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Speaker 1: Disgraceland as a production of Double Elvis.

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Speaker 2: The stories about soul singer James Brown are insane. Notorious

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Speaker 2: for finding his band members for dropping beats and for

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Speaker 2: firing them for dropping acid. He himself would later mix

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Speaker 2: his angel dust in with his cream corn for breakfast.

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Speaker 2: He once took his shotgun and blasted up a juke

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Speaker 2: joint in an attempt to murder fellow soul singer Joe

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Speaker 2: tex injuring seven people in the process. When Elvis Presley died,

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Speaker 2: James Brown requested and received a private viewing of the body,

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Speaker 2: where he kneeled over and whispered to the dearly departed King, Elvis,

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Speaker 2: you rat I ain't number two no more. The myth

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Speaker 2: surrounding the birth of James Brown is that he was

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Speaker 2: a stillborn baby but worked so hard that he overcame

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Speaker 2: the impossible, and then applied the same work ethic to

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Speaker 2: overcome the soul crushing poverty he grew up in to

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Speaker 2: become America's soul brother number one. Coming from nothing, he

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Speaker 2: worked his supernatural talent hard and took it as far

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Speaker 2: as he could take it to the top, becoming one,

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Speaker 2: if not the most successful musicians of all time. It

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Speaker 2: goes without saying that James Brown made great music, some

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Speaker 2: of the greatest music ever made. In fact, that music

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Speaker 2: at the top of the show that wasn't great music.

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Speaker 2: That was a preset loop from my melotron called Samba

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Speaker 2: Organ six' eight LOW mk. TWO i played you that

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Speaker 2: loop BECAUSE i can't afford the license For Don't Worry

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Speaker 2: Be happy By bobby. McFerrin and why WOULD i play

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Speaker 2: you that specific slice of inspirational a cappella? Cheese COULD

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Speaker 2: i afford? It because that was the number one song

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Speaker 2: In america On september twenty, four nineteen eighty. Eight and

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Speaker 2: that was the day That James, brown with his shotgun

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Speaker 2: at his side and high as A georgia, pine took

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Speaker 2: authorities on a WILD pcp induced high speed chase across interstate,

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Speaker 2: lines kicking off what would become the last chapter of

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Speaker 2: his wildly entertaining. Career on this the last episode Of

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Speaker 2: Disgraceland season, One angel dusted cream, Corn Samba, organs inspirational

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Speaker 2: a cappella, cheese a high speed, chase and the hardest

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Speaker 2: working man in show, Business James. Brown I'm Jake, brennan

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Speaker 2: and this Is disgraceland. Time. Off time off was hard

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Speaker 2: for the hardest working man in show. Business James brown

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Speaker 2: hated not. Working he hated time, off nothing to do

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Speaker 2: except get high and fight With. Adrian adrian wasn't around this,

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Speaker 2: morning thank, god so Mister brown sat in his truck,

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Speaker 2: alone sweating in a Black adidas. Tracksuit THE pcp he'd

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Speaker 2: smoked for breakfast had him on, edge so he was

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Speaker 2: rolling a joint to help level him. Out bobby McFerrin's

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Speaker 2: Don't Worry Be happy was threatening to make his way

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Speaker 2: through the static on the PICKUPS fm. Dial he hated the,

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Speaker 2: song but his hands were too preoccupied with the weed

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Speaker 2: to deal with the tuner at the. Moment Don't Worry Be?

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Speaker 2: Happy how are you going to write a song like

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Speaker 2: that and wake up every morning and look at yourself

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Speaker 2: in the? Mirror in nineteen eighty, eight For James, brown

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Speaker 2: there was a lot to worry about and little to

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Speaker 2: be happy. For as arguably the most successful black entertainer

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Speaker 2: of all, time one, of if not the most influential

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Speaker 2: musicians of all, time was fifty five five years, old,

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Speaker 2: broke strung, out losing his, teeth and having a hard

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Speaker 2: time doing what he was put on this earth to

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Speaker 2: do to. Work it Was saturday morning In, Augusta. Georgia

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Speaker 2: everyone was out running, errands which meant nobody was at

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Speaker 2: Mister brown's, office which meant it was a perfect time

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Speaker 2: and place for. Privacy but even the weekend had its.

