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Speaker 1: ass act. Well, I might as well tell you I'm
Speaker 1: really excited about Mr Brian Henry coming in. I ran
Speaker 1: across him probably like when I first moved out to
Speaker 1: l a probably a year and a half after maybe,
Speaker 1: and I met him through his to him DJ and
Speaker 1: before I spoke to him, and I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: I got to get to know this brother. Then I
Speaker 1: found out that his mother had transition transition from breast cancer,
Speaker 1: you know, the same as my mother. And I was
Speaker 1: like you. Then I found out he was part of
Speaker 1: the community, and I'm like, oh, it's a black brother
Speaker 1: from the East Coast. It's beautiful and I know he's
Speaker 1: down with manifestation. So I am extremely excited to have
Speaker 1: him here. And it's just a testament to say that
Speaker 1: you can manifest things. You gotta believe in yourself and
Speaker 1: you gotta stay focused. So man, we we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about, and I'm hoping this conversation
Speaker 1: is going to inspire you. Yeah, all right, girl, thank
Speaker 1: and thank you so much for being here and supporting
Speaker 1: me on my dreams. I appreciate you. Get your vitem
Speaker 1: right with me and get excited about you. I got
Speaker 1: Brian Henry in the studio. I mean, now, let me
Speaker 1: tell you this. You heard me say this before he
Speaker 1: got in here, that I met him probably like a
Speaker 1: year after I moved to LA I met him at
Speaker 1: the an event. Uh Nathan Williams. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was a native son of it. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he had it then, but and I remember in
Speaker 1: mill Whooperkin was a it was at Nory House New House,
Speaker 1: and I was with my friend and this president was
Speaker 1: home the turn tables. I mean he was hitting in
Speaker 1: the pocket like every single time, like you don't all
Speaker 1: the time catch that? And you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and you know I'm a nineties girl, So he was
Speaker 1: getting the R and beat and I was like, who
Speaker 1: is this? And then um, I even I introduced myself
Speaker 1: to you. And then some time after that I became intrigued.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you told me then or you
Speaker 1: gave a shout out, but then I learned that your
Speaker 1: mother had transitioned with breast cancer. And then that touched
Speaker 1: me because my mother had transition with breast canst. Like damn.
Speaker 1: Then um timas went on, I run into you yours
Speaker 1: fast forward, So then I heard about you, and then
Speaker 1: I'm friends with Blue and I saw her podcast and
Speaker 1: I saw you being more vocal about being in the community.
Speaker 1: I was like, who is this man? I need him?
Speaker 1: Then fast forward, but were almost like ten years. I
Speaker 1: saw you at the Roosevelt for djon at the CP
Speaker 1: image Wars. Yes, yes, they had me saying in a
Speaker 1: CP that's funny. I was a president of my collegiate
Speaker 1: chapter and one of the undergrad a CP. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was telling me, you gotta say a a CP and
Speaker 1: for a whole long long time, right, it's all good,
Speaker 1: And I was I was too shy to say anything.
Speaker 1: If we were at coaching, I don't know because I'm
Speaker 1: being weird. So we're at coaching. I know why because
Speaker 1: people expect that with your ascension that you change, and
Speaker 1: some people do. And I think if you rise and
Speaker 1: you change the core who you all, that that who
Speaker 1: you are that rise doesn't it crashes, you know, true?
Speaker 1: And so people expect that when they see you in
Speaker 1: different positions that you're gonna act different. It's like nah,
Speaker 1: and I was saying it's late. I was like, he's
Speaker 1: probably tired. I didn't want to go through the whole
Speaker 1: thing like oh I have, but I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed your set. So then I saw your yok
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm getting him ran outside the club.
Speaker 1: That's when I was like boom and I was like yes,
Speaker 1: and I was like I know I was gonna meet
Speaker 1: this man podcast. Yeah, so I gave a little bit,
Speaker 1: but how would you introduce her? Tell the people who
Speaker 1: you are? Um, I'm Brian Henry. I'm originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Uh.
Speaker 1: I love long walks in the park. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. No, I um my musical maestro. I love music.
Speaker 1: Music is my heartbeat, you know. I think it's a
Speaker 1: It's a function of my mission here on on planet
Speaker 1: Earth to bring people to their highest awareness of who
Speaker 1: they are. You know what I mean? I love that
Speaker 1: because music what is the vibration and we're all spiritual beings,
Speaker 1: like you're vibrating as higher you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: to relieve you from stress and attention that you may
Speaker 1: experience on your day to day walk and you know,
Speaker 1: give you a sense of empowerment. You know, it's more
Speaker 1: than just it's more than just partying. It's it's really
Speaker 1: creating community, allowing us to be together and look to
Speaker 1: our left, look all right, and realized that we're nothing
Speaker 1: different from one another. Wow, Because you know, I guess
Speaker 1: you think about party. Your dancing is just like um
Speaker 1: A smile, emotions. You can feel it. I don't have
Speaker 1: to know exactly what's in your mind or what you're
Speaker 1: listening to. I can feel you or you or in
Speaker 1: other environments like where you may otherwise walk by the
Speaker 1: streams who want and may not say hello. When you're
Speaker 1: in a in a in an environment where there's music going,
Speaker 1: you know people that you would otherwise not speak to you.
Speaker 1: You make eye contact, you smile, you connect because you
Speaker 1: both are on that wave, that frequency that the music
Speaker 1: is taking you to. I'm not even checking for guys
Speaker 1: right now, but you are so damn fine. Are you
Speaker 1: talking to me like that? Like? Why are you talking
Speaker 1: like that? I'm trying to focus what you're saying, and
Speaker 1: I'm kid, I'm like doing listen with your beautiful stuff
Speaker 1: as well. Thank you so much. Now I'm up here.
Speaker 1: I gotta get money. You're crazy. Wait, okay, so I
Speaker 1: love what you said. Did you know that you wanted
Speaker 1: to always be a DJ? Like? How did that come
Speaker 1: to MANX? I think I knew since I was like
Speaker 1: four or five how much I was in love with music,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't necessarily something that was encouraged or supported,
Speaker 1: so I fought against it. So then I got to
Speaker 1: ask you, when did you fall in love with music?
Speaker 1: When the first time I knew I was in love
Speaker 1: with music is actually when my dad popped my Janet
Speaker 1: Jackson control cassette tape back in the day, day day,
Speaker 1: and I was the most evil little four or five
Speaker 1: year old walking around arms folded, upset, mad, dumping around
Speaker 1: the house just like looking at it like I was
Speaker 1: not giving my dad no attention. I was mad. And
Speaker 1: at that point, I think that's the that's the earliest
Speaker 1: recollection I have in terms of like how much music
Speaker 1: meant to me? Like you popped and he didn't. It
Speaker 1: wasn't on purpose, but I was pissed as a kid,
Speaker 1: you know, So like what are you thinking? Like you
Speaker 1: were into singame? No, I never I knew I could
Speaker 1: never sing. God knew what gets to give me? Because
Speaker 1: I was saying I'd be a mess. I was getting
Speaker 1: up there and just moved in it will be yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. But I do believe I've been gifted with
Speaker 1: certain certain you know, problems within music because I wouldn't
Speaker 1: abuse it. You know again, it really is a gift
Speaker 1: to bring us together. Yeah, and until you are if
Speaker 1: I sing, I'd probably be singing draws off three. So
Speaker 1: were you always teaching? Like how did you did? You
Speaker 1: sound like an interesting path? Like I don't know, people
Speaker 1: tell you how to be a d J. Get out there,
Speaker 1: they don't at all and all I know for sure
Speaker 1: that you know. So I was like twelve thirteen, and
Speaker 1: I would take my dad's stereo and plug it up
Speaker 1: to tell of it and like get the R C
Speaker 1: A cables and I'm like recording, uh, Donnie Simpson on
Speaker 1: BJ video Soul and like trying to make my own
Speaker 1: little mix tapes with listening to difference between Donnie between
Speaker 1: videos so and then rap City, like I would hear
Speaker 1: different stuff that I would, you know, and then okay,
Speaker 1: I'm a recorded here, that a posit there, and then
Speaker 1: I'm through this track or this I don't like this
Speaker 1: video posit, you know, Like that's how my first like mixtapes,
Speaker 1: if you will you know what I mean, doing it
Speaker 1: like that, and then you know, then fast forward when
Speaker 1: the Nashta era you've downloading music? Why are you making
Speaker 1: that sound so old? You know what I mean? You know,
Speaker 1: I ain't new that some true to this? Hello somebody,
Speaker 1: somebody Hello? And so yeah, I used to make I
Speaker 1: used to make little mix tapes on the computer. And
Speaker 1: so I asked my dad to like, yo, like, I
Speaker 1: want to get some DJ equipment. So he took me
Speaker 1: to like three or four pawn shops and we couldn't
Speaker 1: find it fund any you know what I mean. He's like,
Speaker 1: it's okay, Hey, don't matter because my son of Michael,
Speaker 1: you know, damn DJ Anyway, what I was literally like
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen. I was crushed, like like literally crushed. And
Speaker 1: it took me years to understand why. I don't only
Speaker 1: think he understand why he said that at the time.
Speaker 1: I mean on his level, he looked at it from
Speaker 1: a standpoint like my son's going to college and he's
Speaker 1: gonna do this and do do Uh. So he went
Speaker 1: into the military, you know, I mean, And so my
Speaker 1: parents had me super young. Yeah, they were eighteen. You know.
Speaker 1: My mom had me between her junior year and senior
Speaker 1: of high school and my dad had just finished high school.
