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Speaker 1: Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Supremo, Suprema, Roll Call, Suprema Supremo, Roll Call Supremo Supremo,

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Speaker 2: Roll Came Suprema Some Supremo.

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Speaker 1: Duke of Earl Yeah, Milton Burl, Yeah, give it a

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Speaker 1: twhirl Yeah, London Girl, Suprema Supremo.

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Speaker 3: My name is Sugar. Yeah, what's up a stell?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: You need a sons Yeah, I got one to sell.

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Speaker 1: Supremo, Roll Supremo, Some Supreme ro.

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Speaker 4: My name is Boss Billy and I'm on my knees.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: We got to prepare for roll call Ye forgive and

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Speaker 4: stell pretty please, sup.

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Speaker 2: Supreme Role, Suprema Supremo.

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Speaker 5: Roll calls like yeah, and my girl is Stelle.

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Speaker 6: We ain't no substitutes no more. Oh she knows me well.

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Speaker 2: Supprima Something Supremo.

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Speaker 6: Roles and stell Yeah, and I am litty. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 6: out here doing it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: In New York City, Cometh Supremo, Roll Supremo, Supremo, Roll

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Speaker 7: Call Supremo Something Some Supremo, Roll Call Supremo, Son Son

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Speaker 7: Supremo Roll.

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Speaker 4: I hate y'all for not taking American Boy, because I

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Speaker 4: wanted to do mine around that, but I was like,

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Speaker 4: too obvious, too.

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Speaker 1: Obvious any London girl, because obvious.

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Speaker 4: Everybody going to do that. I was like, let me,

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Speaker 4: let me go for a little bit deeper, let me

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Speaker 4: go a little deeper. I'll go for pretty please.

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Speaker 1: It was good.

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Speaker 6: That was good. Was you're not my substitute?

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Speaker 1: Normal? You know, we gotta pay for.

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Speaker 6: Load. That was only two seconds heart.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, I was going to say, I was

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out a way to incorporate, uh, five

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Speaker 1: for seven being the id height.

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Speaker 6: It was a black bladder, makes leave me loud? Everyone

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Speaker 6: everybody against me, against me about it?

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Speaker 1: You you were trying to do.

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Speaker 6: I was just having a mumble and it made sense.

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Speaker 6: And the mumble so I kick the five for seven.

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Speaker 6: So look, we're doing the vibes and John is like

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Speaker 6: doing the melody and he's like and I was like,

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Speaker 6: well five and seven it makes sense, okay.

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Speaker 1: But I just thought maybe the conversion of yeah, I

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Speaker 1: was gonna say, like you might would have been like

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Speaker 1: six due, but you made a lot of low self

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Speaker 1: esteem dudes, feel like you mean low the.

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Speaker 6: Short man busy.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Quest

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Speaker 1: Love Supreme. I am six ft three, thank you. I'm

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Speaker 1: six for three as well. Great, he'll tell you, like okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: well you wear hills all the time.

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Speaker 3: Steve, my feet are size thirteen.

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Speaker 1: All right. So brought to you by the good folk

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Speaker 1: of iHeart Radio, I'm your host, quest Love Jenkins. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Team Supreme is with us today. We got a boss

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Speaker 1: Bill in the house and sugar Steve Steve Jenkins. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Sugar Steve, this is crazy. Yeah, and yo, he don't

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Speaker 1: be rocking his middle name and his last name enough

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Speaker 1: for me. So Berdie Jenkins means the best name of

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Speaker 1: all time. So I'm sorry, Dice, you are Burt Jenkins

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Speaker 1: light yeah and like up yeah, unpaid. Bill must be

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Speaker 1: getting his bills paid because we haven't seen.

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Speaker 5: Him in the month day he gave me the other day,

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Speaker 5: Like I just got back from sun Dance and I'm

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Speaker 5: headed to LA house, Like okay, he doing movies.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing movies too, but I'm here damn. Of course,

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Speaker 1: Fante promised this way back in November. He's going out

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Speaker 1: for cigarette so we're still waiting for Dad to come

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Speaker 1: back home. Ladies and gentlemen, our guest today, of course,

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Speaker 1: needs no introduction.

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Speaker 3: Wait a minute, I just got that joke actually, after

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Speaker 3: like twenty episodes about him going out for cigarettes and

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Speaker 3: not coming home.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow, that's that's how I understand fathers. I get

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Speaker 1: it going out for some smokes.

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Speaker 3: And that's the dentists.

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Speaker 6: He never left, no man.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't smoke and he came home.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I just imagine you're being like Steve Martin

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Speaker 4: a little shopping horror.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, that's a deep reference. Anyway, Ladien, gentlemen, our

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Speaker 1: guest today needs no introduction. She is a Grammy Award

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Speaker 1: winning singer songwriter, slash mc uh slash voice actress. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I will say. And I got a lot

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Speaker 1: of Stephen Universe questions because I've just recently gotten to

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Speaker 1: crystal rock technology. I used to be one of the

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Speaker 1: people that like laughed at people all right side, Like

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Speaker 1: the jazzy fat nasties used to always just walk around

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Speaker 1: with like a bunch of crystals in their pockets, and

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Speaker 1: I thought that was the kookiest ship ever. And now

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Speaker 1: I can't. Yeah, literally, I keep granted and crystals and

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Speaker 1: amethysts welcome. I feel real still. Yeah she she she

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Speaker 1: hells from my other home the West side of London,

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Speaker 1: West side. Yes, wow, I don't know many black people

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Speaker 6: There's a whole contingency of us.

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Speaker 1: We were there, I see. All right, old ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: welcome my near aquarian capricorn sisterell to the Shell's not it.

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Speaker 6: Just maye crunchy as hell, cool, cool, granola crunchy.

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Speaker 1: Got it?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm sorry, Sorry.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I get it. How are you today?

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Speaker 6: I am wonderful. It's beautiful outside, it is it's really

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Speaker 6: characteristically nice.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful in February. It is February. It is February. It

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Speaker 1: is It's February. Yeah, is it?

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Speaker 5: Is it?

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Speaker 6: Bill?

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Speaker 1: It's late February.

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Speaker 6: Month.

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Speaker 1: Everybody almost we're still here. Thank you. That was Steve Staff. Please, gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: Steven snapping, Well, you mentioned in your I know that

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Speaker 1: we were all winging our roll call, but you mentioned

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Speaker 1: New York City. But I would like to think that

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Speaker 1: you are you officially here.

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Speaker 6: I'm in l A. I'm in la officially my close

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Speaker 6: of the now, So okay, that's kind of how I.

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Speaker 1: But correct me if I'm wrong a few times, like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I used to be here. I don't want to say,

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Speaker 1: like a few times I dropped you off the house.

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Speaker 6: In the same SERI to say that no, no, not

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Speaker 6: like his version, tell him, no, I've request.

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Speaker 1: I considerate person. Anybody that gets in my car, a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of people, yeah, just want it goes home.

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Speaker 5: So Tripp has a Stelle saying you got me at

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Speaker 5: some point on the stage.

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Speaker 6: Pretty much that.

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Speaker 1: I go back to like eighteenth letter pre ateenth letter Estelle,

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Speaker 1: when Estelle was saying yes and yeah.

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Speaker 6: So I remember, like, so the first time we met,

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Speaker 6: period was in London. I think I opened up you

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Speaker 6: guys used to be there a lot, and I think

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Speaker 6: I'll live yeah, And I opened up for you a

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Speaker 6: few times at different events and venues. When I suggest rap.

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Speaker 1: You can, I need you to explain something to me

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Speaker 1: because as much as like claiming like yeah, London's or

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Speaker 1: second home Londons or second home, there's one thing that

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Speaker 1: no one's ever properly explained to me. Okay, so there's

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Speaker 1: so and hopefully you can, you know, give some clarity

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Speaker 1: to me and our listeners out there. There's so many

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Speaker 1: sub genres of music that comes from urban London underground yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean there's grime, two step drum and bassed E

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Speaker 6: The different subgenres, well all right, so.

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Speaker 1: Like I don't know the difference, Like, okay, the the

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Speaker 6: Grime is like a subgenre, a subdivision of what hip

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Speaker 6: hop and what the kids who weren't specifically like rappers

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Speaker 6: dance music and jungle made grime and like garage, it

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Speaker 6: So Rodney P and M guys, it had a really

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Speaker 6: Like we listened to all different types of music all

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Speaker 6: came up with garage, which was like MCing over faster

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Speaker 6: And that garage became that, and then grime became slow

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Speaker 6: And that's where it becomes like a whole, like we

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Speaker 1: You do it, but for all right, So when we

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Speaker 1: first went there in ninety three, it didn't exist, right, okay,

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Speaker 1: So drumming bass was just starting, all right. To explain

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Speaker 1: So you know, if we so, my five year theory is,

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Speaker 1: I'll try to make this quick as possible. Like sixty

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Speaker 1: seven seventy two is ore what you would say the

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Speaker 1: heroin period seventy two, the seventy seven I'm sorry, excuse me.

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Speaker 1: Sixty seven, uh to seventy two, I would say, is

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Speaker 1: the joint period. Seventy two to seventy seven was the

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Speaker 1: heroin period seventy seven and eighty two. Cocaine eighty two

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Speaker 1: to eighty seven, the no forty ounce malt liquor eighty

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Speaker 1: seven and ninety two crack and as as and as

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, miss anyone was getting hungry. No, it speeds up.

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Speaker 1: Ninety two to ninety seven was the chronic period the

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Speaker 1: weed everything slowed down. Yeah, ninety seven to two thousand

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Speaker 1: and two was the sexy? Uh what was the ecstasy?

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Speaker 1: The sexy? Did he have?

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Speaker 6: You got this cause you think about that?

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Speaker 1: That was the period to two to seven is the

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Speaker 1: scissor uh period? The codine period? Uh seven to twelve,

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Speaker 1: twenty seven to twelve. Will be saying that's the Molly period.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well no, that's after No Molly came after two

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Speaker 6: Kind of early.

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Speaker 1: Well, I would say maybe lean, I don't know, tie pods.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, like wean life, we never go out of stays.

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Speaker 6: So it was never like oh, your friend nixt door

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Speaker 6: we're watching that show now too on Netflix? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Oh God, shout out to Drake.

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Speaker 6: In the best way possible, I said that the best.

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Speaker 1: That's that's power, Drake. Thank you. Yeah, I appreciate sometimes

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Speaker 5: I have, don't. I'm saying that because I'm comfortable with you.

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Don't you dad talk about that King?

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Speaker 1: That Ralph and that's Ralph Angel angry good morning.

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Speaker 6: Told me that's fine, jealous, stop it, King Kobe, because.

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Speaker 6: Ye love you singles?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Brow?

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Speaker 1: I know you're never going to get to your musical

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Speaker 6: Right clear. I'm in that space now, not yet quite literally, her.

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Speaker 4: Next album is gonna have a cover of Millie Jackson's

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Speaker 6: You know what, No, it is not that. Yeah, younger

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Speaker 1: All you need your own podcast is your own podcast.