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Speaker 2: Complications Mister brown kept a business office In, augusta a single,

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Speaker 2: level nondescript roadside strip mall space that he rented out

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Speaker 2: to local businesses and also used as an excuse to

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Speaker 2: get away from his. Wife for some reason beyond his,

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Speaker 2: comprehension his office had been overrun that morning by a

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Speaker 2: bunch of, herbs white dudes in khaki pants and running,

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Speaker 2: shoes bad, ties and cheap. Frames it was an insurance,

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Speaker 2: seminar some, nonsense a bunch of pencil, knicks no. Class

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Speaker 2: but Mister brown admired the. Hustle a seminar on A,

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Speaker 2: saturday hailed to the work. Man still they were messing

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Speaker 2: with his. Plans it used to be, that no matter

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Speaker 2: what the, complication If James brown wanted something, done there

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Speaker 2: was someone at arm's length on salary to take care of.

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Speaker 2: It but that wasn't the case these. Days by nineteen eighty,

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Speaker 2: eight tax issues and declining ticket sales forced Mister brown

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Speaker 2: to cut. Back no more private, jets no more personal,

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Speaker 2: hairdressers no more, bagmen and no more muscle to sort

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Speaker 2: out life's little. Annoyances for. Him it had been years

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Speaker 2: since Mister brown Cut Baby james And Henry stallings. Loose

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Speaker 2: both men were part of his security, team or what

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Speaker 2: he called his hit. Squad big, men capable, men able

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Speaker 2: to take on all. Comers he regretted cutting them, loose

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Speaker 2: especially this. Morning henry would have this mess in hand

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Speaker 2: in no, time And Baby, james, well he'd kill for.

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Speaker 2: Less Mister brown remembered them, fondly particularly a night Back

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Speaker 2: harlem not too long, ago when their unique skill sets

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Speaker 2: were put to use and allowed the hardest working man

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Speaker 2: in show business to do what he was put on

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Speaker 2: this earth to. Do to go to. Work, jimmy the

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Speaker 2: voice crackled over the backstage phone At Harlem's Apollo, theater

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Speaker 2: the accent a mix of old School italian in nineteen Seventies, Brooklyn,

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Speaker 2: jimmy we know you like your bags of. Money. Jimmy

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Speaker 2: we're gonna send a couple guys down with thirty large

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Speaker 2: buy some new suits for the. Band get a suite

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Speaker 2: at the plaza and stay. Awhile they called Him Jimmy.

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Speaker 2: Punks everyone, else even The president of The United states

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Speaker 2: Of america called him Mister. Brown quote Unquote jimmy hated

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Speaker 2: these guys they called or came around every time Mister

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Speaker 2: brown came Through New york always wanted to just give him,

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Speaker 2: money but he knew what that meant alone from the,

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Speaker 2: mob and then they owned you back in the, sixties

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Speaker 2: he had to humor them and politely. Refuse James brown

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Speaker 2: didn't need anyone's, money especially not a white. Man's he

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Speaker 2: was bank growing himself in debt to no. One but

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Speaker 2: in the late, seventies The italian mafia's grip On manhattan

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Speaker 2: was more powerful than, ever so Mister brown took the

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Speaker 2: telephone call out of obligation and also on the advice

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Speaker 2: of his quote unquote new, son the young man From, Brownsville,

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Speaker 2: brooklyn by way Of Queen's Reverend Al. Sharpton The rev

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Speaker 2: as he was, called told him he had to at

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Speaker 2: least hear the wise guys. Out Young Al sharpton knew

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Speaker 2: exactly what was up In New York, city which was

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Speaker 2: in part Why James brown kept him. Around he liked

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Speaker 2: young people who knew what he did. Not, plus the

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Speaker 2: rev would do anything for Mister. Brown he was the

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Speaker 2: dad he never had. It James brown sat on the

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Speaker 2: phone and stared at the walls. Backstage he loved this old,

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Speaker 2: theater the scene of one of his greatest. Triumphs his

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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty Three live at The apollo was one of

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Speaker 2: the greatest selling live albums of all. Time he'd be

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Speaker 2: hard pressed to find a black household In america that

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Speaker 2: didn't have a copy filed away next to the family record.

