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Speaker 1: Hey, what's up everybody.

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Speaker 2: It's Quest Love and please make sure that you're up

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Speaker 2: to date on my podcast, The Quest Love Show. However,

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Speaker 2: it's Quest Love Supreme for life. Back in late twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: in the thick of the pandemic, QLs had my guys

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Speaker 2: one Boys to Men for a two part podcast discussion.

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Speaker 2: It's damn near three hours of conversation when we get

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Speaker 2: real and all the stories behind this incredible record breaking group.

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Speaker 2: So join me Fon, tigelow Laiya, Unpaid Bill and Sugar

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Speaker 2: Steve for this amazing touchstone interview with a lot of humor,

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Speaker 2: candor and realness.

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Speaker 1: Thank you to Nate, Sean and Wanye.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to you to Mike and Mark, You're all

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Speaker 2: Boys to Men to me, you guys humbled me and

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Speaker 2: also gave one incredible conversation at a time when we

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Speaker 2: needed it. So here's Part two of Boys to Men

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Speaker 2: on Quest Love Supreme. Quest Love Supreme is a production

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Speaker 2: of iHeartRadio. Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to part two of

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Speaker 2: our talk with Boys to Men. I gotta say we

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Speaker 2: were having.

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Speaker 1: So much fun. I didn't even know it was going

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Speaker 1: to be this much fun.

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Speaker 2: Normally we could wrap up a Quest Love Supreme episode

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Speaker 2: and just you know, like shy of it, north of

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Speaker 2: an hour and I don't know the time, just kept

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Speaker 2: going on and next thing you know is two episodes worth.

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Speaker 2: So I haven't had this extensive of a talk with

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Speaker 2: them since our days in high school. So it's really

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Speaker 2: good to catch up with the guys. I hope you're

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Speaker 2: enjoying it. Without further ado, Part two of our conversation

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Speaker 2: Quest Love Supreme.

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Speaker 3: And Boys to Men.

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Speaker 1: Of the projects you worked on, what's your favorite? What

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Speaker 1: is your favorite one? What do you feel about from

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Speaker 1: artistic achievement? What do you feel like this is? This

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Speaker 1: is my legacy.

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Speaker 4: Well, I won't say project per se, but I would

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Speaker 4: say one of my biggest enjoyments at this stage and

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Speaker 4: age in my career and where we are is when

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Speaker 4: we do our orchestra concerts. We do a concert with

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Speaker 4: just us us three vocally and you know, whatever orchestral

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Speaker 4: with La and the Hollywood Bowl, and we do all

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Speaker 4: of our records and it's all stripped down to just

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Speaker 4: strings and brass and drums, nothing electronic at all and

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Speaker 4: it's just.

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Speaker 3: It's an atmosphere.

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Speaker 4: It's an atmosphere that because you've been involved in the

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Speaker 4: business the way we have so long. You go on tour,

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Speaker 4: you got the samples in the backgrounds and you sing

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Speaker 4: over here and the drums and the guitars, electric everything.

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Speaker 4: When they strip all that out, it takes you back

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Speaker 4: to the high school performing arts. It's almost like everybody,

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Speaker 4: it's the door just opens. It's a brand new, you know,

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Speaker 4: fresh air to where the vocals have room to breathe,

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Speaker 4: like you live in a whole different space. You're not

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Speaker 4: You know, you just get to flow over the strings

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Speaker 4: and the harps and the whole nine. And for me,

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Speaker 4: whenever we do all the stuff that we do with

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Speaker 4: to where it's like, thank you Jesus, now let's just

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Speaker 3: And that's just the best.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna tell you one thing I'm here, the thing

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Speaker 5: that i've I've our goal, or rather, the thing I'm

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Speaker 5: most proud of is something we haven't done yet, and

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Speaker 5: I hope we do it because we've had this conversation before,

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Speaker 5: and that's to do an acoustics show, like you know,

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Speaker 5: the guy you know, we've all learned how to play

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Speaker 6: Know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: You know that's I totally forgot.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so you know, we talked.

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Speaker 6: About this as far as actually doing like, you know,

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Speaker 1: Well, how long have you guys been doing that format

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Speaker 8: Don't know?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the last time I seen you guys before him,

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Speaker 2: it was you three with your guitars, which I didn't know.

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Speaker 8: Me, No, we didn't know.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Nate, Nate plays bass and I played guitar, and

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Speaker 8: Album called Collide, Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 5: And it was like I guess we should. So, you know,

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Speaker 5: and Nate's been playing ever since. And it's broad in

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Speaker 5: just like you said the last time you saw us,

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Speaker 5: we were doing Come Together, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 5: Like you know, and and water runs dry and I'll

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Speaker 5: make love to you all acoustical that it was incredible.

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Speaker 9: I loved it.

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Speaker 8: You got you gotta do that out there.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say where y'all got there?

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Speaker 10: Of course, really right, I wanted to not invited, man, Yeah,

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Speaker 10: I wanted to jump back on y'all on your production

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Speaker 10: for a little while you were speaking, Nick, you were

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Speaker 10: saying earlier just about how you know the records that

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Speaker 1: You know that I'll make love to use in the

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Speaker 10: I always thought, just as a fan of you guys,

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Speaker 10: the boys Men versus Jodasy argument like what Jodasy was

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Speaker 10: I will always go to y'all production and I would

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Speaker 10: say like, nah, this is what they really own. So

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Speaker 10: like Nate, you did a record, the Johnny Guil record,

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Speaker 10: I Got you.

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Speaker 10: And when y'all did the one twelve now that we're

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Speaker 10: I was like, nah, this is what these niggas is

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Speaker 9: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: So well, you know, we were always wanted to get

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Speaker 1: The jo Tosy boys of Men thing, Like was that

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Speaker 4: It was real, but not created by us. It was

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Speaker 4: real because we were already good friends. We freaking love

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Speaker 4: like Jodsy is just like I mean, it's ying and Yang.

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Speaker 4: There would be no Jodasy with our boys to mend

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Speaker 4: and vice versa. And we every time we would see

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Speaker 8: I mean, we love those dudes.

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Speaker 4: I mean the audience has made it more of the oppetition,

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Speaker 3: But I mean there there are different identities.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know Jodashy, you know they have the

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Speaker 4: mean we kind of did a little bit of everything,

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Speaker 3: We like to sing what we write, you know what

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Speaker 4: And when we got a chance to get with Face

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Speaker 4: lessons we could possibly learn from those guys, we tried

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Speaker 4: to roll over into the stuff that we did. But

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Speaker 4: for as far as like I said, we we wrote.

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Speaker 4: The first song I ever wrote in my life was

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Speaker 4: please don't Know.

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Speaker 3: I think I was fourteen fifteen years old, so.

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Speaker 4: Well that's years of getting stomped on.

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Speaker 3: Like you know, like we talked about, the nobody really

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Speaker 4: All four of us came from writing words down and

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Speaker 3: That's how our whole career jumped off.

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Speaker 8: So as it went in, you know those.

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Speaker 4: Songs you talk about now that we're done, all those

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Speaker 4: It just may out have always gotten on the Boys

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Speaker 10: Man, Yeah, I love Sean like even like your shn

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Speaker 10: just soundtrack stuff. And I told you this before in

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Speaker 8: Months Man, I love that round.

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Speaker 4: But the time I heard that song, when when I

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Speaker 9: I love him to keep a couple of times because

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Speaker 9: I loved that song.

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Speaker 3: I love, love love that song.

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Speaker 10: Before I forget, oh, before I forget dude, what happened

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Speaker 10: to Uncle Sam.

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Speaker 3: Uh he out did getting some of that Jesus money.

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Speaker 4: But we we had him signed the Stone Creek, our

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Speaker 4: we heard him, and I felt there was something we

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Speaker 4: could work with. We went in and produced the record

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Speaker 4: and uh, I think the album. The album sold a

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Speaker 4: records and the album was half so half a Manion Records.

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Speaker 4: And then we went back in to renegotiate with Epic

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Speaker 4: we learned in our business. For us, we don't treat

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Speaker 4: producers be like, well, you know, I went through it,

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Speaker 8: We would never know those guys.

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Speaker 4: We made sure that the deals you got you were

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Speaker 4: so we said, okay, well that's you want to do.

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Speaker 3: But he ain't live at seventeen Christians. So yeah, I

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Speaker 8: And it is what it is.

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Speaker 6: So we were like, we wanted to make, you know,

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Speaker 8: So and one came up with a damn good logo.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like like I came into with the time, Okay,

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Speaker 9: Pencil drew it.

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Speaker 5: Made it look the way that it look and the

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Speaker 6: Got to be on the record. Your face got to

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Speaker 6: We didn't want to their faces on the album.

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Speaker 4: This was before hell, this was before heral. But what's

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Speaker 8: Your facers on it.

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Speaker 4: And I don't think that they realized even after eight

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Speaker 9: I would love to, you know, you know, do some

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Speaker 9: Like it was like the hood, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 13: And I hung out like literally all day her her

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Speaker 9: So they they met up with her mom. You know

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Speaker 11: Literally, I did you the reason my girlfriend Johnson stood

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Speaker 9: The crazy thing is I wrote Me and my Mom

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Speaker 11: On Netflix.

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Speaker 13: Man, I know, right, but but you know, broken Hearted

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Speaker 13: I was like, Yo, we should do a duet. We

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Speaker 1: You know, it was a great song man.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, so you know it was it was a time

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Speaker 11: And we was asking you about the music. Why you

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Speaker 10: This my man, this is my man show, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 10: you know, Oh, I just had one, uh one of

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Speaker 5: So many songs that I personally enjoyed that would never

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Speaker 7: But to the limit is.

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Speaker 6: It was one of those records. It's funny because I

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Speaker 5: I started writing that record in Jersey, presented most of

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Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, And that pretty much was it.

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Speaker 6: That was that was a spa day for our for our.

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Speaker 6: And that's pretty much it.

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Speaker 1: That was a great song.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: I love I love that song.

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Speaker 3: I love that record.

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Speaker 8: I figure I mean to.

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Speaker 1: Wine, it's the harmony.

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Speaker 11: Wine is let us see the bottle because we get here, Yes,

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00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,159
Speaker 11: y'all gonna keep me here. I'm let me see that.

447
00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:29,720
Speaker 1: Let's go.

448
00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,119
Speaker 11: What y'all do is what is that you got there?

449
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:34,880
Speaker 4: Rose?

450
00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:36,320
Speaker 1: Is that harmony wine?

451
00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:40,239
Speaker 7: We got got shoulder. There's a Grammy wine whatever you need.

