the hosts.

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Speaker 6: And then I think for the Roots picnic, I mean,

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry the Roots Jam sessions, I don't think there

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Speaker 6: Scott storches on the keys and Thelile is laying on

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Speaker 6: the floor, you know, singing his heart out as you know,

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Speaker 6: the floor. Absolutely, yeah, that's that's that's where I come from.

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Speaker 6: We just kind of sharpened each other and I look

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Speaker 6: and I'm doing all right, you know music, soul, child flowetry,

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Speaker 6: like the list from that time, like people did great. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: That comes with sharpening your tools.

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Speaker 1: If we can go back to before you even got

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Speaker 1: to that stage, like what gets you to the stage

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Speaker 1: with the Roots and all of these amazing artists.

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Speaker 2: Like what gets you there? What start?

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Speaker 1: What kicks it off to where you know and now

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Speaker 1: believe that you have something different that can take you

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Speaker 6: I didn't know about to take them around the world part,

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Speaker 6: Like I didn't know that was real. It just didn't

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Speaker 6: want to work a nine to five, y'all. Like, I

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Speaker 6: just didn't like nine to five. That thing bothered my soul.

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Speaker 6: But this thing felt good. So it started with poetry,

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Speaker 6: which is why I'm still like, if I don't have

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Speaker 4: Like.

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Speaker 6: The words matter so much to me and they give

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Speaker 6: as I could possibly be with every word that I

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Speaker 6: say or sing. Rather, so it started with poetry. I

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Speaker 6: got my feelings hurt some boy, and I wrote a

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Speaker 6: poem about it. I shared it with some women that

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Speaker 6: my god, that was read another one. So I read

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Speaker 6: another one and then I was like, oh that went nice,

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Speaker 6: I'll write another one. And I wrote another one because

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Speaker 6: I was just trying to deal with what this felt like,

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Speaker 6: first heartbreak first. So then I started hearing about poetry readings,

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Speaker 6: and I thought, okay.

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Speaker 4: I'll go.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's i'll pay to get in, you know,

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Speaker 6: I'll get on the list, and then I'll read a

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Speaker 6: poem and see how that goes. Oh that went great,

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Speaker 6: Oh okay, I'll do it again.

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Speaker 3: It went good for you for the first time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah great. I was like, okay, I'll do this again.

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Speaker 4: This is fun. This is fun.

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Speaker 6: I get to see people hang out, you know, people

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Speaker 6: buy me drinks. I don't get any money yet, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, but nonetheless, this feels good. So I continued.

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Speaker 6: And then one night I was in a car with

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Speaker 4: And I was literally across the street from my house.

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Speaker 6: This guy pulls up and he goes listen, knocking on

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Speaker 4: My friend said, I ain't Vincent, it neither she. He

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Speaker 4: was like, Vincent Vincent, come on, man, do me like

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Speaker 6: And then he went and pulled out. I saw the

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Speaker 6: I don't know what I was thinking. I guess I

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Speaker 6: just panicked. So I opened the car door and I

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Speaker 6: just I don't know. I panicked, and he dropped.

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Speaker 4: What he had was on fire, like yeah, so and

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Speaker 6: He thought he had gotten shot because he was burning

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Speaker 6: up because North Philly had always been this place that

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Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, hey, you you know what I mean.

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Speaker 6: Like I was good in the hood, now wasn't. Now wasn't,

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Speaker 6: And that it messed me up, took me off, like

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Speaker 4: I was a friend for the first time in the hood.

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Speaker 6: Now it sounds wild because I grew up, you know,

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Speaker 6: wasn't afraid, But now I was. So I went to

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Speaker 6: a poetry reading the next day in my pajamas because

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I wore my pajamas and I got up to say

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Speaker 6: a poem and I sang and I sang I think

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Speaker 6: what did I sing? I sang Poorgy and bess what's

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Speaker 6: the name of the song?

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Speaker 4: Summertime? Sang Summertime?

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Speaker 6: And when it was done, the room was silent, and

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Speaker 6: then they blew up. Everybody stood up, people started running,

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Speaker 6: you know, oh my god, waiting it this whole time,

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Speaker 6: they didn't know, you know, and I never really said

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Speaker 6: anything because it was mine, my little voice, It was mine,

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Speaker 6: and everybody liked it so much.

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Speaker 4: So I started to do it.

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Speaker 6: Was doing it more because it felt good, you know,

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Speaker 6: like it felt good.

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Speaker 4: So I did it.

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Speaker 6: Again and it went well, and I did it again

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Speaker 6: and then I was like, hey, you know, I'll add

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Speaker 6: some poetry to this singing and see how this works.

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Speaker 4: And it went well.

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Speaker 6: And then I added a DJ and that went well,

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Speaker 6: and it just seemed like this was this was right.

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Speaker 4: You have to be excited.

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Speaker 4: I've seen it.

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Speaker 7: Maybe you need to, you know, you gotta get your money.

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Speaker 6: Yes, you know, whether you're in a lounge, if you

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Speaker 6: But if you could do that, like, then you're living

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to, I want to. I want to

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, it wasn't, is it?

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Speaker 5: And I'd be like a terrifying scary.

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Speaker 4: That it's a high. Yeah, it's a high. And when

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Speaker 4: I don't read music. I wish did. I can still

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Speaker 5: I can still learn how to do it, don't mess

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Speaker 4: But I don't want to mess it up.

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Speaker 4: Hoping I'm waiting to see dy nose what I'm talking about,

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Speaker 2: Yes, but I still don't think he mails with yellow.

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Speaker 4: But he does, or but he does, but they do.

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Speaker 1: Because when you said yellow, I was like, I don't

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Speaker 4: Way, it's your yellow.

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Speaker 1: Because if you said I need it more yellow, but

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Speaker 6: Probably would and I probably would, and I probably do.

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Speaker 1: So I know it does because the way you say

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Speaker 2: It's everything that comes along with the word.

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Speaker 6: I tell them stories and I'll I'll bring in something

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Speaker 4: And they're like in the background singers.

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Speaker 6: You know, they'll come in and do this thing and

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Speaker 6: with me. This is how I how I do it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how we got to this part of

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Speaker 7: It leads to so many different things, right, Like it's

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Speaker 2: We did.

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Speaker 7: We did breakfast club and they asked us about this

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Speaker 7: AI doesn't feel like that. So when his response was

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Speaker 7: I don't care what they're doing over there. They can

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Speaker 3: So what But some people took that as oh, you go.

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Speaker 7: The level of the big you know, I read the comments.

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Speaker 7: Comments don't bother me. They are funny to me, and

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Speaker 7: I'm seeing the people that are just like, oh, you

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Speaker 3: People, nigga.

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Speaker 7: I don't know the AI people, Okay, ship, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: That you're around, they can't recreate that. They can't recreate

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Speaker 4: Sound good though. I heard a couple of thingsund.

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Speaker 2: But I can pick it out. I was like this,

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Speaker 2: Oh that's too good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because there's so much value or there's so

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's the juice.

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Speaker 5: That's the stuff, man, that's the juice.

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Speaker 6: Like in the middle of a show and the musician

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Speaker 8: Look like all right, all right, and then afterwards, you know,

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Speaker 8: do you know it's.

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Speaker 2: Exciting and you need people for that.

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Speaker 4: Yes, you need people for that.

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Speaker 2: You need people for that.

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Speaker 3: But teach your kids prompts.

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Speaker 4: Okay, what the prompts.

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Speaker 7: So the prompts are what you're putting into the program

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Speaker 7: narrative what you're getting back, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 7: Like you just.

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Speaker 3: Got to learn, you know, add your flavor to it.

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Speaker 4: So with like anything else, you just have to feed it.

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Speaker 3: Well you got to feed it.

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Speaker 4: Got it?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, because it's here, it's going back like anything else.

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Speaker 2: Take me to.

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Speaker 1: The Discovery hum of Jill Scott. What what spoken word

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Speaker 1: venue did they find you in?

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Speaker 6: I was everywhere, Yeah, libraries, coffee shops, theaters.

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Speaker 4: Bar mitzvahs.

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Speaker 3: You're doing this every day.

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Speaker 4: I did it whenever I wasn't working or going to school.

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Speaker 7: Because I was going to ask you about that, because

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Speaker 3: Five No, So what job did you have?

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Speaker 4: I worked at Cachet.

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Speaker 6: It was a clothing store for women on Walnut Street

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, was that like the ratchet clothing like it was.

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Speaker 6: we would get them sushi and wine or or sack

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Speaker 4: And this was you know.

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Speaker 4: I adored her.

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Speaker 6: I always made the space real special for her, get

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Speaker 6: her little fresh flowers, you know, because.

447
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 4: She liked that.

448
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 2: And this is in the Philadelphia.

449
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, in the store m hm. So I put her

450
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 6: stuff aside. I would take her size out of everything,

451
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 6: put it to the.

452
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 4: Side, call her up.

453
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 6: I got something and she'd be like, okay, I'm on

454
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,920
Speaker 6: my way. So she would come and we would talk

455
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 6: and she would tell me about her life and I

456
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 6: would listen because she was rich, and I was like,

457
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 6: what happens with.

458
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 4: I want to know?

459
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 6: She gave me an Infinity key from her car because

460
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 6: they didn't need it anymore. It was this huge key

461
00:24:56,040 --> 00:25:00,119
Speaker 6: and I carried it forever until somebody got me for it.

462
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,199
Speaker 6: But it always made me think of her, like the possibilities,

463
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 6: this infinity that I'm holding.

464
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 4: In my hands. Yes, yeah, it's a tangible I dream. Yeah.

465
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,880
Speaker 6: So I don't want to say her name. So one

466
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,119
Speaker 6: day I get a call she wants some stuff. I

467
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 6: have it, I put it aside. I go to her house.

468
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 6: I've never been to her house. I am geeked. There's

469
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 6: a doorman, it's in walking distance. It's fantastic. The chandeliers,

470
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 6: all the stuff. I was like, Oh, I went upstairs.

471
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 6: The elevator had a velvet chair in the elevator. In

472
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 6: this was this they lived in like a condominium, type

473
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 6: of three story penthouse business.

474
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:44,879
Speaker 4: She was rich chucking.

475
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:54,120
Speaker 6: So I go in there and there are backs everywhere,

476
00:25:54,840 --> 00:26:04,239
Speaker 6: unopened backs of new stuff everywhere on the stairwell, in

477
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 6: the kitchen. Their bags were walking around bags as I

478
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,679
Speaker 6: show her what's in the bag, and I think that

479
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,439
Speaker 6: was it for me. I was like, she's got an

480
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 6: addiction and you're not helping. You're not helping at all.

481
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 6: You gotta find something else to do.

482
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:19,640
Speaker 1: Shody.

483
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 3: So that pushed you out of it.

484
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 6: It pushed it turned me off. Wow, because I realized

485
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 6: that I was.

486
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 4: Like hustling her and she had a problem. I didn't

487
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 4: feel good. I don't do you know what I'm saying.

488
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 4: Like I followed the things that feel good and the

489
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 4: things that don't.

490
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 6: I'm like, ah, that's okay. I could do something else.

491
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 6: So I was going to school and I got a call.

492
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 4: I was in.

493
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,919
Speaker 6: I was school to be an English teacher, which was

494
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 6: very exciting. I got my kids to pay attention to Shakespeare.

495
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 4: It was great.

496
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 6: I gave them melodies for Shakespeare and they would do

497
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 6: wop to Shakespeare. They were geeked about it.

498
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 3: You have none of these teachers. I probably would have stayed,

499
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 3: would have graduated.

500
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:10,959
Speaker 4: It was great.

501
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 6: I loved it, but I wanted to do more because

502
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 6: i'm student teaching now. This is like I'm almost there,

503
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 6: and I go to the principal and I was like, listen,

504
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:20,400
Speaker 6: the walls of gray.

505
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 4: Floors are gray, lockers.

506
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 6: Are gray, Like we need some color in this space

507
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 6: because I feel defeated.

508
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:28,400
Speaker 4: When I walk in.

509
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 6: And he said, oh, to be young and idealistic, you'll

510
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 6: get over it soon. That didn't feel good. I was like, not,

511
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 6: I'm not doing this. And on the walk home from

512
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 6: the school, which was around the corner from my house,

513
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 6: I was upset because here I have made three years

514
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 6: in going to school to be an English teacher, and

515
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 6: I realized that I was going to be met with

516
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 6: a bunch of resistance than one resistance.

517
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 4: I feel like it should feel good, it right? So

518
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 4: I'm pissed.

519
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 6: I quit my job. I quit school because I quit school.

520
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 6: I didn't just say I wasn't I was gonna change majors.

521
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 6: I was working two jobs just to go to school.

522
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 6: Like going to school, I'm paying this money and then

523
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 6: I'm owe it to them and I'm never going to

524
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 6: make enough to pay him back.

525
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 4: Like this is this isn't. This doesn't feel good?

526
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:25,199
Speaker 3: I like it.

527
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 6: So I got to my house. I hear the phone ringing,

528
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 6: but I can't find a key. The phone is ringing.

529
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 6: You know the phones that are connected to the wall,

530
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,919
Speaker 6: you know, a house phone the house. Yeah, So I

531
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 6: get the key and I'm not walking fast because I'm like, man,

532
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 6: if I miss it, I miss it. I don't know

533
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 6: who this is. But I get to the phone and

534
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 6: it's a friend. I'm gonna say his name, same as

535
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 6: Ozzie Jones, and Izzie Jones says, what are you doing?

536
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 6: I said nothing. It said, by this time, I'm reading poetry,

537
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 6: I'm singing. He's been saying, I think you're an actress

538
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 6: and now he's a director plays. And I was like, yeah, okay,

539
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 6: you know if you say so okay, and he he says,

540
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 6: there's an apprenticeship at a theater company. It's called the

541
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 6: Ardent Theater Company. It pays two hundred and fifty dollars

542
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 6: a week. They'll give you free acting classes. That's where

543
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 6: he got me. They'll give you free acting classes, but.

544
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 4: You'll work free.

545
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 6: You'll work fourteen hours a day, six days a week,

546
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 6: two hundred and fifty dollars a week and health insurance.

547
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 4: So I'm already at home in my mom's house, you know, okay.

548
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 4: So I interviewed for it and I got it. I

549
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 4: was twenty five, twenty five.

550
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 6: They came in. Everybody in there is white, everybody, rute

551
00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 6: of the dude. Nice people, lovely people are all theater

552
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 6: experience I have none. I don't know what downstage is,

553
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 6: I don't know what stage right is. I don't know anything,

554
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 6: but I'm there, and they worked a snot out of me.

555
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 6: I oh boy, I carried three by fives up three

556
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 6: four flights of stairs. We were building a theater, which

557
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 6: meant there needed to be demolition in this warehouse that

558
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 6: they purchased. So I'm using a jackhammer. I'm using a sledgehammer.

559
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 6: I am mopping the floor in this theater company. It's

560
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 6: pretty big, Okay. I'm mopping the floor. I'm cleaning the toilets,

561
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 6: I'm selling the tickets, I'm sewing the clothes, I'm hanging

562
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 6: the lights, I'm building the sets, the stages. I'm twenty

563
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 6: five right with no idea what I'm gonna do next.

564
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 6: Everybody else is a graduate of Berkeley. They're great graduates

565
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 6: of of of N y U. They're They're these young,

566
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 6: talented people and this is their big opportunity, this theater company.

567
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 6: I didn't know it was my big opportunity because but

568
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 6: I learned so much while I was there. We did

569
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 6: musical theater. Had no idea, you know, I had no idea.