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Speaker 1: You don't you don't want me to deal with I

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Speaker 5: Because then when you go to black Sonian, right, you

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Speaker 6: And I got to none about Black Wall Street and

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Speaker 1: How old were you when you discovered your voice or

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Speaker 6: No no, Like I realized I was good at it.

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Speaker 6: a village dude guy, medicine guy, spiritual guy, and he's

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00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 6: teaching us Arabic and they're trying to like give us

440
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 6: these base lessons in my granddad's culture and my mom

441
00:24:58,080 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 6: and I remember because I'm the big man for my family,

442
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,959
Speaker 6: low key loky snitch. Now I'm the big mouthfly. I'm

443
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 6: the one that's like, no, no, no, that's not right.

444
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 6: I'm not doing that.

445
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: You challenge people, okay all day?

446
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,440
Speaker 6: Are you the oldest, second oldest, oldest girl? So yeah,

447
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 6: pretty much? How many nine in my immediate yea one

448
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,639
Speaker 6: older brothers, six girls.

449
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: Second oldest. So you're okay, you're Jackie. Okay, everybody, okay, Jackie.

450
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 6: Look good. That's good Jackie. Oh no, he's the vine

451
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 6: buffet like.

452
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 5: Okay, that's no, no, no, you jack natural hair.

453
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 6: Okay, you are correct. Mixing was terrible, that's terrible. All right, Okay,

454
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:55,119
Speaker 6: that's a whole image. Wait no, my edges a real no,

455
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 6: this is all right. So he came back and he

456
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,159
Speaker 6: was teaching us like Arabic, and then they came to

457
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 6: a part where it was like women must be submissive,

458
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,120
Speaker 6: and I just kept feeling like that was wrong, and

459
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 6: I said to him, well, I don't agree. I was

460
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 6: like twelve or thirty, you know, some shit like that. Wow,

461
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 6: And I was like, I don't agree. Why do women

462
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 6: have to not speak? Why do we? And I went

463
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 6: down the line and my mom was like, what are

464
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 6: you teaching my daughter in this lesson of classes? No,

465
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 6: huh no, not them, and she pulled us out the

466
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 6: Arabic classes and that caused a rift in the family

467
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 6: to a degree. And then we became real Christians. And

468
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 6: that's where I kind of was like, you know, like

469
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:33,919
Speaker 6: because you were like half and half. We would go

470
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 6: to my grandma's my grandma's a matriarch, and that would

471
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,719
Speaker 6: happen in my auntie at my grandma's house, and then

472
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,159
Speaker 6: we would go up our house and it would be

473
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 6: like Christian Christian, and then we went full Christian with

474
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 6: that after that and then and then that was just

475
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,439
Speaker 6: a wild time. It was like don't wait on makeup,

476
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 6: don't do no things, and like, oh, like you you

477
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 6: were going to find the husband for you and my

478
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,160
Speaker 6: mom was like, oh so no, so here's what's gonna

479
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 6: happen with me and my.

480
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Speaker 1: Children were oppressive Christian but.

481
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 6: Also holy it was a lot. There's a lot going down.

482
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 6: And then I think it's always been music that kind

483
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 6: of shifted my trajectory though, because we were in a

484
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 6: church choir and I remember being nineteen, and we used

485
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 6: to remix all the words to the song. So like

486
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 6: Brandy's best friend became Jesus is my best friend, and

487
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 6: like things like that, and like we did the dances

488
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 6: and stuff, and I remember one like church, we had

489
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 6: a church Christmas concept and we were doing the whole like, yeah,

490
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 6: that do with that. He's always been there, right friend,

491
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 6: and the church like the pastor got mad like like yo, wait.

492
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: What was he doing to listening to Brandy didn't know

493
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: that reference.

494
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 6: Well, we were exactly make it. No, but she was

495
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 6: more mad that, like she was more tight that we

496
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 6: were dancing and were having a good time and she

497
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 6: ain't like my mom for some reason, and so she

498
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 6: said she kicked us out the church concert. It's wild.

499
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: I was. So this has been going on three times.

500
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: I saw a church version that they performed the futures percocet.

501
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 6: No.

502
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works, but it was like

503
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: the Christian version.

504
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 6: What's the words? I don't know, but holy goes chase

505
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 6: the christ.

506
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,640
Speaker 1: Wait a second, I saw it on Freddie Gibbs his Instagram,

507
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 1: So go a minute. So this has been going on.

508
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 6: So they kicked us out and my mom was like

509
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 6: to me after that, you don't have to go back

510
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 6: if you don't want. I said, good, because I'm not.

511
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 6: And essentially, I've never really been a fan of going

512
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 6: back in the building and doing people's versions of events.

513
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 6: I kind of I'm very spiritual, and you know, I'll

514
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 6: read the Bible and I pray a lot, and you know,

515
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 6: crystals and I listen and I'm in tune.

516
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 1: And blah blah blah, spiritual, spiritual.

517
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, so one of those.

518
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: So did you, Well, I'm assuming I have the same

519
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: thing that it was hard bringing secular music inside the house.

520
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: Really my whole life, Prince punishments.

521
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 6: All day, Prince, like go in your room and listen

522
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 6: to your headphones under under the pillow. I had Joysy

523
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 6: and I had like this little like Joahsy was my

524
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 6: thing in my teens, and I had this little black

525
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 6: boom box and my bedrooms right next to my mom's

526
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 6: and my bed was right next to the wall, and

527
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 6: I would play it, but I would put it under

528
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 6: my pillow to muffle the sound. But that's how I

529
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 6: learned how to do harmonies for real, for real, like

530
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 6: really meld them stuff listening.

531
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: All right, Look hopefully let them go. If you're conservative

532
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: parents and you're listening to me, I'm shocked. Just let

533
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: your kids listen. They're going to listen anyway, Yes, let them,

534
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: especially if they got their own phones. Now, yeah, it's

535
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: a rat, so just let them listen. And so so

536
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: you're saying that by seventeen, it was fine, Well wait,

537
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: because again when I first met you, I met you

538
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: as an MC. I didn't know you saying so.

539
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 6: You're like, what happened?

540
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, how did that go? I was kind of like

541
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: wait read yeah, this is but yeah, like how did

542
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: hip hop affect you?

543
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 6: My uncle was the one that brought in our house,

544
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 6: and it was like how old was he he was?

545
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 6: Uncle was young uncle? He's just turned like fifty okay,

546
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 6: and oh thank you just to fit like he's like

547
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 6: you know, but like he was a young uncle. He

548
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 6: was like definitely like out in the streets doing this

549
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 6: thing right like wait, stirs, Wow, it's crazy, Okay, I

550
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 6: have family.

551
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: So what kind of was he was?

552
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 6: He playing Daddy Kane all to that era.

553
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 1: We would call that classic classic.

554
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, so that was his whole thing. The one thing

555
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 6: I remember he brought that like was like my switch

556
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 6: onto it was break dancing, and we used to we

557
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 6: used to really break dance as kids, like because it

558
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 6: was the thing to ages, right, and my mom was like,

559
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 6: don't break dance, no more to do?

560
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: Was itboro?

561
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 6: I used to like that from break it? She like, yo,

562
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 6: he broke his neck spinning on his head.

563
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: Before.

564
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 6: I don't want to die. It's like I stopped. I

565
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 6: realized he didn't, but like, you know, she liked to me.

566
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 4: They must have they must have told that to every

567
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 4: black parent. Every I heard that one. We didn't have

568
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 4: insurance back then, but.

569
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 6: That was my switch into hip hop and like and

570
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 6: then I just like I just liked it. It was

571
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 6: like then became cultural as a popular thing. But then

572
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 6: it became like as I got older, it was like, yo,

573
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 6: I can really I have a way with putting the

574
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 6: words together. It's not about poetry for me. It's it's

575
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 6: about the rhythm and the rhyming of it, right. And

576
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 6: then all my friends were like into it. And then

577
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 6: like mid to late nineties, I really was doing it.

578
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 6: Like I be the only girl in the room. We'd

579
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 6: be writing songs and I would actually end up like

580
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 6: finishing off rhymes or writing my own and you know,

581
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 6: and in friends of just put the verse down, just

582
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 6: put the versset down. I was like, no, I would

583
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 6: put the first down? Did I put the verse down?

584
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 6: And it became like, well, actually I could really do it, okay, and.

585
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: So I did it. Well when you're I mean, when

586
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: you're in the thick of it, you know, is there

587
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 1: truly anybody to look up to? Well, first of all,

588
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: as far as how you get it now, I mean,

589
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: because you're in the mid to late nineties, I'm assuming

590
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of Tim Westwood. Yeah, seven nine

591
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: mess to seven nine man, all those guys. Wait a minute,

592
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: you got to explain something to me. What was the

593
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 1: deal with the So Solid crew? So they were good,

594
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: the original? All right? So they were the original? Hold on,

595
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: it's like ninety.

596
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 6: Of them, Yeah, pretty much.

597
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: They still the only time. I mean, as an American,

598
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: there's there's a certain amount of arrogance that Americans happened.

599
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: I guess, like being over there, like in our mind

600
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: it was like no one could ever threaten you with

601
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: the accent. That nice.

602
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 6: But then came the guys, you know.

603
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: Like we just like come on like little accent, that's cute.

604
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 1: But they weren't.

605
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 6: It wasn't something.

606
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: Don't can you settle? Not a rumor? But okay, so

607
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: we know, at least for that time in the late nineties,

608
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:40,719
Speaker 1: there were absolutely no firearms. We were told there were

609
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: no firearms in the UK.

610
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 6: They still aren't. I thought the UK is like the

611
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 6: most firearms.

612
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: We're so naive.

613
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 6: Really it happened because we was like gun control, because

614
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 6: the police, the police have guns.

615
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: Oh, let's stay there. Wow. I never knew. Okay, so

616
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: we heard a rumor that our beloved Westwood got shot.

617
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: Asked by a member of that crew, I.

618
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 6: Can neither confound nor deny who did.

619
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,320
Speaker 1: No one will ever tell the story of why or

620
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 1: if that happened.

621
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 6: It's like, you have to understand that was.

622
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: The realist hip hop shit ever heard coming out of London.

623
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: That was real and he was kind of and I

624
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,439
Speaker 1: almost felt like it was a badge of honor for him. Yep,

625
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 1: like I got shot, So I'm still here. You gotta

626
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: understand why get shot? Tim Westwood is the figure from

627
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: BBC that really brought a lot of classic hip hop.

628
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: He was the funk master Flex of the UK. He's

629
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: the voice that you hear on top of public Enemy's

630
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: classic It takes the nation of millions to hold us

631
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: back fresh Start of the Week. What's the name of

632
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:58,479
Speaker 1: his his show?

633
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 6: So he also was a white man, just in case people,

634
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 6: yes he's a yes, yeah, but I.