452
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:43,960
Speaker 8: We got red.

453
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:46,960
Speaker 7: We got got Grammy some wine.

454
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,000
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's just called red.

455
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,760
Speaker 6: That's what does And I know you're a food kind

456
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,879
Speaker 6: of sore, but you know, wine got to be in

457
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:55,840
Speaker 6: the mix somewhere with that.

458
00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:56,359
Speaker 9: All right?

459
00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:01,239
Speaker 1: Correct? What did you guys get in too? When did

460
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 1: when did you guys step into uh find spirits so

461
00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:05,520
Speaker 1: to speak?

462
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:08,479
Speaker 8: This was years and this is called harmony.

463
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 6: Correct, it's called harmony.

464
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,199
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, help you out little bit.

465
00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:12,880
Speaker 4: Yeah.

466
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,680
Speaker 6: They're all boys, they're all Bordeaus. They they were grown

467
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:21,800
Speaker 6: in a chateau a goose, which is this placed all

468
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,760
Speaker 6: the way in you know, France or whatever.

469
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 4: And all the way yea, all the way and like

470
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 4: deep deep it's not like a four year old all

471
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 4: the way all.

472
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 5: The way to France. That's that's my trump vernacular. And

473
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 5: you know, basically and uh basically you know this this

474
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,920
Speaker 5: was something that we we've been experimenting and trying to

475
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 5: get into for years, but we never really found the

476
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 5: right people to get involved with business wise.

477
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,920
Speaker 6: But we found the folks who found the guys. And

478
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,119
Speaker 6: again there's three wines. It's a Bordeaux Blanc, it's a

479
00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 6: Bordeaux Rose, and it's a Bordeaux red or rouge as

480
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:02,000
Speaker 6: they call it.

481
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 5: And you know it's it's an affordable yet very tasty,

482
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 5: uh multi pallided wine like it's it's it has such

483
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:15,639
Speaker 5: a great flavor, all of them.

484
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:17,680
Speaker 6: Like I don't want to say I could commercial, and

485
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 6: I don't want to sound like you know.

486
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 9: You got me.

487
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 13: So you know the crazy thing is is I know

488
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 13: you appreciate you appreciate this air. The way that they

489
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,679
Speaker 13: grow the grapes, you know where they grow up. They

490
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 13: play our music to the grapes.

491
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 3: You keep better.

492
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:34,120
Speaker 11: Stop they want you better?

493
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,240
Speaker 8: Right people?

494
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 4: That scientific word for it that we can't remember. You

495
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,119
Speaker 4: know that you know that it helps you know that

496
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,119
Speaker 4: fight off, helps them fight off a lot of different

497
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:49,400
Speaker 4: infections and things.

498
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 2: Like that is literally, Yes, I've heard of this before

499
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 2: where people use music to grow. Yeah, they've done to research.

500
00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 11: So that's the selling point right there, y'all.

501
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:02,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, But so we can we can also do some

502
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 4: some Joey Francesco, some roots records, some Chris McBride. We

503
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 4: can play that for the grapes too. We just started,

504
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,160
Speaker 4: you know, like a jazz barn harmony.

505
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

506
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 5: All the grapes are organically grown because it's better resistant

507
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 5: to pesticides and disease and all the other stuff.

508
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,679
Speaker 3: So I said that, Okay, So we wanted to make

509
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 3: I love y'all believe you.

510
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,159
Speaker 6: Wanted to make sure that that the grapes, just like us,

511
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 6: was organic.

512
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 1: Got some two product. I had to pull up, some

513
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: apple crown, some peanut butter whiskey.

514
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 11: This is like the first product that y'all have like

515
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,159
Speaker 11: put out in your career, right am. I?

516
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 8: Yeah, it really, it really really is.

517
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 4: And we we talk about that, and the question has

518
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 4: been asked and one of the things is that we've

519
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 4: never been the type of group to do the so

520
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 4: called indoors. This is something that we really really believe

521
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 4: that it's a part of our lifestyle. Who we are,

522
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 4: something we can represent, something that we can do, and

523
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 4: we're just not good at faking it, you know what

524
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 4: I'm saying.

525
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:12,199
Speaker 8: So this.

526
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 3: That you know, being you know, being older, you know

527
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 3: men now, and you know, being.

528
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 4: Able to you know, drink a glass of wine and

529
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 4: relax and chill and be a part of friends, family, harmony, music,

530
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,919
Speaker 4: the sounds of different type of blends and different grapes.

531
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 4: All of it encompasses who we are and where we

532
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 4: are at this point in our life.

533
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 8: So here, here, you're here, all right?

534
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:45,120
Speaker 2: My last question, have you guys been when's the last

535
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 2: time you've been? Have you been to the Broad Street

536
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 2: Creative and Performing Arts?

537
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:50,360
Speaker 3: Yes?

538
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 9: At all? Yes?

539
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 1: Were you angry at how immaculate and clean?

540
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 3: Yes?

541
00:25:58,840 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 8: From there?

542
00:25:59,440 --> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 3: Let me go you.

543
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 1: I was mad as let me get Let me give

544
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 1: a little insight. It's like it was like a comminium.

545
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,440
Speaker 4: Like so when mister King passed away and they and

546
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 4: they had a new music teacher. The music teacher there

547
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,679
Speaker 4: was my original music teacher when I was in the seventh,

548
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 4: eighth and ninth, sixth, seventh eighth grade. They brought her

549
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 4: from Meredith. So I spent a lot of time of them.

550
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 4: My son went to this school. So I'm sitting in there.

551
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 4: I mean it looks like a college. And yeah, the

552
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 4: fact that we fought the Columbians, you know what I'm saying.

553
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 3: You know, we didn't really have our own space in

554
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 3: certain classrooms.

555
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 4: Hats in the ceiling, basketball on the roof with the

556
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 4: gates trying to make sure you don't jump off that.

557
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was very, very fucking frustrating.

558
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 2: But I was about to say, like, the acoustics of

559
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 2: that bath y'all used to that urine infested bathroom on

560
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,719
Speaker 2: the fourth floor, that's where y'are honed.

561
00:26:59,359 --> 00:26:59,880
Speaker 7: That's a plug.

562
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 1: Do you do you feel like it's not unless there's

563
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: no year inside.

564
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 8: Yes, you had to use dying for I'm like, how.

565
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 12: Do y'all not expect this after the school has produced

566
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 12: the roots Christian McBride boys and men, Like, isn't this

567
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 12: the natural eleence that I'm.

568
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 2: Glad that they had Enron, I'm glad they had a

569
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 2: safe environment. But when I came, I went back. I

570
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 2: went back there with Tariq a year and a half ago,

571
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 2: and it was I was like, I could see my

572
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 2: reflection on the floor.

573
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 8: I'll tell you.

574
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 4: The only thing that makes me feel good about it

575
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 4: was the fact that one day I went back and

576
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 4: I was driving down the street and I say, you

577
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 4: know what, I know how to get there, but I'm

578
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:52,880
Speaker 4: gonna use my navigation.

579
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 3: So I put in my navigation, drove up to the

580
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 3: corner and I'm just pausing. I'm waiting.

581
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, well, let me just get I

582
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 4: want to get up to the corner and turn and

583
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 4: see what my navigation says.

584
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 3: When that navigates, you said, boys boulevard.

585
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 4: Dude, Yes, now here's the thing. You know, people always

586
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 4: get the little hey, what's boulevard? And this is uh,

587
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 4: you know, everybody get the gradess name. But dude, when

588
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 4: it showed up in the navigation, that that's official.

589
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, parkway is on there.

590
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 3: Yes, what I was like, Wow, you know what else?

591
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 9: Maybe?

592
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 13: You know what else made took away that jealousy a

593
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 13: little bit, Donnate, I ain't gonna lie. What took away

594
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 13: that jealousy a little bit is when I heard the

595
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 13: choir saying they did not sound as good or even.

596
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 9: That choir man. We were smashing them son.

597
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 10: Yeah.

598
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 12: My last question, which is who was the most famous

599
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 12: graduate before the roots and Boyson men of Kappa like, we.

600
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 3: Had some actors, honestly, and to be and to be existed.

601
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 4: The school only existed I think six years before we

602
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 4: got there. It was a brand new idea.

603
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:23,719
Speaker 8: Wow. The building.

604
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 4: The reason why we were interjacked up building was because

605
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 4: the original school was downtown and a building that was

606
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 4: just an idea they were trying to school, and then

607
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 4: it started to do well and they were like, yeah, streets,

608
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 4: to move it to another place and we'll turn it

609
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 4: into a school, and for now to just hang out

610
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 4: with the Columbians.

611
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 3: We did make the Plumbians famous, you know that.

612
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 9: They haven't like.

613
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 6: It's a country.

614
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 8: Uh what's your name?

615
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 9: Went there?

616
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 12: Uh?

617
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 8: Oh yeah?

618
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 1: Uh remember not but her girlfriend that cousin, Pam, the

619
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: one wanted to know not cousin, sirmon yeaes sir mean

620
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: she she was.

621
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 3: It was seemed more as an acting school before we

622
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 3: got over.

623
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:22,719
Speaker 1: And what's his name?

624
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 8: Who was saying? Uh?

625
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: I said black?

626
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 4: Get his name black?

627
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: I was friends with spoonsy ray j.

628
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 9: I say mine, yes, right, that's right.

629
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 2: Heel not DeAndre No no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

630
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 2: you're thinking husband.

631
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 9: That's Roger.

632
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 8: I can't remember.

633
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, DeAndre with he's married to.

634
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 7: Saturdays.

635
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh boy, all right, I want her after something

636
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 1: because losing his patients.

637
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 4: Actually I'm drunk now, I'm good.

638
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 8: I got one.

639
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: Nerds on the Yeah. Now this is music.

640
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 10: Now, y'all boys done, y'all with the right ones. Drink

641
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 10: all right, So all right, so so wyya. So I've

642
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 10: always heard, like you know, a lot of vocal teachers

643
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 10: and like vocal professors, they always say, well, you know,

644
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 10: you shouldn't stretch your neck when you move or when

645
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 10: you're sing, you shouldn't you know, move your net.

646
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: But being a diciple.

647
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 10: Listening, like you're the most like we know, the Yanye movement.

648
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 10: So I want to know, was that something that you

649
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 10: got kind of like bounced back from from vocal teachers

650
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 10: or was that just something that you just did because

651
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 10: you have the most distinctive like head and neck movements.

652
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 13: It was Honestly, I never got any blowback from any

653
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 13: of the any of the like the vocal coaches or teachers,

654
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 13: because we didn't really have vocal coaches teachers, you know,

655
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 13: like if we're.