570
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 4: I mean, I knew because I listened to musical theater.

571
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 4: My mother took me to plays. But I came in

572
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 4: there singing s W V so they kind of yes, great,

573
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 4: jam great. They didn't take me seriously until I started

574
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 4: singing Sondheim and then they were like.

575
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 2: Ye, what that is.

576
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 4: It's this guy. I'm sorry, no disrespect. He's written a

577
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 4: lot of amazing plays. But it's time for more theater,

578
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 4: new theater, amazing theater, you know. But I learned everything

579
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 4: from this one theater company. I worked there for two years.

580
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 6: It was only for supposed to be for a year,

581
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 6: but I didn't have anything to do, so I just stayed.

582
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 4: Yes, I stayed and I learned.

583
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 6: And I thank you, Izzie, thank you so much for that,

584
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 6: because that led me to another apprenticeship at another theater company,

585
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 6: the oldest in America. And I got a call from

586
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 6: a girlfriend, Stephanie Renee. Stephanie said, oh, they got their

587
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 6: auditioning for rent.

588
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 4: You should go.

589
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 6: And I was like, but I'm teaching poetry at the camp.

590
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,719
Speaker 6: She's like, well, it's at you know, it's like at

591
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 6: one o'clock. And I started my class with the camp

592
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 6: was early in the morning, so I was like, I'll go.

593
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 6: After I came looking terrible. I had a basketball in

594
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 6: my hand. I was bouncing the ball like I ain't

595
00:32:58,800 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 6: gonna get this shit.

596
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 2: I'm like, where this just tooks?

597
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 6: I just got okay because I was coming from camp

598
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 6: and I played this game.

599
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 4: It was out of minepia. So you know, when you

600
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 4: throw the ball at somebody, somebody says bye, and then

601
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 4: somebody else will say ooh somebody, you know what I mean.

602
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 6: Like We're going around and it was fun and then

603
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 6: we started making rhythms and it was great.

604
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 4: It was fun. Love that.

605
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 6: So here I am auditioning for rent and I ended

606
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 6: up getting a callback, and then I got another call back,

607
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 6: and I got another callback, and I got another callback.

608
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 6: By the sixth time, I said, if these people they

609
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 6: know by now if they want to hire me or not.

610
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 4: They don't want to hire me because I don't have

611
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 4: anything that they all now.

612
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 6: So I'm like, okay if they if they don't, they

613
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 6: don't hire me, you know, like they should know by now, right.

614
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 6: Didn't hear for anything, like two months. So I'm just

615
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 6: working my little.

616
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 4: Jobs doing poetry here.

617
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 6: I'm working at a camp there, you know, whatever I

618
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 6: can do and to keep afloat. And then I get

619
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 6: a call, can you leave in three days to go

620
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 6: do rent in Canada. I've never been out of the

621
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,240
Speaker 6: country round myself like this is wild. I said, yes,

622
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 6: how much you say? How much you say?

623
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,320
Speaker 4: It was great.

624
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 6: I think at the time I was getting like seventeen

625
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 6: hundred dollars a week plus seven hundred dollars per dim.

626
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 6: I had nothing. I had nothing, so this was great,

627
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 6: a great opportunity. And I went out of the country

628
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 6: and I did Rent and it was great. That people

629
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 6: were awesome. I love them. We had such a good time,

630
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 6: such sweet spirits, and the rent heads were amazing.

631
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,760
Speaker 4: Those are the people who loved the play.

632
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 6: And they would sleep outside the theater and they had

633
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 6: pictures of you, and they would it.

634
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 2: Was like Rent was a big deal.

635
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 4: It was.

636
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 2: It was. It was a little bit of big deal.

637
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 4: It was a little bit.

638
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 3: It was.

639
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 4: It was enough for me. But it was good and

640
00:34:58,680 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 4: I enjoyed that.

641
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,439
Speaker 6: And then they asked me if I wanted to do go.

642
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 4: To Broadway, and I didn't. I didn't.

643
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 6: There is a gift of discipline in theater that I

644
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 6: will have in two instances.

645
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 4: One I'll be broke.

646
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 6: Or it's amazing one or the other. You feel what

647
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:33,280
Speaker 6: I'm saying. If I'm broke, I might be on Broadway.

648
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 6: That sounds wild, or if it's amazing, like if I

649
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 6: need a job because that hustle, that mindset, that day

650
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 6: to day, being in the same light with the same people,

651
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,720
Speaker 6: We're in the same clothes, saying the same thing, almost

652
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 6: the same way.

653
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 4: You didn't experience that, God bless you didn't. I don't

654
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 4: think I would. I would have cracked.

655
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

656
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 6: So I had to choose between I know I jumped,

657
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 6: didn't I I had to choose between a record deal

658
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 6: or Broadway Broadway.

659
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,479
Speaker 3: Yes. Oh, they were on the table at the same time.

660
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 4: Yes, And I chose the record deal.

661
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, I.

662
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 3: Listen. I've only been to Broadway to see take So

663
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 3: I would.

664
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 4: Love to have that experiment. I just wanted to be

665
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 4: something that's amazing. Yeah, like real bad. I really wanted. Yeah.

666
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 6: So, how I got the record deal? I had been calling.

667
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:34,720
Speaker 6: So now I'm a poet in the city.

668
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 4: People know they're paying up the forty five dollars to

669
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 4: have me come and perform it. That's stuff, you know.

670
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 6: So I thought I could probably write a song. So

671
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 6: I started writing little songs songs before No, no, right,

672
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 6: I'm just a poet writing poet.

673
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 4: So I was like, I probably could write a song.

674
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 4: Yeah maybe.

675
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 6: So I started calling the producers that I knew, because

676
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 6: these jam sessions had all the musicians at them.

677
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 4: You know, are all of these James.

678
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 6: Poyser's playing Questlove is playing the drums, Scott Storage is

679
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 6: on the keys, like the Leonnard Hubbard's on the base,

680
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,240
Speaker 6: what are we talking about?

681
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 4: Thaddyus Trebette.

682
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 6: All of these amazing musicians are in Adam Blackstone.

683
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 4: They're all there.

684
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 6: So I started calling the studios that they told me

685
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 6: they were working at. And because I'd never been to

686
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 6: a studio before, so I was like, not a real one,

687
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 6: somebody's basement one time. But I called and nobody called

688
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 6: me back. And I called every day, nobody called me

689
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 6: back for like six months, and then eventually I was

690
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 6: on the street headed to the Theater Company because I

691
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 6: was doing something with them. And there's Jazzy Jeff and

692
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 6: on the street with Rich Medina, a very popular poet

693
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 6: in Philadelphia at the time. So I know Rich, and

694
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 6: there is Jazzy Jeff, and I've been calling his studio.

695
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 4: Yes, so I don't have a lot for him.

696
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 6: Hi, I never met the man in my life, like

697
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 6: it was right, because I called every day you know

698
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 6: what I'm saying, like, come on, man, somebody the musicians

699
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 6: know me. They should, I know they do. Andre Harris

700
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 6: like they know me. Dremvidal they're working with him. Like

701
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 6: somebody should be like, you should let her come?

702
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 4: Nobody did.

703
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 6: So I was like hi, and then I went on

704
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 6: about my business and Jeff, according to Rich, said who's that.

705
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 4: He said, that's Jill Scott. He said, that's Jill Scott.

706
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,280
Speaker 4: He said, yes, that's Joe Scott.

707
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 6: Then I got a call can I come? And I

708
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 6: was mad, but I went. But I was mad, but

709
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 6: I went. So I get over there and there's there's

710
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 6: music in every room in this studio, there's every everybody

711
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 6: is playing something amazing in each room.

712
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 4: And I'm walking around. I don't know what to do.

713
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 4: I don't I mean, what am I supposed to do?

714
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 4: What am I supposed to do?

715
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 6: I don't know.

716
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 4: So I'm just there and I know people, so I'm like, hey,

717
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 4: what's up? But they're in work mode, you know, they're focused,

718
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 4: They're touching things, you know, and hidding stuffies. And I

719
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 4: was like, oh, I don't know, I don't know, but

720
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 4: I'm here.

721
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 6: I'm cracking jokes and you know, but it seems like

722
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 6: my time's up and nobody's giving me any music to

723
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 6: write too. And I'm like, oh, so, who what are

724
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 6: you gonna do with the studio?

725
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 4: And Jeff was like, yeah, just like that. He was like,

726
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 4: what do you mean. I was like, you got a

727
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 4: lot of exposed would here. You should probably staying in

728
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 4: pole your thing neck and he was I think it

729
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 4: would look very nice. And he was like, you're not

730
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 4: think I wouldn't think it would look nice.

731
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 6: And I was like, I could do that for you,

732
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 6: and I did. I stayed in pole. You're thing in

733
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:04,240
Speaker 6: the lobby.

734
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 2: If you do.

735
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 4: So I could be there. That's how I got to stay.

736
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 4: Oh this is great, so I could be there because

737
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,720
Speaker 4: I didn't want to. It was so great, but nobody

738
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 4: was giving me anything to do.

739
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 7: But you have to I was explaining this to my son.

740
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 7: In life, you have to create a need. If someone

741
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 7: doesn't need you for something, that means like you have

742
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 7: to like, okay, what's missing around here?

743
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 3: Oh they need and such and such here? Hey, I

744
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 3: can do that. Most people most humans don't think that way.

745
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't want to go, and you got to

746
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: end this part too. They don't even know sometimes that

747
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:52,399
Speaker 1: they needed until you.

748
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 3: Say, because he didn't know he did.

749
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 2: He was fine with the raw wood. He was he

750
00:40:59,600 --> 00:40:59,959
Speaker 2: was good.

751
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 6: So I stayed in polyr Thainly Lobby and I hummed

752
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 6: a lot and I.

753
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 4: Listened whenever the door will open. I almost died because

754
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 4: poll of your thing is very, very strong, so I

755
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:16,399
Speaker 4: had to hold the door open.

756
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 3: Had building sets.

757
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 4: My mother told me how to stay in pot of

758
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 4: your thing.

759
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yes, your family's amazing Amazons. And they do stuff.

760
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 6: Lay down hardwood, forward, make your pair of pants, make

761
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 6: you smoothie that you won't have to eat it all

762
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 6: for the next two days like they do these things.

763
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, she could do it. Amazing these women. Yeah.

764
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:48,760
Speaker 6: So one day I'm there, I'm listening in the room, listening,

765
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 6: and I don't know who was it might have been Jeff,

766
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 6: but he gave me a tape with a bunch of

767
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 6: songs on it. I wrote to everything that I heard

768
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 6: because I didn't know not.

769
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 4: To like something. I was like, the job is you

770
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 4: write a song? Everything on here.

771
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 6: So on the bus I would write while I was

772
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 6: actually while I was auditioning for rent. On the bus

773
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 6: from Philadelphia to New York I would write the songs

774
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 6: to the tape he gave me, So mind you rent disappears,

775
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 6: They're disappeared. They're going for a couple of months. But

776
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 6: I'm coming to the studio pretty regularly just to be there,

777
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 6: and Jeff decided to give me a ride home, which

778
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 6: I thought was huge. Jazzy Jeff is giving me a

779
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 6: ride home in North Philly. I was like, you know,

780
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 6: I living in North Philly, right. He's like, yeah, yeah,

781
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 6: I'll take you home. I was like, it's in North

782
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 6: Philly where I live.

783
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:45,919
Speaker 4: He he was like, I take you home.

784
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 6: And I was like, okay. So a couple of things happened.

785
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 6: We're in the car. This lady jumps out of the

786
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 6: car from behind us.

787
00:42:55,400 --> 00:43:00,760
Speaker 4: And she's screaming and hollering Jazzy Jeff, Jasey Jeff, Jessey Jeff.

788
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 6: And he rolls down the window and she's just talking

789
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 6: to him. Her car door's open, and there was a

790
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 6: baby in the back seat. I could see it from

791
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 6: the rear view, and I was like, this is fame.

792
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 5: Mm hmm, Like that's nuts.

793
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 4: Excuse me.

794
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 6: I'm like, that's nuts for that to even happen. Scared

795
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 6: the hell out of me. Scared me pretty good. But nonetheless,

796
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 6: on after we after we left that lady, he put it.

797
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 6: I put in the tape and I sang a long

798
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 6: walk and he was like, you sing. I was like,

799
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 6: I'm just showing you how it goes. And he was like,

800
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 6: you sing to.

801
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 2: The hold on to the actual track. Yeah, long walk track.

802
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was done.

803
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:55,320
Speaker 2: It was done, and right there in his face, yeah okay.

804
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,919
Speaker 6: Yeah, and he liked it, and I liked it too,

805
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 6: and uh.

806
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,240
Speaker 4: And I liked it too. I liked it so much.

807
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 6: And then he was like you sing and I just agreed, yes, yeah, okay,

808
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 6: if you say so. Singing with something that was mine,

809
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 6: it's personal, so at.

810
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 3: This point you don't want to share.

811
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 6: It, nah, Jesse Jeff said, I was good, So I

812
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 6: figured I might be.

813
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 4: That just might be.

814
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 6: And then when you know, when I after that crazy

815
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 6: night with the high guy at Vincent, that felt good too.

816
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 4: You know, I think I can. I think I can.

817
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, I think I think I can. So I started,

818
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 6: you know, I'm singing all the songs.

819
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 4: They said, you go in the studio, what do I

820
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 4: do it here?

821
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:55,479
Speaker 6: I don't touching, you know, They're like oh, I didn't

822
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 6: get that, And I'm like, okay, I sang things from

823
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 6: the top to the bottom, top to the bottom, tip

824
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 6: to the bottom. Every time I didn't know that you

825
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,439
Speaker 6: stopped and start again.

826
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 4: Well I didn't know that.

827
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:11,760
Speaker 2: You don't. You don't have to.

828
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,280
Speaker 4: Now you don't. I mean, well I didn't.

829
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: You You were doing something different. You had a different

830
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 1: kind of gift.

831
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 6: Each one was a different version version of it, which

832
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 6: is why theater and I. You know, somebody's got to

833
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 6: work with me and him or I got to work

834
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 6: for it, either or or both. But you know, they're

835
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 6: just collecting these songs. That's when I was auditioning for Rent.

836
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 6: This is happening all at the same time. I'm still

837
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 6: doing all of these things. And I got Rent and

838
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,359
Speaker 6: I was like, all right, y'all, I see you when

839
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,399
Speaker 6: I get back. And that's when I got the call

840
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 6: while I was over, while I was in Vancouver that

841
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 6: I got a record deal.

842
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 3: So somebody was shopping.

843
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,879
Speaker 6: Somebody, Yes, yes, they were shopping. While I think I'm

844
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 6: just recording stuff. I think I'm just recording. I didn't

845
00:45:58,239 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 6: think about a record deal.

846
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 3: What saw me? Demo?

847
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 6: Is it the way a long walk getting in a way. Slowly, surely, slowly,

848
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 6: surely was fun. I didn't know the microphone was here,

849
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,319
Speaker 6: and I was like I should. In my head, I

850
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,240
Speaker 6: was like, I should sound like I'm walking away. Walking

851
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 6: away would be a good thing. So I started backing

852
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 6: up out of the studio and I opened the door.

853
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 6: You could hear the door opening in the in the recording,

854
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:31,800
Speaker 6: and I'm backing out and I'm going slow tiptoe away surely,

855
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 6: and then I closed the door and it was done.

856
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 4: I didn't know. I don't know.

