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Speaker 1: All right, everybody ask promise we got a special guest

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Speaker 1: this morning. He's Grammy nominated sold for single out of Detroit.

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Speaker 1: What are the best songwriters I've heard in years and years.

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Speaker 1: He's a family member to the show, and today he's

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Speaker 1: got an exclusive I Heart World premiere of his new

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Speaker 1: single for us today. We're gonna hear it right here.

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Speaker 1: The new single is called Rock with Me, So let's

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Speaker 1: get to it. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the show,

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Speaker 1: the one and only Kim Yes, welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning, good morning, good morning. How's everybody very good?

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Speaker 3: How you dreaming?

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Speaker 2: Man? I've been really good? Man good. I tell people

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Speaker 2: I'm good even when I'm not, I'm good. It's all

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Speaker 2: good day.

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Speaker 3: You better say that.

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Speaker 1: You might as well tell him you good because usually

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Speaker 1: the trouble, I mean, can't nobody help me?

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Speaker 2: But God no way, so right right right?

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Speaker 1: Ain't no need to tell hey before we get into

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Speaker 1: this music, man, we want to shout this out. You're

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Speaker 1: back to being an independent artist on your own label.

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Speaker 1: It's called Chemistry Records. You left Motown back in June.

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Speaker 1: Does it feel good doing your own thing again?

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Speaker 2: Man? Yeah, it feels it feels really good, you know,

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Speaker 2: come full circle. You know, I started out as an

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Speaker 2: independent with my first album and and I'm back at it,

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Speaker 2: you know, and it feels real good. We you know,

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Speaker 2: we got some autonomy, we got more equity, we got ownership,

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Speaker 2: you know, everything publicly. Yeah it's good, dog, it's good.

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Speaker 3: Hey.

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Speaker 1: When you were describing it, it made you smile. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's always better. Hey, man, let's talk about this new

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Speaker 1: single all right now because we got it today. This

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Speaker 1: is gonna be iHeart exclusive world premiere. The name of

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Speaker 1: the song is called Rock with Me, and you wrote

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Speaker 1: this song as a love letter to your wife Erica. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's deep, man, tell us about it, man, how did

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Speaker 1: this come about?

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Speaker 2: The people ask me man all the time. It's like,

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Speaker 2: how do you know? How did you know your wife is?

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Speaker 2: What was the one? And and what this song really

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Speaker 2: uh spells out is I knew I know my wife

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Speaker 2: is the one. It's because I'm willing to do the work.

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Speaker 2: You know, I want her to I want her to

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Speaker 2: rock with me. You know, we got into it one

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Speaker 2: time and she was like, you don't you know you

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Speaker 2: act like you act like you don't love me. It's like, girl,

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Speaker 2: I love you more than anything because I'm in here

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Speaker 2: doing this work, you know what I'm saying, And and

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Speaker 2: and I'm committed to the thing like from the top

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Speaker 2: on good days on bad days, because of course we

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Speaker 2: only post the good stuff, you know, but the relationship

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Speaker 2: ebbs and flows, and that's and that's my girl. I

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Speaker 2: remember we were doing Uh. I heard you say in

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Speaker 2: the room. You told you told the audience, I kill

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Speaker 2: everybody in here for my wife. That's me, dog.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's that's that's me. You know.

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Speaker 2: I let my feelings show because I want you to

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Speaker 2: rock with me. I'm only in here doing this work

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Speaker 2: because i want you to rock with me. You know.

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Speaker 2: We got seven kids between us, and you know I

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Speaker 2: was I was good as a single man. I was

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Speaker 2: good as a single man. But with my wife, I've

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Speaker 2: got in my kids now. Man, this season of my life,

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Speaker 2: man is like I have new purpose, you know. And

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Speaker 2: and so this song is all my songs going forward

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Speaker 2: about my wife. They better be look, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 2: smooth right.

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Speaker 3: I'm back.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with Kim explain this eaterstening hard

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Speaker 1: All right, everybody, we're back. And man, when we went out,

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Speaker 1: we had to go straight to break. We just heard

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Speaker 1: the I Heeart World premiere Rock with Me like he a. Kim,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you something, man, Kim, what's the first

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Speaker 1: line to that song that you said?

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Speaker 2: The first line is baby, I love you and a

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Speaker 2: damn things funny about what you did to my life.

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Speaker 3: That's that right there.

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Speaker 1: Boy, do you understand what I like about Kim his song?

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Speaker 3: Get right to it. Yes, Sir, y'ad can't.

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Speaker 1: Explain what you did in money and they listen to me,

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Speaker 1: think about the day I got wrapped around your friend.

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Speaker 3: He could write to it. You ain't finna to figure

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Speaker 3: out what it's about. Brother. Yeah, I love that one.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations, that's vintage Kim though it's vintage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you, thank you man. And I

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Speaker 2: you know, and I'm keeping lights on for this R

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Speaker 2: and B thing, man, in this R and B game.

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Speaker 2: You know some other people who dig me dig the

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Speaker 2: Isle Brothers and Frankie Beverly and and Lulf and you

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Speaker 2: know Philips, Tim and and Shocking.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So when you when you when you release

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Speaker 1: it under your own label as an independent instead of

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Speaker 1: like working with a record label.

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Speaker 3: You know, you got to take your songs.

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Speaker 1: In and then sit in front of this committee and

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Speaker 1: they all talk about what they think ought to be released.

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Speaker 3: You didn't have to do that. You just you released

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Speaker 3: the world you can go the song?

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, we just you know. Now now it's when

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Speaker 2: when I have something that I think is high, I

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Speaker 2: can just I can just put it out, you know.

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Speaker 2: I you know, I don't even have a manager right now, dude,

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Speaker 2: I'm like totally, you know, it's crazy. Go here. I

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Speaker 2: got a team of professionals, man. I hired industry folks

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Speaker 2: man to come in and like and just help me

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Speaker 2: do my thing, you know. And uh and it's and

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Speaker 2: it's it's really good, right now, I got tired of

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Speaker 2: people telling me how much of my stuff they're gonna

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Speaker 2: let me keep, like you know, you know, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: so it's good. It's real good right now.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: And I'm I'm and I'm glad that, uh that my

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Speaker 2: Steve Harvey Morning Show family and I heard are rocking

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Speaker 2: with me in the season of my life. Man. And

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm in New York City right now doing press.

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Speaker 2: I got my son with me. Man, I'm you know,

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Speaker 2: and I'm just I'm just I'm just out here doing

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Speaker 2: what I believe God has called me to do. And

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Speaker 2: and and I just I just I just really feel

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Speaker 2: blessed right now. I didn't plan I'm saying that.

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Speaker 3: But you know, oh no, oh no, no, no, it

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Speaker 3: is clear. It is crystal clear. You're doing what you're

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Speaker 3: supposed to do. Yeah, and you ain't.

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Speaker 1: You can't do nothing else. Dog, you was born unto

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Speaker 1: this and you doing it. Congratulations man, Steve Harvey, Nation,

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Speaker 1: Let's go. The song is by Kim's on Chemistry Records.

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Speaker 1: The name of the song is rock with Me. He

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Speaker 1: wrote this.

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Speaker 3: It's a love letter to his wife.

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Speaker 1: You might as well get it put in your collection today,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, it's everywhere.

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Speaker 3: Download it. Let's go now rock with me. Kim. We

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Speaker 3: love you, brother, Thank you, ustanding.

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Speaker 2: You take care, thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Good day, you're listening. Steve Harvey Morning Show