Speaker 1: And so he went off to basic training while she
Speaker 1: was finishing school. And when she finished school. Uh, they
Speaker 1: he he had finished his basic training, and we we
Speaker 1: moved to Germany, and I was a military brand, Like
Speaker 1: I hopped all over the place, you know what I'm saying. Um,
Speaker 1: And I think because he made such that big sacrifice
Speaker 1: to get us out of Baltimore at an early age,
Speaker 1: he didn't see the trajector of me going into anything
Speaker 1: that was going to be potentially unstable. And his brother
Speaker 1: was a DJ. You know, my uncle Robert was a DJ,
Speaker 1: big DJ in Baltimore. Uncle, and he just got my
Speaker 1: He didn't want me to go that path. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Uncle got into trouble completely unrelated to
Speaker 1: DJ and and he just didn't want me. I think
Speaker 1: that's what that's what that's what it really was. But
Speaker 1: he can never really articulate that, you know, So then
Speaker 1: he was like, no, you can't be a DJ. And
Speaker 1: he were like, I'm gonna do it anywhere. We're like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this. No I didn't. I did. I
Speaker 1: didn't do it at all. Like I didn't start DJAN
Speaker 1: until like four years after college. What did you do it?
Speaker 1: What did you study at college? I was an economics major.
Speaker 1: I was economics major. I interned and worked on Wall Street.
Speaker 1: Come on left Bryant eddied abroad in London, you know,
Speaker 1: studying economics. I was like, I was very much that
Speaker 1: on that straight and narrow path. Like I had done
Speaker 1: a summer program at Harvard Business School. I was preparing
Speaker 1: to go to the path of going to business school
Speaker 1: and going to be doing you know, in the world
Speaker 1: of finance. But I hated it. I hated it. I
Speaker 1: hated it. I hated it, you know, and worked corporate
Speaker 1: job for after college, and eventually they relocated me here
Speaker 1: to l A and I got to be around so
Speaker 1: many dynamic people who were pursuing their dreams at different
Speaker 1: levels of education, who some people didn't go to college,
Speaker 1: but they were wildly successful because they were aligned with
Speaker 1: their gifts. And that's what I got to learn about
Speaker 1: being in l A. You know. I mean, people look
Speaker 1: at it from the glitz and glam and the things
Speaker 1: that you know, if you see on TV. But it
Speaker 1: wasn't about that. It was like, I would see the
Speaker 1: people who were behind the scenes, We're making the people
Speaker 1: in front of camera, you know, look amazing, And I
Speaker 1: just saw different aspects of entertainment. I'm like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: making good men at this corver job that I hate,
Speaker 1: you know, doing something that makes me miserable. Then imagine
Speaker 1: if I put all of my injury to something I love.
Speaker 1: And so one day I pieced out what I just
Speaker 1: pieced out. Yeah, I started practicing Buddhism, and that's what
Speaker 1: shifted everything from me, you know, literally Buddhism like looking Tina,
Speaker 1: turn in on your m I ran through somebody at
Speaker 1: a party out here in l A on the rooftop
Speaker 1: with a Honey Collective party. Shout out to Monica Paine,
Speaker 1: shout out to e Q, shout out to Rashida Shelley,
Speaker 1: ohto this collective of four beautiful, dynamic women of color
Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles who would host these parties. They
Speaker 1: were called the Honey Collective. And I went up to
Speaker 1: DJ EQ. Was funny. She was like, I think I'm
Speaker 1: at DJ EQ. I was like, yeah, I want to DVDJ.
Speaker 1: She's like, you ain't gonna be no DJ today. And
Speaker 1: I thought she was rude at the moment, But as
Speaker 1: a DJ now I get it because somebody come up,
Speaker 1: you tell they want to be a DJ, is like,
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to spend these records? Get up, you know.
Speaker 1: But it was they were she and the other lady,
Speaker 1: Rashida and EQ with the DJs at the collective, and
Speaker 1: Monica and Shelley with a host, and they just had
Speaker 1: their finger on the pulse of all things dynamic in
Speaker 1: the black cultural space here in Los Angeles. And it
Speaker 1: was the first party as I was introduced to out here,
Speaker 1: and I was like, Yo, this is just such a
Speaker 1: vibe and it's just that the combination of vibing with
Speaker 1: them on the weekends and then hating the corporate job
Speaker 1: throughout the week. And I met somebody at one of
Speaker 1: their parties. He said, brother, you're going through something. You
Speaker 1: don't know what, I mean, what you're talking about. He's like,
Speaker 1: now you're going through something liked or whatever. Same party,
Speaker 1: like a month later he said it. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm and he uh, he said yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: tell you about this, And so he sent me a
Speaker 1: clip of Tina Turner talking on Larry King Live about
Speaker 1: Buddhism and I picked the phone to me like, bro,
Speaker 1: I've ben't want to know about this my whole life
Speaker 1: because I didn't understand what it was. But I was like,
Speaker 1: whatever it was was powerful enough to get her away
Speaker 1: from Ike. And so I was just in a just
Speaker 1: I was in a bad relationship, bad job, hating life,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I was just like, let me,
Speaker 1: let me just go to a meeting. And so what
Speaker 1: I learned is not your d not your holdin' get
Speaker 1: killed means I devote myself to the mystic law of
Speaker 1: cause and effect through vibration and sound. When you devote
Speaker 1: yourself to the law a law, it's a universal law.
Speaker 1: It's like gravity. You don't necessarily understand gravity, but you
Speaker 1: know that your feet are planned it on this ground.
Speaker 1: You know, um, you know it's missed because you can't
Speaker 1: see it. You know, you know, it's sometimes defies mental comprehension.
Speaker 1: But like I said, that's a universal law like anything else,
Speaker 1: like a law of cause and effect. And when I
Speaker 1: learned that I am the car is and not the
Speaker 1: effect of things that happened to me, that means that
Speaker 1: I am a co conspirator like I am. It's things
Speaker 1: that I'm doing, saying, thinking ways of being that are
Speaker 1: contributing to the effects that are taking place in my life.
Speaker 1: Taking accountability. So that's exactly what it was like. It
Speaker 1: taught me. It's a spiritual practice that taught me how
Speaker 1: to take accountability for the things that are going on
Speaker 1: and not just point the finger as to why things
Speaker 1: aren't this or that or that, you know. And so
Speaker 1: I got to see myself a lot more clearly, and
Speaker 1: I realized cannot see yeah, And I realized I was
Speaker 1: choosing to be a lesser version of myself because I
Speaker 1: was moving out of fear, and the fear was what
Speaker 1: was keeping me in this corporate job every day. That mean,
Speaker 1: what does it mean to be moving in fear? Meaning
Speaker 1: that you're knowing. I knew that I was capable of more,
Speaker 1: but I was afraid of other people's opinions. I was
Speaker 1: afraid of being broke. I was afraid of falling on
Speaker 1: my face and embarrassing myself. I was afraid of, you know,
Speaker 1: things just not working out. But that's not faith. Faith
Speaker 1: and fear cannot exist on the same plane. And so
Speaker 1: I was I realized I was choosing that's I was
Speaker 1: choosing fear, and so I had to make a different choice.
Speaker 1: And when I made a different choice, funny funny if
Speaker 1: I was chanting at the Buddha Center and sent out
Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles, and I met Herbie Hancockie up
Speaker 1: there leading and get he up there at seven thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning, just chatting his behind off, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I gotta talk to him. I gotta talk
Speaker 1: to him. And you know, after the session was over,
Speaker 1: I briefly talked to him. I was just like, whoa
Speaker 1: how did you in your era, you know, convince your
Speaker 1: parents or convince people around you that you needed to
Speaker 1: be a musician. He told me a brief story, you
Speaker 1: know how he was almost failing out of all his classes,
Speaker 1: but he got sees at the last minute his studies,
Speaker 1: but he was putting so much focus onto you know,
Speaker 1: like a syphony or orchestra or some type of musical
Speaker 1: group that he was with at the time. And he
Speaker 1: explained that at that moment, because he was able to
Speaker 1: successfully still graduate, that he told himself he would never
Speaker 1: deny himself again and that poor all of his in
Speaker 1: energy into his craft. He wasn't trying to be He
Speaker 1: was like an electrical engine, mieror mat or something completely,
Speaker 1: you know, it just wasn't on the field of music
Speaker 1: per se. And he said, if you're serious about this,
Speaker 1: young man, you'll take lessons. Every great musician from Quincy
Speaker 1: Jones to Beyonce to still to this day, they take lessons.
Speaker 1: You go take lessons. And that day I walked out
Speaker 1: of Buddha Center and UH called up Scratch DJ Academy
Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles and I signed up to DJ school.
Speaker 1: What yea, So were you in DJ school as well
Speaker 1: as you're still working in corporate America or did you
Speaker 1: relinquish it? So that's the funny little story. Um. I
Speaker 1: took a six week DJ course where we met once
Speaker 1: a week and then we had you know, you could
Speaker 1: come in and practice hours and and and shout out
Speaker 1: to my professor's uh DJ Hopper and Chock from the
Speaker 1: beat junkies, you know what I mean. I learned so
Speaker 1: much from both of them while I was taking those classes.
Speaker 1: But I took a six week course and then I
Speaker 1: quit my job. Did you have money? So I had
Speaker 1: a little bit of money, say not a lot, but
Speaker 1: but I came in signing up for the next six
Speaker 1: week course and I told him all like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm being fulls on D. I'm gonna be celebrity J.
Speaker 1: That's great, that's great, Like I said, yeah, I quit
Speaker 1: my job. There's like what I said, Yeah, I quit
Speaker 1: my job, like you did what? And they knew I
Speaker 1: was at a corporate opportunity. So they literally stopped class
Speaker 1: and pulled me outside and like you did what now?