857
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:44,359
Speaker 6: Like now, it's wild to me how much I didn't know,

858
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 6: and how wonderful it was to find out stuff. Just

859
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:53,839
Speaker 6: learn as I go, try and see, and you never

860
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,280
Speaker 6: know what to work or what won or anything. I'm

861
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 6: very grateful that I had to touch a jazz because

862
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,360
Speaker 6: they were very supportive. They were like brothers to me.

863
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 6: I was in a safe environment. They took care of me.

864
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:10,919
Speaker 6: We shared cheese steaks, you know what I'm saying, because

865
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 6: we had to, because we had to being in that

866
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 6: kind of space where so many dip Carvin Hagen's Love

867
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 6: You Forever. That's my cousin. He's my actual biological cousin.

868
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 6: We found out Wow.

869
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:27,320
Speaker 4: Carvin Hagen's is he produced a lot of music, right, okay,

870
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 4: of course?

871
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 3: Is now just.

872
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, that was a great environment. I suggest

873
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 4: that to any.

874
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 3: So have you already written you got me before?

875
00:47:59,080 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 4: Yes?

876
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 6: Yes, I was at a poetry reading. I think this

877
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 6: might have been all happening at the same time. You

878
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 6: just don't know, you know what's happening like, you don't

879
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,959
Speaker 6: know no way to know all the pieces that are

880
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 6: moving in your favor. You have no idea met a

881
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 6: poetry reading, there's questlove. He says, hey, you write songs.

882
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,359
Speaker 4: I say yes, I.

883
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 6: Hadn't written songs yet. He said, I need you to

884
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 6: write a hook. Can you write a hook? I was

885
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 6: like yes, and I went where he told me to go,

886
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 6: which happened to be with the guy from the poetry readings,

887
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:38,359
Speaker 6: Scott Storge.

888
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 4: Scott Scott, what up? He said, you want to you know,

889
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 4: let's burn one and let's write something. I said, okay.

890
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 4: He played one melody. I sang one thing, and then

891
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 4: we went out to dinner.

892
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 3: And you forgot about it.

893
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, Scott gave it to the roots. The roots loved it.

894
00:48:56,080 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 4: Erica sang it ended up winning a Grammy. Just try

895
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:07,720
Speaker 4: and stuff, try to stuff, try to stop, try to stop,

896
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 4: give it a shot. See what happens.

897
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 3: This path is amazing. I know it's amazing. I know

898
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 3: it's amazing.

899
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 7: But the one thing that I've noticed is that you

900
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 7: were prepared for every opportunity that came your way. Why

901
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 7: but even if you weren't, you were willing to go

902
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 7: after it and to learn.

903
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you were prepared.

904
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 1: You were. You were because because because not in terms

905
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: of you understanding technical structure right and how things are

906
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:47,879
Speaker 1: supposed to go. But to me, ultimately what worked is

907
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 1: how things were supposed to go for you. Yep, you

908
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 1: stumbled on or you created something that felt good to

909
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 1: you during that process, and like.

910
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 6: The results of that, twenty five, twenty six years later,

911
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:12,760
Speaker 6: it's still good.

912
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 2: Oh it's so good.

913
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:16,399
Speaker 4: It's still good, still feels good.

914
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,320
Speaker 6: I'm still getting jobs and you know, I'm still meeting

915
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 6: amazing people.

916
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 4: They're like, you want to write something with me? Yes,

917
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:23,359
Speaker 4: yes I do.

918
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 3: It's still taking us four years for you to come

919
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 3: sit down with us. So yeah, it's still still working.

920
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 4: Work.

921
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:30,800
Speaker 7: It was looking for you when we first started, we

922
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 7: were trying to be a penciled in.

923
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 3: We're trying to figure it out?

924
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 2: What about next month? Right? Yea, I don't believe that.

925
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't believe that. I think I would

926
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:41,799
Speaker 4: have been told.

927
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:44,800
Speaker 3: Listen, we we weren't ready yet.

928
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you.

929
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 3: Know we had we had to reach a certain level,

930
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 3: but we didn't have.

931
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 2: So let me ask you a question and.

932
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 1: In like, you're like this space that you live in,

933
00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 1: and like, yes you know, Okay, yes I can Yep,

934
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 1: now I got it.

935
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 2: You live in this really cool.

936
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 3: You.

937
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 1: You know, you know what you are, right, But you're not.

938
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 1: You're not boastful, You're not You're not any of those

939
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: things to where you would project yourself to be more

940
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,720
Speaker 1: than or all you know, or or better than you do.

941
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: You never do that, right, I would, but foolish. But

942
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: at what point do you Because when you drop this

943
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: album with all these monsters on.

944
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 3: It, on the demo, the from the demo, do you do.

945
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 1: You get to at some point look at yourself in

946
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,440
Speaker 1: the mirror and say I am a superstar?

947
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 4: Never?

948
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 6: No, no, I have no no. I've been waiting for

949
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 6: this time my whole life, my whole life, I have

950
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 6: been waiting to be this age I've been I've been waiting.

951
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 4: To be this full. You can take that literally, figuratively,

952
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 4: whatever way you want to. I've been waiting for this.

953
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:09,879
Speaker 6: Because I watched my my, my aunt and my mother.

954
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 6: I watched these women bloom into something else in front

955
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 6: of my eyes. So I've been waiting for this. Oh,

956
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 6: I've been waiting for this. I don't know what's going

957
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 6: to happen. I don't know when. I do know that

958
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:24,720
Speaker 6: I have an album coming.

959
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, new album, Yes album.

960
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 6: Yes, I said would have said, I meant what I meant,

961
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:36,920
Speaker 6: and I'm really proud of that.

962
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 4: I'm really proud of that. But I've been waiting for this.

963
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 4: This is this is this.

964
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:44,359
Speaker 6: Is the age I've been waiting for. I don't know

965
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 6: what it is about this, but I'm very excited to

966
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 6: be here. I'm very happy that I'm still able able,

967
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 6: very happy to be here. And and that's what it is.

968
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 6: I'm not ready for that. I'm not ready for that.

969
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 6: I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. This is

970
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 6: the whole honest God, light skinned girls in North Philly

971
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 6: had to fight for their lives. I never understood what

972
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 6: was happening around me. My grandmother is so brown that

973
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 6: her nickname was blue. I could not figure out, for

974
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:26,959
Speaker 6: the life of me why light skin and long hair

975
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 6: equated beautiful. I could not get it. It didn't make

976
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 6: sense to me. And then I felt like I could

977
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 6: be possibly light skinned with long hair.

978
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,880
Speaker 4: Can't do anything about it. My cousin's a hairdresser. She

979
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 4: does my hair. She keeps looking nice.

980
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 2: You know.

981
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:44,399
Speaker 6: My mother goes to the good thrift stores. You know,

982
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 6: she gets me loafers with dimes in it.

983
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:48,319
Speaker 4: You know, Like, I.

984
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 6: Can't stop this this part. But what I will not

985
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 6: do is I will not be conceited.

986
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 4: I will not.

987
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 6: It's not gonna happen ever ever. Ever I made I

988
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:04,840
Speaker 6: won't say I made a deal, because that's that's not

989
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 6: my place.

990
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 4: But we had a.

991
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:11,719
Speaker 6: Conversation, me and the Good Lord. We talked about humility

992
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 6: and remaining even keeled. And I was twelve. That was

993
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 6: I remember very well, and the what the price for

994
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 6: becoming egotistical? I don't want to pay it. So I

995
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:37,399
Speaker 6: will remain myself and I will I will not. I'm

996
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 6: not gonna be with with what they want me to be.

997
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 4: All the time.

998
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 6: Maybe sometimes, but whatever that like, superior, whatever that is.

999
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:54,760
Speaker 4: I don't. I cannot. I don't want to pay that price,

1000
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 4: and that's what it is. Period.

1001
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 2: Well it warn't be money.

1002
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 4: Hm hmmm.

1003
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:08,239
Speaker 2: We're allowed to let you know.

1004
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 3: I thought you ain't got to said yourself.

1005
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 2: We're gon We're allowed to let you know. Oh boy, you're.

1006
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 3: An absolute you are to be celebrated us.

1007
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 2: Yes, you are forced to reckon with the universe. Of

1008
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:26,760
Speaker 2: all times I've.

1009
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 3: Seen you can't, I've been you need a friend, I

1010
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 3: just yes and no. Yes, but I'll say no because.

1011
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:40,879
Speaker 4: But I'm gonna say yes to be.

1012
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 7: Able to command that m because I've seen so many

1013
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 7: people in that super Dome.

1014
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.

1015
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 7: That super Dome will swallow your ass up period you

1016
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 7: think you ready and will.

1017
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 3: Go back to that what they called the super lowns.

1018
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 9: A super lown take your ass back to super or

1019
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 9: some off site.

1020
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, take your back to Convintion Center.

1021
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 2: You wore the House of Blues kind of super the.

1022
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 7: Super with this echo and these people that's walking back

1023
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:19,279
Speaker 7: to go get to what they call.

1024
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:22,839
Speaker 3: The bud An in the fact they're gonna eat.

1025
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 2: They're going.

1026
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:26,760
Speaker 7: But when Jill Scott gets on there, man, please, everyone

1027
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 7: is doing.

1028
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 2: This, man, please, they running today? Yeah. Else the feeling.

1029
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:36,919
Speaker 3: Good, feeling good.

1030
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, and it's and that's why I say, for

1031
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 7: me seeing you in that type of space, I just

1032
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:46,640
Speaker 7: respect it in a different light because I've seen when

1033
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:49,239
Speaker 7: artists go from different you know, different venues and how

1034
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 7: they I already know what you're gonna do at the

1035
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:54,680
Speaker 7: Blue Note, I know what you're gonna do at some ropes.

1036
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying you. That room's gonna be incredible.

1037
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 7: But sixty seventy thous and people acting like they're in

1038
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 7: the summer.

1039
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 2: That's that part. You turn, you turn, don't.

1040
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 7: Know the person next to them, literally from across the country.

1041
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 3: That's different.

1042
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 4: That is good, it's different.

1043
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 3: That that's great.

1044
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:17,959
Speaker 4: Thank you, it's great.

1045
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 7: I seen my own eyes and then you know, you did.

1046
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 7: The microphone stuff.

1047
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:24,440
Speaker 3: Went on went on the internet.

1048
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got yeah, viral, lots of conversations, lots of

1049
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 4: conversations about that one.

1050
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 7: So can I ask, since we're there, yes, was that

1051
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 7: premeditated for you?

1052
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 3: Like, okay, I'm going to add this to my show.

1053
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 6: No, no, no, it kind of happened one night. I

1054
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 6: was talking about conflict resolution.

1055
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 3: Conflict, conflict, conflict.

1056
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 2: In going through.

1057
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 4: Sometimes you know, it's alution.

1058
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 6: Sometimes and that's what we were talking about. And it

1059
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:14,800
Speaker 6: was so funny and it worked so well that I

1060
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 6: added it to the show. And I must have been

1061
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 6: doing that skit maybe off and on for about five

1062
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 6: years before it went viral.

1063
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 4: So my audience, God bless you, love you. They kept

1064
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 4: it amongst us for five years, they kept it together.

1065
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 4: It was it was.

1066
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 6: A secret funny. It was a secret you know, key

1067
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:39,840
Speaker 6: key between us. And then somebody was there and they

1068
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 6: didn't they didn't know what was happening, and they were

1069
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 6: like what. And then it went viral and I was like, damn,

1070
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 6: you're not going to understand out of context.

1071
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:50,479
Speaker 4: But what I do during my show.

1072
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 6: I grew up watching like Bette Midler and Carol Burnett

1073
00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 6: and Whoopi Goldberg and in the middle of the show,

1074
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 6: you know, just stop and I'll maybe I'll do a

1075
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 6: monologue or a joke or like I used to have

1076
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 6: this thing called ball Fresh, you know, for for for.

1077
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:10,439
Speaker 4: Men whose balls.

1078
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 2: Think that's where I thought this, and.

1079
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:15,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I would every time I would, I would

1080
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 6: do a commercial for ball Fresh.

1081
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 4: And every time I would do a commercial, yes, it

1082
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 4: was a commercial in the middle of the show.

1083
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 6: And then I had a can, it had a BF

1084
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 6: on it and all kinds of flowers and stuff. And

1085
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 6: then I'd be like, if your balls stink terribly, why

1086
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 6: don't you trying? You know, got to cue my triangle,

1087
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 6: think ball fresh? And you know, then I would get

1088
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 6: the musicians. I'd be like, hey, so tell me about

1089
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 6: your story, and they would go in the character and

1090
00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 6: tell me.

1091
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 3: You know, my wife, it had the smell of my balls.

1092
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 5: You should smell like garbage juice.

1093
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 4: And you know then, well, and now you tried ball fresh.

1094
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1095
00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 6: So we had a bunch of things and that one

1096
00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 6: just happened to go crazy.

1097
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 4: And here's the thing. I grew up listening to Millie Jackson. Yep,

1098
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 4: me and my mom in the basement with some man

1099
01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 4: of chevins listening to the pointed sisters and Milly Jackson,

1100
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 4: what are you talking about? All the way live.

1101
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 2: Out?

1102
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 4: And I loved it. I loved it.

1103
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 6: Like I said, I come from Amazon women. They are

1104
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 6: not shy about any parts of themselves and are beloved

1105
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 6: for it.

1106
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 4: I watch my aunts, I watch my.

1107
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 6: Mom, I watch men fall at their feet, anything you want, Annie,

1108
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:54,840
Speaker 6: And it was. It was wonderful, fascinating. Sometimes they be

1109
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 6: a size eight or ten. Sometimes they be a size twenty.

1110
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:00,920
Speaker 6: It didn't seem to make a difference. They still had

1111
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 6: the same effect on the men. They had that effect

1112
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 6: on And I watched that, and I have no reason

1113
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 6: to not be all of myself. They're like, oh, she

1114
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 6: put it down her throat. No, I just made you

1115
01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 6: think I did. I just made you think I did.

1116
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 6: I'm an actor, That's what I do. I made it

1117
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 6: look good, real good.

1118
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 2: I mean, you're an actor for sure, not just an actor.

1119
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 4: I mean I've I've learned.

1120
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:37,480
Speaker 6: I've had a great experience acting from you know, like

1121
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:39,760
Speaker 6: I said, building the sets and hanging the lights and

1122
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 6: so on, the costumes and running lines with great actors,

1123
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 6: really amazing actors that have gone on to do TV

1124
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:59,560
Speaker 6: shows and Broadway plays, and like I see them.

1125
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:03,320
Speaker 3: You consider yourself first a writer, a writer. So that's

1126
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:05,920
Speaker 3: the first thing of all things. Somebody asks you just

1127
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 3: got what are you a writer?

1128
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:14,120
Speaker 7: Yep, Because we had that conversation with Till about what

1129
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 7: we the occupation.

1130
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:18,240
Speaker 2: And what do you what do you?

1131
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 7: What do you write down? Is your occupation? What did

1132
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:22,919
Speaker 7: he say it's crazy about?

1133
01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:25,919
Speaker 3: He writes down a boxer, he writes down the way

1134
01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 3: a boxer.

1135
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 4: He's a boxer first, walking around like.

1136
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 7: Because to me, like I was saying on that episode

1137
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:35,800
Speaker 7: that I just didn't consider what we do to be

1138
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:41,720
Speaker 7: work like this is something I just love, all forms

1139
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:43,560
Speaker 7: of entertainment. It's just what I love to do. So

1140
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:45,600
Speaker 7: I don't I don't really know what to put. I've

1141
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:46,520
Speaker 7: never known what to put.