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Speaker 2: Player but, man these, days backstage at The apollo was

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Speaker 2: a rat. Hole, nonetheless Mister brown built this. Place he'd

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Speaker 2: be damned if he was going to be extorted by

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Speaker 2: some goon for the opportunity to work at The, apollo

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Speaker 2: of all. Places, insulted it was zero patience, left Mister

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Speaker 2: brown cut to the. Quick, LISTEN i don't need your.

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Speaker 2: MONEY i never needed your. Money NOW i gotta, GO

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Speaker 2: i gotta go do my. Thing the voice on the

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Speaker 2: other end of the line grew. Tense now you listen to, Me.

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Speaker 2: Jimmy we know you get the irs all over. You

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Speaker 2: we know you're burying cash in your backyard and the

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Speaker 2: squirrels are eating and faster than the little fatty Sh

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Speaker 2: sharpton works the buffet. Table we know you got x

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Speaker 2: ys coming out of your ass threatening to. Sue we

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Speaker 2: know you ain't selling tickets like you used. To now

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Speaker 2: take the goddamn, Money. Jimmy if you, don't our guys

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Speaker 2: ain't gonna bring. Cash they're gonna bring bags of rats

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Speaker 2: and let them loose throughout the apollo during a. Show

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Speaker 2: how do you like? That Mister brown just hung. Up

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Speaker 2: any other performer would have called THE fbi or, worse

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Speaker 2: taken the. Money but Mister brown wouldn't back. Down he

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Speaker 2: knew what to. Do how could he? Not years earlier

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Speaker 2: he got his start on The chipman, circuit a Post

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Speaker 2: World war two rhythm and blues concert circuit that existed

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Speaker 2: almost entirely outside of the. Law the practically invented vice

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Speaker 2: that was built on the back of the numbers, racket

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Speaker 2: a tight network of black owned nightclubs that existed only

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Speaker 2: but for the grace of bribed white, politicians where women

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Speaker 2: of ill repute with names Like, Caledonia Short Fat fanny

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Speaker 2: And Long tall sally inspired men Named Louis, Jordan Larry

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Speaker 2: williams and Little richard to immortalize them in. Song richard's

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Speaker 2: inspiration being second, hand of, course dice, parlors dance, halls,

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Speaker 2: bootleggers and great live music by some of the, greatest

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Speaker 2: most consequential musicians In american. HISTORY. B. B, King Ike,

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Speaker 2: Turner John Lee, hooker and countless other rock and roll

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Speaker 2: pioneers cut their teeth on The chitlin. Circuit this is

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Speaker 2: where bandleaders went to. College no textbooks, required just bagman and.

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Speaker 2: Muscle the circuit was so corrupt and violent the getting

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Speaker 2: paid at the end of the, night if you got

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Speaker 2: paid at, all was to take your life into your own.

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Speaker 2: Hands to get, paid you needed three. Things number, one

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Speaker 2: a thirty eight caliber pistol in the willingness to use

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Speaker 2: it and show the steal, subtly maybe shift it casually

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Speaker 2: from under one side of your belt strap to the

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Speaker 2: other one negotiating the terms of your. Payment number, two

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Speaker 2: a dude on your, pay big enough to demand half

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Speaker 2: your feet up front before the, show in a, bag

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Speaker 2: preferably a dirty one with grease, stains made to look

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Speaker 2: like nothing more than a greasy sack of fried. Food and,

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Speaker 2: finally the third thing you needed was to give off

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Speaker 2: the vibe that you just didn't, care didn't care if

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Speaker 2: you got, cut didn't care if you got, shot didn't

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Speaker 2: care if you, lived and didn't care if you. Died

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Speaker 2: it was the foundation that the rock and roll ethos

