WEBVTT - Vitamin D: The Hope Dealer (w/ MAJOR.) 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:06.760 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you may be, 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:10.360 you are tuned into the Vitamin D Podcast and I 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:13.080 am your host, Dawn Day, here to help you get 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.720 excited about your life. Now, if you are new, welcome. 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:20.799 Vitamin D is a multi vitamin for your mind body, 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.800 and so here we shed light on your life so 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.640 that you can live your best life. But here's the key, 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.520 and doing so that means shedding light on the good 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.960 and the bad, because in order to live our best life, 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.879 we have to see ourselves so that we can be 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:40.400 our best selves. You did what I'm saying, So Vitamin 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.760 D is all about curating in that. So if you're new, 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:46.720 that's the four one one on us. And if your returne, 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.239 welcome back. I am so glad that you're here. I 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:55.080 have a special treat today. I have Grammy nominated artists 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.680 Major A K A. Mr. This this is one I 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.920 love you or even someone even say better known as 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.320 the Hope Dealer and in fact I'm not Major. On 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.959 the rare carpet at the n A CP Aboards when 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.959 he was dealing me some hope and he spoke life 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:15.479 into me. He talked about how those good things, those 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.800 blessings and abundance, calling to those who are ready, and 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:20.560 if we think about it, you gotta act as if 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.880 you already are. Remember faith with our works as dead. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:30.080 So in this conversation we unpack faith, hope, love, and 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.280 his music and the essence of who he is. We're 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:38.440 shedding light on what's important when it comes down to life. Major. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:43.840 He even talks how major it is that his existence exists. 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.880 I just need people to understand that we need to 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:51.840 get out of thinking that we have to do and 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:56.320 judge and live according to the limitation of our greatest experience, 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.760 because evolving in God, the glory of God, it's always 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.400 going to expose you to more than you've experienced before. 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.760 And see, one of the things that we realize that 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.720 we identify is that when you know who you are 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.919 and and the blessing it is to be who you are, 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.600 then and only then can you have the capacity to 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.440 be all it is that you are destined to be. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.720 We also talk about his new single Doves Cry, and 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.920 we get a little love advice. Um, I'm a freshly 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.919 married man. It's a great conversation that I'm so excited 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.840 for you to delve into. Um and I want you 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.320 to realize and especially walk away with the essence and 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:45.160 understanding the importance of self love, because in order to 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.880 be our best selves, we have to love ourselves. We 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.000 hear that because God is loved. Now. I could keep 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:55.040 going on and on, but without further ado, it's time 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:59.239 for your dose a vitamin D. Get your Vitamin D 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:11.560 with me and get excited. Hello. Hey, don you know 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:13.880 this is a major moment. I said, let me pull 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.960 out a major hats This is how crazy is it 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.080 that we both are rocking this? Listen, I'm on screenshot 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:27.320 this moment. Smile real quick. I love it up. With 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.000 the black and white, we were definitely channeling the vibe. 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:37.040 That's crazy major. This is about to be major because 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:43.520 I'm so excited about it. Yeah. Yeah, that's funny. The 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:48.960 Hope Dealer is here. Yeah. Yeah, we're in the building 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.920 and I'm very grateful you m We always think we 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.720 lock in spirit, and I think this is going to 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.960 make for something pretty special. So let's just go. Let's 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.920 do it. But we're already going. Um So we met 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.760 at a time when you were up for what I 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:10.680 think it was about three um a CP Image Awards. Um, 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.800 you had told me you had just got your Grammy nomination. 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.480 You were on the heels of having the announcement of 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.479 your recurring role on Star as the character was shot, 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.839 and you said done. I just feel good. I feel amazing. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.040 In fact, let's take a listen, this is your major. Yeah, 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.560 I'm just grateful. I'm living dreams and I just want 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:35.760 to encourage anybody younger old, wherever you are in your journey, 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:40.760 do not quit. Don't quit. Don't quit because it happened suddenly, 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:47.960 but it only happens for the person ready to go. Yeah. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:53.360 Oh my gosh, okay, okay, okay. I felt that you 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:58.760 got it. You You are a light. You are a light. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.760 You can and it's an amazing thing. Every time I 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.000 encounter you on the red carpet, I'm just like, you 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:10.360 just represent all of heaven. You know the goodness of heaven. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.520 And I thank you for locking in and purpose because 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.400 that's literally what you've been brought here to do, to 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.719 bring light to the to the many spaces you you tread, 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.200 thank you and I received that and you pulled in 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.600 my hard courts. I felt a trick with coming out 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:31.920 my eye and I said, wait a minute, because that 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.200 means a lot, because when we talk about this life 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:39.080 is round, this this finite time, we have to realize 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.960 that we can't forget that we were created by a creator. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.840 So therefore we have to continue to create. And in 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.240 order to do that, we have to understand the power 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.520 of the tongue and how important it is to speak life. 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.159 And on the first day that I met you, you 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:58.400 gifted me with speaking life. Thank you, thank you, Thank you, 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.360 my mom, and you're welcome, um. And I think it's 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.040 so amazing how you said we called each other and 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.200 who knew that we would be sitting here right now 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.200 to talk and to go further of why you're coined 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.200 the Whope dealer, why you're so important to speak your dreams, 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:18.800 but more importantly, the importance of never quitting. And you 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.240 know I had this thing right, So interesting enough how 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.640 you said, listen, you're here to shed light. And I 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.320 think sometimes we we forget or maybe it's something that 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.120 we miss and we feel that our parents and our 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:35.640 names that we choose our names, right, But I'm wondering. 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:40.960 I'm thinking that maybe our names actually choose us. Because 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:45.440 the fact that you can say, hey, Dawn, you're an 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.359 example of light and that I was birth with the 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.440 name of Dawn Day. There's a continuation of others and 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.160 for you to immediately receive that, and I'm thinking of you. 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.240 I had to check, as I said, it's his name 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:00.680 really major, Your name is really major. Did you share 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.880 the story of your name please? Yeah? Well, first off, 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.320 I agree with you that um I mean. And it 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.080 reminds me because everything for me is faith centered, and 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.400 it reminds me of the Scripture of before I formed you, 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.600 before He formed us, he knew us. God knew us, 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:23.200 and so UH to walk into that fullness of purpose 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.560 for the name Uh is a beautiful thing to recognize 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.120 and to honor. So I salute you for being all 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.000 of your name. I am Major because I choose to 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.920 lock in and honor the fullness of who I am. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.800 And so um yeah Major is my real name, the 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.280 name my Mama gave me. I've shared this story many times, 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.520 but I'm certainly don't have a problem sharing it again 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:50.800 because I want people to to lock in on the 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:55.400 the non mistake, the intentionality that God always has when 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.920 he does the great work that is that is creating us. 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:04.320 And Um, I was born. My mom got pregnant with 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.440 me at what was considered an inconvenient time. She considered 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.960 abortion twice her first time on her way to be 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.840 abortion clinic because she was embarrassed, the pressure, the shame 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.600 of having a kid out of wetlock. Her last year 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.760 of college. Um, she went to try to get you know, 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.360 an abortion and uh. And on her way there, the 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.680 tire goes flat, so she misses her appointment. And at 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.800 that time they didn't have a plethora of appointments where 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.280 you can just get it anytime you want. Um. And 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:38.400 so she's heading back home and two weeks later the 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.319 pressure had piled on even heavier, so she heads back 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:45.640 and in nearly the same spot, a completely different tire busted. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.960 And so she was like, God, I hear you. Okay, 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.720 I'm gonna go forward with this child, having this child, 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.000 but I pray that if I name a major, which 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.360 is my great grandfather's name, I pray that he makes 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:01.040 a major impact on the world. And um, you know, 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.120 I thought that that was an amazing thing because I 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.800 was a child. The pregnancy that she recommitted her life 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:10.199 to Christ and you know, really locked into purpose all 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.559 the more. And um, and she let me know that 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.200 just as I was about to graduate uh college. You know, 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.839 I was a little annoyed by that because I'm like, yo, 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:21.920 you could have told me sooner than this. You know, 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.880 I had to deal with major league major minor what's 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.080 your major major? And um, But at the end of 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.160 the day, it's a beautiful, beautiful story to know and 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.120 truth to know, and uh, it just locked me into 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.880 living out the full meaning of where I was, what 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.280 I was destined to be on this every and who 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.800 are you destined to be? I'm destined to be a 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.959 hope dealer. I do believe that to be greatness by 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:53.120 representation of owning everything God allows me to touch and 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.320 to to put my heart to and so um, I'm 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.559 excited to be the fullness of who I am. I'm 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.200 ever evolving. I have to make room for that as well. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:07.719 I think often times we get stuck on our last validation, 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.920 But we have to understand validation is based on a 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.480 period already served, not on what's to come. So we 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.160 have to continue to lock into this growth space so 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:23.839 that we can experience the joys of always evolving and 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.640 and not being afraid to step into the light. Right. 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.000 That's it. That's it. I always tell people about the 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.120 quote and I love it. I came up with it 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:33.640 when um, or I didn't come up with it. I 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:35.400 discovered it rather when I was in college at the 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:41.760 Howard University. H U, you know you got you better 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:48.480 stoll Um. But what I think is amazing is because 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.960 the quote says, what allows a diamond to shine are 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.360 the multitudes of cuts that have been placed within it. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.120 So whether it be in reference and the first thing 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.240 that came to my mind right now was just song 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:06.960 honest and revealing it yourself, because if you're not honest, 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.640 it's almost like fear right when you feel what you 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.600 do not see, which you can't beat me with my 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:17.160 own truth. Yeah, it's a denial of it's a denial 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.320 of the poorness of who you are. And we can 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:25.439 never truly experience the beauty of life pretending, because beauty 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:31.240 won't greet something that's in genuine, It only greets the 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.320 person that's authentic. So you won't truly be able to 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:40.240 boast beauty or to to proclaim I have experienced beauty 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.040 if you did never truly fully show up to it. 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:47.760 And so um and so yeah, I uh honest was 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:52.240 a song that helped really bring to life. Um, this 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.280 this philosophy that I always encourage people to live by, 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:59.600 and that's to be cool philosophy. Be cool, own it, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.599 lock in, because the definition of cool is the unapologetic 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:07.320 embraces your uniqueness. When you embrace your uniqueness, you find 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.520 your distinction. And right there in the heart of your distinction, 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:14.520 you are locked and discovered your superpower. And then you 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:19.240 can't be stopped. Creation says, thank you for finally showing up. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.000 Now we can get to work and it's gonna be beautiful. 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.679 What you say. Now we can get to work and 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.559 it's gonna be beautiful. And hey, wait a minute, if 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:33.640 we focus on living and now, yeah, I can see 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:37.280 everything that surround me. I know that what I have 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:42.680 access to, I know where I'm going. Yeah. I find 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.000 it so interesting that when we talk about life, and 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.880 I think oftentimes when people are lacking the very thing 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.960 that you're giving hope, it's because there's a loss of 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.960 the vision. M And just like you're saying with the 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.719 vision about being honest, when do you just side to 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:05.360 see yourself? And as I was listening to your track Honest, 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:10.160 it made me wonder, what was something that was hard 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:15.760 for you to be honest about with yourself. Honest that 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:21.679 failure is a part of this story. Come on, Um, 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:26.240 That failing, I should say, is a part of the story, 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:33.760 because I learned failure is when you quit trying. Failing 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:35.760 is going to be a part of the journey. And 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.319 in those failures, in those missteps, in those mis marks, 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.040 that's when you have opportunity to learn and to grow 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.960 and to do better than you did the last time. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.400 To repeat the same thing expecting a different result would 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:54.120 be the insanity. But to learn from the last thing 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.320 that may not have worked, and to perfect the areas 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:01.800 that you could do. Bettery will only produce so win eventually, 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.439 and when you win, it's gonna be mighty. It's gonna 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:09.240 be mighty. I remember my uncle d L. Dil Hugley, 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.280 him and his lovely wife. Um. I remember um having 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:19.600 a conversation with him about five Christmases ago, and uh 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:25.400 he said, uh. He said to me, listen, you're a superstar, 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.080 and I need you to own that. I need you 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.360 to stop trying to hide your light to accommodate someone 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:36.760 else's inability to share space. He says, I need you 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:41.000 to understand what you have is necessary. So I'm either 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.080 gonna he says, so, either I'm gonna hire you to 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.760 continue during our little Christmas parties, or you're gonna be 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.560 the superstar and have to tell me this Christmas. I 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.160 may not be able to do it because I'm booked. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.120 And I was like yo, yo, and he said to me, 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:59.160 he said, major, I've lost a whole lot more than 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.120 I won. But the reason people don't know me for 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.720 my losses is because when I win, I win all in, 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:10.320 I win big, and I'm like, y'all that part right 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:14.280 there there, it is. Perhaps that's what it means when 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:18.600 God will restore everything that you lost, all of it. Huh. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.040 I didn't win my Grammy nomination for I didn't get 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.840 my Grammy nomination for Why I Love You, which is 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.480 my biggest song. I got it for a song that 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:35.240 spoke about being authentically you and find you. Why I 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:40.080 Love You. It's a big, big, big It's a huge song, 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.720 honest love you. I'm sorry I had to do it, 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.920 like you said, Okay, I'm doing okay, no, no, no, 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.880 but that's it. That's it. It made you feel that 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.040 it would be a no brainer that that should have 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:59.200 won the Grammy nomination and the Grammy, but my nomination 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:03.280 came through my second single that followed up with this thing. 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.960 Had I decided to quit because the first song didn't 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:10.640 get a win when I believed it should have, I 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:14.440 wouldn't have experienced what I felt when the second song 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:23.240 got the recognition, case and point, case and point and even, well, 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.160 there were a couple of things of just even when 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:28.640 you're saying how this whole thing was failing, failing and failure. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.280 I liked how you changed the narrative to failing because 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.800 it's a process, and like any process, you get to 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.800 the other side, and how you get there is your determination. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.480 But the most important factor is that you get to 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:45.160 the other side. Right. And I was playing your music. 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.920 I got a call today and I'm on the track, 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:52.080 keeping on, keep on. Yeah, it got the It has 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.600 the rhythm, the cadence. And my friends like, I know 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.560 if they're listening to gospel music, And I said, no, 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:03.480 girl listening to me? Sure? And I was actually sitting 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.800 in limbo and I was like, well, is he considered 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:07.879 a Christian artist? And I was talking to Anne and 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.680 I said, the thing that's amazing about are not so 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:15.359 amazing because it's anything different is that oftentimes I feel 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.680 like we have to put on something to wear an acknowledgement. 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.400 Here I am listening to a track that is an 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.919 inspirationally based but never reference to how God says you 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.560 have to do that, and you still know the name. 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.480 It's almost like I will be known by many names. 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.399 So I don't care what language you're speaking. You know 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.720 who I am. Come on, come on, queen, let me 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:40.000 tell you something. Stevie Wonder said it, and I didn't 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.640 say that just to name drop, but I'm gonna drop 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:46.480 this room, he said himself. He said, major, continue to 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:51.239 sing and write about love because God is loved. Come on, 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.919 and God will always be there. In that moment, I 0:17:56.040 --> 0:18:01.080 then was awakened to this is his formula. Reason this 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.960 master of love songs win so big with his songs 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.680 is because when he sings about love, keeps singing about 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:13.160 his God identity of love, which is what love is. 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.199 Never meant to be separated. And this as you do 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.040 this type of love here, and this type of love here, 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.119 and this type of love here. No, it's to be 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:26.280 fully experienced. And so I remember when writing why I 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.080 Love you, and writing keep on and writing even more 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:34.080 and all these other songs that I have understanding that 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.160 I could have this conversation with God all the same 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:40.040 that I can have the conversation with this creation and 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:43.920 it's still connect. You still don't know his name. That's it. 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.720 That's it. What's just major And I guess I got 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.280 a little you know, just worked up in motions because 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.720 it's the joy. It's the joy, because that's what I 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:56.119 my purpose for Vitamin D. I said, often times people 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:57.919 want to get inspired. Well first people like, don't you 0:18:57.920 --> 0:18:59.639 gotta preach? And I said, well, I didn't know if 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.600 I want to to where that responsibility of whatever that was, 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.840 and I knew how I connected with God by just 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.919 how you're using your music. But Vitamin D is to 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.879 take the place of rather than having a preacher or 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.119 that eighty year old fifty sixty forty year old you know, 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.320 speaker speaking life and motivational, because it's like, well, where's 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.440 the disconnect. So Vitamin D is essentially what your music 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:23.960 is doing is saying, hey, let me get to your 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.400 everyday music. And as long as I get you where 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:30.119 you need to be, because guess what, whichever image that 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:34.480 we see of God or Jesus, the arms are always open, yes, 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:41.320 and nothing is ever wasted. Come on, he utilizes every vessel, 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:53.200 every single surrendered heart, mind give opportunity. He utilizes it. 