1142
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:50,200
Speaker 4: So writer, what do you put?

1143
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:55,400
Speaker 2: I think I just put entertainer trying a whole bunch

1144
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:57,440
Speaker 2: of shit too. Those it's like a label owner.

1145
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:00,919
Speaker 3: That sounds cool, that sounds good.

1146
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:02,080
Speaker 2: A doctor.

1147
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:04,960
Speaker 3: I do have a doctor, Jay Irving, when I grow up?

1148
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 2: Label owner? Label owner?

1149
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 4: When did I meet you? Jay Irving?

1150
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:16,720
Speaker 6: At the five spot and one of those jam sessions?

1151
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:18,240
Speaker 6: And when did I meet you?

1152
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:18,840
Speaker 4: Sean Ge.

1153
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 2: What?

1154
01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 3: I'm in high school?

1155
01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, we go back.

1156
01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 6: We went on a prom together. Well we we had

1157
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 6: different dates, but we weren't.

1158
01:03:32,240 --> 01:03:34,120
Speaker 3: Prom's y'all was in the same lemoy.

1159
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 2: That is great, that's great.

1160
01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:44,000
Speaker 4: Jay Irving and Seawan Gee. It's a what a blessed existence.

1161
01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 7: I tell you now, y'all, what I will say, And

1162
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:48,000
Speaker 7: I've said this to a lot of people, and y'all

1163
01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:51,120
Speaker 7: may disagree because you're all from there. But in the business,

1164
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 7: Philly stick together.

1165
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:56,480
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, for the most part, I would say, yeah.

1166
01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 2: Y'all got y'all know who everybody is?

1167
01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:00,360
Speaker 3: Yeah for sure, Yeah yeah, definitely all each other.

1168
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1169
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 7: But I'm saying that it's a lot of you guys

1170
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:07,640
Speaker 7: and girls who do business together, you know what I mean.

1171
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:09,400
Speaker 7: Where it's just like, oh no, I'm gonna do that

1172
01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:12,080
Speaker 7: deal with with Jay. I'm gonna do that deal with Sean.

1173
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 7: Are you meet somebody from Philly and they're like, oh yeah.

1174
01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:17,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, gave me.

1175
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 7: I was Actually the way I met Sean Stockman from

1176
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 7: Voice to Men is I pulled up on dram Vidal

1177
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:27,680
Speaker 7: years ago.

1178
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:29,400
Speaker 3: Uncle Mark, Uncle Mark.

1179
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:31,400
Speaker 7: Uncle Mark told me come to the studio, off fly

1180
01:04:31,520 --> 01:04:35,400
Speaker 7: to Philly, and I ended up meeting Sean Stocking. I'm like, girl,

1181
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:40,040
Speaker 7: loving you my whole like this is twenty plus years ago.

1182
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:41,400
Speaker 4: Sean would not remember me.

1183
01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:46,360
Speaker 6: My girlfriend knew with somebody, and we ended up going

1184
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 6: to Mike's house and Mike had a dog.

1185
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:56,280
Speaker 4: I'm not supposed to say names. Mike had a.

1186
01:04:56,160 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 6: Dog, and the dog I'm sorry, it was horrendous. Somebody

1187
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:04,520
Speaker 6: had mixed like a terrier and a hot like a bull.

1188
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 6: No it was like a pit bull and a hot

1189
01:05:06,520 --> 01:05:09,640
Speaker 6: dog together. So it was big up top and it

1190
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:12,560
Speaker 6: had these little tiny legs, and it scared me.

1191
01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:14,640
Speaker 4: You know, what is that?

1192
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 3: What is that?

1193
01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:19,120
Speaker 6: And Mike got so mad that he picked me up

1194
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 6: and put me out his house nowhere.

1195
01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:24,200
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she gotta go.

1196
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 4: About his dog, about his dog, and had to get

1197
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:30,800
Speaker 4: and put he put me out.

1198
01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:34,520
Speaker 6: My coat was inside everything. They were all there. They

1199
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 6: wouldn't remember.

1200
01:05:35,240 --> 01:05:36,200
Speaker 4: That, but I do.

1201
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:39,080
Speaker 3: That's such a great story.

1202
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:41,560
Speaker 4: Years later I bought Mike's house.

1203
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:47,520
Speaker 1: From nobody kicking me out of it.

1204
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:50,840
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1205
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:54,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, years later I bought the house. Well, I mean

1206
01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:55,320
Speaker 3: he sold it the dogs.

1207
01:05:56,200 --> 01:05:57,280
Speaker 2: You could have bought any house.

1208
01:05:58,880 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 4: No, I like that house.

1209
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 2: I bet you did.

1210
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:03,720
Speaker 3: I got some ship that I still got to go

1211
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 3: back again, ye.

1212
01:06:08,320 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 2: Coming back again.

1213
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:12,240
Speaker 3: I don't think about it that way, but that's how

1214
01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 3: I go. Yeah, baby face bought the Solar building like

1215
01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:19,200
Speaker 3: this is how. This is what music can do for you,

1216
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:21,400
Speaker 3: beside to you one.

1217
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:24,280
Speaker 2: Day that I can buy the building. Get out, get out.

1218
01:06:24,920 --> 01:06:26,440
Speaker 3: I wish your nigga would carry me out.

1219
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 4: I'm coming back and by its supposed to be like that,

1220
01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 4: but it just worked out like that. It just worked

1221
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:32,680
Speaker 4: out like that.

1222
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:33,440
Speaker 2: You said acting.

1223
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:38,320
Speaker 1: Yes, I I had no idea that you were that

1224
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 1: kind of an actor.

1225
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:43,320
Speaker 2: Who kind of an actor is a.

1226
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:45,840
Speaker 4: Thank you?

1227
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:47,320
Speaker 2: An actor, thank you.

1228
01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:49,320
Speaker 3: You know that nigga just came out brown Way, so.

1229
01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:53,040
Speaker 4: I know I saw him because I saw he is great.

1230
01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 1: Because because everybody gives, they give the singers, and then

1231
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:01,760
Speaker 1: the people who come from other spaces they give us.

1232
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:06,720
Speaker 1: You know, they doubt us, hm, you doubt our ability

1233
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 1: to But I mean, but you started off. Your your

1234
01:07:08,960 --> 01:07:12,160
Speaker 1: starting was different because you you started from that Broadway place,

1235
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:14,480
Speaker 1: so I'm sure you were. You may may have been

1236
01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:17,800
Speaker 1: viewed differently, but you had had so much music success.

1237
01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:21,680
Speaker 1: Do you feel like there was still some some the

1238
01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 1: joubt in terms of your ability.

1239
01:07:24,680 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 2: To to act.

1240
01:07:25,840 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 6: I had the audition for everything, primarily especially in the beginning.

1241
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 6: I auditioned for Tyler Perry for Why Did I Get Married?

1242
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:36,240
Speaker 6: I had to auditioned for the Number one Ladies Detective

1243
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:39,800
Speaker 6: Agency six times something about that six.

1244
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 7: Somebody said a nigga in their head with the champagne

1245
01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:44,960
Speaker 7: bottle during the audition.

1246
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:45,439
Speaker 2: I didn't.

1247
01:07:45,560 --> 01:07:47,080
Speaker 3: I wish that had to come later.

1248
01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:48,600
Speaker 4: No, I had to learn that on the spot.

1249
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:55,600
Speaker 3: I terrified feel. When I saw it, I was like, oh, yeah, yeah,

1250
01:07:55,680 --> 01:07:56,400
Speaker 3: she will tell.

1251
01:07:58,000 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 4: That was fun.

1252
01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:01,880
Speaker 6: But I needed to make sure because, like, you don't know,

1253
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:05,720
Speaker 6: but Richard T. Jones is literally one of the sweetest, craziest,

1254
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:07,920
Speaker 6: fun people that I know.

1255
01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 4: Like he's pure. It's pure. So I didn't want to

1256
01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:13,200
Speaker 4: hurt him.

1257
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:14,920
Speaker 6: I was like, you have to prove to me that

1258
01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 6: I'm not about to hurt him because I didn't want

1259
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:19,280
Speaker 6: to hold back either.

1260
01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:23,320
Speaker 4: I wanted to hit him hard. He deserved it. Yeah,

1261
01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:24,360
Speaker 4: I want to get him hard.

1262
01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:28,479
Speaker 3: I'm usually rooting for the man in most movies. Yeah,

1263
01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:29,559
Speaker 3: I wasn't root for him.

1264
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:30,320
Speaker 4: That's how good he is.

1265
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:31,080
Speaker 2: Yeah I was.

1266
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:33,519
Speaker 3: I wasn't roo that's how good. She probably should have

1267
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:33,800
Speaker 3: hit that.

1268
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:39,120
Speaker 4: Probably that's how good he is.

1269
01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:42,320
Speaker 3: That scene and then the bathroom scene.

1270
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:48,519
Speaker 7: Yeah, when you told her, I thought, when I saw

1271
01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:52,320
Speaker 7: you again, I might whoop your ass, but.

1272
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 3: I'd rather pray for you. I was like, Wow, this

1273
01:08:57,200 --> 01:08:59,559
Speaker 3: is I was like, oh this is real.

1274
01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:03,559
Speaker 4: You know, but God bless everybody. I love y'all. I

1275
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:07,160
Speaker 4: really need you to understand it. I'm not Sheila. I'm not.

1276
01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:10,080
Speaker 3: It got some sheloaded.

1277
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 4: Maybe I can relate to Sheila. I'm supposed to relate and.

1278
01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:15,800
Speaker 7: In a way I got some sheloaded like that. You

1279
01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:17,280
Speaker 7: know you're not playing around.

1280
01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 4: No Sheila. Sheila definitely let her man walk all over her.

1281
01:09:22,400 --> 01:09:23,759
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, she did it.

1282
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:27,760
Speaker 4: For a long time. I don't do that. I do

1283
01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 4: believe in.

1284
01:09:28,320 --> 01:09:32,479
Speaker 6: It doesn't feel good, I gotta go. Yeah, it's just

1285
01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:35,479
Speaker 6: it's simple for me. It's got to stay good.

1286
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:36,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I.

1287
01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:38,040
Speaker 4: Work for it. I work for the good.

1288
01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:40,680
Speaker 6: But after I've after I've worked, and it's there's no

1289
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:45,800
Speaker 6: more than I can release it m because it can't

1290
01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:46,400
Speaker 6: be my life.

1291
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:48,280
Speaker 4: That can't be it.

1292
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:52,160
Speaker 7: Nah. I gotta ask you about another not an antelope,

1293
01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:53,320
Speaker 7: but the beginning of a song.

1294
01:09:53,680 --> 01:09:54,599
Speaker 3: When you say.

1295
01:09:56,680 --> 01:10:00,400
Speaker 7: That you went and got the cologne for the new

1296
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:02,000
Speaker 7: man that the old man used to wear.

1297
01:10:04,280 --> 01:10:05,719
Speaker 4: I didn't like that toxic.

1298
01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:11,400
Speaker 7: I didn't like it, but I like how you said

1299
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:14,200
Speaker 7: us everything for everybody because it's stunk on that new nigga.

1300
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:16,000
Speaker 5: Yes, it's stunk.

1301
01:10:16,280 --> 01:10:17,840
Speaker 3: It did not smell right over here.

1302
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:19,280
Speaker 4: It was a metaphor.

1303
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 7: No, it wasn't not for me because I was like,

1304
01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:23,720
Speaker 7: you know what, I'm known for my smell, and this

1305
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:26,400
Speaker 7: is why I don't be telling them the colone I

1306
01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 7: wear right here because she's gonna try to put this

1307
01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:30,120
Speaker 7: on this new nigga.

1308
01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:32,280
Speaker 3: Hey put my colone on the new nigga. It's gonna

1309
01:10:32,280 --> 01:10:32,680
Speaker 3: stink it.

1310
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:36,439
Speaker 6: I'm glad it worked. It was a metaphor. It literally

1311
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:37,120
Speaker 6: was a metaphor.

1312
01:10:37,479 --> 01:10:39,080
Speaker 3: What's the metaphor for that?

1313
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:43,400
Speaker 4: You can try to put the old thing on the

1314
01:10:43,479 --> 01:10:43,880
Speaker 4: new thing.

1315
01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 6: It's not gonna wear. It's gotta begin a new thing

1316
01:10:49,680 --> 01:10:50,439
Speaker 6: with the new thing.

1317
01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:54,000
Speaker 7: I think that's why people love your music so much,

1318
01:10:55,120 --> 01:11:00,000
Speaker 7: because it's so relatable. It's it's extremely relatable. I mean

1319
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:03,040
Speaker 7: even you go back to A Long Walk to me,

1320
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:06,920
Speaker 7: that is the greatest date song of ever all time.

1321
01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:13,240
Speaker 7: To me, that because it simplifies so dope, it simplifies life.

1322
01:11:14,479 --> 01:11:15,760
Speaker 3: But then it's but then it's all.

1323
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:18,120
Speaker 7: And it's something that that that I paid attention to

1324
01:11:18,200 --> 01:11:21,880
Speaker 7: as I actually gotten older and I realized that the

1325
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:24,559
Speaker 7: verses that you were talking about are from the Bible

1326
01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:28,519
Speaker 7: and from the Koran. And I think that went over

1327
01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:29,800
Speaker 7: a lot of people's.

1328
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:31,519
Speaker 4: Heads for many, many many years, you.

1329
01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:35,040
Speaker 7: Know, and I was just like, Oh, she really wants

1330
01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:38,719
Speaker 7: to sit and learn with you, and that is something

1331
01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:43,080
Speaker 7: different than can you take me to Ruth Chris or

1332
01:11:43,240 --> 01:11:45,640
Speaker 7: flying to the Bahamas to be whatever I'm going to

1333
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:46,559
Speaker 7: be for this week.

1334
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:48,719
Speaker 4: Are nice, It's.

1335
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:50,759
Speaker 3: A days go on a long walk.

1336
01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:53,440
Speaker 2: We should be exchanging some real information.

1337
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:56,600
Speaker 5: Jesus spark of friendship.

1338
01:11:56,800 --> 01:12:01,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, I feeled enough in love to know that you

1339
01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:03,880
Speaker 6: really must get your friendship game strong.

1340
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:05,840
Speaker 4: You have really got that.

1341
01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:08,800
Speaker 6: You got the other stuff gets in a way when

1342
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 6: your friendship is there.

1343
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:12,880
Speaker 4: You don't want to hurt your friend. You would hate

1344
01:12:12,880 --> 01:12:17,400
Speaker 4: to hurt your friend. This friend, my best friend. I

1345
01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:20,240
Speaker 4: don't want to do that. It changes things. It's important.

1346
01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:24,559
Speaker 6: So a long walk really is a It's a how

1347
01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:28,200
Speaker 6: to to have a date. And if someone doesn't appreciate

1348
01:12:28,240 --> 01:12:30,320
Speaker 6: the things that you're doing, it's time to go on

1349
01:12:30,360 --> 01:12:32,120
Speaker 6: another date with somebody else.

1350
01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:36,840
Speaker 4: Everything is not about money. Money is really great. I

1351
01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:40,559
Speaker 4: enjoy it. I try to spend it wisely. I try

1352
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:43,439
Speaker 4: to use it rather than it use me. You know.