Speaker 1: They said, no, no no, no, you understand this is hard,
Speaker 1: Like this is not a one, two, three ys easy
Speaker 1: like this people take years and every amount to Uh,
Speaker 1: you know you're saying you want to be celebrities. A
Speaker 1: lot of people want to do that, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Like you need to go back and ask
Speaker 1: for your job, you need you need to spend more
Speaker 1: time and this. Then you've just taken a one class
Speaker 1: and think you're ready to be a DJ. I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard you, but now already quit. It's too late,
Speaker 1: already for the two weeks in, it's done. I'm here,
Speaker 1: let's go. And they looked at me like, yo, he
Speaker 1: is insane. But I think if I didn't go to
Speaker 1: that level of extreme, then I wouldn't have I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have done it. Yeah. Mr Harvey always says you'll never
Speaker 1: know if your parasut would open unless you jump, and
Speaker 1: you'll never know if you can fly until you jump
Speaker 1: until so I want you to be real real. Did
Speaker 1: it ever get low? How low did it get? What
Speaker 1: did that know? Does it mean like did you have
Speaker 1: a car when you on the bus? Were you able
Speaker 1: to eat? How low? How? Really? Because I don't think
Speaker 1: people really understand and really talk about it, like I'm
Speaker 1: in a moment right now. I had a little moment.
Speaker 1: I took two buses to get here. This damn there
Speaker 1: two hours. You should call me. I could scoop right,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's just a testament of how far
Speaker 1: are you gonna go? So how far are you going?
Speaker 1: How far did you go? How far? How low did
Speaker 1: it go? How low did it go? I mean, there
Speaker 1: were moments when I had this gig and it paid
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars a week. My rent was a thousand,
Speaker 1: so so three week, that's two hundred dollars for the
Speaker 1: My rent was a thousand, and I still had to
Speaker 1: pay for groceries. You didn't get your food stamps. I
Speaker 1: don't know I was els for food stamps then, ain't
Speaker 1: ain't tell me, you know what I mean? But I
Speaker 1: still for that extra two llars. When the extra I
Speaker 1: had to pay for gas, for utilities, for you know, food.
Speaker 1: Like that's how tight it got at certain moments. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Thank God, my friends, wasn't one thing.
Speaker 1: Shout up my best friend. My best friend should need
Speaker 1: a castle. Castle's kaden. She is dynamic, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. She's incredible. Archipro negro face here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Um she specialized in Creole cuisine. You know, and she's
Speaker 1: from the Rolands, so she don't play. She's out here.
Speaker 1: But you want to come on, we can definitely have
Speaker 1: a come on, get your vitamin day back. But one thing,
Speaker 1: one thing she always says, as long as we owe
Speaker 1: each other money will never be broken. And I thought
Speaker 1: that was the craziest thing. But what she means, it's
Speaker 1: like how we've been able to circulate money within our
Speaker 1: friendship circle when we respectively have have had our low
Speaker 1: financial moments. You know what I'm saying, She you borrow
Speaker 1: off thousand dollars, I ballars, she give it back, She
Speaker 1: give it back next you know. You know, can I
Speaker 1: borrow it? You know? And and that's how we've in
Speaker 1: our low moments as fellow entrepreneurs. And I say, and
Speaker 1: that's why I say it's Arentipo Negro ship, because we
Speaker 1: do as black people, we do things a little differently
Speaker 1: when we're going out to our dreams. We don't come
Speaker 1: from trust funds and lineage of folks who have, you know,
Speaker 1: oodles and oodles of money in the bank. You can
Speaker 1: just sit up here to you figure out what you're
Speaker 1: gonna do. Here's your car, here's your home. No, you
Speaker 1: can do this summer apprenticeship and this could be free. No, no,
Speaker 1: we don't come from that. So entreprene negro ship mean,
Speaker 1: sometimes we need to borrow from our respective friends and
Speaker 1: family within the community in order for our dreams to
Speaker 1: come to fruition, you know what I mean. So it
Speaker 1: got low in those moments, but it never got too
Speaker 1: crazy because I had my best friends around me who
Speaker 1: got it, who supported me through the journey, and you
Speaker 1: knew them from out here or from back home, back
Speaker 1: back in Atlanta. We went to college against she graduate
Speaker 1: from Spell graduates more House. My other best friend, Tay
Speaker 1: you know I'm saying. He started off with Morris Brown
Speaker 1: and he's and then when Morris Round shut down, he
Speaker 1: took a break off and then transferred to go to
Speaker 1: film school out here, and so he actually led the
Speaker 1: pack coming out here. Now he's an incredible producer. He's
Speaker 1: produced everything from The Money's VMA performance last year to
Speaker 1: videos for Cardi Ba's Up, Big Sean's I Don't With You,
Speaker 1: Um City Girls performances, like when when Kanye did the
Speaker 1: performance at the Hollywood Bowl. He's a producer for that.
Speaker 1: Like He's done so many incredible things. But again, he's
Speaker 1: another one who's been in the trenches. In the trenches
Speaker 1: absolutely and that's what every I think everything is sweet,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean people were not shooting in the gym.
Speaker 1: You know they see the moments the end ACP Image awards,
Speaker 1: are you on television or doing different things, and those
Speaker 1: are all great. But the thing, the moments I'm most
Speaker 1: fond of is when we have nothing, because that's what
Speaker 1: you have to figure out your yess, when you really
Speaker 1: had to say how bad do you wantause it's easy, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's not comfortable. In a lot of people, they try
Speaker 1: to be so comfortable. You want to be relaxed. It's like,
Speaker 1: that's not how it works. You've missed your blessing trying
Speaker 1: to be comfortable. M h my trainer and Latige shout
Speaker 1: out to Latife for all him training. He says, magical
Speaker 1: things happened outside your comfort zone. It does shows you
Speaker 1: what you're made of. And it's like, yo, let's keeping
Speaker 1: getting uncomfortable, Like it's not going to be great, Like
Speaker 1: I'll be in a gym die when I walk go
Speaker 1: so and I'm like, yes, so let's grow. So that
Speaker 1: had to be something you were already stressed out about
Speaker 1: the fact of what you needed to do so much
Speaker 1: so that you said, let me, you know, check out
Speaker 1: the temple. Then you feel like you got your home.
Speaker 1: And then the brothers that's in it to teach you
Speaker 1: about your drinks to be like open up the pearly gates.
Speaker 1: They like waiting a minute, brother, Then you actually experience
Speaker 1: whatever those downs. So then when what happened when it started,
Speaker 1: you know, when they start going up? Um, I read
Speaker 1: something that said you have to make spiritual claims to money.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Money, just like anything else,
Speaker 1: is an energetic frequency. And if you always have a
Speaker 1: mindset that believes that, if you have a impoverished mindset,
Speaker 1: and that was shore shows up in your space, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, and and we it's the it's the little
Speaker 1: things that we do. I can't afford that, Oh that's
Speaker 1: too much, or I don't know how I'm gonna pay
Speaker 1: for that. It's those little things that we say that
Speaker 1: create our reality when it comes down to our relationship
Speaker 1: with finances. Um, you know I put in work. You know,
Speaker 1: I put in work in terms of DJ and backyard barbecues.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. The kinsonatas, the high school proms,
Speaker 1: the weddings, the weddings, the weddings, your mama's sixtieth birthday party,
Speaker 1: sixty fifth birthday party. I remember, I drove all the
Speaker 1: way to the Bay, my first out of town gig.
Speaker 1: I was so happy. I drove all ways to the
Speaker 1: Bay from l A for five bucks, all my equipment
Speaker 1: stuff to my tutor silver two thousand, one hundred corps
Speaker 1: to dj A fiftieth wedding anniversary. It's amazingly beautiful couple
Speaker 1: from base here in Los Angeles day for some reason,
Speaker 1: decided to celebrate there there. And they're in their seventies.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm playing Aretha Francoin, Chubby Checker, do
Speaker 1: to twist. I'm playing like literally old school, not old school,
Speaker 1: old old school man, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 1: I really wanted it. I'm saying, um, putting, putting the
Speaker 1: work in all those respective environments, you know, dealing with
Speaker 1: a few clubmotors who don't want to pay you, all
Speaker 1: other stuff. You didn't just get to a point where
Speaker 1: I just I just turned a corner and decided, like
Speaker 1: I just want to do this at a different level.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna do it a little differently. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm a dress a little differently. I'm gonna stand up
Speaker 1: a little diferent. I'm a craft and curative email, just
Speaker 1: like this is a business. And so that was what
Speaker 1: I realized, is like, that's why I wasn't. I'm thankful,
Speaker 1: even though I resented my pops in terms of him
Speaker 1: not encouraging me to pursue music at an earlier point. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm thankful that I had a business acumen and structure
Speaker 1: that stepped in with me into the creative world because
Speaker 1: that is when the when the corner turned, when I
Speaker 1: was able to merge those two worlds together. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean you got the extra polish. I um, I
Speaker 1: guess we don't have to come back there, because I
Speaker 1: remember I would see on Instagram and I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was at your old department, but you you
Speaker 1: said djil or something and there you had the stairway.
Speaker 1: So that was dope. It's so crazy because they just
Speaker 1: they were tearing down that building last week. You gotta
Speaker 1: you shall recreate that with that space. Yeah, like at
Speaker 1: the next block party event, and that could be like
Speaker 1: a photo moment. It could those who know no, you know,
Speaker 1: we used to do graffiti. So back to how even
Speaker 1: how the block party got started. My boy Tay, he
Speaker 1: had a four car parking lot behind his building on
Speaker 1: the corner of Hawser and Venice in at Miss City.