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:57.680 It doesn't even have to be fully surrendered, because if 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:03.720 He made it, it will work for the good. And 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:07.000 I just need people to understand that we need to 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:11.960 get out of thinking that we have to do and 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:16.440 judge and live according to the limitation of our greatest experience, 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.840 because evolving in God, the glory of God, is always 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:24.400 going to expose you to more than you've experienced more. 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.760 And until we acknowledge that this is beyond something that 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:32.119 we've already seen, we are not going to be able 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:36.399 to fully experience the full potential that we as His 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:40.879 creation have because there are territories that need to be 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:46.320 that need to be taken on by His creation that 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:48.920 have yet to be because his creation says it can 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:52.320 only be done this way. And He's like, nah, I 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:56.520 need I need I need a don. I need a 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:00.040 don to to shine her light in this space the 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:02.520 way that she shines it. I need Major to shine 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:05.280 his light in this way the way he shines it. 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.520 I need um chance to Rapper to shine his light, 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:10.640 the way that he shines it. I need the Craze. 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.760 I need Jonathan Mcgrenoalds, I need Mama blind need, I 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:17.800 need really all of these folk India. I need all 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:21.600 of these people to shine. Brandy shine. What you say 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:25.000 they shine, you know what I mean. And and the 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.720 thing is, if we think life was to be done 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:33.360 like the next man, we've missed it. And we've limited 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.840 a brilliant God to just being a cookie cutter. And 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:40.440 almighty God that said, I have the light and the way. 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:44.080 The sun does not ask for permission to shine. You 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:47.439 cannot tell it where it can and cannot go. You 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:50.320 can hide. But when we talk about green great as 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.520 you talked about in your song about being honest, it's 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.760 gonna shown the good and the bad. But what allows 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:59.480 the diamond to shine are the mostitudes of cuts that 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:01.399 have been place within it. Now, let's go back to 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:08.919 keep on something come. What's so profound is that in 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:13.080 the track you talked about how these entities right. You know, 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:15.320 things can try to come in your way, but I'm 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:19.080 going to keep on. There was an acknowledgement in which 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:22.359 I received for the only thing that could possibly hold 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:25.880 you back is an instancy that only talks about uplifting you, 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:29.320 and that's God. Then okay, wait a minute. So if 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:31.520 I'm gonna play the keys and go to another song, 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:34.720 then it makes me wonder, and I wonder, it makes 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:38.200 me stand in awe of why I love you, because 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:41.520 while in one sense you talked about how you found 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:45.560 love with a significant partner, you didn't forget to acknowledge 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:49.920 the fact that you found love in yourself. That's it, 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:53.760 because in order for you to expect love from another, 0:22:54.320 --> 0:22:57.639 you must first know it for yourself. And so every 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:01.639 single song that I write has three intentions. It's three 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:06.720 it's it's three channels of conversation. It's between God and creation. 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:11.320 It's between creation to creation, and it's also creation to 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:16.040 creation self. And once we understand that God loves self, 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:19.520 love and love to one another are all three escensions, 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:23.280 and the order of that thing to be fully understood 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:26.680 would be God's self and then the other. You will 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:30.440 never truly be able to experience the fullness because that 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:34.439 self love will help you see yourself for all that 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:38.400 you are, so that you know what you're giving. It says, 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:42.439 love your neighbor as you love yourself. That measure comes 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:46.000 by way of that which you give to yourself. It 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:49.600 has to be a balance, it has to be help healthy, 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:53.320 it has to be true and and fst like about it, 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:56.840 and we all serve as a light right and we'll 0:23:56.880 --> 0:23:59.200 touch on it. You just you know, your newly went. 0:23:59.800 --> 0:24:02.080 But if we think about it, shout out to the newly. 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:07.320 Ways are we not supposed to edify each other and 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:10.040 be a reflection of that? And isn't that a further 0:24:10.359 --> 0:24:13.800 you know, um gateway to talk about how how important 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:17.879 it is to get from your overflow, because when I 0:24:18.000 --> 0:24:20.280 have things that are flowing, I don't have to worry 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:23.640 about containing it. And so when we talk about love, love, 0:24:23.680 --> 0:24:26.280 and in the words of India r re's not how 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:29.640 much you can take, but how much are you willing 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:35.000 to give? To give, to give, to give? Those are bars. 0:24:35.040 --> 0:24:38.439 It's the truth. It is truth. If we're both giving, 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:42.760 hear me when I say it. If we're both giving, 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:50.320 nobody's left empty. If we're both giving, nobody has left empty. 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:57.080 It's a beautiful, beautiful and simple phenomenon. And while we 0:24:57.160 --> 0:25:02.520 consider the equation to be difficult, it's rather simple. Yeah, 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:05.480 Because if love is the way, what can what can 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:08.520 stop you. But here's the thing. While we're talking about 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:10.960