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Speaker 2: just built upon not giving a single. Fuck the only

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Speaker 2: way to stay alive was to, intimidate and to intimidate

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Speaker 2: you had to be nutty enough to not. Care all

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Speaker 2: you cared about was getting paid and going to. Work

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Speaker 2: despite his success after The Chitlin, Circuit James brown never

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Speaker 2: forgot this. Lesson so that night In, harlem with his

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Speaker 2: livelihood in The Apollo, theater under the threat with the

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Speaker 2: mafia with their bags of, rats mister dispatched his own

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Speaker 2: hit squad into the crowd to keep an eye out

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Speaker 2: and to discourage any wise guy. Hijinks Baby james spotted

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Speaker 2: Some shannana looking dude skulking along the back wall with

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Speaker 2: a big bulge under his, jacket out of, place it

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Speaker 2: with a style that was fifteen years out of, fashion

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Speaker 2: and not paying any attention to anyone else in the,

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Speaker 2: building just moving slowly like a creep along the back

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Speaker 2: wall of the. Theater before he knew, it he was

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Speaker 2: swept up under each arm by what had to be

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Speaker 2: mountains posing his. Men. Shannanana dude had no idea what was.

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Speaker 2: Happening he was being moved. FAST a hand on the

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Speaker 2: back of his greasy head pushed his face into two exit.

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Speaker 2: Doors the doors opened and he was, airborne thrown out

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Speaker 2: of the theater and into the. Alley he landed hard

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Speaker 2: face first stars under his, eyelids rats scurrying out from

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Speaker 2: the bag at his side and off through the. Alley

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Speaker 2: he heard a sudden roar from the crowd from inside

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Speaker 2: The apollo as the hardest working man in show, business

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Speaker 2: without any one getting in his, way started to do

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Speaker 2: what he was put on this earth to. Do. Work so,

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Speaker 2: now ladies and, gentlemen it is star. Time are you

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Speaker 2: ready for star? Time we'll be right back after this,

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Speaker 2: word word. Word James brown was the hardest working man

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Speaker 2: in show, business and that work was paying. Off he

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Speaker 2: was a, millionaire had his own jet fur, coat a

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Speaker 2: hairstylist his records flew off the shells and into black

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Speaker 2: Fees and beyond the, money he had influence To African

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Speaker 2: americans young and. Old he was an example of The american,

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Speaker 2: dream a real life rags to riches's story with supernatural,

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Speaker 2: talent and by the late, Sixties James brown had positioned

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Speaker 2: himself at great risk to his own personal wealth and

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Speaker 2: standing at the center of The black power. Movement James

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Speaker 2: brown invested his money in black, businesses black, neighborhoods and

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Speaker 2: invested his time into black. Causes his Hit Say It,

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Speaker 2: Loud I'm black And I'm proud in nineteen sixty Eight

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Speaker 2: america literally changed the country's social. Dynamic all of a,

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Speaker 2: sudden Young African americans were proudly embracing their heritage and

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Speaker 2: like Mister, brown growing their hair out for that natural

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Speaker 2: look and leaving behind the white influenced rebel without a,

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Speaker 2: cause processed. Pomp And he did all this while at

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Speaker 2: the height of his musical powers with his bands The

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Speaker 2: Famous flames and then THE. Jbs James brown wouldn't just

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Speaker 2: challenge musical, genres he would invent. Them soul out of

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Speaker 2: necessity funk on purpose and hip hop as a matter of.

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Speaker 2: Influence but by the seventies success was starting to. Slip

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Speaker 2: the irs was in relentless pursuit of his unreported. Millions

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Speaker 2: President Richard nixon had managed to get Mister brown's tax

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Speaker 2: charges bounced down from criminal to civil, court but it wasn't.