Speaker 1: That's right down the stream of me. And the beautiful
Speaker 1: thing about it because it was on the corner, there
Speaker 1: was this big brick wall that kind of encapsulated the
Speaker 1: space and separated it from the main street. And so
Speaker 1: we were back there one day We're looking around and
Speaker 1: so there was there was this venue that I want
Speaker 1: to host my birthday party at. It's like, yeah, you
Speaker 1: can come through. We'd love to have you. You know,
Speaker 1: you bring a great crowd, but don't play no trap.
Speaker 1: I'm like, excuse me. They're like, yeah, you can play
Speaker 1: like More nine, you know, early nineties hip hop, but
Speaker 1: don't play trapp And I'm like, I'm not even a
Speaker 1: trap DJ, you know what I'm saying. But if I
Speaker 1: want to play some bands and make a dance back,
Speaker 1: then that's a problem. Like, yeah, no, we don't want that.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, y'all want my money. You want the money.
Speaker 1: Actually that my that you want my people, you want
Speaker 1: the money. We're gonna drink bringing here, but you don't
Speaker 1: want us, and some of us it's trapped as I like, nah,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not I'm not having that, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So instead of doing it with that
Speaker 1: particular venue, we decided to host the party behind my
Speaker 1: boys building, and that's how the block party was formed,
Speaker 1: being His Block Party. It's called be His Black Party
Speaker 1: because it was my birthday. And so it started back
Speaker 1: there and its crib and then it just it just
Speaker 1: grew from there. Okay, so we're about to We're about
Speaker 1: to come back real quick because we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: being in block party. Um, because a lot of people say,
Speaker 1: like you're gonna get gay straight. Everybody partying at one
Speaker 1: was just having a good time and everyone in between
Speaker 1: and a lot of spaces you don't get that. And
Speaker 1: I can imagine it's a testament just to your journey
Speaker 1: as far as being the army brack. You've seen so
Speaker 1: many cultures, you've been exposed. It's like a chameleon. Put
Speaker 1: me in the room and I'll be there all right, y'all.
Speaker 1: You know I got Bryan here being here. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about that. We're also gonna talk about how his
Speaker 1: involvement with the l g B t q I A
Speaker 1: plus community, as well as we're gonna talk about some
Speaker 1: white colonialism and the effects of All right, y'all, we'll
Speaker 1: be right back. Hey, what's up l day? Okay, listen,
Speaker 1: I told you we were got my back. I told
Speaker 1: you I had Mr Brian Henry in the studio with me. Um.
Speaker 1: We had a conversation. He said, can I tell them
Speaker 1: what you said to me? You sure, No, go ahead, No, No,
Speaker 1: We're look, we're gonna we're gonna keep it between you.
Speaker 1: And after the COO so we left off, you were
Speaker 1: talking about how you started with the block party, and
Speaker 1: you said it was a matter of creating your own lane,
Speaker 1: creating your own space. So then after the venue was like, no,
Speaker 1: y'all went to you. You said, your boys backyard. He
Speaker 1: had a parking lot behind this building. Then he hand
Speaker 1: the yard. It was all asphalt and then so then
Speaker 1: what happened? I was it? So No, we just grew
Speaker 1: it start out to fifty the next year, three fifty
Speaker 1: four hundred. It just kept growing, and we would always
Speaker 1: go to the police station and they were like, listen,
Speaker 1: in private property, you do what you want to you're
Speaker 1: good as long as nobody complaining. And I think the
Speaker 1: fourth year we did it. For the fourth time, we
Speaker 1: did it um L A P d S in a helicopter.
Speaker 1: What that point, we had reached like five plus people
Speaker 1: behind behind the building and we were at capacity and
Speaker 1: all the neighbors cool because they're be doing these loud
Speaker 1: kids and years in the neighborhood. But it was just
Speaker 1: one new neighbor who's not with it. Oh is that
Speaker 1: back there in the legal cabaret? And uh, he called
Speaker 1: the police on us in the helicopter. They sent the
Speaker 1: chopper and that chopper flew across around that party and
Speaker 1: being that light down you know what I mean, And
Speaker 1: it was the blessing of it. It was like and
Speaker 1: so it was a perfect time in the end the party,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, man, that's the way to end the party.
Speaker 1: It was kind of fire Like I thought, Oh, it
Speaker 1: was cool. Had no idea that that took it to
Speaker 1: the next level. The next time we did it, we
Speaker 1: doubled inside are you serious? Yes, more than double. We
Speaker 1: had twelve plus people at the next event, from five
Speaker 1: hundreds something to like twelve hunt or something, and it
Speaker 1: was like it was crazy it was crazy. It's always
Speaker 1: to the point. Now our most recent event in l
Speaker 1: A we had you know, and even that the sponsors
Speaker 1: up on there, the little bars, even that was an
Speaker 1: increase of seven hund people from last year we day,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, it continues to grow, and that's I
Speaker 1: think it's a testament to the experience we provide. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you said, you say nobody's were all VP no one,
Speaker 1: No one is v I P. Because we're all v
Speaker 1: I P. I tell people, look to your left, look
Speaker 1: here right. It's just like church, say hello to your neighbor. Straight, gay, black, green, blue, lesbian, transgender.
Speaker 1: We don't we don't care. Honestly, we want you to
Speaker 1: come as yourself. But we and it's not that we
Speaker 1: don't care if that's a part of your identity. We
Speaker 1: don't care because time of us having a good time.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a good time because we came here
Speaker 1: to enjoy the music. We tell all the DJs who
Speaker 1: were blessed to hear play, do not come up here
Speaker 1: and give us the same old soundtrack. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, And swags from allows the Black Party, Uh,
Speaker 1: we we love a knock if but but you can
Speaker 1: do that home before I let go. We've already let go.
Speaker 1: And those are all amazing songs anymore, we are not
Speaker 1: holding on, you know what I mean? Like, those are
Speaker 1: all amazing songs for our community, but we hear them
Speaker 1: at every single event. So I tell him, digging your bag,
Speaker 1: give me that KNAA mixed with Marvin Gaye with a
Speaker 1: splash of you know, Marvin Sap up in there. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, give us something that you
Speaker 1: would listen to if you were at home. And quest
Speaker 1: Lave said give me what you give me your give
Speaker 1: me your soul, give me, give me something. I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, let me just stop giving me something, let
Speaker 1: me do let me just stop right there. Um, that's
Speaker 1: dope sale. And I think that was something because I
Speaker 1: think I've been to two of your block parties. I
Speaker 1: went to the one last year and then before that
Speaker 1: may have been a couple of years ago or no.
Speaker 1: Your part is how many years? As man? You said,
Speaker 1: seven we've been doing this and the pandemic year also
Speaker 1: seven years. I was right, yeah, wow, come on, holler,
Speaker 1: what do you um? One thing that I I think
Speaker 1: that that really stood out to me is because I
Speaker 1: love the diversity with the crowd. He was like everybody
Speaker 1: getting everything on and that whole thing. It's like not
Speaker 1: being divert divisive, divisive, And I feel like one thing
Speaker 1: that you said that was so interesting is you talked
Speaker 1: about showing up as yourself, Like what does that mean?
Speaker 1: Especially now? I think you know my experience when I
Speaker 1: learned that going out into nightlife spaces is intimidating to
Speaker 1: a lot of people. You know, women feel like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta have a certain hell on or my dress
Speaker 1: has to be a certain fit. Guys feel like I
Speaker 1: have spent thousands of dollars on bottle service. And that's why,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like you know, they it
Speaker 1: creates an environment of a having to have nots in
Speaker 1: nightlife scene. And I thought that was just in l A.
Speaker 1: But I've learned as in major cities across the country.
Speaker 1: And to me, if it separates us, then it's not love.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Music is love music and joins.
Speaker 1: Music brings us together. So we created a space where
Speaker 1: there's no sections, there's no v I P, there's no
Speaker 1: guest list, you know, I mean, we did away with
Speaker 1: all the things that give a hierarchy of separation with
Speaker 1: the nightlife experiences, and we we love doing outdoors. It's
Speaker 1: something about the freedom of having the stars that you
Speaker 1: can look up at, the moon, you can look up
Speaker 1: at while also hearing music that just such a soul
Speaker 1: on fire. Release your wiggle you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And I mean if you've caught uh Mr Ryan Harme
Speaker 1: on Instagram with social media, you know he gets it
Speaker 1: down't do don't and the fits be so damn flying.
Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate it? Oh you know you said getting
Speaker 1: the wiggles all. I can only imagine that release that
Speaker 1: people feel, that release of joy, that peace, and what
Speaker 1: it does mentally. How would you say? Because I really
Speaker 1: feel like our gifts are passion, are essentially to feed ourselves.
Speaker 1: Like I'm always here to inspire, like that's my thing,
Speaker 1: but not like I don't love you, Like I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to inspire you. But I'm speaking to myself and
Speaker 1: therefore I feel like I can give to my overflows
Speaker 1: so it flows to someone else. Can you tell me
Speaker 1: how your music, how you DJ and fees you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, And that's as I said, a beautiful question
Speaker 1: because when I was trying to get put on. I
Speaker 1: was trying to get on, if you will, in the
Speaker 1: earlier stages of my career, like you gotta play Top forty.
Speaker 1: The Top fourty was just cold for like, play music
Speaker 1: that's appealing to the ears of Caucasian people. And you know,
Speaker 1: I love all music, you know what I'm saying. You
Speaker 1: know I love music from all genres. But you know,
Speaker 1: I was showing up in a way with my gift
Speaker 1: that wasn't serving me, So I don't think it was
Speaker 1: of really any value to anyone else. It's not until
Speaker 1: I stepped away and it was like, you know, what
Speaker 1: is what makes me dance? What makes me feel good?