656
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 9: Saying choir, of course, I couldn't not even Dumpson you

657
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 9: know what I'm saying. I would have uh you know

658
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 9: what I'm saying.

659
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 8: I wouldn't. I went I went to Dumpson fan because

660
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 8: that's that's them.

661
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 9: Dude, he ain't like me, you know what I'm saying.

662
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 2: They would I saw Dumpson in and Miss Davis at

663
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 2: this Uh Miss Davis is still there.

664
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 8: Yeah, one hundred years old. Yeah, one hundred years old.

665
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's still hanging on.

666
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 3: Boy.

667
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 9: Yeah here honestly is it's it's just a dynamic thing.

668
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 13: I mean, of course I can do that without my neck,

669
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 13: but I feel like it gives me a better, I guess,

670
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 13: a better movement, you know what I'm saying.

671
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 9: You know, sometimes you see somebody playing the saxophone, and

672
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 9: you know what I'm saying. They're doing that because it

673
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 9: gives them more.

674
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 3: Of a you know what I mean, of of of

675
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 3: a you get to sing it, but he wants to

676
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 3: feel it when he sings it.

677
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 14: Yeah, but how much your how much your vibrato comes

678
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 14: from your neck versus like how much comes from your diaphragm? Well, no,

679
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 14: I mean like like there's different comes from from this

680
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 14: like within, yes, chesty, you know what I mean. So

681
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 14: I kind of it depends on what I'm singing, because sometimes.

682
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 13: I move it from my throat tom or I move

683
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 13: from a diaphragm to my chest.

684
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying.

685
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 13: It depends on what I'm the tone that I'm trying

686
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 13: to get out, you know what I mean a lot

687
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 13: of times you guys hear the ending of a song,

688
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 13: it takes it's more of a chesty head type, you

689
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 13: know what I mean, dynamic because it's the power. You

690
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 13: know what I'm saying. It's where you know, the power

691
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 13: comes from. And if I got to hold the long note,

692
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 13: that's when I switch it to my diaphragm.

693
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 9: You know what I mean.

694
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 3: But to you another one.

695
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 4: This guy didn't learn how to sing false settle until

696
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 4: almost four or five six years end of his.

697
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 3: Voice I had, I had zero fallse setup.

698
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 9: So I literally I literally started trying.

699
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 13: I literally became like a student of my own voice,

700
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 13: you know what I'm saying. So I know where certain

701
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 13: pieces of my voice take me. I could sing it

702
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 13: in many different ways, but I also know what the

703
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 13: audience calls for.

704
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 7: And my how do you find that? How do you

705
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,800
Speaker 7: find the right way to sing the right thing? What

706
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 7: is its?

707
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 13: Just like Nate said, I just sing. I literally just sing.

708
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 13: I mean, I don't have to be doing shit. I'll

709
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 13: be in the house and I hear like an acoustic

710
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 13: and I'll just I'll sing and then I'll figure something out.

711
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 13: And then once I figure it out, I'll practice that

712
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 13: over and over again. Because I always believe that I

713
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 13: can be better. I never feel like, you know, like

714
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 13: people say, oh my god, you're the best. No, I'm

715
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 13: striving to get better and better every day because if

716
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 13: you're the best, you can't grow anymore, you know what

717
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,479
Speaker 13: I'm saying. So I want to be better and better

718
00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 13: with with whatever style I choose to sing, because I

719
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 13: know that there's going to be multi fast, fastness of

720
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 13: style styles.

721
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 9: That I'm going to need to, you know what I mean,

722
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 9: sing in order to be an artist.

723
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 10: You know, is there a particular music just as as

724
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 10: long as you guys have been doing and just as

725
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 10: season of singers as you are, is there still a

726
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 10: particular style of music that gives you more trouble than

727
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 10: the other, like like jazz versus gospel versus classical, or

728
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 10: you know, is there we are? What what's still a

729
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 10: challenge to you?

730
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 7: Yeah?

731
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 9: We we we we we are.

732
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 13: Like I said, Uh, Sean to me is h he

733
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 13: has a really good jazz ear. So when it comes

734
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 13: to something like that, I always look to Sean to

735
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 13: start it. Now, I know what it's supposed to sound like,

736
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,240
Speaker 13: but I know when Sean starts it, I know where's

737
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 13: supposed to go. So once he starts it, I know

738
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 13: where I fit in, you know what I'm saying, So

739
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 13: there's no hiccup there.

740
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 9: Same with Nate. Nate has a great jazz here.

741
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 13: Nate's like his musical roundnesses is just like fucking crazy

742
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 13: to me. But when he starts something, we all know

743
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 13: exactly where it goes. So it can be a jazz

744
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 13: song or it can be like like, uh, like Ribbon's

745
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 13: in the Sky, you know, you know what I mean?

746
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 13: That a cappella version that's jazzy and R and B is.

747
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 13: It's a lot of different facets. So when it comes

748
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 13: to oh yeah, I'm not sure if y'all heard that

749
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 13: record record.

750
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 9: When it comes when it comes to that, we all,

751
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 9: I guess, give enough of a strength to not make

752
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 9: it a hurdle, you know what I mean.

753
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 4: I understand there's no knowing you're comfort You're not in

754
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 4: so much a comfort zone, but knowing we all know

755
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 4: that when someone sings apart, we know if that's the

756
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 4: part they should sing. Like there are times when we'll

757
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 4: we'll sing something and we'll be like, nah, I think

758
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 4: Sean should sing it because he's got a.

759
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 3: Little bit more of this or whatever.

760
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 4: And we know that you know what I'm saying, and

761
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 4: we we tend to know when to fall in or

762
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,280
Speaker 4: a guy somebody, perfect example, will come to the studio.

763
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, well I want to want to say

764
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 4: this and why Like no, what I think should probably

765
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 4: do this part? Because we all know each other's voices,

766
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 4: so whenever we hear anything that anybody brings.

767
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 3: Us, we know who should sing what and where and

768
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 3: where it should go.

769
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 7: So what's technically what's the warm up game?

770
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 4: Like?

771
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:14,919
Speaker 7: Like how does how does that work?

772
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 1: As in?

773
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 14: Like I once talk to Christian McBride and he said

774
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 14: that he he warmed up, he practiced for the ten

775
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 14: to ten minutes before the gig and that was it.

776
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 14: And I assume that with you guys, it's way different

777
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 14: than that. Like I'm sure seth Riggs or that I

778
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 14: don't know. I don't warm up at all.

779
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 1: Love to you ya, wow, just walk in.

780
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 8: I don't just when I wake up.

781
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 9: When I wake up in the morning, I see when

782
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 9: I wake up in the morning and I know I

783
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 9: have a show.

784
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 13: I sing the highest note that I'm going to sing

785
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 13: on the show, and if it comes out clear, I

786
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 13: know I'm good.

787
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 3: You're good.

788
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 8: And another that's.

789
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: Those requirements like take the air conditioning off.

790
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 9: I don't sleep.

791
00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we don't like air conditions and all that and.

792
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 6: The like.

793
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 8: Okay, Wine likes it blazing.

794
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 4: Hot and I like it more in the in the

795
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 4: middle kind of we don't like it cold, but we

796
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 4: don't like it steamy, like Wine are going to and

797
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 4: turn the shower on and steam.

798
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

799
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 7: But another reason why Vegas and Tampa just for the record, well, another.

800
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 4: Reason why I like to practice because I never really

801
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:30,879
Speaker 4: know where I'm gonna end up depending on what we're

802
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 4: singing and what we're doing.

803
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 8: I don't know.

804
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 4: I know what parts I'm supposed to sing for each song,

805
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 4: but I don't know what I'm gonna I don't know

806
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 4: what I'm singing because I don't know where I'm gonna be.

807
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 5: So this is kind of like open and believe it

808
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 5: or not, Like sometimes that opens up for interesting things

809
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 5: to come out of your group. Mm hm, it's kind

810
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 5: of cool sometimes, like right now we're going through a

811
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 5: seasons change in LA. So my voice is a little

812
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,760
Speaker 5: raspuler and if you're recording or if you're doing something,

813
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 5: sometimes that sounds cool, you know what I mean. We

814
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 5: forget that, Like our voices are instruments, and sometimes those

815
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 5: little like those quirks, those idiosyncrasies vocally could bring out

816
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 5: a texture that might resonate soulfully, you know what I'm saying,

817
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 5: because you might not feel as as clean or whatever,

818
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 5: but it has such a rasp and a ruggedness to it.

819
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 6: It makes you sing different, you know what I'm saying.

820
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 5: It's almost like a mayor when you play different drum skins,

821
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, When you got like different snares, whatever.

822
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 5: It has different resonances, different sounds and textures and feels

823
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 5: when you strike it.

824
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 6: It's the same thing vocally with us, Like, yeah, we

825
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 6: want to sound good.

826
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 5: All the time, but you know, when it comes to weather,

827
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 5: when it comes to stuff like that, we just adapt

828
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 5: to what our voices are doing at that moment and

829
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 5: we just have that time.

830
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 4: And I always wish I had more power in the

831
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 4: tenor range, but I don't like I used to, you know,

832
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 4: I used to sit back and listen to Sean and

833
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 4: want to be like damn, I could sing it, but

834
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 4: just can't.

835
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 3: I can't. I don't have that light to it like

836
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 3: I just don't.

837
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 4: Have that that rip you know what I'm saying now

838
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 4: above them, I do, but in that it's like I

839
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,800
Speaker 4: can sing it, but I just don't. I always wanted

840
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 4: to be that have that tenor guy that just could

841
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 4: just rip.

842
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 8: I just I just don't. I don't have that in it.

843
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 3: I don't have that.

844
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 14: Away voices does age voices because I was I saw

845
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 14: Billy Joel two years ago and he's playing things in

846
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 14: C but it sounds and be flat, like it's a

847
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 14: whole step down because his voice is down. Do you guys,

848
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 14: You guys don't have that.

849
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:43,439
Speaker 3: Personally? Yeah, that's g I guess, because again I tend

850
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,879
Speaker 3: to be all over the place. I don't key.

851
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 4: It doesn't really matter for the most part for me,

852
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 4: Like you change your drop no, let me rephrase that.

853
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 4: When you start to drop it lower, it affects me

854
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 4: one because of my my, my pitch, my the perfect

855
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 4: pitch thing. It irritates me because I know it's the

856
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 4: wrong kid. So I struggle to sing it in a

857
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 4: different kee.