1353
01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:47,200
Speaker 6: But some things are just free, like putting your feet

1354
01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:52,919
Speaker 6: in some grass. You know what, isn't it great?

1355
01:12:53,760 --> 01:13:03,559
Speaker 3: Good? Yeah? All right?

1356
01:13:04,040 --> 01:13:07,400
Speaker 1: Can I ask you, because you know I'm from I'm

1357
01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:11,000
Speaker 1: from the d m V. I I was raised.

1358
01:13:13,479 --> 01:13:17,559
Speaker 2: When you went go go. I used to be in

1359
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:19,679
Speaker 2: a go go band. What Yeah.

1360
01:13:19,880 --> 01:13:21,240
Speaker 1: I used to play keys in the Go Go bed

1361
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:27,599
Speaker 1: and say cool when you went Go Go, I don't

1362
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:34,080
Speaker 1: think you understand. Like for me kids from the d

1363
01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:39,280
Speaker 1: m V, I went from a fan to a stand

1364
01:13:40,560 --> 01:13:47,080
Speaker 1: nice because because that right there, nobody had went there

1365
01:13:47,439 --> 01:13:49,960
Speaker 1: and that was like, that was.

1366
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:55,080
Speaker 2: The real deal. I tried, Oh man.

1367
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:55,559
Speaker 4: I tried.

1368
01:13:56,120 --> 01:13:59,040
Speaker 6: I didn't have any like Go Go percussionists, so I

1369
01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:03,040
Speaker 6: found an African percussionists and it kind of it made sense.

1370
01:14:03,120 --> 01:14:05,600
Speaker 6: It just made it worked, it felt, you know, so

1371
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:10,000
Speaker 6: it was an homage, not really like trying to grab it.

1372
01:14:10,240 --> 01:14:11,439
Speaker 4: But DC loved it.

1373
01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:14,479
Speaker 6: The DMV was like, girl, we love you. When I

1374
01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:16,719
Speaker 6: got over there, Finn that.

1375
01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:18,479
Speaker 2: Audience, I wish I could have seen it before.

1376
01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:23,080
Speaker 4: I didn't know what it was supposed to go on

1377
01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:24,080
Speaker 4: for like ten minutes.

1378
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:27,160
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, you could do that for fifteen if

1379
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:27,640
Speaker 2: you want to.

1380
01:14:28,320 --> 01:14:32,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that was great. A hot twenty that was great.

1381
01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:36,479
Speaker 6: It's love had been like four different things, and then

1382
01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:40,080
Speaker 6: I was just I love the lyrics, love the lyrics,

1383
01:14:40,080 --> 01:14:43,160
Speaker 6: I love how it felt, but it just didn't land

1384
01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:43,960
Speaker 6: on anything yet.

1385
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:45,559
Speaker 4: And I was like, well, let's try go Go.

1386
01:14:46,720 --> 01:14:49,080
Speaker 2: But had you had you been to go go once,

1387
01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:51,360
Speaker 2: it's different. Here's whatever.

1388
01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:55,799
Speaker 4: You come out with your hair sweated out, your clothes

1389
01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:57,719
Speaker 4: stuck to you.

1390
01:14:57,720 --> 01:15:00,479
Speaker 3: You you thought I was from out there. We went

1391
01:15:00,479 --> 01:15:02,120
Speaker 3: out there for a big take a weekend. I'm like, no,

1392
01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:03,080
Speaker 3: I ain't leaving, man, what.

1393
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:08,080
Speaker 2: You want to go? That's some mumbo sauce.

1394
01:15:11,040 --> 01:15:12,320
Speaker 4: You look like a DCG.

1395
01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:18,639
Speaker 3: There you're cap hell Now, I ain't going to college.

1396
01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:24,519
Speaker 2: Look like finished born in the game.

1397
01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:25,920
Speaker 3: We don't enjoy gangs in college.

1398
01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:28,040
Speaker 4: The gang you're born in the game.

1399
01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:31,400
Speaker 7: My family is one yeah about to ship, So yeah,

1400
01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:33,880
Speaker 7: we don't. We don't go to college to join gangs.

1401
01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:34,800
Speaker 4: Look at me.

1402
01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:36,599
Speaker 3: I've done well for myself.

1403
01:15:37,240 --> 01:15:41,400
Speaker 4: Up, that's right. I like that.

1404
01:15:41,439 --> 01:15:44,840
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. Yeah. I mean, I'm trying to live

1405
01:15:44,880 --> 01:15:48,000
Speaker 3: my life like it's golden. I just want to be there.

1406
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:51,040
Speaker 6: That's what it means. Just in case anybody's got questions.

1407
01:15:52,080 --> 01:15:55,320
Speaker 6: Living your life like it's golden literally means following your path,

1408
01:15:56,760 --> 01:16:03,200
Speaker 6: like you know, Dorothy the Whiz they followed the yellow

1409
01:16:03,200 --> 01:16:06,639
Speaker 6: brick road. It's the same thing, Like your spirit will

1410
01:16:06,680 --> 01:16:09,679
Speaker 6: tell you this is good, this is the way to go.

1411
01:16:09,680 --> 01:16:13,479
Speaker 6: Go that way, even if it doesn't work out. The

1412
01:16:13,520 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 6: way you thought it would. Even if follow the road,

1413
01:16:17,400 --> 01:16:20,840
Speaker 6: follow the path, it'll take you somewhere else and somewhere else,

1414
01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:24,240
Speaker 6: and then maybe a year, maybe nine years later, you'll

1415
01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:27,280
Speaker 6: understand why you went that path. I didn't love working

1416
01:16:27,320 --> 01:16:30,000
Speaker 6: sixteen hours or fourteen hours a day at that theater

1417
01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:32,800
Speaker 6: company for two hundred and fifty dollars, living in my

1418
01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:36,400
Speaker 6: mother's basement. I didn't love that. I wanted to move out.

1419
01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:40,320
Speaker 6: I wanted to get a car. I wanted to buy clothes,

1420
01:16:40,400 --> 01:16:43,519
Speaker 6: I wanted to do stuff. But in hindsight, I see

1421
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:46,680
Speaker 6: the value of why I was there and even why

1422
01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:47,280
Speaker 6: I stayed.

1423
01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:48,599
Speaker 4: I learned so much.

1424
01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:53,559
Speaker 6: I can communicate with people in the theater environment and

1425
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:56,960
Speaker 6: on stage, you know, I can. I can say I

1426
01:16:57,040 --> 01:16:59,080
Speaker 6: need you to change this light to this, this and

1427
01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:02,919
Speaker 6: that and this and this, and you know, add pieces

1428
01:17:03,200 --> 01:17:06,320
Speaker 6: and move all kinds of things around the stage because

1429
01:17:06,320 --> 01:17:08,559
Speaker 6: it feels good and it looks good and it makes

1430
01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:09,760
Speaker 6: my audience interested.

1431
01:17:09,880 --> 01:17:11,200
Speaker 3: And you added to your toolbox.

1432
01:17:11,439 --> 01:17:14,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm wrong with a good toolbox.

1433
01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 3: Nothing.

1434
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:17,479
Speaker 2: It's so much par for the course.

1435
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:20,120
Speaker 1: Like when you just look back on it and you

1436
01:17:20,160 --> 01:17:24,880
Speaker 1: can extrapulate, you can actually pinpoint the things as you say,

1437
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:29,760
Speaker 1: tools that you grabbed from each of those moments that

1438
01:17:29,880 --> 01:17:33,840
Speaker 1: at the time felt hard or or sometimes could have

1439
01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:37,559
Speaker 1: felt counterproductive, or I felt like they were taking you somewhere,

1440
01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:41,080
Speaker 1: felt like they were taking you somewhere you didn't want

1441
01:17:41,120 --> 01:17:43,000
Speaker 1: to go when you wanted to go here, but you

1442
01:17:43,200 --> 01:17:47,439
Speaker 1: needed everything that was on this street before you could

1443
01:17:47,439 --> 01:17:49,400
Speaker 1: make that right. Then right, then another right and get

1444
01:17:49,400 --> 01:17:50,840
Speaker 1: back to the street that you wanted to get on.

1445
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:56,919
Speaker 2: Yep. And that's everything I'm hearing in your journey.

1446
01:17:57,160 --> 01:17:57,920
Speaker 4: That's what it is.

1447
01:17:57,920 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 2: Not skipping any steps.

1448
01:18:02,160 --> 01:18:03,920
Speaker 4: I don't think I did. I mean, I don't know.

1449
01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 4: There's so much more to learn you. There's so much codd.

1450
01:18:07,479 --> 01:18:13,439
Speaker 1: Would with poly You're a thing. Yeah, at the at

1451
01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:18,120
Speaker 1: the studio, you know, to to be.

1452
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:22,040
Speaker 4: There, just to be.

1453
01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:27,160
Speaker 2: Like when it comes to music, I'll do.

1454
01:18:27,160 --> 01:18:30,320
Speaker 4: Anything, not anything.

1455
01:18:30,479 --> 01:18:34,040
Speaker 1: I'll sing this, I mean just within reason. I'll sing backgrounds.

1456
01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:38,519
Speaker 1: I'll play the keyboard. If you need me to learn instrument,

1457
01:18:38,560 --> 01:18:42,960
Speaker 1: I can play trumpet, food, I'll play the drums as

1458
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:46,519
Speaker 1: I am right now, they say, are you I'm not

1459
01:18:46,560 --> 01:18:50,160
Speaker 1: too big to stand behind somebody's microphone.

1460
01:18:52,120 --> 01:18:52,360
Speaker 3: M h.

1461
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:57,720
Speaker 1: I don't have to sing lead, but for this, I

1462
01:18:57,760 --> 01:19:00,599
Speaker 1: don't it's a it's a prideless venture for me. I'm

1463
01:19:00,600 --> 01:19:03,400
Speaker 1: willing to cote. I'm willing to get some poly your

1464
01:19:03,600 --> 01:19:07,200
Speaker 1: thane and stay in the studios if that means I

1465
01:19:07,240 --> 01:19:11,320
Speaker 1: get to be here every other day and learn this

1466
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:15,280
Speaker 1: thing and be part of this thing. And that's that's

1467
01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:17,839
Speaker 1: that's really selling out to the gift. That's what you

1468
01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:20,719
Speaker 1: You gotta be there. I'm still surprised that you didn't

1469
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:24,519
Speaker 1: know you could sing like that. I'm still shocked that.

1470
01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:25,200
Speaker 3: That is very shock.

1471
01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:26,880
Speaker 2: That is shocking.

1472
01:19:27,640 --> 01:19:31,559
Speaker 4: I don't want to talk about that anymore, you know,

1473
01:19:31,640 --> 01:19:32,280
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't.

1474
01:19:32,439 --> 01:19:35,519
Speaker 6: I really don't feel like people understand where I'm coming from.

1475
01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:36,800
Speaker 2: I get where you're coming from.

1476
01:19:36,800 --> 01:19:40,439
Speaker 5: Okay, you do, one hundred percent get it.

1477
01:19:40,439 --> 01:19:44,040
Speaker 4: Thank you, sa. I just say thank you because.

1478
01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:46,720
Speaker 1: When you say when you say it's mine, I understand

1479
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:52,720
Speaker 1: what you mean by that, and so you know, it's

1480
01:19:52,840 --> 01:19:56,439
Speaker 1: it's like, this thing is so precious to you, and

1481
01:19:57,120 --> 01:20:03,080
Speaker 1: when you start exposing this thing to the world, lending

1482
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:07,080
Speaker 1: it to people who aren't going to be careful, who

1483
01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:09,639
Speaker 1: aren't going to respect, who aren't going to love your

1484
01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:13,519
Speaker 1: thing the way you love it and need it to

1485
01:20:13,560 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 1: be loved.

1486
01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:16,240
Speaker 2: I understand exactly.

1487
01:20:15,760 --> 01:20:21,519
Speaker 6: What you're terrifying every time, every time, absolutely so I

1488
01:20:21,640 --> 01:20:25,519
Speaker 6: read there's this thing, it still feels so good.

1489
01:20:26,280 --> 01:20:28,920
Speaker 4: You gotta, you know, just get it and gotta get

1490
01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:29,600
Speaker 4: it out.

1491
01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:32,719
Speaker 6: Gotta go, Gotta get on the road, Gotta be amongst

1492
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:36,160
Speaker 6: my bandmates, Gotta you know, hang out with my drivers,

1493
01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:40,120
Speaker 6: Gotta kick it with the caterers. Gotta because that's another thing.

1494
01:20:40,240 --> 01:20:45,120
Speaker 6: Oh my god, guys, every single person is important.

1495
01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:45,760
Speaker 2: Talk about it.

1496
01:20:46,439 --> 01:20:47,040
Speaker 4: Important.

1497
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:49,920
Speaker 6: If lighting doesn't show up, your show's in the dark,

1498
01:20:50,160 --> 01:20:52,720
Speaker 6: talk about it. If the background want one of your

1499
01:20:52,760 --> 01:20:56,120
Speaker 6: background vocalists doesn't show up, You've got to make room

1500
01:20:56,200 --> 01:21:00,280
Speaker 6: for that note and understand how how things change, wants

1501
01:21:00,320 --> 01:21:04,679
Speaker 6: that notice missing. We all got to work together differently

1502
01:21:04,800 --> 01:21:08,280
Speaker 6: because we're covering spaces. If your drummer doesn't show up

1503
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 6: for the show, what you're doing, what we're gonna clap

1504
01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:12,400
Speaker 6: clap all night stop.

1505
01:21:13,200 --> 01:21:16,839
Speaker 3: Everybody has a part to playing it, and it's very important.

1506
01:21:16,920 --> 01:21:18,160
Speaker 2: It's funny them.

1507
01:21:18,240 --> 01:21:18,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was.

1508
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:23,040
Speaker 7: I was randomly on live the other day and one

1509
01:21:23,080 --> 01:21:25,880
Speaker 7: of our drivers from tour or just our drivers period

1510
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:29,800
Speaker 7: that always ros with us, Corey, he jumped in a

1511
01:21:29,840 --> 01:21:31,760
Speaker 7: live and just he just said something and it just.

1512
01:21:32,520 --> 01:21:33,120
Speaker 3: I lit up.

1513
01:21:34,120 --> 01:21:37,519
Speaker 7: I lit up because I'm like, I love Corey and

1514
01:21:38,120 --> 01:21:40,280
Speaker 7: I literally put my life in his hands.

1515
01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:41,639
Speaker 3: When we're on the road.

1516
01:21:42,080 --> 01:21:44,040
Speaker 7: This man is getting us from point A to point B,

1517
01:21:45,600 --> 01:21:47,599
Speaker 7: and I I never want.

1518
01:21:47,400 --> 01:21:48,360
Speaker 3: People to overlook that.

1519
01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:55,559
Speaker 7: Just like you said, like everybody is important, the caterers, security, security, oh.

1520
01:21:55,479 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 3: Man, big shots, you know.

1521
01:21:57,280 --> 01:21:59,320
Speaker 7: I mean, like, so for us, you know that that

1522
01:21:59,479 --> 01:22:01,880
Speaker 7: is I'm glad you said that. I am really glad

1523
01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:02,559
Speaker 7: that you said that.

1524
01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:05,840
Speaker 6: God I realized where I am, you know, with the

1525
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:09,040
Speaker 6: R and B you know, kings of the world over here.