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Speaker 2: Enough the taxmen do take their, bite And nixon's affiliation

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Speaker 2: had the added disadvantage of alienating a large part Of

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Speaker 2: James brown's black. Audience James brown would never come to

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Speaker 2: understand why he Supported, nixon Because nixon believed in self,

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Speaker 2: reliance in socioeconomic, independence the very ideas That James brown

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Speaker 2: saw as keys to his own, success a sentiment that

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Speaker 2: in the late eighties suddenly had new meaning compared to

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Speaker 2: when it was written in nineteen. Seventy without salaried, muscle

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Speaker 2: getting it himself was the only. Option so on the

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Speaker 2: morning Of september twenty, fourth nineteen eighty, Eight James, brown

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Speaker 2: high ON pcp and, weed grabbed the shotgun out of

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Speaker 2: his pickup truck and opened the door of the office

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Speaker 2: past his, prime high as holy. Hell shotgun Wielding black

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Speaker 2: power Superstar James, brown The godfather Of soul, himself stood before, them, pacing,

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Speaker 2: sweating taking turns between sternly lecturing them and laughing to

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Speaker 2: On he waved the shotgun around as he. Spoke the

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Speaker 2: herbs were. Terrified he was growing more and more, angry

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Speaker 2: but at What it wasn't entirely, Clear something about someone

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Speaker 2: using his bathroom or office without. Permission didn't they know

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Speaker 2: it was rude to use another man's. Commode why'd they

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Speaker 2: have to invade his? Privacy didn't their parents teach them any?

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Speaker 2: Manners James brown was practically raised by, wolves but he

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Speaker 2: knew better than to mess with another man's, privacy especially

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Speaker 2: on his day. Off then he heard the. Sirens somehow

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Speaker 2: someone managed to call the. Cops James brown knew instinctively

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Speaker 2: that despite whatever celebrity status he still, had he was

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Speaker 2: still a black man in The south who was waving

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Speaker 2: a shotgun around at a bunch of white. People time

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Speaker 2: to get on the good foot and. Bounce James brown

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Speaker 2: high tailed it out of the, office shotgun in, hand

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Speaker 2: jumped into his pickup and squealed out of the parking

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Speaker 2: lot and out onto the. Highway the sirens grew. Louder

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Speaker 2: he could see them in his rear. View hot. Damn

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Speaker 2: how many police cars did they have in this? County

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Speaker 2: whatever the, number they all seemed to be in pursuit

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Speaker 2: of him at this. Moment god damn. It bobby McFerrin

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Speaker 2: was back on the radio with that ridiculous. Song how

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Speaker 2: many times a day could they play this? Garbage in

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Speaker 2: every life we have some, trouble but when you, worry

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Speaker 2: we make it. Double Mister brown punched the, Tuner bye, Bye.

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Speaker 2: Bobby another peek in the rear. View more. Cruisers this was.

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Speaker 2: Bad where was he? Going he didn't know just the

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Speaker 2: way away from this? Madness what? Happened how would it

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Speaker 2: come to this constant, Drama the fighting With, adrian the flailing,

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Speaker 2: career the. DRUGS i, mean he was clean most of his.

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Speaker 2: Life he Fired Bootsy collins for TAKING. Lsd and now

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Speaker 2: here he was SWEATING pcp through His adidas, tracksuit teeth

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Speaker 2: rotting out of his, head arthritic, legs in bad need

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Speaker 2: of another joint to cool him, out and in a

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Speaker 2: high speed car chase with a bunch of good old

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Speaker 2: ventilated by one of those new police issue clock. Nineteens

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Speaker 2: Mister brown gunned it and took. Off now more cops

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Speaker 2: on his, tail and up ahead a makeshift roadblock with

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Speaker 2: Two state troopers standing in the middle of the, road legs,

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Speaker 2: spread guns, drawn pointing straight at Mister brown in his

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Speaker 2: fast approaching. Pickup he pinned the gas pedal as hard

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Speaker 2: as he, could pain shooting straight up his arthritic leg

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Speaker 2: as he set off straight toward the two, troopers who quickly,

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Speaker 2: parted one to the left and one to the. Right

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Speaker 2: as Mister dynamite sped right through the middle of, them

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Speaker 2: they turned and took, aim the bullets now pierced the

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Speaker 2: body of the racing. Pickup more cops in the rear.