Speaker 1: Like what music and and and that's kind of my
Speaker 1: rubric or my like barometer when I'm preparing a set.
Speaker 1: If I'm dancing to it at the crib, I know
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a time because to your point, it's
Speaker 1: feeding me first. You know, it's putting my air mask
Speaker 1: on forward first before I can, you know, put the
Speaker 1: mask on someone else. And he's almost like you have
Speaker 1: to recognize your feeling. I was just saying the other day,
Speaker 1: I was on my bike on my weight to my trainer,
Speaker 1: and I was. I was just you know, giggling to myself,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my gosh, I think I'm
Speaker 1: falling in love with myself. I never I never thought
Speaker 1: about it. I mean people say love yourself, but never
Speaker 1: really like like what does that really mean? And I'm winding,
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, what does that really look like on?
Speaker 1: And what it looks like to me is about the
Speaker 1: boundaries that I'm setting. And I noticed I was loving
Speaker 1: on me because I was geeking on myself. You know,
Speaker 1: you crushing on somebody and you start playing back the
Speaker 1: things they said, like oh that was cute, and just
Speaker 1: the things that I'm saying and how I'm showing up.
Speaker 1: I was like, what that was, flower, Oh that's dope,
Speaker 1: just replaying and I was like, I was geeking on
Speaker 1: my thinglf and you know, it just came to a
Speaker 1: realization of just when you think about how to connect
Speaker 1: with somebody and how to recognize it when you see it,
Speaker 1: is that you have to show up as that. So
Speaker 1: you saying, like, yo, me playing my music and my
Speaker 1: home and if I'm dancing, it's going to feed somebody else.
Speaker 1: I'm so grateful that you made space of yourself because
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people make space and
Speaker 1: I still have. I still have challenges with that, like
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna front, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 1: the busier you get, the more there's demands on my time,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, um or you know it's
Speaker 1: it becomes more challenging to carve out for those boundaries
Speaker 1: to stay in place, you know what I'm saying. Because
Speaker 1: I love people. I'm I'm the most extra extra bert,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I genuinely am recharged when
Speaker 1: it comes down to being with my people, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But I also you know, I'm a cancer.
Speaker 1: I do like to go back into my cancer all
Speaker 1: day long. Yeah, you know, so you'll just be feeling.
Speaker 1: I do feel I mean, but I've learned that my
Speaker 1: feelings are a superpower in the sense that, like I
Speaker 1: don't I listened to more how I feel now than
Speaker 1: just simply words because words were created in the human
Speaker 1: evolution to express how we feel. But so often we
Speaker 1: use our words for any and everything. But at this point,
Speaker 1: you know, you know what something, say what you doing
Speaker 1: right now? Say go ahead inside of it. Words were
Speaker 1: and during our evolution as human beings, words were created.
Speaker 1: Language was created for us to express how we feel,
Speaker 1: but so often we use words for any and everything else,
Speaker 1: but to express how we feel. So I've learned, you know,
Speaker 1: to tap into more how I feel as as my barometer,
Speaker 1: Like where the ro left? Do I go right? I
Speaker 1: heard you say something? You know what I mean? That
Speaker 1: third eye get open like okay, you know. And that's
Speaker 1: not to say that I'm out here looking for anyone
Speaker 1: with malicious intent. I just I've learned to and it's
Speaker 1: been a journey, but I've learned to trust myself. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been a journey. Oh my drop that's my drop mover,
Speaker 1: because there's so much weight with that, because that's moving
Speaker 1: in confidence, that's trust in each process. That's taking a
Speaker 1: chance on yourself, that's believing yourself, that's allowing yourself to
Speaker 1: be vulnerable. That's everything that you are. And if you
Speaker 1: aren't who you say you are, then who are you
Speaker 1: trying to be? Somebody else? But everybody else has already
Speaker 1: taken So how does it make you feel being a DJ,
Speaker 1: having your parties all inclusive and people already want to
Speaker 1: label you as the king of the l g B
Speaker 1: t Q plus community. Is that was that a lot
Speaker 1: of weight. That's a lot of damn pressure. I don't
Speaker 1: think they labeled me of that because that's not that
Speaker 1: would be inaccurate. You know, come on, talk about it.
Speaker 1: If anything labeled me as someone who loves come on everybody,
Speaker 1: which I do, you know what I'm saying, Um, and
Speaker 1: that ain't even know cuntry country, feel good type of thing,
Speaker 1: like I genuinely, like I said, because I'm such an
Speaker 1: extroverted personality, I love all people. My dad being in
Speaker 1: the military gave me exposures to different cultures at a
Speaker 1: very early age. Just living in Germany for three years,
Speaker 1: Hawaii for three years, you know, different parts of the country.
Speaker 1: It taught me that at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: everybody blees read and everybody wants love, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So that's why it's important for me as
Speaker 1: relations to this this access to music, to make sure
Speaker 1: that music is speaking to all people, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So the events that our host and my
Speaker 1: team host, it is welcoming, like I said, to to
Speaker 1: straight people, folks with an LGBT community, black people, white people,
Speaker 1: Asian specific island there you know, Hispanic, Latino it's welcoming
Speaker 1: to all people. As long as you come in and
Speaker 1: expect to get fed and you're gonna, you know, dance,
Speaker 1: then that's what that's what it's all about. And so
Speaker 1: I've heard you say the association of being a community
Speaker 1: of healers. What does that mean? So that that does
Speaker 1: go back to the LGBTQ space. Um, you know what
Speaker 1: you want to you want to you want to ask
Speaker 1: a good question via a good question. Listen, I didn't
Speaker 1: ask him the question. I'm doing my job. Now let's
Speaker 1: see if you go answer. Oh, go ahead, ask it again,
Speaker 1: ask for me. I just want the people. I just
Speaker 1: want to be just talking. And I think it's real.
Speaker 1: It's just real. It's a lot of pressure as real.
Speaker 1: I want to know, I damn it, I want to know.
Speaker 1: So what I've come to learn, you know, shout out
Speaker 1: to Bishop Yvette Flounder, you know, out of City of
Speaker 1: Refuge Church in the San Francisco Bay area. He's a
Speaker 1: lesbian uh pastor minister, someone who is you know, within
Speaker 1: the spiritual realm of of of healing. So I did
Speaker 1: a cruise a few years ago and she had a
Speaker 1: session on the cruise where she was just talking about
Speaker 1: the LGBT community and it's black LGBT community and the
Speaker 1: historical value of it and where we are and how
Speaker 1: we stand today and how black folks look at you know,
Speaker 1: gay folks now versus historically how they folks were viewed.
Speaker 1: And she explained that colonialism is what messed up this perception.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, she's like, what does the word
Speaker 1: gay mean? It means happy, It means at the root
Speaker 1: of it meets happy, you know, I mean, she's you know,
Speaker 1: and when white folks were coming into our countries, our country,
Speaker 1: coming to coming to Africa, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: they were looking the colonizers coming into and saying like, well,
Speaker 1: who is this person of power, who is the highest
Speaker 1: regarded in this community? It tended to be someone who
Speaker 1: had a various centric look, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: who might have a bonet and those might have makeup on,
Speaker 1: might have all these these feathers and this and this
Speaker 1: and that and that, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: that person tended to be someone who was lesbian, gay, transgender,
Speaker 1: what have you. You know, I mean, someone someone within
Speaker 1: that realm, but in our community and our culture, with
Speaker 1: within our tribes, that person was well regarded. This is
Speaker 1: the person that you I'm serious as a heart attack.
Speaker 1: This is the person who was the seer, the healer,
Speaker 1: the sayer. This is the person who you would bring
Speaker 1: your child to to bless your child upon birth. This
Speaker 1: is the person that if you were depressed within the community,
Speaker 1: you go to this person, they will help give you
Speaker 1: a healing. This person was the medicine doctor. This person
Speaker 1: has so many respective roles within the community and it
Speaker 1: was held to a high esteem. But just like anything
Speaker 1: else you know, with within our community and how we
Speaker 1: view ourselves, that was something that became demonic because they
Speaker 1: were they were looking to strip us of our power.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I heard Dr David Jones.
Speaker 1: He said he doesn't like to use the word yet
Speaker 1: he prefers saying gender loving, and it makes sense. Okay,
Speaker 1: I just want to answer to you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because if you if you okay, working out wheking out
Speaker 1: your powerful, I'm going to demonize this particular person within
Speaker 1: the community. You know what I'm saying, Just like we
Speaker 1: were stripped of our spiritual practices and everything, you know,
Speaker 1: everything then became Christianity. Christian Christianity, Well, what were our
Speaker 1: spiritual practices projects? And that's no disrespect to anyone who
Speaker 1: was appreciated you talking my language. You know, there's completely
Speaker 1: no disrespect. You know, there's there's I simply believe there's
Speaker 1: a myriad of different ways for you to align spiritually,
Speaker 1: for you to fall into a space of alignment. The
Speaker 1: scriptual says, it goes by many names, but you're trying
Speaker 1: to define it don't even make sense exactly. So you
Speaker 1: you you take that to the next level, in which
Speaker 1: when we when we were put on slaveships, and we
Speaker 1: were you know, then taking over into different parts of
Speaker 1: you know, the Caribbean and and and the America's and
Speaker 1: in order to make sure that black men stay in line,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, they had the process called
Speaker 1: breaking the buck. And what they would do is shackle
Speaker 1: us up in the public square, you know, and and
Speaker 1: and and literally rape you in public you know, I
Speaker 1: mean the master, that the white master, raping this black
Speaker 1: man to to sodomizing him in order to make him
Speaker 1: to strip him off his power and doing so in
Speaker 1: front of his wife, his kids, etcetera, etcetera. So so
Speaker 1: much of the perception that gay is evil, or that
Speaker 1: it's wrong, is all the other things. Because the way
Speaker 1: that it was, it was demonstrated on display and used
Speaker 1: as a sense of control or isolation. It was it
Speaker 1: was inflicted on us in a sense of trauma, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And it's something that's still within
Speaker 1: the Black community, is still something that we are healing from,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So when you understand the
Speaker 1: historical context of it, it puts a different spin on it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like black men, black women,
Speaker 1: no one chooses to wake up the day and say
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna be the butt end of a joke,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna feel less than today, I'm going to allow
Speaker 1: people to think less of me because of my sexuality.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna choose this, and everybody's gonna treat me bad
Speaker 1: and curse me on and beat me. I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: my ass beat every day because I want to choose that.