1526
01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:12,400
Speaker 6: And I just want to make sure that we talk

1527
01:22:12,479 --> 01:22:16,479
Speaker 6: about this business and what it takes. Yes, it takes

1528
01:22:16,479 --> 01:22:20,360
Speaker 6: a lot of diligence and not giving up on yourself

1529
01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:26,320
Speaker 6: and rehearsal, rehearsal, rehearsal, rehearsal, rehearsal so you can forget, rehearsal,

1530
01:22:26,400 --> 01:22:29,000
Speaker 6: so you can forget. You learn everything, and then you

1531
01:22:29,040 --> 01:22:31,640
Speaker 6: forget it and you live it every night, live in.

1532
01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:35,240
Speaker 4: Different it's different city, different energy, live it different every night.

1533
01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 6: That's what it takes. I just wanted you, you know,

1534
01:22:38,400 --> 01:22:42,360
Speaker 6: to know that. And then of course living within your means.

1535
01:22:43,560 --> 01:22:48,160
Speaker 6: It matters that you don't get you know, a deal

1536
01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:50,680
Speaker 6: of some sort or some kind of contract, and then

1537
01:22:50,720 --> 01:22:52,720
Speaker 6: you just go spend all your money.

1538
01:22:52,880 --> 01:22:56,759
Speaker 4: This is entertainment. It's feast or famine.

1539
01:22:57,600 --> 01:23:01,080
Speaker 6: And when it's famine, Jesus Christ, little embarrassing.

1540
01:23:01,920 --> 01:23:04,439
Speaker 2: You know what you want to talk about that you

1541
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:05,559
Speaker 2: want to talk about that?

1542
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:09,640
Speaker 3: Oh boyd Jesus, she didn't watch your episodes, and you

1543
01:23:09,720 --> 01:23:11,559
Speaker 3: have to get up out of there.

1544
01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:17,599
Speaker 2: I've been in some famines and look at you, Oh.

1545
01:23:17,479 --> 01:23:21,200
Speaker 1: Look at me now, hey, I remember being in a

1546
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:27,600
Speaker 1: stolen rental car us the money from Nash Trade to

1547
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:34,040
Speaker 1: put in the gas tank coins real living in Rancho.

1548
01:23:33,960 --> 01:23:36,280
Speaker 6: With Dirty Dre well, we'll call them Dirty Dray and

1549
01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:41,360
Speaker 6: Philly Andre Harris. We went to all of us went

1550
01:23:41,400 --> 01:23:44,800
Speaker 6: to Great Adventures, and we stopped in McDonald's and we

1551
01:23:44,880 --> 01:23:48,759
Speaker 6: got small fries because in the back of each bag

1552
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:51,000
Speaker 6: we each one had to have a bag. I'll take

1553
01:23:51,439 --> 01:23:54,640
Speaker 6: seven small fries with seven bags please. There was a

1554
01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:58,200
Speaker 6: coupon on the back of each bag for Great Adventures.

1555
01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:00,719
Speaker 6: So that's how we ended up going in the Greater Vendess.

1556
01:24:00,720 --> 01:24:01,679
Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about.

1557
01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:05,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Dre had in his car. It was a

1558
01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:08,800
Speaker 6: hole and I had to sit in the front. It

1559
01:24:08,880 --> 01:24:11,639
Speaker 6: was a hole, so I had to keep my feet

1560
01:24:11,680 --> 01:24:12,960
Speaker 6: on both sides of the hole.

1561
01:24:13,280 --> 01:24:20,800
Speaker 4: But I could see them, bro, I could see the

1562
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:24,000
Speaker 4: road the whole time, so I could never fall asleep.

1563
01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:28,960
Speaker 4: Yeah right, because if you know what I'm saying, what

1564
01:24:29,479 --> 01:24:30,200
Speaker 4: more than a toe?

1565
01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:32,240
Speaker 2: More than?

1566
01:24:33,439 --> 01:24:43,280
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1567
01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:46,080
Speaker 3: Did you ever? Okay? When you did get your deal? Yeah?

1568
01:24:46,280 --> 01:24:48,080
Speaker 3: I got you a little bit extra coin.

1569
01:24:48,200 --> 01:24:49,439
Speaker 4: I got a little bit of money.

1570
01:24:49,479 --> 01:24:51,000
Speaker 3: Did you buy anything? Though?

1571
01:24:51,280 --> 01:24:52,639
Speaker 4: I paid off my student loan?

1572
01:24:52,960 --> 01:24:54,480
Speaker 3: Look at you being responsible?

1573
01:24:54,760 --> 01:24:56,800
Speaker 7: I did because I know people that's like eighty that

1574
01:24:56,920 --> 01:24:58,160
Speaker 7: still ain't.

1575
01:24:58,760 --> 01:25:00,800
Speaker 4: I hated how they kept calling my grandma.

1576
01:25:03,280 --> 01:25:07,240
Speaker 2: Where is Jill chill alone?

1577
01:25:14,080 --> 01:25:14,280
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1578
01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:15,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're better than me?

1579
01:25:16,560 --> 01:25:17,360
Speaker 4: Yeah I did?

1580
01:25:17,600 --> 01:25:20,920
Speaker 1: You still got no, No, I ain't had no loans,

1581
01:25:20,960 --> 01:25:23,960
Speaker 1: but yeah I had some stuff that was outstanding, but

1582
01:25:24,600 --> 01:25:27,240
Speaker 1: they wasn't getting that money. I had to get to

1583
01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:30,600
Speaker 1: the strip club. They needed to see me, and I

1584
01:25:30,640 --> 01:25:38,280
Speaker 1: needed some rims at it. You understand what I'm saying. Hmm, responsible.

1585
01:25:39,040 --> 01:25:42,240
Speaker 2: With you? Listen, do you do you see a couple

1586
01:25:42,280 --> 01:25:44,720
Speaker 2: of things. You see Jill. You see how she's smiling.

1587
01:25:45,120 --> 01:25:49,080
Speaker 1: You see that that that's that's that's a responsible elegance.

1588
01:25:49,479 --> 01:25:57,240
Speaker 1: You see me, it's not it's not responsible elegance. No,

1589
01:25:57,640 --> 01:25:58,720
Speaker 1: I'm all trawling there.

1590
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:02,519
Speaker 3: That's light.

1591
01:26:03,040 --> 01:26:11,240
Speaker 2: I'm a bunch of fucking it up a follow thing.

1592
01:26:13,080 --> 01:26:13,920
Speaker 4: That's hilarious.

1593
01:26:14,240 --> 01:26:28,720
Speaker 1: Let me see what's going on, Sister Jill Scott. I

1594
01:26:28,840 --> 01:26:30,680
Speaker 1: used the sister because you're from Philly. You know how

1595
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:35,920
Speaker 1: I got sister Jill. We come to a very special

1596
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:38,760
Speaker 1: part of the show where people want to.

1597
01:26:38,720 --> 01:26:41,000
Speaker 3: Know what they want to know Jim.

1598
01:26:41,120 --> 01:26:43,879
Speaker 1: They want to know some of the people and music

1599
01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:49,639
Speaker 1: that has inspired you to be who you are.

1600
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:54,000
Speaker 2: How'd you get a stamp with your with your face

1601
01:26:54,080 --> 01:27:00,400
Speaker 2: on it? They want to know from feeling abroad way.

1602
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:08,120
Speaker 1: I don't forget Canada, in Canada, the people that didn't.

1603
01:27:08,960 --> 01:27:26,320
Speaker 10: You Top five, your top five, Top five, your.

1604
01:27:26,240 --> 01:27:32,000
Speaker 9: Top five R and B singers, what you are and

1605
01:27:32,240 --> 01:27:38,559
Speaker 9: the songs. We've got to know me by you girl.

1606
01:27:39,080 --> 01:27:43,440
Speaker 9: We're on this shobe before we do the load her.

1607
01:27:43,320 --> 01:28:01,200
Speaker 4: Top five, Yes, top f o you five?

1608
01:28:10,320 --> 01:28:21,760
Speaker 11: Oh, sister Jills Scot is beautiful.

1609
01:28:21,800 --> 01:28:26,920
Speaker 4: Man, your choices are crazy. That's only one wonderful.

1610
01:28:27,080 --> 01:28:29,920
Speaker 6: They talked about you all over the internet. They talking,

1611
01:28:30,080 --> 01:28:33,120
Speaker 6: they say, they say you know that, damn that matters, saying,

1612
01:28:33,360 --> 01:28:36,040
Speaker 6: boy that damn dang he could sing a song and

1613
01:28:36,080 --> 01:28:39,719
Speaker 6: that is no lie, no, lie, my goodness.

1614
01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:47,040
Speaker 2: I received this your top five R and B singers.

1615
01:28:49,040 --> 01:28:52,240
Speaker 4: Well, I thought about this a lot, a lot.

1616
01:28:52,880 --> 01:28:54,640
Speaker 2: You wrote like this.

1617
01:28:55,240 --> 01:29:02,400
Speaker 4: Okay, it's different, Okay, no order, right, nope, Frankie Beverly,

1618
01:29:04,600 --> 01:29:07,639
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, I was supposed to have his baby.

1619
01:29:07,800 --> 01:29:09,920
Speaker 4: He didn't know that, but that was in my mind

1620
01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:13,000
Speaker 4: as a young person. We are one, we should have

1621
01:29:13,000 --> 01:29:21,960
Speaker 4: been one. D Angelo. Yes, yep. Absolutely, that voice, those choices,

1622
01:29:22,560 --> 01:29:24,080
Speaker 4: that sincerity, that soul.

1623
01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:26,920
Speaker 2: It's just a question.

1624
01:29:27,800 --> 01:29:28,280
Speaker 5: Mm hmmm.

1625
01:29:28,520 --> 01:29:31,519
Speaker 1: As we say neo, so as it becomes at is

1626
01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:33,120
Speaker 1: he the king of Neo?

1627
01:29:33,200 --> 01:29:37,439
Speaker 4: So I don't think there's a kay is there?

1628
01:29:37,520 --> 01:29:37,720
Speaker 2: Okay?

1629
01:29:37,800 --> 01:29:38,320
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1630
01:29:38,560 --> 01:29:42,240
Speaker 4: I don't I don't you know. They all kings to.

1631
01:29:42,240 --> 01:29:45,519
Speaker 2: Me when I heard D'Angelo.

1632
01:29:46,520 --> 01:29:52,680
Speaker 1: Life changing, absolutely life changing yep, Okay, I just you

1633
01:29:52,680 --> 01:29:57,439
Speaker 1: know you, you know you you you move worlds. So

1634
01:29:57,640 --> 01:29:59,439
Speaker 1: you want to know how you felt about that?

1635
01:30:02,560 --> 01:30:03,800
Speaker 4: Kings? Yeah, I don't know.

1636
01:30:04,920 --> 01:30:06,320
Speaker 6: I don't even know if he would want to be that.

1637
01:30:06,400 --> 01:30:09,679
Speaker 6: Like I think I've seen interviews when he talked about

1638
01:30:09,720 --> 01:30:12,120
Speaker 6: neo soul and was like that's not really where he

1639
01:30:12,760 --> 01:30:16,000
Speaker 6: wanted to necessarily be, you know, so, I mean maybe.

1640
01:30:15,880 --> 01:30:20,760
Speaker 4: To the world, yeah maybe, Yeah, it makes sense. He's

1641
01:30:22,040 --> 01:30:23,000
Speaker 4: changed things.

1642
01:30:23,720 --> 01:30:27,519
Speaker 6: He changed things and opened a door for another kind

1643
01:30:27,520 --> 01:30:29,680
Speaker 6: of music that had been shut.

1644
01:30:29,439 --> 01:30:32,479
Speaker 4: For a long time. It wasn't nobody was doing soul

1645
01:30:32,520 --> 01:30:35,040
Speaker 4: for music like that, Like it stopped.

1646
01:30:36,840 --> 01:30:43,600
Speaker 6: It got real hip hoppy if that's a phrase. Yeah,

1647
01:30:43,920 --> 01:30:44,920
Speaker 6: hip poppy.

1648
01:30:45,479 --> 01:30:49,960
Speaker 4: I didn't say hops. Yeah, so yeah, I guess so,

1649
01:30:50,200 --> 01:30:51,960
Speaker 4: I guess he would be the king he ushered. He

1650
01:30:52,040 --> 01:30:56,559
Speaker 4: opened the door and ushered so many through like.

1651
01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:58,960
Speaker 1: It was like as a church kid and musician and

1652
01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:05,000
Speaker 1: singer and song right it was like, that's that's what

1653
01:31:05,040 --> 01:31:08,240
Speaker 1: I want to be, right there, that's I want to be.

1654
01:31:08,520 --> 01:31:11,920
Speaker 1: We want to be free and musical and creative and

1655
01:31:11,920 --> 01:31:15,640
Speaker 1: and grounded like that.

1656
01:31:15,920 --> 01:31:22,200
Speaker 2: Life changing. Still nothing like it to this day. Nothing Nope.

1657
01:31:22,520 --> 01:31:26,320
Speaker 6: Even from the beginning when you listen to his first album,

1658
01:31:26,400 --> 01:31:30,799
Speaker 6: like nobody's done anything like it's not close.

1659
01:31:31,520 --> 01:31:31,800
Speaker 5: Nope.

1660
01:31:35,880 --> 01:31:36,679
Speaker 4: He had a good time.

1661
01:31:36,800 --> 01:31:41,960
Speaker 5: Huh, yes, man, Prince, hmmm.

1662
01:31:43,960 --> 01:31:45,720
Speaker 4: Nobody sings like that to me, Like.

1663
01:31:47,520 --> 01:31:50,599
Speaker 6: The list as far as R and B, Like he

1664
01:31:50,600 --> 01:31:52,840
Speaker 6: could do so many kinds of music obviously, and he

1665
01:31:52,880 --> 01:31:56,959
Speaker 6: could play so many instruments, but you know, nothing compares

1666
01:31:57,000 --> 01:32:01,479
Speaker 6: to you that level of guts put into it.

1667
01:32:02,680 --> 01:32:06,080
Speaker 4: International lover, what is that?

1668
01:32:07,880 --> 01:32:10,200
Speaker 6: He was like, I'm going to pour sex into a

1669
01:32:10,360 --> 01:32:14,479
Speaker 6: song and I'm gonna stir it gently, and he did.

1670
01:32:14,640 --> 01:32:15,479
Speaker 2: There you go a.

1671
01:32:17,080 --> 01:32:21,320
Speaker 4: Wonderful. I listened to Under the Cherry Moon for four

1672
01:32:21,439 --> 01:32:22,720
Speaker 4: years straight.

1673
01:32:22,880 --> 01:32:25,439
Speaker 6: I don't know, it's the only time I listened to

1674
01:32:25,600 --> 01:32:30,360
Speaker 6: one thing for that long four years straight. I love, love, love,

1675
01:32:30,400 --> 01:32:33,479
Speaker 6: love love that album. I know every nuance of it.

1676
01:32:33,560 --> 01:32:40,200
Speaker 6: I think it's a perfect work. Love that album Al Green,

1677
01:32:41,000 --> 01:32:43,000
Speaker 6: which I listened to all morning.

1678
01:32:43,200 --> 01:32:52,000
Speaker 1: You're a list I know what you're Yeah, yeah.

1679
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:51,559
Speaker 4: You gotta say a thing for me.

1680
01:32:52,479 --> 01:32:55,000
Speaker 6: I love a good singer, I really do, and so

1681
01:32:55,080 --> 01:32:57,600
Speaker 6: many different kinds of great vocalists.

1682
01:32:57,600 --> 01:33:00,640
Speaker 4: But I need you. You gotta say something to me.