635
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: Mean his fingers. But I mean he was a pioneer

636
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: source of bringing those shows over. And I guess, like

637
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: you know, with how pirate radio was in the UK,

638
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: a lot of offsprings, so like cats, like when I

639
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,919
Speaker 1: did two seven nine, that was a pirate radio show,

640
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: but it was like a real operation, like the room

641
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 1: we're in right now. It wasn't like at that point

642
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: it was the government tire shutting them down and they're

643
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: just like here, keep here, keep going.

644
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 6: And then it became choice, and then in choice of

645
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:36,439
Speaker 6: family moved on to choice.

646
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: It was like the two seven nines legit.

647
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 6: Now seven nine's been the jit. I feel like he's

648
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 6: a kiss or so he was a kiss for he

649
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 6: sold everybody did everybody list it's no games, but put

650
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 6: in its context to no, I'm trying to put so

651
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 6: solid and the vibe of so if you got hip hop,

652
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 6: hip hop, hip hop, which was two seven nine and Westwood,

653
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 6: then it became this shift when all the music became

654
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 6: mixed up right, and then because they couldn't quite get

655
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 6: a hold on hip hop, it was like that's not

656
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 6: the new thing coming out. You had all these labels

657
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 6: investing in new thing, which is garage, right, which is

658
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 6: this huge scene that was blowing up. That wasn't hip hop,

659
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 6: that wasn't UK hip hop, that wasn't like after after

660
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 6: establishment the labels and so so solid was that but

661
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 6: So Solid was real, We're real dudes, Like they were

662
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 6: like out there, some of them were really out there.

663
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,240
Speaker 1: There's a couple of them, yeah right still still.

664
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 6: So like you know, like it was a it was

665
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 6: a very oh you guys think this is for fun,

666
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 6: but like you're invested in real humans and real life scenarios.

667
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 6: So also that.

668
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,879
Speaker 1: But I don't want to paint him as them all

669
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: unreally thust because Greg David also came.

670
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 6: From they came from that scene, but he wasn't in

671
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 6: So Solid, no parts he was before So Solid, but

672
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 6: like they were all kind of after the two seven

673
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 6: nine and and like Rodney p and like I was

674
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 6: even in that more that scene that I was in

675
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 6: the garage side and stuff, like I was really like rapid,

676
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,959
Speaker 6: like I was in the ciphers. I was like doing

677
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 6: doing real.

678
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: Uh so all those names at the time that I saw,

679
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: like uh miss Dynamite or Dizzey Rask the.

680
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 6: Street they came at the end of like the hit

681
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 6: UK hip hop side of stuff, and they really ushered

682
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 6: in that whole new garage side. That's what it was.

683
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 6: That's what they came all right before so solid and

684
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 6: then so solid it was came in like Wu Tang.

685
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 6: It was patterned on hip hop, but it was just

686
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:32,399
Speaker 6: a different kind of sound.

687
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 1: So did you ever think in your life that there

688
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: would be a breakthrough, because again, like with the culture

689
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: that they had, even I was like when German Vase

690
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: first came out, I was like, Yo, this is gonna kill.

691
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: That's why we did it. When you got me, like

692
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: we're going to beat everybody, and even like Classic we tried,

693
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,720
Speaker 1: and even with we tried. What well then when Bombs

694
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 1: over Back Dad came out and you know that was

695
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: Andre's version of they went to a club when night

696
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: heard let's do that. But I never thought.

697
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 6: I was orange. Just yeah, because I'm here, I hear

698
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 6: you got me and everybody knows what that is. People

699
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,240
Speaker 6: here bumbs and people know it, but they don't like rockets.

700
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 4: A difference between If You Got Me and Bombs were

701
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 4: back then, it's like like two pages ere four hero

702
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 4: versus h zero for he versus like something from metal Heads.

703
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,320
Speaker 4: You know, it's like, Okay, it's completely different. It's the

704
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 4: same gund of completely different sides to this.

705
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 6: Plus you just teased us. Anyway, I've been waiting for

706
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:34,919
Speaker 6: the continuation.

707
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 5: Of what that you just teased us with the end

708
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 5: of You Got Me, Like you know, I'm just saying

709
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,399
Speaker 5: we are still waiting for the red.

710
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 6: But but when you do things like that though, especially

711
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 6: because like it's such a jungle for us, was our thing,

712
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 6: Like I'm going to that after school. I'm like I'm

713
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:58,919
Speaker 6: playing that throughout school. Might here like Jungles am losing

714
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 6: my mind as a kid like that, that's our thing.

715
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 6: Wherever we go in the world, that's our thing. So

716
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 6: when we heard like, oh shit, it's on the roots,

717
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 6: did like we lost our mortal minds, Like it was

718
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 6: just because people would come take the music and not

719
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 6: give it props. But you guys were there and like

720
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 6: you got people that people loved, like I'm opening up

721
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 6: for you, like it was like, nah, they embraced us.

722
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 6: It's not on some we came in to get the

723
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 6: vibes and go back, like you guys spent time with

724
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 6: us and our culture, so it was like respect we

725
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:34,280
Speaker 6: liked to Today.

726
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: I miss it, so like why do you Well, obviously

727
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 1: the answer is that the internet has now uh localized. Okay, Well,

728
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying, do you feel as though the Internet has

729
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: colonized in a bad way?

730
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:51,439
Speaker 6: Yes?

731
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 1: Colonized? Well, and do you feel like the Internet has

732
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: colonized UK culture? Because I mean the good news of

733
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: it is now you are all breakout stars and the

734
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: world can get the information at the same time, whereas

735
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 1: like there's no breakout, there's no But I also feel

736
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: bad for like, like, okay, take miss Dynamite. Remember there

737
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,319
Speaker 1: was so much hope for her to be like, oh

738
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: my god, this is gonna be the next Laurene Hill

739
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah, and it never happened.

740
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 6: There were other things behind the scenes that with that though,

741
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 6: like it it's real life and it's a culture thing

742
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,399
Speaker 6: and you have to make a choice. And I don't

743
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 6: know her personally in that space to say, well she

744
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 6: chose blah blah blah, or she did this. But you know,

745
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 6: people give up on what they don't when you don't

746
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 6: fit into a mold or you don't fit into what

747
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 6: they think, you know. So there was stuff with it,

748
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 6: you mean, the audience of the artists, the audience and

749
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 6: the labels. You no, like, she wasn't probably going to

750
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 6: do a certain amount of things, you know, and she

751
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 6: had a kid bang in the middle, and at that

752
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 6: point that wasn't the excuse. But I'm saying like, because look,

753
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 6: I walk into a room after her, right after it

754
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 6: to get signed, and I can up front someone literally

755
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 6: said to me, well, we're just working with and she

756
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 6: and looked at me like I can't take that risk,

757
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 6: and I was just like, really, I didn't even have

758
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 6: that boyfriend about to say get Rightnant said us was

759
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 6: hurt about that, and I was just like.

760
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 1: You got the last word.

761
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:22,800
Speaker 6: Wow, how about it.

762
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 4: It's safe to say everybody in this room has heard

763
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 4: Amy whine House's debut album, Frank Yeah. I was working

764
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 4: at Universal when that album was out here in the

765
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 4: United States and it was supposed to come out here

766
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 4: and they took it off the schedules because they didn't

767
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 4: know what to do with it.

768
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 6: Crazy.

769
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 4: I'm like, it didn't really feel like it was a

770
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 4: hard sell. You just listened to the record sounds like

771
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:44,879
Speaker 4: me to hit.

772
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 6: And roots records, and yeah, it's anything different the record

773
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 6: in that time.

774
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 4: But the thing is, like anybody that, like anybody I

775
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 4: played that record for like, they're like, oh, what is

776
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 4: who is that?

777
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: What is that did? Most people don't know about Frank

778
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: Most people have been like it for good contention. People

779
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: thought that that was like her debut. So when you're

780
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: making uh, well, okay, what were the steps that led

781
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: to uh the eighteenth Day.

782
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 6: My first album? I okay? So I took the example.

783
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 6: I've been in underground arts for my whole life. I've

784
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 6: been like an independent on underground arts for my whole life.

785
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 6: And I was the girl that was like, I'm gonna

786
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 6: go make these records. I'm gonna find a distribution deal.

787
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: And I read this book by yourself. Yep, no manager,

788
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 1: I know.

789
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 6: At the time.

790
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: I've had.

791
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 6: I've had managers, but I would direct them. I'm very

792
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 6: much the king of my castle. Yeah, I direct and

793
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 6: I listened, and I pay attention, and I work with

794
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 6: people who are incredible. But I'm very much an instinct

795
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,959
Speaker 6: gut person. So I was like, man, look these people

796
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 6: out here. Every time we go to a label, they

797
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 6: keep talking about we don't know what to do, so

798
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 6: let's show them. And I was like, well, let's go

799
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 6: get these distribution deals.

800
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: And so I had one.

801
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 6: I went to it. I went a bunch of labels.

802
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 6: They were like, we don't know. I said, cool, I'm

803
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 6: gonna sure you what to do. Got my distribution deal.

804
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 6: We sold five thousand hands to hand and also like

805
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 6: digitally and like not digitally but like on the internet

806
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 6: at the time, right we were sending like one or

807
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 6: two CDs a week, which was great at the time,

808
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 6: and then around Europe and the UK, but also five

809
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 6: thousand within a month. After going to the labels and

810
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 6: them saying we don't know what to do, had a

811
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 6: really dope publicist and she put me on every magazine

812
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 6: you could find a couple of covers where they were

813
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 6: struggling to get their artists. And I had no deal.

814
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 6: It was just me and my like me and my

815
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:33,720
Speaker 6: label Stellars. What happened?

816
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, So that whole time we were doing together,

817
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: you I was just you were too short.

818
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 6: Out the trunk, out the truck, and then and then

819
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 6: and then the next set, the next set of times.

820
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 6: I definitely was like on V two and the same

821
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 6: person that was like I don't get it, was like,

822
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,320
Speaker 6: I guess I should sign you. I was like, just

823
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 6: so we we did the deal. And even throughout that

824
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 6: whole period, he was looking at me like, so that

825
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 6: record free you wrote it. I had to get the

826
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 6: producer on the phone. The disrespect was so thick and

827
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 6: so real about young black artists. You could have possibly

828
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 6: written a record that thorough off your own head and

829
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 6: off your own heart because you're a little black girl

830
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 6: from the hood. How like you guys don't do that.

831
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,240
Speaker 6: It was that that kind of I called the producer

832
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 6: and I said, so, did you write any of the

833
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 6: words or melody? Said? No, I just play guitar, I said,

834
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 6: and I put a phone now. And this guy was

835
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 6: so angry and mortified and like we'd just go out

836
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 6: of his way to stop everything with the second album.

837
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 6: And that's when I how did you get even get

838
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 6: to the thirt eighteenth day?

839
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: No, but how did you even get James and Omar?

840
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: And you got John Legend on the first record? Yeah?

841
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 6: Just I was recording Hi Hello, the Kanye story is real,

842
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 6: Like I really did.

843
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,760
Speaker 4: I was in La recording and I love that story

844
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 4: because because I mean, now, Kanye being who he is,

845
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 4: you know, you would think that was a Kanye move.