858
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 8: And Manuan used to fight a lot because he can't sing.

859
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,720
Speaker 4: I mean not that he can't, but because he sings

860
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 4: so many of those songs like every song is like every.

861
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 3: Song is way up in the stratosphere. Some of them

862
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 3: we have to adjust, and I'll be like, dude, you

863
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 3: really want to drop this, Dude, I can't, Like I

864
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 3: can't do eight of them in a row. I'm like,

865
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 3: we gotta fight with that.

866
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,320
Speaker 4: But I mean it can become a struggle when again,

867
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 4: when you got that kind of fight with the way

868
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 4: his voice is, when you got to dig into a

869
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 4: song that way on every singles, I mean, if you

870
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 4: did a thirty minute Boys to Men said.

871
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 3: This, this clown sings into the role up there, I'll

872
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 3: make love to you up there there.

873
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 15: Ben died me up like everything he ends everything in

874
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 15: the sky so on, and may be like, well, you know,

875
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 15: it's just twenty minutes like Nigga's twenty minutes, twenty minutes,

876
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 15: twenty different, oh, saying that sometimes these songs won't make it.

877
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 9: Oh, and then I'll move down the.

878
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 8: Like that.

879
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 9: We have to do the hits, that's bottom line. We

880
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 9: have to do the hits.

881
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 13: But sometimes like there's some songs that aren't major hits

882
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 13: that I'm like, Nigga like color Color, but the.

883
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: Song right that that isn't rebody loves that record.

884
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 3: Everybody loves singing that.

885
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 1: We'll sing that.

886
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 8: That's the only one we had.

887
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 6: To sing every fucking day.

888
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 11: Every day, stand and ring in any show.

889
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 9: I was just do y'all do.

890
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 3: I will tell you that's one that we definitely need

891
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 3: our brother on. We need Mic on that record.

892
00:42:58,400 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: What's the status of y'all in Mike?

893
00:42:59,719 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 9: Now?

894
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: Things cool?

895
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Speaker 8: Is not cool?

896
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Speaker 1: Or you're speaking on it was?

897
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Speaker 4: I think I think we as a group, us three

898
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Speaker 4: are We're cool with where we are with Mike. We

899
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Speaker 4: just don't know where we are with Mike.

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00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,720
Speaker 3: I'll leave it. I mean again, it's like we've.

901
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,800
Speaker 4: Gone through a lot and do some bad things, some

902
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 4: good things. Is you know we love him, don't We

903
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 4: don't hate him. We don't wish any ill feel anything

904
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Speaker 4: about him.

905
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Speaker 3: But unfortunately we tried to bring him back a couple

906
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 3: of times, and you know, some of.

907
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Speaker 4: Our milestones where it was the twentieth album or you know,

908
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 4: twenty years or twenty five, and it just didn't work

909
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Speaker 4: out because unfortunately a lot of people don't realize that

910
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Speaker 4: Mike has been away from the group longer than he

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Speaker 4: was in the group.

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Speaker 3: Right Like he left in nineteen ninety nine.

913
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Speaker 4: We had that just started in ninety two, so bringing

914
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Speaker 4: him back for the twentieth anniversary, in the twenty fifth anniversary,

915
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Speaker 4: Mike McKinny is a different guy that we didn't grow

916
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Speaker 4: up with from ninety nine to twenty twenty.

917
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Speaker 3: He's just a different person. He's just been gone for

918
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Speaker 3: a long time.

919
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Speaker 4: And at that time, we were all growing up families

920
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 4: becoming men, like, oh, this is when we really started

921
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 4: to learn different things about ourselves that we needed to

922
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 4: grow up around each other so we could understand those

923
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 4: different things about each other. But he was all the

924
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 4: way over there, so.

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Speaker 3: We don't even know. In some cases, honestly, it sounds

926
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Speaker 3: sad to say it. We don't even know who he

927
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Speaker 3: is right now.

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Speaker 16: Who he is now, and honestly, we really know who

929
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:35,360
Speaker 16: he was back with that on top of Mike was

930
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Speaker 16: Mike was always the.

931
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Speaker 9: Other dude, you know what I'm saying.

932
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Speaker 13: Like if we got if we got freaking uh paffinders,

933
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Speaker 13: Mike would get a rodeo if we got you know

934
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Speaker 13: what I'm saying, ben'ses, Mike would get get a push

935
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Speaker 13: if you know what I'm saying.

936
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Speaker 9: He just was always separate from us, like we would

937
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Speaker 9: hang out and Mike would not be there. You know

938
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Speaker 9: what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: He just came in to the school in the same

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Speaker 4: year that I came in, and Mike had Mike had

941
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Speaker 4: a pitch problem, and you know it kind of alienated

942
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Speaker 4: him away from a lot of people in the choir

943
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Speaker 4: in the school at that time, because Mike also had

944
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 4: that attitude, well, I'm gonna do what I can and

945
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 4: if you don't like it, fuck you. And that's kind

946
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 4: of what this attitude. Well, he's like, I'm I'm gonna

947
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:25,399
Speaker 4: try to sing it. If it don't get there, talk

948
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Speaker 4: about me all you want, the hell with you? And

949
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Speaker 4: if you talk about me too much, then we might

950
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Speaker 4: have to have some physical altercation.

951
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Speaker 3: And that's just who he was.

952
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Speaker 9: I see that.

953
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Speaker 11: What part of Philly was Mike from? What part of Philly?

954
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Speaker 1: Is he from?

955
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Speaker 8: Logan?

956
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Speaker 9: Okay?

957
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Speaker 1: Actually showing where were you from in Philly?

958
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Speaker 6: Of the suburbs of southwest Philadelphia?

959
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Speaker 11: What is that called up? What is he saying? I

960
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 11: don't understand what is that?

961
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Speaker 6: I don't ever any damn suburbs in the southwest Philadelphia.

962
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Speaker 6: Belmart Terrace right down the stone from my park and

963
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Speaker 6: Paul Brothers.

964
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Speaker 1: And you know what I'm saying.

965
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Speaker 9: That's that's where I come from.

966
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Speaker 1: I know, I grew up in South thirty six ty,

967
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Speaker 1: I get it.

968
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I grew up in Southwest like fifty eighth and

969
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Speaker 4: fifty from Wooland Avenue like Greenway Avenue and then.

970
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Speaker 1: Crest you know what Crush what?

971
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Speaker 9: Yeah?

972
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: All right, so I used to bag a crush son

973
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: for real?

974
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 3: What?

975
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where I used to get what?

976
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 3: Man, help me with your bags? Messed?

977
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 8: Well, how you get a quarner, nigga?

978
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 3: What?

979
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 8: Anyway, I grew up over there, and then when I

980
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 8: started going to.

981
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 3: Perfoman ours whatever, I moved into South Philly. So I

982
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 3: grew up over there.

983
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 8: But no, I'm com from.

984
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 3: Matter of fact, my street was all the street right

985
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:47,799
Speaker 3: in front of Crush.

986
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 2: Okay, I know who that is. My grandmam lived around

987
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Speaker 2: that way. So that's how I know. Thursday was just

988
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 2: shopping for Grandma. I'm at Crest boy, Okay what now?

989
00:46:58,960 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 1: Damn it?

990
00:46:59,320 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 8: All right?

991
00:46:59,719 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 1: Now?

992
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 8: All right?

993
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: Do you guys do you guys ever get sentimental for

994
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Speaker 1: Philly at all?

995
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 3: And do you act on it?

996
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 1: Okay? So a gps the fucking directions in the fucking.

997
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,240
Speaker 7: Street name yes, they get nostalgica.

998
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 2: My ship's a little bit different, Like I will actually

999
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 2: designate maybe every other month, I will.

1000
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Speaker 1: I will actually ride the L.

1001
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 2: I've done it before before every roots picnic, Like when

1002
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 2: rehearsals start, I'll designate about six hours to just sit

1003
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 2: on the L from sixty ninth Street all the way

1004
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Speaker 2: to the other end and full circle it just to.

1005
00:47:56,280 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 3: It didn't work, lashes.

1006
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 4: I was caught every time because it's all part of

1007
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 4: the outfit. So either way, it's nothing I could hide

1008
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 4: with unless I just put a hood over my head.

1009
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 4: This is to might think I'm crazy, right, But.

1010
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 2: I mean, do you guys, like, when's the last time

1011
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 2: that you really, like just like just I really went

1012
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 2: to landmarks of your life or like try to chase ghosts.

1013
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 2: I call it chasing ghosts.

1014
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 8: Where I did that last time?

1015
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, a couple of years ago, I took my kids

1016
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 5: to my actual block where I lived.

1017
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 6: Like, I took all my kids. My wife was like, Yo,

1018
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 6: we're gonna go to my neighborhood where I grew up.

1019
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 11: Like the whole ship was it like an episode of

1020
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 11: Black Were they scared?

1021
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 5: No, they were They were just kind of astounded because yeah,

1022
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,399
Speaker 5: they kids, they callie kids.

1023
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 6: They survived, you know what I'm saying. So when when

1024
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 6: they actually got out the car and they saw.

1025
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 1: You got out the car, oh yeah, we got yeah yeah,

1026
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: And and and.

1027
00:48:56,360 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 5: They saw rundowns, you know, houses and the street. It's

1028
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 5: all fucked up in the whole nine yards.

1029
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,240
Speaker 6: And they was like, Daddy. My daughter was like, Daddy,

1030
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 6: which house was yours?

1031
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 10: Right?

1032
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 6: And I said, well, that's my house right there, you know.

1033
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 6: I pointed out the house that's where I grew up.

1034
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 5: She's like, well, it's a really small house. Yeah, it's

1035
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 5: a small house. Like five of us grew up in

1036
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,799
Speaker 5: that house. So yeah, like you know, and I took

1037
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 5: him to get cheese, steaks and the whole nine yards.

1038
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 5: So yeah, like that, we we got a dope city,

1039
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 5: you know what I mean? Like this Brian me sometimes

1040
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 5: this got his moments. But ultimately, I tell you what,

1041
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 5: I go back there a lot.

1042
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: Did they ginger by your spot? That's what we wanted

1043
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 1: to get to?

1044
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 6: Southwest?

1045
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:39,839
Speaker 11: Not southwest, it's gonna be last.

1046
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:41,760
Speaker 6: No, it's still black.

1047
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, no, Well I was in South Philly.

1048
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:47,839
Speaker 3: My house at the time was probably like one hundred

1049
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:52,319
Speaker 3: and thirty grand like they done took the whole South

1050
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:52,919
Speaker 3: Philly area.