1683
01:33:01,360 --> 01:33:06,360
Speaker 4: Please say something soul and how you put a phrase,

1684
01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:10,800
Speaker 4: how you oh, please, please please. It's the writer and me.

1685
01:33:11,240 --> 01:33:21,360
Speaker 4: The writer requires to be titillated. And the last one.

1686
01:33:23,080 --> 01:33:24,800
Speaker 3: As w v mm hmm.

1687
01:33:26,200 --> 01:33:32,320
Speaker 4: Yep, they're on my wall. They're on my wall. That

1688
01:33:32,479 --> 01:33:36,559
Speaker 4: cassette cassette, Yeah, that cassette.

1689
01:33:36,560 --> 01:33:41,240
Speaker 6: I listened to it faithfully and and every day for

1690
01:33:41,520 --> 01:33:43,960
Speaker 6: I don't know, a couple of years at least, and

1691
01:33:44,080 --> 01:33:46,719
Speaker 6: even now when I listen to it now, I'm like, damn,

1692
01:33:46,800 --> 01:33:47,280
Speaker 6: that's good.

1693
01:33:48,200 --> 01:33:50,080
Speaker 2: So that's my favorite.

1694
01:33:50,080 --> 01:33:54,800
Speaker 6: They're so good and they're still what working, Still they're

1695
01:33:54,840 --> 01:33:55,479
Speaker 6: still working.

1696
01:33:55,760 --> 01:33:57,640
Speaker 2: That counts.

1697
01:33:57,840 --> 01:34:05,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's my five R and.

1698
01:34:05,200 --> 01:34:09,080
Speaker 6: B artists today. Give me somebody else tomorrow because it's

1699
01:34:09,120 --> 01:34:09,840
Speaker 6: so much good stuff.

1700
01:34:10,439 --> 01:34:12,040
Speaker 4: Very grateful for that. Yeah.

1701
01:34:12,320 --> 01:34:14,920
Speaker 2: R and B Top five R and B songs.

1702
01:34:20,760 --> 01:34:25,320
Speaker 4: Fire and Desire Tina Marie Rick.

1703
01:34:25,439 --> 01:34:32,400
Speaker 5: James Rick one of the coldest, very good, very very good.

1704
01:34:32,880 --> 01:34:36,879
Speaker 6: He knows how to tap into something that's both pastor

1705
01:34:36,920 --> 01:34:38,599
Speaker 6: and pimp at the same time.

1706
01:34:38,600 --> 01:34:45,400
Speaker 7: It's dangerous, lovelyous, heavy, heavy as both of those two things.

1707
01:34:45,200 --> 01:34:48,160
Speaker 3: Are come on, very danous.

1708
01:34:50,400 --> 01:34:56,800
Speaker 4: Use your powers for good Tina Marie. Oh.

1709
01:34:56,920 --> 01:35:00,960
Speaker 6: One of the best moments of like five moments of

1710
01:35:01,000 --> 01:35:07,400
Speaker 6: my life. I was rolling around in a cabriolet in

1711
01:35:07,439 --> 01:35:11,559
Speaker 6: Paris and it was midnight. Fire and Desire came on,

1712
01:35:12,320 --> 01:35:15,680
Speaker 6: and when Tina Marie did her first big note that

1713
01:35:15,960 --> 01:35:19,240
Speaker 6: first thing she said, the Eiffel Tower lit up, and

1714
01:35:19,280 --> 01:35:19,599
Speaker 6: I was.

1715
01:35:19,560 --> 01:35:21,200
Speaker 4: Like, does this love?

1716
01:35:22,439 --> 01:35:22,639
Speaker 8: Why?

1717
01:35:27,880 --> 01:35:29,560
Speaker 2: Saying that I see it?

1718
01:35:30,840 --> 01:35:32,880
Speaker 4: It was wonderful and.

1719
01:35:35,439 --> 01:35:35,920
Speaker 2: I need that.

1720
01:35:43,720 --> 01:35:44,960
Speaker 4: Rain WV.

1721
01:35:45,439 --> 01:35:45,920
Speaker 2: Why not.

1722
01:35:47,400 --> 01:35:50,519
Speaker 4: So well written, so well executed.

1723
01:35:50,040 --> 01:35:52,080
Speaker 5: All of it as well, perfect.

1724
01:35:51,880 --> 01:35:57,559
Speaker 2: All its well a doore ye listen Jesus Christ.

1725
01:35:57,920 --> 01:35:58,799
Speaker 3: It's just incredible.

1726
01:36:01,120 --> 01:36:01,560
Speaker 2: I love it.

1727
01:36:02,400 --> 01:36:04,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm about to listen to a letter that's a

1728
01:36:04,880 --> 01:36:05,599
Speaker 3: whole revolution.

1729
01:36:06,720 --> 01:36:14,200
Speaker 4: Love me in a special way. This list is great,

1730
01:36:14,720 --> 01:36:16,920
Speaker 4: sin can you be right?

1731
01:36:17,400 --> 01:36:21,280
Speaker 2: What more can I say? What more can I say?

1732
01:36:24,120 --> 01:36:24,599
Speaker 4: That's right?

1733
01:36:24,960 --> 01:36:26,760
Speaker 2: Love me now, love me now.

1734
01:36:29,360 --> 01:36:39,160
Speaker 4: That's how you do a damn thing? Is it the way?

1735
01:36:41,160 --> 01:36:47,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're damn right.

1736
01:36:49,120 --> 01:36:55,160
Speaker 4: I think it's very well executed. I appreciate how how

1737
01:36:55,320 --> 01:36:57,559
Speaker 4: the the words worked.

1738
01:36:57,880 --> 01:36:58,439
Speaker 2: You did good.

1739
01:36:58,720 --> 01:36:59,840
Speaker 4: I think so you did.

1740
01:37:00,520 --> 01:37:06,160
Speaker 7: I think so that song you can't like, you cannot

1741
01:37:06,400 --> 01:37:09,439
Speaker 7: you know that the double negatives, but you can'tnot smile.

1742
01:37:11,280 --> 01:37:12,360
Speaker 2: You have to smile.

1743
01:37:12,960 --> 01:37:16,840
Speaker 4: I think it's because it's the woke. I think the

1744
01:37:17,080 --> 01:37:20,160
Speaker 4: woe has something to do with it. I'm not sure.

1745
01:37:21,280 --> 01:37:26,320
Speaker 3: Breakfasting all the time, that's what she did. She got

1746
01:37:26,400 --> 01:37:32,439
Speaker 3: up the breakfast yeah, simple man. What and grits and

1747
01:37:32,560 --> 01:37:36,240
Speaker 3: the way you sang grits that's why you said that.

1748
01:37:36,280 --> 01:37:37,120
Speaker 3: Though you said it was.

1749
01:37:38,840 --> 01:37:41,040
Speaker 2: Made it that song felt like a live recording.

1750
01:37:41,920 --> 01:37:44,639
Speaker 4: Hm hmmm, Drane b dal.

1751
01:37:44,840 --> 01:37:46,439
Speaker 2: It felt like you were.

1752
01:37:47,800 --> 01:37:52,360
Speaker 1: At one of your poetry houses and you were saying me,

1753
01:37:52,560 --> 01:37:53,719
Speaker 1: I got I got something special.

1754
01:37:53,760 --> 01:37:57,760
Speaker 2: I want to y'all and you sing that that's what

1755
01:37:57,960 --> 01:37:58,880
Speaker 2: it feels like.

1756
01:37:59,600 --> 01:37:59,960
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.

1757
01:38:00,600 --> 01:38:07,960
Speaker 2: That's nice and that's missing who ooh.

1758
01:38:09,880 --> 01:38:14,240
Speaker 3: It is. I think you should write for other artists too.

1759
01:38:14,640 --> 01:38:15,240
Speaker 3: I would love to.

1760
01:38:15,439 --> 01:38:19,320
Speaker 7: I think you should absolutely, because they some more Jill

1761
01:38:19,360 --> 01:38:21,520
Speaker 7: Scots songs on more artists.

1762
01:38:21,240 --> 01:38:23,960
Speaker 1: Too, because it wouldn't just come with the song. It

1763
01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:27,400
Speaker 1: would come with It would come with a healing, it

1764
01:38:27,439 --> 01:38:30,960
Speaker 1: would come with teaching, it would come with information, and

1765
01:38:31,000 --> 01:38:33,800
Speaker 1: it would come with oh my gosh, it would come

1766
01:38:33,880 --> 01:38:36,600
Speaker 1: with this level of you know what I mean, like

1767
01:38:37,160 --> 01:38:40,920
Speaker 1: they would you would learn so like yeah, just if

1768
01:38:40,920 --> 01:38:41,679
Speaker 1: you well, I would.

1769
01:38:41,520 --> 01:38:43,080
Speaker 6: Want to know what was going on in their lives.

1770
01:38:43,120 --> 01:38:45,639
Speaker 6: I would want to know what they wanted to talk about.

1771
01:38:45,680 --> 01:38:49,840
Speaker 6: I would want to know what affected them deeply. I

1772
01:38:49,880 --> 01:38:53,519
Speaker 6: would I would probably want to have meals and you know,

1773
01:38:53,680 --> 01:38:55,800
Speaker 6: I want to know so that I could write something

1774
01:38:55,880 --> 01:38:59,120
Speaker 6: because whatever I write, you're gonna be singing this for

1775
01:38:59,160 --> 01:38:59,599
Speaker 6: the rest.

1776
01:38:59,439 --> 01:39:00,000
Speaker 4: Of your life.

1777
01:39:00,080 --> 01:39:02,880
Speaker 3: By far yep.

1778
01:39:03,200 --> 01:39:05,600
Speaker 4: Forrad like is.

1779
01:39:05,600 --> 01:39:09,320
Speaker 6: It's the way it's like, you know, twenty six years later, Oh,

1780
01:39:09,439 --> 01:39:11,599
Speaker 6: my God, and people are still.

1781
01:39:11,560 --> 01:39:17,240
Speaker 4: Karaoke in that level. You better have a song, yeah,

1782
01:39:17,320 --> 01:39:19,919
Speaker 4: they better sing it and doing it so beautiful.

1783
01:39:20,240 --> 01:39:21,560
Speaker 2: I got a couple behind it.

1784
01:39:21,640 --> 01:39:22,800
Speaker 3: Go yeah, yeah, I know that's a girl.

1785
01:39:24,680 --> 01:39:27,800
Speaker 4: It's all right. Yes, I love I love hearing what

1786
01:39:27,920 --> 01:39:31,479
Speaker 4: people are doing with it. It's good. I just recently

1787
01:39:31,760 --> 01:39:34,120
Speaker 4: like added or took.

1788
01:39:35,840 --> 01:39:36,120
Speaker 3: M M.

1789
01:39:36,240 --> 01:39:38,559
Speaker 6: I don't know which one it is, but I changed

1790
01:39:38,640 --> 01:39:42,639
Speaker 6: it a little. I think that when the words are good,

1791
01:39:42,960 --> 01:39:47,240
Speaker 6: it doesn't matter what you do with the music. That

1792
01:39:47,360 --> 01:39:50,320
Speaker 6: you can change the music because the words are solid

1793
01:39:50,920 --> 01:39:54,320
Speaker 6: and you create another feeling out of some a feeling

1794
01:39:55,000 --> 01:39:55,679
Speaker 6: which is fun.

1795
01:39:55,880 --> 01:39:57,760
Speaker 4: I think it's a lot of fun. Some people that

1796
01:39:57,920 --> 01:40:00,479
Speaker 4: irks their soul, you know, like singing the way out.

1797
01:40:00,840 --> 01:40:02,400
Speaker 4: But I am, but I am.

1798
01:40:03,280 --> 01:40:05,800
Speaker 6: You know, I might not, I might not be for everybody,

1799
01:40:05,920 --> 01:40:09,559
Speaker 6: but who I'm for, I'm really, really really for yees good,

1800
01:40:09,840 --> 01:40:10,559
Speaker 6: it's good life.

1801
01:40:10,720 --> 01:40:12,800
Speaker 1: All right, Let's make a vol tron. Let's make your

1802
01:40:12,960 --> 01:40:16,160
Speaker 1: super R and B artists. Okay, but I love that

1803
01:40:16,280 --> 01:40:18,960
Speaker 1: you wrote like this is writing is great. So who

1804
01:40:19,040 --> 01:40:27,000
Speaker 1: you get the the vocal from performance style, styling, the

1805
01:40:27,160 --> 01:40:29,840
Speaker 1: passion of the artists, and who's going to write for

1806
01:40:29,960 --> 01:40:30,519
Speaker 1: this artist.

1807
01:40:30,600 --> 01:40:32,360
Speaker 2: Yea, I mention didn't see that one coming. All right,

1808
01:40:32,360 --> 01:40:32,640
Speaker 2: here we go.

1809
01:40:32,760 --> 01:40:34,760
Speaker 4: I didn't get that. I don't think that.

1810
01:40:34,800 --> 01:40:35,400
Speaker 2: Made that up for you.

1811
01:40:35,640 --> 01:40:36,000
Speaker 3: Here we go.

1812
01:40:36,360 --> 01:40:39,720
Speaker 1: I wrote the vocal no, no, let's start. I'm gonna

1813
01:40:39,760 --> 01:40:43,240
Speaker 1: lead you. So the vocal where you're going to get

1814
01:40:43,280 --> 01:40:45,080
Speaker 1: the one vocal from for this artist?

1815
01:40:45,360 --> 01:40:48,040
Speaker 4: This is this is not what I said. I said,

1816
01:40:48,240 --> 01:40:54,560
Speaker 4: feel like Aretha Okay, Holla like Shaka.

1817
01:40:55,200 --> 01:41:03,600
Speaker 2: Okay, what else you want care huh huh, scary.

1818
01:41:05,520 --> 01:41:07,080
Speaker 3: Like breathing hollow like Shaka.

1819
01:41:08,880 --> 01:41:11,559
Speaker 4: Okay, So so float like Sarah.

1820
01:41:11,920 --> 01:41:13,599
Speaker 3: Oh she's not done.

1821
01:41:13,720 --> 01:41:15,679
Speaker 4: You said, vult go ahead.

1822
01:41:16,120 --> 01:41:18,920
Speaker 2: So you're making a voltron within the vocal.

1823
01:41:19,920 --> 01:41:25,679
Speaker 6: Yeah, everything right, So feel like a wreatha hollow like Shaka,

1824
01:41:26,200 --> 01:41:33,960
Speaker 6: float like Sarah, run like Jasmine Christ.

1825
01:41:34,520 --> 01:41:37,360
Speaker 1: You said a vultul Jesus Christ. It's not the this,

1826
01:41:37,560 --> 01:41:39,920
Speaker 1: This is not the way vultroan goes. You are doing

1827
01:41:40,000 --> 01:41:42,479
Speaker 1: something new and unique like you always do.

1828
01:41:42,680 --> 01:41:49,040
Speaker 4: Keep going okay right like Smoky.

1829
01:41:50,640 --> 01:41:53,400
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.

1830
01:41:54,920 --> 01:41:56,760
Speaker 3: They gotta be a hip threst of eighty five like

1831
01:41:56,880 --> 01:41:58,720
Speaker 3: him too, though I.

1832
01:41:58,680 --> 01:42:00,519
Speaker 2: Don't think he can. I don't think he with his hip.

1833
01:42:00,840 --> 01:42:02,720
Speaker 2: I think he was just stuck in his back no, no,

1834
01:42:02,880 --> 01:42:03,240
Speaker 2: he's not.