846
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 6: It's a different Yeah, it was a.

847
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 4: Different Kny of than but you would think, you know, now,

848
00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,399
Speaker 4: knowing who Kanye is, you would go up and ask

849
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 4: for you know, kin, you went up and ask John Legend.

850
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, because his voice is incredible, and I was I

851
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 6: get I get my instinct again, right, I was like, na,

852
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 6: this guy's voice. I think my boyfriend at the time

853
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 6: was like, if you don't just go find this guy

854
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 6: because you just out here smiling. I mean, it's cute

855
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 6: and all. But like also like I was like, no,

856
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 6: I have to find him. And then it was just fading.

857
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 5: Did you know about his education at the time, and like,

858
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 5: I have a feeling that has a lot to do

859
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 5: with his success.

860
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 6: So that's why I was like, John's a smart guy,

861
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 6: but also he's he's the same thing. He's instinct to

862
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 6: a degree, you know. And we met travel and I

863
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 6: was like, yo, I was finding all this is lovely.

864
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 6: We're in record plant in LA and I'm like, yo,

865
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 6: I've got like two dollars to my name to get

866
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,399
Speaker 6: back to the hotel. Can we wrap this up type deal?

867
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 6: Like I have to leave in a couple of hours,

868
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 6: And he was like he was there and we connected

869
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 6: up and I left and he was like, yeah, I

870
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 6: just like your drive and the fact that you didn't

871
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 6: come in there giving a crap about a yeah or

872
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 6: whoever was in the studio. I say, now, I came

873
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 6: to find you to do this record that I have

874
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 6: pre recorded vocals and lyrics to. Can you sing this

875
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 6: pop please? And he was like live me here and

876
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 6: was like I gave it to him.

877
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 1: Blade it.

878
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 6: I was like, listen to your time, all right. I

879
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 6: had a hard drive and everything. I remember it cost

880
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 6: so much money. I gave you the hard drive. I

881
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 6: was so tight, the whole hard drive terrabike. No, I

882
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 6: don't know. And then like I left and he called me,

883
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 6: was like, yeah, it's good.

884
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: It's good, dude. I've known you forever. I never knew

885
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: the the film and Louise ending the card jump that

886
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: it took. Damn dude, how come I never did that story.

887
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 6: I don't have to stop time to stop and talk

888
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 6: for real. I write a book about all these moments,

889
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 6: but like this has been my whole I don't I

890
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,879
Speaker 6: don't wait for the opening. I'll just push through the door,

891
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 6: you know. If I feel the instinct, it's like go go, go,

892
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 6: go go, you know.

893
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: So even then, I mean, I'm almost certain it was

894
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: just just to get to above water level was a goal,

895
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:59,439
Speaker 1: not even to like it wasn't even I'm gonna really

896
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: kill this game and da da da da da. So

897
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,280
Speaker 1: I mean, by the time you get to the second record,

898
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: what are you thinking.

899
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 6: By the time we got to shine, I was grateful

900
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,800
Speaker 6: for John in a way that like people, you know what,

901
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 6: I'm this person, very low, I don't care what. John

902
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:21,760
Speaker 6: stuck his neck out for me without thinking, like everybody

903
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 6: that is rare Mane and everybody in his team at

904
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 6: the time was like what is this? Like it was smoothly,

905
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 6: like they dissed me to my face, like, I mean,

906
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 6: you don't know Aretha like that. I know Aretha. I'm

907
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 6: just not an Aretha singer. Like and it was like

908
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 6: a lot of different shots at me because I was

909
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 6: supposed to be this kind of black girl and I

910
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 6: come and rapping and singing and I have a smoother

911
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 6: voice and I'm confident, and you're not gonna tell me nothing.

912
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 6: I came here with lubatons and I came here with

913
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 6: my with my fashion on my vibes. You feel me.

914
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: Else, we're right hand.

915
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 6: I was very much like I'm not going to give

916
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 6: you all those facts, but like, also, I'm not going

917
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 6: to take it to heart. I'm just gonna do what

918
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 6: I came here to do. And a lot of people

919
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 6: shout him like why you signed her, Like this doesn't

920
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 6: make no sense, this is a terrible investment, blah blah

921
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 6: blah blah blah, and he was like, I've seen her,

922
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 6: I've seen her work, I've seen a girl. Trust me.

923
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 6: I'm just here for the ride. He literal would say

924
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 6: it to me like, look, if we don't need to

925
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 6: work together in ten years, please live your best life.

926
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 6: And essentially we did. But you know, but he stuck

927
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 6: his neck out for me in a way that is unprecedented,

928
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 6: and I'm forever grateful because I went to the label

929
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,800
Speaker 6: that were like nah, and then like I guess I

930
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 6: should sign you. And I said to them after like

931
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 6: the first two meetings of like, you don't really do this,

932
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 6: it's a lie. Go find your ghost writer. I said

933
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:59,240
Speaker 6: to them, so, look, next album I have John Legend,

934
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 6: he wants to except produce it. He won about five

935
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 6: hundred Grammys. This guy is touring out the world. These

936
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 6: albums gold at this point in the UK, Europe and

937
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 6: the whole world. And they said to me, who's that?

938
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 6: And I wanted to punch the wall. I said let

939
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 6: me go. I said let me go, and they were

940
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 6: like what I said, no, let me go, Please let

941
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 6: me go. And then he was like, I said to him,

942
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:22,800
Speaker 6: so the second album I dast used to exact produce.

943
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 6: I'm going to leave the label. He was like, I'll

944
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 6: sign you. I said you sure. He's like yeah, I said,

945
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 6: all right, come on, that's got.

946
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: What never happens like that, never accepting a case.

947
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 6: Are you the only release from that? I'm like, wait

948
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 6: a minute.

949
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

950
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 6: He set the label up to put me out John

951
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 6: School record, John Jon's a G for that. People don't

952
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 6: know that part, so everyone thinks it's the A but

953
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 6: it's John.

954
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: Wow. He did.

955
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:55,399
Speaker 6: He did a lot as far as having my back

956
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:57,799
Speaker 6: and just support me and not really taking the credit.

957
00:49:57,880 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 6: As far as like you know, where people were like, oh,

958
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:01,759
Speaker 6: people say, oh he wrote this, and he wrote that

959
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 6: for He's like, he's not the one out there shouting

960
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:06,800
Speaker 6: that people make up their assumptions. You know, he lets me,

961
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 6: he knows, he knows my cap billies and stuff.

962
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 5: Have y'all reconnected. So now that y'all live in the

963
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,359
Speaker 5: same town, I seen him. I see him around like cool,

964
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 5: I'm good friends with the team. We're still good, like

965
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 5: that's family.

966
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, true, true to how music history works. I

967
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 1: believe that I've heard the story before. The legend of

968
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 1: American Boy was that was it the last song made

969
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 1: and it's just like an afterthought.

970
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 2: It was.

971
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:33,320
Speaker 6: Will didn't believe that the record was a hit, like

972
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 6: the music was a hit.

973
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:36,919
Speaker 1: Because it came it came from his joint.

974
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 6: Yeah right, he said. He's like, I don't think that's

975
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 6: I said, trust me, this is what we listened to

976
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 6: our own this is this is it, this is it.

977
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 6: And I was literally on the beach in Miami and

978
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 6: song it was BB Records it.

979
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 1: It was the Interscope Songs about Girls, the one that

980
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: nobody b b in the UK.

981
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, in the UK, he came out on.

982
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 4: Interscope here Songs about Girl. Yeah, at least nobody here

983
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 4: really did. They had a couple of joints on and

984
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 4: you said, I rhyme over that beat or I want to.

985
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,280
Speaker 6: Sing over it. And we wrote it like three minutes.

986
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 6: I woke with it the next day an hour and

987
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 6: then and then, but that every time we played it

988
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 6: to people, that energy would just shoot up, like it

989
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,959
Speaker 6: was it was like palpable sitting in the room, played

990
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 6: the record, Everyone's like, oh vibes.

991
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:33,439
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was going to say that probably American Boy

992
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 1: is probably one of the few songs in this millennium

993
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: now that we at least have two decades under our belt,

994
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 1: not the age of Saw too late. No, especially with

995
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 1: the way, especially the way that information happens, and like

996
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: one song just instantly replaces another song without you know.

997
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: I mean, you remember how many times you've heard Crazy

998
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: by Nols Barkley when it first came out, and it's

999
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: sort of like you might hear it now, but it's

1000
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:06,800
Speaker 1: almost like I feel like maybe American Boy next to

1001
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: Crazy and Love, like that's one of the songs that

1002
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 1: won't ever die. I it's still on my DJ set

1003
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 1: right now.

1004
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 6: Somebody just made a remix on I just I was like,

1005
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 6: they still make your remixes still, Yeah, it's about be

1006
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 6: about three in the past two years TAM's joint.

1007
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was about to say like that.

1008
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 6: They trap it out, they put it on TikTok Live

1009
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 6: your best life, that's what we want. I'm afraid to

1010
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 6: go there, imoolishness. It's amazing, but I gotta go.

1011
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:39,320
Speaker 1: There to know what what song to play? Don't know

1012
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: what to play? You know, taken my life back? No

1013
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 1: more social media for me?

1014
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 6: Jealous?

1015
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 1: So was it ever a point where it's like tiring?

1016
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:55,720
Speaker 1: Like again, like are you It's somewhere between Nirvana smells

1017
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: like teen Spirit where they refuse to do it now

1018
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,320
Speaker 1: and day I saw where myself and where they just

1019
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: sing we hate the song all over the things like

1020
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 1: is it that? Or you're just like nope, I know

1021
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:07,800
Speaker 1: where my bread is buttered.

1022
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 6: And I have had to reset. I had records in

1023
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 6: the UK that people will never not let me perform

1024
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 6: like that's ninety eighty for me and to the point.

1025
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: Where oh yeah, we were down what you said ninety eight.

1026
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 6: I'm just like, do you know the words? Because I do?

1027
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 6: To the second person, I've been forget and there's so

1028
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 6: many words in my head, so many words in my

1029
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 6: head I'm gonna have a te the fifty five, it's

1030
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 6: gonna have It's gonna have it. But he did.

1031
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: I had to.

1032
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 6: I had to reset my energy with that because I

1033
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 6: literally pray for records like that. I was like, no,

1034
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:49,879
Speaker 6: and I got one, and I was like, how dare

1035
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 6: I be ungrateful and say I don't want to sing it?

1036
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 6: And it makes me happy. There's so many ways to

1037
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 6: sing that record, and like sometimes I don't say it

1038
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 6: tall and then you have to consider.

1039
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: That Bobby Brown, I'm genuine.

1040
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 6: That's my new reference.

1041
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:05,479
Speaker 1: Level. He said.

1042
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:13,760
Speaker 6: If you're oh, I said, good lord, this is amazing.

1043
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:18,360
Speaker 1: They just sing everything everywhere. He just why just.

1044
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 6: That I'm the one in the back screaming, look by me.