1051
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 4: But I mean, I get a soft spot when I

1052
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 4: go back because like and I don't really you know,

1053
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 4: we talk about this kind of stuff. But last year

1054
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 4: Christmas Eve, I took my son and I took my

1055
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 4: best friend who passed away from COVID. He was in

1056
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 4: phil He's just living Philly. So I called him said, listen, dude,

1057
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 4: I need you to just go to Target. I just

1058
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 4: need you to buy every sock they got. I need

1059
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 4: you to buy every sleeping bag they got. I need

1060
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:24,360
Speaker 4: you to buy every pair of gloves. And we just

1061
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 4: went out and gave out socks and sleeping bags and

1062
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 4: tents to homeless people because I know I used to

1063
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,719
Speaker 4: pass them every day. You know what I'm saying when

1064
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 4: I went downtown. You know what I'm saying. And I

1065
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 4: know that Philly has a big homeless problem. So I

1066
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 4: just got a real soft spot for homeless people. I mean,

1067
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 4: whether knowing what their story is or not, it just

1068
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 4: has always bothered me. So I like going back to

1069
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:51,280
Speaker 4: Philly and just showing up and just giving people stuff.

1070
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 4: Like I passed a homeless guy and just give him

1071
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 4: a hundred bucks and just just so he can get

1072
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 4: the react. Just I don't even I don't even care

1073
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 4: what he does with it, because it's not has nothing

1074
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 4: to do with me. I just I just want I

1075
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 4: just want to feel the reaction that it means something

1076
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 4: to him, and hopefully he'll do the right thing. But

1077
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,399
Speaker 4: growing up in that town, knowing where we all come

1078
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 4: from and not having nowhere near what we have now,

1079
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 4: to go back and to put smiles on people's faces

1080
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 4: like that and to try different things like that, that's

1081
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 4: what I get a soft spot for when.

1082
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 10: I love man, Do you think there's that kind of

1083
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:26,840
Speaker 10: what got you into doing the rehabs and doing the

1084
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 10: housing like you're just showing it in.

1085
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 8: A little bit.

1086
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,800
Speaker 4: I'm really My dad brought me up in my brothers

1087
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 4: and family on you know, always being able to do

1088
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 4: so much in hands, whether this is music or whatever.

1089
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 4: It happens great, but at the end of the day,

1090
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:40,720
Speaker 4: a man has to be able to take care of himself.

1091
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:42,800
Speaker 4: And the only thing he did his best two tools

1092
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 4: is his hands, so we were always taught to figure

1093
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 4: out something to do with them. So that was like

1094
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 4: a combination of the two. For me, knowing that I

1095
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 4: come from nothing and knowing that I have the ability

1096
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 4: not just with my hands, but a financially, I have

1097
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 4: the ability I didn't have before. So it was like

1098
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 4: bringing them all together. So that was we came up

1099
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 4: with an idea of for our charity called the Boys

1100
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 4: Cement House, And one of the biggest one of the

1101
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 4: ideas was to try the build. This is you know

1102
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 4: for COVID and all the creations, was to try to

1103
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 4: build these boys to mend houses in these urban communities

1104
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 4: where you know, kids, you know, after school programs, people

1105
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 4: can come, get on the computer, all that kind of stuff,

1106
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 4: to where people would have the ability to enjoy, you know,

1107
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 4: the things that we couldn't enjoy when we were kids.

1108
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 4: So doing the stuff with my hands and building that's

1109
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 4: something that I've always loved to do and will always

1110
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 4: continue to do. And like I said that that that

1111
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 4: homeless thing is really is really really big for me

1112
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 4: because I always believe that there's stories and all people,

1113
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,320
Speaker 4: and you know, we all pass most homeless people and

1114
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 4: be like, oh, yeah, well you know, he probably you know, drugs, it.

1115
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 4: We always assume that, but if we actually knew the

1116
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:50,440
Speaker 4: story of each individual, I'm sure we always think different

1117
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 4: and the fact that we don't know them makes us

1118
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:54,399
Speaker 4: all think of them the same way.

1119
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 3: And I think they get a bad rap on the time.

1120
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 12: Living in caliar change your life and changing about the

1121
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 12: homeless because it's no way.

1122
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 4: Well, I've I've been to skid roll there and I've

1123
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 4: taken stuff to them too, and I know that their

1124
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 4: homeless problem has gotten worse. I know that their homeless

1125
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:13,720
Speaker 4: people are more aggressive than most. And again it's because

1126
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 4: it's the stories. I mean, you got to remember some

1127
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 4: of these people are belong there, that they just did

1128
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 4: wrong things or their drugging, and then some people might

1129
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 4: have been a day and a half from paying their

1130
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 4: mortgage and they lost everything. Or someone might have lost

1131
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 4: their job and their wife left them and there and

1132
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 4: their kid died from something like we don't know their.

1133
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 9: Story is crazy.

1134
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 8: So for anybody without.

1135
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:40,880
Speaker 4: A doubt, it can drive you into so many different

1136
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 4: situations that we don't know.

1137
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 2: I'm gonna end with this question. You guys are are

1138
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 2: beyond ubiquitous. Okay, You're You're like oxygen or water. So

1139
00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 2: I'm certain that at some point certain things didn't impress you.

1140
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:05,399
Speaker 2: But what what key figure individually? I'm asking this question,

1141
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:09,840
Speaker 2: Who's Who's the person that you met that really was

1142
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:15,880
Speaker 2: like an oh shit, this is really happening moment that

1143
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 2: really like heart palvitations or you know that you were

1144
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 2: impressed that you got to meet and and.

1145
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:26,720
Speaker 1: Or work with or whatever.

1146
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 9: Prince.

1147
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 13: Really Yeah, for me, it was Prince because I mean

1148
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 13: I just you know, he's a mysterious dude, you know

1149
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 13: what I'm saying.

1150
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 9: You know, so not too many people, you know, don't

1151
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:42,959
Speaker 9: really know too much about him, not too many people

1152
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 9: around him, you know what I'm saying. And it was

1153
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 9: always like, you know, you always wonder.

1154
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:50,319
Speaker 13: So after Purple Rain, you know, I was really really

1155
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 13: into that, that whole Purple Rain thing, and you know,

1156
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:56,839
Speaker 13: when we actually were invited to his house, I mean,

1157
00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 13: to his studio, yeah, you know what I mean. I

1158
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:04,799
Speaker 13: literally I didn't really like let the fellas know too much,

1159
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 13: but I was like in awe, like.

1160
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 9: Wow, this dude is really Prince, you know what I'm saying.

1161
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:15,760
Speaker 8: It's really.

1162
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 1: Seem I know, I feel I met Michael Jackson.

1163
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 13: Michael as cool as hell, you know what I'm saying.

1164
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 13: But Michael is is not as mysterious, you know what

1165
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 13: I'm saying. You know, Yeah, I'm just talking about like

1166
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 13: when I met him. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

1167
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 13: He was really a cool dude, and so was Prince.

1168
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 13: But it was almost like when I'm when we met him,

1169
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 13: I almost felt like I wasn't supposed.

1170
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:45,359
Speaker 3: To be meeting him.

1171
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:51,000
Speaker 9: You feel what I'm saying? Man, Like, am I really

1172
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 9: like this is?

1173
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 8: This is Prince?

1174
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 13: But I was keeping it cool. You know what I'm saying.

1175
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 13: I wouldn't be like good Prince, but I was just

1176
00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:00,400
Speaker 13: like yo. And then you know, they turned. It was

1177
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 13: a lot of stories. It turned into a lot of

1178
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 13: real funny stories as time progress, you know what I'm saying.

1179
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 9: But I swear it was. That was one of the

1180
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 9: moments where I was like, oh ship, you know what

1181
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:11,359
Speaker 9: I mean.

1182
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 13: And I've met almost everybody I've wanted to meet, you

1183
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:15,319
Speaker 13: know what I'm saying.

1184
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:19,240
Speaker 2: Speaking of which, have you ever heard of his demo

1185
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:24,280
Speaker 2: for seven, which is based on the Simple remix?

1186
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 3: No?

1187
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 7: You never heard the p.

1188
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 4: I'm a Prince collegist, I you know, I mean whatever, Okay,

1189
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 4: shop pause that hold that thought because Prince College.

1190
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 8: And I'm gonna see if you get this real quick.

1191
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 4: This is a little trivia trivia The two albums. It's

1192
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 4: a song, very very big song for us. Yeah, I know, yes,

1193
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 4: the harmony behind uh uh, thank.

1194
00:56:54,320 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 1: You you alogists also boys the men. I was just so,

1195
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 1: what was it stolen from? What was it stolen from?

1196
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:09,799
Speaker 1: Seven watched them?

1197
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, I got the background harmonies between behind One's League.

1198
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 2: It's probably one of Princess great Yes. When I heard that,

1199
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:19,600
Speaker 2: I was like, Okay, I would have done the same

1200
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 2: thing too, because as nice little pockets of harmony that

1201
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 2: you could pay.

1202
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 4: Just hoping he ain't get us for it, dude, because

1203
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 4: I was like, I think we should maybe we shouldn't.

1204
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 3: It's too late. No, No, he didn't.

1205
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 1: He probably liked it.

1206
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 6: He borrowed, but he did.

1207
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1208
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:52,480
Speaker 2: But the the Tevin Campbell uh demo for the p which, okay,

1209
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:56,920
Speaker 2: I more more than classic print songs. I'm really a

1210
00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 2: friend of like his worst songs, and this is his

1211
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:05,080
Speaker 2: second worst song ever.

1212
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 1: Worse than Illusion coma Pimp.

1213
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 2: Well, no, absolute worst song is actually a song called

1214
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:17,920
Speaker 2: Work that Fatal.

1215
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: Yes, but yeah, wow his uh actually you know what

1216
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 1: I think.

1217
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 2: I still think that that track that Tevin did, that track,

1218
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 2: but yes, he the there's a there's a four bar

1219
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 2: drum break at the very end of the simple remix

1220
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 2: that he used as the basis of of that song,

1221
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 2: and always I love that remix too.

1222
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:51,240
Speaker 1: I bought that a single as a kid, the single remix. Yeah,

1223
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 1: I love that record, man. Yeah, all all right, So

1224
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: who's your person, Sean?

1225
00:58:57,040 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 9: Uh, it would have to be.

1226
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 6: Like he's the reason why I even seen like you

1227
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 6: know what I mean, Like just his whole vocal. I

1228
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 6: was always in love with his.

1229
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 9: Vibroada.