Speaker 1: No one chooses that, you know what I mean, Just
Speaker 1: like you don't choose the color of your eyes, just
Speaker 1: like you don't choose any characteristic within how you show up.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But again, there's just a
Speaker 1: lot of there's a lot of room for the ignorance
Speaker 1: to be diminished within our community. And my goal is
Speaker 1: to simply speak on it. But then because a lot
Speaker 1: of why do you say, speak on it like that?
Speaker 1: Because for a lot of us are afraid to speak
Speaker 1: on it or aren't aware of what the roots of
Speaker 1: it and why why why Black folks as whole are
Speaker 1: just some uncomfortable with the conversation. Why do you feel
Speaker 1: like we're uncomfortable and you're afraid to speak on it?
Speaker 1: Because because because we've been old for so many years
Speaker 1: that you know, if you aren't straight, you're going to hell.
Speaker 1: So who whatever wants to put themselves in that box? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Who wants to put themselves in a box? Why wouldn't
Speaker 1: you want choose that? So? How you did you hear
Speaker 1: about them? Don't say Gabriel yeah down in Florida? Yeah,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about that? I think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I think it's just like you know, it's just like
Speaker 1: the right for him to choose being removed from my country,
Speaker 1: certain things that are just going to reverse. But I
Speaker 1: think that's why it's more important that we be vocal
Speaker 1: about it so that every human has equal rights period.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And it's so interesting that
Speaker 1: people are talking all representation they've seen. I want my
Speaker 1: child to be recognized, but you have a child that
Speaker 1: identifies with something and they can't even see it. They
Speaker 1: can't even recognize it. Like, and I'm understanding now as
Speaker 1: I'm embracing my sexuality more, as I'm working on how
Speaker 1: i want to show up how important it is for
Speaker 1: the community. I can feel the breath leaving out of
Speaker 1: my lungs right now, but I gotta do it because
Speaker 1: if God is gonna put it on me or whatever,
Speaker 1: here it is. But I'm just realized, not realizing. I
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that I was talking to some friends
Speaker 1: and I was talking about me being in eighth grade
Speaker 1: and I was embarrassing to dance with my girlfriend and
Speaker 1: I had to watch her dance with some of the
Speaker 1: guy and I didn't even I'm just regurgitating the story
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh my god. The next thing I know,
Speaker 1: I'm getting all emotional and stuff, and I'm just like, Wow,
Speaker 1: you don't even realize, like somebody that you can love
Speaker 1: and care about. Whatever love was that eighth grade, it
Speaker 1: probably was everything. I mean, I get it, but that
Speaker 1: restriction and then we wonder why people have stress, why
Speaker 1: they're anxious, and at the anxiety all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: Anytime you've been lessing yourself, you know your soul is
Speaker 1: like crumbling on the inside. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And the goal I think here while we're here on
Speaker 1: this earth is to understand what our mission is and
Speaker 1: to let that soul glow like for real, you can't
Speaker 1: do so if you're un in the thumb of any
Speaker 1: type of oppression, you know what I'm saying, Like, and
Speaker 1: it's just to cover up. And that's like with vitamin D,
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, how are we gonna share the light? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you need the light, You need that Vitamin D, come on,
Speaker 1: come on. And understanding that with the like it's gonna
Speaker 1: shed it on the good and the bed. Because if
Speaker 1: we want to be better and we want to do better,
Speaker 1: we have to be able to see better, whether it's
Speaker 1: seeing going through meditation, whether it's going out to a
Speaker 1: party and connecting with people at the be Hered block party.
Speaker 1: We just got to get through the point of what
Speaker 1: you said, how you started out making the space, making
Speaker 1: the space for people to show up. So it's really appreciative.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we did talk because I didn't even know
Speaker 1: that it's all love. I mean, I mean it blew
Speaker 1: my mind, you know, for me to think less of
Speaker 1: myself because of some colonizer and what they did to
Speaker 1: my people and how that has been you know, the
Speaker 1: trauma of that and how that's been passed on the
Speaker 1: nerve me like I can't fulfill my mission on this
Speaker 1: earth if I'm worried about who thinks I'm less than
Speaker 1: because of how I was born. And here's the thing
Speaker 1: I've been telling um, I realized, like my my dream
Speaker 1: is on the line right now. Like I left my job.
Speaker 1: I was the digital content producer for the Steve rvy
Speaker 1: Wanning Show, and I left my job there, but thank god,
Speaker 1: you know the way guy shows, I'm step coming to
Speaker 1: the same building. And what I've realized is that I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: getting more comfortable with my podcast, making sure I'm sharing.
Speaker 1: It's like I know what God promised me. I know
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have this vision I have. Sometimes I'll be
Speaker 1: thinking like why is all of this on me? Like
Speaker 1: why do I feel like I gotta risk everything? Because
Speaker 1: if I try to be what I say is normal
Speaker 1: of doing something that goes with the crowd. I don't
Speaker 1: know what what it was. You know what I'm saying, saying,
Speaker 1: if I had to go this wrong with my dream
Speaker 1: and I'm on the street, God, I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: speak that, Oh Heavenly Father, No, But what I'm saying
Speaker 1: is is that whatever the angst could be in it.
Speaker 1: But just like you said, when I was created, everything,
Speaker 1: every piece was such as that. And if I have
Speaker 1: these desires as bad as I knowingly want, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to show up as dawn. It's not all accused
Speaker 1: the leg or here's the piece. Now, all of this
Speaker 1: work together. Um So for the fact that you're creating
Speaker 1: the space and and you saying the community healer is
Speaker 1: God dog, thank you. And that's the value that I
Speaker 1: want more of us to be aware of. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, there's an intrinsic value and just
Speaker 1: who you are period Again, I think that's part of
Speaker 1: our mission to identify what that is. But in order
Speaker 1: for us to do so, we have to remove you know,
Speaker 1: representation matters, and we have to remove ourselves from spaces
Speaker 1: that aren't safe, aren't welcoming or or try to treat
Speaker 1: us as less than and if we once we remove ourselves,
Speaker 1: we have to create that. And that's what it being
Speaker 1: in a block party comes in now. Another thing I
Speaker 1: saw on social media and I was like, I just
Speaker 1: gotta give a shout out to you. Um you're talking
Speaker 1: about how you manifested and you Djur coach teller Juvon.
Speaker 1: I met him when I first moved on. I met
Speaker 1: him with a billionaire p A who used to be
Speaker 1: my neighbor. Set the front. He was right, we were
Speaker 1: you wait a minute, hold on, So you stayed off
Speaker 1: a duz Yes in city? Yeah, yeah, I was upstairus was.
Speaker 1: I was in that SA building. Okay. So with the
Speaker 1: Trevors the it's Trevor's the younger guy and his dad.
Speaker 1: I think Trevor Jr. But these are the owners. Oh
Speaker 1: I know. Okay, I didn't know them specifically, but billionaires. Wrong.
Speaker 1: I stayed in there after that after when he left out,
Speaker 1: and that's how I knew him, and I would go
Speaker 1: to his you know, he had in the little house
Speaker 1: and I even saw him build out his thing. And
Speaker 1: then Julian, when I were connecting the moment then when
Speaker 1: I saw you on on Instagram and you were talking
Speaker 1: about the story of these bracelets, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to say I want you to say how happened? That's
Speaker 1: the crazy about it. So that's another thing I've learned
Speaker 1: about being just in alignment is that you can't worry
Speaker 1: about when something's going to show up. Like often times
Speaker 1: the things that we want escape us because we are
Speaker 1: not of the same vibrational frequency of the thing. You
Speaker 1: have to you have to you have to embote it,
Speaker 1: you have to be it. You can't just want it.
Speaker 1: You have to be it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I and I ever remind myself that even now
Speaker 1: for the next stages of things that I want, you know,
Speaker 1: I have to be it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But I was trying to take a different approach to
Speaker 1: being it then. So I went to Coachella for the
Speaker 1: first time, and I was just enamored with it, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You know, Farrell put on an
Speaker 1: amazing performances. Should give a tutorial to people on how
Speaker 1: to put on a performance when it comes down to
Speaker 1: no skips, seamless energy by like, he's incredible with that.
Speaker 1: But obviously he's a producer. Um Outcast is performing and
Speaker 1: so the Coachella band was on my wrist and I
Speaker 1: and I made a like a like a promise to myself.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not cutting these coach, I'm not
Speaker 1: cutting this Coachella band off until I perform at Coachella.