1045
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:36,880
Speaker 6: It's me genuine Hi. That was this is terrible.

1046
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:42,800
Speaker 1: I was twelve singing related to about to say that,

1047
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:49,719
Speaker 1: related to I'm a character on Parks and rec thank

1048
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: you very much. And genuine is me and Redda's first cousin.

1049
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: That's revealed in the last.

1050
00:54:57,960 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 6: Episode the black person on the show.

1051
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 1: Yes, it's yeah, you don't watch.

1052
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 6: I didn't know. What's still.

1053
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 1: Everywhere. It's the mood tang of comedy.

1054
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 6: I know everybody came from nearest.

1055
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 1: One of the best. Yes, but one of the longest

1056
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:21,919
Speaker 1: running running jokes was about her long lost brother, which

1057
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:26,240
Speaker 1: they had me play. That's genuine is her first cousin?

1058
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:27,879
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, she's on that Netflix show.

1059
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 1: That's right, Yes, exactly genuine. Come out.

1060
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 6: I'm going to go watch.

1061
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 2: Thank you.

1062
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 6: It's amazing.

1063
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's shout out to my first cousin, lgen Lumpkins

1064
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 1: for for all of me. Which, okay, slight side note,

1065
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:55,800
Speaker 1: I'll admit it because Bill's like, you fake motherfucker know

1066
00:55:56,080 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 1: I forgot about the interlude. I only forgot that. So

1067
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:07,439
Speaker 1: even in reuh capping your music, I was like, oh, ship,

1068
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:11,400
Speaker 1: I totally forgot about that. What was your what was

1069
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: your What was the impetus or the at least the

1070
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 1: process in creating this record.

1071
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:19,320
Speaker 6: I was going through a lot, you got. I was

1072
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 6: coming off of like the Shining American boy. All of

1073
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 6: my worlds were completely shifted. And I say that in

1074
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:30,719
Speaker 6: the nicest way. Friends were wildin I was wilent Boyfriends.

1075
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 1: What is that whirlwind?

1076
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 6: Like you're not on the ground and you're trying to

1077
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:41,800
Speaker 6: desperately hold onto the ground that you know, because like

1078
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 6: moving it out from under you anyway, and.

1079
00:56:43,719 --> 00:56:46,320
Speaker 1: With nine siblings also, how does that affect you?

1080
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 6: Oh, it was wild, Like my little sister. My family

1081
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 6: moved out of London because so my little sister, one

1082
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 6: of them was so hyped. It was just it was

1083
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 6: unsettling for them. And that's when I realized, I say it.

1084
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:01,720
Speaker 1: To people, to your success, I got not on purpose.

1085
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 6: One of them got a little wild with it, and

1086
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:05,440
Speaker 6: then we had to move the whole Then the whole

1087
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 6: family moved because it was like taking my stuff to

1088
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 6: school and to do the school thing and like all

1089
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 6: my sisters this, and people liking you for the trainers

1090
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 6: you wore or you brought that your sister's trainers, and

1091
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 6: then news people creeping up around my family house. We

1092
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 6: still sort of lived in the hood a bit and

1093
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 6: going to the drug dealer's two doors down and talking

1094
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 6: and I was like my littlest brother, who's an account

1095
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:31,400
Speaker 6: and a lawyer and an incredible brilliant young man, had

1096
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 6: to go out there and be a big gangster. And

1097
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 6: it's just like, nah, that's my actual family I raised,

1098
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 6: and nah, you know, so I'm dealing with that whilst

1099
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 6: never being a home and the people that you're trying

1100
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 6: to call your family were out here just not having

1101
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:50,439
Speaker 6: your back. It was just a lot going on during

1102
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 6: the all of mean period. And then I'm dating a

1103
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 6: dude who was just wildly trash.

1104
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 1: We all are trashed, No, not all of you.

1105
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 6: He was used to start out that, you know, ten

1106
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 6: years ago he was trashed. So here we are almost

1107
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 6: ten years ago, and I was going through a lot

1108
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 6: and trying to just hold onto something that looked like

1109
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:12,479
Speaker 6: love or looked like home and it was all needed

1110
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:12,640
Speaker 6: to go.

1111
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 1: Is it hard navigating that? Oh? You know, I know

1112
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: that where most people laither had is their home. But

1113
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 1: I mean you moved to the States and kind of

1114
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: without any stable family. Well, I don't know. For some people,

1115
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: getting away from the family might be necessary.

1116
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 6: No, it wasn't necessary more than I just knew I

1117
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 6: had to do that for my career because it was

1118
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:43,760
Speaker 6: like one it was just tiring every three months getting

1119
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 6: on the flight and your energy just is up and down. Right,

1120
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 6: you know that toured extensively for a very long time,

1121
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 6: and so I imagine doing that and then everyone demands

1122
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 6: all this stuff of you. So I was like, I'm

1123
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 6: just going to move there. And my mom was like

1124
00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 6: I knew it was going to happen. Eventually, they helped me.

1125
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:02,320
Speaker 6: They sent me off and they would try and come

1126
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 6: and visit, and then then the visits dwindled, and then

1127
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 6: I was never home so it didn't really matter. And

1128
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 6: then I would go home to London and I couldn't

1129
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 6: go home, and so they come and see me at

1130
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 6: the hotel for two hours right before I go to

1131
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 6: the to the airport again, and it was just like

1132
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 6: I lost touch per se, not on purpose, but by

1133
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 6: force of we just didn't have the time. So it

1134
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:24,480
Speaker 6: would be like I was so grateful for the hotel

1135
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 6: suites that had because the whole family could come. I

1136
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 6: come crash and I just got to sit down. My

1137
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:33,480
Speaker 6: mom would bring African food and we would sit down.

1138
00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 6: Yeah right, and the whole vibe and they were gone,

1139
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 6: and I have to go back to being a stellar robot.

1140
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 6: You know, there's a lot happening.

1141
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 1: Actually, there's a question I do have that I'm probably

1142
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 1: certain I wouldn't be able to ask had you come

1143
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:52,479
Speaker 1: on the show a year ago. Now you're dealing with okay,

1144
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:57,720
Speaker 1: where when we say the fuckery that is this current administration,

1145
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 1: you're actually dealing with this two times over.

1146
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, and so what is what is the.

1147
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:13,560
Speaker 1: Not not you know, def Con five or whatever, But

1148
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: what's the current concern of yours or level of fear

1149
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:23,240
Speaker 1: concern when it comes to you traveling overseas or your

1150
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 1: family coming over here or you Because I see where

1151
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:31,560
Speaker 1: this is about to go if if old Money gets

1152
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 1: a second term in office, well, I mean two weeks

1153
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 1: ago there's there's been nine other countries added, and all

1154
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 1: them from Africa.

1155
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 6: Because of the year they return, you think, well, wow,

1156
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 6: you really think that, I believe added to that now,

1157
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 6: but because they have other deals with different US countries.

1158
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 6: But I feel like it was just the idea. Here's

1159
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 6: my thing that I've seen. You give the energy of

1160
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 6: scare people. You make them feel like you know what

1161
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 6: I mean, And that is that does more for people's

1162
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:08,040
Speaker 6: energy than people's perception of what's going on than the

1163
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 6: actual thing, you know what I mean?

1164
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 1: And I think.

1165
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 6: And it's like the fear of like, oh well now

1166
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 6: it's gonna like can we really go there? But meanwhile,

1167
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 6: the energy at the top of you was like we

1168
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 6: can do this. It's not as crazy as not what?

1169
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:24,800
Speaker 1: So it's travel been hard for you coming in and

1170
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:25,880
Speaker 1: out of the states.

1171
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 6: Like like longer at the as soon as I saw

1172
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:31,840
Speaker 6: that going, I actually wouldn't apply for my passport. Okay,

1173
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 6: I have dual citizenship. Okay, so like because I was like, na, no, no, no, no,

1174
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 6: all my things are here, so let me make sure

1175
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 6: I'm good on both sides of the of the of

1176
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 6: the war. Your family's passport says written, Yeah. But the

1177
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 6: beautiful thing is we also, like I said, I'm very clear,

1178
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:54,720
Speaker 6: so to your citizenships there we have salive, we'll selling,

1179
01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 6: we own passports, we have different we could go. You know,

1180
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 6: they've done We've done smart things, strategically smart. My brothers

1181
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 6: and sisters, I love them for this. They're very smart

1182
01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:05,600
Speaker 6: about how they handle themselves. And I'm proud of them

1183
01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:08,520
Speaker 6: and that, you know, they really hold their side of

1184
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:10,840
Speaker 6: family thing. They don't look at me like you got

1185
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 6: to do. You know, they really are brilliant in their

1186
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 6: own rights. So I'm proud of them. They hold it down.

1187
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 1: Five passports, never going to jail.

1188
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 6: Okay, how about that that so hot? That's too hot. Yeah,

1189
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 6: it's not a game because people, he's wild. This guy's crazy.

1190
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:33,000
Speaker 1: So now now that we are where we are, and

1191
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:37,240
Speaker 1: well the afore mentioned twenty one Savage being one of

1192
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 1: the one of the biggest UK I'm not.

1193
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:42,240
Speaker 6: I'm still like.

1194
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:46,920
Speaker 1: Like, oh wait, you're just finding out now, No, like

1195
01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 1: like whatever we found out? Oh whatever, right, exactly, So well,

1196
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that it's ubiquitous, Like how do you

1197
01:02:55,320 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 1: feel about the current climate of today's are that are

1198
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 1: coming from the UK?

1199
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 6: And I love it. I would love to see more

1200
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 6: of them actually do the effective work here though, Okay, Like,

1201
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:11,680
Speaker 6: besides the big pop artists that they pull out the UK,

1202
01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 6: I love to see like the R and B and

1203
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 6: the hip hop artists do more of the groundwork because

1204
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 6: I know that everyone's always like, yo, you really did it,

1205
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 6: and I'm just like, you should be here doing the

1206
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:24,120
Speaker 6: radio runs and doing the doing the like the smaller

1207
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:27,760
Speaker 6: the black culture things, because it's it's like they're selling

1208
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 6: you on one thing. But the thing I know I

1209
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:31,440
Speaker 6: had to do with the All of Me album with

1210
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 6: Thank You was work backwards. So American Boy came and

1211
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:37,800
Speaker 6: it blew right. Black people here didn't really know me

1212
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:39,960
Speaker 6: like that though, So when I did Thank You, I

1213
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 6: was like, it's fine, we're gonna and they were like no, no, no,

1214
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:45,560
Speaker 6: you're going to Mississippi. No, no, no, you're going to

1215
01:03:45,600 --> 01:03:48,760
Speaker 6: go see some black people and you're really gonna talk

1216
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:50,600
Speaker 6: and be out there. And I had to do it.

1217
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 6: And that's the stuff that I think that people miss

1218
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:55,520
Speaker 6: when they say, like, oh, you're you're big around the world,

1219
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:58,560
Speaker 6: You're going America, You're gonna clean But you know, joe

1220
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 6: In and in Champagne, Illinois don't know you you know,

1221
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:06,480
Speaker 6: and it's like and you know, and maybe it's over

1222
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 6: there and Mississippi has no clue just in.