1230
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 5: And you know, quite naturally, when you copy somebody or

1231
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 5: when you you you listen to somebody every day, you

1232
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 5: can't help but the copy, you know, some vocally. So

1233
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 5: sometimes I'll hit something that might sound like Mike and

1234
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 5: and and it's not by design, It's just it just

1235
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 5: comes out, you know what I'm saying. And you know,

1236
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 5: to to know that Mike was the type of dude

1237
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 5: that when we did see him, he would ask how

1238
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:45,720
Speaker 5: our family?

1239
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:47,280
Speaker 6: How you doing?

1240
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 7: Like you know, it was normal, like to to have these.

1241
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 6: Conversations with a guy who is the greatest entertainer the

1242
00:59:56,680 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 6: world has ever seen, and to actually we worked with

1243
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 6: him intimately, you know, Uh, was I did the one more?

1244
01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:05,160
Speaker 6: Can I give things?

1245
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 5: You know when not Levin did, and for him to

1246
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 5: personally invite me and come to the studio before even

1247
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 5: you know, did the song. We're just chopping it up

1248
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:18,360
Speaker 5: about stuff and then he goes in tells me what

1249
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 5: I need to sing blah blah blah blah and do it.

1250
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 5: Like in my wildest dreams, I would have never thought

1251
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:27,480
Speaker 5: having a relationship.

1252
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 6: Like this wasn't just like people like we were.

1253
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 5: We were cool with the with the man, and he

1254
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 5: understood us and we understood him, you know what I'm saying,

1255
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:38,400
Speaker 5: and and that was the cool thing about that.

1256
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 1: So I was actually I'm glad you mentioned that.

1257
01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:45,120
Speaker 2: The one question we never asked Jimmy jam was the

1258
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,560
Speaker 2: making of the title track for Were you guys there

1259
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 2: for the creation of it or were you just brought

1260
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 2: in at the end to sing your parts on the

1261
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 2: title track of History because.

1262
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 12: We sang it.

1263
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:56,320
Speaker 6: We said he wasn't there, but we sang it and.

1264
01:00:58,600 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 9: Was my dad?

1265
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 6: Remember he was there?

1266
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1267
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 6: When we actually sang the record.

1268
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 9: Though, was when we sang the harmonies to History. Mike

1269
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 9: was in the studio.

1270
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 13: He came in and we talked for like three hours

1271
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:15,280
Speaker 13: before we actually said, Wow.

1272
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 2: Well, I wanted to because that song is so intricate

1273
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:24,960
Speaker 2: and you know, made in ninety five before like Ableton,

1274
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:27,400
Speaker 2: and like the type of demands that he had to

1275
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 2: create that song really wasn't common, right, you know, so

1276
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 2: you know awful.

1277
01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:34,720
Speaker 1: I didn't ask it.

1278
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 2: I didn't ask Jimmy jam on air, but I asked, like,

1279
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 2: what was your like the Nightmare project that and he said,

1280
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 2: oh no, without a doubt history because he kept we

1281
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 2: were present something. He's like, all right, push it more,

1282
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 2: push it more, push it more, you know, Ethison, and

1283
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 2: it goes all over the place. I wanted to know,

1284
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:52,640
Speaker 2: were you guys there for the stacking of.

1285
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 1: That like we did our partner.

1286
01:01:56,200 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 8: Then they took it and kind of ran okay.

1287
01:01:58,320 --> 01:01:58,880
Speaker 9: I see.

1288
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,320
Speaker 6: Too, because he compressed us and squished us all the

1289
01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 6: way down barely.

1290
01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:10,560
Speaker 1: I as you guys singing on it. So Sean, I

1291
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 1: was asked, you man, you're so.

1292
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:15,480
Speaker 10: I didn't know until like a couple of years ago

1293
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 10: that Anthony David is your cousin. Yeah, yeah, and big

1294
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:24,440
Speaker 10: old Anthony days my brother man. And he told me

1295
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:27,960
Speaker 10: when y'all did the record. Y'all covered Tears for Fears

1296
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:31,080
Speaker 10: Everybody Wants through the World on his album as well.

1297
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 10: So I'm for twenty eleven and he was telling me

1298
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:37,280
Speaker 10: just about tracking that and I said, so, man, so

1299
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:38,880
Speaker 10: what was it like like Sean and the studio? He

1300
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:41,000
Speaker 10: was like, dude, SHAWNA is just one take. He's like

1301
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:43,280
Speaker 10: he's singing all these harmonies, like he's finding notes in

1302
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:48,440
Speaker 10: between the notes. Like he just had just nothing but positivity,

1303
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 10: like to say about your man.

1304
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 6: So I did not realize he could even sing.

1305
01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:55,560
Speaker 1: Really aw him.

1306
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 5: We were all coming out of Madison Square Garden in

1307
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:01,040
Speaker 5: New York and we were in the ND. I read

1308
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 5: and and he was with her, and I was like,

1309
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 5: what's up, cousin. I was like, what are you doing here?

1310
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:11,640
Speaker 9: And he was he was like singing.

1311
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:15,440
Speaker 5: I was like you what you know what I'm saying, like, nigga,

1312
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 5: I don't know you could sing like I had, Like

1313
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 5: he never because he would come to Philly for the

1314
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 5: summer sometime we would hang out and you know that

1315
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 5: whole thing.

1316
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:27,360
Speaker 6: So he never once told me that he had them,

1317
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 6: you know, he could sing or write or anything like that.

1318
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 5: So when I first saw him on you know then

1319
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 5: and then I saw him on TV and now he

1320
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 5: got his album, and I was like, I'm ship.

1321
01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 6: So it's like, you know, and what's funny is is

1322
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:41,400
Speaker 6: uh Chinye my second cousin tiny?

1323
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1324
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:44,800
Speaker 11: So your people's Atlanta?

1325
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:46,880
Speaker 6: Wow, yeah, I got, I got.

1326
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 5: I got a lot of family in Savannah, where my

1327
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:55,960
Speaker 5: mother and my father's from. So I got a lot

1328
01:03:56,160 --> 01:04:00,280
Speaker 5: of people in Savama, so you know, yeah, like it's crazy.

1329
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:02,320
Speaker 5: It's crazy, like I got a lot of family members

1330
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:05,600
Speaker 5: that you know. I found out that one of the

1331
01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:09,280
Speaker 5: guys from remember the song, uh, some things going on.

1332
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:17,440
Speaker 1: Because yeah, two damns, man, something's going on, and they had.

1333
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 6: And then it was restaurant.

1334
01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:20,880
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1335
01:04:20,960 --> 01:04:28,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, is like a second cousin of mine too. So

1336
01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 5: it's like I'm just kind of like it's I got

1337
01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:32,760
Speaker 5: a music Wow, man, it's crazy.

1338
01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:35,000
Speaker 1: What was your thoughts were talking about groups?

1339
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 10: What was your thoughts on okay, two questions, what were

1340
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:40,760
Speaker 10: your thoughts on fifteen minutes by Mark Morrison?

1341
01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 1: And what were your thoughts on Nelson? But no, I

1342
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:47,320
Speaker 1: said not more that's the turn of the mac which

1343
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:48,280
Speaker 1: is one of the green songs up.

1344
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:56,400
Speaker 10: But but Mark Nelson fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes as yet,

1345
01:04:56,840 --> 01:04:57,200
Speaker 10: we used.

1346
01:04:57,080 --> 01:05:00,360
Speaker 6: To we used to clown Mark with that fifteen minutes story.

1347
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:02,320
Speaker 8: I'll tell you that as yet story for me.

1348
01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:03,520
Speaker 7: I am, let's go.

1349
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:06,240
Speaker 3: I remember verbatim. I was sitting at the crib.

1350
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:10,880
Speaker 4: I was watching uh b E t H and I

1351
01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 4: was this commercial came on, so I got up, walked

1352
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 4: in the kitchen getting something to drink.

1353
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:18,520
Speaker 8: Came A song came.

1354
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:22,560
Speaker 3: Video came on and I heard. I heard the first verse.

1355
01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: And we ha love of it.

1356
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:28,200
Speaker 3: And then I heard uh drag yeo and I was like,

1357
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:33,880
Speaker 3: hold up. I kept listening and I'm like, oh, somebody

1358
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:36,200
Speaker 3: is trying to steal our ship. Who the fuck is this?

1359
01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:39,400
Speaker 4: So I ran into the room and I looked at

1360
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:41,040
Speaker 4: the TV and I'm like, who the fuck is this

1361
01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 4: yellow nigga?

1362
01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:42,400
Speaker 3: Who's this?

1363
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 9: This is this other but curly motherfucker.

1364
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:46,040
Speaker 8: Then I saw Mark.

1365
01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:49,720
Speaker 3: I was like, this motherfucker. He went and did.

1366
01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 4: Another Boys to Men and didn't fuck eat. He's trying

1367
01:05:52,360 --> 01:05:54,120
Speaker 4: to get us. He's trying to get us.

1368
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:56,600
Speaker 8: I can't remember. I don't know if it's wine or show.

1369
01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:57,680
Speaker 8: I called somebody.

1370
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 4: I called. I said, yo, Mark is trying to do

1371
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 4: it to us because he got a group and they're

1372
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 4: singing our ship.

1373
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 3: That's exactly what I said, dude. Now mind you.

1374
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:14,520
Speaker 4: I ain't heard nobody that close ever, so I knew

1375
01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:17,320
Speaker 4: it had to be somebody in the nucleus to know

1376
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 4: how we did stuff. So I'm like, the way the

1377
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:22,960
Speaker 4: background harmonies was moving.

1378
01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:25,320
Speaker 8: I was like, somebody it was.

1379
01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:28,000
Speaker 9: It was.

1380
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:31,360
Speaker 1: It was the greatest baby face to you.

1381
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:32,640
Speaker 8: Man.

1382
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:35,960
Speaker 3: I lost it, I really and I was like, dude,

1383
01:06:36,560 --> 01:06:38,480
Speaker 3: they're trying to do They're trying to get us.

1384
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:48,320
Speaker 4: I was somebody because he kept playing and it sounds

1385
01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:54,760
Speaker 4: incredible like that, by far was one of the baddest

1386
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:58,480
Speaker 4: songs I had heard, and the and that like that

1387
01:06:58,600 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 4: was one of the baddest songs of the nineties.

1388
01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:02,120
Speaker 8: That song was nuts.

1389
01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:06,440
Speaker 4: The fact that they had different guys singing different parts.