1835
01:42:03,560 --> 01:42:05,840
Speaker 3: I just went to go see. He was like, I

1836
01:42:05,880 --> 01:42:07,880
Speaker 3: will not let you do this. He've been doing yoga

1837
01:42:07,960 --> 01:42:08,720
Speaker 3: for fifty years.

1838
01:42:12,240 --> 01:42:16,360
Speaker 2: It wasn't his hip. He did get blue eyes. I'm

1839
01:42:16,439 --> 01:42:17,800
Speaker 2: upset about that. It was his back.

1840
01:42:19,439 --> 01:42:22,559
Speaker 4: Go ahead, he's still here, he's still doing it right,

1841
01:42:22,640 --> 01:42:27,439
Speaker 4: like he's still right, like smoky, physical fluidity like Chris

1842
01:42:27,520 --> 01:42:36,559
Speaker 4: Brown mmmmmm, musicianship of Stevie Wonder and presence like James Brown.

1843
01:42:42,640 --> 01:42:45,599
Speaker 3: That's what they say. Let her cook, Let her cook.

1844
01:42:47,080 --> 01:42:49,160
Speaker 6: And then as far as the aesthetic, I don't know.

1845
01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:54,120
Speaker 6: I don't know what all that means. I don't know

1846
01:42:54,160 --> 01:42:56,000
Speaker 6: what all that means. Was that what was that supposed

1847
01:42:56,000 --> 01:42:58,240
Speaker 6: to look like? I didn't know Biggie was gonna look

1848
01:42:58,280 --> 01:43:01,519
Speaker 6: like Biggie. I did know Craig Mac was gonna look

1849
01:43:01,560 --> 01:43:04,920
Speaker 6: like Craig Mac. I didn't know that Prince was gonna

1850
01:43:04,920 --> 01:43:09,519
Speaker 6: look like Prince. You know, it's just you got to

1851
01:43:09,560 --> 01:43:12,880
Speaker 6: mix all that stuff together and whatever that makes. I

1852
01:43:12,880 --> 01:43:15,040
Speaker 6: would just want it to be authentic to all of

1853
01:43:15,120 --> 01:43:15,719
Speaker 6: those things.

1854
01:43:15,840 --> 01:43:17,280
Speaker 4: That's it. Just sincere.

1855
01:43:18,080 --> 01:43:21,479
Speaker 6: Whatever that looks like, Sincere, that's what it looks like. Yeah,

1856
01:43:21,880 --> 01:43:28,679
Speaker 6: with all of those skills and abilities, vult We got.

1857
01:43:28,640 --> 01:43:29,920
Speaker 2: A new way to do a vultront.

1858
01:43:30,000 --> 01:43:35,360
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you can Tampa with her styleis voltron.

1859
01:43:35,560 --> 01:43:39,360
Speaker 2: Don't try to come here trying to vot. You're not

1860
01:43:39,479 --> 01:43:39,880
Speaker 2: like Jail.

1861
01:43:40,400 --> 01:43:41,519
Speaker 3: You're not like Jill.

1862
01:43:41,640 --> 01:43:47,320
Speaker 2: Because you got I ain't saying no name, ain't saying.

1863
01:43:53,960 --> 01:43:54,720
Speaker 4: What you did.

1864
01:43:55,439 --> 01:43:56,160
Speaker 2: Don't say she.

1865
01:44:00,080 --> 01:44:01,040
Speaker 4: Say no name.

1866
01:44:07,880 --> 01:44:10,760
Speaker 7: So we're here, we've we've gotten here. Were to a

1867
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:13,880
Speaker 7: very very important part of the show. Well, you tell

1868
01:44:13,960 --> 01:44:19,240
Speaker 7: us a story, funny or fucked up? Funny and fucked up.

1869
01:44:20,680 --> 01:44:24,040
Speaker 3: The only rule to the game. You can't say no name.

1870
01:44:26,360 --> 01:44:27,320
Speaker 2: Any right? Any right? One?

1871
01:44:27,520 --> 01:44:30,920
Speaker 4: WHOA I didn't write it. I didn't write it. I

1872
01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:31,560
Speaker 4: didn't write it.

1873
01:44:33,200 --> 01:44:36,280
Speaker 2: Yep that one, Yep, you can do it. You can

1874
01:44:36,360 --> 01:44:36,560
Speaker 2: do it.

1875
01:44:41,040 --> 01:44:41,400
Speaker 7: Is that one.

1876
01:44:41,479 --> 01:44:43,559
Speaker 4: I don't want to say that one. I can't say

1877
01:44:43,640 --> 01:44:47,679
Speaker 4: that one. I don't know if I should say that one.

1878
01:44:49,280 --> 01:44:51,200
Speaker 2: I like, I like that whatever that one is.

1879
01:44:52,120 --> 01:44:58,160
Speaker 6: Ooh, it's a lot of them. Yeah, nervous any names.

1880
01:44:58,160 --> 01:44:59,599
Speaker 6: Don't say a name. Don't say a name.

1881
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:05,840
Speaker 4: Okay, it's not funny if I don't say the name. Okay, so.

1882
01:45:08,439 --> 01:45:10,200
Speaker 3: Maybe characteristics.

1883
01:45:11,560 --> 01:45:12,120
Speaker 4: That's too much.

1884
01:45:12,840 --> 01:45:17,719
Speaker 6: It's too It's like obvious, who these people are don't

1885
01:45:17,880 --> 01:45:22,880
Speaker 6: say names. I am literally stuck on a on a

1886
01:45:22,960 --> 01:45:24,559
Speaker 6: story to tell. What story should I tell?

1887
01:45:24,640 --> 01:45:24,680
Speaker 1: You?

1888
01:45:24,920 --> 01:45:26,840
Speaker 7: Gotta tell that story. That's the one that's in your

1889
01:45:26,880 --> 01:45:29,200
Speaker 7: mind right now. That's the one I'm telling you.

1890
01:45:29,720 --> 01:45:30,000
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1891
01:45:30,520 --> 01:45:30,760
Speaker 4: Okay.

1892
01:45:30,960 --> 01:45:34,120
Speaker 6: So I'm on a at award show. This is the

1893
01:45:34,160 --> 01:45:36,639
Speaker 6: one that pops up. I'm at an award show. I'm

1894
01:45:36,680 --> 01:45:39,200
Speaker 6: on the red carpet and I see one of my

1895
01:45:39,360 --> 01:45:46,200
Speaker 6: heroes and I run over to her. Oh shit, this

1896
01:45:46,320 --> 01:45:50,880
Speaker 6: is a moment. And I say, too fast, Oh my god,

1897
01:45:51,320 --> 01:45:54,160
Speaker 6: I love you so much. I listen to you all

1898
01:45:54,200 --> 01:45:56,800
Speaker 6: the time. You you you inspire me so much.

1899
01:45:57,200 --> 01:46:01,760
Speaker 4: You are based and and and she kind of just

1900
01:46:01,800 --> 01:46:05,280
Speaker 4: looked at me, and I was like, oh, okay, I

1901
01:46:05,400 --> 01:46:07,840
Speaker 4: might have I might have did too much, you know, Okay,

1902
01:46:08,120 --> 01:46:11,400
Speaker 4: all right, stop personally walk away, Jill. You know, because

1903
01:46:11,400 --> 01:46:14,880
Speaker 4: there's the one that talks to me. Listen, it works

1904
01:46:14,920 --> 01:46:15,080
Speaker 4: for me.

1905
01:46:15,640 --> 01:46:18,040
Speaker 6: Walk away, Jill, I said, Okay, I walked away, but

1906
01:46:18,120 --> 01:46:19,920
Speaker 6: I said what I want to say, and I feel

1907
01:46:19,920 --> 01:46:24,040
Speaker 6: good about saying what I said. So I'm further along

1908
01:46:24,960 --> 01:46:28,439
Speaker 6: and the person, the younger person, I guess this is

1909
01:46:28,520 --> 01:46:32,360
Speaker 6: maybe her assistant, runs over to me with her face off,

1910
01:46:32,400 --> 01:46:33,000
Speaker 6: scornched up.

1911
01:46:33,400 --> 01:46:37,200
Speaker 4: I said, what's wrong with Jie? She said, you really

1912
01:46:37,320 --> 01:46:42,320
Speaker 4: offended her? I said I did. She was like, yes,

1913
01:46:42,439 --> 01:46:45,120
Speaker 4: you did. I can't believe you would do something like that.

1914
01:46:45,200 --> 01:46:46,160
Speaker 2: And I was like, I don't.

1915
01:46:46,240 --> 01:46:49,000
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry. What did I do? She said, you

1916
01:46:49,080 --> 01:46:52,000
Speaker 4: need to go talk to her right now. So with

1917
01:46:52,120 --> 01:46:55,439
Speaker 4: all of this, so I go and I'm like, you know,

1918
01:46:55,560 --> 01:47:02,240
Speaker 4: waiting because people are surrounding this wonderful, wonderful artist, and

1919
01:47:02,400 --> 01:47:07,800
Speaker 4: I say, hey, what did I say? She said you

1920
01:47:08,000 --> 01:47:09,080
Speaker 4: called me obest?

1921
01:47:10,800 --> 01:47:15,840
Speaker 3: Oh? Oh h?

1922
01:47:17,960 --> 01:47:20,599
Speaker 4: What the hell? I look like calling somebody your beast?

1923
01:47:24,280 --> 01:47:29,880
Speaker 6: Mad human eyes burning, wanting to fight me, Like, who

1924
01:47:29,920 --> 01:47:31,600
Speaker 6: do you think you are to call me out of

1925
01:47:31,640 --> 01:47:32,080
Speaker 6: my name?

1926
01:47:32,200 --> 01:47:34,519
Speaker 4: Who are you to tell me I'm a beast? And

1927
01:47:34,880 --> 01:47:37,799
Speaker 4: I'm like, I didn't, I said a beast?

1928
01:47:39,880 --> 01:47:45,320
Speaker 7: A you had a y M moment because she didn't

1929
01:47:45,360 --> 01:47:49,200
Speaker 7: understand the Wayian language you was kicking taking somewhere else.

1930
01:47:50,680 --> 01:47:53,479
Speaker 2: You don't even fit with the context of everything you

1931
01:47:53,560 --> 01:47:56,280
Speaker 2: were saying at all, because you.

1932
01:47:57,920 --> 01:48:00,360
Speaker 6: Want to hear that's where you heard what you wanted. H.

1933
01:48:00,640 --> 01:48:03,679
Speaker 6: But I promise, I really I don't have something necessary

1934
01:48:03,720 --> 01:48:04,559
Speaker 6: ain't gonna say ship.

1935
01:48:04,400 --> 01:48:05,519
Speaker 4: I'mna keep my mouth closed.

1936
01:48:08,560 --> 01:48:09,840
Speaker 2: So did y'all did y'all make up?

1937
01:48:10,960 --> 01:48:14,920
Speaker 4: Can I tell you the name? I can't tell your name?

1938
01:48:15,360 --> 01:48:18,840
Speaker 4: Damn it? I hate this work. Did we make up?

1939
01:48:19,439 --> 01:48:24,960
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean ish ish ish She's still head all that.

1940
01:48:27,520 --> 01:48:30,640
Speaker 2: I tried to hide it when she came back anything,

1941
01:48:30,960 --> 01:48:34,920
Speaker 2: because who calls anybody a beast? That's probably worse O best.

1942
01:48:35,400 --> 01:48:38,439
Speaker 4: I would never Does that sound like me? No, No

1943
01:48:39,160 --> 01:48:43,280
Speaker 4: at all at all. I'm gonna go out of my way. Yeah,

1944
01:48:43,880 --> 01:48:47,000
Speaker 4: but well that's the business sometimes.

1945
01:48:47,400 --> 01:48:53,920
Speaker 1: Chiley from Philly. You are You are magnificent, You are awesome,

1946
01:48:54,840 --> 01:48:59,200
Speaker 1: you are you are beautiful. You are a superstar. You

1947
01:48:59,320 --> 01:49:06,080
Speaker 1: are multi faceted, multi talented, multi cool, and we are

1948
01:49:06,200 --> 01:49:09,920
Speaker 1: better because you are here and we can't wait to

1949
01:49:10,080 --> 01:49:11,280
Speaker 1: experience more of you.

1950
01:49:11,600 --> 01:49:13,080
Speaker 2: There are more things to come.

1951
01:49:14,120 --> 01:49:17,679
Speaker 1: We can't give titles and dates, but things are happening

1952
01:49:18,360 --> 01:49:22,320
Speaker 1: in the works more acting, yes, and the works and

1953
01:49:22,439 --> 01:49:25,640
Speaker 1: not given titles and dates. What you need to do

1954
01:49:25,760 --> 01:49:29,360
Speaker 1: is stay up and stay close to the woman, follow

1955
01:49:29,439 --> 01:49:32,760
Speaker 1: her so you'll know what's going on.

1956
01:49:33,920 --> 01:49:35,400
Speaker 2: We have been honored.

1957
01:49:36,840 --> 01:49:37,479
Speaker 4: This was great.

1958
01:49:37,560 --> 01:49:38,439
Speaker 2: Honored you.

1959
01:49:38,680 --> 01:49:41,879
Speaker 6: Thank you so much for having me, Thank you for listening,

1960
01:49:42,479 --> 01:49:45,519
Speaker 6: and thank you for supporting R and B music, because

1961
01:49:45,520 --> 01:49:48,040
Speaker 6: you know what I did. I played more R and

1962
01:49:48,200 --> 01:49:50,639
Speaker 6: B since I realized, you know, I was coming here,

1963
01:49:51,280 --> 01:49:55,160
Speaker 6: and I went down this long rabbit hole of why

1964
01:49:55,680 --> 01:49:58,479
Speaker 6: you begin to sing in the first place, For what

1965
01:49:59,000 --> 01:49:59,599
Speaker 6: was the purpose?

1966
01:50:00,240 --> 01:50:04,920
Speaker 4: All that good writing, all that quality sincere. I know

1967
01:50:04,960 --> 01:50:07,639
Speaker 4: I use that word a lot, but it matters. It maritives,

1968
01:50:08,320 --> 01:50:12,680
Speaker 4: the depth of those vocals, the love that was just

1969
01:50:12,800 --> 01:50:16,720
Speaker 4: poured all over in the musicianship. Thank you for keeping

1970
01:50:16,880 --> 01:50:17,719
Speaker 4: R and B alive.

1971
01:50:18,680 --> 01:50:21,120
Speaker 7: So we got something for you too, because we heard,

1972
01:50:21,840 --> 01:50:23,800
Speaker 7: you know, listen the streets told us you like, so

1973
01:50:23,960 --> 01:50:24,240
Speaker 7: we're just.

1974
01:50:26,160 --> 01:50:27,120
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep it in the bank.

1975
01:50:28,439 --> 01:50:45,800
Speaker 4: That's how I like it. Yeah, yeah, you know, nice.

1976
01:50:45,800 --> 01:50:49,160
Speaker 2: Little taste, little taste for ladies and gentlemen.

1977
01:50:49,200 --> 01:50:52,760
Speaker 1: Money is tag and this is the r Andy Money Podcast,

1978
01:50:52,880 --> 01:50:57,800
Speaker 1: the authority on all things r Rent.

1979
01:50:57,720 --> 01:50:59,960
Speaker 2: Big Jelly from Philip Ladies.

1980
01:50:59,800 --> 01:51:06,559
Speaker 4: And James Scup. Thank you, Thank you so much,