Speaker 1: Right cool Year one, Go year to go year three,
Speaker 1: Go year four, Go year five. I had five years
Speaker 1: of bands on my was funky because I'll be washing.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying is Mr Clee No, But
Speaker 1: that's the crazing about it. I would wash these cloth
Speaker 1: bands on my wrists as if they were a part
Speaker 1: of my body, and people asking like the things don't
Speaker 1: stay and things. I'm like, no, just like you're getting
Speaker 1: the shot with you. I'm in there washing and they
Speaker 1: represent like an open of source. And I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to wear these. And two, I perform at
Speaker 1: the festival, and I was beginning to get really frustrated
Speaker 1: with myself, like why aren't you there yet? It's four years,
Speaker 1: it's five years now, Like why haven't you performed? Even
Speaker 1: with the afro punk adding an afro punk band on there?
Speaker 1: And Divine I think was in Bali at the time
Speaker 1: and somehow were just super Hella lay here, but it's
Speaker 1: early there and we got on the phone and we
Speaker 1: were talking about it, and I was just like, I
Speaker 1: think there's something, Um, I think this is there's something
Speaker 1: going on with me wearing these. He was like, of
Speaker 1: course is because you're attached anything that you want, you
Speaker 1: have to you have to detach from it. You can't
Speaker 1: be so attached. You have to be it. But you
Speaker 1: can't be attached right listen, because we're not gonna go
Speaker 1: the stay right, stay right here, um. And he said,
Speaker 1: although it's light on your wrists, the weight of those
Speaker 1: bands will increase the weight in time before this manifest
Speaker 1: and it was like it was literally like what did
Speaker 1: he just say to me? That's a bomb moment. And
Speaker 1: I go from five years people making jokes, people asking me, people,
Speaker 1: even year one when I had it on, I met um,
Speaker 1: I met three stacks. I met three Stacks at the
Speaker 1: Hollywood Bowl and I came up, I came up to
Speaker 1: three thousand. I was walking by him and I was
Speaker 1: so excited. I turned around and I punched him and
Speaker 1: I just like I said, Oh, my bad, my bad, bro,
Speaker 1: my bad, my bad. He's like, yo, I said, you
Speaker 1: don't like dressed my favorite artist? I did yoga with him?
Speaker 1: Did you You're gonna introduce himself? But I know who
Speaker 1: you are, right, he is my favorite artist. When people
Speaker 1: actually like when you fall in love with hip hop
Speaker 1: or when you falling I fell in love with hip
Speaker 1: hop on on on a t L's their second album.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Wills are still you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like, that's so that whole album anyway,
Speaker 1: I said, bro, can I get a picture? He's like
Speaker 1: yes and no. I'm like, what do you mean, like
Speaker 1: a true Gemini? Yes and though he said no because
Speaker 1: if I give you a picture and everyone's gonna see
Speaker 1: it and everybody's gonna swing, get a photo. Yes, because
Speaker 1: if you find me after show, I'll take a picture
Speaker 1: with you. I was like, all right, cool. So I
Speaker 1: found him at the show behind back back and stage,
Speaker 1: figured it out and m it was Jenelle Monees performance
Speaker 1: that she was she was performing at the Bowl sure
Speaker 1: if I'm sure. If she was performing someone else, I
Speaker 1: don't remember, but we had backstage because it was Janelle performing,
Speaker 1: and I ran him to him again, didn't punch him
Speaker 1: this time, and like, Bro, you don't understand you're my
Speaker 1: favorite artist. I said, I'm so thankful you and Big
Speaker 1: Boy wrapping back together and y'all performed the Coachella. I've
Speaker 1: been wearing this Coachella band, he said, Nicole, what you've
Speaker 1: been doing? What? Hey? Man, you see this? Man? He
Speaker 1: didn't been wearing this band, says, oh man, you're cool
Speaker 1: with me. Man, I can't believe this this band on.
Speaker 1: I said, do you understand like you've inspired me? Like
Speaker 1: I want to perform at coach Olla like you did.
Speaker 1: I'm aware of this until he's like, you are you crazy?
Speaker 1: You're definitely getting this picture and we took a photo.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But fast forward five six
Speaker 1: years later, I'm still not performing a coach Olla And
Speaker 1: so the moment I had a conversation with Javine, I
Speaker 1: cut them off that night, you know, I mean I
Speaker 1: cut him off because I realized I was too attached.
Speaker 1: You know, you have to release anything that you want.
Speaker 1: You have to release and give it time to manifest.
Speaker 1: And it's not about the thing that you get, the
Speaker 1: thing that you want, the thing that you want. I
Speaker 1: want this, I want that. I want to be there
Speaker 1: it's about who you become on the journey towards that thing,
Speaker 1: because these moments are fleeting. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You're on that stage as an hour you you with
Speaker 1: these these celebrities. They're not my friends, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. They are clients. There are people I'm blessed
Speaker 1: to perform for or with, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And then that's at the moment is done. But it's
Speaker 1: like who who did you become um en route to
Speaker 1: that moment? Were you more kind? Were you more compassionate?
Speaker 1: Were you more giving? You know what I'm saying, And
Speaker 1: and to yourself first before other people, and then to
Speaker 1: other people, you know what I mean. And so I
Speaker 1: think that's what happened, Like I started being nicer to myself.
Speaker 1: I stopped beating myself up as much. I allowed myself
Speaker 1: to show up as Brian and play the music that
Speaker 1: Brian wants to hear. I stopped trying to people please
Speaker 1: all the time. I stopped being concerned about what people thought.
Speaker 1: And it's that if you like me and all these
Speaker 1: other things, And that's what happened between me cutting those
Speaker 1: bands off and then fast forward getting a call like
Speaker 1: you want perform at the first one. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: do you mean weekend too? We got the stage you want.
Speaker 1: And the crazy thing about it, how that even came about.
Speaker 1: I called to get someone else's job. It was this incredible,
Speaker 1: credible God Juice. He did all of our visuals at
Speaker 1: the Being Black Party one. And what made that Black
Speaker 1: Party so dynamic is that we were on three days
Speaker 1: from governor Governor Gavin Newsom allowing us to even have parties. Wow,
Speaker 1: he like said, it was okay, they have parties on
Speaker 1: the fifteen. We had the Black Party in the eighteen.
Speaker 1: But crazy about it again, just following my spirit. I
Speaker 1: knew it was gonna happen, and I knew it was
Speaker 1: gonna happen around Juneteenth weekend, so we have been planning
Speaker 1: for months. But we got the green light on the
Speaker 1: fifteen and had the party on the eighteen, and it
Speaker 1: was perfect. But at any rate, um Juice was doing
Speaker 1: all the visuals on screen, the l a ed boards.
Speaker 1: We were whoop. And so we call them this year
Speaker 1: asking him like, Yo, you did such an incredible job.
Speaker 1: What would look like for you to do this again?
Speaker 1: Like sure, I would love to, Like you know, oh,
Speaker 1: by the way you want to. You wanna play what
Speaker 1: you're doing weekend to each other. I'm like, I'm not
Speaker 1: even going to each other this year. The first year,
Speaker 1: I wasn't going. Also over it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: You want to play? I'm like, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: He's like, Oh, I run the stage. I've been running
Speaker 1: the stage. I coach other for the last ten years.
Speaker 1: What what and you just now saying something? He said,
Speaker 1: I saw what you did your Black Party. I know
Speaker 1: you'd be great on that stage. What And it just
Speaker 1: it just blew my mind because you don't. It's inconspicuous
Speaker 1: ways in which things manifest. We think things are linear.
Speaker 1: We think if I do A, then I do be,
Speaker 1: then it's going to equal. See. No, it doesn't happen
Speaker 1: that way, you know what I'm saying. And I'm so
Speaker 1: busy wanted to be on Coachella stage, not understanding that
Speaker 1: it was more important for to create value on the
Speaker 1: block party stage for my community, you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: that's what I learned from that. Like you you want
Speaker 1: to you want to go be so so up here.
Speaker 1: You need to be you need to be grounded, you
Speaker 1: need to be right here with your people. So that's
Speaker 1: how that's how Coachella manifested. Just before you got here,
Speaker 1: somebody came in the studio. They're like, wow, you know,
Speaker 1: gave me compliments. I've been working out. I released a
Speaker 1: lot of weight right before he's released the jiggle. But
Speaker 1: he came in. He was like, oh wow. He was like, um,
Speaker 1: fast forward basically the same thing you said. He said, well,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised. Ain't got you doing more what you mean?
Speaker 1: And I made space to receive because I don't you know,
Speaker 1: And I said, well, because I said, Dawn, don't let
Speaker 1: the ego respond. I said, well, I'm here. I got
Speaker 1: vited me. I said, this is my own thing. He said, well,
Speaker 1: what I mean by that is on FM. I said,
Speaker 1: what's built, And I'm trusting the process because it's the
Speaker 1: same thing we talked about saving ourselves so that it
Speaker 1: can flourish on the overflow. Because now that I got
Speaker 1: this platform to do this, this is open the door
Speaker 1: so that you see what I do. But you have
Speaker 1: to show up for yourself and it's confidence annoying. And
Speaker 1: then what I heard stellar above it all is that
Speaker 1: your blessing came forgiven to someone else. The prime example
Speaker 1: of what we talked about lifting while we climb. That's
Speaker 1: exactly and and I and that it's it was just
Speaker 1: it just blew my mind, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 1: and so Juice is flying with us to New York
Speaker 1: in two weeks to do all the visuals for the
Speaker 1: Black Party as we make our debut in Brooklyn. Wow. Man,
Speaker 1: And so that's where things are just like wow. You know,
Speaker 1: you just don't know where your blessing is going to
Speaker 1: come from, you know what I mean. So if you
Speaker 1: had to give somebody some advice on manifest manifestation or
Speaker 1: awaiting blessings, what would you say? Either horrible? Be kind
Speaker 1: to yourself and just continue to put energy into what
Speaker 1: that thing is. Be mindful of your thoughts, thoughts of things,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Do your best to to
Speaker 1: reprogram yourself beyond your limitations. Yeah. And and and be
Speaker 1: patient because I'm very much in this in a harvest
Speaker 1: season right now, you know, I'm I'm preparing we're taking
Speaker 1: the Block Party to New York for the first time.