1390
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:08,720
Speaker 4: They had to face guy, they had to hide guy,

1391
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:10,160
Speaker 4: they had to falls up, they had the guy with

1392
01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:13,360
Speaker 4: the flips and the man. I'm telling you, they were

1393
01:07:13,440 --> 01:07:16,520
Speaker 4: the close. That song right there was the closest song

1394
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:19,160
Speaker 4: I've ever heard any group on the planet sing to

1395
01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:19,600
Speaker 4: what we do?

1396
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:21,080
Speaker 9: All right?

1397
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 1: Can I add? Can I add an unpopular take? Because

1398
01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:26,600
Speaker 1: I have a theory.

1399
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 2: Oh oh, and if you verified or if you choose

1400
01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:33,080
Speaker 2: to verify it or not verify it, it's okay.

1401
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:34,640
Speaker 9: But I have a.

1402
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:37,960
Speaker 1: Because here's the thing I always wanted to know.

1403
01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 2: That, why did Face's rain of hits just abruptly stop

1404
01:07:47,280 --> 01:07:51,800
Speaker 2: in two thousand and one, coincidentally the same time that

1405
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:56,400
Speaker 2: the members of as Yet left the Fold, or at

1406
01:07:56,480 --> 01:08:00,600
Speaker 2: least under A left uh for managing the Yes?

1407
01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, were they his ghost writers?

1408
01:08:04,960 --> 01:08:06,120
Speaker 8: Well, I will tell you this.

1409
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:11,920
Speaker 3: You didn't know that Mark did some writing with Face.

1410
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:13,160
Speaker 8: I do know that now.

1411
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:15,040
Speaker 3: What songs they were good?

1412
01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:16,519
Speaker 1: Noight, no, this question.

1413
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:23,520
Speaker 3: I have had him and I have had that conversation,

1414
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:26,479
Speaker 3: and I know he's done some writing.

1415
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know what. We never got into

1416
01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:32,080
Speaker 4: what songs. But Mark came to them as a writer,

1417
01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:32,800
Speaker 4: not a singer.

1418
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 1: Right, he was under yap and under his wife's thing.

1419
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:40,800
Speaker 4: Then he got yeah he got he got put into

1420
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:42,880
Speaker 4: as Yet. That wasn't his his get up.

1421
01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:45,360
Speaker 11: I know where does he live now?

1422
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:48,160
Speaker 8: He's he's actually back in New York.

1423
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 3: And I just talked to him two days ago.

1424
01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:51,400
Speaker 11: Okay, I just meant like, what kind of houses you

1425
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:51,680
Speaker 11: living in?

1426
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:52,240
Speaker 9: Trump Tower?

1427
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 8: That's no, no, no, he's not he's not not not

1428
01:08:56,600 --> 01:08:57,599
Speaker 8: not quite that now.

1429
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:01,000
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask me. He faced that question when

1430
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:03,400
Speaker 2: he did the show. But you know, we had such

1431
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:10,880
Speaker 2: a good vibe. I didn't want to be like, I

1432
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 2: tell you, I'll tell you this dude.

1433
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:14,320
Speaker 4: He's the one thing with face man and I tell

1434
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:16,479
Speaker 4: you and and I'm sure the guys can vouch man.

1435
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:20,559
Speaker 4: One thing that though we wrote, we though we wrote

1436
01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:25,920
Speaker 4: pretty good songs, we learned how to critique our own.

1437
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:29,000
Speaker 3: Ability to write songs by writing with this guy. Meaning

1438
01:09:30,720 --> 01:09:32,640
Speaker 3: you would hear him. He would write a song, he

1439
01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:36,920
Speaker 3: would write a lyric or verse, and he would sing

1440
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 3: it over.

1441
01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:39,519
Speaker 4: He would play it over and over again, and he

1442
01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 4: take out a word, he put another word in, He

1443
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:45,920
Speaker 4: take out another word, put another word in. Now, if

1444
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:48,719
Speaker 4: all of us were listening, we'd be like, it flows

1445
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:54,040
Speaker 4: just fine. His theory, and it's really interesting theory.

1446
01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:55,400
Speaker 3: His theory is.

1447
01:09:57,120 --> 01:10:00,759
Speaker 4: The song will never be done and till you stop,

1448
01:10:02,280 --> 01:10:06,440
Speaker 4: because if you don't stop, if you're a good enough songwriter,

1449
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:08,240
Speaker 4: you'll always find a better.

1450
01:10:08,040 --> 01:10:09,639
Speaker 1: Way to turn a way to make it better.

1451
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:14,360
Speaker 4: So eventually, it's not about how good you are as

1452
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:19,040
Speaker 4: a songwriter. It's when you know and have the ability.

1453
01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:25,120
Speaker 3: To stop, right because otherwise you just sit there. You

1454
01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:27,640
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. He was, No, that's not and

1455
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:31,200
Speaker 3: somebody like him, Like we learned how to.

1456
01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:34,840
Speaker 4: Put certain notes on certain words because people would hear

1457
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:37,400
Speaker 4: it's a it's a it's let's just say it was

1458
01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 4: a major third chord that hit the home run of

1459
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:46,800
Speaker 4: a song, like what's the song saying cash?

1460
01:10:46,840 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 3: So I'm drinking and.

1461
01:10:49,560 --> 01:10:50,280
Speaker 9: Will be there?

1462
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:53,880
Speaker 4: Like the way he puts certain words that lands on

1463
01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:57,639
Speaker 4: certain chords there for you to remember those words.

1464
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:00,760
Speaker 3: You ever notice when we think a song, we may

1465
01:11:00,840 --> 01:11:02,600
Speaker 3: not always know the song. We'll go no no no, no,

1466
01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:05,280
Speaker 3: no no no. And I love you because I love

1467
01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:08,040
Speaker 3: you are the notes that he put there on purpose

1468
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:10,920
Speaker 3: that you he knew you were going to remember that part.

1469
01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:14,439
Speaker 3: That's how he writes records, which is extremely interesting.

1470
01:11:14,560 --> 01:11:17,680
Speaker 4: I never knew that before we sat with him, And

1471
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 4: you don't really know unless you have the conversation.

1472
01:11:22,040 --> 01:11:24,040
Speaker 6: About the funny thing about us the songwriter.

1473
01:11:25,640 --> 01:11:28,640
Speaker 5: Think the funny thing about songwriters now too, in comparison

1474
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:31,400
Speaker 5: the songs that are out now that I listen to

1475
01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:32,400
Speaker 5: the R and B songs.

1476
01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:36,160
Speaker 6: To be specific, they were there. They're written a lot

1477
01:11:36,320 --> 01:11:36,719
Speaker 6: like how.

1478
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:40,000
Speaker 5: We used to write our songs previous, Like you know,

1479
01:11:40,800 --> 01:11:42,920
Speaker 5: there were songs that we would write and we would

1480
01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 5: let baby face there, for example.

1481
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:46,600
Speaker 6: And he also would say, you.

1482
01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 5: Know, say less, thanks, you know, like with everything that

1483
01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:52,400
Speaker 5: you're saying, you know, we would try to fit in

1484
01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:55,400
Speaker 5: a sentiment I love you and everything and if we're

1485
01:11:55,400 --> 01:11:57,080
Speaker 5: growing together and blah blah blah blah blah blah and

1486
01:11:57,080 --> 01:12:00,320
Speaker 5: all other stuff, and he would basically say say less,

1487
01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:05,320
Speaker 5: like yeah, sometimes that's it. You don't need to say

1488
01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:07,680
Speaker 5: anything else. And and and I've noticed that a lot

1489
01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:09,840
Speaker 5: of a lot of songs now with R and B Records,

1490
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:11,920
Speaker 5: And I got a sixteen year old son, and he

1491
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:13,760
Speaker 5: can't even follow a lot of the lyrics that go

1492
01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:19,200
Speaker 5: on with our artists because there's so much being said that.

1493
01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:22,439
Speaker 1: They're almost trying to be rappers, you know what I mean.

1494
01:12:22,520 --> 01:12:24,400
Speaker 10: It's almost like in the real rap I mean you

1495
01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:26,320
Speaker 10: kind of I mean, if we're gonna keep it all

1496
01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:28,560
Speaker 10: the way funky, we kind of got to me.

1497
01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:31,479
Speaker 1: I think we kind of got boned to blame for that.

1498
01:12:31,920 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 1: Like me, you would talk, you know, but.

1499
01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:37,919
Speaker 4: We were taught in songwriting that you have to understand

1500
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:41,519
Speaker 4: that the average audience of who you're writing for, you

1501
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:44,360
Speaker 4: gotta look at them as happen in seventh grade education,

1502
01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:46,559
Speaker 4: it can't give them too much.

1503
01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:49,160
Speaker 3: You gotta get right to the point so they'll never

1504
01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:50,280
Speaker 3: forget it.

1505
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:53,640
Speaker 10: Said the same thing we had him, and he was

1506
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:55,640
Speaker 10: saying he was like all that Parliament. He said, Man,

1507
01:12:55,680 --> 01:12:57,080
Speaker 10: I was just trying to write nursery rhymes.

1508
01:12:57,600 --> 01:12:59,560
Speaker 9: Yeah, and that's what it was.

1509
01:12:59,720 --> 01:13:03,880
Speaker 4: Ship Face just has you tell you it's deeper than

1510
01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:09,479
Speaker 4: his songwriting, dude, it's his freaking melodies. His melodies are

1511
01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:12,200
Speaker 4: things that just they just live inside you.

1512
01:13:12,320 --> 01:13:12,559
Speaker 3: Dude.

1513
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 4: They're like to answer your question because I know you

1514
01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:18,360
Speaker 4: asked this question about the this could be the last question.

1515
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:18,840
Speaker 7: It went more.

1516
01:13:18,920 --> 01:13:23,240
Speaker 4: For I never really had a person that I met

1517
01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:27,360
Speaker 4: in the business that I felt that way about that.

1518
01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 8: Oh my god.

1519
01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:31,880
Speaker 4: They kind of lit me up because my favorite, my

1520
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:34,439
Speaker 4: favorite person that passed away already was was Sam Cook.

1521
01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:37,920
Speaker 4: I was a big Sam Cook soul stirs fan, Highway

1522
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:40,680
Speaker 4: q ses like all that. I grew up on that,

1523
01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 4: you know, Southern gospel stuff and San.

1524
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:46,639
Speaker 8: Guys. I'm in Chicago.

1525
01:13:47,080 --> 01:13:51,679
Speaker 2: Yeah No, I figured at least Bobby Woman could feel

1526
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:52,479
Speaker 2: that voice exactly.

1527
01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:54,000
Speaker 8: So I grew up with all that.