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Speaker 2: View it was like a Goddamn dixie police. Parade up,

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Speaker 2: ahead another rope, block this one with two cruisers in

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Speaker 2: the middle of the, road their grills kissing one. Another,

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Speaker 2: again troopers in the middle of the, street fixed in

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Speaker 2: a shooting, stance arms, outstretched glocks trained on the. Pickup

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Speaker 2: fear racing through their. Veins don't you fucking do? It

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Speaker 2: don't you speed? Up but that's exactly What James brown.

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Speaker 2: Did covered in, sweat with his angel dusted head hovering

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Speaker 2: high above the turpentine, trees Mister brown pinned the. Pedal

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Speaker 2: THE v eight wound itself into a. Row god damned

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Speaker 2: with one four on the floor and faster than The

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Speaker 2: Breakneck flames version Of think From live at The, Apollo

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Speaker 2: James brown rocketed through the rope, block parting the, cruisers

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Speaker 2: destroying the police barricade and sending the good old boys

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Speaker 2: diving to safety along the. Roadside James brown screamed as

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Speaker 2: he drove. Away for a, moment the adrenaline rivaled the

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Speaker 2: feeling he had on, stage ailing was quickly dashed by

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Speaker 2: the sound of bullets riddling his. Pickup Bomb rushing the

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Speaker 2: barricade meant all bets were. Off the troopers were pissed

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Speaker 2: and began firing off rounds hanging out of the windows

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Speaker 2: when they're pursuing cruisers and Mister brown was taking. Shots

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Speaker 2: his tires were, shot his truck slowed from breakneck famous

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Speaker 2: flame speed to. Broke Dick bobby mcfarren's feed and he was.

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Speaker 2: Scared now these white boys were gonna kill, him no

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Speaker 2: doubt about. It he kept the truck rolling slowly but,

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Speaker 2: surely and eventually over the state line Into South carolina

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Speaker 2: and then back over the line Into, georgia where he

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Speaker 2: eventually came to a, stop ending the. Pursuit damn it

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Speaker 2: now What James brown tried to do what he did

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Speaker 2: best Entertain he got out of the, truck slowly but,

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Speaker 2: loudly singing the words To Ray Charles, georgia and then

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Speaker 2: started in on his famous goodfoot. Dance the troopers were not.

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Speaker 2: IMPRESSED a plain closed cop came out of nowhere and

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Speaker 2: violently brought his fists crashing down into the side Of

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Speaker 2: James brown's. FACE a cheap shot and a painful, one

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Speaker 2: but it ended the. Incident Good. God Mister brown was

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Speaker 2: taken into custody and released almost immediately on, bill and

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Speaker 2: within twenty four hours he would be arrested again for

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Speaker 2: driving under the influence OF. Pcp think about the good

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Speaker 2: things and think about the wrong. Things prisoner number one

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Speaker 2: five five four one three had a lot of time

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Speaker 2: to think twelve and a half. Years as a matter of,

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Speaker 2: fact six In, georgia and then another six and a

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Speaker 2: half In South. Carolina he served half his time before being,

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Speaker 2: paroled but could have avoided prison altogether had he pleaded

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Speaker 2: guilty to the drug charges and gone to rehab, instead

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Speaker 2: but that was a non. Starter prison For James brown

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Speaker 2: was preferable to. Rehab rehab meant admitting that you had

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Speaker 2: a problem and that you were, weak and For James,

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Speaker 2: brown admitting weakness wasn't an. Option not when you're born

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Speaker 2: into crushing poverty in a dirt floor shack in The

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Speaker 2: Jim Crow, south to a mother who had abandon you

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Speaker 2: at four and a father who had split five years,

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Speaker 2: later leaving you at the age of nine to be

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Speaker 2: raised in a whorehouse by your prostitute. Aunt. Honey, Yeah

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Speaker 2: James brown knew how to. Survive given his, violent neglected.