1223
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 1: Your mind hypothetical names as my grandmom and.

1224
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:25,320
Speaker 6: It's true, like but like real folks who just like

1225
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:27,440
Speaker 6: in the same way that like I was going to say,

1226
01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:31,960
Speaker 6: yeah that it just hit me so in the same

1227
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 6: kind of way, like look, it might be the poppingist

1228
01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:36,080
Speaker 6: thing and you might look like, but go and do

1229
01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:39,240
Speaker 6: the world, don't my grandma and grandmama, Like.

1230
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:41,400
Speaker 1: You know, like wait, I was going to say, so,

1231
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:46,800
Speaker 1: that's that was smart of you to yo, you're just

1232
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:47,200
Speaker 1: hitting me.

1233
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:49,400
Speaker 6: Now nobody else has followed. Nobody's looking.

1234
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:52,280
Speaker 1: I can't name the mountain times that we performed in

1235
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:56,400
Speaker 1: Mississippi or Alabama or you know, I mean, at least

1236
01:04:56,440 --> 01:05:00,240
Speaker 1: in the last. I mean, we don't do miss the

1237
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:05,120
Speaker 1: down South states as much as we do our regular.

1238
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:06,840
Speaker 5: Because y'all were built on colleges too, though, don't you

1239
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:08,440
Speaker 5: think so because of the foundation.

1240
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:10,440
Speaker 6: In a way. Yeah, but then you also have a

1241
01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:13,760
Speaker 6: different way into people's spirits with TV, so it's a

1242
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:15,520
Speaker 6: different you know. Yeah, but you still got to get

1243
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:20,240
Speaker 6: the black volte I mean, the black people are populating

1244
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:22,920
Speaker 6: in that audience on jam in this research and their

1245
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:23,520
Speaker 6: kids put them.

1246
01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 1: All our families are big in this ticket.

1247
01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:31,800
Speaker 6: He has nice super Bowl commercial, boss, thank you, you know,

1248
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:34,760
Speaker 6: but it's a matter of what they got to do that.

1249
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:36,760
Speaker 6: I still am just like I want to see a

1250
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:39,200
Speaker 6: Georgia Smith come here and do that run. And I

1251
01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 6: want to see like I want to see h M

1252
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 6: miss Banks come here and do you know? And and

1253
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:46,480
Speaker 6: it's that fine line of you you don't have to,

1254
01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:49,000
Speaker 6: but you should, you know. I said to Sims, I

1255
01:05:49,120 --> 01:05:50,360
Speaker 6: was like, you don't have to move here, but you

1256
01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 6: should come here and stay for a while or come

1257
01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 6: and whatever you want to do, Like, but you don't

1258
01:05:55,840 --> 01:05:58,240
Speaker 6: have to, but you should for a while. Come and

1259
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:00,920
Speaker 6: you can't sell somebody. You'll tell someone that you get

1260
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:05,720
Speaker 6: their culture. If you're not hearing it, you know, not sayingly,

1261
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:08,240
Speaker 6: like like you went to the UK and you lived it,

1262
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:09,560
Speaker 6: you could talk to it.

1263
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:11,920
Speaker 1: Not for nothing. Well, I mean we did it because

1264
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:14,520
Speaker 1: like we knew they would accept us. But not for nothing.

1265
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:21,120
Speaker 1: When you're when you're fine and okay, good.

1266
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, you have a.

1267
01:06:24,440 --> 01:06:31,560
Speaker 1: Potential second chapter as a manager, or at least that

1268
01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:35,440
Speaker 1: of like almost Carol lewis like an agent, because I

1269
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:39,840
Speaker 1: don't think that your average when when when a person

1270
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:43,360
Speaker 1: comes from uh, from where they are to the United States,

1271
01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 1: I think nine times out of ten they're just thinking

1272
01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:52,000
Speaker 1: of New York, La Vegas, maybe Chicago, like a major city,

1273
01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:55,560
Speaker 1: whereas you know, people aren't thinking of long range.

1274
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 6: I had to physically do it. That's why I know

1275
01:06:58,320 --> 01:06:58,720
Speaker 6: it works.

1276
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 5: You know, like once you them, don't you see Ustaf,

1277
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:02,440
Speaker 5: Like once you see them and you go to their town,

1278
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 5: they love you for life.

1279
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:05,640
Speaker 6: They love you for life. Look, I went to Selma

1280
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:10,840
Speaker 6: and sang Conqueror on the on the not on the

1281
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:14,360
Speaker 6: next day when TV wanted the special and I met

1282
01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:16,600
Speaker 6: Tremaine Hawkins. Two to me is like the garden I

1283
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:19,680
Speaker 6: in gospel things like that, And she knew my record

1284
01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 6: and my whole heart exploded, like wow, things like that

1285
01:07:23,600 --> 01:07:25,720
Speaker 6: like lose. I lose my mind about things like that

1286
01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 6: because it's like, this is who I grew up listening

1287
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:30,200
Speaker 6: to as an eight, nine ten year old in my

1288
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:33,840
Speaker 6: mom's kitchen and I'm sitting there going what and then

1289
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:35,400
Speaker 6: she stand in front of my face singing Conqueror and

1290
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 6: I almost collapsed, Like but you don't. You're not gonna

1291
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:44,120
Speaker 6: get to those moments where it's those people we sound

1292
01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 6: on their shoulders if you don't go and touch them.

1293
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:48,720
Speaker 6: There was the people you know what I'm saying, Like,

1294
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:50,680
Speaker 6: you're not gonna get those And I just feel like

1295
01:07:50,840 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 6: we have so much great we write the rules, come

1296
01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:57,000
Speaker 6: here and talk to people about the rules that we

1297
01:07:57,080 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 6: write in like come and help them understand the new

1298
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:02,400
Speaker 6: swearvel of the new energy about it all and from

1299
01:08:02,520 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 6: our point of view, like it's it's it's wildly lonely.

1300
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:11,360
Speaker 6: It's been wildly lonely for a very long time being

1301
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:12,520
Speaker 6: me and Marsha.

1302
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:21,560
Speaker 1: Right, It's just I tell people all the time, you

1303
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 1: have to build a tribe, like there has to be

1304
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:27,599
Speaker 1: nine at least nine like minded people. Yeah.

1305
01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:31,720
Speaker 6: Well I started my label like on that because I

1306
01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:33,639
Speaker 6: was like, well, I have all of this to give,

1307
01:08:35,280 --> 01:08:38,120
Speaker 6: and I want I want to be able to leave

1308
01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:40,800
Speaker 6: this legacy, like do the work and you know, come

1309
01:08:40,840 --> 01:08:42,800
Speaker 6: here and put time in and you're not going to

1310
01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 6: sleep for like twenty years. But it's all right, it'd

1311
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 6: be okay. Yeah, you know, I have fun when you're

1312
01:08:49,080 --> 01:08:52,640
Speaker 6: dead man, that's like the only option you'll have.

1313
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:55,920
Speaker 1: Like, So, also, do you like law?

1314
01:08:56,840 --> 01:08:59,519
Speaker 6: I like it? Do you like it as a single lady?

1315
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:00,280
Speaker 1: No?

1316
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:02,240
Speaker 6: Okay, I don't think I wanted to clarify because you

1317
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:08,519
Speaker 6: part is. But here's the thing, Okay, okay, I have

1318
01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:10,320
Speaker 6: to change my energy about all that things, all that stuff,

1319
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:14,040
Speaker 6: because I definitely there's a couple of potentials out there.

1320
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 6: I definitely in l A. Yeah, it's like two three around. Yes,

1321
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 6: people don't know that that's hard.

1322
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:28,439
Speaker 1: In l A is hard. This is the podcast about

1323
01:09:28,560 --> 01:09:29,599
Speaker 1: navigating the single.

1324
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:32,720
Speaker 6: Life, short version. It is trash. No, no, no, it's

1325
01:09:32,800 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 6: not trash.

1326
01:09:33,320 --> 01:09:33,720
Speaker 1: It's just.

1327
01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 6: My friends would say to me, Look, as hard as

1328
01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 6: you work on your music and your life and your career,

1329
01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:41,799
Speaker 6: you have to work on your love life. Exactly.

1330
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 1: It's hard.

1331
01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:46,640
Speaker 6: So I had to change. But wait, and you have

1332
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:48,280
Speaker 6: to have to come out of town. They have to

1333
01:09:48,320 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 6: come from outtown. And and you gave you the speeches

1334
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 6: she gave me about listen, like you have to open

1335
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:56,880
Speaker 6: your mind when you come to l A. Angela Nizzle.

1336
01:09:57,320 --> 01:10:00,519
Speaker 5: She was like, Angela Nizzle and don watch like listen,

1337
01:10:00,640 --> 01:10:02,280
Speaker 5: you got a day outside your race. I was like,

1338
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:03,840
Speaker 5: but they don't, they don't.

1339
01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:08,240
Speaker 6: I tried, it was it was, it was interesting, right,

1340
01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 6: It's just not the same. It's like, why go for

1341
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:14,120
Speaker 6: the second if you want it is the accent accent,

1342
01:10:14,880 --> 01:10:19,120
Speaker 6: it's it's no, but I want what I want and

1343
01:10:19,160 --> 01:10:21,960
Speaker 6: the day I mean I want to I want what

1344
01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:24,439
Speaker 6: I want, you know what. But like l A has

1345
01:10:25,439 --> 01:10:28,080
Speaker 6: opened me out though, like I am a lot more

1346
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:31,639
Speaker 6: like I see two sides of everything. I balanced, it's

1347
01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:34,680
Speaker 6: how is that person feeling when they like I'm not

1348
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:39,360
Speaker 6: human because I can't be a judge Baptist. Like I've

1349
01:10:39,439 --> 01:10:41,600
Speaker 6: done too much. I've been through too much to like

1350
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:45,400
Speaker 6: put anybody on anything, put anything on anybody and say

1351
01:10:45,479 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 6: well that's that. And you know, I just kind of

1352
01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:52,120
Speaker 6: I'm open, but also like I want what I want,

1353
01:10:54,680 --> 01:10:56,720
Speaker 6: compromise on something. Every day I have to sit and

1354
01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:58,040
Speaker 6: be like, I mean, you know.

1355
01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:07,280
Speaker 1: You do sometimes chameleonize yourself into another person. Slight confession. Okay,

1356
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:11,360
Speaker 1: so when I went to Smart, Black and Funny, it

1357
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:15,000
Speaker 1: took me eight minutes to realize I was sitting with

1358
01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:17,720
Speaker 1: you and Melanie Fiona, Are you serious? I didn't hear

1359
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:21,160
Speaker 1: a trace of accent, and I was like, you know,

1360
01:11:21,280 --> 01:11:22,320
Speaker 1: these girls are so nice to me.

1361
01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 6: Cool, that's wow. We said that I'm probably had different

1362
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 6: hair too, and.