1528
01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:58,880
Speaker 4: But I will tell you that Face for me on

1529
01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:03,200
Speaker 4: the songwriting aspect was the only person because I mean,

1530
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:05,200
Speaker 4: I love Jimmy's Jam and Terry Lewis because of it

1531
01:14:05,320 --> 01:14:08,120
Speaker 4: feels and the things that they did. But I always

1532
01:14:08,160 --> 01:14:13,080
Speaker 4: wanted to know how this guy was able to write

1533
01:14:13,120 --> 01:14:16,519
Speaker 4: the song where the Again, it's always intriguing to me

1534
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:21,000
Speaker 4: how he puts the right notes on the right words

1535
01:14:21,240 --> 01:14:24,800
Speaker 4: right lyric means everything to a song. Dude, I don't

1536
01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:27,080
Speaker 4: care what your people used to say, Well, here I

1537
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:28,720
Speaker 4: got a poem. Can you make this into a song?

1538
01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:32,679
Speaker 4: It's not that simple. Unless you know how to physically

1539
01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:36,120
Speaker 4: put the right words on to the right note that

1540
01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:39,439
Speaker 4: people remember, it's not going to have the significance. He

1541
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:43,040
Speaker 4: is a genius at figuring out the best way to

1542
01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:45,920
Speaker 4: do that to where if you don't know the words,

1543
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:48,519
Speaker 4: you just hum the melody and then maybe three words

1544
01:14:48,560 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 4: you know, And it's on those notes that he.

1545
01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:52,920
Speaker 3: Made sure he put there on purpose.

1546
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:55,960
Speaker 4: That that's the guy that if you ask me in

1547
01:14:56,080 --> 01:14:59,439
Speaker 4: my career, that I kind of was being around him

1548
01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:02,600
Speaker 4: and working with him, that that was all struck for me.

1549
01:15:03,120 --> 01:15:05,320
Speaker 10: Face was like that for me, you know what I'm saying,

1550
01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:07,519
Speaker 10: just as a as a you know, songwriter, like I

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01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 10: would study him and Face and he was kind of

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01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:13,479
Speaker 10: like him and Stevie were my two. Like when you

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01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:16,679
Speaker 10: talk about like putting you know the power of this melody.

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01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:21,720
Speaker 10: Stevie was just someone who his melodies would be like

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01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 10: very simple and you could just sing it. But the

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01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:29,040
Speaker 10: ship he playing under that ship, nigga, you know what

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01:15:29,040 --> 01:15:32,200
Speaker 10: I mean? Like you know, piano players.

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01:15:31,880 --> 01:15:34,400
Speaker 1: Could never agree. It's like, well, I know, I think

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01:15:34,520 --> 01:15:36,960
Speaker 1: this is an F thirteen.

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01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:39,280
Speaker 4: Don't know.

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01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:40,439
Speaker 8: You can't see the ship.

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01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:46,000
Speaker 1: Right, you don't know. He just feels just feel.

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01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:48,920
Speaker 8: Well paid. Bill.

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01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:56,040
Speaker 2: I think this episode officially tops the Huey Lewis episode

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01:15:56,920 --> 01:15:58,840
Speaker 2: as the most educational.

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01:15:59,400 --> 01:16:04,880
Speaker 1: Wow education. This is high level game right here. Bro,

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01:16:05,120 --> 01:16:09,559
Speaker 1: This like you know, talking to I did more listening.

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01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:14,120
Speaker 14: Man should teach choral music at at the universities because

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01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:15,200
Speaker 14: clearly they be real.

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01:16:15,640 --> 01:16:19,080
Speaker 7: I'm like I would take that class.

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01:16:20,439 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 8: I mean just guess I.

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01:16:24,120 --> 01:16:28,559
Speaker 7: Put some I got wine.

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01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:32,960
Speaker 9: So the man, Thank you, Bro, you know what I'm saying.

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01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:34,800
Speaker 9: Thank you for always being real.

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01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:38,920
Speaker 13: Always thank you the same every time we see you, Man,

1576
01:16:39,080 --> 01:16:40,360
Speaker 13: it's always the same.

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01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:42,360
Speaker 9: It's like we left off.

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01:16:42,520 --> 01:16:42,680
Speaker 12: Man.

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01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:47,040
Speaker 9: You know you're a real brother. You really really loved

1580
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:49,760
Speaker 9: over here, man, and anytime you need us, you know what.

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01:16:50,200 --> 01:16:51,880
Speaker 4: And I'm telling you I don't do much ship in

1582
01:16:51,960 --> 01:16:53,400
Speaker 4: Corona without getting paid nigga.

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01:16:53,520 --> 01:16:54,680
Speaker 12: So you you.

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01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:58,200
Speaker 6: Mos, ladies and gentlemen.

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01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 9: Like, this is all.

1586
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:06,200
Speaker 8: This is all kappa.

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01:17:06,479 --> 01:17:09,960
Speaker 1: My guys love we love we love that or I

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01:17:10,080 --> 01:17:10,720
Speaker 1: appreciate that.

1589
01:17:11,240 --> 01:17:14,120
Speaker 2: I love you guys. This is much man all right, well, guys,

1590
01:17:14,400 --> 01:17:17,760
Speaker 2: thank you this. I'm not blowing smoke. I this is

1591
01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:21,479
Speaker 2: this is this should have been a master number two niggas.

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01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:25,360
Speaker 2: Man boy, this should have been a masterclass. Thank you

1593
01:17:25,520 --> 01:17:25,840
Speaker 2: very much.

1594
01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 1: I appreciate this. On behalf man for real. Thank y'all,

1595
01:17:29,360 --> 01:17:30,040
Speaker 1: Thank y'all for real.

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01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 10: Y'all made every slow jam tape I ever made for

1597
01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:36,559
Speaker 10: a girl from like seven when when y'all made.

1598
01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:41,880
Speaker 6: Was having.

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01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:52,400
Speaker 8: Just wait, wait, don't you call them butt tape. Let's

1600
01:17:52,479 --> 01:17:54,679
Speaker 8: be let's be real.

1601
01:17:56,840 --> 01:17:58,240
Speaker 3: My crew will tell you we used to call you

1602
01:17:58,360 --> 01:17:59,720
Speaker 3: with a butt tape because.

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01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:05,760
Speaker 2: Okay, wait, okay, I promise you this is the last question.

1604
01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:08,519
Speaker 2: This is the last question because you guys have kids now,

1605
01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:13,200
Speaker 2: watching your kids and seeing how gen Z is, do

1606
01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:18,000
Speaker 2: you have hope musical hope for the future. And I'm

1607
01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:20,680
Speaker 2: not and I'm not you know, I'm not trying to

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01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:23,800
Speaker 2: make this at like from the old guy.

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01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:27,519
Speaker 4: I'm what you does, and I'll speak because I guess

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01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:30,960
Speaker 4: my son that's involved in music right now is the oldest.

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01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:34,280
Speaker 4: I do have a little hope he grew up with us.

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01:18:34,680 --> 01:18:38,560
Speaker 4: He understands it, he shares it with his friends. He

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01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:42,320
Speaker 4: can see the difference now. I was always concerned that

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01:18:42,640 --> 01:18:45,840
Speaker 4: most kids nowadays can't see the difference. I was also

1615
01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:48,479
Speaker 4: concerned that we would turn into our grandparents or our

1616
01:18:48,560 --> 01:18:52,599
Speaker 4: father's like, oh, well, we don't like that, But there

1617
01:18:52,680 --> 01:18:55,200
Speaker 4: really is something to the music that we've done. Because

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01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:57,760
Speaker 4: if you notice the nineties and everything is starting to

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01:18:57,800 --> 01:19:00,200
Speaker 4: come back around because a lot of these kids just

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01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:03,920
Speaker 4: weren't exposed to it. I think the exposure is more

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01:19:03,960 --> 01:19:07,400
Speaker 4: important than anything. They will make the right decisions, but

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01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:08,599
Speaker 4: they have to be exposed.

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01:19:08,920 --> 01:19:10,880
Speaker 10: I saw that, and to your point, and they I

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01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:14,120
Speaker 10: saw that a couple of years ago when they had

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01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:17,439
Speaker 10: it was it was a social media thing where they

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01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:21,000
Speaker 10: had My the Running Man Challenge or whatever, but everybody

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01:19:21,120 --> 01:19:24,200
Speaker 10: was dancing to my Boo by ghost Town DJs, and

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01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:26,439
Speaker 10: I saw like a bunch of kids, It's like, oh,

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01:19:26,840 --> 01:19:28,519
Speaker 10: what is this song? And like that was one of

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01:19:28,560 --> 01:19:31,920
Speaker 10: the first times I saw a song from like ninety six.

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01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:35,439
Speaker 10: That song is from ninety six. That shit reentered.

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01:19:35,479 --> 01:19:38,280
Speaker 1: It went like number one again after like however, like

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01:19:38,360 --> 01:19:39,200
Speaker 1: twenty plus.

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01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:40,439
Speaker 8: They just got to be exposed.

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01:19:40,479 --> 01:19:42,679
Speaker 1: Man, it's got to be exposed. It's happened to Fleetwood

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01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:44,320
Speaker 1: Mac right now, yeah, exactly?

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01:19:44,479 --> 01:19:45,639
Speaker 4: Is that now?

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01:19:46,200 --> 01:19:48,519
Speaker 2: The top five songs in twenty twenty one built like

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01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:51,240
Speaker 2: crazy craz telling you man the melodies.

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01:19:51,280 --> 01:19:52,799
Speaker 8: Man, it's happened.

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01:19:53,640 --> 01:19:56,679
Speaker 1: Well, gentlemen, I thank you very much from the bottom

1642
01:19:56,680 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 1: of my heart.

1643
01:19:57,040 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 3: For doing it.

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01:19:57,560 --> 01:19:59,599
Speaker 10: Thank y'all, brothers, man, for real, this is gon amazing

1645
01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:03,280
Speaker 10: your town. Oh man, Like, just thank y'all for everything.

1646
01:20:03,360 --> 01:20:04,439
Speaker 10: Thank you for the music for real.

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Speaker 8: Big Bill.

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01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:17,599
Speaker 2: All right, we'll see you on the next go around

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01:20:17,640 --> 01:20:19,600
Speaker 2: a quest Love Supreme on Quest Love sounding oft I

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01:20:19,760 --> 01:20:20,599
Speaker 2: We'll see y'all next time.

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01:20:20,760 --> 01:20:24,320
Speaker 8: Thank you. Hey, this is Sugar Steve.

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01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:27,080
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01:20:30,760 --> 01:20:32,360
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