Speaker 1: A week before that, I'm blessed to spend an Afro
Speaker 1: punk you know what I mean. And I went I
Speaker 1: went to afro punk back in and got a skateboard.
Speaker 1: The skateboarders on my wall. It kind of the same thing.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm I'm gonna play Afropoto, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play afropoint. That was one of the Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: one of the verses too. I didn't know how it
Speaker 1: was going to happen, but the same thing it was.
Speaker 1: It was those those those creators of the festival saw
Speaker 1: what I was doing. I'll hear you. Saw what the
Speaker 1: team is doing. It ain't just me, it's the team.
Speaker 1: Like shot shout out to the lead, shout out to Davon,
Speaker 1: shout out to Nadia, Malachi, Lamar, Felicia, Listen, it's a team.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying it is It is definitely team.
Speaker 1: But what makes us dope is that everyone is in
Speaker 1: their own bag. Everyone is in their lane, in your bags,
Speaker 1: and they're adding their respective gifts to this melting pot
Speaker 1: that we have. That's the block party. And then lets
Speaker 1: you know, like you're not in competition on anybody and
Speaker 1: not compenis like you're giving what you're giving. That's the
Speaker 1: same thing I tell Jerrmia as we're building this, I
Speaker 1: was like, I want to make sure that you get
Speaker 1: something out of this. I once sure you're growing because
Speaker 1: I'm not the only one that's feeding or even like
Speaker 1: wearing this together. Yeah, man, So how do you make
Speaker 1: sure your your soul is fair? How you make sure
Speaker 1: you get your vitamin d mm hmmm. I'm learning now
Speaker 1: to see myself in a different way of like I
Speaker 1: said before, making space and staying uh uh disciplined. For me,
Speaker 1: working out like that means the world to me because
Speaker 1: I feel like that's another way that I'm loving myself
Speaker 1: so uncomfortably. But I'm transforming and I find that it's
Speaker 1: happening with over new mind. Also, I went through a
Speaker 1: period of a lot of prony. Oh uh, just things
Speaker 1: gotta let go and I am I talked about boundaries
Speaker 1: one thing that I have really taking the stands, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm about damn proud of you doing the
Speaker 1: non negotiable when it comes down to communication. What does
Speaker 1: that look like? Being honest and what that means authentic
Speaker 1: of whatever it is that you feel and giving me
Speaker 1: space so that I can show up authentically as well.
Speaker 1: Because it's like, whilere we what are we fronting for?
Speaker 1: Whether if it's a friend an intimate relationship and opportunity.
Speaker 1: Let's be transparent to communicate. I don't have to take
Speaker 1: anything from me. I'm not trying to take anything from you,
Speaker 1: but I know that's what gives me peace. Um, Jeremiah said,
Speaker 1: we got to go because we can talk all day.
Speaker 1: I know we'll hold on. Let me just get this
Speaker 1: vital chest. He's okay. So I want to tell you something.
Speaker 1: This is divided chess, and in this vide a chest,
Speaker 1: we have some terms in here, terms that are related
Speaker 1: to your career, your life, anything. Now I always give
Speaker 1: the example like if you there was a term in here,
Speaker 1: so if you play basketball, it might be pivot, right,
Speaker 1: you know, pivot is literally a movement. But then also
Speaker 1: like you made a correlation and saying how we pivot
Speaker 1: in life? So we got the fields. You're ready to
Speaker 1: do the deal. Usually do three, but we can do one.
Speaker 1: We'll see how you flow. You tell me how you feel.
Speaker 1: You feel like you want to water? All right? Yes,
Speaker 1: you heard it, okay, one one at a time. Okay,
Speaker 1: So when I read it, then I you gotta say
Speaker 1: it out loud. Then you take them in it and
Speaker 1: then you tell us what it is. What it means,
Speaker 1: what it means, What it means to me, Okay, we
Speaker 1: the culture. That's kind of perfect for me. What that
Speaker 1: means is that, you know so so for so long
Speaker 1: we as black folks in this country have been made
Speaker 1: to feel like we are less than. But the truth
Speaker 1: of the matter is we are. We are the Alpha
Speaker 1: and the omega. We are so incredibly dynamic and powerful
Speaker 1: and capable. We have built this country. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: saying we are overwhelmingly intelligent, overwhelmingly just just talented. We
Speaker 1: the culture. We are the culture. We set the tone.
Speaker 1: We set that we set the tones beyond just trends,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I like that inclusive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out to we the culture. Shout out to Michelle
Speaker 1: over there a matter, you know, I mean, it has
Speaker 1: a dynamic program. Were the coach? I know, it's checking
Speaker 1: out your bad video. You were like, I know, I
Speaker 1: work out a lot, but what do I do when
Speaker 1: I relax? Let me show you some of my life.
Speaker 1: Here he is on the boat to be here working
Speaker 1: out doing all the great things. That shows us a
Speaker 1: balanced life. And I was like, cool, I'm not a stalker.
Speaker 1: I had to do my research. I mean, I'll give
Speaker 1: it away. I heard the hell out of salt and pepper.
Speaker 1: Catch up, pick it up, all right? Vision Mariah Carr
Speaker 1: and vision of love. Um, the vision that you know
Speaker 1: God has blessed you with everyone is not gonna see.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why it's it's it's so important
Speaker 1: for you stay rooted in your respective faith, your respective walk,
Speaker 1: and to be grounded and knowing that we're spiritual beings
Speaker 1: first and too deeply deeply in your own unique way
Speaker 1: with this meditation, yoga, channing, praying, whatever, to align with
Speaker 1: that so that you can have clear vision and you're
Speaker 1: not expected for someone else to see it, because sometimes
Speaker 1: we fresh ten were going for our dreams because you
Speaker 1: don't get it. You don't get the vision was given
Speaker 1: to you, honey boom, it wasn't given to your man's
Speaker 1: And then you know what I mean. They're what's the vision?
Speaker 1: Admission for their life is completely different. So stay connected
Speaker 1: so your vision could be clear. Catching the greater the vision,
Speaker 1: the greater the boy, last one, last one ready like
Speaker 1: a salt shaker. Coacheller, we gotta do a different are
Speaker 1: talking about Coacheller bonus round. These were made specifically for
Speaker 1: me manifestation very similar, you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 1: as I mentioned earlier, you know, just be patient with
Speaker 1: yourself during the process and just give all your energy
Speaker 1: towards what it is and realize that you have to
Speaker 1: be it. You have to be as actors if you
Speaker 1: are and if you are religious, what do they say,
Speaker 1: faith without works is dead? You know, you do not
Speaker 1: You do not catch somebody saying they want to apple
Speaker 1: tree and planting the seed of a peach. Actually, nor
Speaker 1: do you find somebody planning the seed and catching the
Speaker 1: next day to see if it's there. You're trust in
Speaker 1: the process, and that's that's a that's a great point
Speaker 1: about manifestation. I was always, like I said a few missical,
Speaker 1: I'm in a season of harvest. But it took for
Speaker 1: me to be patient to just know that the seeds
Speaker 1: had been planted. And I was so impatient, so overwhelmingly impatient,
Speaker 1: to the point again I'm getting frustrated and beating myself up.
Speaker 1: Why are you this? And why are you that? And
Speaker 1: why are this and why that? But you don't. You
Speaker 1: don't get anywhere by being unkind to yourself. You just
Speaker 1: be grumpy, right man? Yeah? Anybody, Yeah, manifests lightly likely
Speaker 1: said it and forget it. Just keep working towards it,
Speaker 1: but setting and forget it. Catch it all right? So, um,
Speaker 1: we're closing out. I'm fed man, This is great. Appreciate that, man.
Speaker 1: So is there anything you want to tell the people
Speaker 1: about any future projects personal professional that you want people
Speaker 1: to be aware of? What should we look out? Are
Speaker 1: you always gonna be a DJ? Do you do you
Speaker 1: have a vision to evolved as something else? Or is
Speaker 1: there another venture you want to go after? Absolutely, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm in the process. You know. My musical interests are
Speaker 1: are great. You know, I've loved to do music supervision
Speaker 1: for film and television and video games. At a certain point,
Speaker 1: I would love to score film. I would love to produce,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean to really get in my producer
Speaker 1: back and create music from this musical vision that I've
Speaker 1: had for a long time. And so I believe those
Speaker 1: are something next steps that you'll see in addition to
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Speaker 1: it right, that's it. Well, thank you so much. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you, and I appreciate you for listening. I know
Speaker 1: we got all of my business listening. I know you
Speaker 1: didn't learn some more stuff about No, I ain't even
Speaker 1: mind you, but you know, we gotta be who we
Speaker 1: say we want to be, and I understand what you
Speaker 1: know what's next? So with that being said, would you
Speaker 1: like to sit in this scene? Would you like to
Speaker 1: talk to me? Well, I want you to email me,
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Speaker 1: I love to hear from you, um, so thank you.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you believing in my dreams and supporting
Speaker 1: me and being with me on this journey. I'll promise
Speaker 1: you I ain't gonna let you damn all right, Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna get out of here. You know what
Speaker 1: I say. I'm in a business and making dreams come true,
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