1363
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,400
Speaker 1: Then Melanie caught me, Yeah, your hair was changed. I

1364
01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:31,160
Speaker 1: was sitting behind you at first, and Melanie said something.

1365
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:33,240
Speaker 1: I was said, wait, I feel like I know this

1366
01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:37,639
Speaker 1: person and her hair was different, and then your accent

1367
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 1: came out.

1368
01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:45,680
Speaker 6: Oh fuck, because this is this has been my I've

1369
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:49,600
Speaker 6: been learning American accents too, because every time I go

1370
01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:55,920
Speaker 6: so I'm doing acting, more acting. I want to Cynthia Reeve,

1371
01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:59,479
Speaker 6: but go ahead and get it to it. You know

1372
01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:02,360
Speaker 6: that's a a mirror coming over here. They get me

1373
01:12:02,479 --> 01:12:03,120
Speaker 6: acting jobs.

1374
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:04,479
Speaker 1: You know you're in.

1375
01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 6: I've been doing it, let me tell you. But like,

1376
01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:13,200
Speaker 6: the thing is, they keep giving me these rolls a

1377
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:15,120
Speaker 6: lot of my badge your bike because I'm just like,

1378
01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:17,960
Speaker 6: first of all, what so they keep asking me to

1379
01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:21,840
Speaker 6: be strippers and I keep being like where I don't

1380
01:12:22,040 --> 01:12:24,479
Speaker 6: see it. I don't have enough you walk away?

1381
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:28,760
Speaker 1: You know what more, I don't have enough for this, okay,

1382
01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:34,519
Speaker 1: And like looking like I had to.

1383
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:36,040
Speaker 6: I had beef to one of my agents, like, yo,

1384
01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:38,439
Speaker 6: stop sending in these damn like we know, no, bro,

1385
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:41,639
Speaker 6: guess the hustlers. Relax. No, I didn't get that one.

1386
01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:43,760
Speaker 6: I should have got that one. Not even fun. I

1387
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:46,400
Speaker 6: could have learned how to actually strip, but didn't you

1388
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:50,519
Speaker 6: want to been on the super Bowl. But I'm just

1389
01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:56,000
Speaker 6: joking because I love Wait, that's what I lovestling. By

1390
01:12:56,040 --> 01:13:02,519
Speaker 6: the way, I had I had a time. It was

1391
01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:06,800
Speaker 6: no stripping story. Sorry, I was in the strip club

1392
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:12,479
Speaker 6: first time I had my song outside in Atlanta. No

1393
01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:21,280
Speaker 6: magic American boy. Yeah no, it was onyx On And

1394
01:13:21,760 --> 01:13:24,200
Speaker 6: we went there to treat the guys because like life,

1395
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:26,280
Speaker 6: we're on the road, and I was like, let's go

1396
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:28,679
Speaker 6: to check love. They no right how they gotta good wings?

1397
01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:35,519
Speaker 1: Sure this girl, yes, based on their wings. Shout out, shoutouts,

1398
01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:36,839
Speaker 1: all right, listen.

1399
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:39,080
Speaker 5: You can't even get the names out fast. And if

1400
01:13:39,080 --> 01:13:40,599
Speaker 5: I know, it's so many good trip clubs with good food.

1401
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:47,760
Speaker 1: No, no, I found wait, there's a good lot.

1402
01:13:47,800 --> 01:13:50,080
Speaker 6: It it's good because I was like, well, here we are.

1403
01:13:52,040 --> 01:13:53,200
Speaker 6: And the other day I was like, here we are.

1404
01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:54,000
Speaker 6: This is interesting.

1405
01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:54,560
Speaker 1: What is it.

1406
01:13:54,920 --> 01:13:57,919
Speaker 6: It's some some brows or something like that. It's downtown

1407
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:00,760
Speaker 6: and well I didn't eat the food. I'll but the girls.

1408
01:14:00,800 --> 01:14:05,240
Speaker 6: One night, the ladies were lovely, and so here's the thing.

1409
01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:07,720
Speaker 6: I go in there and I'm just like, again, I'm

1410
01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:09,479
Speaker 6: not judging. I don't care. Live your best life, right,

1411
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,000
Speaker 6: And it was just always weird when they play my

1412
01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:14,840
Speaker 6: record and the dude set it up like we got.

1413
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:16,280
Speaker 1: Some so remember.

1414
01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:21,080
Speaker 6: You had, you had Lloyd in the house. You had

1415
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:23,559
Speaker 6: like Lloyd and this is this is years ago, Lloyd

1416
01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:27,000
Speaker 6: bow Wow and a few other singers right early singers,

1417
01:14:27,400 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 6: R and B singers, and they're like that side of

1418
01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:31,840
Speaker 6: the club and I'm just like, oh, Ship, oh this

1419
01:14:32,120 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 6: like ah And I'm just in there trying to like okay,

1420
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:38,360
Speaker 6: but I'm meeto. And then the guy, my girl, my

1421
01:14:38,400 --> 01:14:41,200
Speaker 6: assistant had told the dude that I was there, and

1422
01:14:41,479 --> 01:14:43,160
Speaker 6: she's like, yeah, we got a real singer in the house,

1423
01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:46,519
Speaker 6: and I was like Ship, and then he puts the record.

1424
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:50,320
Speaker 6: I do too, I'm my fan is and I was

1425
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:52,000
Speaker 6: just like in brask and he goes me y'a sing

1426
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:53,680
Speaker 6: the song and then I'm singing American Boy and it's

1427
01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:55,479
Speaker 6: gonna and she's like.

1428
01:14:57,160 --> 01:14:57,960
Speaker 1: She's major.

1429
01:14:59,479 --> 01:15:01,679
Speaker 6: And I'm just like, oh, that's really good.

1430
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 1: Okay.

1431
01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:11,680
Speaker 6: Taking she comes down and then she's like, I just

1432
01:15:11,760 --> 01:15:13,880
Speaker 6: love you, you just so you're so cute, You're so

1433
01:15:14,080 --> 01:15:16,160
Speaker 6: like are you so classy? And I was like yeah, okay,

1434
01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:21,040
Speaker 6: and then she hugs me. It's like, is that weird? Awkward? Yeah,

1435
01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 6: and then it happened again. It's stadium with thank you

1436
01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:31,080
Speaker 6: with stadium and ship was no. They played break my

1437
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:33,160
Speaker 6: Heart and then they all came come up to me

1438
01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:35,160
Speaker 6: in the line like a greet me and Greek line.

1439
01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:35,920
Speaker 1: That was like the church.

1440
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:40,200
Speaker 6: They didn't dance for you, so but they were like

1441
01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:43,000
Speaker 6: coming to be like nice. So it was like, no,

1442
01:15:43,200 --> 01:15:48,760
Speaker 6: you're you like, no, don't, I will put money in

1443
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:53,400
Speaker 6: the in the dancer's hand. What I just considering it.

1444
01:15:53,880 --> 01:15:57,760
Speaker 6: It's not gonna happend. I'm an all up. I am

1445
01:15:57,880 --> 01:16:04,439
Speaker 6: the killer of vibes. No, I'm like, amazing.

1446
01:16:08,479 --> 01:16:08,719
Speaker 1: Story.

1447
01:16:12,400 --> 01:16:16,280
Speaker 6: I had a wild and crazy life. No no, no, Mike,

1448
01:16:16,600 --> 01:16:20,920
Speaker 6: Mike knew about this story. Now the guys had set

1449
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:22,760
Speaker 6: me up. We were on the road and I said

1450
01:16:22,800 --> 01:16:25,880
Speaker 6: to myself, I tweet something like, yo, me me be

1451
01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:28,519
Speaker 6: like when he leaves, I'll be quiet. When I'll be

1452
01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:31,640
Speaker 6: quiet when he leaves, I'll be talking again about when

1453
01:16:31,720 --> 01:16:33,120
Speaker 6: it first come up on the show, and it was

1454
01:16:33,160 --> 01:16:35,040
Speaker 6: first on the show, and I tweeted that and then

1455
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:36,360
Speaker 6: team were like, I was like, yo, what if he

1456
01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:37,240
Speaker 6: came to the show tonight?

1457
01:16:37,360 --> 01:16:37,920
Speaker 2: Ha ha ha ha ha.

1458
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:40,479
Speaker 6: So the team make him come to the after party

1459
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:43,800
Speaker 6: and I'm there like, oh, my little sister me Stevie J.

1460
01:16:44,479 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 6: My little sister comes on the road and she's she's

1461
01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:48,800
Speaker 6: my roadie, my homie. She come on the road and

1462
01:16:48,840 --> 01:16:50,920
Speaker 6: she was like yeah. I was like, Steve, we're having

1463
01:16:50,960 --> 01:16:53,560
Speaker 6: this whole breakdown in our soul, right And Stevie J.

1464
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:55,559
Speaker 6: Comes in the room and I'm just like, I got

1465
01:16:55,680 --> 01:16:58,960
Speaker 6: ask him if this is real? I said, yoh, comes off.

1466
01:16:58,960 --> 01:17:00,920
Speaker 6: He say, Yo, get to meet you, says and I'm

1467
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:03,400
Speaker 6: like hi, and he's like, I said, wait, you have

1468
01:17:03,520 --> 01:17:05,680
Speaker 6: to tell me is that real? Like do you really be?

1469
01:17:06,400 --> 01:17:09,960
Speaker 6: Is this real? Like the face and the face date baby,

1470
01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:16,519
Speaker 6: And he does the face and I'm like, okay, it

1471
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:19,400
Speaker 6: gets worse, it gets worse. So we end up in

1472
01:17:19,479 --> 01:17:23,720
Speaker 6: the strip club with Stebej and my whole team is

1473
01:17:23,760 --> 01:17:25,720
Speaker 6: trying to find a way for me to have an

1474
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:28,479
Speaker 6: interaction with s DBJ and the stripper and they're just

1475
01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:31,160
Speaker 6: doing this for their pure ships and giggles. They're doing

1476
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:35,680
Speaker 6: this for They're doing this so they can laugh at me,

1477
01:17:36,200 --> 01:17:40,920
Speaker 6: and so we so like, no, I didn't have but

1478
01:17:41,040 --> 01:17:44,120
Speaker 6: I was like, oh, this is weird. I go to

1479
01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:47,160
Speaker 6: the bathroom. On the way back, he grabs me and

1480
01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:49,160
Speaker 6: he pulls me to the stage and I'm just like, Oh,

1481
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:55,960
Speaker 6: what's gonna happen. I'm really in my soul. Oh, and

1482
01:17:56,040 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 6: he calls me it's like a big lady, and she's

1483
01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:01,439
Speaker 6: like go in and like she's going in that booi's

1484
01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:06,160
Speaker 6: up and no, and she's like this girl is color.

1485
01:18:06,240 --> 01:18:10,200
Speaker 6: I'm just like yeah, And so if I'm standing, if

1486
01:18:10,280 --> 01:18:14,400
Speaker 6: her booty's facing the audience, I'm standing with my right side.