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Speaker 2: Upbringing it's very difficult to reconcile the man with the

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Speaker 2: crimes he, committed and man that he'd do some bad,

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Speaker 2: shit super. Bad his transgressions were as offensive as his

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Speaker 2: talent was. Immense the book On James brown goes something like.

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Speaker 2: This in nineteen forty, nine at age, sixteen he was

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Speaker 2: convicted of grand theft and served three. Years during His

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Speaker 2: chitten circuit, days he tried murdering RIVAL r AND b

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Speaker 2: Singer Joe tex after stealing his, Wife James brown entered

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Speaker 2: a juke joint Where Otis redding and The Pine toppers

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Speaker 2: were on, stage and with a shotgun opened fire On,

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Speaker 2: texts who was seated at a. Table texts went, unharmed

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Speaker 2: but seven people were wounded in the crossfire and subsequently

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Speaker 2: paid off by Mister brown to keep their mouth. Shut

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Speaker 2: throughout his, life he openly abused girlfriends and, wives most

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Speaker 2: notably Singer Tammy, terrell who he beat. Savagely he allegedly

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Speaker 2: once repeatedly hit her in the head with a. Hammer

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Speaker 2: terrell eventually collapsed on stage while singing With marvin Gay.

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Speaker 2: As she was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died shortly.

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Speaker 2: After between nineteen eighty seven and nineteen ninety, five his

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Speaker 2: then Wife adrian had him arrested four times for domestic,

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Speaker 2: abuse and in the year two, thousand police showed up

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Speaker 2: at his door to investigate a charge by a local

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Speaker 2: electric company worker who claimed Mister brown had attacked him

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Speaker 2: with a stake. Knife domestic abuse charges would plague him

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Speaker 2: for the remainder of his. Life until his death On

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Speaker 2: Christmas day in two thousand and six of congestive heart.

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Speaker 2: Failure James brown saw abuse as something to be, endured

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Speaker 2: whether you were a man or a, woman and whether

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Speaker 2: you were on the giving or receiving, end because the

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Speaker 2: beatings he witnessed and received as a young boy left,

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Speaker 2: scars defining, scars and it was. Horrifying as a nine

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Speaker 2: year old, boy he was hung upside down in a

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Speaker 2: gunnysack and beat mercilessly with a belt by his Aunt.

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Speaker 2: Honey growing up in a, whorehouse he regularly took beatings

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Speaker 2: from Drunk john's and watched as they abused the prostitutes

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Speaker 2: who roomed with him a nine year. Old these were

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Speaker 2: his formative. Years it doesn't excuse, anything don't get me,

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Speaker 2: wrong but it does help Explain James brown's emotional. Wiring

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Speaker 2: when he bounced out of prison at age, nineteen he

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Speaker 2: instinctively knew that work was going to be the only

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Speaker 2: thing that would save, him and music was the only

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Speaker 2: semi respectable work he knew how to, do so he

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Speaker 2: made it happen with zero. Resources brown's first, band The Gospel,

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Speaker 2: starlighters With Bobby, byrd performed their first shows without, instruments,

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Speaker 2: literally no, instruments without. Drums they stomped the beat on

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Speaker 2: floorboards without. Guitars they whistled riffs all while they sang with, passion,

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Speaker 2: commitment and. Drive it was all they had at age,

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Speaker 2: Nineteen James brown was a five foot six, inch dark

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Speaker 2: Skinned African american ex con who broke into the music

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Speaker 2: business and bent it to his, will becoming the most

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Speaker 2: influential black musician of all. Time and he did it

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Speaker 2: on his own through the power of his work. Ethic

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Speaker 2: unlike subjects covered in past episodes of this, Show James

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Speaker 2: brown wasn't good looking Like Sam. Cook he wasn't white

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Speaker 2: Like Jerry Lee. Lewis he didn't have a powerful church

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Speaker 2: looking out for him Like. Beck he had zero, advantages.

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Speaker 2: Zero all he had was his, will his supernatural, talent

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Speaker 2: and his undeniable work, ethic which is why when the

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Speaker 2: work dried up in the, eighties his world came crumbling

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Speaker 2: down around. Him without, work there really was. Nothing the

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