1487
01:18:14,400 --> 01:18:16,400
Speaker 6: I remembered it. And he's facing me and he's like, yo,

1488
01:18:16,560 --> 01:18:17,120
Speaker 6: look at him.

1489
01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 5: Man.

1490
01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:19,559
Speaker 6: I was like, what he's liked?

1491
01:18:19,640 --> 01:18:19,720
Speaker 2: Yo?

1492
01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:22,160
Speaker 6: Look at him looking at her and he says the

1493
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:24,559
Speaker 6: worst things. I'm just like, oh, it's all right, she's

1494
01:18:24,640 --> 01:18:31,280
Speaker 6: doing great, Like look at him. I'm traumatized. Why are

1495
01:18:31,320 --> 01:18:33,719
Speaker 6: you going to the strip club? You don't there, I don't,

1496
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:38,320
Speaker 6: but it's fun and check it, check it, check it out.

1497
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:41,400
Speaker 6: I gave her the money and I thank you. It

1498
01:18:41,520 --> 01:18:42,680
Speaker 6: was so great. She was like, thank you, But I

1499
01:18:42,720 --> 01:18:44,680
Speaker 6: feel like they appreciate it. I don't throw at them.

1500
01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:50,559
Speaker 1: I feel you if look, we're in Vegas, he said,

1501
01:18:50,600 --> 01:18:52,840
Speaker 1: looking at it, we're gonna go. We're gonna go to

1502
01:18:52,880 --> 01:18:56,400
Speaker 1: Experiment Rhino because they have the best French fries ever.

1503
01:18:56,560 --> 01:19:01,160
Speaker 6: Okay that I have been there. We had a wild velvet,

1504
01:19:01,200 --> 01:19:03,000
Speaker 6: and I've been all the ship clubs and the most polite.

1505
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:07,679
Speaker 1: I can give you a structure breakdown on the best foods.

1506
01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:10,040
Speaker 6: I actually I'm very interested in that.

1507
01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: And at Atlanta is actually the best strip club in

1508
01:19:13,240 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 1: Atlanta is actually Follies. Like the best dancers yes died, No,

1509
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:26,679
Speaker 1: not literally they killed. No, they really want to dance

1510
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Speaker 1: at Foleys because they have a good rate there, like

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01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:32,920
Speaker 1: the old Gold Club. I got you. Well, yeah, because

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01:19:33,240 --> 01:19:37,880
Speaker 1: the owner lets them keep their money, at least more

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01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:40,760
Speaker 1: than most do. No, no, no, some will tax the ship.

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01:19:41,840 --> 01:19:47,479
Speaker 1: He makes a killing off of the bar and more

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01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:52,160
Speaker 1: importantly the water, which I don't want to give a

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01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:55,840
Speaker 1: secrets away just charges for water interesting, yes, well, but

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01:19:56,400 --> 01:19:58,280
Speaker 1: he has a great deal on bottle water. I don't know,

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01:19:58,400 --> 01:20:02,840
Speaker 1: maybe a friend of ours, a friend of his, a

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01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:06,400
Speaker 1: friend of ours, but yeah, yeah, fell off the truck

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01:20:06,560 --> 01:20:09,479
Speaker 1: but yeah. Follies also has.

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01:20:09,479 --> 01:20:13,479
Speaker 6: Great food and commercials to do, like a little book.

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01:20:13,560 --> 01:20:15,160
Speaker 6: This is this is John Jay said, you're not allowed

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01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:23,040
Speaker 6: to do those. I mean that would be fun, like

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01:20:23,200 --> 01:20:25,400
Speaker 6: I would. I'd want to know or do a site.

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01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:29,639
Speaker 1: Know, we're looking for someone to have a green book

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01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:30,720
Speaker 1: for entertainment.

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01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:35,320
Speaker 5: Serious at least they start breakfast after, you know, like

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01:20:35,439 --> 01:20:36,920
Speaker 5: four no real life.

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01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:38,080
Speaker 6: I'm gonna have to talk to you about this.

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01:20:38,160 --> 01:20:39,439
Speaker 1: This is why has he ever been?

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01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:42,760
Speaker 3: Steve Like, I'm nominating myself for this job.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, all right, so we gotta wrapped this up, y'all.

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01:20:50,439 --> 01:20:53,240
Speaker 1: We we done talked about the church in the UK

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01:20:53,760 --> 01:21:01,640
Speaker 1: and immigration and pancakes at Follies. So okay, so in

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01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:05,720
Speaker 1: love in l A. Yeah, So for you, what what

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01:21:05,960 --> 01:21:08,320
Speaker 1: is your what is your hope for this year?

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01:21:08,360 --> 01:21:11,160
Speaker 6: We're already in February, like you, I'm really like, so

1538
01:21:11,320 --> 01:21:13,800
Speaker 6: my main thing is the label goes up. I have

1539
01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:16,559
Speaker 6: a new artist that I really really really like, will

1540
01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:18,400
Speaker 6: go for like, in the same way John went for me.

1541
01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:22,360
Speaker 6: She's incredible, She's a great singer. She just my thing is,

1542
01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:24,680
Speaker 6: I'm not investing in anybody who I have to pull

1543
01:21:24,720 --> 01:21:26,479
Speaker 6: from the ground up. I'm investing in people who are

1544
01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:28,560
Speaker 6: doing the work and who want to actually learn the

1545
01:21:28,600 --> 01:21:30,240
Speaker 6: business and be sustainable on their own.

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01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:30,800
Speaker 1: You know.

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01:21:31,360 --> 01:21:36,599
Speaker 6: So she from she's from Illinois, Chicago, Okay, she's really

1548
01:21:37,160 --> 01:21:44,840
Speaker 6: ills Illinois, so respectful, what about Chicago, Illinois, But family

1549
01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:48,439
Speaker 6: in Chicago, and like it's she's been working, you know,

1550
01:21:48,720 --> 01:21:51,320
Speaker 6: and she's been really trying to do this. So yeah,

1551
01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:58,160
Speaker 6: Jamie Woods, Okay, she's incredible. That's a hard name, Jamie Instagram.

1552
01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:00,360
Speaker 6: But she has a beautiful voice. She just stands things.

1553
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:02,320
Speaker 6: I believe she's going to be incredible. You're going to

1554
01:22:02,320 --> 01:22:05,439
Speaker 6: see it. But she also knows the business and is

1555
01:22:05,479 --> 01:22:10,080
Speaker 6: learning it quickly, you know. And like, so the label's

1556
01:22:10,120 --> 01:22:13,240
Speaker 6: going up, we're doing TV films, documentaries, we're expanding in

1557
01:22:13,360 --> 01:22:16,320
Speaker 6: like the festival space. We're just you know, I know

1558
01:22:16,400 --> 01:22:19,240
Speaker 6: a lot of things that I see and I understand

1559
01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 6: the position that I'm in, and I just want to

1560
01:22:21,200 --> 01:22:23,560
Speaker 6: make sure that going forward, anybody that comes here and

1561
01:22:23,680 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 6: understands that they have this outlet and they have this

1562
01:22:27,920 --> 01:22:30,479
Speaker 6: unique space that they can really run down whether you

1563
01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:33,080
Speaker 6: you know, because we all need we needed that person.

1564
01:22:33,120 --> 01:22:36,519
Speaker 6: I needed that person to It's the word out helped

1565
01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:37,600
Speaker 6: me and I had to figure out a lot of

1566
01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:40,760
Speaker 6: things myself, you know. So yeah, mentoring is essentially the key.

1567
01:22:40,840 --> 01:22:43,040
Speaker 6: So I've you know a lot of artists come through

1568
01:22:43,080 --> 01:22:43,360
Speaker 6: and I.

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01:22:43,400 --> 01:22:46,640
Speaker 1: Definitely touched folks paying it for it.

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01:22:47,400 --> 01:22:50,040
Speaker 6: That's happening. Yeah, And essence is she is going and

1571
01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:52,360
Speaker 6: like we going again. We have the Batchman, the dancer

1572
01:22:52,439 --> 01:22:55,000
Speaker 6: or the Soca. I think I feel like I don't

1573
01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:58,840
Speaker 6: know if I spoke too soon about that, but so

1574
01:22:58,960 --> 01:23:08,679
Speaker 6: every year, no, essence is like, yeah, we are dias

1575
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:10,920
Speaker 6: for Yeah, last year we did it with them and

1576
01:23:11,120 --> 01:23:12,760
Speaker 6: it was the first year we sold out. It was

1577
01:23:12,760 --> 01:23:14,840
Speaker 6: the highest rated like performance. And so this year we're

1578
01:23:14,880 --> 01:23:17,519
Speaker 6: doing it again. And my thing was to make sure

1579
01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:20,320
Speaker 6: that whenever we touch down and you understand the diasporas here,

1580
01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:23,000
Speaker 6: it's not just about it. It's definitely black culture, but

1581
01:23:23,200 --> 01:23:25,880
Speaker 6: also here we are because that's where I come from.

1582
01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:29,120
Speaker 6: Like we I never do an American boys show. I'm

1583
01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:31,559
Speaker 6: going to do a show and this bash Man it's dance.

1584
01:23:31,600 --> 01:23:34,800
Speaker 6: All this all the music is John Bassis house, and

1585
01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:37,040
Speaker 6: I want people to know that that's we can touch

1586
01:23:37,080 --> 01:23:40,120
Speaker 6: all those spaces about feeling like, oh your alternative, Well

1587
01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:43,040
Speaker 6: all you're different. Now, this is what we do as people.

1588
01:23:43,560 --> 01:23:45,680
Speaker 6: That's what it is. So we're doing that essence and

1589
01:23:45,840 --> 01:23:46,360
Speaker 6: that's what we do it.

1590
01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:47,800
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1591
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:53,320
Speaker 6: Hell yeah, shut it out.

1592
01:23:57,040 --> 01:23:57,800
Speaker 1: Strong and we get it that.

1593
01:23:57,880 --> 01:23:58,479
Speaker 6: We're getting it down.

1594
01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:02,160
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, well sell We thank you very much. Uh,

1595
01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:07,080
Speaker 1: we're coming and speaking to us. Yes, yes, yes, yes,

1596
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:10,880
Speaker 1: Love All all of your product is now streamable. Yeah.

1597
01:24:10,960 --> 01:24:12,679
Speaker 1: I was about to see in your local record store

1598
01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:13,559
Speaker 1: a track.

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01:24:15,439 --> 01:24:17,639
Speaker 6: New records coming this year to beautiful.

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Speaker 1: That's great to hear. All right, Well on behalf of

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01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:28,120
Speaker 1: a team Supreme. Uh, sim Steve boss Bill. Yes, we're

1602
01:24:28,160 --> 01:24:31,320
Speaker 1: going to strip club right now. Sorry, Fon take Alotle

1603
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:35,479
Speaker 1: you're still smoking cigarettes and all right. We will see

1604
01:24:35,720 --> 01:24:38,080
Speaker 1: next week on the next go round of Quest Love Supreme.

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